Because he'll get trapped in a Midwest goodbye when he's trying to leave and save the world.
2025-10-10 00:53:21
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mark7289 :
Pa Kent says "Don't be a stranger" to every single person as a standard goodbye. Even if he'll see you in 5 hrs.
2025-10-10 03:03:06
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Julius AM Brown :
THANK YOU!
2025-10-12 20:39:06
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atomstone01 :
Read some of the comments, didn’t see this take… I think Gunn is trying to show us in the beginning that Clark is wrapped up and fixated on this perfect vision of his bio-parents. It’s after he sees the flaws in them and the conversation with Pa that he realizes how wonderful they are and, I feel, implies a turn to the more traditional “good son” he’s been in most of the comics.
2025-10-13 21:47:00
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Bret :
I thought about this. He can’t arrive as Superman and keep his and their identities safe. If he flies there that fast it will cause a sonic boom everywhere nearby the Kent farm every time he arrives. People will start asking questions. He has to get there the normie way to protect them.
2025-10-10 00:27:12
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TheoRob.Alt :
I love we all agree now that Metropolis is in Delaware again.
2025-10-10 03:46:54
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Jeremy Taylor :
The best bit with them is when they're on speaker phone, practically shouting into the phone. It's so funny because: 1. Every older person I know does this, and 2. Clark is literally the *last* person you need to make sure can hear you.
2025-10-10 16:22:23
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Luci :
I think it has to do with how Superman is right? He’s Superman. He can be there whenever. So Ma and Pa Kent aren’t bugging him to come visit often because they can just ring him, hell they can just kinda shout out in the fields if they wanted, and be like “come for dinner” and if he doesn’t have plans he’ll be there and if he does have plans he’ll be there the next night or for lunch. Travel might as well not exist for him so they don’t have to miss him while he’s off living his life in the city. Ma and Pa Kent have never really, in comics or adaptations, been clingy to him because they’re good parents and he’s always just a call away.
2025-10-18 06:43:10
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rosehaskins420 :
my oldest son cried, because Ma and Pa Kent reminded him of us.
2025-10-10 19:23:43
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lnfkdmdjsjsn :
I rarely tear up at movies but the scene where Pa and Ma are crowding around Supes after he gets saved made me nearly cry
2025-10-10 04:41:09
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kingdeadpool :
this is the most southern critique of a Superman movie aspect I have ever seen and it is the only one I fully agree with.
2025-10-10 13:06:16
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Morlock :
I thought it was kind of weird that ma didn't have a casserole already locked and loaded to force on Lois. She didn’t try to feed her ONCE what is that about??
2025-10-10 03:41:29
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NerdyOverThirty :
The Arctic, not Antarctica. I mean your point is absolutely valid. no one who can move that fast has an excuse for missing Sunday dinner with his folks. but he didn't get punched at mach 262
2025-10-13 12:33:18
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Mase🐻🇵🇷 :
Why doesn’t Clark have a country accent? Like I can see him giving that city/superhero accent as Superman but as Clark, I think he should sound like he was raised around people with very country accents
2025-10-10 06:16:01
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🌿Casper Leaf🌿 :
The only thing that makes me frustrated about the accents is that that's not what Kansans sound like. Like, I'm from Nebraska, I grew up in a farmer town. Pa Kent sounds more accurate imo. The head canon my friend and I came up with is that ma is from like Mississippi or else where in the South. I have no hate for her accent, I love them both, it just felt kinda stereotype-y of farmers, ya know?
2025-10-11 08:13:39
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Ben Boardman 📚 :
My favorite bit, and evidence of the brilliance of the Kents, is in the home videos. There isn’t a single shot of little Clark using his powers. Those people know exactly what would happen if there was video proof and they made sure there was none. Also the focus is on their little boy not the “strange visitor”
2025-10-10 12:48:13
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Zach :
their accent had a little bit too much southern draw for Kansas. I've lived here my whole life and nobody speaks like that. It didn't take me out of the movie but it wasn't a Kansas accent
2025-10-10 13:48:44
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Detective Mark Smarks :
"tell him don't be a stranger" "Pa says don't be a stranger!"
2025-10-10 01:01:22
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ScottFree :
Pa saying “that Luanne, she seems nice” is his way of telling Clark “why haven’t you told us about Lois?”
2025-10-10 13:11:20
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Dreaming Shark :
Are you saying that Pa Kent ISN'T the type of man who always says "don't be a stranger?"
2025-10-10 02:11:19
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wildgrover :
kryptonite has nothing on saying goodbye in a rural family.
2025-10-10 12:50:50
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Kodebreake :
the phone call is a dead give away while yes clark can easily get over there hes a busy man and ma and pa in this universe are definitely the parents that like to talk and trap you in a dialogue for hours
2025-11-07 08:51:14
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Thundergrump :
I spent a bunch of years in Kansas during my early 20s. I thought the Kents sounded fine. As for the visiting, Clark could stop going super sonic shy of Kansas and still make great time.
2025-10-10 10:59:42
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Kirby Davis :
THIS!
2025-10-10 18:26:03
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DiNA :
I grew up on a farm too, and when I saw the cows there, I literally said "Man I hope Krypto knows not to go after those." Just for Clark to mention later that he had to take the dog with him back to the city so he WOULDN'T attack the cows. I know it's small, but that made the farm stuff feel super authentic lol
2025-10-10 03:53:25
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