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Jun. 27th, 2006 01:00 amin honor of superman returns coming out in theaters tomorrow, i give you:
40 Things You Don't Know About Superman
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personally, i hate superman.
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"1. He started as a bald villain! One of the all-time greatest good-guy superheroes actually began life as a big, bad bald guy bent on world domination! Comic creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first drew him as a villain in a January 1933 story called "The Reign of the Super-Man," which appeared in an issue of their comic fanzine Science Fiction. It bombed, so they reimagined him as a superhero."
"23. They made enough Superman suits to dress an army. More than 90 Superman suits, 60 capes and 30 pairs of red boots were used to dress Routh, including different combinations for when he would fly, when he was in an action sequence and when he was just supposed to look Supermanly."
"25. He's bigger underneath — we knew it! About that infamous new codpiece … Superman Returns costume designer Louise Mingenbach says, "We had more discussions about the crotch than anything." Adds Singer, "We discussed [it] in depth during preproduction. I mean, he is Superman, so you don't want to freak anybody out. But he is a super man." In the end, the costume crew devised a "flattening device" that keeps Superman's super-endowment in PG, or at least PG-13 (the film's official MPAA rating), territory."
personally, i hate superman.