Superman and Spider-man are characters with the two greatest moral compasses in existence.
@GPS_DS
Жыл бұрын
Ain’t that the truth.
@thegreatandterrible4508
Жыл бұрын
Not counting Spider-man's brief stint as an Objectivist.
@honest_126
Жыл бұрын
Spiderman I love way more for him not being as crazy as Superman. But I can see the character appeal of Clark Kent.
@dimissavage
Жыл бұрын
They’ve been writing Nightwing in that same way as Spider-man recently and im all for it
@breadanbuttwr
Жыл бұрын
Fr 👏
@rainerhorn7547
Жыл бұрын
Superman is not human. But he learned human values, morals, and ethics from two simple, loving parents. Him being the epitome of human grace while being a totally separate species is wonderful.
@chris1549
Жыл бұрын
Yes that is the irony of it. Superman is no man but he's more humane than any of us
@bobwilson679
Жыл бұрын
@@chris1549 "It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all. Then... he shoots fire from the skies, and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him." -Batman From Superman/Batman #3
@catslino5037
Жыл бұрын
In American Alien the writer had a really good explanation for it. Kryptonians are plant like. They can hyberdize with each other and trough science they figure out how to do so with other species. Clark's pod read the DNA of his human parents and mixed their DNA. So Clark is the son of the Kents. At least half son anyways
@GPS_DS
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Making Superman mopey like Batman really isn’t very hopeful. Obviously he’s got to have some introspection, but he’s supposed to be a kind, somewhat dorky optimist.
@spacecat8511
Жыл бұрын
He’s basically a minority (and genocide survivor, especially if you read Sandman. The first incarnation of Despair and Krypton’s Sun basically plotted to wipe out Krypton and all Kryptonians EXCEPT Superman because the Red Sun is an utter asshole and wanted to be worshiped as a god, and the Endless often terrorize mortals for funsies (especially that incarnation of Despair and Desire.)) So…Superman is allowed to angst. He is utterly alone as no one else of his species usually exists, or he spent so much time being Alone Existentially after he realized his heritage. Even when Not Evil Kryptonian Survivors like Supergirl exist (and his old kryptonian dog Krypto), that still doesn’t overwrite his loneliness. That’s not how trauma works (And well. Superman was originally created by jewish writers with moses themes, and Neil Gaiman wrote Sandman.)
@maddie9602
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I love the angle the original Superman movie took. Lois Lane just being like, "Is this guy for real? Come on, there _has_ to be some hidden darkness in there!" And gradually realizing, no, he legitimately is as good as he looks. There's no ulterior motives, no hidden darkness, he just exists as a Paragon of goodness.
@AStrangeWindmill
Жыл бұрын
That's honestly how batman took to him in the animated series. "I don't trust you, I don't trust you, I don't trust you, oh my _God_ you're serious, aren't you?"
@aparticularlydustedcoolran2448
Жыл бұрын
I feel like he was thinking about this all day, and finally decided to pull out the camera.
@enrickthomas5163
Жыл бұрын
I think it's important to note: He is not perfect, he is just trying his best at all times
@UnlaunderedShirt
Жыл бұрын
Superman is a good country boy from Smallville, who noticed that when you fly high above everyone, it takes you away from everyone you care about
@rubystewart2361
Жыл бұрын
This point really reminds me of a comic thing where Superman took Atlas' place holding up the world so he could go to his daughter's wedding. He didn't have time to warn anyone, and yet his city is protected by all the heroes he's helped, befriended and inspired over the years.
@AdderMoray
Жыл бұрын
*Thank you.* The power fantasy of Superman isn't being all powerful. It's being able to help. Whoever. Whenever. No matter what.
