Superman General

Should it be impossible for you to hurt innocent civilians? It would be sad if you hurt them, and it might make the game harder. In lego Batman 2, they only get knocked over if you bump into them.

Maybe there should be a Karma Meter thing that unlocks bonuses if it's filled up.

Let me attempt a subject change: Who is the best actor to play Superman?

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Superman is about saving people from Superpowered enemies.

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George Newbern.

I'm all for a Karma Meter, or some such, in regards to saving folks or engaging in random destruction (kind of like from that one Spider-Man game...) but the City Health Bar specifically, as I recall it, wasn't much fun. I can't remember, was there stuff you could do to, I don't know, heal the city when it got damaged?

I dunno, I'd still prefer a straight-up health meter whenever Superman gets hurt.

I'd like a Golden Age Superman game where I could throw wife-beaters into the wall and scare arms manufacturers to death until they reformed.

edited 21st Feb '14 12:52:06 PM by andersonh1

I... don't think that will go over very well.

Something I've noticed about all Superman stories is that either:

• Superman is the complex character and Clark is a bland, one-sided, shy caricature.
• Clark is the complex character and Superman is a bland, one-sided, boyscout caricature.

Are there any stories that manage to portray both Superman and Clark as complex and interesting?

edited 24th Feb '14 8:33:28 AM by WaxingName

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All Star Superman, Birthright, S:TAS, The Johns/Kubrik run...

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I've found that the best stories view Clark and Superman as the same character, just in different clothes. Superman's ideals and morals are because of the person he is, the upbringing he has. The reporter with the glasses at the Daily Planet? He's Clark as well: a keen journalist, a good friend, and a good guy all around. Superman is Clark Kent, there's no distinction. Clark is Clark is Clark, it's just he has to pretend to be a nerd sometimes so that he can maintain some semblance of a normal life. Superman is just the name the press gave him, but it's always Clark.

All good choices.

edited 25th Feb '14 8:46:21 PM by RedM

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What if he actually was a nerd? And was on the DC Comic universe's version of tvtropes?

What if he was in this very thread, RIGHT NOW?

The "M" stands for "Most definitely not Superman."

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How? He's a fictional character! How could tvtropes break through fourth walls in a way for fictional characters to post in our universe?

It's a Superman. superman prime

Seems pretty easy. Deadpool does it all the time.

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@Hyper Albion: You mean "Kubert" (Andy Kubert)? I don't recall any artist named "Kubrik".

edited 26th Feb '14 9:58:23 AM by WaxingName

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Kurt Busiek actually.

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that happens at least once a day in the Pony Thread.

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I think it could at least be included as a bonus mission, alongside a Silver Age one where he desperately tries to hide his identity and avoid getting married to Lois, while battling a temporarily-empowered Jimmy Olsen, and seemingly being an overall dick to everybody. Dunno about a Bronze Age one, though; I'm not familiar with the stereotypes about it.

For that matter, can anyone recommend an average Superman story? One where he's not dead, dying, retired, Russian, or a bearded idiot. Basically, a day in the life of the Post-Crisis Blue Boyscout. I'm asking because, amidst all the reboots, reimaginings, and elseworld-fics, it's getting kinda hard to get a good look at the guy as is, without any particular embelishment.

The Geoff Johns one with the collections such as Last Son or Escape From Bizarro World?

Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?

Actually, there's lots, but a great deal of it hasn't been collected. The Superman comics were pretty good throughout the late 80's, early 90's, in the time before Death of Superman and after he went into space and fought as a gladiator in Mongul's Warworld.

Just to add to my tongue in cheek comment about the GA Superman, I have to say that the original version of the character is a lot of fun. And there's a lot of his stories that have been reprinted these days. I just recently purchased the GA Superman Omnibus, which has something like the first 2 and a half years of Superman in that one volume, and he's a very different character from the boy scout everyone thinks of when they think about Superman. He's also a lot of fun as he goes wading through various small time crooks and dishing out rough justice. I love it. I wish I'd read those old Superman stories years ago.

The post-Crisis version from the late 80s to mid 90s is probably my sentimental favorite, and there's a lot of good stories there, but if you have a chance, go back and read the original stories.

edited 28th Feb '14 4:49:38 AM by andersonh1

Well he was still the same type of character. It's just that in the 30s, the Salvation Archetype leaned toward the Modern Paull Bunyan/Samson/Hercules style rough and tumble vigilante than the Space Dad of the 50s.

edited 14th Mar '14 10:10:43 AM by HyperAlbion

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