# Superman's "Fortress of Solitude" Questions

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 23, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-fortress-of-solitude-questions/723235 "2015-06-23T13:42:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-fortress-of-solitude-questions/723235/41 "2015-06-29T08:25:41Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Where are people getting the idea of the Olsen-bots, anyway? I only see Superman-bots and Supergirl-bots in that link.

From here, I think:

> [@CGav8r](#):
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> Not as cool as the Bat Cave - by a long shot - and if I were Jimmy Olsen I would be creeped out by the following:
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> -A bunch of replica robots of himself and Supergirl…kinky!  
> -Having life-sized statues of his dead parents indicates he needs therapy.  
> -A “Friendship Galleries” room? If I went over a friends house and he said “Wait, I have a room about our friendship”, _and my name was on the door_, I would cease all contact with this weirdo.

I can infer that **CGav8r** intended something like “[Superman having] a bunch of replica robots of himself and Supergirl…” (supported by “his” and “he” in the following bullet point, which in context can only refer to Superman). But, as written — and using the ordinary rules of English grammar — the reflexive pronoun “himself” would refer to Jimmy. This seems to be how **Ukulele Ike** understood it, and, as **Cochrane** has pointed out, he wasn’t wrong: even if that particular illustration didn’t show it, Superman in that continuity certainly did have at least one Jimmy Olsen robot. He had Batman and Robin robots, too. I think he had robots of _all_ his friends.

If I remember rightly, at the time he had no need for sleep. And since natural disasters and insane science-criminals aren’t quite as common as you might think, he probably needed something to while away the time till Clark Kent needed to clock on at the Daily Planet.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-fortress-of-solitude-questions/723235/42 "2015-06-29T09:15:56Z")

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And he has to have a Wonder Woman robot (or two) to while away those long, lonely Arctic nights.

“SCREAM MY NAME, DIANA!”

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