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[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The argument that "I like immigrants, but don't let them change our culture" has been around for a long time. They'd say that about Italians, and now I can find a pizza place all over town. Seems like they can change it for the better to me.

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Check out Model Minority by Cory Doctorow.
It's about an unnamed superhero (who wears a red cape, and a spandex suit with a big S on it, and is engaged to a journalist named Lois, and his best friend/rival is named Bruce (who has a bat-themed alter ego)... anyway) who realizes that the cops are just beating people up and hiding it, so he makes a stand, but isn't quite sure about how to do so.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Cory Doctorow is a writer who I want to love, i like the plot descriptions of his work and he seems like a really smart and with it person, but his writing style just doesn't spark joy. It feels like work. IDK how to describe it, I just can't get in the flow with his writing.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Dollar Store Jerry O'Connell is still around? Figured he'd have drank himself to death about 10 years after Lois and Clark ended.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dean Cain is just Kevin Sorbo 2.0

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Red Son is the only correct version of Superman.

Everything else is bourgeois revisionism.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

What an ignorant bitch.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Worst Superman says what?

[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 4 days ago

nazis crying that their ubermensch is also a mensch

[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Kal-El is an anchor baby!!! lol

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 20 points 4 days ago
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

Ah yes, Superman. The all American hero... Created by a Canadian.

[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

A good movie is going to do well. This is just called marketing! Like the fight between elon and trump it’s all an illusion to grab your attention.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've never cared about anything superman related because it is just the most boring premise of a character to me. what's the best way not get lumped in with idiots like this?

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (7 children)

If the premise of a superman story is "strong guy fight strong guy," then yeah, not very interesting. What I'd prefer to see is a story that explores what having superheroes around does to humanity. What happens when a kid copies Superman and jumps off a building, and doesn't get caught? What happens when police expect a superhero to do their job for them? At what point does Superman decide to step away because he thinks he's causing more harm than good?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What I'd prefer to see is a story that explores what having superheroes around does to humanity.

The Boys, basically.

[–] chemikyle@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Maybe my memory is tainted because I tried to read the comic version of The Boys somewhat recently, but Watchmen is a much more mature exploration of the same topics.

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[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think everyone has to have read the original source material to enjoy something made from that material.

But if you're going to complain about it being faithful to the source material? Naw, that's in no way legit.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 14 points 4 days ago (17 children)

Plus... Like, definitionally, Superman was not born on US soil or to American parents. He doesn't have birthright citizenship

He's a literal alien with a fake identity, at the very least he's an immigrant, in every canon

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Superman punches Nazis. This isn't new.

1000033542

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Did dean cain fall off a fucking horse and get brain damage?

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He couldn't be possibly have been created by Immigrants /s

Looks up Joe Shuster birth place... Toronto, Ontario, Canada with his mother being from Ukraine

Looks up Jerry Siegel parents were from Lithuania

Hell looking up their parents if superman couldn't be an Immigrant he would be a Soviet.

Also Dean Cain has always been a has been loser for a long time now.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

We're still getting Dean Cain's opinion on things? Whoever wrote this article could have avoided all the torture by ignoring that Christofascist xenophobe like the rest of us.

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