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47 Years Later, Superman's Hypno Glasses Are Canon. Again

Ryan Britt

created: July 7, 2025, 6:19 p.m. | updated: July 11, 2025, 5:38 p.m.

When Clark Kent puts on his glasses, nobody seems to know he’s Superman. It’s one of the silliest conceits in not just all of comic book lore, but perhaps, all of popular fiction, ever. And now, in the new DCU Superman reboot movie, that exact plotline seems to be the basis for the current Clark Kent canon. David Corenswet rocking the hypno glasses as Clark Kent. By 1985, DC would collapse several of its multiverse strands in the infamous Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, which is why, as Gunn has pointed out, the Hypno Glasses have been largely forgotten.

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