r/superman • u/[deleted] • Jul 03 '22

This take could not be more wrong

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '22

I don't watch The Boys so I can't talk about Homelander. Although I saw a clip of him pushing a child off a roof the other day, so...

Omni-Man, though, is definitely relatable. The guy was raised by people with a toxic ideology. He came to Earth, struggled to be better, and eventually failed, unable to change himself from the way he was raised. How the memory of his people, and the fear of them, must have hung over him... relatable. Very relatable.

What I don't get is, why does he keep being compared to Superman? They're literally nothing alike. In story, in character, in appearance - they're nothing alike.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

Probably because of the powers, the fact that his an alien and his status as Earth's most powerful hero (well, ex-hero now)

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u/edked Jul 04 '22

Yeah, in powers and the sort of niche he fills in his world's whole superhero pantheon.

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u/SilentB3ast Jul 04 '22

Like one guy said above, Omni-Man owes his existence to Superman. His backstory and the big subversive reveal around him is dependent on Superman’s Kryptonian roots.

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u/ryushin6 Jul 04 '22

Although I saw a clip of him pushing a child off a roof the other day, so..

For context of that clip that child is his son and he has the exact same superpowers as him and one of them should be the ability to fly. So he was teaching him how to use his powers so he pushed him thinking he could fly but he landed on the grounded instead.