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4/9/2013 7:26:30 PM
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Why does Superman have a secret identity?
What's the point in having a secret identity? He's freaking superman, no one can kill him, he didn't have friends when he made the secret identity, and over all he's superman. He doesn't need a secret identity but yet he has one.... Why?
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Edited by Recon Number 54: 4/9/2013 8:17:13 PMBecause without a secret/alternative identity and persona, he would simply be a god-like alien among us. He would be the "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Lords]Justice Lords[/url]" version of Superman. One where he deemed that his superiority and might made him "right". To not have/be Clark Kent would mean that he deliberately and consciously distanced and separated himself from his adopted home and its people. Based on my understanding of the character and his statements over the decades, Clark Kent is not Kal-El's "front" or a hollow put-on character, Clark Kent is a part of who Superman is. Kent is his humanity. His acknowledgement and connection to the human race. Clark Kent (as raised by the Kents) is the characters "nurture" and his Kryptonian abilities is his "nature". As an adopted child myself, the difference and the importance/value of each was crystal clear to me from the start.
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Because his friends and family would be at a constant risk. Any supervillian can just kidnap one of them and blackmail Superman. Or even kill them. It's for the safety of his friends and family.
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What always confused me is how no one knows it's him. His only disguise is a pair of glasses...
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Because he is gay, if everyone knew supes was gay, he would lose his power and fail.
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Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
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B/c of human family.
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Yea I've always wondered that as well.
