Superman
Character » Superman appears in 18939 issues.
Sent to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton, Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland as Clark Kent. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend mankind against all manner of threats while championing truth, justice, and the American way!
My HATE for Superman
@MKF30 said:
"I love how these superman haters call him overpowered and such yet love Marvel characters like SS or Galactus...the hypocricy there is amusing yet sad at the same time...
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I can't see how any "true" comicbook fan can HATE Superman....even if you don't like him, at least respect him if not for Supes you wouldn't have your favorite comicbook characters since he inspired all of them...
Galactus is an abstract, hes supposed to be over-powered. Norrin certainly is, but again he's that abstracts herald supposedly built to defend himself from entire world's military is need be.
DC certainly doesn't have those on short supply regardless, you've got an entire 5th dimension of imps that can make the DCU go into chaos.
There are a lot of characters out there with absolutely nothing involving inspiration from Superman.
Like characters that get their inspiration directly from myth, which one can argue is where Superman was inspired, the hero that man kind has been talking about for over 4000 thousand years.
I'm not saying Superman shouldn't be respected, because he's an iconic character that is the image people think of when they thing "Super Hero", not that he hasn't been the direct inspiration for a lot of characters, but to say all of them seems plain incorrect.
@Lvenger said:
"He is the best in my opinion. To each their own I suppose but if it wasn't for Superman, none of the other darker and more 'realistic' heroes would have come into existence. He was the original, the first official superhero. If it wasn't for him, the comic book universe we know today would be different or may not exist at all "
Hugo Hercules 1902. Then you have Hugo Danner 1933(?).
Hell if you go into ancient myth your going to find a lot of characters that are arguably super heroes.
Like everyone's favorite guy with the strength of 10 men, whose ten labors are a story told many a time, and who at one point even holds the sky, Hercules!
Now I won't claim he's one of the first, but he's certainly one of the first at the very least that took the role of a super hero demigod that killed monsters that plagued man and went to the under world itself to save the day.
His legends have lived for thousands of years, so he's beating Superman in age at the very least.
I think comics would still end up being around, people have been drawing pictures since the time we lived in caves, eventually someone would have capatilzed on the icon of the Super Hero.
But I do agree the comic book world could have been an entirely different thing all together.
Superman? BAH!
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