Superman
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The original 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 wrong wiki to end your ignorance. Superhero-hating comic author Garth Ennis considers him one of the few superheroes he does respect.
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 Grimdarkness 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.