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Oh, come on, there is no way he could have the ability to leap entire buildings just because he's from another planet. First off, since he's pretty human in shape, that restricts just how heavy his world could have been - 2 gs would be pushing it for local gravity....
Woot! That's so cool!
Fedora... you haven't caught up on the backlog, have you?
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As for evil Supermans, there's also Bizarro Superman, from the planet Htrae :)
He even *looks* evil in that picture! :)
Hehe, yes, I have. Probably why I can't take superheroes seriously.
I don't know if you know, but DC has re-introduced the infinite parallel Earths idea with the concept of Hypertime, introduced by Mark Waid IIRC.
What if people on Krypton are also denser, hence having more dense muscle and bone tissue?
I think the original inspiration for Superman's leaping ability was also comparison with the leg strength of insects, one of the themes in the John Carter series. A human-sized insect could leap over a building. I'm pretty sure one of the earliest Superman stories draws that analogy.
"Fedora... you haven't caught up on the backlog, have you?"
Not my present self, but my future Earth-2 self has, using my Flash ability to speedread :)
I've heard of that but not read it. How is it?
"Hehe, yes, I have. Probably why I can't take superheroes seriously."
But you don't have a problem with Kenshin leaping 50 feet into the air and taking 5 seconds to land--and he's not even from Krypton! :)
I haven't kept up with that, but it sounds like it's asking for trouble. . .I mean, they already had to fix it once! Although I'll confess one of my favorite series was "All-Star Comics" featuring the Golden Age Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, etc. And of course "What If?" was very cool. I like "alternate universe" stories as long as they're kept distinct from the regular timeline, I guess.
But he's prettier than Superman! And it's Martial Arts, everyone knows Martial Arts do not conform to the laws of physics.
Yes, in fact it goes back to the 1-page intro to the very first Superman story in Action Comics #1. The last panel has a "scientific explanation" for how Superman does what he does, and refers to ants lifting weights many times their body weight, and the jumping ability of grasshoppers.
See, as a martial artist, that's a place where a lot of anime and martial arts movies lose me (and this was one of Bruce Lee's complaints about martial arts movies, too, which he tried to change but it's been reversed over the past decade). In a real fight you *never* want to be jumping around like that--it leaves you way too vulnerable. But it looks more theatrical to have people jumping around defying gravity, so most filmmakers do that. I think in any action comic or film, there's always a tension between what's realistic and what looks visually cinematic or feels aesthetically pleasing. Superman isn't realistic, but it would be cool if someone could do what he can do, so it's fun to read anyway.
I never watch movies for real fights. That wouldn't be fun. Movies aren't realistic... ever notice how, in movies, at night you can see just as well as during the day, only everything's blue?
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