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0:00 – yo yo yo
1:15 – superman as a foreigner
3:41 – an ode to DCAU superman
6:40 – credits
|| Mystery song of the day ||
It isn’t hard to see, ooh
The hangups we have today
Said we need to strive for more liberty
Lift yourself up on your feet, let’s get it on
We’ve been foolin’ around, my friends
For much too long (too long, too long, too long)
It isn’t hard to see
Said the hangups we have today
Said we need to strive for more liberty
Lift yourself up on your feet, let’s get it on
We’ve been foolin’ around, my friends
For much too long (too long, too long, too long)
Ooh, liberty
Give on the cry out for liberty
Ooh, yeah, yeah
Liberty, give a cry out for liberty
Liberty
Give a cry out for liberty
Well, liberty
Walk around with my flag in my hand
Give a cry out for liberty (try to bring liberty to my brother man, ooh yeah)
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DCAU Superman was my Superman growing up. He's just,awesome.
This Video was phenomenal!! <3
Thanks for making videos specifically on superman. Im a superman fan and hes always been my favorite out of all the superheros but its hard to find others with the same level of love towards the character. You give well thought out analysis and interpretations on the what makes superman great to a level that i could never even attemp to try. Thank you for waving the superman flag in such a caring and artistic way. We fans appreciate it.
Cried a little watching this one.
That is why the "Stand Down" moment in Superman and Lois is such an amazing example of how right that show portrays the character. He's wounded, in intense pain, and protecting two innocent teenagers. There would have been a dozen ways he could have disarmed all those soldiers, and destroyed their weapons (including the one designed to hurt him) and yet he restrains himself and pushes through the pain and the rage just to tell them to "Stand Down."
Superman's greatest power isn't what he can do, it's what he doesn't do. He doesn't take over the world. And then you take that thought and realise that all of us at some point will have power over others in some way, be they our partners, children, work colleagues, or strangers, and what you do with that power defines who you really are. WWSD?
It would be nice if they made an All Star Superman trilogy with Henry Cavill. DC should bring back trunks
These are all good points but the fact that he's as powerful as he is just too much for most people. Doesn't matter if he's a good character or not if he can take a bomb to the face and be perfectly fine then he is unrelatable, no questions asked. This is how the majority of people see Superman and all the videos in the world won't change that for them.
You are consistently killing it with these videos!
In short: Be the person Superman knows you can be.
I think this also makes Injustice more depressing, it wasn't Darkseid, or Brainiac or Bizarro or Mongul that took his world away, it was a human being, The Joker, someone who embodies the antithesis of Superman's philosophy. The Joker gave into every single impulse he's ever had, he kills, tortures, mutilates and destroys everyone around him because he just refuses to help himself and he killed Lois Lane, Clark's unborn son and the whole of Metropolis because he was bored.
Injustice happened because humanity took everything from him, he saw the horror of the human spirit and decided we needed to be controlled regardless of the consequences. Injustice is the universe where Superman lost faith in humanity and thus abandoned his own.
i loved the world of cardboard line.
Just love how his power is restraint.
Superman is on the inside looking out. And on the outside looking in simultaneously.
Just in weird perpetual limbo
Superman still kinda boring tho.
Can't wait for the Cobra Kai video, it's probably a pretty cold take at this point but the show really blew away my expectations in ways I didn't expect.
There is something about him hiding how alien he really is despite being human looking that always spoke to me even before I realized I was trans. I have always loved superman in a world thar says he's boring.
Love your videos!
Love that opening song you always use…."something…..something….something changing your mind…."
Paper Twins – Something That Was Changing Your Mind.
Its right up there with FilmJoy's "…don't hold love….that you never set it free…." Cheers to another one of your videos.
Any chance on any videos on Green Arrow?
Captain America is also the most human hero of them all.
I am of the opinion that Superman, by definition, cannot be "cool." Superman can be many things, but he cannot be cool, and you should not try to make him cool. Because coolness is based on a certain degree of, what we technically call, not-giving-a-fuck. But Superman, being Superman, cannot not-give-a-fuck. In fact, Superman is someone who gives every fuck for every person, whether they're a hero, a villain, a Saint, or a sinner, because to Superman, every person is worth a fuck, because every person is human.
