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From: atropos@mac.com
On Oct 9, 2025 at 4:33:14 PM PDT, "Ubiquitous" wrote:
> In article <10c6i4o$1q485$12@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
>> On Oct 8, 2025 at 1:35:23 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote:
>>> BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> "Ted Nolan " > wrote:
>>>>> BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> "Ubiquitous" wrote:
>>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>> You know, having had some time to think about it, I think I may have
>>>>>>>>> been a little bit too kind to James Gunn's Superman movie. I did
give
>>>>>>>>> it a 6.5 out of 10. Maybe that was at least one point too high. When
>>>>>>>>> I think about the amount of times Superman needed to be rescued in
that
>>>>>>>>> movie,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And yet one of the ubiquitous TV reporters makes a point of saying
he's
>>>>>>>> the mightiest Meta human of them all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> According to the intro after the opening credits, that was the first
>>>>>>> time he lost a fight, which makes sense because Ultra Man was actually
>>>>>>> a clone of Superman.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which means at best, it would have been a stalemate with each of them
>>>>>> inflicting equal damage on the other. It doesn't explain why Ultraman
>>>>>> so easily beat Superman.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, in-movie I'd say for the same reasons Superman had more trouble
>>>>> with the Kaju than the Justice Gang did. He would be trying to *stop*
>>>>> Ultra Man while Ultra Man would be trying to *kill* him.
>>>>
>>>> Well, if you let yourself get beaten, you're not stopping anyone, so as a
>>>> strategy, that's not very smart.
>>>
>>> To quote my BFF, did you ever see Superman do anything that he couldn't
>>> have done more easily some other way?
>>
>> Well, there is the fact that Superman is a dick to contend with.
>
> Only to Jimmy Olsen.
No, not just to Jimmy. Superman is an all-around dick. Like here:
https://ibb.co/6K172zW
The earth explodes, 7 billion people are dead, and Superman's biggest concern
is that he's an orphan again (a grown man orphan, no less).
And then it turns out, he's the one responsible for blowing the earth to
smithereens in the first place:
https://ibb.co/h12CSVsB
Thanks a lot, dick.
Later in the comic, Superman swoops in and destroys a building that was set
for demolition to show off for the cameras. It's hilarious how the
construction foreman is excited that "Superman is doing in second what it
would take my wrecking crew weeks to do!"
Yeah, and now those guys are losing out on several weeks' work and your
company isn't going to be paid its full demolition fee. You're too stupid to
realize that Superman is just being a dick again
(It's nice that all the henchmen showed up to do their crime in suits and
ties. They had a much more classy level of bad guy back then.)
And then there was the time Superman tied a bunch of planets together with a
giant chain and pulled them across the cosmos.
https://ibb.co/n8fbQCrN
SUPERMAN: "By moving these worlds from their own dying galaxy to new suns at
the other side of universe, I'm saving billions of lives!"
No you're not, dick.
The moment you towed them away from their suns, all life on those planets was
doomed. They'd freeze solid within days. The ecosystems would be forever
trashed and the tidal forces generated by yanking them around would throw the
oceans over the continents and cause planet-wide earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions.
Oh, and considering that you're heading for "the other side of the universe",
you're gonna have to drag them about 91 billion light years. Even if you could
pull them at the speed of light, that's still a 91 billion-year journey and
traveling that fast would also instantly kill all life on the planets.
And where the frak did Superman get a chain that big and long? And what's it
hooked to that wouldn't snap off rather than drag the planet?
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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