Line #47 Website/Superdickery


1	[[quoteright:400:[[ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lois_lane_81.png]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:400: Asphyxiation is a brutal death, but Superman's too much of a dick to just kill Lois quickly.]]
3	->''"Superman is a dick."''
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5	ComicBooks can be very, very strange sometimes. They can feature [[{{Superdickery}} the hero acting like a jerk for no reason]], [[HaveAGayOldTime endless sexual innuendo]], [[ValuesDissonance extremely racist propaganda]], monkeys, and [[MindScrew stuff that's just plain weird]].
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7	[[https://web.archive.org/web/20221202051217/http://superdickery.com/ Superdickery.com]] was a website dedicated to tracking down and documenting as many of these weird and wonderful comics as possible, often presenting them completely out of context, solely for the purposes of humor.
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9	These comics were mostly from UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks (although there are quite a few from more recent eras) and mainly from Creator/DCComics, due to the many, ''many'' instances of Franchise/{{Superman}} acting like a complete dick.
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11	These were split into several categories:
12	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232029/https://superdickery.com/tag/superman-is-a-dick/ Examples Of Superdickery]]: ''Home of the phrase that started it all, "Superman is a dick." Witness an ever growing selection of examples of Superman acting like... well, a dick.''
13	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232022/https://superdickery.com/tag/confounding-comic-covers/ Confounding Covers]]: '' Comic book covers that are so out there, so random, and so bizarre that you'll be wondering how on earth they ever got published in the first place.''
14	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232042/https://superdickery.com/tag/frames-and-pages/ Frames and Pages]]: ''This section contains scans of individual panels and frames from the interiors of comic books, completely devoid of context.''
15	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232023/https://superdickery.com/tag/everythings-better-with-monkeys/ Everything's Better With Monkeys]]: ''Gorillas provided a guaranteed boosts to circulation with every cover appearance. Do not argue with the mesmerizing powers of gorillas. And yes, I know gorillas aren't monkeys.''
16	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232024/https://superdickery.com/tag/seduction-of-the-innocent/ Seduction of the Innocent]]: ''Covers and frames from a more innocent time, a time ignorant of how [[HaveAGayOldTime friggin' hilarious]] these would be to future audiences. [[AccidentalInnuendo If it's inappropriate sexual innuendo]], it's in here. Most of the frames and panels are from Batman comics, depicting Batman as a closet pedophile who sexually abuses his young ward, Robin.''[[invoked]]
17	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232038/https://superdickery.com/tag/weird-science/ Weird Science]]: ''Gadgets and gizmos and doodads, oh my! A section devoted to everything from the Helmet of Hate to the Man with the Electronic Brain.''
18	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232022/https://superdickery.com/tag/suffering-sappho/ Suffering Sappho!]]: ''"Hi, you've reached Franchise/WonderWoman. I'm sorry I can't come to the phone right now - [[BadassInDistress I'm all tied up.]]" You'd think she'd leave that rope at home, seeing how often she gets tied up with it...''
19	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232022/https://superdickery.com/tag/propaganda-extravaganza/ Propaganda Extravaganza]]: ''Home of [[UnfortunateImplications the most astoundingly politically incorrect covers]] you've ever seen (the vast majority being from the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]], [[WartimeCartoon during World War Two]]), plus some more modern day examples of propaganda.''[[invoked]]
20	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232022/https://superdickery.com/tag/stupor-powers/ Stupor Powers]]: ''Witness the demonstration of [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway superpowers you've never even dreamed of]], such as SUPER-WEAVING! [[http://superdickery.com/super-weaving/ Yes. Super-Weaving.]]''
21	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232024/https://superdickery.com/tag/qfat-2/ Questionable Fan Art Theater]]: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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23	The website is defunct and can only be accessed through archives; its last update was on April 2019.
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25	Had nothing to do with ''Literature/TheSuperDictionary'', although it did popularize the AndThatsTerrible meme.
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27	For the trope page named after the website, see {{Superdickery}}.
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29	!!This work provides examples of:
30	* AccidentalInnuendo: The main attraction of the Seduction of the Innocent section. [[invoked]]
31	* AdolfHitlarious: [[invoked]] Comes up regularly. WWII-era comics were constantly having their protagonists defeat or humiliate [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] (and/or Mussolini and Hirohito), and for [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks a variety of reasons]] most of these covers are now 100% {{Narm}}.
