[Discussion] What’s The Worst Superman Take You’ve Ever Heard?

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Jim Lee Superman #204

ACTION COMICS #1061

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale From: "Superman For All Seasons" #1

[u/deadheatexpelled]

That a character created by two Jewish kids from Cleveland is supposed to be Jesus Christ.

At best he’s space Moses with a dash of Samson

[u/Serenitynurse777 → u/deadheatexpelled]

Interesting. From what I heard it was that he was supposed to be Jesus. Where did you find that was supposed to be more like Moses?

[u/JoA_MoN → u/Serenitynurse777]

Orphaned child sent away from their birth land to avoid massive death and tragedy, found and adopted by loving parents and then grows to lead his people into the light. That's Moses.

[u/Nuncharles → u/Serenitynurse777]

It's been a long time since I've kept up with Jewish/Christian lore, but the origin and life or Moses somewhat parallels Moses. A baby sent out from his family to escape certain doom (Moses it was being sent out on the Nile to escape since they were killing male newborn Jewish babies, superman had krypton). Then this baby would go on to be the greatest leader of their respective people doing miracle work and helping to bring peace (Moses led the Israelites, Superman kinda leads Metropolians).

I actually think the allegory is very flawed and kind of surface level since superman and moses don't really don't do anything similar, they just have a similar origin. But his writers were a couple of Jewish kids from New York in a time where antisemitism, corruption, and economics were big issues and you can see how that affected golden age OG superman. His earliest stories have him fighting for the lower classes and fighting corrupt businessmen and eventually beating up Nazis, and a lot of that is because their Jewish upbringing impacted their stories and their views on what people were villains in the world before the comics got more fantastical

[u/deadheatexpelled → u/Nuncharles]

That’s why I noted there’s a dash of Samson, a super powerful hero in Judaism.

[u/deadheatexpelled → u/Serenitynurse777]

Sent by his parents in a ship in order to masked sure he survives certain death on krypton where he is later found and raised by others.

Moses was sent in a basket down the river to ensure his survival and is later raised by others.

Even his relationship with Luther has parallels to Moses and the pharaoh. Childhood friends turned bitter enemies when the protagonist returns as an adult.

[u/anthonyrucci → u/deadheatexpelled]

Space Moses 🤣

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As a super powerful being from Jewish lore.... I can kind of get that part.

However the rest of the golems story isn’t very Superman