Thanks to grounded drama, My Adventures with Superman has one of the best portrayals of Clark Kent we've seen in a while.
the film’s titular bad guy delivers a monologue that gets at the heart of his character. After incapacitating our heroine, the Bride , Bill takes the chance to mansplain about his favorite comic book hero, Superman. He rambles about how for most superheroes, like Bruce Wayne or Peter Parker, their crime fighting alias is an alter ego, a mask they literally put on, but for Superman, these roles are flipped: “Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman.
Of course, most tellings don’t explicitly label a particular half as the “true” version of this character, but they do usually focus on one or the other, with the opposite role positioned as the alter ego. In many ensemble stories, especially ones centered on the Justice League, the focus is squarely on Superman and his Herculean heroics, while in many origin stories , we get more Clark Kent and his interpersonal drama.
However, despite blending these personas, there is still tension between Clark and Superman, as one of the character’s biggest concerns throughout the first season is that he’s terrified of his powers and that he may have been sent to Earth as an alien invader. Eventually, after repeatedly grappling with these issues, he investigates the spaceship buried in his parents’ backyard, where he talks with a hologram of his birth father and more fully accepts his abilities and the good they can bring.
During their ensuing struggles, Brainiac places Clark in a simulation to play on his anxieties about how others perceive him. Our protagonist sees false memories of Lois rejecting him because he’s an alien, further accentuating the hurt from their breakup. Later, Brainiac wipes most of Clark’s memory and places him in virtual reality as the villain puppeteers his body to perform the very thing Clark fears most: hurting others.
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