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Superman: Secret Identity is just as good as it was hyped and I hoped it would be. I love its version of Clark Kent, I love its Lois Chandhari, that it is a really solid Superman story but also that layer of meta-textual Superman in pop culture, the art (the way the art shifts), how each chapter starts with an old superman comic cover and then transitions it to an object in-universe, that the focus is so often and strongly on the romance between Clark and Lois and then their family, that is has the passing of the baton to children (actual and metaphorical) is such a hopeful but not naive way. 

Why isn’t this praised and made into a short movie and highlighted as the best Superman standalone AU story?  

amostexcellentblog:

How People Think the DC Trinity Works:

Bruce & Clark: making dumb jokes

Diana: Children, I work with children

How the DC Trinity Should Work:

Diana: How can you defend a country where 5% of the people control 95% of the wealth?

Bruce: I’m defending a country where people can think, act, and worship anyway they want!

Clark: Hey, hey, hey, stop fighting. Now Diana, maybe Bruce’s right about America being a land of opportunity. And Bruce, Diana does have a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.

onafaarm:

My favourite pathetic untrue criticism of the dceu Superman people attempt to come up with is Clark wrecking that guys truck in Man of Steel. The trucker was sexually harassing Clark’s female colleague and Clark asked nicely for the guy to quit it but the guy got violent to Clark. So yeah Clark wrecked the truck because truck’s are replaceable, any limbs or broken bones Batman or literally anyone else would of done to that guy aren’t

But defend the guy sexually harassing the woman I guess

Man of Steel IS Hopeful

hcourageous:

Look, I’m going to put an end to the idea that for a movie or a story to be hopeful, it has to be light and fluffy.

This is blatantly just not a factual idea. Sure, of course you can prefer a certain type of presentation in your storytelling, that’s FAIR, but saying a movie you like isn’t hopeful because it presents it in a different way isn’t right.

Hope isn’t about laughs, it’s not about everyone smiling all the times and it’s not meant to be easy either. Hope is hard, it’s really hard, and having hope in the middle of dark times can be almost excruciating, to cling to the idea that there could be something good coming when everything seems so dark.

AND THAT is the main narrative of Man of Steel, which remains consistent throughout the film. The film has it’s flaws, but this isn’t one of them. And to be fair, the movie itself isn’t even that dark. There’s a lot of really lovely moments between Clark and everyone he interacts with, showing his kindness and openness, and his need to do good.

Man of Steel touches down on the idea that humans have the ability to strive towards not just greatness but goodness. Like when Perry White and Steve Lombard stayed with Jenny, through certain death. That is goodness. That is hopeful. That is a mirror of what humanity could be. That is Colonel Hardy sacrificing his life for the world, “a good death” he says to Faora. It’s Clark choosing to save a family, choosing to become the last of his kind, choosing innocence over destruction.

Man of Steel is hopeful.

frankenbaby:

catie-does-things:

Anyway they said the word “hope” like five hundred times in Man of Steel, not sure how anyone came away from this movie not knowing that’s what it was about.

And not just that, it showed a hero overcoming insurmountable odds, comprised of the last of his own species, to save an entire planet. It showed him overcoming self doubt and fear to do this. And it showed him come through all this with enough optimism to carry on fighting the good fight.

And it mentioned hope a lot… and people missed that.

justiceleaque:

i think about the way diana reacted when dr. poison’s gas killed everyone in the village, at a complete loss, total distress on her face because she didn’t save them. i think about the way clark reacted when the bomb went off at the court and everyone died, how he froze, didn’t even look around him despite the flames engulfing everything, becaused he didn’t save them

diana’s “they are dead. they are all dead. i could have saved them.” and clark’s “i was standing right there and i didn’t see it.” are the same statement, they’re both

acknowledging that, under different circumstances and mindsets, they would absolutely have the power to help and even prevent the harm from ever reaching those people, but it all got overshadowed by their personal battles, beliefs and expected outcomes. and at the time of those events, they’re both young, they’re both more naive than they should be but no less than they have the right to, and yet it’s all going to unfold differently for each of them

diana essentially stops ares, wins the war, but ultimately detaches herself from man’s world. she sees we all have the choice to do bad things, nobody forcing our hands, and we choose it. we choose to do bad things and there are no other gods of war she can slay to help us. it’s all on us despite an ever lingering hope we can change for the better. we can. we mostly don’t. clark is thrown into our world on full display without wanting or planning to, simply because he’s forced to fight by someone else’s hand, on more than one occassion. but he does fight because it’s not our fault earth houses the last son of krypton. because the people he loves and wants safe aren’t to blame for the fact he’s feared and misunderstood. it’s not his fault either

diana will go on believing that the number of people choosing to do good aren’t enough to make a considerable dent on the scale, yet the unfolding events upon the justice league’s formation and bruce wayne’s newfound hope in humanity will eventually change that. she’ll learn the scales might surprise you. clark, having died protecting the same people that did everything in their power to show him how much unwanted and feared he was, will return and no matter his newfound disposition either about humanity never deserving him or his resolve to be there for us despite everything, will have changed his mentality considerably due to all the events that caused and took place up until his sacrifice and death

the potential of strong character development between and through any possible interactions diana and clark might have in the dceu is ridiculously exciting to consider. they have so many things in common and yet they’re so different, both when they started and where they currently are. one regained hope, the other posthumously became it