Will he get a fair trial or a kangaroo court?

Emery, thanks for coming back!!!

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In your rush to be contrary, you are wrong yet again. Superman caused an international incident by showing solidarity with the Iranian protestors. How is that NOT political? The whole point of the story is not that Superman is removing himself from politics, it's that he is taking steps to disassociate himself from the US, so that any actions he takes that are perceived as political will not be taken as representative of US policy.

Unless Clark Kent is renouncing his citizenship, this doesn't even make a lick of sense.

Since a few years after JB left, writers seem to have regularly worried about how to bring Superman "down to earth," make him "relatable" and less of a
"big blue boyscout". Founded, as they are, on misunderstandings of the character, these ideas always fail and a new one is brought in. This just sounds
like the latest example of a long, stupid trend.

Edited by Mark Haslett on 28 April 2011 at 2:54pm

What's even sadder is that it doesn't work.

Superman needs to go before the UN and say: "I am Superman and I'm Clark Kent. In both capacities I am an American citizen. In both capacities I renounce my citizenship and ask you to embrace me as a citizen of the world."

If he doesn't do that, then he's a hypocrite. Because he'd be pretending to have renounced his US citizenship while as Clark Kent he'd still be a Us Citizen.  

And Clark Kent renouncing his citizenship out of nowhere would most likely be noticed. A high profile journalist renouncing his citizenship? Are you telling me that's not news? Especially when he can't give a reason for it.

Why not just say: "Like Sean Penn, my actions are my own and does not reflect US government policy." Because it's not his citizenship that makes it an issue, it's his collaboration with US law enforcement and the US military.

Is Goyer going to have Superman decline to prevent regular crime because it might make people believe that he worked as an agent of the US government?

Or: "Sorry, Elementary School Children, I cannot save you from this horrible fire because collaborating with the Fire Department, a part of the US government structure, might lead people to believe that actions I take abroad are sanctioned by the US Government. I hope you feel that your agonizing deaths in a fire that I could easily save you from, are worth it when you see that it does absolutely nothing to prevent the Iranian government from portraying me as a US government stooge."

Or something to that effect.

Didn't DC declare at least once that Superman had been granted citizenship in every member of the United Nations?  He was already a Citizen of the World; you can't get more global than that.

This is yet another tale of sound and fury, hopefully signifying nothing.  This should be Superman's "Mopee" story.