@Trigger99X
Жыл бұрын
That’s my power fantasy to a T
@justanawkwardnerd
Жыл бұрын
It's also a fantasy based on _comfort._ Superman is written the way he is because his writers wanted to dream up a hero for their own fears, one that rescued them and was there to wipe their tears from their childhood nightmares. I think this was specifically stated about the comic where Superman beats up an abusive father and/or "Superman Fights the Klan." So many power fantasies are about throwing your weight around and being considered the most important and powerful person in the room - doing whatever you want without consequence, especially in the case of violence or sexuality. That's what people tend to use Batman for - for expressions of more socially acceptable forms of masculinity (violence, brooding, angst, sex, etc.), but not Superman. Superman was about vulnerability, about letting yourself feel sad or weak because there is someone there who cares to help you and that Someone wears a cape. You can cry and be weak and _still have value._ That being kind IS a superpower, and you didn't need to punch a villain or fly to be able to save the day. Continuously choosing to be kind and to help is his superpower, the Kryptonian stuff is more like decoration. Superman is the "I work out to be able to lift my dogs like babies" meme, damnit.
@fangorn23
Жыл бұрын
I'm angry to this day that they killed Clark's father in the movies.... and did not model it after how it happened in the comicbooks. In the comics Clark is saving people and suddenly he stops. Drops the criminal he was talking to and whispers "I can't hear dad's heartbeat anymore" and boom GONE and the whole time Clark is saying to himself "I can save him. I can save ANYONE" he doesnt save him. but nah eff all that. TORNADURR get dem special effects in!
@bugbear2357
11 ай бұрын
my power fantasy too tbh
@LaziestPotato
Жыл бұрын
This is honestly pretty inspirational.
@psychronia
Жыл бұрын
Superman ain't Superman unless I can unironically, affectionately, call him a dork.
@watcher314159
Жыл бұрын
Fucking YES! You get it! Encore, louder for the people in the back!
@dantevalehuntik28
Жыл бұрын
The Kents raised him well
@pwojo9776
Жыл бұрын
Superman: Aren't you tired of going ape-shit? Don't you just want to be nice?
@tylerowens
Жыл бұрын
Totally agree, although I also appreciate "morally rigid to his own detriment" Superman in light doses. The Justice League Unlimited episode where Lex plays Supes like a fiddle by being shady as fuck about a totally innocent thing so that Supes will destroy it and look like an ass was just chef's kiss. But yeah, super easy to overdo.
@thermophile1695
Жыл бұрын
Captain America vibes.
@DrBrangar
Жыл бұрын
Watch Overly Sarcastic Production's superman detail diatribes, they are really good at expanding on this, and the second one they did even talks about other versions of superman that are still fundamentally superman, and how that rules.
@cormaclynch3680
Жыл бұрын
I can tell he’s been thinking about this for a while.
@bobwilson679
Жыл бұрын
"It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all. Then... he shoots fire from the skies, and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him." -Batman From Superman/Batman #3
@nelsonvenema3614
Жыл бұрын
Superman is never gonna give you up! He will never let you down. Superman is never gonna turn around and desert you!
@sloantempest9421
Жыл бұрын
Honestly the reason why people don’t like him is because they know he’s better than them. They know if they had power they wouldn’t be a good person, they would either do nothing with it or let it corrupt them. They like seeing super flawed heroes to make them feel more comfortable with themselves in their very flawed state. A lot of people prefer Invincible because they know he will kill because that’s what they would do. They love seeing Injustice Superman because they love to not only see his butt get handed to him but also they love seeing him tear the world apart, like they would if they had that kind of power.
@sadieoliviaruiz1848
Жыл бұрын
"and who cares if he's strong? All we see's the wrong we've done reflected in his eye" -I fight dragons "No one Likes Superman anymore"
@gayanudugampola8973
Жыл бұрын
But then what about characters like Spider-Man? He has powers which put him above normal humans but he doesn't use them for evil. Is it because his powers aren't god like? Heck what about Batman his has the money and power to be corrupt but he isn't like that.
@sloantempest9421
Жыл бұрын
@@gayanudugampola8973 Spider-Man doesn’t mind killing if that what it takes. He’s come close to it several times & only stopped when it was unnecessary to kill them. Batman is a lunatic & has done messed up stuff before that almost killed others such as his countless contingencies. That he made with his money.
