Brians Superman Post

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Ten Thousand Bears

Your argument is that Superman should win regardless of what he's facing or what state he's in?

No, his point was that if Superman were to lose, he wouldn't run away to spend who knows how long floating about in space basking in sunlight while billions of people die and the combined forces of the Legion of Doom or whatever tear apart all his friends before coming back after they'd all died in order to lose.

He'd have to be the among the first to die in such a war because he'd expend every ounce of will he had trying to make sure no one else did. Because he's Superman.

With respect, that's not Superman, that's Crime Fighting Jesus

"Crime Fighting Jesus" is pretty much the exact definition of Superman.

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

I'm not into the topic, but I am posting anyway because that is an amazing username. Run-on sentence!

Agreed. Here, have one of my old avatars to go along with the theme:

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Ten Thousand Bears

With respect, that's not Superman, that's Crime Fighting Jesus

[Ten Thousand Bears]

Thanks for the Avatar, I'll wear it with pride. All Ten Thousand of me.

[shiney]

NonCon, the image itself is funnye nough, but now when you just do the thumbnail version and let us fill in the blanks it's even funnier.

[Kurosen]

Originally Posted by Ten Thousand Bears

Your argument is that Superman should win regardless of what he's facing or what state he's in?

No, my argument is that he wouldn't give up hope. That he usually wins is often connected to that though that's what happens when you're the main character of a series that's been going on for 80 years.

[krogothwolf]

Also, this superman apparently had no issue with apparently killing or at least lobotomizing Black Adam, why didn't he do the same thing to Lex right away.

[Odjn]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

If only Superman would just KILL Lex Luthor... he'd come back in a few years anyway, just like that guy who Wonder Woman decapitated a few years ago who just came back.

Basically this. Superman is like "Killing is wrong ever" and he constantly keeps saying that despite, you know, being wrong. When Wonder Woman (ha 3 Ws in a roW) barely survived fighting him when Lord had him mentally controlled, and discovered there was no way to stop Lord if he was alive, she snapped his neck and BAM everyone was better off. Then he and Batman yelled at her for doing so when it was pretty much the only way.

I mean I'll excuse Batman that behavior towards the Joker because Batman is quite literally insane and manipulates even those around him, those he cares about, as pawns in his plots and lives to punish street level criminals because he never moved on from his parents' death turning him into like, the most emotionally stunted man alive, but Superman is supposed to be idealistic. And the type of idealism he is, is naive idealism- there's always a GOOD way of doing things and there's no questioning of it that's valid.

Additionally he's a really dumb fighter. He can move as fast as the Flash but rarely does, and really whenever there's a Doomsday-esque threat, unless it also has near light speed movement, should be defeated within seconds because Superman could punch 1000000000 times a second. Because he can move at lightspeed and punch that fast. He has laser eyes and can use them all the time- and should!- but rarely does. He has all that power and he can't even use it right.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Odjn

Basically this. Superman is like "Killing is wrong ever" and he constantly keeps saying that despite, you know, being wrong.

He's got a pretty stellar track record. It's hard to argue with a guy who has saved reality multiple times and saved babies while doing it. I would say he isp pretty much contiually proven correct.

[Odjn]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

He's got a pretty stellar track record. It's hard to argue with a guy who has saved reality multiple times and saved babies while doing it. I would say he isp pretty much contiually proven correct.

Hey let's kill the Joker.

HEY LOOK THE JOKER ISN'T KILLING PEOPLE ANYMORE.

Hey look Maxwell Lord turned like, the most powerful superhuman into his telepathic slave? Let's kill him.

WOOP WORLD SAVED.

Also a great deal of the things his morality solves are contrived anyway so that he can solve it without killing or doing anything morally dubious.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

World ruled by alien tyrant who is unstoppable! That's a good plan!
Hey look the Joker is killing people anymore but Superman is!