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truth, justice

American way

Sorry but you have to pick one

Awesome! They should make him wear the American flag on his back too, and always tell bystanders that "they're the real heroes".

This Superman is going to kill so many people in the global south.

I hate superheroes I hate superheroes I hate superheroes

I think it's going to be ironic, in a lib sort of way, where Superman discovers that America bad, and that some deep state shadow agency is colluding with a foreign entity, but then Superman saves the day and America becomes the good and true America that America was always destined to be.

My own Superman movie pitch:

50 hour movie where he listens to all of Blowback and then destroys America.

Directed by James Gunn at least, so it won't be totally awful.

If you're going to make a movie about a superhero who has outdated values, you already have the perfect superhero for that in Captain America. Why Superman?

The Kryptonian to crypto-fascist pipeline is real

When Captain America: Winter Soldier came out it was (insofar as capeshit slop can be) a pretty big deal for a few reaosns. The biggest one by far was that they took a guy whose whole schtick is that he throws a giant frisbee and managed to make him and his fight sequences actually fucking cool. Of note also though was that it actually confronted and indeed actually confirmed the idea that the shadowy government agency they were all working with were basically Nazis. The moral of that one was that America has become what it originally fought against in WW2 and we needed the symbol of the American dream to bring us back on track.

That was 10 years ago. At this point even people like me who will guiltily consume capeshit will tell you that's all cope. America is a genocidal colonizer state who served as inspiration to the Nazis. The values Captain America claims to have represented are and always were fantasy.

If I was to do a Superman movie I think I would take a page out of David Goyer's brief comic run where Superman renounced his American citizenship. Maybe have a B-plot that ties into the A plot where Superman who is by any and all definitions an undocumented immigrant is being granted American citizenship only to have him reject the offer at the end when he realizes that the concept of the American way is actually short sighted and myopic and that he actually needs to see himself as a citizen of the world. Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if they actually go that route. Meaningless platitudes but I don't see how anything else won't land completely flat.

Tbh i think most people are over capeflicks that its probably gonna do meh at the box office either way.

Bit idea: Inframan: he's an alien from another planet whose otherworldly origin makes him the only guy capable of doing some goddamn self-reflection

this is going to be a steaming pile of American exceptionalism

Superman stars in MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and laser eyes all the democrats.

Wow this is going to be shit lol

The new lkorm isknt like htwo old normmm btw

WOkness chas gone too far

I am vberuy smart and nuanced dactually

I already despised Man of Steel for the Snyderfication of the character. "Boo hoo I'm better than everyone else and the untermenschen resent me for that! Fortunately the military is actually really cool once they get to know me!"

This shit sounds like tier "rant in car on Youtube" shit.

EDIT: I should have said Snyder; mixed up my cryptofascists there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_So_Funny_About_Truth%2C_Justice_%26_the_American_Way%3F?wprov=sfla1

I believe it's going to be a very loose adaptation of this story.

Also don't forget that for people in the US invoking "America" in this way is just so normalised for them to the extent that they don't even know they're being jingoistic. I don't think these people are even conscious of how they come across.

It's gonna have a banging soundtrack tho