@bugbear2357
11 ай бұрын
I think that's why I've never been a fan of Injustice Superman. we have enough insanely powerful people ruining the world for their own gain, both in comics and in real life, why have this one guy who is truly good be another one? Superman, the Superman who is a genuinely nice and good person, is who I'd want to be and who I hope I'd be if I had those powers. seeing him turned evil just feels really wrong, and I'm usually all for twisting characters to see what happens if you break them, but I really don't like it with Batman or Superman
@timbax3267
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact I just googled: "Superman’s creators first envisioned him as a villain. Recent high school graduate Jerry Siegel self-published a story in January 1933 called “The Reign of the Superman,” featuring a mad scientist who plucks a vagrant from a bread line and gives him telepathic capabilities. This so-called Superman, intoxicated by power, then kills the mad scientist and begins taking over the world until the enchantment wears off and he once again becomes a nobody. Soon after, Siegel and his friend Joe Shuster, who illustrated the piece, revamped Superman as a good guy with an alien backstory, a secret identity and a cape, among other features that would come to define him. For several years, Siegel and Shuster unsuccessfully pitched their comic strip idea to newspaper syndicates. Finally, a predecessor to DC Comics asked them to rework it into a 13-page story for Action Comics #1, which would go on to become the most valuable comic book of all time."
@mr.tiddles556
Жыл бұрын
You just summarized OSP's hour and a half detail diatribe in like a minute, I'm impressed
@honest_126
Жыл бұрын
"-and Superman turns around and says 'What are you guys doing?! You have the power to make everyone's lives better and you choose not to do that.'" For real, like, especially Lex, if I'm remembering correct he once cured his sister of an uncurable disease just to give it right back to her.
@megaman-nb5zy
Жыл бұрын
the man cured cancer and told no one
@ChowderMeat
Жыл бұрын
To quote All Star Superman, "If it had mattered to you [Luthor], you could have saved the world years ago"
@TheMightyBattleSquid
Жыл бұрын
He gets called out for it in all-star superman too. Look up "Lex Luthor's Epiphany | All Star Superman HD" here on youtube.
@QuintarFarenor
Жыл бұрын
@@megaman-nb5zy In a "What-If"-Comic, he did cure cancer just to get out of jail, just so superman would trust him enough, so he could kill him, for good! In that comic Superman was dead, dead, dead and Lex let all his friend watch him die. That was brutal.
@AdderMoray
Жыл бұрын
He did it because Superboy called his ass out that he clearly couldn't or else he would have by now. Because Conner couldn't fathom the depths of Lex's shittiness.
@Thesleepytimes
Жыл бұрын
FINALLY, someone gets it!
@chris1549
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU you summarised what I couldn't. He's SUPERMAN because he does good things for people.
@Bonedragon1300
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the whole point of Superman is that he is the definition of a paragon of "good guy"
@sadieoliviaruiz1848
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU. It's one of the things that pissed me off so much about the Snyder Superman. That first trailer? Jor-El's voice saying "You will give the people of Earth an Ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you. They will stumble. They will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you can help them accomplish wonders" That hyped me up so much for the movie and instead we get "Uh don't use your powers it might make people scared!" And "Mopey grim dark neck snappy" movie. I fight Dragons has a good explanation for why we do this though; in their song "No one likes Superman anymore" 'and who cares if he's strong? All we see's the wrong we've done reflected in his eyes' Which makes sense. It's harder to relate to someone as goodhearted and pure as Superman, but that's the POINT. We aren't him, but we should aspire to be.
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
You only watched mos once didn’t you? It’s not a mopey grim dark movie, it gets tense but the movies ultimately are about hope, choice and change. Johnathan and Martha were overprotective and tries to raise a superpower kid to keep a low profile if he tries to help people due to people reacting. Zod forced Clark into the action, zod did the damages and forced Clark to do something that he wasn’t okay with being zod was trying to cause harm.
@Grams5982
Жыл бұрын
OSP had like a two hour rant about this on their channel that i think you would greatly resonate with--- she touches on this point and many more concerning his character. You are in good company!
@collymorpheous8575
Жыл бұрын
This guy gets it. It's not his powers that make him super.
@SonarTheBat
Жыл бұрын
Dude could have literally anything he wants and he choses to help people.
@TheMightyBattleSquid
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like you would enjoy talking about superman with Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions. She's ALWAYS saying this when the topic of superman is brought up.
