Lazy storytelling is boring. Everyone knows it. Anyone with two brain cells knows that superhero movies have the same plotline. Is the latest iteration of the Iowan from Smallville different? Does this Superman still have the ethos “Truth, Justice and the American Way?” Superman is a kinder, gentler version, with a dog. The director tells us that Clark is really just an immigrant. James Gunn’s brother speaking about the movie tells us that if you don’t support “immigrants” (the substitute for illegal aliens), you are not an American.  

Sean Gunn on the new Superman movie: “It is about how we support immigrants and if you don’t like it, you’re not an American” pic.twitter.com/ugYiYqrphe

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 8, 2025

Note the way the bow-tied interviewer wags his head in “party-line” agreement. 

First, I think the Gunns need to change their last name. It is terribly triggering. I’m offended. That’s my truth. 

Back to the Gunns shooting their mouths off. Telling the majority of Americans that wanting criminal illegals removed from America is un-American is going to rub a whole lot of souls the wrong way. A lot of people will stay home. The director of “Suicide Squad” and his numbskull brother telling the majority of Americans “we don’t want you” seems like economic suicide. Word now is that the movie has to bring in $700 million to break even. Maybe it will. What is certain is that even if it fails, Hollywood will honor it and James Gunn for the effort. It’s bold pro-immigrant messaging. I wonder, will the movie open with a “You are watching this film on stolen land” message?  

If you thought superhero wokeness was a new invention, it’s not.  Over 10 years ago, a reimagined “Silver Scorpion” was invented. I didn’t know that there were so many “superheroes” because I have a life, but Silver Scorpion was reimagined as a legless Muslim who controls metal with his mind. Pretty novel. If that isn’t fresh enough, Silver Scorp was imagined as wheelchair-bound.  

Silver Scorpion was the brainchild of Jay T. Snyder, Dem activist, philanthropist and good bud of Barack. Snyder got worked up over the inaugural call by Barack for Muslim outreach so Snyder decided to do something. I am not kidding – he flew to Damascus met a bunch of disabled Syrians and BAM, BOOM POW!, Silver Scorpion was born. The criteria were simple – super dude had to be Muslim, and had to be in a wheelchair. I admit, I was a little baffled. Why was Silver Scorpion restricted to a wheelchair? If he was able to control metal, why not fit him with Terminator-like metal legs? Apparently Silver Scorpion can’t walk and chew up the world at the same time. Silver Scorpion didn’t catch on. Maybe disappearing was his second superpower.

Before being religious was a hinderance, the religion of superheroes was part of the back story.  

Superman… he’s was Methodist. The “Fantastic Four?” Susan and Torch used to be Episcopalian. The elastic guy, he’s was a Humanist and The Thing was Jewish. I bet you didn’t know Mothman (sidekick to The Tick) was Jewish.  

Other Muslim superheroes include (I’m not making these up): Dust ( She’s Sunni), so don’t call her a Shia  – she’ll dust you to death. She likely gets along with “Super-Shayk” and Sami the Hearer. How about “Jami the Assembler?” Jami is Muslim and he sits in front of a computer in his PJs. Jami should have been big during the pandemic but he didn’t catch on. His superpower? Assembling things. I know – there’s a joke that I won’t touch.   

And then there’s Muhammad X. X is a black man in Harlem. X controls gravity. Gleaned from the website: 

When X first met Superman, he called the hero out on how the hero ignores Harlem and the rest of the black community. This makes Superman question his understanding of race relations. The second time “X” meets Superman (likely about the time X got the “cease and desist” letter from DC Comics), Superman tells X that he’s trying to be more “human’ and to that black X says: “Yeah, well… I guess that’s how you sleep at night.”

Maybe X died out because his character seems ridiculous (and constantly mad), and maybe the remarkably bad writing didn’t help. But with BLM’s rise a few years ago you’d think that Hollywood would have made an “X” movie by now. Maybe the creators got sued by Marvel. “Black Panther” made a ton of money and it wasn’t that good. 

Have you heard of “Blue Beetle?” It was a Latino superhero movie that augured in like a bunker-buster bomb. But according to Forbes, tanking was actually a good thing. 

In “Captain America Brave New World” the “Cap” was black, and the Hulk was red. It bombed.  

Maybe people are sick of movies with no plot and weak woke messaging? 

If this iteration of Superman doesn’t make bank Hollywood will just assume it didn’t go woke enough. Time for Superman to be an Arab gay Muslim from Gaza.  

Yeah, that’s the ticket…