this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
304 points (90.6% liked)

Not The Onion

17159 readers
2634 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 294 points 18 hours ago (4 children)
[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 121 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 13 hours ago

I know we never measured up to these ideals, but at least we had them. Painful to see.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 143 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 52 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Sadly, yes. Like the hercules guy

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

basically about superman's girlfriend,

And casting Teri Hatcher in that role, someone who's very expressive and versatile, was a huge success.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 136 points 16 hours ago
[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 99 points 13 hours 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.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 39 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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".

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 34 points 12 hours 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.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 63 points 14 hours 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"?

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago

He think calling Wonder Woman a woman is "making her woke"?

That sounds exactly like something this twerp would say

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 13 hours ago

"Woke" literally means "anything the right doesn't like". It's used in the same way the Nazis used Degenerate. Remember that.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 59 points 17 hours ago

Dean Cain has been a bitch for years...

He drank the maga Kool aid a long time ago

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 59 points 15 hours ago (2 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.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 58 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 56 points 15 hours 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.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 49 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Everything i don't like is woke (or communism).

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 49 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 41 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 40 points 13 hours ago (1 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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 33 points 17 hours ago

An illegal alien immigrant at that!

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 33 points 8 hours ago (3 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

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 30 points 15 hours ago

It's almost like these people have no clue about the source material at all. Reminds me of religious folks 😂

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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. 🖕🏼🤣

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 28 points 3 hours ago (3 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?

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Tomato's aren't native to Italy

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you can fuck off Dean Cain.

Superman is an assimilated Jewish diaspora immigrant.

"Name?"

"Kal-El"

"Clark Kent, got it."

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago

Dean Cain is just Kevin Sorbo 2.0

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Wait can someone explain since when is superman not an immigrant? Bro literally fell from the sky or some shit from an alien planet. How the fuck is he not an immigrant? Oh right hes white.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

Remember when Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson starred in an "exposé" about Obamagate?

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

Worst Superman says what?

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 19 points 16 hours ago
[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Did dean cain fall off a fucking horse and get brain damage?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago

What an ignorant bitch.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 16 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 15 points 13 hours ago

Ah yes, Superman. The all American hero... Created by a Canadian.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

ICE shows up at Henry Cavill's house this weekend

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] match@pawb.social 14 points 12 hours ago

nazis crying that their ubermensch is also a mensch

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago (11 children)

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.

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›