The Man of Steel Your Man Could Smell Like
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Posted on: 2011-10-14 11:51 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I guess "scruffy Superman" is an attempt to make him look a bit more "human" than the previous movies.
I doubt he'll be bearded the entire movie at any rate.
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Also, I wonder if they'll work in heat vision shaving. That'd be a nice touch. 
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How many people were thinking that this was an Old Spice Commercial parody?
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Kinda reminds me of the JL episode "Hereafter Part 2", where Superman is stranded in the distant future for several months and eventually grows a beard a lot like that one.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
How many people were thinking that this was an Old Spice Commercial parody?
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ooh ooh, me me me!!!!! i was looking for a parody commercial staring superman.... would have been epic...
Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.
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Okay, I'll let the heat vision shaving pass but how does Supes get his hair cut? Does he take Kryptonite with him when he goes to the barbershop?
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Also, I wonder if they'll work in heat vision shaving. That'd be a nice touch.
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Lex Luthor, in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, proved that bolt cutters were Superman's choice in hair trimming, obviously.
As far as the heat vision shaving... or shaving in general... I just don't know. Seems that if Superman overall is nigh on indestructable, that fire can't burn his hair or skin, that bullets bounce off his eyeball... heat/laser vision wouldn't cut the hair.
But hey, whatevs, it's a comic, anything is explainable in some way eventually.
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I remember seeing an explanation somewhere that scissors with Kryptonite-lined blades were used.
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Really? Interesting. And how many salons and barbershops do you think have scissors with Kryptonite lined blades?|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
I remember seeing an explanation somewhere that scissors with Kryptonite-lined blades were used.
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Who cuts his hair for him? Who does he trust enough with Kryptonite to not only make the scissors but to actually use them. Ma and Pa Kent? Where did poor farmers get the scientific knowledge to know how to make an alloy out of Kryptonite and Earth metals and the money to fabricate the scissors.
I don't see baby or child Supes being able to do any of that.
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It's a really vague memory so I forget exactly what it was, but I think it basically told Superman's origin in the context of the Silver Age so that wasn't exactly a major concern. My clearest memory though is a picture of a barber trying to cut young Clark's hair, only to be exasperated at his scissors breaking.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Really? Interesting. And how many salons and barbershops do you think have scissors with Kryptonite lined blades?
Who cuts his hair for him? Who does he trust enough with Kryptonite to not only make the scissors but to actually use them. Ma and Pa Kent? Where did poor farmers get the scientific knowledge to know how to make an alloy out of Kryptonite and Earth metals and the money to fabricate the scissors. I don't see baby or child Supes being able to do any of that. |
I think it was a kid's book rather than a comic, to tell you the truth.
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In Man Of Steel, supes used his reflected heat vision to shave. In the DC Universe, he has, well, plenty of options. Batman gave Chris Kent a kiddie-watch that emitted red-sun radiation to suppress his powers. He probably has his own robot barber in the Fortress of Solitude that he trusts to cut his hair while under a red-sun lamp.
And Cavill's pictures remind me of Gladiator Superman" from the early '90's.
http://shirtless-superheroes.blogspo...gladiator.html
Up until Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman's hair only grew under a red sun, so not only didn't he have to get his haircut he didn't even shave.
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Then he should have been bald up to that point because he didn't have hair when he got here as an infant, and even if he did it what little hair he would have had as an infant wouldn't have grown as he aged. |
Originally Posted by BlueBattler
Up until Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman's hair only grew under a red sun, so not only didn't he have to get his haircut he didn't even shave.
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He'd have looked pretty strange with either a little tuft of baby hair or little patches of baby hair sticking out randomly on his otherwise chrome dome.
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So Batman knows Supermans secret identity when he (Supes) was three years old and built him a device that let him get his hair cut?|
Originally Posted by Hqnk
In Man Of Steel, supes used his reflected heat vision to shave. In the DC Universe, he has, well, plenty of options. Batman gave Chris Kent a kiddie-watch that emitted red-sun radiation to suppress his powers. He probably has his own robot barber in the Fortress of Solitude that he trusts to cut his hair while under a red-sun lamp.
And Cavill's pictures remind me of Gladiator Superman" from the early '90's. http://shirtless-superheroes.blogspo...gladiator.html |
Pretty sure Supes didn't build his fortress of solitude til he was an adult.
Edit: Oh and if Bruce and Clark knew each other as kids, why did Clark let Bruce's parents get murdered? As Superboy he could have traveled back in time and saved their lives.
