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(superman: the animated series - mxyzpixilated)

i want a live action movie that’s just two hours of this

I love this version of Clark so much

Clark is a sarcastic little shit who has weaponized big city folk’s perception of him as a harmless back country mama’s boy as Clark and takes full advantage of both the “mysterious alien” angle and the “lawful good boyscout” angle of the public’s perception as Kal El. Ma and Pa Kent raised a man who knows how to radiate honesty while subverting the truth for his own protection and is smart enough to play off of everyone’s expectations. Clark is a world class manipulator who can read a room perfectly and knows how to convince everyone he’s totally clueless while getting them to do exactly what he wants. THERE IS A REASON HE AND PEOPLE-SOMEHOW-THINK-I’M-A-STOIC-LONER-DESPITE-MY-RIDICULOUS-SENSE-OF-HUMOR-AND-BROOD-OF-ADOPTEES-BRUCE ARE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS. People want to read “good and wholesome” as being mutually exclusive from “clever and fun” and those people write boring or awful Superman stories.

Yup! Brilliant Clark analysis here!