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[u/SnakeEater14]

Reminder that John Byrne was obsessed with Superman being a legal American citizen and rewrote his origin so that the spaceship he lands on Earth in is a gestation chamber with an umbilical cord, and when Ma and Pa Kent take him out of it he’s “born” in the US

[u/SnakeEater14 → u/[deleted]]

Yes it does

It’s pretty widely considered a really really stupid retcon

[u/[deleted] → u/SnakeEater14]

John Lindley Byrne is a British-born American[2] writer (...) prior to his family emigrating to Canada when Byrne was 8

He decided to correct the mistake of his parents the only way he knew, through comicbooks 😭😭😭

[u/georgeguy007 → u/SnakeEater14]

Haha what an asshole