@harleyquinn5774
Жыл бұрын
This is why I love Superman. ❤
@dragonair2013
Жыл бұрын
And, as a return to one of your previous videos, Superman is just A NORMAL DUDE ON HIS PLANET. He has no inclination to do such things! It's not in his blood! It's not legacy! Which brings us to the absolutely most goated heroes of DC...Superman's adoptive parents. Bless their souls, they raised such a wonderful boy.
@harrisonk2635
Жыл бұрын
Superman is an amazing character, when he is well written and understandood by the writers. Unfortunately that doesn't translate to live action nowadays
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
It does translate into live action, it’s just that it’s different than what the audience expects and reject it immediately rather than understand it.
@harrisonk2635
Жыл бұрын
@@legoben98productions Man of Steel and Batman v Superman and Justice League all missed key points in Superman's character which just make him an Overpowered God. Superman is who he is because of his humanity, being raised by farmers, when you take that away what's left
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
@@harrisonk2635 how? He’s shown genuine care about people in all the movies coworkers, childhood friends, soldiers who he doesn’t know, Gotham citizens about Batman, and the people of earth in general; he is insecure about his place as people project their views on him when he just wants to help people and make a difference. He was still raised by farmers who were protective of him and wanted him to have a normal childhood and shown that they were good people. Superman is a humble, soft spoken, courageous character that wants to do the right thing and has conflict with moral dilemmas like social pressures and politics. That’s the Superman I knew from the Max Fleischer cartoons and STAS
@emmadelaney3133
Жыл бұрын
I literally spent almost 2 hours today on watching a video essay about something similar, crazy
@lukerussell3782
Жыл бұрын
Counter point. He’s better with pink kryptonite.
@skylostheadorable5209
Жыл бұрын
I agree ❤
@zinkheroofyoutube8004
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@tyrongkojy
Жыл бұрын
What does pink do, again? If I recall it's jumped around between making him gay, "feminizing" him, and straight out making him a woman.
@erq96
Жыл бұрын
@@tyrongkojy gay
@zinkheroofyoutube8004
Жыл бұрын
@@tyrongkojy Basically makes him gay
@123haninhk
Жыл бұрын
Clark is very kind and raised right by the Kent’s 😊
@toricon8070
Жыл бұрын
there are interesting ways to subvert the idea of Superman! "what if Superman was evil" is not one of them. good examples include: "what if Superman was chronically ill due to injuries accrued over his career as a hero", "what if Superman wanted to retire from heroics and do something else with his life", and "what if Superman was Vegeta". admittedly none of those stories end up being _about_ legally-not-Superman, but they remain interesting subversions.
@AdderMoray
Жыл бұрын
I recognize All Might and Omniman, but who's the one in the middle?
@toricon8070
Жыл бұрын
@@AdderMoray Metro Man.
@Mayeur000Donz
10 ай бұрын
I've rewatched this clip a few times. I legit get goosebumps with the final line.
@mark1339
Жыл бұрын
Hes got a point jack.
@tyrongkojy
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, basically. I don't mind stories like the Injustice universe, because it's not even really about subverting anything, and more "Something as powerful as Supes. Go fight." But mainline Supes? Yeah, supposed to be good. Looking at you, Snyder.
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
Snyder literally did what the video talked about, it was clear in MOS, BVS, and ZSJL. BVS was about the notion of Superman and the struggles of it in the world through public projection and bias
@tyrongkojy
Жыл бұрын
@@legoben98productions Okay, but he failed. Utterly. He was SUCH a destructing menace in MOS, as well as murderer.
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
@@tyrongkojy he didn’t fail, got rejected by the critics who didn’t understand it. Clark was dealing with a alien invasion and was just new to actually throwing a punch. Superman is known for property damage, it’s literally the first thing that he did in action comics #1. Plus most of the damage was made from zod and his team. Superman has killed and caused property damage before in comics and in Superman 2. The only person that Clark kills in mos was zod, and it was by forced by zod himself.
@tyrongkojy
Жыл бұрын
@@legoben98productions Critics, people who actually know the character, same thing, really. There's "causing property damage" then there's blatant fighting recklessly around civilians, and keeping it around civilians. No one forced him to kill Zod. In fact the basic setup of that scene is a failure. The family is to the right. He snaps Zod's head TO THE RIGHT. The head he otherwise was holding in place. Even if Zod left him with no choice, which is simply wrong because he could have lifted his face, since he wasn't having any issue keeping him from beaming them, snapping his head TOWARD the family he was trying to beam fails in the task 100 fold. The whole thing failed on a basic cinematography level.
