NoblesseOblige
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I knew a monster of a guy in high school who got bodied by somebody a foot shorter and hundred pounds lighter because he never learned to fight due to everyone assuming he'd wreck them.
lolnoI'm pretty sure Henry Cavill is 6'1 or 6 but I get your point. This is a bad/mediocre movie, so I don't expect much to make much sense. The guy is just probably a random jerk.
Dont forget every single mutant in xmen.Most older superhero movies have that obligatory "pick a fight with the hero's alter ego" moment.
The truckers in the bar should have been a group of about 6 or so burly dudes who looked like they chopped down trees for fun on their time off. At least then the narrative would have been more believable. Because yeah, even if he wasn't a superpowered alien, regular ol' farmer Clark could have seriously fucked that guy up and everyone in the room knew it.
Im just watching Man of Steel for the first time and just dont get it.
Why are truck drivers who are like one head shorter than Kent picking a fight with him?
I mean they dont even know its Superman, but come on. That guy is like over 62 and pretty muscular.
You dont wanna fight with someone like that or are people really that dense?
There's a Simpsons scene for everything.
Because he was working. I have had so many people give me shit while I was working who know full well that I can't retaliate/escalate.
People are dicks.
The real answer is :
He's a customer.
If Clark hits the customer he's fired.
So he was testing him and trying to play tough.
You guys who think Klark bend that truck around the post because he was mad at the guy didnt get the memo. Klark is frustrated with his live, its shown that he always had to hold back, like his whole life. Destroying that truck was an outlet for his frustration.
Thats what I got from the scene anyway.
Im just watching Man of Steel for the first time and just dont get it.
Why are truck drivers who are like one head shorter than Kent picking a fight with him?
I mean they dont even know its Superman, but come on. That guy is like over 62 and pretty muscular.
You dont wanna fight with someone like that or are people really that dense?
I love this "big guys know how to fight" thing we got going on here.
Having muscles doesn't make you worth a damn in a fight.
This post is great
I'm not familiar with Superman comics, but I think in some stories like All-Star they depict how Clark Kent's change of posture makes him look less threatening.
That is so good
That is so good
Most older superhero movies have that obligatory "pick a fight with the hero's alter ego" moment.
Bruce and Joker did it in the first Tim Burton Batman
Peter and Flash did it in Spider-Man
Johnny Blaze did it in Ghost Rider
This is pretty much all that ever happens to Bruce Banner in every single Hulk film
They even did it in Catwoman with her annoying neighbors
Iron Fist's fist seems to rely on people doing this to him
Elektra did this to Matt Murdock in Daredevil
It's a running joke with Luke Cage
Tony usually brings it on himself
Saitama's whole life is this in One Punch Man
I don't know how many mutants' backstories start with "I got in a fight and accidentally unleashed my power" and Wolverine spends enough time in bars for this to be commonplace
Man of Steel never portrayed Superman as the same Superman from the comics, the perfectly good guy that never kills. I thought that was obvious from the first time I watched MoS.
Yah. He nailed the classic ideal of the character. He just looked exactly right too. If he was playing role today with the body routine theyd give him and modern effects it would be a joy to watch.Christopher Reeve was so goddamn perfect as Superman. It pains me how poorly served he was by some of his movies.
I don't get what's wrong with man of steel's bar scene. Drunk truck driver is harassing a female server. Clark the busboy intervenes soft spokenly. Drunk truck driver is drunk, and is a tough guy douche, and decides to mess with him.
Reading the op, you'd think the guy came up and tried to fight Clark based on nothing other than how he looked. Do people even watch movies when they're watching them?
This makes Spider-man seem genius by comparison. Even after he becomes a superhero he's still a short, skinny teenager (in most portrayals), so it makes sense for him to be bullied.
I don't get what's wrong with man of steel's bar scene. Drunk truck driver is harassing a female server. Clark the busboy intervenes soft spokenly. Drunk truck driver is drunk, and is a tough guy douche, and decides to mess with him.
Reading the op, you'd think the guy came up and tried to fight Clark based on nothing other than how he looked. Do people even watch movies when they're watching them?
these guys get it
The perfect Superman would have picked a fight with the harasser, kicked his ass all over the bar and ruined over people's meals cos he pays for it before hand.
One reason I absolutely hated that scene is because Clark/Superman absolutely had to get him back, and passive-aggressively jacked up his truck for audience laughs. A real "hero" would have let that situation go, because in the end, that drunk trucker was small beans. It's almost disturbing that someone with god-like powers can be so petty. At the very least, Donner's Superman faced off with the trucker to his face, not behind his back, though I wasn't a big fan of that scene in Superman 2 either. I just hate it slightly less.
Nice to know that it doesn't make sense that I a 6'1 230lb male cannot be bullied by smaller individuals
I know this is your 'thing' to play up any flaws of the other supermen so Cavill's doesn't look as sucky by comparison, but....
are you seriously suggesting that ruining people's meals is the equivalent of doing tends of thousands of property damage to that dude's truck?
I'm trying to imagine myself if I was there. If I was eating my lunch at a bar and a fight broke out in which a dude knocked my plate over in the scuffle, assuming that I would later get replaced for free, I honestly wouldn't care.
I guess I'd be mildly annoyed at the inconvenience of having to wait for another plate, but that would be balanced out by the cathartic satisfaction of seeing a jerk get his shit kicked in. IIRC, this dude was an asshole to other guys besides clark. Even if I wasn't getting another plate, if we're operating from the position that this dude harassed me and others at some point, the price of a lost meal would be money well spent as far as I'm concerned.