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It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

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He actually invented hatred and resentment.

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Superman 2025 spoilers ahead‼️

Lois and Clark both saying they like punk-rock and both living out punk ideology in their own way is such a fun detail

Yeah their ideas on how they think they can make a difference were clashing in the beginning, but both of them are right in the end.

They were able to save Clark, Krypto, the people of Janhanpur, Metamorpho and his baby because of Clark’s ideology that we should just go out and save people without regards to doing it the „formal“ and „politically correct“ way because YES the longer we wait to help others, the more people will hurt. And yes, the aggressors are never the ones playing fair either. The people of Janhanpur never asked to be invaded and no one was helping. If Superman had not intervened illegally before the start of the movie, they’d already be long dead.

But they also were able to take down someone very powerful — Lex Luthor — because of the proof Lois and Jimmy gathered.

Both of these ways are valid ways of helping, both of those ways are still very political and punk. And I think by the end of the movie, Clark and Lois both had a deeper understanding for the others ideals.

Anways I love my superwoke Superman!☺️☺️

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lois lane mr. terrific unlikely friendship where they keep agreeing to meet up for coffee and every time, lois gets on his nerves rambling about every little aspect of her relationship with clark (and then the inevitable tangent about something that popped in to her head mid convo) and every single time, he acts like he’ll never agree to this again but he always finds himself saying yes when she asks if they can meetup again

hell, he even agrees to sit out on the patio of pet friendly cafes so krypto can join them and he won’t react at all when lois points out that maybe he shouldn’t be feeding the dog pieces of his croissant

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one of my favourite things about the superman movie has to be how fantastic nicholas hoult's lex luthor is. he's just unapologetically evil. he's manipulative, he's mean, he doesn't care about the world, and he's also brilliant and self aware. his complete delight at beating up superman? his glee at having things work out his way? what an amazing villain. and what an incredible casting.

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The world felt so lived in. It wasn't a car commercial film, you know? there was cracked paint on Lois's door jamb, and the Kents' house looked like a house anyone I know might've grown up in in the 90s, and everyone was driving shitty, normal cars.

(more spoilery thoughts under the cut)

Also loved all the little world details like Lois's license plate being Delaware and the highway sign giving exit directions to Gotham (as a die hard Gotham-Metropolis twin cities on either side of Delaware Bay truther). The confrontation between the Justice Gang and Supes taking place in the Stagg Industries building despite (iirc) Simon never once actually being mentioned by name (of course, neither was Sapphire, but we also got to see her for like 10 seconds, six of one, half dozen of the other). The billboard for Big Belly Burger and the Kaiju being originally spotted in a Jitters. Markovia being the third country visible in Eve's map leak. Like the movie had whole and total respect for the fact that it is part of a universe, and that that is not Our universe trying to put up with superheroes, but a universe all its own and there's something absolutely refreshing about seeing that in a giant live action format.

Tiny disconnected thought -- Lois said she was just some kid from Bakerline, so like... was General Lane stationed at whatever Fort surely must exist in Metropolis's proximity or is DCU!Lois not an army brat?

Anyway:

A lesser film more cued into public perception of DC comics rather than the vast richness and opportunities actually available would've had the Mr Terrific role just be Bruce, or would've had it be a character called "Mr Terrific" but who was actually just Batman clone 328. And instead it was actually Mr Terrific, badass and surrounded by his T-spheres as intended.

Jimmy!! I have no words!

Lois and Clark having a big dramatic emotional scene while crazy technicolour battle was happening outside the window, both of them completely unfussed about it.

Perry just sitting and listening to Jimmy and Lois's pitch for their article while all of Metropolis is evacuating around them, also unbothered.

Rex!!!! Joey!!? Like has that kid been seen anywhere since that BoP arc in 2003?

Spending the whole movie wondering why Clark was letting his dog live in the Fortress, alone, without any training or manners, only to Understand Completely in approximately 10 seconds at the end.

I did also appreciate the Ultraman fakeout and him being a clone instead of from Earth-3. It's too soon to be pulling in the multiverse, y'know? But for my money, since he was cloned "wrong" I'm going with he's gonna come out the other side of that black hole as Biz, because I think that would be fun. Although, y'know, with the sick '90s flow, could also be angling closer to Henshaw. I look forward to seeing.

The Engineer was so perfectly unsettling, and since she's not dead, and they've apparently got an Authority movie on the docket upcoming, I have to assume she'll be part of that, right?

