2006-12-23 03:42:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
There is more than one answer to this, and let’s take them one at a time.
The first answer is that bugs DO go splat on him! But he’s often flying at such supersonic speed, that the bugs char and vaporize off him by the time he gets where he’s going.
[They used to justify this in the older comics, that his Clark Kent clothes were always dull blue suits, because he used certain chemicals to make them friction proof, so that he could (in an emergency) fly around in his Kent suit without it burning off his bod. The chemicals that he used dyed the suit blue.]
So if he ever gets dead bugs on him, they won’t last long.
The second answer is that Superman does most of his high speed flying at higher altitudes where there are fewer bugs. He takes off and lands, but mostly flies high in the air, where it is thin. Hence: fewer bugs up there. (also, at high altitudes, it is colder, and that’s another reason there are fewer bugs.)
Third, (post Crisis) Superman is not ‘indestructible’ or ‘invulnerable’, but has a force field. This was established early on when Martha Kent made his first Superman outfit, and remarked that as he was growing up, she noticed that clothing next to his body never seemed to tear or get dirty. So, just like bullets bounce ‘off him’ (actually, bounce away from his force field, very close to him), so do bugs. That is why he had to replace his cape every so often, in the days right after the DC reboot, because it was so cool for the artist to show Superman’s cape getting torn to shreds. He ahd a whole closet full of them.
Finally, he has heat vision. Can you say, “long-rang bug zapper”…? I knew you could.
No matter which one of these methods he uses, NO FLIES ON SUPERMAN!
24 DEC 06, 0104 hrs, GMT.
2006-12-23 12:01:16 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's because the DC Universe have no bugs. Nobody ever complains about bugs unless they end up in the Rain Forest and even then... I don't see any bugs.
It could be a hot and humid day in Metropolis and as I search meticoulsly through each panel looking for bugs, I never see them. Characters will refer to them but they're never visible. It's a conspiracy!
I think that both Marvel and DC are hiding the fact that there are no bugs in their Universes to keep the rest of us from moving there... but I haven't been able to prove it yet.
You probably know the truth of this, being Catwoman and all... and are only adding to the confusion. Shame on you!
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2006-12-23 06:07:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They do. You have to look closer at the S ensignia and you'll notice the bug splats. I think superman was complaining about that off camera, and wanted to restructure his contract because of it.
2006-12-23 03:52:12 · answer #3 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As jesse said, "Because he is moving at such a high rate of speed anything that hits him gets deflected or turns into a mist and is never seen." Another reason is that, if I recall correctly, the altitude he generally flies at has no bugs.
2006-12-23 05:52:38 · answer #4 · answered by Robwood 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Superman is the unique large-speedster (even although Hermes/Mercury is the style for such characters) and replaced into rushing in the course of the country "swifter than a racing motor vehicle" as early as 'action Comics' #3 (1938). The Flash did not take position until eventually the very tail end of 1939. the 2d Flash confirmed up in 1956, and toddler Flash (who grew to change into the third Flash) replaced into presented in 1960. the speed pressure wasn't invented until eventually the Nineties, probably extremely technique of having faraway from the actual incontrovertible truth that the first 2 Flash(es) received their powers in injuries with regards to chemistry, and toddler Flash's foundation also lined an twist of destiny with chemical substances; the speed pressure invalidated the conception of very inconceivable coincidences generating large-speedsters, and it allowed for most speedsters to entice their information from a elementary source that still had a outfitted in reason in the back of why there have been this kind of large number of speedsters and likewise allowed for a ramification of their numbers. i imagine Superman's large-p.c. might want to easily be acknowledged as element of his birthright, because the speed pressure is more not person-friendly to video reveal to him. Comics are delusion, even although they in many circumstances have the trimmings of technological knowledge-fiction. attempting to apply common sense to respond to some questions about comic e book characters basically would not artwork, and that is sometimes more beneficial to imagine about why particular options got here to be linked with particular characters than that is to treat the options as "medical."
2016-12-01 02:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he is moving at such a high rate of speed anything that hits him gets deflected or turns into a mist and is never seen. Like when your driving your car in the rain. The water moves to the top and off your car.
2006-12-23 03:54:49 · answer #6 · answered by jesse 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
what does doing speed have to do with bugs going splat on him?
2006-12-23 04:50:52 · answer #7 · answered by guess_who 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bugs dont splat on him because his face is "super" aero dynamic and his his suit is "super" bug proof and he holds his hands out to hit the bugs while he flies
2006-12-23 05:15:26 · answer #8 · answered by jna1105 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do. The last thing that goes through their mind before they collide is their Ar-sole.
What's the last thing to go through a flies mind before it collides with Superman? It's Ar-sole. Get it?
2006-12-23 03:50:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the writer of the comic/animation doesn't include the bugs in the story. kidding LOL
that's all
have Merry Christmas!
2006-12-23 03:53:34 · answer #10 · answered by Change this name! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