YOU'RE WRONGGGGGG AND OBVIOUSLY NOTTTTT SUPERMAN FANS
2006-08-30 13:54:37 · 12 answers · asked by ♥Shortie♥ 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Wow. I can sleep well tonight.
2006-08-30 14:00:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The "S" shield is most often elucidated as a Kryptonian symbol of some kind, though it is "translated" variously by different writers. The Kryptonian origin of the symbol is not apparent in the original Siegel and Schuster comics, where it presumably stood for 'Superman'. In the DVD commentary for the 1978 Superman: the Movie, Richard Donner, the film's director, claims that the he and his writers were the first people to have conceived the idea of the 'S' symbol as having Kryptonian origins. In the movie it was shown as a sort of family crest, first seen being worn by Jor-El (played by Marlon Brando) on Krypton. The most recent explanation in the comics, offered in the title 52,
is that the sigil is the Kyptonian glyph for hope and that when inverted it means resurrection.
Kal-El chooses to wear the symbol to honor his Kryptonian heritage and it is misread by Earthlings as an "S," sometimes inspiring the moniker "Superman" in The Daily Planet's headlines.
2006-08-30 15:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by Zholla 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pardon me, but the original way the character was written, it was a stylized S, not a Kryptonian letter. Superman has gone through some changes, some of which old time fans accept and some of which they put up with because they don't have to pay attention to them.
But for goodness sake! Please! don't tell people they're not Superman fans! Some of those folks have been reading Superman comcs since before you were born! That's like telling a Dodgers fan that they were never in Brooklyn! (Get a sports buff to explain that to you, if you didn't understand that.)
Some things as nottttt as obvious as they seem at first!
2006-08-30 14:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I still believe it stands for Superman, but from the silverage onwards it has been a symbol for the House of El...Like a coat of arms. This is primarily after the Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. Prior to this Jor-El wore a planet on his clothes. Not even going with the later revamp by John Byrne.
2006-08-30 14:13:08 · answer #4 · answered by David Y 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thanks for the enlightenment.You're just super, man. I thought it was his Family Crest for the House of El (Jor-El, Kal-El), but I heard that before DC revamped and updated there"loose ends" with the Crisis on Infinitive Earths" years ago.
2006-08-30 14:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by Pundit Bandit 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The symbol is his family's Crest.
2006-08-31 15:39:14 · answer #6 · answered by tmcs1959 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm okay chill
2006-08-30 19:00:44 · answer #7 · answered by simpleplan0013 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You tell em.
2006-08-30 15:26:04 · answer #8 · answered by wyldcatt76 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This isn't even a question...
2006-08-30 16:05:03 · answer #9 · answered by sportzman1991 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You go girl...do we stil say that?
2006-08-30 14:00:14 · answer #10 · answered by Iamstitch2U 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