All-purpose, running Geek thread (formerly Battlestar Galactica thread)

Forgot about that weakness.
I don't think the Force, as we're forced (no pun intended) to accept it from the prequels, is magic. It's more like a mutant power.

 

New Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, complete with a peek at the Vision and a few more plot details, but nothing that hasn't already been floating around there as a rumor.

 

ANT-MAN trailer:

 

I don't have to accept shit about midichlorians.

 

CBS's new version of Supergirl:

 

Looks like Renee Zellweger trying to prove her geek creed by dressing up in a Supergirl outfit.

 

Well, the "pre-transformation" Renee Zellwegger, anyway.

I think it's OK -- nothing logical says Supergirl should be massively ripped.

(For that matter, nothing logical says Superman should look ripped either, except he's always been depicted that way.)

 

I like that better than the Man of Steel cosrume.

 

Has he? Always thought he was depicted as a big-framed guy, but fairly normal-looking.
Considering he's always using his muscles, though, he shouldn't have much fat on him.

 

Depends what artists from what eras draw your "definitive" version. Curt Swan, DC's main Superman artist fron the 60s-80s, drew him as well-muscled but not bulky (Reeve was cast mainly on his resemblance to the Swan Supes). But other guys (Wayne Boring, the mainstay in the 40s-50s, and Alex Ross in the 90s/00s, drew Superman as monstrous -- instead of the 6-4, 225 Chris Reeve, the Alex Ross depiction of Supes could not have scaled under 275 pounds in the flesh.

 

I didn't read Superman enough to differentiate between individual artists. I guess my definitive version would be from the early to mid 90s. IIRC, he was usually depicted in that period as being ripped and muscular (as most superheroes were at the time and should be, considering their "job" is as physical as a pro athlete) but not outlandish like some of the Rob Liefeld creations creeping around other parts of the comics world.

 

The flip side to that is that if you've had superpowers since infancy, as Superman is supposed to, you've hardly ever exerted physical effort which, for you, would be any more strenuous than lifting a paper clip off a table, so you might actually be expected to be in relatively poor physical shape.