#irreedeemable

And of course, I haven't touched upon the obvious, namely that Irredeemable is a wonderful parallel to Gold Morning. To strip the nuance out of a couple different series real quick- Gold Morning is about what happens when it turns out Superman was running off genuinely alien psychology that just happened to align with human ideas of heroism; Invincible is about what happens when Superman was secretly sitting on a legible-to-human-understanding but evil worldview and finally drops the act. But Irredeemable is about Superman going postal- snapping under the human strain of being Superman and making that the whole world's problem. It's a much more personal betrayal, in no small part because of all the evidence we're constantly given that he really was unironically the world's greatest hero, both in spite of and because of the countless layers of human trauma bubbling under the surface. He really did try! He really did try to live in the human world, and he couldn’t hack it. And this is why I’m really pulling for an Ireedeemable adaptation before the bottom finally falls out of the superhuman boom; it’s a take on Superman-gone-wrong that really hasn’t been poked at or unpacked in anything high-profile. Homelander comes closest, but he’s also predicated on never having been either sincere or effective.  

Irredeemable.

Irredeemable.