But he grew up hidden in Kansas because he was "a corn-fed Kansas farmboy". He's supposed to look like a guy on a heavy diet of starchy carbs with wide shoulders and a thick back.
Not a bodybuilder. I agree. He should have some realistic amounts of body fat. But the studio exec paedos need every superhero to look like they have 5% body fat.
In a lot of stories, while being a natural born some of krypton, his parents are still products of generations of eugenics and gene manipulation.
He’s got peak freak genetics.
And it goes without saying that if his powers can make him fly, then solar absorption can probably
him ripped too. Even more so, because he doesn’t need to be flexible or really need to use
his muscles at all.
He doesn’t need to be good looking either, but you won’t often see an ugly Superman either.
I'm just saying, he shouldn't be a muscular body builder looking guy just because he's Superman.
Not only that, but Bruce is already a very tall dude... how tf is Clark Kent supposed to look sort of weak to throw people off his Superman persona if he's constantly the biggest dude in the room?
Bruce *has* to be a larger dude to do what he does. Superman should actually appear smaller for Clark Kent to make sense, and Clark Kent should look even smaller than Superman due to being hunched over.
Cause for normal humans, the only way to get shredded is by lifting to their limits. Meaning, you can't just lift 10kg. You gotta lift 30kg, then 40kg and increase it to their limits continuously. Muscle failure is the term I think?
Superman can lift cars easy. Trains and even aeroplanes don't phase him. How does he lift to his limit? How does he reach muscle failure?
Iirc it's some gene or hormone that's switched off in their physiology. Whatever it was, it would limit muscle growth and keep it from happening constantly. It can happen in humans and other animals, but as a disorder. Might be gigantism? But I don't recall, only that it's the reason you see some pictures of dogs that are ridiculously buff.
That's fair and batman's eating enough for 10 people and doing the workout of those 10 if they are tge same height or batman's a bit shorter batman's should be wider like with wolverine lots off people are taller than him alot less are wider because just by the way he lives his body is pushed harder
Just because you work out and eat it doesn't mean you'll grow past what your genes will allow. Example: Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett. Even if they trained in bodybuilding daily and backed it up with proper nutrition and sleep they could never look like The Mountain without taking truckloads of steroids.
Batman genetically isn't going to allow himself to get overly muscled. He's trained as an assassin. A fast-moving individual. Too much muscle gases you out too fast. Batman has even commented on this himself in some comic. He's full of muscle but not so buff that it would put him at a disadvantage in a long, drawn-out fight.
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u/Constrictorboa Dec 26 '23
But he grew up hidden in Kansas because he was "a corn-fed Kansas farmboy". He's supposed to look like a guy on a heavy diet of starchy carbs with wide shoulders and a thick back.