History Fridge / ForTheManWhoHasEverything

* Mongul never tried to take revenge on Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} even though ''[[Comicbook/WarWorld she and Superman brought him down and destroyed Warworld together]]''. Back then, Franchise/{{Superman}} could not have defeated him without his cousin's help: though here, it's a different story. Yet Mongul doesn't bother with Kara. Why? Look how he talks to Franchise/WonderWoman. He is a mysoginistic asshole who thinks women are weak and insignificant. Disregarding and dismissing Supergirl is in-character for him. Then again, it may have been "Superman first, Supergirl next."

** It's stated that the Black Mercy creates a "logical extrapolation" of the victim's deepest fantasy. Superman's deepest fantasy, ultimately, is to have had an ordinary life and family; to not have to be Superman, essentially. The Black Mercy just takes this fantasy and constructs it in a way that makes most logical sense. Logically, if Superman had just grown up to be an ordinary person, he'd have never gone to Earth in the first place, since he wasn't born there and any circumstance where he ends up going there fundamentally make him no longer an ordinary person; ergo, he stays on Krypton, because that's where he was born and ''should'' have been raised in an "ordinary" life. However, the rest of his fantasy also stems logically from this premise -- ergo, he never meets his friends and family on Earth. So it's not really that Superman deep down wishes he'd never come to Earth necessarily, just that the way the Black Mercy interprets and constructs his fantasy means that the possibility of him coming to Earth is logically excluded. If anything, the fact that the fantasy is ultimately rotten at the core is a pretty big sign that Superman deep down doesn't feel like he would truly belong or be happy on Krypton... and therefore, that he feels most at home on Earth.

** It's stated that the Black Mercy creates a "logical extrapolation" of the victim's deepest fantasy. Superman's deepest fantasy, ultimately, is to have had an ordinary life and family; to not have to be Superman, essentially. The Black Mercy just takes this fantasy and constructs it in a way that makes most logical sense. Logically, if Superman had just grown up to be an ordinary person, he'd have never gone to Earth in the first place, since he wasn't born there and any circumstance where he ends up going there fundamentally make him no longer an ordinary person; ergo, he stays on Krypton, because that's where he was born and ''should'' have been raised in an "ordinary" life. However, the rest of his fantasy also stems logically from this premise -- ergo, he never meets his friends and family on Earth. So it's not really that Superman deep down wishes he'd never come to Earth necessarily, just that the way the Black Mercy interprets and constructs his fantasy means that the possibility of him coming to Earth is logically excluded. If anything, the fact that the fantasy is ultimately rotten at the core is a pretty big sign that Superman ''is'' deep down happy he came to Earth, because it suggests that deep down he doesn't feel like he would truly belong or be happy on Krypton.

** It's stated that the Black Mercy creates a "logical extrapolation" of the victim's deepest fantasy. Superman's deepest fantasy, ultimately, is to have had an ordinary life and family. This doesn't necessarily mean that he secretly wishes he'd never come to Earth; it's that the fantasy being constructed means he logically ''can't'' have come to Earth, because he was born on Krypton, and any circumstance which sees him being rocketed to Earth from Krypton by definition means he won't live an ordinary life. This is probably another key reason why everything ends up feeling and going wrong; deep down, on some level, Superman ''knows'' he doesn't really belong on Krypton.

** It's stated that the Black Mercy creates a "logical extrapolation" of the victim's deepest fantasy. Superman's deepest fantasy, ultimately, is to have had an ordinary life and family. This doesn't mean that he secretly wishes he'd never come to Earth; it's that the fantasy being constructed means he ''can't'' have come to Earth, because he was born on Krypton, and any circumstance which sees him being rocketed to Earth from Krypton by definition means he won't live an ordinary life. This is probably another key reason why everything ends up feeling and going wrong; deep down, on some level, Superman ''knows'' he doesn't belong on Krypton.

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FridgeHorror:

* Mongul never tried to take revenge on Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} even though ''[[Comicbook/WarWorld she and Superman brought him down and destroyed Warworld together]]''. Back then, Franchise/{{Superman}} could not have defeated him without his cousin's help: [[spoiler: though here, it's a different story.]]. Yet Mongul doesn't bother with Kara. Why? Look how he talks to Franchise/WonderWoman. He is a mysoginistic asshole who thinks women are weak and insignificant. Disregarding and dismissing Supergirl is in-character for him. Then again, it may have been "Superman first, Supergirl next."

* Mongul never tried to take revenge on Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} even though ''[[Comicbook/WarWorld she and Superman brought him down and destroyed Warworld together]]''. Back then, Franchise/{{Superman}} could not have defeated him without his cousin's help: [[spoiler: though here, it's a different story.]]. Yet Mongul doesn't bother with Kara. Why? Look how he talks to Franchise/WonderWoman. He is a mysoginistic asshole who thinks women are weak and insignificant. Disregarding and dismissing Supergirl is in-character for him.

* Mongul never tried to take revenge on Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} even though ''[[Comicbook/WarWorld she and Superman brought him down and destroyed Warworld together]]''. In fact, Franchise/{{Superman}} could not have defeated him without his cousin's help. Yet Mongul doesn't bother with Kara. Why? Look how he talks to Franchise/WonderWoman. He is a mysoginistic asshole who thinks women are weak and insignificant. Disregarding and dismissing Supergirl is in-character for him.

** Not really. He was also visibly and emotionally attached to Kara in his dream ([[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lyla_Lerrol_(Earth-One) and Lyla Lerrolis a previously existing character]]. He wishes that his Kryptonian family was alive. He always wondered deep-down what growing up in Krypton and being raised by his birth parents would be like. However, the Black Mercy showed him maybe they would not have led happy lives, so Superman had to acknowledge that he and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} being stranded in Earth maybe was for the best.

* FridgeHorror: The fact that Superman's dream world takes place back on Krypton is really a TearJerker if you think about it. The Black Mercy is said to show a person their greatest desire...doesn't that mean that, subconsciously, he really wishes he'd never come to Earth and met the people he knows here?
** Not ''quite'' that bad; he's married to a combination of Lois and Lana, he has a child, he interacts with the world. The ''real'' fridge horror is that Lois and Lana are the only people he really connects with on such an intimate level - especially since Pa Kent is dead in the Silver Age comics. The central facet of his fantasy world is him being just another Kryptonian on a planet full of them. He has friends he values on Earth, but in his deepest reaches of his heart, he feels '''''[[AloneInACrowd completely and utterly alone]].'''''