And final thoughts before I make myself go to bed:

Nicholas Hoult was extraordinary as Lex, truly he was, and also I barely noticed because David Corenswet was so phenomenally perfect as Clark. It is the only time I've ever seen a live-action Superman lean into the part where Clark says "golly" as an oath, and fully sell it. Like of course Lois (Rachel Brosnahan, also perfect) would have difficulty admitting to herself/him that she's in love with him. He's ridiculous. He's a ridiculous person. Absolutely absurd. Physical embodiment of hopepunk, and also broke into her apartment to make breakfast at night. Did you know, he can be a real jerk sometimes 🥺

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au where clark's identity is found out because of his interactions with the animals he saves (does anyone have any name suggestions😭)

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the thing abt superman (2025) that works so well for me is the willingness to be like. yeah this is a superhero movie! the justice league gang will def be fighting an imp in the background of a clois scene like. kara will travel to a diff planet under a red sun to get drunk! why not!

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(mild spoilers for superman 2025)

I cannot believe how accurate the jokes about this lex luthor turned out to be. this is not only a man who would hypothetically babytrap superman at some point in the future. this is a man who already has a plan in the works to babytrap superman. said plan just reached phase two. the second trimester if you will

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Arguably, the best part of Superman for me was how direct it was in what they were trying to say, especially right now.

It is more than just "good vs. evil", there is literally *zero* defense for the evil. The main villain is the CEO of a weapons company operating privately with multiple governments, and his entire rationale for doing what he does is because he's so insanely xenophobic that he'd rather see the world burn than see Superman simply exist. The country he's funding is literally invading another country under the guise of "saving them" where in reality, the president explicitly says he wants them all dead. And the US is allied with them for no other reason in that they help line their pockets. God, how I've missed villains like that, especially ones who reflect the ones we see in real life.

And on the good side of things, Superman simply wants people to live freely and happily, including himself. That's it. There's no "secret fucked up moral" that he has, nor is there a "secret good side" to Lex. It's just "here is a good person, and here is a bad person", and it has still managed to immensely piss a certain group of people off.

Overall, I think this film's message succeeds and does it well. And it just feels even more worthwhile when the main character is quite literally an "immigrant alien" himself. I really hope James Gunn gets to lead more superhero projects in the future, because I've been enjoying all of them so much.

But yeah. Go watch this film. Nicholas Hoult the actor that you are.

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The new Superman movie gave us so much, but perhaps most importantly, it gave us the best live-action depiction of Lex Luthor as the extremely psychopathic twink we all know he is

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There's something so important to me about journalism saving the day in Superman. There's a reason Clark and the other characters in his stories are journalist and it's because they are fundamental to the story of alien fitting in on earth and billionaire destroying people's lives for personal reasons.

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something incredible to me from superman 2025 is that as superman is being interviewed aggressively by Lois Lane about intervening in international politics, his literal number one repeated over and over response was "I saved people from dying. People were going to die how on earth can you conscionably care about anything else they were going to kill people' .

Something about Clark Kent, a trained journalist who absolutely knows how to challenge and express himself under these conditions, but the only thing that he says- and the only thing that really matters- is that people's goddamn lives were at stake .

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I actually cried when "recordings of his parents" changed from Clark's bio parents to Ma & Pa

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I absolutely adore how normal Clark's parents looked so normal. I realize the ideal of them is a strong farmer and his wife and that might be a beautiful older woman and her sturdy handsome husband. Nothing wrong with that. But Martha and Jonathan Kent in this movie were the kind of older couple I'd see at the grocery store in my own small-town. The kind of people at the community hall and auction grounds picking up hay bales for the cattle.

They were warm and just so normal it almost surprises you. They also don't resemble Clark at all which I think is important in driving home the fact that they aren't his biological parents. He stands out amongst them it's so clear he's different and special even. And my god do they love him.

The way they call for him and sit on a rusty bench outside the creaky screen door. That feels like home to me having grown up on the prairies. How authentic they feel only grounds Clark even more. It feels less like a dream or idea of a perfect farm family and is more two people who tried their best and will bake apple pie with calloused hands full of love

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I don't care if this is real or not, i want this to be known as "having a rowling"

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Top tier, grade A hater Lex Luthor who is supersmart but loses all sense when it comes to Superman. Oh, superhero media we are SO back