#for the man who has everything

[poppetsisters]

Fake Reality Prison

[chernobog13]

That time the rest of the Trinity got to meet Mongul for the first time.

For The Man Who Has Everything by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (with colors by Tom Ziuko), from Superman Annual (vol. 1) #11 (September, 1985).

This is my absolute favorite version of Mongul, and hopefully we'll see him again someday.

[iseathegalaxy]

i'm definitely years late to this but do you think when they animated for the man who has everything they changed how in the comics bruce is actually the one that gives clark the new breed of rose he had bred (!) and named the krypton (!!) and instead had diana be the one to gift it to him because they read it and were like "no, that's way too gay, we can't"?

[asha-mage]

i'm on desktop and i'm too lazy to pull up emojis but imagine a pepper emoji right here

The best adaption of the famous Superman story 'For the Man Who Has Everything' is not the Justice League episode of the same name (though that is a very good episode and adaption) but rather, the Supergirl season 1 episode 'For the Girl Who Has Everything'.

As with the comic, Kara- like Clark- is ensnared by the Black Mercy, a plant that entraps it's victim in a hallucinogenic vision of their ideal life, and like Clark, we learn that Kara's vision of an ideal life is living out her time with her family on a Krypton that is never destroyed.

What's interesting is that Clark's vision of Krypton is not really grounded in anything- it can't be. He was a baby when he left and he has no memories to cling to. It's shown that what Clark really wants is being able to live in a world where not only does he not have the power to be a hero but their is no need for heroes at all. His visions of his parents, of what Kryptonian life might have looked like, all of it- it's all a fabrication. Even his dream wife is clearly just 'Lois Lane but on Krypton'. Clark Kent's darkest fantasy is "I don't have to be Superman anymore", because being Superman is a terrible sacrifice, but one he feels he has to make, like he does at the end of the story when he finally breaks free.

But that's not the case for Kara, because Kara's darkest fantasy is not "I don't have to be Supergirl anymore". Kara likes being Supergirl even despite all the sacrifices it demands of her, in part because its her way of making up for not being there for Clark/Kal El when he first got to earth. Instead Supergirl's darkest fantasy really is 'Krypton was never destroyed and none of this ever happened'- because for all the good in her life: from her adopted family, to everything Clark has become, to the friends she cares about so deeply, to everything she has done as Supergirl- she would trade it all to go back to Krypton, back to her family, her world, her life before it was all violently ripped away from her.

Kara remembers Krypton in a way Clark doesn't, and so her vision is more cruel in a way his can't be. Those visions of her parents aren't guess work or fabrication, that's really as she remembers them, and her vision of Krypton and what it was like are grounded firmly in her lived experience. For her, she is seeing people and places that where killed and destroyed, and that she mourned. Clark's vision is of a life he thinks he can never have. Kara's vision is of a life she had but was taken from her and unlike Clark that means that she can not escape on her own.

Instead her adopted sister Alex has to go into the vision to try and reach her, and in the process delivers one of the best speeches in the Arrowverse, or a Superfamily story:

Life isn't perfect. I know it can be hard and it can be lonely. Especially for you. You have sacrificed and you have lost so much. I wish you could've had a life with your family. But even if you did, Kara, it wouldn't be this. Because this isn't real. And deep down, Kara. Deep down, you know it. I can't promise you a life without pain and loss because pain is a part of life. It's what makes us who we are. It is what makes you a hero. You fight every day to keep people from struggling like you have. I know you can remember, please. Please try, Kara. Because Earth needs Supergirl.

This finally breaks through and sets Kara free, because Alex is right. Earth does need her, and just because being Supergirl is not the same burden for her as it to Clark, it doesn't change that, and it doesn't change that it demands incredible sacrifices of her- including saying goodbye to her family and her world for a second time.

Anyways all this to say while the Arrowverse made some wild choices later on, it still had a way better understanding of the DC heroes and what makes their stories tick then basically anyone they've ever let write a Superman movie for the last twenty years.

[ssomagni]

Did a pixel redraw of that scene from JL Unlimited episode for the man who has everything inspired by @sicktember - "Under a spell"

[kara-zor-els]

He's so hot when he's scary 😍

Superman (1939) Annual #11

[timaeuslover001]

Superman Headcanon (AU)

Ma Kent says "Clark has a type" he denies it of course but she knows her son well.

she says clark likes girls with 'sweet faces" girl next door types. Hence why he dated Lana , even though it didn't work out in the end.

