See also the SNL skit depicting the “all-drug olympics,” in which a 'roided-up Phil Hartman rips his arms off trying to deadlift several thousand pounds.
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When I saw the title of this thread, I took “Superpower” to mean a powerful country in the world, you know, like the USA or China. I almost posted that trumpy did a pretty good job of almost ruining the USA’s Superpower status. Then I figured out-- oh, like Superman stuff. Sometimes being literal-minded can be a handicap. Leaving now.
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When thinking about flying, you had better keep it low. Airplanes can sneak up on you from behind considering that they move at several hundred miles an hour and it may be difficult to hear them over the roar of wind past your ears.
As far as the superfabric goes, I seem to remember a Superboy comic from many years ago about how he was found with a blanket or other cloth in the spaceship from Krypton. That blanket was some kind of superfabric (or maybe it acquired superpowers just like the boy) and Martha Kent made his first outfit from that. Of course that just raises the question of how she could cut and sew it with ordinary Earth needles and scissors.
This Internet copypasta provides a pretty compelling case for why being invulnerable, while sounding awesome in concept, would actually suck in reality.
Who was man enough to give Superman a BJ, presumably over his objections? Wow, that’s some super duper power right there. Or else Superman has more secret identities than we ever knew. Either way it’s a shocker.
FWIW I had totally the same reaction to the title and was surprised by the OP just as you were.
I was already mentally composing a screed about Putin’s disinformation folks giving a few pointers to the then-nascent alt-right media 20+ years ago then standing back as the snowball of RW BS engulfs the country.
Ref the 1950s George Reeves TV show and the earlier comics …
My Dad always said that Superman’s costume was actually a full-body tattoo. When he ducked into the phone booth he ripped off his clothes and emerged naked to fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!
Superman was the ultimate flasher.
Dad had a creative and off-kilter sense of humor. Shame he’s been gone ~25 years now.