Do you know what the S on Superman chest stands for?
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Look at him jumping straight to Satan. What a negative mindset. How does he know it’s not Salvation? Savio(u)r? Solitude? Solipsism? Even, dare I suggest it, Superman?
(FTR it’s not even an S. It’s a character used on Krypton, his home planet which exploded, that happened to look like the Earth character S.)
Due to his capsule entering Earth's atmosphere at a slightly different time...:
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...Superman probably wears under his suit Union Jack underpants.
Even when his capsule did the same at another trajectory, resulting in him bearing the Hammer & Sickle instead of the Kryptonian symbol which just happens to look like the Terran English letter 'S', there are Americans who get the concept of Irony.
Satire - as per the former by Monty Python's John Cleese - would be lost on you: unlike the American DC Comics which published that particular version.
It stood for Superman when they invented the character. It’s been retconned.
But if I WAS going to design a character to emblemize Satan, it sure as fuck wouldn’t be that boy scout. Satanman would have had girlfriends (with benefits) in every time zone. He’d have put Ma Kent in a home and left her (with sound logical arguments to do so… To protect her from his enemies, for example.). I’d have invented an alien girlfriend with decidedly androgynous features. Later plot surprise, people from her planet have four genders.
FFS, the S-like shape in a pentagon is his Kryptonian family crest, and he chose the name “Superman” mostly because the crest coincidentally resembled an S. I don’t even read superhero comics and I know this.
…Although, that’s in-universe. Out-of-universe, I wouldn’t be surprised if the logic went something like “Superman was created by a Jew → Jews are eeeevil → evil people can’t help but covertly announce their wickedness → this announcement subliminally coerces children into Satan worship”. Which is of course not how anything works, but when you’re really deep in magical thinking…
Now, ignoring for a moment the huge leap in “logic” here, why would anyone ever think that the “big blue boy scout” is supposed to represent Satan of all things? I mean, Supes has often been used as a Jesus-like character because how overly blatant the similarities there are! You know, the “only son” sent from the “heavens” to help and guide humanity and show us the way?
Besides, DC kinda already has Satan figures. Lucifer Morningstar from the Sandman (which kinda takes place in the same setting) and Trigon.
I always found Superman too American-nationalist myself, flying with the flag and all... So yeah, definitely Satan, considering QAnon and MAGA, red states (matches the underwear, the hellfire, SS)... :D
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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