Superman’s Motto Gets a Modern Update: ‘Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow' - Because screw "the American way", I guess

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-american-way-dc-comics-1235032125/

DC Comics is changing what Superman stands for.

The company released a new mission statement for the 83-year-old icon who famously fought for “Truth, Justice and the American Way.”

Now Clark Kent’s Man of Steel is about “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.”

“To better reflect the storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor Superman’s incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a better world, Superman’s motto is evolving,” announced DC Chief Creative Officer and Publisher Jim Lee at the company’s DC FanDome fan event on Saturday. “Superman has long been a symbol of hope who inspires people, and it is that optimism and hope that powers him forward with this new mission statement.”

Lee declined to comment further as to why “American Way” was dropped.
 
Ignoring the obvious "fuck America" rhetoric stinking up the place (because every person in the country and the country itself is at fault for the problems people perceive it to have, rather than individuals and specific groups being fucks - but I guess that distinction and lack of generalisation only applies to Muslim terrorists), wouldn't "a better tomorrow" be more inline with Batman rather than Supes?

Batman is fighting in the bottom of the barrel with Gotham. It never seems like he's making leeway but he keeps fighting to get to the tomorrow that he wants to see. The tomorrow the good people of Gotham deserve. He inspires hope where there is none and fights for what seems to be impossible.

Whereas Superman is the guy that fights today for today because he believes in what Earth can accomplish right now. He is not making America better, is he helping America continue to be the great place he views it as. Through the eyes of his adoptive parents. Through all the good that he sees amongst the everyday people. That better tomorrow is today and all he can do is help in preserving it. He inspires hope by holding onto that hope and belief that nothing is impossible.

All for a demographic that doesn't even give a rat's ass about the character and his rich history anyway. We love to see it.
 
The only reason anyone even read Superman when I was still into comics is because it was cheaper than every other title on the shelf. Superman is boring. His powers are boring. His storylines are boring. He's a lazy hero with a lazy disguise. Anyone else who had his powers would spend all of their time hurling child-rapists into the sun. He spends his time pretending to be a reporter and only doing something when he can't ignore what's going on.
 
He's an illegal alien and needs to go back where he came from. Blew up? Not my problem.
Post-Crisis Superman was born in the United States. He was conceived on Krypton, but his gestation pod was fitted with a hyperdrive and sent to Kansas, so he is a jus soli US citizen.

I assume that's been retconned to make him Krypton-born again. But since his origins were unknown until he was an adult, that makes him a foundling, and he is a US citizen at birth under INA 301 (8 USC 1401).

The only reason anyone even read Superman when I was still into comics is because it was cheaper than every other title on the shelf. Superman is boring. His powers are boring. His storylines are boring. He's a lazy hero with a lazy disguise. Anyone else who had his powers would spend all of their time hurling child-rapists into the sun. He spends his time pretending to be a reporter and only doing something when he can't ignore what's going on.
Superman has (or at least had) a great supporting cast and a rich, well-developed world. That's why they could kill him off and keep going without missing a beat--all the other characters were so interesting, DC could (and did) tell stories about them for months before Superman came back.

He would never hurl a child-rapist (or even a child rapist) into the sun because he believes all life has value, coming as he does from a dead world. Not unlike Batman, who would never kill his broken, pitiful enemies because if there's no hope for them, there's no hope for him, either. And both operate outside the law but with its tacit approval, which requires some self-imposed limits.
 
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