What If Superman Crashed/Was Raised in a Communist Country?

[Peter-Vell]

Originally Posted by CessnaDriver

Having not read those alternative origin books, I'll offer this...
Going along with the atrocities committed by the NAZI regime would have conflicted with Kryptonian way of life and the teachings of Jor El. Same goes for the things Stalin did.

I think he would have been in conflict, he would have possibly believed propaganda at first, but they could not hide the evil things they were doing and he would have rebelled as he got older.

That is my take on it.

Yeah, but, wasn't it the Kent's influence that made him so "Human"?

[MrYac]

who's to say Hitler or Stalin would've shared with him the memory crystals to even know what Krypton was

[Kicksplode]

Originally Posted by wktf

It has? What's the story's name? Would love to read it.

He appeared in Final Crisis, mainly in that Superman Beyond 3D tie-in. A slightly different version appeared prior to that during Countdown to Final Crisis. I thought the character had appeared before in a more self-contained story, but I guess I was mistaken. I think Morrison is going to explore his world (Earth-10) in more depth during the Multiversity mini-series.

[CessnaDriver]

Originally Posted by Peter-Vell

Yeah, but, wasn't it the Kent's influence that made him so "Human"?

Certainly. But there would be others, the planet is full of humans and the stories of many of them inside these twisted regimes would not have stayed hidden.
I think Kal-El, with his natural curiosity of the Kyrptonian mind, would have sought out more then what these regimes would have been feeding him, and he would find the light of humanity himself in others.


If I remember the very early origins of Siegel and Shuster, he was a bad guy.
So perhaps in a way this has happened already, the light found the character even in the real world.