If you buy the theory that Superman is - or is metaphor for - assimilated Jews in America (don’t laugh, I’ve heard people make this case - I think it was a Prof. in an American Lit. class), then he’d probably be a Democrat. Especially since he has no ties to Israel that I’m aware of.
All of these superheros are protectors of the defenseless by nature, which I think precludes them from being extremely far right or left.
Would Thor be more of a fundamentalist? I would think Gods would tend to vote Theocrat.
Supes has gone through a few changes in his many years, usually reflecting the mood of the country.
When John Byrne took over the writing right after the crisis (Superman was Byrned to the ground), he wanted to make him into a Reaganite. This of course changed later on.
Booster Gold is the true Republican superhero.
Nope. He was born in the United States, therefore he is a native citizen.
About a month ago I watched the Superman film, and I was struck by how different the American Way that Superman stood for was from the Bush administration’s interpretation of it.
Remember The Quest for Peace? He didn’t try to create a new world order by ensuring the the US could kick the crap out of any country it wanted to because it didn’t like the tone of its voice, he did so by destroying EVERYONE’s WMDs. Not just the Soviets’ or the Iraqis’ (well he couldn’t, they don’t have any), but the US’ nukes too.
Superman is definitely a bit of a social conformist in his Clark Kent persona, but that’s part of the disguise. You only have to look at the cheeky, knowing smiles he flashed at Lois Lane to realise that Superman is anything but a repressed petit bourgeois midewesterner.
No, my guess is that Superman is not only a complete pinko fruitloop, but is also active on the swinger scene.
“You can either fight for truth and justice or the American way, they’re mutually exclusive”
He’s definitely a Republican, flying over Metropolis demonstrating the “trickle down” theory.
P.J. O’Rourke posits that “God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat”:
"God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God’s heavenly country club.
Santa Claus is another matter. He’s cute. He’s nonthreatening. He’s always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he’s famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus."
– From Parliment of Whores
Would that be with Spiderman?
Why would I laugh? Saying that Superman (at least in the early years) is a metaphor for assimilated jews is about as striking an observation as saying the sky is blue. Of course the early Superman was a power fantasy of assimilated jews – he was created by a couple of teen-age assimilated jews, he fought for the rights of the working man and racial equality, his origins were from another culture (based far, far away) which he knew very little about, and his alter ego ensconced himself in an educated profession – a much more common (and realistic) fantasy of the pre-War working-class jews in America.
–Cliffy
I had a relative who worked in the comics industry back in the day, and he knew Seigel & Schuster. According to him, two guys less like Superman, you could not hope to find. He described watching them turn in artwork to their supervisor, sort of cringing up to his desk and quietly laying the work on the corner, clearly hoping not to be noticed at all…
Why The Man of Steel #1, 1986, by John Byrne, of course. Personally I think it was a great idea. Kryptonians were all “test tube” babies, right up to conception, so Jor-El attached a hyperspace engine to Kal-El’s gestation matrix, and he wasn’t “born” until the Kents found the ship and it opened.
I never really liked the idea of a 5 year old Kal-El coming to Earth with all his toddler memories of Krypton. He always new he was an outsider and could never completely fit in.
Now, even though he knows he’s Kryptonian, he thinks of himself as an Earthling and has much more of a bond with his adopted planet.
Is that with or without the subtle out-of-character antagonism and hostility those two guys have? Supes and Cap were not acting as their usual selves in that issue, and given Kurt Busiek’s expertise, that was intentional…
And Superman couldn’t be a Republican, if only because he’d be unable to go to a homeless person and say “You should help yourself out of your mess, instead of hoping for any aid from me.” 
In his magazine, Tony Stark/Iron Man has just been made Secretary of State of the Marvel-Earth version of the Bush Administration; he insisted on the post as a condition of the USA getting his weapons technology.
That was all written prior to this going in to production.
PJ’s main point about party affiliation is correct, but he’ll have to update the next edition to:
How could Superman be a Republican?
He’s a card-carrying member of the liberal media, dontcha know?
Actually, this is sort of beyond what’s happening in the storyline. I started going through each character’s background and history, and thought, “You know. They might not get along.”
BTW, I could just as easily asked if Supes was a Democrat, but since I was pretty convinced Cap was a one, I went for the comparison. Intellectually I think Superman might very well be a Republican (i.e conservative), except for my own little bias of thinking that Democrats are the “help people” party. But I freely admit that is a sweeping generalization on my part, and one of the little biases I have to watch out for in my thinking.:dubious:
I can’t see why not. If Superman can put up with Batman, he can certainly tolerate Captain America, who’s less antagonistic in every detail. And Cap would probably treat Supes the same way he treats Thor.
Cap should lead, though, just because he’s better at tactics and charisma. Supes couldn’t even think his way out of a slugfest with Doomsday (in the Death of Superman thingie a while back), fer crissakes.
I’d peg Captain America as a moderate Republican, myself. He’s got personal beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong, but he also knows that he can’t use his authority or influence to force things along those lines, else he’d be no better than fascists like Hitler or the Red Skull.
Superman would IMO be slightly left of Cap, but not by much. He’d probably be hesitant to support drug legalization, but would not hesitate to say that those in power are obligated to help those who aren’t.
All IMO, natch.
Wasn’t he a hard left communist crusader in the recent Red Son alternate time line series where his ship landed in 50’s Russia instead of Smallville?
Itend to peg him as a moderate Republican: He was raised in the midwest, and while he’s willing to help people, he mainly does it in the way of a fireman or police officer. You don’t see him going out of the way to improve Suicide Slum, for example.