Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2
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This is a reasonable argument but from what I've seen, TV and movies don't present it that way. They've had Superman standing there rolling his eyes or looking calm or bored when thugs try to shoot at him because he knows that he's invulnerable to bullet fire. All I'm saying is that kryptonite bullets have been known to exist so wouldn't his reaction be a little different? If you want to go the "true hero" route to explain his lack of caution then it looks like you've put more thought into it than I or the writers have.
And what about Supergirl? Has she developed the inner strength and heroism to act the same way you say Superman should? A potential fear of kryptonite bullets is something that's worth touching on before she gets there.
Meteorites have been known to exist, but you don't go through everyday life expecting to be hit by one. You can't live your life worrying about remote possibilities. I mean, that's what I tend to do, and I'm very shy and timid as a result, so I wouldn't recommend it.
And in this particular universe, again, only the DEO has kryptonite bullets so far -- unless there's some Lex Luthor encounter we haven't heard about. And we've seen that Superman is concerned with the DEO having them.
I think she spent the past year proving pretty conclusively that she does. She took on an army of Kryptonians, and she was willing to give her life to send Fort Rozz into space and end Myriad. And she was shot with Kryptonite bullets when Myriad took over the DEO, and she barely let it slow her down.
Didn't she walk straight into a robber pointing a gun at her in the episode where she lost her powers and was completely vulnerable to normal bullets? I say that's pretty heroic and selfless.
Wasn't she a tad bit apprehensive too? I don't remember every detail of her body language.
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Courage, in the words of the Third Doctor, is "being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."
Heroism is one thing but being blasé as if no threat exists at all doesn't seem like an honest reaction. That's what I was thinking and what I tried to bring up. It's television though and you have to be expedient I suppose.
But there are threats that are likely enough to be worth worrying about, and threats so unlikely that it's basically paranoid to worry about them. Since nobody outside the DEO (as far as we know) has ever used kryptonite bullets, there is no rational basis for either Superperson worrying about such things at this point.
I have to wonder. Superman's extraterrestrial nature is well-known. Surely in this continuity he has been confronted with the U.S. citizenship question.
She wasn't blasé. Look at her hand trembling! Yet she does the (super)heroic thing and clearly risks her own life to save others:
Beautiful scripted and shot scene BTW!
I was referring to the issue in general, not to any particular instance.
Heroics aside, the notion of Superman or Supergirl being as concerned about kryptonite bullets as ordinary people are about ordinary bullets seems reasonable to me.
I've said it a few times, on other boards, if not here as well. They keep it very vague so you can fill in the small details with whichever version you prefer, but this is definitely a comfortable Superman that has already completed his major narrative arcs.
Her arm was broken. The shaking was meant to represent the pain she was in. She was both afraid for her life and in agony, yet she didn't show it. So attempting to question whether she's as tough or brave as Superman is ridiculous.
Only if that were a realistic concern. In some continuities, kryptonite is common and lots of bad guys have it; in others, it's very rare. So it depends on what version you're talking about.
If they are confronting the DEO, then yeah they probably should be worried, but if all they're dealing with is regular street crime then they have nothing to be overly worried about.
Let's not forget when she flew into the path of Livewire's lightning blast to save people in a helicopter, despite knowing it would hurt her.
The CW issued a promotional image for tonight’s "The Last Children of Krypton" episode, showing Superman carrying Supergirl, an image which is an unmistakable reference to the cover of "Crisis on Infinite Earths #7".
^It's actually more than just the screencap we saw before -- it's a cover mockup homaging the cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths #7.
I think this is the third cover mockup we've seen in Berlanti-DC-land, after the "Flash of Two Worlds" cover and the "Worlds Finest" ad homaging the Flash/Superman race cover.
I think this is the third cover mockup we've seen in Berlanti-DC-land, after the "Flash of Two Worlds" cover and the "Worlds Finest" ad homaging the Flash/Superman race cover.
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