(n the man who had everything Clark had a woman who looked like Lois and Lana. but I know from the comics an actual woman named Loana existed on Krypton before, but I actually came up with this from Superman IV nota good film but lacy and clark chemistry struck me so hard and she had a pretty and sweet face too the kind Lana had so, id thought hey, why not? im not married to this headcanon but I thought it was fun)

[momachan]

"You were good once, Red Hood-- I even remember one particular time when you saved my life. It's a shame you've made such a mess of your own. -Work in progress, Super-Dude."

Red Hood (2011-2015) Vol. 2: The Starfire. "Up, Up And Away... My Beautiful, My Beautiful Ballon!".

I love when they use old references. Jason did save Superman from Mongul.

[girlcheater]

Smthg smthg modern day rendition of 'For the man who has everything.' but with current Clark as in married to Lois with a child Clark.

In the og story, he's not married, he's not got kids, he's not at the same place in life as today's Clark. Same in re: the whole.. alternate life thing. Today's Clark is a product of convergence. He's aware of that whole alternate world thing, it's not going to fuck him up as bad (unfortunately it is still going to fuck him up.)

I'd like to keep a lot of the original Alan Moore story beats because duh but to take them further. I propose we do smthg else. Grandparent clark and lois era via black mercy. Jor-El still maintains his fascist bitter bent but it goes further.

He dies and Clark mourns a father who spent most of his life bitter and angry and is now facing how to deal with that legacy for his children. How to prevent his kids from falling into the alt right rabbit hole via influential people (ahem ahem tate ahem) and eventually there's grandkids 🥺. Here I don't think Clark forces himself out. I think in this version Clark's life should run its course, he dies, happy and surrounded by loved ones at an old age and that's when the illusion breaks. Because Clark is going to spend an eternity watching his loved ones die in the 'real life' and this would really fuck him up.

[nitewrighter]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon), Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Superman: The Animated Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Clark Kent/Lois Lane Characters: Lois Lane, Clark Kent Additional Tags: Mongul (Mentioned) - Freeform, Bruce Wayne (mentioned) - Freeform, Diana (Wonder Woman) (Mentioned) - Freeform, Episode: s03e02 For the Man Who Has Everything (Justice League & Justice League Unlimited), For the Man Who has Everything (Comic), venting, Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff Summary:

After Superman's birthday celebration at the Fortress of Solitude did not go as planned, he finds himself still struggling with the mental aftermath of being under the illusion of the Black Mercy. It's tough to reconcile that with a belated birthday date with Lois, but goddamn if Lois can't find a way.

I wrote another fic!!!

[world-of-advice]

[chernobog13]

Wonder Woman has a small disagreement with Mongul.

From For the Man Who Has Everything, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Superman Annual (vol. 1) #11 (September, 1985).

[cigamfossertsim]

am i the only one who doesnt think that clarks fantasy world in the man who has everything (jlu s1e2) makes sense?? bc in that fantasy krypton never blows up so he never comes to earth. i think his desire to be “normal” makes sense for him bc he always battles between his desire to help people but also his desire to have a life away from superman and his fear of his own power. but he grew up on earth with the kents as his family and didnt know abt his kryptonian heritage until he was in hs. his life and his friends and family are all on earth and he has forged a connection with krypton through learning abt it and through his cousin but hes still deeply human. i just dont think that it makes sense that his dream would to be to have a life on a planet thats technically complete foreign to him where he would never know martha, jonathan, lana, bruce, jimmy, or lois.

[swan2swan]

oh frack

[nerdytextileartist]

DC Comics Fan Pitch #8

Arsenal/Cheshire Cat Lian Harper in "Wonderland"

Still reeling from the events of "My Mother's Keeper", Roy encourages Lian to hang out with The Titans, but the attempt at quality family time is foiled by a villain who has their hands on Black Mercy!

After getting a taste of a reality where she and Roy were never separated, Lian smuggles a Black Mercy seedling back to the Titan Tunnels in hopes of experiencing it again.

How can a girl who lost everything resist?

Things go from bad to worse when old wounds are reopened between Roy and The Titans, prompting Lian to retreat into her fantasy world!

