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superman is the true identity, and he only uses "clark kent" to observe human behavior and understand them 44%  44%  [ 4 ]
clark kent is the true identity, and he only uses "superman" to help people 11%  11%  [ 1 ]
WRONG!! !! he uses both for different purposes and feels he has to use both, just like peter parker/spider-man 44%  44%  [ 4 ]
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11 Jun 2011, 8:02 pm

what do you think?



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11 Jun 2011, 9:17 pm

He uses both identities for different purposes, because he feels that he needs to.


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11 Jun 2011, 9:18 pm

Or people are too stupid around him to recognize that superman looks a hell of a lot like clark kent.


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12 Jun 2011, 1:26 am

When the character is done right Clark from Smallville is the real person. Superman is a disguise.


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12 Jun 2011, 10:43 am

I think Superman is who he really is because he acts all clumsily on purpose as Clark Kent unlike Peter Parker.



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12 Jun 2011, 1:13 pm

thewrll wrote:
Or people are too stupid around him to recognize that superman looks a hell of a lot like clark kent.

This was actually addressed in the first issue of the Blackest Night miniseries. with Green Lantern and Atom standing next to Bruce Wayne's grave, discussing disguises.

"Clark slouches, raises his voice an octave, and wears clothes two sizes too big."


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12 Jun 2011, 1:24 pm

What does "identity" mean. Superman (Kal El) is an extra terrestrial brought up has a human and has human moral and emotional sensibilities. His Clark Kent persona fits in with his very human inclinations which he got from his parents as a youngster. His Superman persona fits in with his heroic acts and super-human abilities.

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12 Jun 2011, 1:57 pm

Superman is the real identity since Clark Kent is a phony act he puts on in which he pretends to be wimpy/nerdy.



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14 Jun 2011, 3:25 am

Both Clark and Kal-El are two different sides of the same coin.

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14 Jun 2011, 8:41 pm

Quote:
"Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man." –Shepherd Book quoting Shan Yu from Firefly: War Stories.

In Kingdom Come, when Joker slaughters the staff of the Daily Planet (including Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane) and is in turn killed by Magog—on that day, we finally meet the real Superman. That man doesn’t don a cape and fight for truth, justice and the American way.

No, the real Superman, the real man, Clark from Smallville Kansas dons a pair of overalls and abandons the world to Magog and his ilk, retreating to the peace and serenity of a wheat farm…

When that same man is coaxed out of retirement 10 years later, it is not because the world needs a superman. On the contrary, THE WORLD IS PLAGUED BY SUPERMEN!

What the world needs is the man’s moral clarity. A moral compass not powered by Kyptonian genetics or yellow solar radiation, but a childhood spent on a lonely Midwestern farm. It’s powered by the simple goodness instilled by Ma’ and Pa’ Kent and moral lessons learned in Sunday school at the Smallville Unitarian Church… :P


I’ll say it once more. When the character is done right, Clark from Smallville is who he is. Superman is simply what he can do.


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