LOIS & CLARK Star Dean Cain Says Superman Couldn't Talk About "Truth, Justice, And The American Way" Today

LOIS & CLARK Star Dean Cain Says Superman Couldn't Talk About "Truth, Justice, And The American Way" Today

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain has never shied away from sharing his political opinions, but in a new interview, he makes some bold statements about playing Superman today...

By JoshWilding - Jul 03, 2020 01:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Superman

Since first sharing his support for President Donald Trump back in 2016, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain has become something of a divisive figure on social media. He certainly doesn't shy away from sharing his often controversial political opinions online, and many fans have disowned the actor as Superman. 

Recently, Fox News spoke to Cain about a number of topics, including a Time Magazine piece which argues that superheroes are basically just cops with capes who operate without accountability. 

At this, the actor became enraged, and said: "This whole cancel culture thing that we're living in right now is crazy. It's like an early version of George Orwell's 1984. Up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. You know, that's news speak, and it's crazy."

"This stuff just all drives me insane," he continued. "I promise you, as Superman, I wouldn't today be allowed to say, 'Truth, justice, and the American Way.'"

There's been a lot of backlash to Cain's comments online, but plenty of people do seem to agree. Writer Tom King is most definitely not one of them, though... 
 

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noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 7/3/2020, 1:37 AM
Round of applause for Tom King lol.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 7/3/2020, 5:38 AM
@noahthegrand - Dean Cain has a point. If racist Superman moments gets dragged into the spotlight, maybe the culture will cancel him too.
xfactor
xfactor - 7/3/2020, 5:47 AM
@noahthegrand - facts lol I spit up my coffee reading that tweet unexpectedly. I stopped messing with dean cain a long time ago, but Tom king is now the [frick]ing goat for that lol
528491
528491 - 7/3/2020, 1:40 AM
Chris Evans portrayal of Captain America is pretty much the embodiment of "Truth, Justice and the American Way" so I don't know what he's really talking about.

In my opinion, Zack Snyder's biggest mistake with his interpretation of Superman was assuming that this sort of message wouldn't resonate with modern audiences, and that we all wanted something grim and gritty that reflected today's more modern moral ambiguity, but that wasn't true at all.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 7/3/2020, 5:50 AM
@528491 - To Snyder's defense before he killed himself with several stupid interviews...his Man of Steel was supposed to focus on everything Donner/Reeves never did via the alien/sci fi side of Supes because Donnor/Reeves already did the superhero and human side the best. He did not want to rush Clarks evolution into Superman. His 5 film arc is MoS, BvS, Jl1, Jl2, and MoS 2. At the end of MoS 2 Clark will then finally become the "Superman" that people recognize the most and that was where Snyder leaves the DCEU too.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 7/3/2020, 1:40 AM
I'm not a fan of Tom King, but that was savage.
Kyos
Kyos - 7/3/2020, 1:54 AM
I quite enjoyed Lois&Clark back in the day. It's sad to see a former Superman lose it like that.
nikgrid
nikgrid - 7/3/2020, 1:55 AM
Dean Cain: "I promise you, as Superman, I wouldn't today be allowed to say 'truth, justice, and the American way.'"

[frick] you Cain...Worst Superman ever!
JustALurker
JustALurker - 7/3/2020, 8:42 AM
@nikgrid - it's true tho, the American way is prolly about resuming WW3 after the Pandemic ends.
pucrepeap
pucrepeap - 7/3/2020, 1:56 AM
He's right.
dracula
dracula - 7/3/2020, 1:57 AM
He isn't entirely wrong.
Cancel culture is pretty ridiculous, like seriously going through a decade of tweets to dig up dirt.......that use to be called stalking.
Also its pretty hypocritical at times. Like James Gunn and Hartley Sawyer were both fired over years old tweets, with no regards to who they are now. Yet Wendy Williams didn't really get any type of punishment for this

she apologized, but so did Jame Gunn and Sawyer.
Like seriously, you can be offended by anything, if your looking for something to be offended by
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 7/3/2020, 3:18 AM
@dracula - In the UK, they went so far back on Twitter that they found tweets by Winston Churchill, before the internet existed! When we were still using pigeons instead of wi-fi.

