Dean Cain Claims Superman Can’t Say “Truth, Justice and The American Way” Anymore

this is a joke, right?…
you claim Superman stands for “the American Way”, and yet the only proof you give is a comic panel where the sergeant- not Superman- says “i believe in the American way”…

This guy has lost his mind. I mean he was a good superman on tv but man he has just lost it for real.

Oh Dean, bless his little heart. He’s a good dude, but his political takes are… somewhat juvenile, to put it mildly. At least, he can always rest in the knowledge that he hasn’t gone full Sorbo.

In fairness to him, Superman probably wouldn’t say “American Way” for appeal to the international market. Being part of the international market, that’s fine by me. Bring back the “champion of the oppressed” title instead.

His take about super-heroes being cops is questionable as well, but it’s not an uncommon take.

Yeah… What happened to him?! I don’t begrudge my Republican or conservative brothers and sisters (I’m an independent and it really depends on the issue), but one doesn’t have to have a persecution complex to make their point.
Superman #27-29 (published 2017) are about Clark and Lois taking their son on a celebratory trip in America; including Gettysburg on the 4th of July.
To take his point of “Superheroes dominating our culture” for the last decade a little further; the highest grossing film of all time’s second male lead is Captain America!!

I think he’s right for movies and television. But in comics Bendis uses Truth, Justice and the American way a couple of time in his Superman run.

The success of superheroes in media and movies also makes them a bigger and easier target for either side and sadly Superman is always a huge target. As for the “American Way” I guess that while I sure as hell do not think America is perfect and that we have problems that go beyond “a few bad apples” I’ve just never read into the presence of that line as an endorsement of the actions of a particular administration or necessarily saying America is never wrong about anything or other the “way” of other countries and cultures sucks or anything like… Read more »

Oh for Pete sake… does not anyone remember the controversy in Superman Returns where they deliberately avoided him saying “Truth, justice and the American way…” and instead have Perry White allude to it by saying “Truth, justice, all that stuff…”. And it has not been said since in the movies. The comics may be another matter but in terms of his recent depictions in film and TV, no it’s not there… on purpose. At least it was with Returns.

Dean Cain is not proven wrong by that Comic Panel, dude. You literally just posted Superman not saying The American Way, but Sgt. Rock.

Even in ’78, Reeve was speaking it and was soundly, cynically and rightfully mocked by Lois (“You’re gonna end up fighting every elected official in this country”) in a cynical post-Watergate America. But Superman’s deal is his earnestness. He means things in the most earnest way possible. Not from some exclusionary perspective but one of his broad ideals and his caring for humanity as a whole (with America happening to be home). It’s why I’ve always liked him and Cap: They both have a strength of character and humility I wish my country and its government would display. No abject… Read more »

Dean isn’t wrong. Removing “…and The American Way” has been a slow process, but it’s certainly happening. To deny that it isn’t happening is silly. A better question would be to examine why it’s happening, and then to ask ourselves if it is a good idea. I think this issue really first became a conversation piece with the release of Superman Returns. “All that stuff…” was particularly bad, and an obvious way to remove “…and The American Way” from the slogan. I remember huge debates about it on the DC Message boards back in the day. If a writer is… Read more »

In all this discussion, there has been no definition of what the “American Way ” is. I rarely get into political discussions, but I thought I would chime in. Can we define the American way as what we see on the news accounts where police use excessive force as to kill a suspect? News stories about police killings sparking riots looting. Is the “American Way” about doing away with history that dosen’t agree with the narrative that is popular these days. Is it about canceling programs that show the every day lives of police officers and what they do in… Read more »

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the phrase “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” came from the original George Reeves “Adventures of Superman” TV show of the 50’s, which now being 66, I remember  watching it in the 60’s on local TV after school. Given that the show was on during the Eisenhower Administration, I always thought it was added to “the truth and justice” part to be patriotic in much the same way that “Under God” was added to the pledge of allegiance in those days. As a Baby-Boomer, George Reeves has always had a special… Read more »

To the SupermanHomepage, it’s staff, it’s members, and to all my fellow Superman fans in the USA who are celebrating 4th of July this weekend. I wish you all a Happy and safe Independence Day. 🙂

Dean Cain is basically now one of the scientists that didn’t listen to Jor-El.