Superman is corny, he's cheesy, he's lame, and that's the best thing about him! He's like your dad when you were 8. Yeah, he's embarrassing. Yeah, he's kinda lame. But he will always care about you, and he will always be there for you.
Why is it that Dc animation can get Superman better Than comic writers ?
The World of Cardboard speech is the pinnacle of DCEU Superman, the music swells and builds up with the punch. The whole speech is what superman is, a man who has to be calm and reserved for the better of the people.
I find the excerpt from Batman/Superman comic to be interesting, as its a copy of Ikon, the OG Dakotaverse superman, as he was an alien who took on the appearance of the people who found him.
Part of the beauty of Superman is that he is both an immigrant to earth , adopted child by earth, and powered by earths sun. And while earth is most of his powers he was sent here for earth and he is like a celebrity to earth.
I dont hate justice lord suprman, but his point is that he shows what superman could be led astray, and isnt. And that he is not great becau poers, because with his grounded humanity. His strengh is how human h is and how much love he was given and he just wants to giv back in a very human way, with all he can, as gentle as he can.
Also yeah he is a hardworking immigant adopted that is th american , and an imigrant. And the bet amrica can be because of that
Including holding back all that frustration he as human has to put up with, magnifie by his powers.
Ok darkside sees what scary things happen when a good man goes to war. What scariest is in justice lord if a wndless patient man looses that patince and you dont wanna risk that. or in darkside, he will not hold back and show righous anger, i only because darkside make a good punchingbag.
"Im just a guy from a small town that wants to do the right thing" – From the Death of Superman animated movie
Another great video that shows an understanding of the type of person Superman really is. The cardboard speech was definitely an awesome scene that shows Superman going all out against Darkseid, but more importantly it shows why Superman has to restrain even against his enemies, unless he absolutely has to. Nice of this video to remind everyone who watches it that Superman's humanity comes from how much he cares about people, which he learned to do from how his adopted parents raised him.
"Zach Levi" as in Zachary Levi?! 6:51
Superman, after having being put in troubles for every villain in the DCAU: I was actually containing my power!!!
The owner of the car that Superman threw to Metallo in the first episode: YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE BE USING THEM SOONER.
Pretentious please do a tribute video of Kevin Conroy, I would do it myself but you're better at video making.
Snyder made an Elseworlds story. We need a definitive DCEU with an inspirational and patriotic Superman. Now more than ever.
Ironically I was just looking up “the world of cardboard” speech from JLU and found this, I remember watching your Young Justice vids last year, I didn’t subscribe though, now I will.
Literally watched this yesterday and cried when Superman said "That man won't stop fighting until his last breath" 😭😭😭 RIP Kevin Conroy the one True Batman
I think the DCAU Superman needs to be celebrated as one of the greatest characters of the last 30 years. DC should have been using him has a blueprint from the very start of their talk of making an expanded CU.
Talking about Clark being a foreigner… I'm rewatching Justice League (thanks to your Wally video, btw) and I realized something in the Blackest Night arc. Hawkgirl looks and Superman and tells him how weird "you humans are." She then apologizes for sounding harsh and Superman simply responds with "no, I take it as a compliment." He's almost giddy to think that someone sees him as just a human, reinforcing his innocent need for acceptance in the world he's scared of being shunned from. The DCAU was a gorgeous thing
I’m not crying it’s just raining
Justice league unlimited really made me respect superman when I rewatched it recently
It was only recently it hit home that Superman was simply raised right by two good parents. If he was a human he probably would have become a fire fighter or a soldier, or even stay as a farmer. Whatever let him help people because that's how he was raised. He goes out there as Superman and the thought of making his mother proud most likely goes through his mind all the time. That's wild to think about with a character so powerful.
ugly squid alien monster thing superman?! that's not canon, or…? First time I hear about this… O_O