the-swift-tricker:
it’s easy to mock the concept of batman’s secret identity and think it’s ridiculous that nobody would realize that he’s bruce wayne but if some lady suddenly showed up late at night dressed in full military grade kevlar and started fighting crime in los angeles i wouldn’t look at that and think "ah it’s kylie jenner
you-got-it-capstar:
Same logic applies to Clark Kent tbh I wouldn’t see Superman, the crazy powerful alien, zooming past me and go “i think he’s secretly an award winning journalist”
the-swift-tricker: "it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…anderson cooper?!
appendingfic:
Me: "sees masked man fighting both crime and police corruption* Me: I have no idea who that is, but it is NOT a billionaire.
spifalling: People don’t even recognise tony hawk without the skateboard what do you expect
livekyoto:
People don’t even recognize Tony Hawk WITH a skateboard, bless them. Source: the-swift-tricker 66,205 notes
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Exactly. Tony Hawks is the ultimate proof that the Clark Kent disguise would work on most people.
He’s world renowned, but because he looks like just a regular guy, nobody recognises him, and he’s not even trying to disguise himself in any way
He’s so regular even you got his name wrong in a comment about him. Unless you’re really talking about that english guy who traveled round Ireland with a fridge. I wouldn’t call him world renowned though.
No no, it’s Tony Hawks, the Pro Skater who had to go underground for some reason.
Didn’t even notice that myself - that’s definitely ironic, I’ll leave that mistake there as it proves my point haha
just gotta spread his legend enough,
And most people see Supes from like 50 meters away
Also just look at the scene of Christopher Reeve changing between Clark and Supes.
Exactly. The only people I’d suspect even notice a similarity would be the people that know Clark, but most would probably assume it to be a coincidence at most.
in The Expanse SOOO many people recognize the Deputy Under Secretary of the UN, and know her name.
Honestly, I could have a full on conversation with Kalama Harris where she’s introduced as “Ms Harris” and she says “call me Kamala” and I may not twig.
I feel like if Tony Hawk was on the news every other day with closeups of him shooting fucking lasers out of his eyes people would recognize him more often.
Internet Today mentioned this phenomena the other day. Slash from Guns n Roses instantly becomes unrecognizable when he takes off his hat. That’s it. That’s all it takes.
That’s it. That’s all it takes.
Is it though? What about the sunglasses?
Somewhere in Gotham City, there’s a planning and zoning guy probably making bank for playing dumb about all of Bruce Wayne’s “totally not a batcave you guys” building permits.
Something tells me the batcave does not have OSHA’s stamp of approval.
To be fair with super man I’d imagine at least one of his coworkers would think man Clark looks a lot like super man with glasses
I’ve definitely seen a page from an issue where one of his coworkers says something like “Hey, you guys ever think Clark kinda looks like that Superman?” and they all bust out laughing before another one says “Imagine Clark saving anyone!”
Tony Hawk’s alter ego is guy who looks like Tony Hawk
Nobody recognized Henry Cavill without glasses, in a Superman shirt, in front of a movie poster of Superman.
The problem isn’t the majority of people, it’s the minority of people who wouldn’t, specially in the environment surrounding Clark Kent. Neighbors, old class mates, heck, he is surrounded by an army of investigative journalists. At the very least they would joke about it even if they didn’t believe it.
And for Batman it’s not even about looks. Batman has a shit ton of super expensive gadgets (the batmobile, batplane, etc.) not to mention it’s all high-tech experimental military shit.
Like, how many people in Gotham can afford those kinds of things and have access to that kind of technology? The list can’t be very long.
I can sort of understand corruption and social inequality being so high that they don’t know which rich asshole is playing vigilante, they would just suspect that one of them is. The armament Batman uses, well Wayne industries would be the obvious explanation, but it isn’t like rich assholes wouldn’t have other options. Who was the rich asshole with a jetpack/high altitude drone flying it near airports in Los Angeles?
Batman would act not only as an example of social inequality and different standards for different social classes because of that suspicion, but as proof that only the rich and powerful can get away with acting like a vigilante while anyone else who does it to just try to protect themselves can’t. It would probably be Joker’s whole reason for being as influential as he is, “what a joke! well, if we can’t be the vigilantes we might as well be the criminals that steal from this corrupt city”.
I think there’s a considerable number of rich people in Gotham who could afford it, but the police is never really going to investigate them, they don’t have the power to even begin preparing the lawyers and the search warrants. They specially wouldn’t begin with the ones making large donations to the city who’s also the owner of one of its major employers.
However, the argument does begin to fall apart when one considers that other companies and industry leaders would want to spy on Wayne and that batman’s “secret” hideout never really changes. Competitors and law enforcement would eventually put two and two together.
When I lived in L.A. I had a few encounters with celebrities who I didn’t realize were celebrities until after the fact because they were removed from the context in which I think of them. So that makes sense to me.
As someone who use to work at a restaurant near Tony’s house. I never got the jokes about him not being recognized. Like sure he’s an old dad now, but he still looks the same
Well it’s because half his Twitter posts were about people not recognizing him. Even he had a skateboard. Or when they see his ID says Anthony Hawk.
There was a subreddit for it, so it became a semi known phenomenon /r/dontyouknowimtonyhawk
You’d be surprised at how well this works on the Internet too.
All I have to do is say some funny things here and there once in a while.
As I said before
I mean, reddit and twitter even dug up that old Letterboxd account (whose ownership I can neither confirm nor deny), so I thought I’d try a different approach this time.
Turns out all it takes to throw them off is to use an obviously AI generated profile picture and “borrowing” an idea from another Margo on Bojack Horseman.
I don’t think I would be surprised if Anderson Cooper was a vigilante.
IMO 90% of the Tony Hawk stories he made up. Also, dudes a dickhead, he told a child to fuck off when he asked for an autograph at my local skatepark when I was younger.
