# Imagining Superman in today’s social media society

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagining-superman-in-today-s-social-media-society/963389>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagining-superman-in-today-s-social-media-society/963389 "2022-04-25T01:01:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagining-superman-in-today-s-social-media-society/963389/41 "2022-04-28T17:08:35Z")

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> [@Moriarty](#):
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> at least one rescued person will probably come forward and say that he copped a feel when he was catching them jumping out of that burning building.

Remember the opening of _The Incredibles_?

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YNtK24hit84/maxresdefault.jpg "Mr. Sansweet didn't ask to be saved. Mr. Sansweet didn't want to be saved! Incredibles Meme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNtK24hit84)

~Max

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagining-superman-in-today-s-social-media-society/963389/42 "2022-04-28T17:26:01Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Superman would also have to hope modern facial recognition software is as stymied by eyeglasses as Lois Lane is.

There’s a segment from an episode of the Jimmy Kimmel show, where Henry Cavil goes to the theater in Times Square that’s showing _Justice League_, stands in front of the poster of himself as Superman, while wearing a Superman t-shirt, and nobody recognizes him.

This later got into an actual issue of the comic, where Pete Ross (one of the Clark’s few friends who knows he’s Superman) comes to visit him in Metropolis, and is shocked when Clark greets him at the train station, standing in front of a giant Superman billboard. Pete’s all, “Won’t people recognize you?” and Clark says, "Nope. Almost no one notices, and when they do, they come up to me and say, “Anyone ever tell you that you look kind of like Superman?”

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**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagining-superman-in-today-s-social-media-society/963389/43 "2022-04-28T19:57:29Z")

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He’d be treated similarly to Elon Musk. Then he would destroy the earth and start his own colony of select specimens on Mars.

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