Ocean Dweller
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He reverses time to save Lois but why wouldn’t he do that to prevent all of the wars?
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Superman could have prevented WW1 and WW2
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FunkMiller
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Exactly how drunk are you?
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Does that mean he can also prevent Krypton from blowing up?
Trunx81
Member
Would be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
The batmobile is shown to be fairly autonomous in most appearances so I imagine the wheels would be equipped with a high-tech tire pressure monitoring system that can just pump itself when needed.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Or Alfred would take care of stuff like that.
SJRB
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Ulysses 31
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Which Superman version are you talking about?
Because in some he arrived on earth after WW2.
Because in some he arrived on earth after WW2.
Ulysses 31
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Having at least a somewhat coherent answer to those helps with the verisimilitude of the story and world building.
Trunx81
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Bruce Wayne could do more good with his money. Instead he’s running around at night, dressed like a bat and punching criminals into hospital. In a country without health care system.
Cyberpunkd
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After how many years does the system needs to be replaced?
Little Mac
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Heimdall_Xtreme
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Ulysses 31
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There is a storyline where Bruce gives away all his money to charity or something but the SJWs still complain about his privilege.Bruce Wayne could do more good with his money. Instead he’s running around at night, dressed like a bat and punching criminals into hospital. In a country without health care system.
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LimanimaPT
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He wanted to bang Lois with he's super dick, that's the only reason he saved her.
Why would he waste time to save a bunch of strangers?
Why would he waste time to save a bunch of strangers?
Toots
Gold Member
He had to go back in time to save Lois because she's the only woman on earth that can withstand his super-cock.
But he also played fallout and knew that war never changes so it's no use to try and stop it anyway.
See, I agree with him up till they start writing gritty adult stories with these characters, then those details DO matter.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Because The Man of Steel is a fuckin' prick, that's why.
GymWolf
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Dude
Just making things that look and act cool with zero background and explanation is lame af imo.
Being able to be kinda credible when you explain extraordinary things is a talent.
For example, i find normal zombies pretty lame, they are just corpses that live again, but i fucking love the pseudo explanation of the tlou zombie in the serial, the prologue of the first episode that hint at fungus being able to grow and take command and human not being able to do jack shit is a far more interesting pseudo explanation to zombies than just "they resurect becsuss reasons or for some military formula", even if is still a biiiig stretch of reality.
I think that cyclope's eyes being a portal for a dimension with concussive energy is way, way more of a cool explanation than just "the dude shot laser from his eyes because reasons", it may be a bit stupid, but still intriguing nevertheless.
So yeah, i enjoy when authors twist themselves into a pretzel to give me a good explanation of why things are the way they are.
Maybe it's not always optimal because sometimes a mistery should remain misterious or because less talented authors give shit explanations that ruin everything but i love when it's done right.
I'm one of those people but only because i really enjoy when authors can give a pseudo-science answer that kinda make sense if you don't look too deep into it.
Just making things that look and act cool with zero background and explanation is lame af imo.
Being able to be kinda credible when you explain extraordinary things is a talent.
For example, i find normal zombies pretty lame, they are just corpses that live again, but i fucking love the pseudo explanation of the tlou zombie in the serial, the prologue of the first episode that hint at fungus being able to grow and take command and human not being able to do jack shit is a far more interesting pseudo explanation to zombies than just "they resurect becsuss reasons or for some military formula", even if is still a biiiig stretch of reality.
I think that cyclope's eyes being a portal for a dimension with concussive energy is way, way more of a cool explanation than just "the dude shot laser from his eyes because reasons", it may be a bit stupid, but still intriguing nevertheless.
So yeah, i enjoy when authors twist themselves into a pretzel to give me a good explanation of why things are the way they are.
Maybe it's not always optimal because sometimes a mistery should remain misterious or because less talented authors give shit explanations that ruin everything but i love when it's done right.
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Donald mac Ronald
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NeoGiffer
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because the pen is mightier than the sword
Wheeljack539
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It's also more like the further back you go the changes made can make larger changes in the future which could make it unrecognizable. Changing something from a few minutes ago is not a big deal.
More like SuperDick™.
Kadve
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Fun fact. Neither National publication (aka, DC comics back then) or Superman's creators wanted him to take part in WW2. They thought it would be an insult to soldiers that actually fought and died there if Superman was depicted just solving everything.
He did go to the frontlines as a mailman though.