32	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: PlayedForLaughs, since the characters doing terrible and/or bizarre things without context makes it easy to interpret them as much worse people than they really are.
33	** [[invoked]] The site (jokingly) regards {{Franchise/Superman}} as a villain of the highest order, to the astonishing amount of times he has apparently:
34	*** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221127182247/https://superdickery.com/no-witnesses-in-outer-space/ Killed]] [[http://www.superdickery.com/its-true-i-killed-lois-lane/ Lois]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002184532/https://superdickery.com/vehicular-homicide/ Lane]]
35	*** [[http://www.superdickery.com/superman-the-slumlord/ Destroyed]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201142116/https://superdickery.com/superman-vs-jimmys-money/ Jimmy]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201071100/https://superdickery.com/jimmy-in-a-straight-jacket/ Olsen's]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128194112/https://superdickery.com/the-bride-of-jungle-jimmy/ life]]
36	*** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128183949/https://superdickery.com/superman-kills-batman/ Killed]] ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20220616134856/https://superdickery.com/superman-kills-batman-again/ Batman]]''
37	*** [[http://superdickery.tumblr.com/post/9396697909/ok-first-of-all-the-pied-piper-didnt-use-a-pan Committed]] [[http://superdickery.tumblr.com/post/9416526712/in-supermans-defense-those-people-dont-really genocide]]
38	*** [[http://superdickery.tumblr.com/post/9384162922/one-of-my-personal-favorites Denied water to]] [[http://superdickery.tumblr.com/post/9416629092/it-surprises-me-there-is-more-than-one-cover-that people dying of thirst]]
39	*** ... so you can see where they're coming from.
40	** Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} is a really [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002195056/https://superdickery.com/apparently-supergirl-isnt-very-bright/ dim]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221127185612/https://superdickery.com/supergirl-and-batgirl-sabotage-batman-and-superman/ petty]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220707163923/https://superdickery.com/supergirl-is-a-mad-killer/ murderous]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201125057/https://superdickery.com/superbitchery/ bitch]] who competes with Superman for the "Biggest Dick" title. She also [[http://www.superdickery.com/all-men-are-but-slaves/ enslaves]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221005155327/https://superdickery.com/supergirl-is-a-bitch/ tortures men]] even though [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221119024814/http://superdickery.com/superman-vs-supergirl-and-super-horse/ she's into horses]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220616135028/https://superdickery.com/superman-makes-out-with-his-cousin-from-the-future/ her cousin]].
41	** Also, {{Franchise/Batman}} is a dangerously repressed closet pedophile who sexually abuses Robin. The funny thing is that in spite of how blatantly homoerotic many of the images with Batman are, the caption-writer [[ImplausibleDeniability keeps making very lame attempts]] at denying that whatever makes Batman gay.
42	** And Franchise/WonderWoman is a BDSM-obsessed sex freak who's way, way, ''way'' TooKinkyToTorture. Given [[AuthorAppeal the creator]], [[WordOfGod this is probably true]]. DC is lucky he didn't include polygamy as one of Wonder Woman's traits, though, given Paradise Island, you never know...
43	** ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, given how many times he's tried to kill Superman, sell his secret or otherwise ruin his life, earns every bit of the torture Supes metes upon him.
44	* AMillionIsAStatistic: Discussed, in a cover where Superman [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002213555/https://superdickery.com/i-want-to-wreck-the-world/ slams planet Earth.]]
45	* AscendedMeme: The premiere of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s third season was a tribute to the website. It recreates some of the more famous Superman comic covers featured on the site, sees the Man of Steel behave in a dickish manner due to red kryptonite, and references Lois and Jimmy's attempts to marry Superman or learn his secret identity, respectively. The site's name even gets a ShoutOut:
46	-->'''Jimmy''': "Superman's turned into a real [[CurseCutShort di-]]"\
47	'''Lois''': "-fferent person."
48	* AttractiveBentGender: "The worst part [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220817192101/https://superdickery.com/jimmy-in-drag/ about this]] is that Jimmy makes a pretty hot woman."
49	* BewareTheSuperman: Given the number of times he's accidentally or purposefully destroyed buildings/cities/nations/planets...
