I like to look at the cultural phenomena that is Superman.
He started out as a sort of reverse Flash Gordon character, dressed in a circus strongman outfit. That was high concept back in the 30s.
And we’ve spent a lot of the intervening time trying to keep him relevant by writing and re-writing the minutiae of him…
and trying to think up a good reason that he was still wearing a circus strongman outfit from the 30’s.
Big… Red… Boots.
Kinda weird, but we’re used to seeing them, so… he wears them.
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