Superman 2025 has not enough Hawkgirl

Blender Dumbass
October 28, 2025

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I love Isabela Merced. Ever since I saw her being this absolutely amazing girl in Michael Bay's Transformers 5 where there isn't enough of her either, I was a fan. I even genuinely tried to like Madame Web because of her part in it. And so it was rather disappointing to see how little screen-time she has in the new 2025 James Gunn film Superman. In case you didn't understand the title, she plays Hawkgirl.

James Gunn direction is a little silly. Especially in this movie, his direction feels kind of like whatever Robert Rodriguez does with his family-friendly pictures, just with a proper budget and therefor not half-assed visual effects. Is it bad? Depends on what you want to see. Something like the Man of Steel movies by Zack Snyder tried to immerse the audience in the what-ifs of Superman's reality. They were trying to show what it would be like to have somebody as strong and as all powerful as Superman. Both from psychics perspective and politically. The 2025 Superman is more allegorical. It has not a lot of interest in realism. As I said, it feels like a Robert Rodriguez movie. And while Rodriguez movies are fucking silly as fuck, they are still good entertainment. And sometimes even good political thought pieces, like his Machete.

In my opinion it is a stroke of genius to cast specifically David Corenswet in the role of Superman. Being from a Jewish family, that brings quite an interesting layer to the political allegory this film is going for. Some people say the movie is about immigration. Some say it is about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Maybe it is both. But Superman being Jewish... Hm... That is some interesting complication.

I really like the scene where Superman agrees to be interviewed by his girlfriend Lois Lane ( Rachel Brosnahan ) thinking that he knows all of the answers. And it turns into a complete disaster. Because while he is a well intentioned person, he is rather politically awkward. Like he doesn't really think things through too much. And that can cause political tensions. And she is trying to point it out, while he is trying to pretend that just being good is enough. Is it? Is the movie trying to preach that being good while not thinking about the entire world of geopolitics is a good thing? I mean, the movie concludes at Superman realizing that it is okay to have human flaws.

Also what is this movie trying to do exactly? James Gunn directed Marvel films before this. Technically speaking Madame Web ( with Isabela Merced ) is a Marvel film. ( Well more like a Sony film with Marvel characters, but you got the point ). Nicholas Hoult who plays Lex Luthor was in the X-Men films before that. X-Men is Marvel. Nathan Fillion ( Green Lantern ) was in Deadpool movies, again Marvel. Edi Gathegi ( Mister Terrific ) also was in X-Men. What is this thing? Are Warner Bros. and specifically DC desperate? As in they are trying to get as many Marvel people on board as possible. Or are they messing with Marvel on purpose. As if to say "hey losers, look who's on my side now".

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In my opinion it is a stroke of genius to cast specifically David Corenswet in the role of Superman. Being from a Jewish family, that brings quite an interesting layer to the political allegory this film is going for

Superman from the beginning was an allegory of the Jews.
A chosen person from, sent from a planet on a brink of death. Having power surpassing that of regular men, keeping his true identity secret.
Chosen people running away from a country on the verge of death. God's chosen people, with high talent but are forced to keep secret their true identity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070203164558/http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/superman.htm

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Blender Dumbass c:1

@Troler even harder "hm..."

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@Troler even harder "hm..."

Never Trust Proprietary Software With Security

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There is a person on the inter-webs, who dedicated himself to reviews on security devices. His name is Lock Picking Lawyer and he showcases how secure real life locks are. In his video 1543 he reviewed a rather peculiar security feature on a lock from ABUS. Which is strengthening itself not by building some clever mechanism that is hard to bypass, but rather, uses law, to make bypassing it more illegal than it already is. They made the key-way ( and by extension the key ) to be shaped as the trademarked logo of the company. Therefor producing or distributing blanks for this lock would be a violation of the trademark law. Using proprietary software for security is doing the same mistake as trusting this lock by ABUS.

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