#uncanny superman

[mallorybraz218456]

I love the thought of Superman giving major uncanny valley vibes to all humans.

His eyes are just a shade too blue, his face is too symmetrical, his mouth has too many teeth, and there’s just something wrong about him that sets everyone on edge. Lex Luthor has nightmares that Superman’s perfect jaw opens to reveal a carnivore monster with a three-meter tongue and four divided sets of different pieces of gums, each with their own multiple rows of teeth ready to attach to Alex’s bald head and suck his brains out (literally). The horror.

Everyone (except Luthor) still loves him, of course, he’s the Golden Boy of the world. But… he sure was made to be admired from a distance.

Clark Kent, on the other hand, is the most wholesome man on the planet no matter from which angle. Tho everyone does think it slightly weird how he is so attached to those glasses of his…

(Bruce is too autistic to be affected by the uncanny valley, he is just annoyed Superman is so unfairly handsome [and sexy].)

[binxdilution]

You ever think superman gives people the uncanny valley effect? Since he's almost human but is most certainly not he's gotta ping something in the human brain that either makes people think "oh this guy's a little off" or they tense up ready to run if he moves wrong because of how loudly their brain are SCREAMING at them to get away from this not human.

It'd probably be better as superman and not Clark Kent cause superman is known not to be human so the instinct that's telling them he's not is ignored since they already knew that.

And as much as I love the idea of him being great with kids I think because of that instinct they wouldn't like him, at least not in person anyway, if they haven't met him they draw pictures and write letters and be so excited with the idea of him but then they meet the guy and their little brains are telling them to both bolt and bite this guy. Babies would be inconsolable around him and only stop crying when he gets pretty far away from them.

It'd probably be horrible for Jon too. He's not human either and still makes that instinct activate so he'd be ostracized by his peers from their sheer terror of him for seemingly no reason at all. Even teachers avoid him unconsciously without knowing why.

Just the idea of Clark Kent the reporter smiling at someone on his first day and them tensing ready to bolt while looking both terrified and confused even though they just looked at this random newbie. It takes months for any of them to be able to go a whole day without being instinctively terrified of this random white man but after a while not even the baddies in Gotham make em freak out since they've been working with what their brains are convinced is an eldritch nightmare.