Remember when they had to define woke for some court case? The definition was something like acknowledging that there are inequalities in society. Superman's whole schtick is that he's morally good and has a ton of power but doesn't resort to authoritarianism. That seems pretty "woke" to me, too.
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Call them out on that bullshit.
Everyone this movie matters to already understands Superman enough not to be bothered by the comments of some has-been actor who clearly never understood the character he portrayed.
Worst Superman says what?
They didn't go woke Dean, you aged to be a shitty person.
Check out Model Minority by Cory Doctorow.
It's about an unnamed superhero (who wears a red cape, and a spandex suit with a big S on it, and is engaged to a journalist named Lois, and his best friend/rival is named Bruce (who has a bat-themed alter ego)... anyway) who realizes that the cops are just beating people up and hiding it, so he makes a stand, but isn't quite sure about how to do so.
Cory Doctorow is a writer who I want to love, i like the plot descriptions of his work and he seems like a really smart and with it person, but his writing style just doesn't spark joy. It feels like work. IDK how to describe it, I just can't get in the flow with his writing.
He couldn't be possibly have been created by Immigrants /s
Looks up Joe Shuster birth place... Toronto, Ontario, Canada with his mother being from Ukraine
Looks up Jerry Siegel parents were from Lithuania
Hell looking up their parents if superman couldn't be an Immigrant he would be a Soviet.
Also Dean Cain has always been a has been loser for a long time now.
We're still getting Dean Cain's opinion on things? Whoever wrote this article could have avoided all the torture by ignoring that Christofascist xenophobe like the rest of us.
nazis crying that their ubermensch is also a mensch
Im gonna go to the theater just to watch this to piss of the conservatives lol
What an ignorant bitch.
I'm going to guess that James Gunn isn't going to take career advice from...checks notes...Dean fucking Cain.
Dollar Store Jerry O'Connell is still around? Figured he'd have drank himself to death about 10 years after Lois and Clark ended.
Ah yes, Superman. The all American hero... Created by a Canadian.
Sorry, I forgot you existed Dean Cain.
Welp. All I have to say about that is: fuck Dean Cain.
Yeah he made a mistake, superman isn't a immigrant, he's a refugee
I don't think everyone has to have read the original source material to enjoy something made from that material.
But if you're going to complain about it being faithful to the source material? Naw, that's in no way legit.
Plus... Like, definitionally, Superman was not born on US soil or to American parents. He doesn't have birthright citizenship
He's a literal alien with a fake identity, at the very least he's an immigrant, in every canon
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Dean Cain is a "has been". He hasn't been on anything important in decades.
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I kinda wish they had gone for an actor of middle eastern descent, or perhaps even immigrant status, to portray Supes. For no reason other than to piss off the bigots.
Trump's wife is an immigrant. Trump's parents were immigrants. Many people who are immigrants don't like immigrants because immigrant is code for "someone I don't like for x reason".