Supergirl - Season Four
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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Clark would vote like a farmer from Kansas.
Bruce would vote like a billionaire who wants to be a trillionaire.
Bruce would vote like a billionaire who wants to be a trillionaire.
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Like a farmer from Kansas named Jonathan Kent.
The Kents are a wonderfully idealized version of rural Americans and their values. If only the real world lived up to them.
So you're saying they're both Republicans. Interesting that they might have voted for the real world version of Lex Luthor.
This has come up repeatedly, but again, while the Siegel & Shuster Superman didn't have any known political affiliation, spiritually he was very much a lefty, going up against corrupt policticians and lobbyists, arms manufacturers who instigated a war for profit, employers who underpay and disregard the safety of their workers, and so on.
All true, but then John Byrne turned him into a righty.
In an interview concerning his eighties reboot, Byrne asserted that Clark was a staunch Republican who voted for Reagan both times. Even before that, his "Big blue Boy Scout" rep and the "Truth, Justice and American Way" motto went a long way to drive him away from his early comic political roots.
Many in the real world are like that.
Not "many" enough, evidently.
Clark would vote like a reporter from the big city.
Bruce doesn't really care about the money. It just provides him the means to be Batman.
It's a well known fact that Superman is an asshole.
Right?
Kal-El sends Clark Kent Look-a-like Robots out to the polls to vote for him.
On one hand this is illegal, but on the other, if one robot who is aware of all Clark's positions, is solely dedicated to just voting, and giving a few less fucks than expected about the rise of evil, that might mean that Clark votes in every election that he is eligible for, since that is this robots only reasons for being "alive".
I vote, therefore I am.
Wayne bankrolls the JLA?
You don't find satellites and moon bases at the bottom of crackerjack boxes.
Because of alien tech, orbital surveillance, and just having boots on the ground before the super villain pushes a button of doom, Bruce is aware of major disasters and super villain assaults before the public, and the stock exchange.
Stock manipulation is a crime.
Bruce could make a lot of money from knowing that a city is going to flood, or an evil CEO is about to be outed as an Alien, 5 minutes before every one else in the world does
Your mind travels down some dark twisty roads.
Remember in the silver age, in the fortress of Solitude, there's a museum of his friends and family? Not mannequins but fully articulated robots who play out little shows to remind Superman who is he fighting for... Once a person was visiting the Fortress, who did not who Superman really is, who looked at the Daily Planet diorama and asked the best question "No Clark Kent Robot? I know he's a nerd, but you don't like him enough to build a robot? Why on earth do you hate Clark Kent Superman?"
My point is that Steve Lombard does not vote, because he's that sort of a jerk, and Clark has a Steve Lombard robot with Steve Lombard voter registration papers.
My point is that Steve Lombard does not vote, because he's that sort of a jerk, and Clark has a Steve Lombard robot with Steve Lombard voter registration papers.
Did Superman tell America not to vote for Lex Luthor in 2000?
If Superman told America not to vote for Lex Luthor, and he still won, then Superman has a super-inflated sense of importance.
If Superman told America not to vote for Lex Luthor, and he still won, then Superman has a super-inflated sense of importance.
I hope your GPS is up to date.
I know it's post-Byrne, but I have to mention the early STAS scene where Clark "sarcastically" confesses to Lois that he's secretly Superman, and the only payment he gets for his good deeds is the cheap thrill of beating her to a front-page story.
I'm remembering the "one wag commented" conceit where reporters would put jokes or smart-ass comments into their stories by crediting them to an anonymous "wag" who, more often than not, was themselves.
Earth is not a paradise, and by human nature, it cannot be, but that does not stop many people from being good. In America, a number of major cities I've lived / worked in are--in my view--overrun with people who are near textbook examples of corruption / self-interest, prone to falling into factions and other despicable behaviors (and that's not even touching the issues of violence), because again, this is not a paradise, yet in all of that muck, there were/are still many good people among the rest.