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
@@tyrongkojy no it’s not. Critics have made reviews that was written like a forced book report, some actually expected marvel characters and humor (I’m not even joking) Zod made it clear that he wasn’t going to stop causing mayhem and that it’d be either zod or Clark that lives after the fight. Clark even begs zod to stop but he refused. Moving his head wasn’t a final solution especially when he can just move his eyes to destroy the ceiling. Clark couldn’t fight zod forever and he lost the phantom zone as it got destroyed, and he can’t block heat vision as it was shown earlier that it could also hurt other kryptonians. Clark snapped zod’s neck to his right where it was the opposite from the family was at.
@DanteGrey
Жыл бұрын
Honestly the exception to this has to be Injustice. And that's only because Injustice does so well at showing him like this, and then jackknifing it so hard with the subversion. Like he never really loses himself at the beginning he just slowly keeps getting worse trying to justify being good, by doing bad things. It's kind of like all the times where we yell at Batman to just do something bad because it would fix some problems, but taking that to it's literally comical conclusion
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
The justice lords from DCAU is the clear winner in that.
@b.a.t..
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly my toughts
@kalef2
Жыл бұрын
I liked the point that OSP's diatribe videos about Superman hit on where it seems like one of the big issues writing Superman is less that he's too powerful to just do the normal Punchy Punchy stuff, and more that saving people has become the Tutorial Mode of superheroes and they graduate out of that and into going into Punchy Punchy situations with super villains. Superman is so strong that it's hard to give him a reason not to immediately win and drain out all the drama, but when saving people is the goal, then stakes exist, and Superman is one of the few people with the power the fight large-scale disasters.
@youngbloodedxp1710
Жыл бұрын
Hear me out: I've always hated Superman, but this the only, and I mean ONLY take that makes me actually like him. If every Superman writer capitalized on this I might actually become a super fan.
@earthan
Жыл бұрын
Check out Superman The Animated Series, from the '90s, if you can. I watched it recently as an adult and it totally converted me from a Superman-hater to a Superman-liker because he's a cinnamon roll, basically everything in this video. The '90s cartoon understood the character in a way that feels frustratingly uncommon today.
@Ya_Brotha_Bilo
Жыл бұрын
This is so true
@justanaveragebuzzsaw
Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Nobody could've said that better.
@This_Is_Just_To_Say
Жыл бұрын
Precisely! As we begin to better recognize power abuse, we need to not conflate that as all power being innately abusive, and fall into the destructive belief that power will always be abusive and that abuse is inevitable, because there is such a thing as power that serves, that protects, and cares, and that is the standard we need to hold power to.
@MrGorillafist
Жыл бұрын
Fucking thank you for saying this. There's few things I hate more in media than seeing superman or superman wannabees turn out to be monsters. It's not interesting or good writing!!!!
@LostScarf
10 ай бұрын
Man this guy never misses
@fangorn23
Жыл бұрын
Sir, this is a wendy's
@flameofmage1099
9 ай бұрын
Injustice Fans: But... but...
@jethrotheguy2375
Жыл бұрын
It's also why I don't like most alternate parodies of Superman because they tend to go into routes that turn the character into "Superman but evil" with the exceptions of All Might and Metro Man who actually had interesting spins on a character with Superman like power
@shethewriter
10 ай бұрын
Finally a vindication of Superman. He is the most interesting for sure
@KodyCrimson
10 ай бұрын
I have never heard this guy so miffed before.
@springsaber
Жыл бұрын
👏
@liambaillargeon3136
Жыл бұрын
Guy actually nailed it
@nomisunrider6472
Жыл бұрын
Not to mention that him being an immigrant was part of his character from the beginning, he was created by Jewish immigrants as proof that outsiders could be heroes too. So this whole "Superman's not like us, therefore he is destined to turn evil and seek to subjugate us" idea is...kinda suspect.
@islandgyal3730
Жыл бұрын
I love the passion lol.
