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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2015-10-27 11:04 pm

Something I don't understand

Why the change from having Jonathan Kent support Superman's career as a hero to opposing it?

Supergirl, as I recall, has always had someone trying to discourage her. In the old days it was Superman. And I cannot recall if the Danvers had any idea she was Supergirl; they may not have had the option to support or discourage her.

Not that comic book characters age in real time but if she was 16 in her first 1959 appearance, Supergirl would have become an adult at a very interesting time for women's rights in the US...
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[identity profile] alexx-kay.livejournal.com 2015-10-29 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
I think much of this disagreement is confusion of tenses. One side is correct about what Superman WAS, when created. The other is (IMO) correct about what Superman IS, and has mostly been since the 1950s.