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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
But he wears his mask as Clark Kent, not as superman. And what about Wonder Woman? I suspect that most people don't even know that her real name is Diana. At best they know her Diana Prince identity, but that is also some sort of disguise. And Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are the big three of the DC universe. They set the tone.
The Wonder Woman identity is just as much a mask, I think. Ambassador to man's world and all. Put on a good face, do a good job.
edited 14th Jan '15 11:42:14 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersComparing secret identities between Marvel and DC is difficult because of DC's many continuity reboots.
Clark Kent was the mask pre-Crisis, but Superman was the mask post-Crisis (that era made a point of how he grew up as Clark Kent and was instilled with the values of Clark Kent long before he even knew Krypton was a thing, and Superman acted according to the values and morals Clark grew up with). Post-Crisis also completely did away with Wonder Woman's secret identity, making her a public figure whom everyone knew was an Amazon. Batman's the only one who was always consistently his own mask.
In Marvel, characters without secret identities tend to be high up on the social ladder, with lots of connections, while characters with secret identities tend to be more street level characters with friends and family who live in the same neighborhoods as the criminals they fight (Spider-Man is probably the biggest example of this). Nowadays, most of Marvel's heroes tend to be in the first category. Originally, they all had secret identities, of course.
And then there's Daredevil, who by virtue of being a lawyer and a superhero at the same time, paints a giant target to his loved ones no matter which identity he uses.
Man Without Fear, after all.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."It amuses me to see the retcons of those early Marvel secret identities.
40s Captain America: "Golly-gosh, this young boy Bucky has discovered Steve Rogers is Captain America! Let's give him his own suit and have him fight on the World War II battlefield!"
2000s Captain America: "Actually, that was just a cover story. Bucky was a 17 year-old black ops assassin, because no one wants to see Captain America backstabbing and slitting throats."
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I'd bet good money it was around the time the movie did it.
Before the movie.
edited 14th Jan '15 12:52:36 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersLatino Review is now claiming that a deal has been pushed through and that Spider-Man does indeed join the team in Infinity War
, but will not appear in Civil War. Obligatory "Grain of salt" warning.
They also have about half a dozen other claims about Civil War and its outcome which while I smell bullshit, you may want to avoid in case of potential spoilers.
edited 14th Jan '15 12:54:18 PM by comicwriter
What makes me suspicious is how specific this rumor is. If it was something vaguer, maybe I'd buy it. "X is going to happen" is more likely than "X, Y, and Z are going to happen in that specific order."
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.He's been "revealed" to be Iron Man about a dozen times.
"Breaking News: Iron Man Puts His Mask Back On! We Don't Know Who He Is Anymore!"
edited 14th Jan '15 1:02:53 PM by Tuckerscreator
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That's more or less exactly how Dare Devil did it. Matt Murdock has been publicly outed as Dare Devil four times now. After the third time, despite technically putting the genie back in the bottle, the whole world cried bullshit. People would greet him on the street as Dare Devil and ask him about his recent Dare Devil adventures, he was thrown out of court on a mistrial when the prosecutor moved that Murdock is a biased party on account of being Dare Devil, and at one point, Spider-Man actually swung down and started a conversation with him in the middle of the street because he didn't realize Murdock's identity was supposed to be secret again.
Murdock eventually started having fun with it by wearing a t-shirt with "Not Dare Devil" written on the front.
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How is such a genie put back into the bottle in the first place?
edited 14th Jan '15 2:01:09 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Also popular: have one of your superhero buddies wear your costume and be seen in the same place as you.
I don't know exactly how Dare Devil got his secret identity re-established - for all the good it did - but I know that for a time, Murdock was in jail and Iron Fist was running around in his costume keeping up appearances.
This method is exactly as stupid as it sounds and is largely discredited these days. I think there was a court case where Spider-Man did the opposite once, refuting the assertion that only he could have committed X crime by having a bunch of supers enter the courtroom in Spider-Man costumes and leap around.
edited 14th Jan '15 2:52:03 PM by TobiasDrake
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I remember that Spider-Man case. It was a She Hulk issue, I think. Those always had fun with superheroes and law.

Yeah, Superman is what he does but Clark Kent is who he is.