|
Post by millring on Jul 4, 2009 16:41:54 GMT -5
Why is Superman depicted as muscular? Doesn't he just derive his super strength from the fact that he is an alien from outer space? Couldn't he just look like Woody Allen or something equally non-muscular and still maintain his super strength? I mean, the comic book writers already threw out principles of leverage and notions that at least hinted of strength when they had Superman go from "leaping tall buildings in a single bound" to actually flying. Flying isn't a strength thing. They never even really explain the forward and upward thrust. Superman just went from jumping to levitating and the writers didn't even bother to tell you, the reader, how. Like we don't care? From the moment a science fiction book or movie comes out, the immediate response is to pick apart the impossibilities inherent in the science of the fiction. Yet Superman gets a pass? Heck, even if his skin is impervious to bullets, wouldn't he still be pushed back at least a little by the impact of a projectile fired from a high-powered rifle? The answer is obviously, "No". In fact, Superman can stop a speeding train, though a train obviously has the mass and momentum to simply carry Superman along with its forward motion, should he stand in front of it. And I'm no mathematician, but wouldn't a normal man's mass be to a train about the same thing as a large bug would be to an automobile? Are we expected to believe instead that Superman has the same mass as a train? And even then, wouldn't the train's forward momentum cause one hellacious crash if it ran into something of equal mass? And Superman, impervious skin or not, should at least end up in the next county after the impact, no? And if Superman DOES have this Jupiterian mass, he goes ahead and marries Lois Lane anyway? Are you kidding me? As if the notion of getting carried away in the throes of passion isn't enough to contemplate with a human that can crush a ball bearing between his fingers, now we have to believe that he weighs a few tons? I guess we don't have to wonder who is always on top.
|
|
|
Post by Village Idiot on Jul 4, 2009 17:00:36 GMT -5
Superman braces himself by digging his heels into the railroad ties. Bugs flying into windshields don't have anything to brace onto. That's the difference. Duh.
|
|
|
Post by Russell Letson on Jul 4, 2009 17:09:21 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Supertramp78 on Jul 4, 2009 17:28:33 GMT -5
I bet that x-ray vision came in real handy in high school.
I still don't understand how wearing glasses is such a good disguise. I mean sometimes I wear glasses and Kelly still knows who I am. I think.
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jul 4, 2009 17:30:49 GMT -5
"I see disguise as the art of illusion. It's a clever stretching of perspective. Maybe a creative use of color. Suddenly, what was there is gone. Or maybe what was phantom appears.
I've been known to be in a room with a group of co-workers, leave the room, and return wearing a pair of horn-rim glasses. Not a single person (with whom I have just been conversing!) will recognize me.
Just the other day I accidentally wore my cufflinks with the "S" in an upsidedown triangle. A co-worker, Lois, noticed the cufflinks, and made note of the fact that they did not match my initials, saying, "Your name doesn't have an "S" in it!".
I said, "That's not an upside-down triangle. That's a "delta".
Lois looked confused for a moment, but walked away satisfied.
Disguises: They're all about the illusion." --Clark Kent
|
|
|
Post by Supertramp78 on Jul 4, 2009 17:37:02 GMT -5
Well he has to be all strong and stuff or he can't beat THIS guy.
|
|
|
Post by iamjohnne on Jul 4, 2009 17:39:52 GMT -5
Is that Sonny Bono standing in front of Batman?
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jul 4, 2009 18:28:54 GMT -5
Is that Sonny Bono standing in front of Batman? I think it's MNHermit.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2009 20:22:47 GMT -5
Aren't the rules of physics different on the planet Krypton and for all creatures born there? That would explain everything, right?
|
|
|
Post by TDR on Jul 4, 2009 20:55:11 GMT -5
Aren't superheros just Barbies for boys? Someone for a little kid with a fantasy life to wish he could look like and be like?
A woody Allen lookalike aint gonna cut it. He's gotta be big and buff and look like he can kick anyone's ass to go along with those super powers.
Plus the cartoon page needs that exaggerated physique to wow visually.
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jul 5, 2009 7:21:30 GMT -5
Plus the cartoon page needs that exaggerated physique to wow visually. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't speak well of Marvel's journalistic integrity.
|
|
|
Post by Marshall on Jul 5, 2009 9:50:55 GMT -5
It must be the levitation thing. Even if S'man has the mass and strength to stop the train, the ground wouldn't support his feet.
And have you ever stood behind a jet plane when it kicks in it's thrusters? ? ? ? I expect not. One of Newton's laws; for every action there is and equal and opposite reaction, doesn't seem to apply on Krypton either.
|
|
|
Post by Fingerplucked on Jul 5, 2009 10:19:24 GMT -5
I think you're missing the obvious -- that was the only size the costume came in. Clark Kent was swallowing Kryptonian protein shakes for months trying to bulk up to fill that suit.
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jul 5, 2009 10:59:19 GMT -5
It must be the levitation thing. Even if S'man has the mass and strength to stop the train, the ground wouldn't support his feet. So it is simply magic? So who wins in a smack-down between Superman and Dumbledore?
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jul 5, 2009 11:01:11 GMT -5
I think you're missing the obvious -- that was the only size the costume came in. They call 'em "tights" because they're so obviously not "looses".
|
|
|
Post by millring on Jul 5, 2009 11:09:22 GMT -5
I'm reminded of one of my favorite album cover photos...
|
|
|
Post by Fingerplucked on Jul 5, 2009 11:22:32 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Fingerplucked on Jul 5, 2009 11:25:23 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Fingerplucked on Jul 5, 2009 11:25:52 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Fingerplucked on Jul 5, 2009 11:26:09 GMT -5
|
|