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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I mean, he may be right that it'll hurt the box office to polarize the public, but Superman is as much an illegal alien as you can get.

Come to think of it, what is the story regarding his birth certificate, citizenship etc? Did Ma and Pa Kent claim a home birth and get him documented?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

But he's white, how can he be an "immigrant"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Everyone this movie matters to already understands Superman enough not to be bothered by the comments of some has-been actor who clearly never understood the character he portrayed.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Superman as an immigrant's story is one of the oldest and most obvious analyses of the character. It's barely even subtext; it's just text. Imagine how he'll react when he finds out Superman was originally a New Deal socialist who went around smashing up corrupt capitalists' businesses for safety violations.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The quintessential symbol of heroism, of 'The American Way', Superman, was created during the rise of fascism and nazism by two Midwestern Jewish boys, one of whom had immigrated from Canada and whose parents were immigrants from Russia and The Netherlands. In the story introducing their character to the world, he saves a wrongly convicted woman from execution, stops a wife beater from killing his wife, and stops a slimy lobbyist and corrupt senator from roping the US into a war with Europe. i.e. it acknowledges that the justice system gets it wrong, that women can be abused and endangered by their husbands, and that congress has a huge corruption and bribery problem. Sounds pretty fucking woke to me. And a few years later had him literally punch Hitler. The idea that they didnt have anything to say with the character about prejudice, about immigrants adopting their new home and being adopted in turn, about politics, is fucking laughable... "too woke". No, Dean, you're too ignorant to think that he ever wasn't "woke".

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago

Oh, that's the tip if the iceberg. There's one comic where he smashes up the city's slums because he finds out the government will replace them with nicer, rent-subsidized apartments. There's another where he traps a mine owner and all of his rich friends in a cave-in because of unsafe working conditions. Then there was the time he decided to take on traffic safety by smashing cars until the mayor promised to start enforcing traffic violations. Old-school Superman was one of those violent, radical-leftists the conservatives are so scared of.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If the only thing Cain has to whine about in 2025 is denying Superman's leftist origins written by depression era immigrants, he's really got nothing to complain about or is trying to distract from some bullshit or sell something

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He tries to stay relevant by being a right wing influencer. He is the definition of has been.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

How is it a mistake? Kal El is literally from another planet! The term "immigrant" or "alien" could not possibly apply more.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean technically Superman is a refugee

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

And an immigrant

[–] [email protected] 190 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Dean Cain is an idiot. So there's that.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Sadly, yes. Like the hercules guy

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

whoever that is made a mistake of opening his mug.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's the Ripley's believe it or not guy, and had a superman series that didn't do well for like 3 or 4 seasons. He's super right wing and super douchey sorta like the dude that ruined Andromeda Kevin sorbo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like Sorbo, Cain is a fraud who only turned into an ultra-right God-botherer because it was a convenient way to hand-wave away a tanking career and find a new one being a (washed up) celebrity mouthpiece for a messianic death cult.

No, Hollywood didn't stop calling because you're a walking meme about corny 90s television. Its because they're all woke homosexual Satanists and who hate real American conservative Christians who tuck-in their t shirts and have missionary-only sex with their wife.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Cain voted for Bill Clinton twice, and voted for Al Gore in the 2000 United States presidential election, the latter of which he later said he regretted.[21] He supported John McCain in the 2008 election, and supported Rick Perry in the 2012 election.[30] In 2016 and 2020, he endorsed and voted for Donald Trump.[31][32] He also endorsed him for the 2024 election.[33]

In 2018, Cain was elected to the board of directors of the National Rifle Association of America.[34][35]

-Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

It's like you can track his slow backslide into the racist Republican pipeline.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

check dean caine's pipes for lead contamination

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dean Cain is a fat jackass with MAGA brain rot.hes also the worst of the superman actors

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 days ago (3 children)

He's litteraly immigrant. It's objective fact. What he's talking about? He think calling Wonder Woman a woman is "making her woke"?

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Superman isn't just an immigrant. He's a refugee when his home was destroyed by civil war. He came to the USA and made it better because he's an immigrant.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, you can fuck off Dean Cain.

Superman is an assimilated Jewish diaspora immigrant.

"Name?"

"Kal-El"

"Clark Kent, got it."

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago

Worst Superman has harsh words for creator of better Superman. After playing the part for a decade, Dean Cain still doesn't understand the character.

[–] carlossurf 17 points 2 days ago

Im gonna go to the theater just to watch this to piss of the conservatives lol

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, Superman wasn't born in the U.S.A to parents in the U.S.A..

He travelled as an unaccompanied minor to the USA. I hate to say it but it seems pretty obvious to me he's not from 'round here with the whole flying and laser eyes thing too.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago

Dean Cain has been a bitch for years...

He drank the maga Kool aid a long time ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Red Son is the only correct version of Superman.

Everything else is bourgeois revisionism.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dean Cain can lick a sweaty nutsack. An embarrassment in the history of Superman casting.

Him and Kevin Sorbo can lick boots together while they swap stories about how they used to play strong guys on TV but now spend their time being weak-willed sheep IRL.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ICE shows up at Henry Cavill's house this weekend

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