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You can do this. You're so much stronger than you give yourself credit for. Sure, our family shield can be a target. But it's also a badge of honor that I know you wear proudly each and every day.
Fan Works
Those hands belonged to a boy, a boy his own age in red and blue. The sun was behind him so that he shone, and his face was in shadow. On his chest was an emblem, like an English S, angular and stylized in a diamond-shaped red field on the expanse of his blue chest.
—Last Child of Krypton, chapter 1
Her tight blue shirt made her not inconsiderable curves very apparent, and the yellow and red shield emblem with the "S" inside it on her chest only served to draw the eye to that area.
—Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton, chapter 9
"Who should we seek for an ally on Earth?"
The word vanished from the wall's surface. The fiery hand travelled over it again.
It drew a symbol.
Highfather nodded, in comprehension. "Ah," he said.
The symbol was a mostly-triangular shield, with an S inside its boundaries.
The New Gods well knew who bore that shield, for they had all encountered him on several occasions.
But the hand did not stop with that. It sketched another symbol.
The same shield, with the same S, once more, beside the first.
Two shields.
The word vanished from the wall's surface. The fiery hand travelled over it again.
It drew a symbol.
Highfather nodded, in comprehension. "Ah," he said.
The symbol was a mostly-triangular shield, with an S inside its boundaries.
The New Gods well knew who bore that shield, for they had all encountered him on several occasions.
But the hand did not stop with that. It sketched another symbol.
The same shield, with the same S, once more, beside the first.
Two shields.
Music
Rip it off
Show the symbol on your chest
Come on and show the world
Who you really are!
Show the symbol on your chest
Come on and show the world
Who you really are!
—"Superhero", Simon Curtis
Western Animation
Kari: What does the "S" stand for?
Syndrome: For... sitter! Yeah. Sitter. Originally I was going to have initials for babysitter but then I would be going around wearing a big... BS, and you can understand why I couldn't go with that...
Syndrome: For... sitter! Yeah. Sitter. Originally I was going to have initials for babysitter but then I would be going around wearing a big... BS, and you can understand why I couldn't go with that...
The League will still handle the obvious stuff. There's a reason we have these big targets on our chests.
—Flash, Young Justice (2010)
