I had this idea occur to me a couple of weeks ago and it struck me as potentially funny. What if Superman had landed in a trailer park instead of smallville? and instead of growing up into a superhero was just your typically white trash layabout.
He uses his flying to sneak into NASCAR events. He uses his xray vision to stare at women. He uses his heat vision to heat up nacho cheese and frozen burritos. He uses invulnerabilty to bullets to win bar bets. In a flash of inspiration he does his reverse time by flying backwards around the earth trick to play the lottery.
I think a series of skits based on this premise could be funny.
Well, at least it would make one Hell of a COPS episode.
It’s been done, sort of. I remember a SNL sketch from about 20 years ago, in which Supes grew up in Weimar Germany and became an uber-Nazi.
OOOOH! OOOOOH! He could repel the tornadoes that without fail head straight to the trailer park. He could break into the brewery, drink beer straight from the vat and then crush the vat on his forehead!
Sort of a Goobermench instead of an Übermench.
Is the entrance to his Fortress of Solitude thru a rusting '69 Ford pickup on blocks in the front yard?
Is the entrance to his Fortress of Solitude thru a rusting '69 Ford pickup on blocks in the front yard?
darn those hamsters! keep a steady pace on the wheel!