The team behind “Superman” is responding to the backlash after director James Gunn said the DC tentpole is the story of “an immigrant that came from other places.”

When asked about the reaction to his comments, James Gunn explained that the movie is for “everyone” and that he doesn’t have “anything to say to anybody” spreading negativity around “Superman.”

“I’m not here to judge people,” he told Variety at Monday night’s “Superman” premiere at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. “I think this is a movie about kindness and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”

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[–] 336 points 1 year ago* (41 children)

I mean... He's literally an alien that came here illegally.

Is MAGA stupid? Don't answer that, it was rhetorical.

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  • [–] 100 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Asmongold. Enough said. Also, most conservative men are opposed to bathing. Something something washing assholes is gay.

    They are stupid, useless, and gross.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You mean the guy who lives like a pig and has cockroaches climbing on his shirt while live streaming his newest rage fit should not be listened to?

    Seriously, what is wrong with his viewers? The content is shit brought to them by someone living in his own literal shit.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I thought you were exaggerating so I googled it and what the fuck man.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Did you read about where the dried blood on the wall by his bed came from?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Jesus Christ, who the fuck gets bleeding gums as recurring thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    People with severe gingivitis. Like if this guy wasn't doing something with moderate effort on a regular basis I'd assume severe depression because cleaning and oral hygiene are things that can fall to the wayside while struggling with depression. But also Jesus man, have some shame.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Technically he was "born" in the US in most versions going back a few decades. His pod was retconned from one they put a whole living baby into in earlier stories, to an artificial womb "birthing matrix" that combined DNA. Was even a storyline that dealt with if he was eligible to be President based on that (may have even been the reason for the retcon, can't remember). So he'd be an "anchor baby" to use their racist term, and someone Donald wants to invalidate an amendment with an executive order for

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    Is thst still canon? I know it was officially changed at least by New 52 to be baby Kal-El in the ship from Krypton again. And then Post-Crisis canon was merged with New 52 Canon with Rebirth and Doomsday Clock, but I haven't read a comic in years now. No idea what they settled on as his new origin. Either way though, non-lawful entry or born here with non-citizen birth parents, he would be considered an illegal or stateless immigrant under the current government. There is no getting around that Republicans.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Poor Supes has been retconned since he first appeared. For a while he could shapeshift and turn invisible.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    He can't fly, but he can leap over tall buildings in a single bound.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    https://youtu.be/9UJphNPwDfk?list=PLhGipfv0juZWw5lM_NyhY1n32UXVSn37Q

    1940 animated version using rotoscopes. One of my favorite versions of the Man Of Steel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I watched Young Justice when I was a kid, I remember the one in the black t-shirt only being able to do that. I think he was Superman's nephew? Idk lol

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The superboy in YJ was a government created half human half kryptonian. He was grown to teenager in a vat essentially.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In some versions he's almost literally Supes and Lex's son as Lex was the human half of the mix.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    So, Supes is an illegal and he had a kid with another guy?

    Also, the kid is dating Miss Martian, who is also an illegal alien and a shapeshifter who can become a boy if she wants to...

    Get me my Bat-Shark Repellent!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Well he's an Alien who is an American citizen more than likely.

    Foundlings aren't directly mentioned in the laws but if a child is found in the U.S. and you can't find the parents, it is assumed to have been born here. And thereby a citizen by the 14th Amendment.

    Unless someone could prove who his parents were and where they were born, until that time I don't think they would have grounds to revoke the citizenship

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Pfft, you think the Trump administration would give him the benefit of the doubt.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When Superman came to earth Trump wasn't born yet right? He had FDR

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    AFAIK, current Supes is perpetually 28ish. So, he was born/arrived under Bill Clinton's administration. But Trump is trying to denaturalize people who have birthright citizenship without citizen parentage, so i dont think it matters.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There is proof of his origin, that hologram of his father that explained it to him

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    So you believe some people who found a baby in the middle of no where and decided to raise/adopt him picked up a hologram made of alien tech unlike anything seen on earth before and were going to bring that to the government to say we know who his parents are? Kid would go to a gov facility for infinite tests and the Kent's would be institutionalized or disappeared because everyone would have thought they were nuts in the psych ward. No way they'd know the kid was going to fly, shoot laser beams and be impervious to weapons.

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