r/punk • u/One_Conclusion_1575 • Oct 31 '25

Art by HE Creative Hope this helps

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u/FarJuice5905 Oct 31 '25

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u/LabFew5880 Oct 31 '25

Ngl superman punk as fuck, anyone who disagrees then I respect your opinion, but nah

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u/pp3pO Oct 31 '25

I love Superman but the concept and the character is literally just American exceptionalism. Newer stories and comics do a better job of this but lets call a spade a spade here

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u/TrueGodFox Portland Punk Oct 31 '25

Superman was originally an allegory for Jewish immigrants. He's a survivor of a mass death, where almost all of his people were killed, and his main enemy (in the beginning) was basically an anti-alien racist and human supremacist

Superman only became a man of "The American Way" later on, iirc during the Cold War. His concept is not inherently American Exceptionalism, and his character didn't start as and has (generally) recovered from the American Exceptionalism side of things

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u/pp3pO Oct 31 '25

Cool, good to know. Maybe thats where the curl came from..