Tag: superman

Why Don’t People in the DCU Realize that Clark Kent is Superman? I’ll Tell You Why!

firefaerie81:

firefaerie81:

  • As Clark, he deliberately acts like a doofy klutz, slouches, changes his speech patterns, and wears baggy clothes
  • Superman vibrates ever so slightly to mess with photos
  • The bright colors and S Shield on his costume (plus the tights) draw the eye away from Superman’s face
  • Clark’s thick glasses blur his eyes
  • People only know that Superman is an alien named Kal-El that lives in the Fortress of Solitude.  They don’t know he has a secret identity, so they’re not actively looking for it
  • Real people don’t tend to jump to the conclusion that “person A looks like person B, so they must be the same!“
  • People see Superman as almost a god, they wouldn’t think he would “lower” himself to the guise of a human
  • Real people don’t tend to assume people they know are secretly famous, so the Daily Planet workers have no reason to think Clark is
  • Clark Kent is mostly known as a name in a byline
  • Superman doesn’t have any distinguishing features, like a birthmark or a scar.  His face is fairly nondescript
  • Through robots, shapeshifters, and Bruce Wayne in disguise, Superman and Clark Kent have been seen in public together
  • Luthor’s analysts once deduced that Clark was Superman.  Said deduction was immediately thrown out as ridiculous
  • This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVvbhMm24&feature=related

(Most of these reasons are listed on the Clark Kenting page of TVTropes.  I just compiled them into a more organized list)

Ah, there we go.  The full text.  Thank you, Whitaker!

Silly Headcanons About Kryptonians

bisexualclarkkent:

  • Get pouty on cloudy days because they like it being sunny
  • Purr when happy, just like cats… Clark didn’t know that was unusual until he was school age
  • The whole superfam likes boxed macaroni and cheese better than homemade (yes, Ma Kent is slightly offended)
  • Animals and children love them
  • They all joke about alien conspiracies and UFOs and shit
  • Blush a lot
  • Freckle easily, but the freckles also fade fast
  • All have huge appetites and like junk food too much
  • They make up little songs sometimes and it’s cute but sometimes they do it when the room is quiet and wonder why everyone looked at them
  • They feel weird when travelling by airplane… it’s sooo slow and cramped and impractical
  • Send each other memes in the group chat (and Clark then takes the memes and sends them to Bruce and Diana in their group chat)
  • They’re all on a first name basis with their baristas, the checkers at the grocery stores they frequent, the bank cashiers, etc
  • Cuddle a lot  (with significant others, platonically with friends, with each other, etc)

bhucewayne:

Batman: They’re never afraid of you are they? Glowing green and seeping
radiation. You could break this planet in two. And yet when they see you
there struggling to hold yourself up in a doorway, they trip over each
other to help you.

Superman: You could try asking nicely.

maroonknight14:

oh-mother-of-darkness:

Concept: a small child whose imaginary friend is Superman. He talks to “Superman” all the time, completely unaware that Clark can in fact hear everything he’s saying. The child and associated adults are infinitely surprised when reply letters from Superman start appearing in their mailbox

#clark is just#goin about his business#fightin bad guys and smashing through walls#listening to this little kid tell him about school today and soccer practice and#how his mom is making spaghetti for dinner and does superman want to come??#one of these days he’s probably going to do it#hello it is I superman#I heard there was spaghetti??