50	* BoobsAndButtPose: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220627074750/https://superdickery.com/behold-the-impossible-neck/ The impossible neck!]]
51	* ButtMonkey: A good amount of Superman's Superdickery involves screwing around with ComicBook/JimmyOlsen.
52	* CaptainObvious: Any time the evilness of Superman is note on a comic book cover, the bottom note regards it as this trope.
53	* CasualKink: [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] has some... [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128184416/http://superdickery.com/how-does-one-classify-bondage-comics-without-wonder-woman/ interesting ideas for how to use his webbing]] with Mary Jane.
54	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The captions sometimes do this, pointing out some random detail in the pictures.
55	* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: [[invoked]] The site often (jokingly) mentions that they don't even read comics.
56	* CoversAlwaysLie: The deliberately misleading covers depicting Superman as a terrible person are a great source of superdickery moments.
57	* CringeComedy: Saying everyone hates their parents when they're 18? Hyperbolic, but ring of truth. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128180121/https://superdickery.com/everyone-hates-their-parents-when-theyre-eighteen/ Saying it to]] ''[[DeathByOriginStory Batman]]''? Awkward.
58	* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221130131820/https://superdickery.com/stairs/ "It’s okay to laugh at a cripple being pushed down a flight of stairs. This is a safe place. No one will judge."]] [[invoked]]
59	* DealWithTheDevil: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128193514/https://superdickery.com/superman-swears-allegiance-to-satan/ This image]] provides a possible explanation for all of Superman's dickery.
60	* DisproportionateRetribution: The page image. Since you can't really read what Lois is saying there, look at the same image, in a bigger size, [[http://superdickery.tumblr.com/post/9385073279/general-consensus-is-that-this-is-the-best-of-the here]]. Not the only example, by the way.
61	* DrinkingGame: Every time you see [[SuperpowerSillyPutty Jimmy Olsen with superpowers]], [[RunningGag take a shot]]. [[spoiler:If you get reminded to take a shot and you forgot you were playing the game, that's a penalty shot.]] [[invoked]]
62	** Be careful, one of the covers is a four shot winner.
63	*** To say nothing, of course, of the cover featuring [[spoiler:the Planet of ''a Thousand'' Jimmy Olsens]].
64	-->[[spoiler:'''Superdickery''': "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002190143/https://superdickery.com/the-world-of-1000-olsens/ All right, everyone, get your final affairs in order and take one thousand shots.]]"]]
65	* EnsembleDarkhorse: InUniverse. Superman's Pope Hat and the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Time Traveling Popemobile Go-Kart]].
66	* FurryConfusion: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201130422/https://superdickery.com/wait/ This panel]] features [[Franchise/MickeyMouse Minnie Mouse]] [[EekAMouse freaking out over a regular mouse]].
67	%%* Getting Crap Past The Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page-examples only until 01 June 2021. If you're reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
68	* GrandFinale: "You know, if there were ever to be a permanent end to Superdickery, I think [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201062308/https://superdickery.com/jokers-thoughts-on-superdickery-com/ this image]] would be absolutely perfect as the final image."
69	* GroinAttack: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221005161200/https://superdickery.com/the-worst-crotch-punch-ever-ever/ "...does [the man on the right] have an action figure with exploding-testicle action?"]]
70	%%* HaveAGayOldTime: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128194130/https://superdickery.com/batmans-boner/ Half]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221005145631/https://superdickery.com/the-gay-desperado/ of]] [[http://superdickery.com/i-bet-you-cant-blow-hard-enough-to-ugh the]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201062308/https://superdickery.com/jokers-thoughts-on-superdickery-com/ examples in]] ''Seduction Of The Innocent''.
71	%%* HoYay: [[http://superdickery.com/batmans-not-gay Oh]] [[http://superdickery.com/robin-dives-right-in dear]] [[http://superdickery.com/kid-flash-and-superboy-get-it-on God!]]
72	* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Closer to "Have I Mentioned Batman Is Heterosexual Today"
73	%%* IfICantHaveYou: Superman to Lois Lane. The picture above explains it all.
74	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: One panel has some guy in a costume say that the pistol isn't loaded, until Lois provides commentary where [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221127182042/https://superdickery.com/this-pistol-isnt-loaded-aaagghh/ he shot himself accidentaly.]]
