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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why didn't Superman just grab the child and fly away?

[–] crawley@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Superman had no idea there was child there, he just wanted to fuck up a train.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the trolley problem. Picking up a kid in time to beat a speeding train would just snap his little neck. Stopping a speeding train to save the little boy would most likely kill anyone on board.

This scenario indicates superman would rather kill a train full of people, rather than having witnesses see him sit idle as a child removes himself from the gene pool.

My hypothesis is that this is the child of Lex Luther, or possibly a clone. He's literally playing on train train tracks, baiting super man into a win-less scenario via the trolley problem. It's the perfect scheme to slowly make him question the consequences of all his actions and eventually his entire purpose.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was feeling a bit Hancock that day.

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Where is my Bourbon?

[–] GrievingWidow420@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

The train was carrying electric sharing kick scooters to be deployed into metropolis and Superman wasn't about to let it happen

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Because it's an Amtrak.