@21700r
Жыл бұрын
HE GETS IT, THE MAN GETS IT!!!!!!
@yusufkadar
Жыл бұрын
This is what drunk Bruce Wayne rants about
@MistarZtv
Жыл бұрын
i think they pointed out that lex even with the technology equal to that of prime earth on another earth instead of obsessing over superman he actually put his mind and energy into spending his time, with resources and technology he has to actually help solve their climate crisis, ending world hunger and curing cancer. i think superman has a great point.
@terrytaylor1732
Жыл бұрын
Someone send this to Warner Bros. They apparently DESPERATELY need to see this.
@zariasafonova7220
Жыл бұрын
This is why my favorite Superman is the original Superman: the Animated Series version
@kingzant99
Жыл бұрын
Seeing this video just brought to mind the World Made of Cardboard speech, because even going against truly evil people, he doesn't want to hurt anyone, and it takes someone with Darkseid's level of power AND evil for Supes to actually take off the brakes.
@michaelholland1936
9 ай бұрын
Thats a massive point between Lex Luthor and Superman. Lex is a billionaire who I believe like alot in our world would be unable to understand why someone as powerful as Superman would act like Superman. Lex believes that if you were all powerful you are superior and shouldn't help anyone else but yourself and he knows thats not Superman and that confuses him. The hidden character elements in the story where Lex creates the computer to find out Superman secret identity and when it tells him clark kent he refuses to believe it because I feel Lex can't accept an all powerful being chosing to want to be normal or a regular person.
@dimissavage
Жыл бұрын
PREACH MY BROTHER
@MrSchism
Жыл бұрын
And between tyrant Superman and traditional, we have Hancock who is largely inspired by Superman, but has the apathy of a damaged immortal being. That's how you flip it and keep it interesting.
@ChowderMeat
Жыл бұрын
EXACTLY! Thank you!
@yamibakura8597
Жыл бұрын
I am glad someone finally said it.
@aname4681
Жыл бұрын
I have a playlist about why superman should be a big blue boy scout, this is going into it
@kingofswords8254
Жыл бұрын
I think Injustice does make an evil superman interesting in really clever ways, but I also agree with you.
@NicoleMay316
Жыл бұрын
Injustice is a very compelling timeline, but only because the norm is for him to be good. You need that sense of normalcy for injustice to be a good story, and show how easily he could slip. Being good all the time is hard, and it's a fight the real Superman will never give up on
@manel6706
Жыл бұрын
thank you i get so frustrated with most depiction of many superheroes for this reason just look at the dc films and what they did to batman and superman turning them into edgelords (while that can work for batman it shouldn't work for superman) same thing with spiderman just because he's popular writers and people, they tend to put him into larger than life situations and fighting end of the world level threats, meanwhile they forget about the "friendly neighbourhood" part of spider-man. it's one of the reasons i liked my hero academia so much when it first started, you have a larger than life superhero (all-might) and the 2 main protagonist who took what he did and got completely different meanings from it (Midoriya took the "saving people with a smile" aspect while Bakugou took the "beating the villains" aspect) and i love that the story showed that both sides were incomplete without the other
@legoben98productions
Жыл бұрын
They didn’t turn Superman into edgelord.
@an8strengthkobold360
Жыл бұрын
If he doesn't care about people nothing can hurt him. He's invincible so there's no steaks if he doesn't care about the people who aren't.
@thelightside77
Жыл бұрын
Damn it there's no steaks? Now why did i drive all this way?
@tedgoddamncruz5277
Жыл бұрын
This is a symptom of a larger problem: everyone insists on writing assholes for no good reason.
@strawberryjam6235
Жыл бұрын
PREACH
@sheolcodemonkey4027
Жыл бұрын
Given that this was literally and unabashedly the entire point from the very beginning, going even so far as to have him be CALLED Superman, because he is supposed to be the best of all of us (I also read somewhere that it was in reference to the Ubermench, in that he is the being with the most raw potential to do great things, and he STILL uses it for good and not his own victory as Nietzche would have had him do) it is utterly baffling that this needs to be stated out loud
@chrisnotaperson8127
Жыл бұрын
I think supes proves that absolute power puts you beyond corruption. It's just that as humans we can't really understand absolute power. We think that because some power corrupts more power will always be more corrupting
@jentzi23
Жыл бұрын
I can't agree more.
