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From a 1949 book cover distributed to schools by DC.
Superman was always woke you dummy.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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The very notion of superman is woke. With his powers, he could rule earth. Instead he helps kids and little old ladies with nothing to gain for himself. The guy is empathy incarnate.
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I know we never measured up to these ideals, but at least we had them. Painful to see.
I don't know what social media Gunn uses, but someone should get him to recreate this poster with David.
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Dean Cain is an idiot. So there's that.
He's also not white so what does he gain from making a stink about this? Japanese superman was the most woke thing to exist until 2018, he's got no room to talk. His show was also basically about superman's girlfriend, an extremely woke interpretation of superman. We can do this all day lmao
basically about superman's girlfriend,
And casting Teri Hatcher in that role, someone who's very expressive and versatile, was a huge success.
My girlfriend and I watched a couple episodes of Lois and Clarke recently because we were like "woke superman?" and then found out about dean cain being a maga idiot lmao I had never heard of dean cain before but it was so weird to have that kind of whiplash. Pick a lane, guy.
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.
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".
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.
He's litteraly immigrant. It's objective fact. What he's talking about? He think calling Wonder Woman a woman is "making her woke"?
He think calling Wonder Woman a woman is "making her woke"?
That sounds exactly like something this twerp would say
"Woke" literally means "anything the right doesn't like". It's used in the same way the Nazis used Degenerate. Remember that.
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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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Dean Cain has been a bitch for years...
He drank the maga Kool aid a long time 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.
Dean Cain is a fat jackass with MAGA brain rot.hes also the worst of the superman actors
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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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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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.
An illegal alien immigrant at that!
It's almost like these people have no clue about the source material at all. Reminds me of religious folks 😂
What's he going to do next, go after white people who are simply proud of their heritage?
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Dean Cain was absolute shit as 'Murica's favorite mascot — regardless of the unavoidable fact that the character came from another world in every single iteration across all mediums ...so far. 😶
Fuck you and your fetid career, you dumbass, Dean. 🖕🏼🤣
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The argument that "I like immigrants, but don't let them change our culture" has been around for a long time. They'd say that about Italians, and now I can find a pizza place all over town. Seems like they can change it for the better to me.
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
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Dean Cain is just Kevin Sorbo 2.0
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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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
He tries to stay relevant by being a right wing influencer. He is the definition of has been.
Worst Superman says what?
He couldn't be possibly have been created by Immigrants /s
Looks up Joe Shuster birth place... Toronto, Ontario, Canada with his mother being from Ukraine
Looks up Jerry Siegel parents were from Lithuania
Hell looking up their parents if superman couldn't be an Immigrant he would be a Soviet.
Also Dean Cain has always been a has been loser for a long time now.
What an ignorant bitch.
We're still getting Dean Cain's opinion on things? Whoever wrote this article could have avoided all the torture by ignoring that Christofascist xenophobe like the rest of us.
Ah yes, Superman. The all American hero... Created by a Canadian.
nazis crying that their ubermensch is also a mensch
Check out Model Minority by Cory Doctorow.
It's about an unnamed superhero (who wears a red cape, and a spandex suit with a big S on it, and is engaged to a journalist named Lois, and his best friend/rival is named Bruce (who has a bat-themed alter ego)... anyway) who realizes that the cops are just beating people up and hiding it, so he makes a stand, but isn't quite sure about how to do so.
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I don't think everyone has to have read the original source material to enjoy something made from that material.
But if you're going to complain about it being faithful to the source material? Naw, that's in no way legit.
Plus... Like, definitionally, Superman was not born on US soil or to American parents. He doesn't have birthright citizenship
He's a literal alien with a fake identity, at the very least he's an immigrant, in every canon
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Dollar Store Jerry O'Connell is still around? Figured he'd have drank himself to death about 10 years after Lois and Clark ended.
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