75	* ImplausibleDeniability: What the RunningGag of "Batman's not gay!" comes across as.
76	* InTheBlood:
77	** One cover gives insight into Superman's behavior: ''Jor-El'' is a dick.
78	** Some covers even imply ''Supergirl'' to be one, mostly towards her cousin.
79	** Queen Hyppolita is just as much into bondage as her daughter.
80	* ItMakesSenseInContext:
81	** The creator of the site acknowledges that most of the examples likely make sense in context, but it's simply [[RuleOfFunny funnier this way]].
82	** For example, that panel showing Superman with Super-Weaving? [[spoiler:That's actually Van-Zee, a Krytonian from Kandor who happens to have an UncannyFamilyResemblance to Superman. The story deliberately plays with the reader's expectations by not having anything from characters to the narration refer to him or Silvia Dewitt -- an IdenticalStranger of Lois Lane -- by their actual names until TheReveal (even skipping over certain scenes that easily give away the surprise, then showing them once the twist is executed). So technically, Superman himself doesn't actually have Super-Weaving powers that we know of]].
83	** Batman reacting to Robin's hanging corpse with OhNoNotAgain? [[spoiler:A villain had put dummies of Robin dead in a variety of ways all around the building that Batman was in, and he'd just run into another one. The real Robin was fine.]]
84	** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002233254/https://superdickery.com/superman-threatening-to-rape-wonder-girl/ There was a similar case]] when Superboy threatened to ''rape'' Wonder Girl: [[spoiler:it was an ugly alien disguising itself as him. That's about it. Still a threat of rape.]]
85	** [[https://superdickery.tumblr.com/image/41467523106 The panel where Superman hits a woman after proclaiming "I'd never hit a lady"]]? [[spoiler:It's from ''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel'', and the woman was in league with her "kidnappers" and hiding a bomb under her coat.]]
86	** The panel the site has as the UrExample of Superdickery, which is from ''Action Comics #1'' and has Superman leave a woman tied up under a tree? [[spoiler:She's a murderess who Supes is taking to justice, and he's leaving her while he convinces the governor to call off the execution of the innocent woman convicted for the crime. That, and Superman was a bit more morally ambiguous back in the Golden Age.]]
87	** There are a couple of cases where the site's creator is familiar with the context, but says [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext it doesn't make sense anyway.]]
88	* JapaneseRanguage: The trope naming image is [[http://www.superdickery.com/dude-doesnt-even-look-japanese/2 here]].
89	* {{Jerkass}}: Superman, but (less frequently) Batman, Jimmy, Lois... [[WorldOfJerkass pretty much everybody]].
90	* JerkassHasAPoint: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201072853/https://superdickery.com/you-little-idiot/ Occasionally]], Superman will have a bit of a point, but that doesn't mean he isn't a dick about it.
91	* KickTheDog: Superman just won't let Jimmy Olsen have a nice day, will he?
92	* KillerGorilla: The "Everything's Better With Monkeys" index focuses on gratuitous gorillas, most belonging to the killer variety.
93	* KissingCousins: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221005150544/https://superdickery.com/jimmy-junior-does-his-cousin/ When Superman and Lois’s daughter was going to marry Jimmy and Lucy’s son]].
94	* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221127183436/https://superdickery.com/joker-vs-luthor/ A rare example of heroes doing this to villains.]]
95	* MonstrousGerms: Mocked in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201055940/https://superdickery.com/thats-not-what-bacteria-looks-like-or-blood-vessels-for-that-matter/ this panel]], where Mike points out that real bacteria don't look like insectoid monsters.
96	* {{MST}}: The uploaders provide various witty comments and snark on the pictures uploaded adding to the hilarity of it all. They're also the origin of the site's various running gags, in-jokes, and alternative interpretations.
97	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Comics that involve [[AllYourPowersCombined combinations of existing characters]] frequently get called out, since they invariably look really, really stupid. This trend eventually reached a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073824/https://superdickery.com/not-even-sure-how-to-describe-this/ truly remarkable apex]].
98	* NonindicativeName: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221130132049/https://superdickery.com/jimmy-olsen-sucks-at-naming-gadgets/ For some reason, Jimmy Olsen has a "fountain pen gun" that the narrator explicitly says is neither a fountain pen nor a gun]]. It shoots compressed air instead of bullets (however that works) and merely ''looks'' like a pen.
