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When James Gunn\u2019s Superman premiered, it leapt fan expectations in a single bound and did the seemingly impossible: made us care about DC movies again. It was perfectly cast, had plenty of action and humor, and generally felt like a fun, lived-in superhero universe. As a result, most audiences loved this film, but it did leave tights-and-flights fans with a seeming plot hole. Namely, if Lex Luthor created a clone of Superman, how the heck did he not know that Clark Kent was secretly the Man of Steel?<\/p>\n
Recently, James Gunn<\/a> took to Bluesky to answer this question. According to the Superman director, Clark Kent uses \u201cHypno Glasses\u201d to fool those around him, plus Lex Luthor<\/a> would never assume that a godlike alien spends his time walking among humans in a secret identity. Finally, he claimed that Luthor, like most brilliant people, still has blind spots even his genius might overcome. While these explanations work on paper, some in the fandom are disappointed because Gunn accidentally made Superman unethical and Luthor downright stupid.<\/p>\n Superman Or Super Creep?<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s wrong, exactly, with James Gunn\u2019s answers here? Let\u2019s start with the Hypno Glasses. Gunn didn\u2019t invent this concept. It\u2019s actually been part of Superman comic lore since the late \u201870s. The glasses don\u2019t give the Man of Steel<\/a> broad hypnotism powers or anything. Instead, they simply keep people from making the connection that Clark Kent is actually Superman. This helps explain why the award-winning journalists who work with Clark every day and regularly have contact with Superman (like Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, and even Lois Lane at first) can\u2019t figure something so basic out.<\/p>\n However, some fans find the idea of Hypno Glasses to be a bit icky. Superman is always presented as this moral exemplar, but it seems more than a bit unethical for him to constantly hypnotize the people he cares about by using creepy alien<\/a> technology. It\u2019s even weirder when you consider that he spent a fair amount of time hypnotizing Lois Lane, basically making her fall in love with the man she sees in the glasses and not the real thing. Also, did Lois simply figure out his secret identity on her own? It\u2019s unclear in the film, but if so, that means these glasses are about as effective as they are unethical.<\/p>\n Super Genius Or Super Stupid?<\/strong><\/p>\n As for Lex Luthor, James Gunn claims that just because the man is a genius doesn\u2019t mean that he can\u2019t \u201cmiss basic things,\u201d and that Lex was so worried about an alien trying \u201cto take over the world\u201d that he never considered a human identity. However, this explanation arguably makes the franchise\u2019s genius supervillain look like something of an idiot. He knows how to fight Superman because he has studied him for years, but he can\u2019t figure out that the guy who keeps disappearing for eight hours a day has a job? Also, he can hack the entire Fortress of Solitude, but he can\u2019t figure out some tricked-out alien glasses?<\/p>\n Of course, I\u2019m being a bit hard on James Gunn here. Superman\u2019s titular character is a kind of modern myth, and his secret identity is part of the mythology. The idea that a guy completely obscures his identity with a pair of glasses has never made much sense in a real-world context, and, if we\u2019re being honest, it never will. Unfortunately, Gunn\u2019s attempt at an explanation makes Superman look like a creep, and Lex Luthor look like an idiot. At the rate the bar is lowering, the booze-swilling, party-hearty Supergirl<\/a> may end up being the real role model of this entire franchise!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Snellgrove | Published 26 seconds ago When James Gunn\u2019s Superman premiered, it leapt fan expectations in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[95869,164938,92927,77,19919,98908,98907,4168,3943,4169,13442,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-958025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-clark-kent","9":"tag-dceu","10":"tag-dcu","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-james-gunn","13":"tag-lex-luthor","14":"tag-lois-lane","15":"tag-man-of-steel","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-superman","18":"tag-superman-2025","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116569780719148151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/James-Gunn-blue-sky.png\")
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