perfectchaos007
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The S stands for Supersize
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"This Is What Superheroes Would Look Like With Realistic Bodies"
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The S stands for Supersize
TheRedSnifit
Member
What if you're actually a superhero.
Adam_Vania
Banned
it only makes sense if you think a person's physical constitution is entirely out of their control and not in any way related to lifestyle.
Superman and BP both actually look closer to what an actual Strongman would look like.
Functional muscle and Model Muscle are quite different.
I find it kind of odd that everyone is looking at those images and saying they're unfit.
Example:
2017 World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall
I'm sure that guy gets calls when oversized tire orphanages are on fire
Or when an empty 18 wheeler is stuck in the road in neutral with 20ft of rope attached to it's front
but when someone steals your wallet and runs away at a moderate pace you can't LIFT or PULL your way out of that one
StrangeRoboMemory
Member
Heart is in the right place, I guess, but the results are ridiculously misguided at best.
Kill Your Masters
Member
I didn't know the obesity problem in America is this serious.
This is what superheroes would look like if they would drive, sit, not walk, and stuff themselves with junk food.
Count Dookkake
Member
Harrison Bergeron is real.
>20% of most of the developed world's population is obese. US just leads the pack. It's pretty terrifying all around.
Not by a long shot.
I'm not sure they would have, because those characters were still drawn to the ideals of the time, just like the ones now are.
Vermillion
Banned
Athletes would be athletic. This is dumb, as ever.
Theonik
Member
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cromofo
Member
Damn, really?
I heard alot about it in the last years but nothing lately.
That's some dumb shit tho.
Wag
Member
It good to be the king.
Dude Abides
Banned
Cyborg looks better.
Being that shredded should be no one's ideal.
The Greek Freak
Member
This is what super heroes would look like if they ate like shit and blamed society for the fact they get winded from a flight of stairs.
Obviously.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
This discussion reminds me of a radiolab episode I was listening to about K-Pop, that said that the thing that people are so obsessed about with K-Pop(and anime and manga) is that it's fantasy and people look unreal and can do unreal things.
Thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense.
The question is; should a superhero have a realistic body?
Or.. If you went back to ancient greece or rome and asked a troup director, a sculptor, a painter or someone like that, and asked them about why their gods and heroes needed to be buff, oiled and strong instead of realistic, do you think they would say that a god or a hero was more than a regular man, so he should look like more than a regular man?
Maybe the problem isn't that superheroes set unrealistic body images, but that we don't have enough alternatives in mainstream culture that celebrates the sexy and bad ass in normal looking men and women?
Thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense.
The question is; should a superhero have a realistic body?
Or.. If you went back to ancient greece or rome and asked a troup director, a sculptor, a painter or someone like that, and asked them about why their gods and heroes needed to be buff, oiled and strong instead of realistic, do you think they would say that a god or a hero was more than a regular man, so he should look like more than a regular man?
Maybe the problem isn't that superheroes set unrealistic body images, but that we don't have enough alternatives in mainstream culture that celebrates the sexy and bad ass in normal looking men and women?
lol
I genuinely laughed.
family_guy
Member
How could you fight crime all day and not lose weight?
I've always maintained that if I can see your heroes individual obliques through his clothes, he's not so much wearing a suit so much as he's naked with a suit painted on him.
I don't know why people haven't let this aesthetic die. At this point, it's something approaching the uncanny valley where the heroes are supehero themed ken dolls.
cromofo
Member
ForsakenLotus
Member
I would argue it's actually more unrealistic because if you are constantly fighting, running, and in general physically taxing your body it's likely you will be some variation of in shape. Furthermore, while I think the super thin model is unhealthy and not a good representation for young girls to strive for, I must push back on the concept that being overweight is a perfectly acceptable representation as well. I guess a better way to phrase it is it's okay to be comfortable with your body and it's awesome that women of all shapes are now representing woman in various forms of media, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't aspire for each person to want to be in better shape.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
There's something troubling about equating "realistic" with "having a gut." I understand the idea; especially in America, where so much of the population is overweight. However, one needs only step outside, even here in the states, to see that there's still a great variance in body type.
You got people who are skinnier, tall, short, muscular, flabby, curvy, etc. You've got varying skin tones, different breast sizes for women (and some men, to be sure), different face shapes, different hair types. And yes, you can even see people on the street who look similar to the impossibly beautiful people in comics. By presenting these parodies that give superheroes a couple extra pounds as making them "realistic," you're telling a lot people with different body types that their bodies are not realistic in the same way. Which kind of defeats the purpose, methinks.
The unrealistic part isn't that Superman is really muscular. The unrealistic part is that damn near everyone he hangs out with is just as muscular. Superhero comics don't do a great job of capturing the variance of the human shape, and parodies like this don't do a great job at correcting that. Even if we say Superman realistically should look like Eddie Hall, Flash shouldn't given that his character is not a strongman, but a runner. Spider-Man and Black Panther are more like gymnasts, so they shouldn't look that way either.
I'd be really interested in seeing a superhero comic that does a better job of giving us realistic body types. Showing that people of all shapes and sizes can have heroic moments.
You got people who are skinnier, tall, short, muscular, flabby, curvy, etc. You've got varying skin tones, different breast sizes for women (and some men, to be sure), different face shapes, different hair types. And yes, you can even see people on the street who look similar to the impossibly beautiful people in comics. By presenting these parodies that give superheroes a couple extra pounds as making them "realistic," you're telling a lot people with different body types that their bodies are not realistic in the same way. Which kind of defeats the purpose, methinks.
The unrealistic part isn't that Superman is really muscular. The unrealistic part is that damn near everyone he hangs out with is just as muscular. Superhero comics don't do a great job of capturing the variance of the human shape, and parodies like this don't do a great job at correcting that. Even if we say Superman realistically should look like Eddie Hall, Flash shouldn't given that his character is not a strongman, but a runner. Spider-Man and Black Panther are more like gymnasts, so they shouldn't look that way either.
I'd be really interested in seeing a superhero comic that does a better job of giving us realistic body types. Showing that people of all shapes and sizes can have heroic moments.
manfestival
Member
Realest superman apparently
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This dude probably looks better than me in black and red tights so he gets props
UnemployedVillain
Member
I shouldn't have laughed, but I did. It's the new "I have a gluten intolerance" where it's something that actually only affects a subset of people, and needs a doctor to diagnose, but a ton of people have convinced themselves they have because it's an easy excuse
Look, a fictional superhero.
Look at those twig arms
cromofo
Member
My mother has had thyroid problems for decades now and it's a really shitty condition. The pills help, but it's still shitty.
It's just sad that some people use that as an excuse to be a fat lardass and demand respect for being a lardass. Laziness and gluttony is not a condition.