Superman gay twitter movie#
Louise Mingenbach was the costumer designer on Returns and told Newsweek at the time that “There was more discussion about Superman’s ‘package’ than anything else on the suit.” And according her, the powers-that-be on the film ultimately ruled that the size of the package was “not big,” though everyone who saw the movie can judge for themselves. Like Christopher Reeve before him, tending to Brandon Routh’s super-bulge was someone’s actual on-set job for Superman Returns. In fact, Routh’s “package” was the subject of fan and media speculation. Serving as a kind of loose sequel to the first two Reeve films, Brandon Routh’s super-trunks were tighter than any previous on-screen version of Superman before. During the entire run of Smallville, Tom Welling never was seen in the Superman costume for an extended period of time, meaning there wasn’t much of a bulge to examine.īut all of Superman returned when Bryan Singer’s 2006 film, Superman Returns brought the Last Son of Krypton back to the cinemas for the first time in nearly two decades. Notably, when Superman came back to life in these comics, he sported a mullet and an all-black suit, which mostly hid any suggestion of a super bulge. In 1992, DC Comics “killed” Superman in its famous “Death of Superman” arc only to resurrect him in 1993.
![superman gay twitter superman gay twitter](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/2b/c7/3d2bc72c2d5ec4a0bd2bc22aa9539e11.jpg)
And this super bulge wasn’t rivaled for nearly 20 years. Reeve’s bulge remained fairly constant all the way through his final appearance in 1987’s Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Hollywood has a long history of this crap. Recalling his casting in a 1979 interview in Starlog, Alyn described his audition, mentioning he was first asked to take his shirt off, and then, more: “I was in good shape at the time … the said ‘Kirk, take your pants off … I was shocked … but … ‘I have to see what your legs look like’ … “ But in 1948, Superman’s super-friend became flesh-and-blood, as the first on-screen version of Man of Steel emerged starring Kirk Alyn. While the ‘40s gave the world the first radio Superman, as voiced by Bud Collyer, listeners learned nothing about Supe’s bulge from the radio show for obvious reasons. There’s no proof that the secret Schuster art inspired Schaffenberger’s slightly bigger bulge, but as the ‘60s approached, Superman’s bulge got girthier.
![superman gay twitter superman gay twitter](https://abuwjaawap.cloudimg.io/v7/_lgbtqnation-assets_/assets/2021/08/Jon-Kent-Superboy.jpg)
By 1957, when the ongoing comic Lois Lane: Superman’s Girlfriend was launched, artist Kurt Schaffenberger’s take on Supe’s bulge was a little more pronounced. According to Secret Identity and Tim Hanley’s 2016 book Investigating Lois Lane, Schuster almost certainly drew these erotic - and secret - versions of Superman for the money only, but still, the bulge was out. In Craig Yoe’s 2009 book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster, it’s made clear that a simulacrum of Superman - drawn by Superman’s creator - was running around in 1954, flouting his sizable bulge. While the package was barely seen in the ‘30s and ‘40s in the official Superman comics, Shuster did secretly illustrate underground fetish cartoons titled “Nights of Horror” in the 1950s. Ain’t that the way it always works?Ī panel from Joe Shuster's "Night of Horror" comic Still, as Superman’s popularity grew, so did the size of his bulge. In writing about superhero trunks in 2011, Jim Beard pointed out that the trunks are connected to the “proud heritage of the circus performer,” not some kind of external male lingerie. In truth, the red “undies” were not supposed to actually be external underwear, at all. After all, why was he wearing “underwear” on the outside of his tights? We’ll never know, but it’s possible that the Last Son of Krypton was tucking in those days, or just very confused about how people deal with their private parts. Back then, when Superman was drawn by Joe Shuster, his trunks and crotch area were pretty flat, meaning his bulge was almost non-existent at the start of his illustrious career. The history of Supermans “bulge” goes all the way back to his very first appearance in Action Comics #1 in 1938. 38 years ago this weekend, Richard Donner’s Superman movie was promoted with the tagline “You will believe a man can fly.” The visual effects were impressive, but what he was packing behind his fly was impossible not to notice. Because he’s a guy wearing a skin-tight outfit, every single part of Superman is accentuated, including his fortress of solitude.
![superman gay twitter superman gay twitter](https://cdn.gaystarnews.com/uploads/Superman_DC_Comics_Artist.jpg)
Superman gay twitter tv#
Whether you want to admit it or not, if you’ve read a Superman comic or watched any of his many TV shows and movies, you’ve thought about the Man of Steel’s bulge.