He did go to the frontlines as a mailman though.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
The problem with millenials is that we grew up but still expect comic books, star wars, and video games to grow up with us. they cant. a super hero movie is for kids. star wars is for kids. mario is for kids.
not everything is for us. we are pushing 40. we moved on from britney spears and backstreet boys as soon as we hit puberty. why are we still obsessed with jedis and super heroes?
watch normal movies made by adults if you want things to make sense. you have some suspension of disbelief when you are watching a movie about a guy who wears glasses to hide his identity. its literally retarded. its for kids under the age of 5. not for men pushing 40.
not everything is for us. we are pushing 40. we moved on from britney spears and backstreet boys as soon as we hit puberty. why are we still obsessed with jedis and super heroes?
watch normal movies made by adults if you want things to make sense. you have some suspension of disbelief when you are watching a movie about a guy who wears glasses to hide his identity. its literally retarded. its for kids under the age of 5. not for men pushing 40.
FeralEcho
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Eh...to some extent I agree but there's also a fine line between that and having to turn your brain off completely just because the writer is so shit at their job that it can't muster any details whatsoever on the damn universe they're supposed to know first hand.
That's what separates plain writters from great ones and it's why the MCU is in such a shit state right now....it follows the same philosophy and sadly for Marvel the brain can only take so many jokes before it starts waking up and start asking questions that can't all be answered with "multiverse" and "cameos".
Zathalus
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No thanks, I quite enjoy a lot of that. Many comics and comic movies contain well written stories that are targeted at, or can be enjoyed by adults. Mario games are still quite fun to play as well. Even things still completely targeted at kids, such as Pokémon, can be entertaining.
I think a quote from C.S, Lewis puts it far better then I ever could:
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
Donald mac Ronald
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I'm curious couldn't a thrust from super man destroy a woman's cervix?
Doesn't superman have sex with someone in the movies and uses his super speed to satisfy her? Thermal dynamics would come into play; the heat and friction would have destroyed her.
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Bulletzen72
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Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex by Larry Niven discusses this in his essay
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
An exceedingly amusing story by Larry Niven about the Superman's procreative challenges.
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Trunx81
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Did someone read Straczynskis take on 9/11 with the marvel superheroes helping out at the twin towers? It’s ment to be honorable because they acknowledge the polices and firefighters work. But I was just sitting there thinking “You have Iron Man, the X-Men, hell even Spiderman could have rescued all 3.500 people on his own.”
They try to clarify it by “we’ve been taken by surprise”, but come on: In a world full of superdushes, this wouldn’t have happened.
They try to clarify it by “we’ve been taken by surprise”, but come on: In a world full of superdushes, this wouldn’t have happened.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
He could do it but he was in love so he did it for woman but his dad got mad at him for doing this because he's not supposed to interfere with human history or something.
Puscifer
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Yeah. It's shitty to say but day to day life is likely a lot better because of those times we've gone through
Ocean Dweller
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interesting!
IDKFA
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EverydayBeast
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Justice League – Season 1, Episode 25
The Savage Time
One of my favorite episodes,
"In the midst of World War II, Green Lantern must prove to a company of Allied soldiers that he can fight without his ring; Superman and Hawkgirl meet a squadron of ace fighter pilots; German troops ambush Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor."
The time traveling was better than any roller coaster avengers were on with Thanos.
The Savage Time
One of my favorite episodes,
"In the midst of World War II, Green Lantern must prove to a company of Allied soldiers that he can fight without his ring; Superman and Hawkgirl meet a squadron of ace fighter pilots; German troops ambush Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor."
The time traveling was better than any roller coaster avengers were on with Thanos.
midnightAI
Banned
The movie lied to you anyway, reversing the rotation of the earth wouldn't make time go backwards anyway
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
He wasn't reversing the rotation... That was just visualization of time reversing.
Thats the fanwank explanation, the way it is shown on screen, with him flying counter rotation, the earth slowing, then spinning in reverse and him flying the other way in order to "stop the reverse spin", it sure looks like the earths spin is the time travel part.
Worth watching....damn Reeves, RIP!
Soodanim
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Did you like it when one of the super powerful guys, I think it was Dr Manhattan with DC characters, stood in front of everyone and told them it was interesting that a lot of/all of their powers were limited forms of reality warping and didn't know it?
In Smallville Clark and Lana can't get it on, but in one episode when Lana gets super powers they superbang so hard that it causes seismic activity felt all the way in Metropolis
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GymWolf
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I don't read comics so i never saw that scene.
midnightAI
Banned
Well the 'completely theoretical' possible way of time travel (kinda) is to travel faster than the speed of light, if he was to do that he could do it in a straight line, all they'd need as a warp style effect to visualise travelling faster than the speed of light but that isn't what they did, they visualised the earth slowing down, going in reverse spin and then show footage being played backwards as though it was like winding a watch backwards.
If the current understanding is that time is linear then time travel (into the past) is impossible anyway, but that wouldnt work with the story of course, much like other films physics are thrown out of the window which is fair, it's for entertainment anyway, it's just that particular sequence, even as a kid, was a bit silly (to me)
VulcanRaven
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Maybe its easier to go back 10 minutes than decades.
MrTroubleMaker
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He was busy
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