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technically superman wasnt born until the pod opened so hes actually a naturalized citizen!
Is that canon? Was he sent as an embryo or something?
As I understand it, there was one timeline in the nineties where he came in a "birthing pod", just so he'd be born in the US. That's been changed again since; aside from that weirdness, he's always been an immigrant.
Which makes sense - wasn't his concept conceived by two Jewish immigrants who wanted to give their spin on what an actual Übermensch would be like, as opposed to what Nazi Germany was putting out? Pretty sure that's how he got his name...
I mean, yeah, it kinda detracts from his whole backstory. Especially if the whole reason was just to be able to say "See? He's totally American by birthright!".
The whole point was that shit shouldn't be important.
In the 1986 post-crisis reboot his ship was an artificial womb and he was born on Earth. That was retconned again in the 2000s, though.
Glad it was retconed, Hate the concept is a vagina space ship bringing superman
Not in any continuity I'm aware of. They almost always show infant Kal-El being placed in the ship. My memory of Man of Steel is fuzzy so maybe that?
My knowledge of Superman is very basic, but I always had that image of him being placed in the pod as a baby.
Of course there must be like 40 retellings of that scene at this point if we count all media.