[Russic]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

See, this is something I've never understood. Is his disguise all that absurd? I recall seeing a video of Henry Cavill walking around a busy public square, with a MASSIVE Superman poster behind him. He was wearing the glasses, and no one recognized him.

I thought about this in one of the Spiderman movies, where Spidey's on a CTrain equivalent, and takes off his mask. An entire train full of people saw him, and not one recognized him.

I consider it in terms of looking around the city I live in. Calgary's got a modest population of a million plus. I used to take transit every single day, and I wouldn't know or recognize anyone on the train. I've had friends say that they saw me somewhere, and I was looking right at them and didn't see them (and it's happened the other way, too).

People really do see what they want to see. And in a city of 11 million (Metropolis' purported population), it's even easier to see.

Also, have you never had a friend who always wore glasses, and then took them off at some point, and you were all "Whoa, you look so different?" Maybe it's just me, as I wore glasses for years, when I switched to contacts, folks were quite surprised by the change, remarking how different I looked.

I don't see Clark's disguise as absurd. It's occasionally stretched into improbable, but certainly it's not that much of a surprise to me that it works (almost all of the time.)

The problem in my eyes is that Superman would be hyper-known. This isn't Bill from accounting...

Even on a Calgary scale, I don't think it would work. Can you recognize this guy?