So he made some comments about how British colonialism was good for lesser developed countries and they tried to tear his statue down, despite being one of history's champions in the fight against fascism and racism and literally saving the world from Nazis.

Disclaimer: I'm fully behind the BLM campaign to weed out systemic American racism and corruption, but it's SYSTEMIC racism, not institutional racism. If we were to cancel things because of institutional racism, then we're talking about a full reform.
The difference being that a fight against systemic racism might lead to a Second American Civil War, but a fight against institutional racism would lead directly to a Second American Revolution.

Right now there are petitions for newspapers to close down because they were founded on slavery. Well, America was founded on slavery.

And if we're tearing down statues of people who supported the slave trade, then how about George Washington and all the presidents who ran things before Lincoln? They were in charge of the slave trade.
Should we tear down half of Mount Rushmore?

Again, I support the BLM movement to a point. But focus, people! Don't succumb to cancel culture lest you cancel yourselves.

I think that was in the Bible. Sounds like it should've been.
dracula
dracula - 7/3/2020, 3:25 AM
@GwenLantern - agree.
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 7/3/2020, 5:29 AM
@GwenLantern - dude, Churchill was a notorious racist. And no, it wasn't about some comments he made about colonialism was good. Its the fact he straight up said the people from the like of India were lesser people and the equivalent of dogs. Its the fact he caused a genocide there. And that he sent the black and tans, hired hitmen, to Ireland to murder civilians on his orders. And the nazi argument is dumb considering that the ruskis did most of the winning. And even the British public at the time couldn't stand him,proven by the fact they voted him out the first chance they got. People are sick of the revisionist history that's portraying him as some savior and glossing over all of his atrocities.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 7/3/2020, 6:31 AM
@BigPhilbowski - So, what about Mount Rushmore? Should we or should we not take that down?

What about the Lincoln Memorial? Y'know the big one where he's caught on the john and tries to look all stoic for the sculpture paparazzi.

Should we take down the man who freed the slaves because he ordered the massacre of native Americans?
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 7/3/2020, 6:32 AM
@BigPhilbowski - No historic heroes are completely heroic. We call our soldiers heroes. You know what they do for a living?
AC1
AC1 - 7/3/2020, 8:02 AM
@GwenLantern - you're really oversimplifying the issues we have with Churchill. He was extraordinarily racist, had a hand in influencing African Apartheid, actually vouched for Hitler prior to entering WWII and ending up on the opposite side of the conflict, caused the deaths of millions in India through artificial famine (i.e. withholding resources) because they were "inferior" etc. So those statues? They belong in a museum where they can be used to educate people on an unbiased history, not in public places to glorify him and gloss over his many bad traits.

And it's interesting you bring up Mount Rushmore considering that it was carved into a mountain that was considered sacred to Indigenous people by a sculptor who only did it because he wanted to be famous and that the thing was never even finished.
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 7/3/2020, 9:31 AM
@GwenLantern - There's literally nothing heroic about Churchill though. He was a piece of trash who was hated by everyone. Maybe you'd feel different if you had members of your family shot dead on the streets while out doing their shopping, on his orders like myself and a lot of Ireland have. And no it's not some distant relative either. My grandfathers brother was murdered by them. Someone who'd still be alive today if it wasn't for him.

And as for Mount Rushmore, it's a monstrosity that never should have been built and should be returned as a sacred site to the natives. You know, the ones who are still being forced off their land to this day. If you're arguing for keeping the statues of racists, slavers etc. up then we should also stick up statues of the Nazis. I bet you didn't complain when they pulled down Sadams statues. All stains in the history of the world should be confined to the history books and not celebrated or memorialised in any way
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