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Vasil Ghurkos: "YOU ARE WEAK LIKE SUPERMAN"

Hawkgirl, about to pull one of the funniest moves in the film:

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put me and elita in a room and one of us is walking out pregnant AND IT'S NOT GONNA BE HER!

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i do think you mischaracterized him by saying he's a status quo upholder who works with the government. in my original message i asked what you meant by that in regards to the movie because i couldn't see how that would be something you could infer from the movie. if you want to talk about comics then be my guest (although that gets a little messy because of how many versions of superman there are in those, plus the inconsistent writing in later comics that can make him look like a douchebag) but im specifically thinking about the characters in the original photo. 😭 because that's what the twitter post is also talking about. LOL.

do i think they would agree on everything? nah. who does? but do i think clark is that much of a bootlicker? no fucking way 😭

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I’m kinda busy rn…so have this

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alright slow down there buddy i think we just have a very different idea on what superman believes in... no need to be rude... damn. 😭 ill leave you to your side of the internet

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did we watch the same movie...? superman literally works against the government and the billionaire(s) manipulating government officials, to the point he gets imprisoned and tortured because the government deems him a threat because he's an alien... he does not gaf about what any government says if it means people are going to die, and he essentially says that in the movie.

i think the two characters have a lot more in common political ideas wise than personality wise, and i think that's where people get things mixed up. although james gunn's superman was shown to have a bit of a temper on him...

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i am by far not the most qualified person to speak on the quality of the analogy and i have no idea if james gunn actually intended for superman to serve as a metaphor for the conflict in israel and gaza but i feel like it held up pretty good. i was talking with my friend on the way home and she pointed out how perhaps it isn’t the best sentiment to have “palestine’s” only savior be in the form of a fictional superhero, but i feel like that was a criticism in and of itself. everybody is afraid of what stopping the conflict in boravia and janhanpur could mean for the united states; clark continuously points out how he directly and immediately stopped innocent people from dying, but lois (representing the media conglomerate) is still hesitant to critique boravia as there was “no way to know their true intentions”. and she’s vindicated in this; boravia attacks metropolis the very next day, and any extreme comments like the boravian president exclaiming how the streets should “run red with janhanpurian blood” are kept out of the public eye. in her view (and many other people’s), preventing the conflict only leads to the direct suffering of american people—and, anyway, boravia is saying it only wants to save janhanpur from its totalitarian regime.

but boravia attacks metropolis once and just leaves. all of the other forces that threaten the city in the rest of the film are entirely luthor’s doing (the public doesn’t know this, but they don’t think they’re boravian attacks, either). the people are able to get back on their feet; if there are any casualties they are surely few, as it’s mere days afterward that people are unpreoccupied enough to be more concerned about a scandal on superman. so yes, gunn is saying that there is nobody but superman, not the government or even the press, willing to take direct action to help janhanpur—but he’s also saying that’s an idiotic sentiment. he’s directly demonstrating that nothing “boravia”—funded by the united states government and billionaires—could ever do to america could possibly be as bad as what they could do (are doing?) to “janhanpur”.

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im extremely curious as to what you mean by "defending the status quo" in regards to what was shown in the superman movie...

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*Dead media (assassinated)

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i keep seeing this image and im sorry but i have to disagree. superman has always been political because comics have always been political. we have "real life super villains" because what did you think writers used to model these villains off of... these real life villains aren't new. i feel like if you think superman 2025 isn't trying to be political you watched the movie with you eyes closed and audio off.

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:)

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I love superhero yaoi

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Im gping to thr ow up .

I'M GOING TO SEE THE SUPERMAN MOVIE TUESDAY NOBODY SPOIL IT FOR ME OR I'LL BLOW THIS WHOLE PLACE UP

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I'M GOING TO SEE THE SUPERMAN MOVIE TUESDAY NOBODY SPOIL IT FOR ME OR I'LL BLOW THIS WHOLE PLACE UP

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“in the comics” is such a great phrase you can lie about anything and no one will check. in the comics wonder woman has on panel passionate lesbian sex with cheetah

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I forgot to post these here omg but here are more chunky bots

Pt 1

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Watched superman . So obsessed. Also grabbed this thing