Post by Duragizer on Jul 16, 2022 14:56:37 GMT -5
Years ago in one of these threads i posted some examples of Superman's greatest acts of "super-dickery". Statute of Limitations allow me to repeat some now
The Bottle City Of Kandor
Does Superman actually enjoy the fact he has about a million of his fellow Kryptonians trapped in a bottle, looking up to him as a god, and he making empty vows that he's working on a solution to enlarge them.
Seriously, what's the problem here? Superman has travelled all around the universe, regularly making space patrols. He never ran into some decent uninhabited planet under a yellow sun? What does size matter if you have superpowers and a planet to call your own?
Clearly this is an extension of editor Mort Weisinger's treatment of his staff, his "little people", to be worshipped and keeping them trapped in a humiliating condition.
There are more questions about Superman keeping his fellow Kryptonians bottled up. He never seemed to have given them a bigger bottle. Meaning the population of the Kandorians had to be controlled under the strictest guidelines for there was no room for expansion. At least not under Superman's "benevolent" rules. C'mon now-I've seen glass tank aquariums much bigger than that bottle.
And why did they have to have that artificial red sun in the bottle to begin with? Why would the kandorians need to be supsectible to fatal accidents and diseases needlessly. How cruel could Kal-El be to not share the wonderous power the Earth's yellow sun would have provided?
Was Superman tempted to throw Kara Zor-El into the bottle when she first landed on earth?
"Don't worry, Kara. As soon as I'm convinced that you are ready to display your powers publically, I'll let you out"
I say BS. No deposit, no return
* I'm aware a post-Crisis version of Kandor did eventually surface, but it didn't have any Kryptonians in it, so it doesn't count for the purposes here.