Kara appeared pretty much as Supergirl on Smallville last night, and Lois recognized her, although Kara attempted a brunette wig plus glasses secret identity at the end of the episode. But given that people already know her as a 20/20 blonde, I’m not sure how effective this will be.
Clark has the same dilemma, except we know he’s not going to try to pass off either of his identities as a blonde. If I recall correctly, the comics dealt with this in one of three ways:
I’m going with SHOULD use glasses/slick hair/nerdy act. It’s just traditional. They could have some fun with it and put a lampshade on it.
I’m kinda disappointed Supergirl was the one to publicly come out first. Will make Superman’s eventual début less exiting. Superman’s reveal was so well done in Christopher Reeve’s Superman. The film portrayed the Superman media circus very well, I kinda felt the episode was lacklustre in that regard. Shouldn’t Metropolis be going ape shit over it’s new hot heroic superwoman? And if they didn’t go crazy over Supergirl, why would they go crazy over Superman?
Friend of mine just got glasses. Something about them make him look so totally different that people aren’t recognizing him. So I call them his “Clark Kent glasses”.
So it can work. Well, for a minute or two…
BTW, I love the fact that Supergirl has to teach Big Cousin Kal how to fly.
The glasses thing can’t really work. The superspeed to blur his face won’t work, as that’s what he’s already doing as the Blur. What would be the difference? Surely they aren’t going to remove the idea that Superman has to be seen in public sometimes. And it was a crappy explanation from the beginning.
Clark is fairly well known, and he’s never worn the glasses. Having super-hypnosis (hopefully with the glasses focusing it) is about the only way it’s going to work.
Honestly, though, as many times as Clark has been perfectly obvious with his identity, I suspect they won’t even discuss it. It’s either that, or have some odd mind altering thing that fixes everything to the status quo.
That was part of John Byrne’s post-Crisis makeover. To the naked eye it wasn’t obvious he was blurring anything, and people looking at him just saw his face, but if anyone took a picture, the face came out blurry. Of course, he also had Lex Luthor ignore a bunch of evidence that Clark was Superman very early on, just because it was inconceivable to Lex that Supes had a secret ID at all.
At the end of last season, they had a bit of a preview of the future. There was an emergency, and Lois looked over at Clark’s desk, saw his glasses flung there, and smiled to herself.