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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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[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

zack Snyder has made people forget that superman is supposed to be likeable and do good things for the sake of it

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

If Gunn has balls he'll do the Injustice plotline at some point.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

I have more than a few things to say to the face of those people.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago

“We don’t go to the movie theater to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.” Jesse Watters added

People like him is why AI slop movies are going to be successful. They just want to watch pretty pictures and see the American flag waving at the end, not be intellectually challenged and entertained.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Wasn't there a comic where Superman renounces his US citizenship ?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Action Comics #900

The Man of Steel’s declaration, “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” follows accusations that he caused an international incident in Tehran. Superman flew to the country during a huge protest, where he stood silent for one day, to show his support for the demonstrators. The 24 hours pass with a mix of appreciation (flowers and flags) and fear (hurled Molotov cocktails). But the government of Iran sees Superman as an agent of the United States and feels his action is an act of war. “Truth, justice and the American way – it’s not enough anymore,” Superman tells the president’s national security adviser. “The world’s too small. Too connected.” He then makes the decision to go before the United Nations and renounce his American citizenship.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 17 hours ago

I mean he was literally created by Jews during the time of Hitler as an inversion of the Nazi ideal of a "super man" who would go around beating up Nazis. His origin story is basically just space Moses, and his Kryptonian name "Kal-El" is formatted like the name of an angel, containing the name "El" meaning "God" (compare MichaEL, GabriEL etc.) Superman has been anti-fascist and pro-minority since his inception.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Nobody cares about objective reality anymore. Once we started letting people live in their own worlds of "feel facts" without consequence, lest someone throw stones at our own escapism cognitive biases, we ceded control of the world to the loudest and most hateful people.

There is no convincing people of anything anymore because they can just close their ears and go somewhere more comfortable. If they face no repercussions and can not only get praise for being hateful but even raise money and become celebrities, what do we really think is going to result from explaining things anymore?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago

Dude is from another planet but magat get upset he is called an immigrant.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours ago

How could someone take umbrage there? Like... read his origin story. He was born on Krypton. He got dropped on Earth. He was adopted by folks in Kansas. If I told people I found a child who drifted across the Rio Grande and adopted him as my own, we'd all agree he was probably from Mexico and not a native born citizen. But apparently him drifting in from SPACE changes the narrative?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago

Hmm, an endangered child's parents send him in a craft to be found and adopted by others, assuring his safety. You'd think that would resonate with MAGA Evangelicals, who should recognize the story of Moses.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The story of Moses is of God's Chosen People being insulated from bad events while the Pagans are made to suffer.

The moral of Exodus (and Kings and Judges) is that if you're following God's Will, nothing bad will ever happen to you.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Bold of you to think they read any part of the bible except the ones they can twist for the sake of hatred.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

* coughskincolorcough *

I want to go back about 20 years and find every idealist moron online who tried to debate with me that we can't keep calling people racist and that oppression is a deeper issue than superficial appearances and I want to smack them clean into 2025 so they can see what they permitted.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

How dare we suggest that Superman doesn't reflect the full Aryan image? Sorry, I misspelled MAGA

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Thank goodness for the real nationalist icon ~~Captain America~~ The Punisher.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

If he was Aryan he'd have the common decency of having blond hair like a real Übermensch. The dark hair makes him look like someone from the middle east!

[-] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago

From a 1949 book cover distributed to schools by DC.

MAGA is basically opposed to truth, justice, and the American way, aren't they?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I love this. Thanks for sharing it.

I wanted to print a copy, and I went looking for the highest-res copy I could find. I couldn't access the larger image in the dc.com article you linked, but in case anyone else is interested, I found two at 2750 x 3778:

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

America has two souls battling and it always has. It's Paine and Franklin vs the southern founders. It's Jefferson vs himself. One soul says we're a nation built on the idea that all people are created equal, with fundamental rights, and that government should be more controlled than the citizens. The other soul looks at a nation founded by genocide and slavery, with early settlers being the puritans after they lost power in the UK and think that's what they think America should be.

Each side considers the other un-American because we want different Americas

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

All these things haven't suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.

[-] [email protected] 332 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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

[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago

Bible: "Jesus says to love your neighbor."

MAGA: "Why do you have to make it political?!"

[-] [email protected] 99 points 1 day ago

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

They are stupid, useless, and gross.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago

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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[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago

Well, Superman is an illegal immigrant. I don't think they have a US consulate in Kypton.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I don't think they have much on Krypton anymore.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Does that make him a refugee?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

that's what happens when you cultivate a following with snyder making fascist superman movies

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

They were hoping to see a movie about the Ubermensch, not this woke comic book fake news!

Nah jk they don't read.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

They don't want Superman; they want Homelander.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

They really do live in their own little bubble huh? Like dude is a literal alien, and they think he is a home grown hero.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago

How can you not know Superman's origin story? Apart from the comics its been retold in every major movie version too. He literally is and always was (weird retcons aside) an immigrant.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Excuse me ~~Jesus~~Superman is white, therefore American!

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

DCU heads in their best J. Jonah Jameson voice:

FIND ME A SINGLE TWEET THAT MAKES A CONTROVERSY OF THIS MOVIE!! WE NEED FREE PUBLICITY DAMMIT!!! IT WORKED FOR DISNEY, IT WILL WORK FOR US!! GET ME ~~THOSE PICTURES~~ THAT TWEET!!!!

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

MAGA Outrage Over Director Saying Superman Is an Immigrant

(We're about a decade too late, and our engorged trolls are now our leaders, but still...)

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago

I hate the director for deciding to associate a fictional character with societal issues.

Has there been any movie where fictional characters aren't associated with societal issues? I ask because I'm pretty sure every single movie does this.

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