Why The World Doesn't Need Superman - The Full Article

Those who have seen the movie, Superman Returns, will know that Lois Lane wrote an article titled - Why The World Doesn't Need Superman. But up until now, very few people knew what was actually in the article. Well thanks to Justin over at bluetights.net, who managed to obtain a newspaper prop from the film, which contained the article, I can now show you the actual content of the article.

Credit goes to Justin for reading out the article on his Supertalk Concern Podcast, planet-forum member, Kloklo for doing the intitial text work, and to myself () for redoing, editing, and finishing the text.



WHY THE WORLD DOESN'T NEED SUPERMAN

- By Lois Lane



Metropolis. For five long years the world has stared into the sky, waiting, hoping and praying for his return. We?ve spent our days asking where he went, debating why he left and wondered is he even alive. Perhaps he left us for another world, a world in peril, a world in greater need of a saviour. Is it selfish desire him for ourselves? Are we expected to share the man we?ve come to love or did we do something wrong?

Did we take him for granted? Perhaps we did. Maybe we all did, it's not our fault. We are far from super. Yet a mother will accept her children regardless of their misfortunes. Why have you rejected us for ours? Perhaps we?re a lost cause unworthy of help and doomed to continue on a path of self-destruction. He has moved on, helping others with a foreseeable future of peace and harmony.

From the first day he mysteriously appeared we were enamoured. He seemed too good to be true. A man who could fly, see through walls, bend steel with his bare hands. A man who never lied. A man who could do anything he wanted to yet he chose to be a hero. He chose to fight for truth, justice and the American way, And we chose to believe. we put our faith, not in the hands of God, but in the hands of another Lives were not saved by any kind of divine intervention, miracle or act of God. they were saved by one man, and one man only, our Superman. We didn?t question his intentions and other than a few basic facts we didn't question his unbelievable origins. When did he actually arrive? Where did he live? Where did he get that suit? It didn't matter. He was good, and good for us and that was enough.

A new generation of children have grown up idolising this hero, proud to wear a cape and run around the family home. We welcome Superman into our homes and family. He was a quintessential American. A role model for our children and the guardian of their lives. Does a hero walk out on his family? Walk away from his children? After letting us place our hopes on him, his disappearance must be seen nothing short of abandonment. A dereliction of duty. No better that a parent abandoning a child, a doctor walking out on their patient. We must ask our selves if Superman returned would we welcome him back? Could he heal the scars he left behind? The city is in pain, its citizens angry, hurt and unforgiving. We have learned from our bad judgement, and we are not prepared to make the same mistake again.

It would take more than one man to reunite the people. He is lost our trust, he betrayed us. He turned his us back on us and walked away. We would have to question his motives for his return. Why after all this time he would return? From the very beginning we labelled him as a man. We even used the word it his titled - Superman.

Yet he was not a man. He was not even human. We expected an alien to share the same feelings, emotions, beliefs and principles. Were the words truth and justice a second language to him? Perhaps, we were fools to believe he would understand the true meaning of words such as trust, loyalty or love.

What is a hero anyway? Does one has to have superpowers, special abilities or incredible talent to be a considerable one? Well that's what we?ve been led to believe. Superman led us to forget our real heroes. What happened to the firemen, policemen, teachers, social workers or local figure that used to be considered a hero in

 

Indiana Fett did not need Superman Returns.

 

tl,dr

Superman is lame.

 

Generally "tl,dr" comments really bug me in threads. But seriously, in this case...

 

I preferred the piece Miss Lane wrote on why the JCC doesn't need this thread.

 

QFT

 

terrible grammar.

 

What? No spelling errors?

 

That's a fragment; it also needs to be capitalized.



-The Scummy-

 

Not as far as I know, though there may be a couple I haven't spotted.

As for the grammar, well I didn't write it...ok well technically I did, I transcribed an audio reading of the article, so barring a few periods and commas being in the wrong place, it's pretty accurate so blame Lois Lane.

This is almost an exclusive...there's only one other website on the net that I'm aware of that actually has the text of the article, which was wriiten out as part of a prop for the actual movie. And I'm the one who posted the text on the other site.

As for Superman being lame...a lot of people would say the same thing about Star Wars...not me though I'm a Star Wars nut.

And regarding the JC Community not needing the thread...you could say that about every other thread here, but that's what this place is for. Completely random and pointless topics of discussion.

I thought this place was supposed to be friendly?

 

Yes, but this is a long read. It hurts us!



On topic, I think Lois was just bitter and pregnant.

 

Finally!

 

Perhaps there is a reason this remained a prop in the movie. And only a prop.

 

I read the entire thing.

I am convinced, give me my dollar back!


It would be cool to have some type of hero in this day and age, A 'Superhero' mind you. Bottom line is that is what we all really want because we suck.

What if there really WAS a Superman and he prevented 9/11? Would our government praise him or call him an enemy?

That is one thing that always sat a bit wrong with me in "Superman 2." You got these Kryptonians coming into the White House and our Gov did not have any 'Kryptonite' on hand?! Where was the CIA and NSA in all of that? Surely they thought that Supes could go crazy one day and would need to stop him?

One rich criminal 'Lex Luthor' figured out that kryptonite was a defense against a super alien and our own GOV dropped the ball on that.

Not suprised! RT*M next time!

 

Could you also provide the key points in summary for those of us curious enough to click your thread, but offput by the pages of scrolling needed to get to the bottom of your article?

Good job on the transcribing though!

 

get a new mouse!

I am right and everyone else in not right!

 

I'm convinced Courtney[/]b could've wrote the better (or at least more impassioned) argument.

Having said that, I tl,dr'ed about a few paragraphs down.

 

I wonder: do people who write "tl, dr" ever read a book?

 

Thanks Justin over at bluetights.net!

Justin's such a great guy, he really is a benefit to all his good friends at his website bluetights.net and everyone on the internet at large. The Supertalk Concern Podcast that Justin puts out each week through his website, bluetights.net, is really something else. And Kloklo, over at bluetights.net, run by Justin, is such a great guy. He's no Justin (who runs bluetights.net) but he's a pretty close second! Or maybe third!

 

Dr. Seuss is my favorite author.

 

What did you think of the transcript, debo?

 

So people don't like to read things that have more than one paragraph or something?

 

LOIS LAME

 

I was actually kind of irritated that they made such a big deal out of this article and it was never actually in the movie. I've wanted to know what it said since first hearing about it. It's an interesting premise. We don't need a superhero (god) to rely on because it makes us weaker.

Hardly Pulitzer material.

 

I'm working on it, damnit!
Have a little freakin patience.
I'm almost there.