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cluescorner · 3 months

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The thing with My Adventures with Superman is that every masc is a shoujo protagonist (complete with the cheesy but genuine dialogue) and every femme is the protagonist of a thriller webtoon (complete with the 80 levels of parental issues). The only example to this is Lex Luthor, who is slowly going from a subversive shonen protagonist to a typical seinen antagonist until he one day becomes Griffith mixed with Shinji's dad.

#I am so fucking tired #so this might make no sense #I say 'masc' and 'femme' because I headcanon this Kara to be some version of 'girl but not exclusively girl'#I have been thinking about how this Lex specifically is reminding me of Griffith in how his conviction would be empowering #if his beliefs weren't shitty and HE wasn't shitty #that's true for Luthor in general tbh but in this show it just feels more real. probably because we get to SEE him start from the bottom #in most other continuities we KNOW he did (and frankly it's my favorite way of writing his backstory) but it's different when we SEE it #and yeah both Clark and Jimmy are officially shoujo protagonists. they have been for a while but now Jimmy is at Clark's level #complete with having a badass girl fall in love with him because he's just kinda a cool dude and also he saved her that one time

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