Super Dickery: Difference between revisions

* This trope in Silver Age Superman covers is given an amusing nod in ''Masterpiece Comics'', a parody book that has famous literary works in the style of comic strips and comic books. The retelling of ''[[The Stranger]]'' has Superman standing in for Mersault, and the novel is told through a series of what look like Silver Age Covers. Thus, the dickish things Mersault does in the book are a close (if exagerated) parallel to the kind of things Superman would be shown doing on the cover.

* ''[[Sleepwalker]]'' did this in-story at the end of one issue. A mob of bizarre alien "mindspawn" who all strongly resemble Sleepwalker are invading New York City and killing the innocent bystanders. The issue ends with Sleepwalker seemingly destroying and absorbing Rick Sheridan's mind, with the final caption asking if Sleepwalker is a [[Super Villain]]. It's later revealed that {{spoiler|Sleepwalker actually absorbed Rick's mind in a special weapon to protect him from being killed by the mindspawn, who really ''were'' going to kill him. Sleepwalker knew that if he tried to fight the mindspawn, Rick could have gotten hurt in the crossfire. This way, he could both keep Rick's mind safe and ingratiate himself with the mindspawn, which allows him to free their human prisoners.}}

 

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