Thread 149934155

You think that if modern Superman stories kept them dead like in Pre-Crisis, they would eventually make stories that imply they're bad people or at least morally gray? You know, like they've done with other long-dead parents such as the Waynes and the Els.

No, the Kents are the one parents I can't see ever being made into bad people. They're supposed to be the reason Superman is such an unyielding boy scout

>>149934198
Yeah, but good parents could still be bad people.

>>149934198
lmao they're farmers from Kansas, I can think of at least 3 ways they could make them morally dubious.
Then the lesson would be about Clark doing good not because his parents told him, but because of his own accord.

>>149934343
Midwestern farm boy goodie two shoes who loves his ma and pa doesn't work the same if they're cooking meth in the barn or something

>>149934403
It can work, it would just be a different type of story, like when they make the Waynes and Els evil/morally questionable.

>>149934155 (OP)
Superbros.. our HERO is a cuck..

>>149934155 (OP)
Superman writers need to make a firm stance: either he cares about the Kent’s and disregards his kryptonian heritage or vice versa- there’s just too much going on with 2 sets of parents and one of the many reasons people find the character unrelatable

>>149934155 (OP)
No

>>149934155 (OP)
Oh, it 100% would've been done at some point, the shock and subversion from the kind farmers actually being KKK members or some shit would've been too much for hack writers to resist.

>>149934474
I think Clark can care about 2 sets of parents and cultures actually, it's not exactly unheard of in real life.
Both Earth and Krypton should be important to Clark, he's a man of two worlds.

>>149934155 (OP)
I still think they should be dead.

>>149934597
True, a lot of writers seem to juggle it awkwardly though from what I’ve seen so far digging into the character

>>149934155 (OP)
Yeah probably.