History Fridge / Superman

*** I'm no scientist, but aren't all heavy metals actually ''[[StarPower created]]'' by [[FridgeBrilliance supernovas]]?

**** Alternately--it was a stupid plan and Luthor hadn't really thought it through.

* In ''{{Film/Superman}}'', Superman starts making the headlines everywhere in Metropolis, except the Daily Planet. Perry White, naturally, doesn't like this, so he demands that someone try and interview Superman, saying it'll be "the single most important interview since... God talked to Moses!". I remembered the story of Moses was an influence on Superman's origins! - Tropers/{{Premonition45}}

** [[ThisTroper This Tro]]--''* smack* OW!'' Um, {{Batgirl1}} has her own ideas about Superman's pose. Note that In the older comics, when Superman was mainly Superman and Clark was just a disguise, his standard pose was arms-akimbo. In the post-reboot comics, where Superman is Clark, he defaults to arm-crossing. Arms-Akimbo is an aggressive posture; arms-crossed is defensive. It can be thought to symbolically represent his being brought down to more human levels from his prior Demi-god status, or something. {{Batgirl1}} may have too much time on her hands.

** Staying on the subject of Superman, ClarkKenting. When Clark takes Kara for a stroll in downtown Metropolis they come across the huge statue of Superman that once stood over his tomb ([[IGotBetter he got better]]). Kara sees this and says that it's no wonder he can just put on a pair of glasses and walk around; this is how the people of earth see him. They would never suspect he was the dorky kid from Kansas pounding a keyboard in the Daily Planet. --{{SD81}}

**** It is never made clear (or even suggested) that all of Superman's crystals cause the "new continent" thing. The crystals Lex was carrying around were Supermans information crystals - like the hard drives for the fortress of solitude computer. It would make sense if the "new continent" crystal was a one of a kind crystal Lex had somehow made using the technology in the fortress.
*** Lex vaguely described how he was going to keep the world's governments off his back, but from what we see, there was little chance of that happening. It was him, his girl, and three goons. They didn't even have food and water, much less a reconstructed high-tech civilization. A single US Army chopper with a single squad of soldiers could have dispatched them with ease.

*** That US Army chopper -- and it's comrades -- would, like most of the world's militaries, be a bit more pressed in dealing with the massive natural disasters and humanitarian crises that would result from a completely new continent restructuring the face of the planet and devouring most of the pre-existing continents, causing entire cities to collapse and entire nations to fall apart in the process to worry about five people on the new continent.

* Bizarro. He's an imperfect, backwards clone of Superman. He's also a metaphor for humanity on the whole. Think of it; Bizarro has all of Superman's powers (if reversed, in some continuities), and is strengthened by that little green gemstone that would turn Superman into a peanut-allergic kid at the Reese's factory. In the same vein, humanity has surpassed most if not all of its natural boundaries, defying the elements time and again at every turn. So given this, why isn't Bizarro the hero? Simple: despite his power, he's not mentally capable of bearing the responsibility that comes with saving and protecting the world. He's every bit as powerful as the Blue Boy Scout, but his twisted logic won't let him do the good and right thing despite how badly he wants to. Sounds about right.

*** The entire idea of the supposed unrealism of ClarkKenting is exaggerated in the first place, based entirely on weak jokes that are vastly overplayed and were never funny to begin with. Consider it a bit of RealLife Fridge Brilliance if you must although it's more like common sense, but think about it: if you saw a guy who was the spitting image of Arnold Schwarzeneggar behind the counter at a Starbucks, only he has that green apron around him and he's wearing glasses, would you go, "AHA!! So Arnold Schwarzenegger is really a guy who makes coffee at a Starbucks in Bristol, Tennessee! I can't BELIEVE you thought you had us fooled! What do you take us for??!!" Or would you say, "Hey, has anyone ever told you that you look like just Arnold Schwarzeneggar? Nah, you probably get that all the time, I'm sorry." The only unrealistic thing is how seldom people seem to mention these fictional characters' resemblance to their alter egos, but that is to some degree [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by it being a bit of LampshadeHanging that would get old very easily, appearing to be nothing more than an [[OverlyLongGag overly long]] RunningGag.

*** For a real life example, consider that there are famous people who do look a bit like each other: Keira Knightly and Natalie Portman for instance (Knightly played Portman's double in ''ThePhantomMenace'' specifically for this reason). "Hey, Clark Kent sorta looks like Superman...bet he gets hassled by it all the time" is probably a realistic response for most people. The other common argument is to point out that someone, especially writers, can be famous and still not be well-known faces. Stephen King can probably be safely anonymous much of the time.

** [[ThisTroper This Tro]]--''* smack* OW!'' Um, {{Batgirl1}} has her own ideas about Superman's pose. Note that In the older comics, when Superman was mainly Superman and Clark was just a disguise, his standard pose was arms-akimbo. In the post-reboot comics, where Superman is Clark, he defaults to arm-crossing. Arms-Akimbo is an agressive posture; arms-crossed is defensive. It can be thought to symbolically represent his being brought down to more human levels from his prior Demi-god status, or something. {{Batgirl1}} may have too much time on her hands.

*** I can picture John Kent doing precisely that (minus the hovering) while looking down at his little adopted son who can't gather eggs without crushing them all. I wonder if Superman even realizes he's copying his father?
*** I just had a moment of Fridge Brilliance while reading the above two posts. Perhaps Superman is intentionally copying his father? In every comic I've ever read, Superman is both extremely idealistic and looks up to his father(or specificly, foster-father). Batman, in contrast, tries to scare people into behaving better (hence the bat thing), but Superman genuinely wants people to BE better. Who made him who he is (a hero)? His foster-father. So who else would he try to emulate?

* This may seem painfully obvious to you guys, but I only now just realised that Superman's hair swirl/the highlights on it form an 'S' shape, mirroring his logo!

*** That US Army chopper -- and it's comrades -- would, like most of the world's militaries, be a bit more pressed in dealing with the massive natural disasters and humanitarian crises that would result from a completely new continent restructuring the face of the planet and devouring most of the pre-existing continents, causing entire cities to collapse and entire nations to fall apart in the process to worry about five people on the new continent.

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**** Another righteous kill for SEAL Team 6!

**** Another righteous kill for Seal Team 6!

*** Lex vaguely described how he was going to keep the world's governments off his back, but from what we see, there was little chance of that happening. It was him, his girl, and three goons. They didn't even have food and water, much less a reconstructed high-tech civilization. A single US Army chopper with a single squad of soldiers could have dispatched them with ease.

** It's odd that Superman Returns took this route, as the Richard Donner Superman film, to which it is famously an homage, very clearly shows Krypton breaking up and exploding.