Thread 149946372

Is the Clark Kent disguise as stupid as it seems or does it have a canon explanation? I guess the most plausible explanation would be that Superman has superb control of his voice, gestures and facial movements, making any resemblance to Clark Kent seem coincidental at best. Still seems pretty silly but that's comic logic.

>>149946372 (OP)
Pretty much, yeah. Clark is just a good actor.

>>149946372 (OP)
Seems like there's a really easy way for Doakes to test his theory.
>KRYPTONITE, MOTHAFUCKAAA

I think it's has to do with how hard it is to get a clear photo or video of Superman since he moves around at supersonic speeds. When he's standing still he vibrates his body a little so that the photo of Superman and Clark Kent looks different, and not that many people have met both Superman AND Clark Kent to tell the difference.

Different writers/artists have different explanations for why nobody ever notices it, including nonsense about how Superman always vibrates his body at super speed to subtly fuck with photographs of him, but really it's just one of those weird details that have carried over from the earliest veresion of the character that you're expected to take for granted because it's always been that way.

>>149946397
It's been 15 years and I still can't believe they ended the new Superman #1 with Clark getting cucked.
Fuck everyone involved with this title.
At least Action Comics was good.

>>149946410
>cucked
They weren't a couple at that point and he was getting with Wonder Woman in Justice League. Also I think that guy stopped appearing soon after.

>>149946372 (OP)
Why would Clark Kent just hang around when giant monsters are attacking? Is this guy stupid?

>>149946372 (OP)
It's because Superman doesn't wear a mask like other super heroes. People assume he has no secret identity and is just Supes 24/7.

>>149946372 (OP)
There have been a million explanations over the years, none of them especially good. The most common one is that Clark, despite how huge he is, is a dork with shitty posture, a stutter, and no confidence, whereas Superman is this unapproachable gigachad. Even Lex can't parse the two.

>>149946372 (OP)
My headcanon is that so very few people have seen both Superman and Clark up close enough to actually see a connection so the glasses, hairstyle, mannerisms, etc are enough to throw most people off.

>>149946372 (OP)
>Still seems pretty silly but that's comic logic.
real life celebrities hide in plain sight all the time by simply covering up their most iconic features and wearing plain clothes

christopher reeves got the job playing superman because he could realistically depict a clark kent so different from superman that you would never actually suspect him of being superman

>>149946399
I could've sworn that that was an actual plot device somebody used before when they were suspecting Clark.

>>149946665
it was in STAS, where clark kent gets woozy around a green rock in the musuem
he later lets some crooks escape when he goes near that same rock
he connects the dots that it his weakness after he starts to feel weak again when lois had a small shard of it in her pocket

>>149946372 (OP)
>Uhhhhhh, the reason why people don't know Clark is Superman because he can vibrate his vocal chords super duper fast and slouches his spine to a 90 degree angle and rearrange his face muscles and wear super duper special hypnotic glasses and and and...

It's not that complicated. Just like what >>149946574 said. Most continuities have the general public know that Superman is an alien named Kal-el, who resides on earth after his home planet was destroyed. He's the most powerful being on the planet who doesn't wear a mask like Batman or The Flash. So why would anyone assume he has a secret identity?

All these alternative explanations are poorly made and shouldn't be needed.

>>149946423
While Anon's misdefinition of Cuckoldry is annoying, that page was terrible.

>>149946728
He's been spamming that page of late.
It's probably the same imbecile who was spamming the Superman manatee image on almost every DC thread, not just Supes related ones.
And there's the page from the elseworld that also keep being spammed even when it has nothing to do with anything else.

>>149946407
this is still the best explanation. also, haven't there already been instances where nobody noticed a celebrity was in the vicinity and part of it was just because they didn't assume it was possible they were nearby? like they just assumed it was a look-a-like. now, Kent constantly getting stuff with Superman might cause a few questions, but for the most part anons are right. Superman doesn't need a big explanation on why nobody catches him. the mere fact that people don't even begin to suspect that Superman would be hiding in plain sight is enough of an explanation

>>149946372 (OP)
It's a comment on prejudice. Superman's stupid disguise works the same way Zim's stupid disguise works.

>>149946372 (OP)
The idea that Superman would just be some random Joe is so unbelievable that nobody thinks about it. It's so laughable that Clark himself can straight up use "oh yeah, I'm Superman" as a gag because he knows everyone will think it's a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Z40-FcjnM

>>149946372 (OP)
Clark Kent isn't really a famous guy, very few people will know both him and Superman. And the few that do, like Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, already know that Clark is Superman.

Frankly I don't see why it matters. Superman is already so ridiculous, I wouldn't understanding him having a successful secret identity being the cut-off point for one's suspension of disbelief

>>149946372 (OP)
Yes. It works, maybe, on the short run but it's stupid when people don't figure it out for decades in univese

>>149947062
When Batman v Superman came out Henry Cavill went to Times Square wearing a Superman shirt and stood under a huge Batman v Superman display. No one recognized him.

>>149946372 (OP)
I’ve been a huge Superman fan all my life and people say to me all the time “isn’t his disguise fucking stupid?” and I explain it as, like, it’s like that old joke “what time is it when an elephant sits on a fence? Time to get a new fence” where it’s something so obvious to everyone who knows but people who don’t are oblivious because the two points are no where near each other in their brain

>>149946372 (OP)
I think when it reaches the point, where Luthor has a super-computer calculate Superman's identity only to discard it because Clark is too unlikely, is when it gets goofy

>>149946372 (OP)
I think that it might work.
That's because people don't know that Superman has a secret indentity. He publicly disclosed that he's an alien from Krypton named Kal-El. Most of his close friends probably suspect that he's Superman, but don't tell him and other don't really know who Clark Kent is and how he looks like, because he isn't a well known celebrity.

>>149947960
It’s called ego. Lex couldn’t accept that Superman could be someone like Clark because it doesn’t make any sense for him that a powerful person would be a pathetic loser reporter

>>149948021
Obviously it's ego. But it's still fucking stupid.

>>149946372 (OP)
Did you know Michael Jackson faked his death and works at a Golden Corral in Ohio? No shit, he doesn't even try to look or sound like someone else.

>>149946372 (OP)
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>>149946372 (OP)
In the new movie there's a very brief exchange about hypno glasses that make you think Clark looks like someone else.

But yeah it's fucking silly comic logic. We're talking about an alien who looks exactly like a human being who can fly because the sun.

>>149946601
>Even Lex can't parse the two.

It's happened a couple of times where Lex hires a team of experts to crunch the data using supercomputers to figure out Superman's identity, and when it comes back Clark Kent he refuses to believe it and has a meltdown.

>>149946407
>the average home handyman vs how their wife perceives them.

>>149947892
Alternatively, some people recognized him but New Yorkers don't give a fuck.

>>149946372 (OP)
Letting Clark maintain a day job is less Superman time