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If Superman Were Real Minus Any Aura


Spacescifi

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In the comics, he has a nifty forcefield that keeps the bugs off his costume and face in flight.

Take that away and what have you?

You know how your car's bumper looks? Full of dead insect critters?

That's Superman's costume. Every. Single, Day.

He would not need protective eyewear per se as he could heat vision off debris, but if did not want bug guts in his eyes he would at least wear clear protective goggles.

Oh...his costume would be stained with splattered bugs daily.

So that male or female, the best costume may be hard armor plating. Easier to clean off the stains than fabric.

Flying medieval knight with a cape anyone?

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Do airplane wings get like that?

Bugs don't fly very high most of the time, and even at the building-tops where Superman usually flies there likely aren't going to be many bugs, unless they are nice ecological buildings covered in local plants. I don't think Superman really needs to be concerned with bugs any more than whatever else gets into his suit that he needs to wash off. Even more so as bugs die off due to the Anthropocene conditions.

Additionally, he can use a hydrophobic coating on his suit to keep most things from sticking. I think that as long as Superman washes his suits regularly, he should be just fine.

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On 6/6/2021 at 10:54 AM, Spacescifi said:

Take that away and what have you?

Whatever the hell the writer decides fits the story they want to tell.  Instead of <whatever got removed>, the writer will throw in <other comic book magic that fits the story>.

 

Why would reality bother Arbitrary-Magic-Man?

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38 minutes ago, razark said:

What can fictional character with arbitrary magic do in fantasy setting, based on meaningless constraint?

Wut? But Rapunzel is a hardcore biopunk sci-fi.

(Still can't get, how was Rapunzel's stepmother climbing, when she was obviously heavier than Rapunzel.
Was Rapunzel anchoring or what? Or Rapunzel was actually fat and didn't wish to walk up and down, so was sitting in the tower?)

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