Do you think the world needs or deserves Superman ?

[GBaxter]

Do you (seriously or humorously) think the world (either the real world, or the fantasy world Clark Kent lives in), needs Superman, apart from the more obviously predictable things that come to mind ?

[Trademark]

Obviously the real world doesn't need Superman. The world Superman lives in on the other hand...

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[karasu]

I think the world needs all of the help it can get. Whether it's Superman, or a walk for cancer.

[MichaelMogg]

Humourously, absolutely not. Don't you think it's funny that in their world there's a few too many 'Earth shaking' events.

I love the old SuperFriends shows, and even the new JLU, where it seems there are multiple simultaneous earth-threatening events going on. Like in the episode with Demon and the magic and all that stuff . . . I think I remember Supes wasn't there. Time and again there is some 'end of the world if we don't stop this problem' kind of problem, but the big hitters like Supes and GL are absent. WTF?! That can only mean there's something equally pressing going on.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction; so it would seem that the sizable force of good leads to a sizable force of evil.

[Preus]

Actually, the real world does need Superman. The crimes that are being commited are becoming worse & the number of people each year that are dying increase. Does the world need Superman? Yes. Does the world DESERVE Superman? No.

[bw38]

Actually, the real world does need Superman. The crimes that are being commited are becoming worse & the number of people each year that are dying increase. Does the world need Superman? Yes. Does the world DESERVE Superman? No.

Doesn't it make sense that more people die each year? That's part of the cycle of life. More people are born and more people die as a result later on.

I don't see why this world we live in doesn't deserve Superman. What makes the DCU Earth more deserving than us?

[Ontir]

I said before, that I'd have been quite grateful if there was someone who couldn't caught, and safely landed 4 jet airliners on 9/11. We could definitely use, really need, and I think deserve a "Superman."

[MichaelMogg]

I said before, that I'd have been quite grateful if there was someone who couldn't caught, and safely landed 4 jet airliners on 9/11. We could definitely use, really need, and I think deserve a "Superman."

Not that that wasn't tragic, but compare -- if you will -- to that massive tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean a few years back; would Superman have been able to do anything about it then?

Also, if people [ya know, evil genii] have to take into account Superman, wouldn't their schemes be that much more devastating? Perhaps someone would launch a nuclear bomb simply because there is a strong probability Superman would stop it anyway.

[J. Robb]

It's hard to imagine Superman in the real world. Not because of his powers, but because he's not corrupted by them.

[Preus]

Yeah, it'd take some good ass parents to raise a superpowered kid who wouldn't be corrupted.

[Preus]

Doesn't it make sense that more people die each year? That's part of the cycle of life. More people are born and more people die as a result later on.

I don't see why this world we live in doesn't deserve Superman. What makes the DCU Earth more deserving than us?

Let me rephrase that, more people are being killed each year for nothing. That doesn't make sense at all.

There are many reasons why this world doesn't deserve Superman....to an extent. For one, we're too damn lazy & plus, we commit crimes for nothing. Yes, we need a Superman but we also need to try & make the world a better place ourselves.

[Green Lantern wannabe]

The DC Universe has the social law, equivalent to the physics one, that says that, for every social force, there is an opposing one. So, after Superman appeared, Lex Luthor also appeared, along with other superheroes and supervillians.

There was a story in the 1970's where the Justice League were forced to Earth-Prime, our earth, because a superhero was created in (I think) Australia, and, right after that, an alien ship came by to start causing trouble, and the JL came by as well. By the end of that story, the alien had gone, and the superhero went back to Earth-1 with the JL, and the balance was restored, with no superheroes and no supervillians.

[Preus]

Anybody think superpowered humans will surface in the future?

[Green Lantern wannabe]

Of course they will - we are already like Gods to the stone-age humans, because we have no polio, rotting teeth, or bleeding scars from malnutrition, but we do have means of talking over long distances, ability to fly on noisy monsters that do what we command, artificial light.

The humans in twenty years will be superpowered compared to us, just as we are to those cavemen, or, for that matter, to the humans of Christopher Columbus' time - who also had to deal with polio and rotting teeth.

[stealthwise]

Of course they will - we are already like Gods to the stone-age humans, because we have no polio, rotting teeth, or bleeding scars from malnutrition, but we do have means of talking over long distances, ability to fly on noisy monsters that do what we command, artificial light.

The humans in twenty years will be superpowered compared to us, just as we are to those cavemen, or, for that matter, to the humans of Christopher Columbus' time - who also had to deal with polio and rotting teeth.

Yeah, we're pretty Star Trek right now.

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