Will The Titans put their grievances aside to save Lian or is the rabbit hole she has found herself in way too deep?

[hailsatanacab]

Family Dinners - dpxdc

"Holy shit, you're Bruce Wayne!" Danny gaped, jabbing a finger at the man sitting at the head of the table.

The bustling dining room goes silent as everyone turns to look at him.

"Danny, who did you think was going to be here?" Tim asks, disbelief plain in his voice and Danny feels his face flush red.

"Sorry, I, uh, I guess I just never put it together. Tim Drake-Wayne. Wayne Manor. It, uh, makes sense now." He laughs sheepishly and scrubs at his neck before slumping back down into his chair.

"Well," Tim says with an indulgent sigh, "at least I know you're not just friends with me for my connections."

"Yeah, I'm really sorry, I just never thought about it, I guess."

Danny sinks lower as everyone around him laughs. Come to dinner, he said, the food is the best, he said, ignore the family, he said. Danny really wishes he'd listened to Tim and just ignored them—almost as much as he's regretting accepting the offer in the first place—but... he's having dinner with Batman.

Ancients, that's so weird!

The last time he saw Batman was in the future and, suffice it to say, it was not going well. There hadn't really been time for family dinners there.

Wait. Family dinners?

He peers around the table, openly gawking at everyone as it all clicks into place.

"Everything alright, Danny? Now realising who everyone else is?" Tim asks with a roll of his eyes.

"Uh... something like that..." Danny mumbles as everyone laughs again.

From further down the table, the smallest Wayne scoffs and clicks his tongue.

"I thought you said he was smart, Drake?"

"So, you all do it, too, then?" he asks, ignoring the jibe. Danny's only a little bit jealous as he thinks of how much easier they must have it, how much easier it'd be if his family had been on his side, too. "You all work together?"

"Nah," Dick says from across the table with a brilliant grin. "Tim's the only one that works with Bruce, we all have different jobs. I'm a police officer in Bludhaven."

"Disgusting." Danny blurts out without thinking—because seriously, what kind of self-respecting vigilante would also be a police officer?—before clapping a hand over his mouth. "Sorry."

The whole table laughs again, the loudest being the blonde girl a few spaces down from Dick. Look, Danny wasn't really paying attention to names when they were all paraded in front of him. Dick only gets remembered because his name is a joke.

Come on, Danny, recover!

"That's, uh, not what I meant, though."

"Oh?" Dick asks, cocking his head slightly to the side. Is it Danny's imagination or does his smile tense slightly?

"Yeah, I mean like, you know, in costume. It must make it so much easier to have everyone together like this."

"Costume? What do you mean?"

Yeah, Danny's not imagining it, everyone tenses up at that. It's really only now that he's realising that this probably isn't how he should bring up that he knows about their... night time activities. In fact, he probably shouldn't be bringing it up at all.

"Uuhhh..." Danny looks wildly around the table as he continues making his stupid noise. Think, think, think! There must be a way out of this!

"Danny?" Tim asks, looking concerned.

"Oh, Ancients, this isn't how I wanted it to go at all," he mutters, slipping even further into his chair. He's almost on the floor now and he so, so wishes it could just swallow him up.

His real first meeting with Batman was meant to be cool! He had planned to be Phantom, maybe save them from a tight spot, prove his worth as a mysterious and powerful ally as thanks for the help Batman gave him in the future.

"Danny, what are you talking about?" Tim starts tugging on his sleeve in an attempt to pull him back up from his pit of despair.

Eventually, Danny relents and sits up straighter, hiding his face in his hands and whining all the while.

"I'm sorry, I just didn't expect him to be here and it threw me off so now I look stupid and it's so embarrassing!" he wails, flailing his arms wide. "Why wouldn't you warn me that Batman was your adopted dad, Tim? Couldn't you have let me know?"

"I'm sorry, what? Danny are you alright? There's no way Bruce can be Batman, look at him!"

"Yeah," the blonde girl laughs from the bottom of the table, "look at him! That's a wet noodle of a man! Batman can actually do things, B is incapable of pretty much everything."

"Thank you, Stephanie," Bruce sighs, massaging his forehead.

It's... Those are the first words Danny's heard Batman say since everything went down and it's enough to knock him out of his embarrassment.

