Even funnier if he’s still a true believer in the US even as he’s uncovering more and more shit. Finds out cops are working with white supremacists to silence black protesters? Well, the issue is just a few bad apples, not the whole system. Exposes Lex Luthor’s bribery of courts and politicians to cover up his death squads killing protesting overseas workers? That’s just one rich guy, not indicative of capitalism at all. Discovers the CIA running a drug ring to experiment new mind control drugs? Surely it’s just rogue agents and not the whole CIA.
Top it off by him finding out, point-blank, that the CIA is trying to kill him for exposing the corruption and lies of the US, and Clark still not understanding that the US is the problem. Have Waller herself be the antagonist, getting frustrated trying to get it through his head that he’s upholding a system totally opposed to his overly idealistic vision, but Clark just can’t grasp it.
I have an ending for you. After the CIA’s last attempt almost kills Lois Lane, the president intervenes and stops the CIA. Clark goes to the White House to thank him. The president asks him for a little favpur in return, to help protect the US. Clark agrees. The president gives him his first assignement. Head over to a country and do something despicable, that Clark has previously uncovered that the US was lying about the subject all along.
I think that was a plot point in a Batman comic, wasn’t it? Where Superman intervenes in the Cold War for Reagan and nearly destroyed the world?
Lol. I hope I didn’t reinvent a story!
Have Waller herself be the antagonist, getting frustrated trying to get it through his head that he’s upholding a system totally opposed to his overly idealistic vision, but Clark just can’t grasp it.
Even better, have 90% of clark’s shit get assuaged by “oh actually it’s OK because it’s legal”.
Clark catches an off duty cop shooting a black 17 year old for stealing apples and running away (Clark uses xray vision to tell the kid has a recipt on him)
Clark’s article focuses on how the kid didn’t steal the apples and the cop should have made sure.
Lois: Uhhh shouldn’t you mention that cops shouldn’t be summarily executing children for being black under the pretense of stealing? Maybe that the justice system shouldn’t create situations where kids need to run from cops?
Clark: Whoa whoa whoa the internal investigation determined that the cop was not racist and had to defend himself incase the kid had a gun. The kid should have worked with the system, not against it. Both people are wrong here.
Lmao, yes. Bonus points if there’s a multiverse crossover and the “real” Superman is viscerally disgusted by this parody version.
I feel like the Superman from the new animated series would catch onto the problem.
“the CIA assassins can’t figure out why their attempts keep failing”.
TIL that Castro was actually Superman in disguise. Suddenly everything makes sense.
That would explain how Fidel consistently dunked on Washington from Havana.
A film series on Castro would be like inverse James Bond, where the bad guys are the intelligence agencies and Castro is the suave womanizing hero who always wins.
It just needs to happen!
The CIA started following his career with great interest when they found out that he was an Illegal Alien🥁
That could actually be great in the right hands
This is the fidel castro live story basically.
BTW is there any good castro documentaries from a pro-castro perspective??
Cuba Libre was a VERRRRY Mixed Bag of a documentary. It was (maybe still is) on Netflix and provides a bit of good info on late 1800s and early 1900s Cuban history and I forget how they handled the Revolution and Fidel (although they have awesome footage of Fidel, so not too bad I think)Overall I think it’s worth a watch (or a rewatch in my case bc I haven’t seen it in years)
Cuba and the Cameraman, if you haven’t seen it, is very good. Not precisely just about Castro.
Very true, and haven’t seen any. Would definitely be fun to watch.
I was inspired to create a version of this as a series of field reports. Here’s a link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MpvOlC7rOBCSNjAH9tMKW6y3eCgyPfvhvoE6P8dPraM/edit?usp=drivesdk
love it
It gives me ai vibes. If it wasnt written by ai, then i think its a result of you trying to give it comic book voice when it should have x files voice. Using ai as a crutch when writing tends to make it feel grey like this does.
If its not written with any ai, then i think the fact that it sounds removed Chat GPT wrote part of it is valuable feedback.
Well spotted. I used AI to fill in the text based on where the story was going and how I wanted things to play out. It was an exercise in learning to use AI tools and a bit of a lark. I presented it as is because I honestly never intended it to be serious.
Morbid
It’s not too dissimilar from the animated show My Adventures With Superman, which I really like tbh.
Big bads of the first season are a Bezos caricature and the U.S. deep state.
now I’ll have to check this out :)
While I’m generally not a fan of superhero stuff, I’m totally here for weird inverse superhero stuff
This idea is gold!
