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  • Clark spends a week playing Superman-themed pranks on the US government making a point to them that he has no harmful intent despite his powers.
    • For starters, on Monday, he placed an action figure on the desk of the CIA director. On Tuesday, he swapped the nuclear missiles from a carrier in the Atlantic with the ones from a carrier in the Pacific. Wednesday, he made a satellite transmit old Superman episodes instead of live election speeches for the election year. Finally, Thursday, for the Coup de GrĂ¢ce, he switched briefing documents in a presidential security briefing with old Superman comics. By Friday, Superman had caused quite an uproar in Washington to negotiate a deal with Agent Malloy the next day. In the end, the government complied with Superman's demands. They left him, and by extension, his family, alone, in exchange for taking part in non-political missions for the government, of course.
  • The mere fact that this Superman was able to operate in absolute secrecy for decades, with no one the wiser, aside from the US Government and his family, was awesome in its entirety.
  • In a cross between Awesome and Heartwarming, Clark's twin daughters reveal their superpowers to their father. Stopping a bullet train just over the speed of sound, with an 82% capacity, going off the rails in Canada. Despite catching the train easily, an aging Superman was facing difficulties in stopping the train from whiplashing. But...
    It was easier with two more sets of hands.
    • Their first known heroics? Stopping a tornado in Australia, with no one but their father knowing.
  • The very fact that Secret Identity did not end on any kind of bittersweet or harsh note and avoided the stereotypical tendencies of Elseworlds books to include some form of tragedy all while still retaining some sad moments and operating heavily on an optimistic form of realism in a superhero comic is itself a Moment of Awesome.

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