Hardik Memes

Saga Of "S"uperman: 

It's been 80 years since the Man of Steel crash-landed into the pop-culture universe. He's been everywhere: comics, the radio, screen, stage even in academia. He shaped the superhero genre and the world is still fascinated by the idea of an invincible saviour.

But Did you know?

• He really is well-disguised:

Clark Kent's glasses are lightly tinted, changing the color of his eyes. His voices changes to, when he's not Superman. That's why he's hidden so successfully all this time.

• But he's shown up with Clark Kent:

How? Superman's shape-shifting friend often dress like Kent and arrive where Superman is, so people aren't suspicious.

• He totally trusts Batman:

In the story Dark Knight over Metropolis (Action Comics #654), Batman discovers a Kryptonite ring and gives it to Superman. But Superman gives  it back: "I want the means to stop me to be in the hands of a man I can  trust with my life," he says.

• Batman is his landlord and boss:

Wayne Enterprises owns the building where Clark Kent and Lois Lane have  an apartment in 2000, in the second volume of DC's Superman series, Wayne Enterprises quietly bought the Daily Planet newspaper, where the  two work.

• Superman is a plant, Kryptonite is weed:

A variety of the Australian Banksia plant is formally called Banksia Serrata  Superman (but it has no superpowers). Kryptonite is also a clone hybrid variant in the cannabis family (and doesn't give you superpowers, no matter how high you get).

• There's a Superman museum:

It's not made of steel but in a city called Metropolis in Illinois, USA, is the  Super Museum. Collector Jim Hambrick displays more than 20,000 items, one of the largest collections of the superhero's memorabilia.

• Kryptonite isn't always green:

The green kind weakens the Superman; red is even deadlier and also causes mood swings; blue weakens his nemesis Bizarro; periwinkle loosens his inhibitions; silver gives him hallucinations; black splits him into good & evil; pink makes him gay! and that's not the end of the rainbow.

• The world came later:

Early on, Superman symbolised Truth, Justice, and (after 1940s radio broadcasts) The American Way. He was seen as the champion of oppressed. But why should an alien hero only help America? He renounced his American
citizenship in Action Comics #900, to help humans all over the world.