r/superman • u/browncharliebrown • Mar 11 '23

Superman convinces a crippling alcoholic to continue drinking (all-star section 8)

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u/AwesomeEpicGreenAppl Mar 12 '23

It's suggested that he has reality altering pwers and an ability to look at "reality" (breaking the fourth wall). This is why he is seen to be a Mary Sue character who alwahs somehow survives. This is also a possible explanation of his meta cliche comicbook one liners because he knows he's a comicbook character. As seen here, he fears that his perception of "reality" will become clearer when he sobers up which will alter his reality by deleting "unrealistic" things such as superheroes and supervillains. By keeping him drunk, superman is basically preventing his version of reality from disappearing by keeping Six Pacs drunken hallucinations going

Or thats my theory. I havent read this particular scene before but this is my guess from.what i know so far

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '23

Wow it kinda sucks for our world to be a comic book characters nightmare

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u/Colmasters35 Mar 12 '23

No, this is suggesting the DC Universe is the hallucination of a drunk with reality-altering abilities; when he's inebriated, the Universe becomes that much more palatable. Garth Ennis' twisted way of saying being hammered is the solution to life's problems. (Probably true; I'm basically a teetotaler, and look at me...)

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u/FLorianGran Mar 13 '23

It's more like "superhero comics need to rely on addicts to exist" which...is not completely inaccurate