It's really good to hear his voice again. Especially now, when it's strong and healthy and full of personality—even if that personality is little more than a tired father right now—far better than how it had been, at the end.

Danny sits up, back straight, and grins. He's got this. He remembers it perfectly. Some people count sheep to fall asleep, Danny repeats his mantra to be certain that he'll never forget it.

"Gamma alpha upsilon tau iota mu epsilon, 42, 63, 28, 1 colon 65 dash 9."

Once again, the whole table falls into silence.

"Holy shit..." breathes the other D name (Duke? Danny's pretty sure he's Signal) from opposite Stephanie. "Isn't that...?"

"The time travelling code." The littlest Wayne says stiffly. "We have met in the future?"

"That's not just the time travelling code, Dami." Dick says, looking between Danny and Bruce. "That's the family time travelling code."

Danny's grin freezes in place.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"1 colon 65 dash 9." Dick explains, still flicking between him and Bruce. "It means you've been adopted into the family and we should all treat you as such, no questions asked."

"Tell you what, I'm about to ask a question." Danny says, dumbstruck. "You just told me it was a code to identify time travellers, not anything about being adopted! What the hell, B?"

Bruce looks about as shellshocked as Danny feels.

"We must have been close," he says finally, after opening and closing his mouth like a fish out of water a few times.

"No! Not that close!" Danny reels back, taking a deep breath ready to refute it all, but... "Well, I mean, you found me when I first got stuck, and you helped me get better despite being... And then we fought together against the, uh, bad guy, before he, um, he... before you couldn't."

An uncomfortable beat passes while they all pick up on what Danny tried so hard not to say.

"So, you're not from the future, then, you travelled there and came back?" Tim asks, breaking the tension and leaning forward with a glint in his eye.

"Yeah, it was a whole end of the world thing, but don't worry about it," Danny says with a hand wave, "It's all kosher now, won't ever happen."

"What did happen?"

"Seriously, don't worry about it, we cool."

"How long in the future was it?"

"About ten years? You were pretty spry for an old man, B," Danny laughs, wishing they'd get off the topic of what happened and get back to the adoption bit.

Everyone shares degrees of a cautious smile as they relax out of the shock, and Dick—whose grin is the biggest—says, "No wonder you got the family code, you're already riffing on him like one of us. How long were you there for?"

"A week, before I managed to get back to my present and stop him then."

"A week? Jeez, B, that has to set some kind of record, seriously."

"Oh!" Danny says, sitting bolt upright and blinking in surprise before pointing at Dick and bouncing in his seat. "You're Nightwing!"

"What?"

"That's exactly what Nightwing said when Batman told me the code! Makes so much more sense now."

Dick laughs and claps his hands, delighted.

"You were not formally adopted?" The grumpy small one—Dami?—asks, his face pinched.

"I didn't even know I was informally adopted."

"And your parents? Are they alive or dead?"

"Damian, stop—"

"They were dead in the future, but they're alive now." Danny says, looking down. He fiddles with the tablecloth, twisting the fabric around his fingers as he fights down the pang of sadness that he always feels when he thinks of them now. He forces a bright smile on his face and hopes it doesn’t look too strained. "I just, uh, can't talk to them much, anymore."

"Damian," Dick warns, "1 colon 65 dash 9. Treat them as family, no questions asked."

"This is Damian treating him as family, the little turd has no manners." Tim scoffs, rolling his eyes, but he gently bumps shoulders with Danny to knock him out of his funk. Danny can't help but send him a watery smile.

"I have the most exemplary manners, Drake, unlike some people." Damian spits, crossing his arms with a pout. "I was merely ascertaining his status to see how he could possibly fit into the family."

"I know this is all a bit sudden, Danny," Bruce smiles, ignoring Damian and reaching out to lay a warm hand on his arm, "for all of us. But if I felt strongly enough to give you that code after spending a week with you in the future, then you are more than welcome in this family, if you so choose it. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we'd like to get to know you a bit more."

"I know a threat when I hear it, Bruce." Danny snorts. "But, yeah, I get it. I'm sorry this is all so weird, it really wasn't how I wanted to find you again, but... I'm glad I did."

"So are we, Danny." Dick says, with a warm smile. "And formally or not, 1 colon 65 dash 9 means you're family. Welcome to the fun house! No take backs or refunds, sorry. You're stuck with us."