#muse [ superman ]

[chronicwhorebatman]

need you all to bear with me for five minutes but please god, please imagine, that you are clark kent. maybe you have a little bit of a crush on your Good Ol' Pal Batman. you haven't tried to look into his identity, that's just rude!

but.

but say clark has to go undercover for various reasons (shipment of kryptonite?). and some gotham goons come in, and they're loud, and one's got this fuck off oily hair and a horrendous clashing colours suit and a thick jersey accent and a matchstick hanging from his mouth, and also a HEARTBEAT THAT YOU RECOGNISE.

imagine having a huge crush on batman and he, like, turns out to be MATCHES MALONE, local grimy goon. how do you even recover from that. imagine the next jl meeting

[creaturecommandos]

MAWS clark has me so devastated actually because he’s so kind, he’s so full of love for earth and all the people who care about him and it’s his biggest fear that he is a weapon. lois and jimmy are scared for him to see the hologram with the other, evil supermans because they just know that it would break him. they know it themselves it’s his worst fear to be a weapon! to be capable of such hurt! gosh, he just wants to save people, that’s all he wants

[maebird-melody]

I am making my friend watch the new Superman show with me and we just watched the most recent episode with Doctor Ivo. At the end, Jimmy is sad because his two best friends walk off all romantically into the sunset. I think nothing describes difference between the aroace and allo experience better than our very different responses to that scene.

My response was that Jimmy’s needs as a friend were clearly being disregarded in favor of the “more important” romantic feelings developing between Clark and Lois. And despite him shipping the two of them, it doesn’t change that it always hurts when you get third wheeled or left out by your closest friends. But I was confident that once the romantic tension settled and the three of them had a chance to talk, Lois and Clark would start making space for their friend again.

Meanwhile, my allosexual friend’s response was that “they need to give Jimmy somebody.” That the way to cure his sadness was to give him a romantic partner. Which was a response that shocked me, considering that my friend is very on board with my desire to maintain our close friendship after their marriage while not pursuing a romantic relationship myself.

And I cannot stress enough that finding a romantic partner cannot be the only solution to feeling sad when your best friends get together. What kind of message does that send to asexual or aromantic people? That you will lose all your friends to romance and you won’t have any fulfilling relationships yourself unless you also get with the program?

I am curious to see which direction the show takes this, but Jimmy seems like a prime candidate for either ace or aro representation. I hope that this can be a moment to help people untrain the knee-jerk response that romance isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution to relationship ills.

[sisaloofafump]

30 min pose study

[st-just]

Amanda Waller really has to be utterly unique as far as comic book women go in that she's a major character who shows up in a lot of adaptations but I'm pretty sure everyone's just stuck with her looking like an actual slightly overweight middle aged bureaucrat instead of either trying to make her either a sex symbol/pinup model or some kind of grotesque ogre.

[steph-pilled]

i saw the original picture, had a vision, blacked out and then this cursed creation was on my phone

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Superman's First Flight

I’m of the personal belief that every Superman origin story should have him doing incredible jumps at first before he flies- it’s both a homage to his original power set by Shuster and Siegel, but also represents him taking his literal “first steps” towards being a hero.

I also think it's under appreciated how...kind of unnerving it would be to see a human jump like that. I remember being like five years old and seeing a cat jump to the top of a fence for the first time. The complete stillness and then a small creature moving faster and further than I ever thought could happen before. I would love to see someone capture that sense of awe in an adaptation.

[thescarehoe]

"...Call you a friend."

Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) Annual #4

I do like this version of Hal and Clark's first encounter. It has such nice sweet but bittersweet tones that do well to outline both of their personalities and deep care for other people.

[naughtyandnicerpmemes]

"I may not be wanted, but I'm clearly needed."

Superman (Prime Earth) - Injustice: Gods Among Us

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@thealmightyemprex @themousefromfantasyland @piterelizabethdevries @the-blue-fairie @shiv-multifandom-mess @themetropoliskonboy

So a thing that I'm finding fascinating is learning about granted important elements of superhero lore that originated in medium outside of comic books.

Like the introduction of Superman's origin story as the son of scientists and survivor of the explosion of his home planet who lands on Earth as a baby originating in a newspaper strip series and a novel, while his weakness being Kryptonite, his work in the Daily Planet and his friendship with Jimmy Olsen and Perry White originating in a radio series.

In the world of Batman, you have the character of Barbara Gordon, one of the longest holders of the Batgirl mantle, originating in the 1966 live action TV show and proving to be a character so popular that they end being added to the comics produced at the time and appeared in a lot of movies and cartoons ever since.

The newspaper strips were where people first saw Peter Parker and Mary Jane become a married couple before the idea was brought into the comic books.

And they still continued to be happily married in those strips.

And the X-Men characters Firestar and X-23 were created, respectivelly, for the cartoon shows Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and X-Men Evolution.

So we audiences tended for years to assume the idea that "movies and TV shows are adaptations, and comic books are THE ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR SUPERHERO STORIES."

But since a lot of elements that flesh out those heroes are created in other medium simultenously with comics, or even originate in medium outside the comics, can we even say that a Original Source Material exists?

Compare and contrast for instance, the character of Scrooge McDuck from the Disney Ducks universe.

He is a character that originates in comics as side character for Donald Duck, even an antagonist one at that, before becoming a protagonist, and then he goes on to star in numerous cartoons.

And here is the catch: most of us enjoy and understand the character in his own right in those cartoons.

There is never a demand to go back to the Original Source Material to enjoy and understand him.

We may go to find and read then if we want to, but we hardly see people debate wether or not "the comics are the right version of Uncle Scrooge and the cartoons are not the real deal."

No matter where you first found the character of Uncle Scrooge, is still all valid as Uncle Scrooge.

Maybe a similar is needed to be taken with superheroes: each person chooses the prefered medium and art form to follow those characters.

Be it a comic book. A newspaper strip. A radio series. A stage musical. A movie. A live action or cartoon TV show. A videogame.

In the end it is all a valid art form meant to make following a character and a world in a way that is accessible for YOU.

[alukardtheabysswalker]

Imagine the reason why there are no other heroes in the MAWS universe is every hero is going through the same thing like Clark at the same time and that includes being possessed by the main villain. Now imagine Brainiac Clark arguing with an Ares possessed Diana, Parallax possessed Hal and Scarecrow possessed Bruce on who gets to destroy the world first.

There's an incredible opportunity here to reference the JLU scene where Lex take's Wally's body (I'd rather start with Barry but you get me) and do the whole "I have no idea who this is" again

[creaturecommandos]

i was writing a long winded post about how clark kent is an alien, superman is essentially a god, and yet he is so kind, and that’s where his true strength lies - that’s what gives him such humanity. but why use so many words when i could never do it justice just how wonderful that is?

[chronicwhorebatman]

how do we think clark avoided getting his covid vaccines. like imagine lois didn't know he was superman. imagine his coworkers. please play in my sandbox with me what did clark do about covid vaccines.

[tophthedaydreamer]

character that was raised/created to be Evil: chooses to be Good

me, every time:

[mythic-rose]

❝ — "No matter how much someone has hurt you or betrayed you or how much it seems that someone is evil, at their core, everyone is worth saving."

rose's 100 favorite fictional muses — 14/100: Clark Kent

[mountmultimuses]

You know what? I'm bringing it back.

I know this is probably the third time I've taken something on and off my muse list, but I'm gonna go ahead and put Justice League Action back on my muse list. I'll actually have to watch the show for research, but if I can watch the entirety of Young Justice, then I can find a way to watch the entirety of this show too.