@oldshoes5199
Жыл бұрын
Power doesn’t corrupt, power reveals. Power doesn’t turn superman into a tyrant because at his core, he’s not that person.
@darkener3210
Жыл бұрын
Pov: You just finished watching red son
@davidbreault3283
Жыл бұрын
Hey Beef, I highly recommend Superman: For All Seasons if you haven’t already read it. Thanks as always!
@theawkwardpotato1973
Жыл бұрын
This guy gets it.
@darkAwesome100
Жыл бұрын
This just reminds me of that movie, superman vs the elite
@ryanmeakins2993
Жыл бұрын
Amen
@lidge1994
Жыл бұрын
Okay, but Injustice is still an amazing comic and game series.
@jimstoesz3878
9 ай бұрын
"But power corrupts, so Superman being good is unrealistic!" First of all, no it fucking doesn't. Power ENABLES. Show me someone who was "good" before they had power and became "bad" after they got it, and I'll show you someone who was always bad but was previously too weak to act on it! Secondly, THE MAN'S A PERFECTLY HUMAN-LOOKING ALIEN WITH GOD-LEVEL POWERS THAT HE GETS FROM BEING EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT! *WHY WOULD REALISM EVEN MATTER?!?!?*
@janjelabear
Жыл бұрын
Say it one more time for the people in the back!
@thetruerift
Жыл бұрын
I mean he was made by a pair of Jewish men in a time when Europe was all about the "ubermench" ideal. Superman is the saying that "yes, here's this real, true Super/Uber man, and he uses his power to help others, not dominate them."
@DenBlackwolf
Жыл бұрын
Just commenting to show love.
@ByrdieFae
Жыл бұрын
FACTS.
@kenshidinyas
Жыл бұрын
Couple points: 1. I don't want to see Superman as a tyrant, I do appreciate different takes on his character, especially how his powers could lead him to find coping mechanisms for all the input he gets. 2. Superman can be difficult in this day and age to write. He has the power to dramatically change world power structures, how we use energy, supply chain issues, the list goes on. He is a physical deity. He doesn't have to directly rule, but he certainly could prevent and check a lot of abuses of power. Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg, and possibly a few others could, if they wanted to, individually end poverty or starvation, or several other issues. They are certainly aware of this, and they choose not to. As such the misery which continues from these issues is on their hands. Likewise, Superman in his world could significantly reduce a number of systemic global issues and he chooses not to. As such he is responsible for the continued suffering from said issues. Similar things can be said of a number of characters. Superman, as a character, if he is to remain somewhat morally good, needs to keep himself out of all issues except those which require his level of power to deal with, or he needs to act on the larger issues in meaningful ways at the capacity he is capable of. But the writers are not going to tell that story.
@C8J9
Жыл бұрын
Yes! This 100 times this! I am so sick of people who think dark edgy Superman is deeper and a better character. At this point there are more evil Supermen than just normal good Superman. It is more interesting to choose good than evil. It's like what DC did with Captain Marvel/Shazam. "Pure good doesn't exist let's make him an evil little jerk." The new Shazam in the comics has some just really bad moments that are not a normal kid. At least the one in the movie was a jerk in order to push people away while being good at his heart. Keep Superman good and just have the villains. There are plenty of other characters to handle the dark and edgy. I want my uplifting goodness. Please make the good heroes just good again.
@qasimahmad6748
Жыл бұрын
Jeez, who hurt you man.
@ZArocket
Жыл бұрын
Superman and Lois, that is all
@DwarfDaddy
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!!
@maggpiprime954
Жыл бұрын
Huh. Well, now I like him!
@stevendean6238
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@plucas1
Жыл бұрын
Superman is the Captain America of superheroes.
@koreanbeef27
Жыл бұрын
Superman is the literal blueprint for all superheroes. Captain America follows Superman’s lead
@luisvalenzuela9967
Жыл бұрын
Uh oh...Did somebody watch Man of Steel again?
@The73MPL4R
Жыл бұрын
DC certainly loves their "Evil Superman" stories despite it being very out of character for him
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