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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 113 points 1 year ago

[off topic] There was a comic where someone slips Clark Kent information about an illegal plant dumping chemicals. He shows up as Superman and stops the crime, but the whistleblower is angry that Kent informed Superman instead of digging up the names of the real owners.

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

This is off topic, what does that scrawny journalist Clark Kent have to do with Superman?

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Scrawny? Looks a bit overweight if you ask me.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

He's a corn fed Kansas boy, that probably all muscle.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kansas farm boy, that's critical. You don't get that physique just by living in Kansas and eating corn all day, you gotta have those years of hard child labor, too.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conversely, there have been quite a few stories where Clark basically decides Superman would be inefficient at actually solving the issue, so he either busts out the handy dandy notebook and takes them down with his pen, or he calls in the big guns and tips off Lois (because the only thing more satisfying than smashing a corrupt asshole's things is siccing your Pulitzer winning wife on them).

He's a very good reporter. Got a real nose for a story, like he can see through walls or hear conversations behind closed doors or something. It's weird.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I think that George Reeves had the best Clark Kent. Most other versions play Clark for laughs. Reeves played him as a day-to-day reporter, easy going but not a chump.

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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 year ago

The CIA being completely fooled by the pair of glasses would be a pretty good take for a show series.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Don Adams was born too early

[-] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

Make it a movie or series and I'll watch it. Only problem Henry Cavil isn't good in comedies

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He might still fit because you would think clark Kent’s humour would be very dry and mostly rely on timing. The contrast would be great having the silliness come from the CIA characters who could be extremely animated and frustrated. I can only imagine the scenes about the CIA agents trying to explain to their boss why they keep failing

[-] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah he could be a good straight man.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

That would be the best way for it to work. He barely notices these guys, and they keep failing…. Like Michael Palin in “A Fish called Wanda”

Not a bad idea actually

[-] 50MYT@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

23 Jump Street

It absolutely would work.

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[-] blujan@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 year ago

The man from uncle was great as he just played a straight face man and the comedic stuff happened around him

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[-] Ryan213@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Wasn't Justice League a comedy? I thought it was pretty funny.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It might with Superman being completely oblivious that they're trying to kill him so he's just playing it straight. The CIA would be poisoning him and stuff and Superman would just not even notice.

[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hey now, this last season of Witcher is hilarious, once you know the background drama between the diehard fans and the greedy fucks actually pulling the levers. I don't think I've seen Geralt with fewer fucks to give, and I've put in hours in those games (IIRC, only Skyrim tops that total). 🤣😅🥹

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

Hell the CIA had enough trouble trying to kill Castro, exploding cigars etc, etc etc, that this would almost write itself. And since they were so bad at killing a normal human I doubt they would ever get suspicious that Clarke manages to avoid every trap they set for him.

Alternate take. Castro was an alien...

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

You make the wrong assumptions there. The truth behind why we hear about laughable attempts for Castro and not much more isn't that this is how the CIA rolls. It could also be that this is one of the few times they failed at all.

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[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One scene could be where they're in the office and the facial recognition software keeps trying to identify Clark Kent as Superman, but they just can't believe it, and one guy says "That's not Superman just look at him. This guy wears glasses!".

Edit: In case anyone out there reading this is actually from the CIA, we're just kidding guys/gals, we believe in you.

[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

this genuinely sounds like it could be a plot line on the Harley Quinn series

[-] turbonewbe@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Seeing Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent reminds me how good he was and how I miss him.

I love Cavill but sorry he failed his acting of CK. With or without the costume he plays as Superman.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Best superman line I've seen is from the CW version.

"Hey! Nice suit!"

"Thanks, my mom made it for me!"

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[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This scene always comes to mind when I think of Reeve's performance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tNUu6Lf9mVU

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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

This is the first pitch on Reddit or Lemmy in 12 years that is actually good and doable and interesting. Make Lex Luthor one of the assassins in his early days... Yada yada yada

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

YES. DC COMICS, HIRE THIS MAN. I WANT THIS SO BAD NOW.

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

Only problem is they wouldn't be surprised their attempts failed. Nearly everything the CIA touches goes wrong.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nearly everything the CIA touches goes wrong.

To be fair, if they're doing their job right, we will never hear of it.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

They might be surprised when they slip 50x the lethal dose of a toxic only they know about into his food and he doesn't even notice.

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Turns out due to poor inventory management, it expired in 1967 and has degraded to a non-toxic state

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I'm kinda wondering if this would actually work with the audience who knows Superman's lore. It'd be like watching an episode of Blues Clues. "Gee, I can't seem to figure out why those nineteen whole bullets that absolutely hit him square in the chest didn't even slightly kill the guy." "HE'S SUPERMAN YOU CONSUMMATE DINK!"

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of the assassination attempts would need to involve less overt methods. Poisoning, pushing from tall buildings, etc. Most likely they'd need to outsource the jobs to mercenaries, since the CIA agents would figure it out immediately.

Edit: I wonder if my response just landed me on some list. Ugh...

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[-] CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago

I would watch that over Wandavision

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago
[-] alansuspect@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago

I don't like any Marvel stuff but Wandavision was pretty good, until they Marvelled all over it in the last few episodes.

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[-] zammy95@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Wandavision was one of the last things Marvel has put out that I honestly enjoyed. It's been much more rough since (with a couple exclusions, but yeah, downhill trend for me mostly)

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoyed Loki. I thought the tone for Hawkeye was a bit off. I was expecting a fun Christmas romp and they randomly drop some serious stuff on you.

Not gonna lie though. I haven't been to the cinema to watch an MCU movie in a while. Shang Chi was the last one, I think? Dr Strange, and Thor getting a critically poor reception made me skip them. Gotg3 did well but now I feel like I gotta do homework to catch up so I couldn't be arsed.

I agree with the downhill trend. I am looking forward to catching The Marvels though because it looks like fun.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Gotg is standalone. You can watch it right after Endgame and wouldn't miss anything.

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[-] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

But Wandavision was great!

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Lead CIA agent maxwell smart

[-] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Missed him by that much!

[-] lordkuri@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Ryan Reynolds as Clark Kent, Hugh Laurie and Keanu Reeves as the CIA leads

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh man can Laurie be a conspiracy-minded agent like Moulder?

Ooh and Keanu keeps on downplaying or disproving his theories. And then eventually Laurie is right and Keanu is like “Whoa”.

Shit writes itself.

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[-] MrData@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

And they could give it the title "The Death of Clark Kent"

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised if there is already a comic arc out there about the government or someone trying to assassinate Clark

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