Editing Superman

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The original [[/co/|comic book]] [[superhero]].

We can give you a description, but let's be sincere, he's fucking Superman, you know who he is. And in the odd chance you don't, this is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman wrong] [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Superman wiki] to end your ignorance.  To say he's widely beloved is an understatement.  To put it into perspective, superhero-hating comic author [[Edgy|Garth Ennis]] considers him one of the few superheroes he does respect. 
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As far as /tg/'s concerned, he could be relevant for a few reasons:

* There's a few systems where he exists
** The [[Smallville RPG]], released by Margaret Weis Productions, which is by most accounts very good (if very far in the storytelling corner of the storytelling/game/simulation RPG triangle).
** West End Games [[D6 System]] based DC Universe.
** DC Adventures, which is literally a reskin of third edition [[Mutants and Masterminds]] with no rules changes.  
* There's been more than one Superman board game. Most of them, needless to say, are garbage, because most licensed products are garbage, but it's worth mentioning.
* There's the endless debate of how to stat him up in a given RPG.
* He's both the original Superhero, and a regular "fountain of expies"; every setting with Superheroes is probably going to have their Expy of Supes: A flying brick who is the Leader of the most important Superteam, and whose relative morality is usually a good barometer of the [[Grimdark]]ness of the setting (though not always, as sometimes a setting can be Grimdark in part because it has a straight Superman analogue who fails miserably and/or dies horribly). 
** Further, the default Superhero powerset (the famous "flying brick"--flying because it makes plotting simpler (no transportation needed), brick because they're going to be getting in a bunch of fights) originates with Supes.
* "Pemmin's Aura" from [[Magic the Gathering]] is named for him in anagram: "I am Superman", after the fact that it's modeled after a card (Morphling) nicknamed "Superman", for its many, many abilities.
* [[Batman]]'s other butt buddy, after Robin.
* If you game at all in a comic book store, you'll probably see him on a standee or other display.

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