99	* NoodleImplements: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221007063542/https://superdickery.com/batman-needs-a-dime-and-some-red-nail-polish/ What I need now is a dime -- some red nail polish -- and a little talk with the island gossip!]]
100	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Mike often feels the need to clarify that he's not joking about some of the stranger things he mentions in captions.
101	* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: Said word for word [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221130140643/https://superdickery.com/batmans-doing-his-best-to-sound-gay/ here]].
102	* PapaWolf: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220810012733/https://superdickery.com/45-pages-of-god-hitler-crucified-my-son/ God]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201141103/https://superdickery.com/jimmys-not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box/ Jor-El, and Krypto]]. Meta-Example, Mike himself if the caption in the last link is anything to go by.
103	* PoesLaw: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128181158/https://superdickery.com/golden-age-teen-titans-in-zoot-suit-riot/ "Yes, it's a spoof on Golden Age comic conventions, but it nails them so totally that if I hadn't been told it was a spoof, I might not have been able to tell..."]]
104	* PokeThePoodle: "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073336/https://superdickery.com/joker-steals-some-kids-report-card-seriously/ Joker Steals Some Kid's Report Card. Seriously.]]"
105	* RuleOfFunny: We all know that (most) of these covers and panels make sense in context. It's simply far more funny to take them all at face value
106	* RunningGag: Several types of covers crop up [[FleetingDemographicRule a statistically alarming number of times]]. There's a few in the commentary as well, particularly, "[[HoYay Batman's not gay!]]"
107	* SmugSnake: See: {{Jerkass}}.
108	* SuperpowerSillyPutty: See also DrinkingGame, above.
109	* TooDumbToLive: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220627081502/https://superdickery.com/superboy-is-a-colossal-dumbass/ Superboy is a colossal dumbass]]; so much that even the narration gives up on defending or justifying him.
110	* TontoTalk: Mocked [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220812023654/https://superdickery.com/im-pretty-sure-native-americans-were-fluent-in-english-by-the-70s/ here]], where it's pointed out that having a Native American character speak broken English in a more modern setting makes very little sense.
111	* TransparentCloset: A running gag is that Batman constantly denies being gay despite the ''massive'' pile of evidence saying he is.
112	* TwentyFourHourSuperpower: [[RunningGag Take a shot]].
113	* UrExample: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002232620/https://superdickery.com/the-very-first-superdickery/ The very first superdickery, straight from Action Comics 1]]. [[spoiler:The woman is a murderess, and Superman had kidnapped her to keep an innocent person from being convicted for her crimes.]]
114	* ValuesDissonance: Most of the wartime propaganda featured is ''astonishingly'' racist. [[invoked]]
115	** There's a good amount of misogyny flying around too.
116	** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221005141816/https://superdickery.com/test-your-likes-and-dislikes/ This questionnaire]] asks the readers about their likes and dislikes. Some of the options are groups of people, including Baptists, Catholics, Indians, Jews, "Negroes"...
117	* VerySpecialEpisode: Mocked in the infamous Franchise/GreenLantern / ComicBook/GreenArrow crossover, which shows Green Arrow's apprentice, Speedy, caught shooting up heroin:
118	-->''"You nicknamed him [[UnfortunateNames Speedy]]. [[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt What did you expect]]?!"''
119	* VillainProtagonist: Superman is interpreted as this.
120	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Many of the Stupor Powers are of this variety.
121	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Jimmy Olsen is supposedly 'Superman's Pal', and Lois Lane is 'Superman's Girlfriend'. However, Jimmy has betrayed Superman, exposed his secret identity, Lois has gone to some incredible and dickish lengths to either expose Superman's identity or force him to marry her, and Superman in turn makes them the target of most of his dickery.
122	* WouldHitAGirl: It's even [[http://superdickery.tumblr.com/image/41467523106 contemplated by Superman]] before he plays it straight.
123	* WritersCannotDoMath: [[invoked]] [[http://www.superdickery.com/middle-school-math-is-a-super-power-apparently/ You're off by a factor of ten there, Supes...]]
124	* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20221128185602/https://superdickery.com/bucky-strapped-to-a-bomb/ Bucky, Wonder Woman called. She wants her cover back.]]

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