10 Stupid Arguments About Superman That Don't Make Sense

9. His Origin Makes No Sense

The Last Son of Krypton laid the basic template for all superheroes that came after him, from the costumes to the powers and the secret identity, including the necessity of a tragedy in his origin story. Batman's parents might have lived and Spider-Man's Uncle Ben might have been spared if Clark Kent hadn't begun his superhero career being flung at supersonic speed from a dying planet. Actually born Kal-El of the Planet Krypton, his father was Jor-El, a respected scientist on that far-off alien world, many light years from Earth, who was nonetheless ignored by his peers when he warned them there world was dying. Buoyed by their defiance, he decided to build a life raft so that one Kryptonian would live on, to tell their story and stop the race dying out completely. But he made one that was only the size for his new born baby boy. If he was prepared enough to make that, why didn't he make a bigger one that he could use? Well, for one thing, he wasn't actually that prepared, having cobbled together that small ship because it took less time (a resource he had precious little of). Plus, an adult Kryptonian would have trouble adapting to - and being accepted by - another world.