User blog:Tspeecestudios/Superman

You know what's super about Superman? Not much of anything. Sure the Son of Krypton has superpowers on Earth and all that jazz about speeding bullets and bounding over buildings is NICE...but if I'm going to take snark from a superhero, it had better be good snark.

I know, someone reading this is raising an eyebrow at the combination of snark and Superman, but let me say this: you show up on an alien planet, get raised by parents (hey, a superhero who is only partly orphaned!), and discover you have powers. You know you have to keep them on the DL by acting like those around you...so what do you do? How will your raising on the planet affect your secret identity, as it were? Well apparently Superman thinks we're all a bunch of quivering twats just waiting to be crushed to death by the sky. Too harsh? Let's look at it--he hides under glasses and a meeker-than-meek persona, only emerging as Superman (or his true self, depending on your philosophy) from total secret...and I use that phrase loosely because I'm starting to think "secret identity" is a fairytale...like health inspectors or the FDA.

That sort of behavior is why I can't stand Superman. Even Christopher Reeves' iconic portrayal can't make me love the Man of Steel. And this latest update with the new costume and a new-actor-whose-name-I'm-not-buggered-to-look-up leaves me even more bored with this hampered-by-his-own-ego hero.