Personality is the best mask
Lana: You are Superman? How did I not see this? How did not people put this together?
Clark: People see what they want to see
For so long, I mean since when I was very young, I had this thought in my mind, whenever I watched a movie like Superman (let me use Superman as an example)
I believe most of us have watched a Superman or animation, I started watching the story of Superman for a long time and I can't help but wonder why is he not wearing a mask? Like he will just show his face to everyone in daylight and people still won't recognize him, unlike Batman or The Flash that always put on a mask to protect their identities, Superman put on eyeglasses to feel among with humans, funny right and no one seems to notice him.
For some of us that haven't watched a single scene in Superman, let me just brief it here, Superman whose original name is Kal El (El is the surname), he's from a planet far far away named Krypton, and he didn't have much time to know about his people because his parents decided to fly him on a spaceship to earth because their planet was about to explode, when he got to earth, the couples that saw him has been for long looking for a kid but unto no avail so when he came in a space ship, they decided to take him as their child and named him Clark which he was answering before he began to know more about where he came from and his biological parents and his destiny to be earth's greatest Saviour, I will recommend you watch Smallville for more understanding.
He kept his ability secret and told few people he could trust with it, which kind of made him weird to some people in his school and also the office when he grew up, he knew that he was going to be a hero but how will he start living doubt life is one thing he thought off before he started showing his face as a superhero, that is kind of hard for him because everyone wants to see superman and he happened to be watching as a journalist, that makes things better and also dangerous.
Good because he will be able to know what is happening the around him and be quick to save the day, dangerous for him because everyone is the watching waiting to see the face of the red and blue hero and also revail his identity to the world, it wasn't an easy task for him though his hologram father told him to give up his human life and become a full-time hero with no break, but he couldn't because he has bonded with humans already.
He thought of wearing masl like Batman or The Flash, in the case of Batman, he's a hero with no ability but with a lot of gadgets and money, he's a billionaire playboy by day and a hero at night, living double lives but with a mask, The Flash, on the other hand, is a speedster, he runs very fast and sometimes even faster than the light, haha, he wears a mask to protect his identity because he's a cop, not just any cop, a scientist cop by day and na hero by night.
Superman would have worn a mask like the rest of them but he didn't, rather he wears eyeglass on a daily and started acting like a noob, always asking questions and doing as the most lazy person you will every meet,haha, he does it very well and he changed his personality.
I know you must be saying that the glass won't change a time and you would have discovered it if you were there, but one thing fact I will tell you is that you won't know if he was Superman if you met him in one work.
There's a saying that goes, if you don't see the hero in a person, you won't believe the person is a hero
No one was ready to connect the dots with him because they see him as an ordinary guy that looks like Superman but can never be Superman, even when he told his sons that he was Superman, they said that he was lying because they have seen Superman and their father can't be superman because of the way he acts sometimes like someone who doesn't know anything, no until he lifts the truck.
Personality can change everything about a man, if you have watched the series called Moon Knight you will understand more about how personality can make one person look like they are two.
Superman knew that if he wears a mask, someone might someday spot his face, rather he change the way he act and that gave him the chance to be among his husbands without being spotted, all these things that can make a man look different and not believe they can what others thought they can, it's just like having twins, identical twins, when you get to know them you will be able to differentiate why they look different.
Of course, people wanted to find the truth about Superman and where he's from, they know he's living among them but how can they find him, Superman went to the place people won't think he was and that is being a journalist, haha, its a man that is wanted by the police for a long time, so he decided to stay in the house very close to the police station, haha, you won't even notice he's there cause that's the last place you will think about or maybe of thinking about the place at all.
08-06-2022
You dragged me down memory lane with the issue of this Clark Kent. I sure enjoyed that series. Indeed, people see what they only want to see. It's the people closest to you that hides the most. Someone once said, show me a hero and I would write you a tragedy.
Personality is different from character. Personality is what we want people to know us and see us as but character is who we really are.