There is so much exposition in this part. Just gimme a sec. (Also? That shirt? Took way too long to edit. But please trust the process.)
If you’re not already aware, I wrote a summary of the Battinson SNL episode forever ago. However, I will only be linking that on Saturday’s update. If you want to spoil yourself, you can find it somewhere on my blog, but I’m not handing it over just yet.
Clark should be slightly unnerving to look at. He passes human but people still get chills when they are in the same room as him. They get the primordial sense of 'Danger. Predator.' (There's just something wrong about him) It's the the Uncanny Valley - a non-human that looks like a person but could seriously injure you.
Most people can ignore it. But, every now and then (maybe he moved to fast, maybe the light caught his eyes wrong, maybe his teeth seemed sharper), people will flinch.
The first time someone doesn't flinch or look uneasy around him (save his parents) is with Batman. In exchange? Clark will do whatever it take for him (WHATEVER it takes)
Issue 200# of the Superman Family, cover date April, 1980, presented a possible future (somewhere around the year 2000). In this future, Superman and Lois Lane were married with a daughter named Laura who was just discovering her powers. On their wedding anniversary Lois learned she was pregnant and it was decided that Clark would become a stay at home dad so Lois could continue her career as a reporter. ("Lois Lane: Unhappy Anniversary", "Jimmy Olsen: The Thief At Sky's Edge", "Private Life of Clark Kent: Clark Kent's Frantic Fan", "Superwoman: Something Swims the Time Stream", "Mr and Mrs Superman: Celebration", The Superman Family 200#, DC Comic Event)
Lois: In that case... let's go get a real cup of coffee. And then we'll have lunch, the first of many. There will be ice cream and chalupas, picnics in the park, dancing in the rain. And you will take me to a monster-truck rally.
We never got to see their real cup of coffee 😭😭
The way Clark is smiling when he is listening about Lois's plans😍😍
What if Clark Kent was a food critic and his reviews always say "Not spicy enough" and all the ethnic restaurants in Metropolis try to make a dish that's spicy enough for "The Iron Tongue" but little do they know that Clark Kent is Superman, who snacks on molten lava like chewing gum. After a spice-related fatality, he switches to covering sports in guilt.
Bruce: Every time I read or hear 'Lois and Clark', I read/hear it as Lewis and Clark and I think of you guys exploring America together dressed in silly outfits being lead on a boat by Sacagawea
Clark: Wtf Bruce, I meant you can talk about your feelings