#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

[damian-al-ghul-wayne]

I enjoy drawing the pretty things in front of me, despite them possibly annoying me before they tragically fall asleep in the middle of playing cheese vikings.

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Superman's Cape Origin

Another thing I would love from a Superman origin story is the cape being the lining/blanket of his pod from Krypton- it's both a metaphor for the fact he was carried here on his parent's love and desperation (basket in the bullrushes), and that's also exactly what children do when they pretend to be Superman- I did that myself.

Superboy #8 "When Superboy was a Superbaby!" (1950)

[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

[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

[thicc-astronaut]

Hammerspace and surviving injuries thru squash-and-stretch and all that are properties of the cartoon world itself, not an ability of the characters living within it (see Space Jam and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, both films that include a live-action human moving to the cartoon world and being able to use Cartoon Physics)

Therefore, in a powerscaling discussion, it can be assumed that anybody visiting Looney Tunes World to fight Bugs Bunny would also be able to access the same "Toon Force" abilities, whereas Bugs Bunny traveling to a non-cartoon world will lose those abilities and be reduced to just some rabbit who's kind of an asshole

[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.

[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.

[supurman]

[tophthedaydreamer]

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

me, every time:

[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.