Dean Cain is one hundred percent correct. If these people out there are coming after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Mt. Rushmore, even Jesus Christ, you can bet they’d be coming after Superman. They already have with that Time Magazine article and it will only get worse as long as the crap we’ve been seeing going on is tolerated. Everything we’ve been seeing is straight out of the marxist/communist playbook and it’s clear these people want to destroy America under the guise of social reform. They’ll be burning books in the middle of the streets soon enough. “The fascists… Read more »

I believe in this day and age that there’s not ONE part of, Truth, Justice and The American Way. that wouldn’t be mercifully picked apart and applied to some groups over the top “definition” of how if any body sponsors that saying, your somehow for oppression, racist or any other ridiculous twisted version of their left field values. And you watch, Hollywood will respond to this garbage in their favor.

Hmmm… Having now read the article, I noticed that Superman was not even mentioned. Just the tittle Batman V Superman is the only time the name Superman is written. And it was more about Batman being a vigilante. There was no Superman bashing in the article, and no specific mention of “Truth Justice and the American way”. So the whole thing was about politics, and even the author of the article seems to agree with what some of the posts here said…Keep Superman out of politics….Period.

First off, a happy fourth of July to all members, American or otherwise. Hope you all had a nice weekend. The American way is seen from 3 perspectives. What good hearted and hard working Americans think and view it to be. What bad intentioned and opportunistic Americans think and take advantage of it. And how the curious world think what the American Way really stands for. Way of life. Culture. History. It’s an ideal and a spirit to strive for. And it always depends on real Americans how they view it to be in their hearts and in their minds.… Read more »

Dean is 100% right. And most comments here agree. The site can only cite one comic panel and Superman himself doesn’t even say it. Just admit Dean is right and stop being so politically correct.

With all due respect towards Dean Cain, the “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” argument is nothing new at all. I have some Bronze-Age Superman comics from the 1970s where the wording was changed to “Truth, Justice, and the Terran Way”. I had to actually look up what “Terran” even meant (I came to the conclusion it meant he was fighting for people all over the world, not just America). That was the 1970s. We’re talking 40+ years ago, DC was already removing “American Way” here and there. If I’m not mistaken, some versions of the animated cartoons over the… Read more »

I just wanted to mention that on Brandon Routh’s twitter page he mentions #American way. And he did recently play Superman again for the CW 2019 winter crossover event. So technically Superman did say the American way.

And WB, please give Brandon a Superman series. 🙂

Dean Cain, I don’t know if you read my comments but I just wanted to let you know that I wasn’t disrespecting you or anything like that. I met you once a few years back at a comic con in NJ and you were really nice to me. I just wanted to clarify what I meant. I hope that you know that I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful to you, or embarrass you and be political when I said that I believe that Superman would still say the American way. And that when I gave an example of Brandon Routh… Read more »

He is the biggest joke. POS trump supporter.

uhhhhhh… I believe Mr. Cain’s comment was taken outta context.
You see, he did not claim that Superman WON’T be allowed to say “Truth/Justice”, he only stated that he wouldn’t be ALLOWED to speak of it, else he’d be called out on so-called “Cancel Culture”.
Superman would still say his “Truth/Justice” moniker, it’s just that the SJW’s who voted for Hillary would be all Butt-Hurt about it & call him an “ist-phobe”. ;p

Man…I come to this site to escape all the craziness going on. I avoided hitting this article for awhile. Dean has a political leaning and I don’t appreciate him using a beloved character as his pawn to spew his own views. He played the part. He doesn’t own it. From what I understand he is only out to make a buck off the name anyway. I think Brandon is a much better ambassador than dean is. I can’t stand when Superman or Captain America get dragged into real life political garbage. I. only got through maybe 20 of these comments… Read more »