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Read the post again, sir. It said Chris Kent, not Clark. As in the Krytponian boy that crashed on Earth during the Last Son arc.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So Batman knows Supermans secret identity when he (Supes) was three years old and built him a device that let him get his hair cut?
Pretty sure Supes didn't build his fortress of solitude til he was an adult. Edit: Oh and if Bruce and Clark knew each other as kids, why did Clark let Bruce's parents get murdered? As Superboy he could have traveled back in time and saved their lives. |
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I was willing to let the name slide and assume it was a simple mistake rather than call him out on it. But since you brought it up, Chris Kent is a character that didn't show up until after Supes was an adult and has nothing to do with how Supes got his own hair cut as a child.
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Read the post again, sir. It said Chris Kent, not Clark. As in the Krytponian boy that crashed on Earth during the Last Son arc.
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Well, I'm not sure how his origin has been revised since the last time it was official, but last I checked, Superman gradually got his powers as he got older, so he (and his hair) weren't always so invulnerable.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I was willing to let the name slide and assume it was a simple mistake rather than call him out on it. But since you brought it up, Chris Kent is a character that didn't show up until after Supes was an adult and has nothing to do with how Supes got his own hair cut as a child.
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You aren't "calling" me on anything. In pre NuDC Post Crisis continuity Kent didn't have his powers when he was a kid. When he was a child, he probably went to a barber like everyone else until the resistance to injury kicked in. He probably figured out how to cut his own hair with the heat vision trick around the time he learned to use it to shave. How did he learn to make perfect helmet hair? It probably took time. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I was willing to let the name slide and assume it was a simple mistake rather than call him out on it. But since you brought it up, Chris Kent is a character that didn't show up until after Supes was an adult and has nothing to do with how Supes got his own hair cut as a child.
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The comics are probably never going to cover his "unfortunate hair phase" no matter how amusing it may be.
If you really want to get anal about it, think about Supergirl and her lack of body hair. That beauty ritual must be a real pain, especially when she has to attend to that pesky unibrow. Unless Star Labs has come up with UBERWAX. She and Power Girl would be the primary customers.
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Which is the problem I have with spin offs on character Origins. They always change and rewrite character history to suit the desires of the current writers.|
Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Well, I'm not sure how his origin has been revised since the last time it was official, but last I checked, Superman gradually got his powers as he got older, so he (and his hair) weren't always so invulnerable.
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I recall several Superman comics as a child where he had all his powers and one where he and Bruce Wayne (as kids) were using a time viewing machine to see themselves in the future.
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Your right I didn't. As I said before I chose to assume that you meant Clark when you posted Chris.
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Originally Posted by Hqnk
You aren't "calling" me on anything.
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There's also the issue of the varying degrees of Superman's strength and invulnerability where it seems he can increase his power by willing it so. This is the psychic/mental control of his powers theory.
Under that theory, he can shave and cut his hair because he wills it so because it's him doing it to himself.
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Man of Steel (John Byrne) lasted from 1986 until 2004. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Which is the problem I have with spin offs on character Origins. They always change and rewrite character history to suit the desires of the current writers.
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Superman Birthright (Mark Waid) 2004 to Infinite Crisis circa 2009
Secret Origins (Geoff Johns) Infinite Crisis till the 2011 line wide reboot.
These were corporate mandates and Byrne made the biggest changes. The others were updates with not that many changes Byrne's changes to Supe's powers. They were minutae, relationship oriented or updates for the times. None of then included a super baby. That's a good 25 years of no super baby. Even in the Grant Morrison driven reboot, Clark did not arrive fully powered.
In Action comics in current continuity, he couldn't fly when he came to Metropolis, he hitches rides on airships, that conveniently dot the Metropolis sky.
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There's also the issue of the varying degrees of Superman's strength and invulnerability where it seems he can increase his power by willing it so. This is the psychic/mental control of his powers theory.
Under that theory, he can shave and cut his hair because he wills it so because it's him doing it to himself. |
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New set shots of Superman bearded and shirtless
It's interesting that he'll be sporting a beard in this movie; perhaps this means he'll get stuck in the Phantom Zone or on an alien planet for a chunk of the movie? If he does get stranded in the Phantom Zone, that could mean they're taking elements from the Last Son arc, which was what I thought Superman Returns should have been.
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It was supposed to be "Smell Like," but I haven't had my nourishment today.
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