Superman is a Middle American.

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Superman is a Middle American.

As many of you know Clark Kent aka Superman grew up in Smallville. Smallville is a rural town set in the plain states of America. There, Clark was adopted by farmers who found him after he crashed landed with his space capsule in their fields. He called that his home until he moved to Metropolis where he got a job as a reporter on the Daily Planet while he became a hero fighting for

"

The never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."

... without monetary rewards.

Superman is invincible and extremely strong so his stories are primarily not about him using his muscles but solving puzzles in time before someone or something is affected negatively.
Meanwhile, Lex Luthor, Superman's arch nemesis, is the one who is extremely wealthy.

In the mythos, Smallville was a stand-in for a plains state farm and Metropolis was Chicago. Therefore he was truly a middle American of a rural background.

Clark Kent is a poor Middle American.

Superman Returns

For the latest movie in the Superman story, Superman came back to Earth after trying to find survivors to Krypton, his home planet, but while away life moved on. He saves Lois Lane from a plane crash, saved North America from Lex Luthor while finding Lois Lane with another guy and her son.

This movie was less than stellar for various reasons: The Smallvile TV Series which had been running for 5 years had a different more fleshed-out Superman that was more familiar("This is not what I am used to!"), it was like a re-done origin movie which most superhero movies are about but did not work because his origin an love life is so widely known, the movie was a rehash of Superman 1 and James Bond's A View to a Kill , also the plane scene was also in the pilot of Lois and Clark: the previous TV series, the plot twist at the end where Lois's son might be Clark's was not surprising in the least, Lex Luthor was also featured prominently in Smallville and everyone knows Lex Luthor never wins.

As Brian K. Vaughan, who recently left LOST, said before that writing for Sawyer was easier than Jack because Jack is the "boy scout" of Lost; more drama is possible if a person has more flaws. Therefore it might have been harder to write about Superman than Batman which had two box office successes because of this issue.

The whole plot that Clark and Lois had a child was the eventually culmination of the hack joke of what Superman and Lois would be like during sex that Don & Mike did when they where on WNEW and talking about the upcoming Smallville.

The movie showed no real challenge to Superman. If instead the movie had been about Doomsday(not emo-Doomsday who was featured in Smallville later on) or some other villain that could actually win, the movie could have been much better. But the movie was an updated re-hashed version of prominent stories in the Superman story. The only really new plot, that Clark and Lois have a son went no where.

The movie could be thought as Superman 1 with better special effects and the kid instead of going back in time.


Fan Boys

Fan Boys are what exactly? It is the pejorative term used for extremely focused or obsessed individuals on a specific piece of work or subject. Fan boys are male and fan girls are female(Fan Man or Fan Woman sound like superheros ). Since they are extremely picky and similar to fans of more public activities(such as statistics in sports games), they have idiosyncrasies on who they find attractive since their social circles are not normal.

Fan boys can be interested in specific topics that they are adamant about, but not limited to, such as movies (Star Wars, Twilight, comic book movies, IFC), television(LOST, Star Trek, Heroes, Smallville), and music(jazz and blues).

Using Fez as a sample of what is a fan boy is too small. It also leads to other false assumptions of what they are because Fez is more than a fan boy of Star Wars and comics. An unbiased look would need much more people or else lead to false conclusions that are not based in the scientific method, but unproven theories.