Superman Quits America, Fox News Readers Take the News Badly

[digital warrior]

This kinda makes sense to me and in a way it could be argued hes doing to help the US.

Superman fights crime all over the world now, could be argued all over the universe, he fights massive villains and has probably pissed off more than a few countries, now as a US citizen they could use that connection for political gain against the US.

By renouncing his citizenship he is saying that officially he is not part of any governing body and his actions should not be considered an action of any government.

To me it only looks as though superman is only trying to help people and make sure no one gets hurt by his actions, its kinda what superman does.

After all truth and justice knows has no political boarders.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Isn't Superman, strictly speaking, an illegal immigrant? Don't see the conservatives getting all up in arms about that for some reason. Duuno. Maybe there's some sort of clause in there about babies flung from space or something.

 

[Will Holmes]

And Superman is bloody right about it too. DC Comics, I take my hat off to you.

 

[weker]

america are one of the patriotic places in the world ofc they will be angry.

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

interesting points made by theApoc.

But mainly I'm wondering this: is it even possible for Superman (and so many -all?- other superheroes) to be anything else than US-centric characters? The very idea of superheroes as we know them today was consolidated in the US; every global threat in comics, together with the way to fight it (including the way to lose against it, occasionally) depends entirely on a US-centered view of the world, often enough one inherited from cold war times, or even from post-GreatDepression.

Mind you, that's not bad in itself. It's just something to keep in mind when we put things in perspective. Renouncing one's citizenship, especially for that reason, is in itself a very American way of being subversive - good old iconoclasty.

Exactly. When you think about it Goku, from DBZ, was all about the American way(I'm sure people will disagree with me). I think that's why anime heroes aren't like that anymore.

 

[theApoc]

We've actually done very little good, comparatively speaking, over the last two centuries.

We helped stop Hitler, sometimes worked to stop Soviet expansion, and developed most of the technologies used in the miniaturisation of computing, as well as DARPANet. We also introduced South America to the Death Squad, armed and trained the Taliban and al Qaeda, helped Saddam Hussein into power and sold him chemical and biological weapons which we knew would be used against his own people, armed Iran, tortured both citizens and foreign nationals at Guantanamo, *kidnapped* foreign nationals to imprison them in Guantanamo and then threatened their leaders... the list goes on and on, and those are just what we've done in the last 50 years. The further you go back, the progressively worse our abuses get.

Compared to who? I would love to see the country that has done more for the world as a whole, good bad or otherwise over the entirety of its existence. Because nothing you posted is representative of anything other than the upper echelons of our government, which 99% of the people who live in America have NOTHING to do with and little control over. Policy is decided by the elite on both the left and right, decisions like the acts you mentioned are made by people who do not now and have never answered to anyone.

America as a nation of citizens, as a collective idea of freedom has done more for the world in 200 years than most cultures have done in the past 1000.

 

[ameemo]

i really don't get this, didn't superman decide this because he did not want people to refuse help from him because they viewed him as an ambassador of america rather than a protector of the weak? so why are people making a big deal out of this? he does not want to be a U.S citizen, he wants to be a citizen of the entire earth, is that not a good thing? or i am reading into this the wrong way?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Stupid people are stupid. It only makes sense for Superman to sever his ties to America. After all he can't protect everyone in the world if he's seen as a symbol of America without pissing someone off. So he's now saying "No, I'm no longer tied to America. I'm tied to Earth."

 

[Togs]

haha love how anything that challenges those backbirths delusional view of how perfect their screwed up country is is seen as "an attack by the liberal left".

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Glenn Beck isn't quite off air yet, right? I hope he does something hilarious with this.

"The nazi-marxist DC Comics has made superman, our red, white, and blue paragon of american virtue, renounce his citizenship. Let me show you how this is going to cause america to fall apart, where's my chalkboard?"

 

[Exocet]

Why is speaking one's mind considered anti-American?Or un-American?
What the hell does that even mean? I can understand how anti-american could be used as an expression,but how could something be un-American?Is there a list of things that qualify as sufficiently American to be claimed as such,and doing something not on that list makes you unpatriotic?

Stuff like this baffles me to no end.Human folly,ain't it a *****?

 

[jackpipsam]

what is this, AMERICA ISN'T THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

guess some of them had to wiki "earth".

I am glad that superman is an international hero, after all what's the point been stuck to one place when he can fly.

 

[PrinceofPersia]

You know I cannot help but thinking, 'Wasn't one of the taglines of the Superman comics: Truth, Justice, and the Terran way?'

Lo and Behold it was for a time during the 1970's as found in this comic [http://spiderfan.org/comics/reviews/marvel_treasury_special/superman.html].

I actually think this is a good question for a story to ask and answer. I hope the folks at DC keep at it and let the good readers on Fox know that if they don't like it they can ignore it.

 

[Marmooset]

Big unintentional funny on the nation blog:
"Who cares - when Steve Reeves passed - so did Superman."

 

[GiantRaven]

(Farscape being the ONE acceptable comic to read).

I...er...what? Why?

 

[Misho-]

I love how Superman, a character who wasn't even born on this planet, not being American is considered 'anti-American'.

Nominally...most of the time his bakstory is irrelevant and he's very much a USAlien, no pun intended.

I come from a different country, and grew up with Superman toys and comics. I never did saw him as an "American" hero... I guess I always saw him as a hero with no country... Or maybe president of the north Pole or something... I don't know.

I guess his citizenship wasn't important really. Just that he was out and doing some good in the world. I don't see how that is furthering the lefty Anti-America agenda...

They're going to be demanding a birth certificate now lol