How the hell does Link know who Superman is????

External Since: Nov 09, 2004 Posts: 13

Link looks like he was born in Zion, and there doesn't seem to be much in
the way of pop culture going on down there. I found it odd that he would
make a Superman reference.

Matty-o

External Since: Oct 10, 2003 Posts: 196

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forth..

>Link looks like he was born in Zion, and there doesn't seem to be much in
>the way of pop culture going on down there.

The pod-borns *would* know who Superman is, though, in the same way as
they know what vampires and werewolves are - and it makes sense that the
Zion-born humans would be taught about the history and culture of their
ancestors on the surface.

The Second Renaissance is historical file number 12-1, indicating that
there are at least 11 volumes of material preceding it, with a
potentially infinite number of suffixed numbers. So I'm willing to bet
that there's a volume on pre-war pop culture in there somewhere. Humans
are aware enough of their own history to know that there was a *first*
Renaissance, after all.

>I found it odd that he would
>make a Superman reference.

I quite like the idea mooted here before that the brothers were double
referencing both the son of Krypton and Nietzsche's Superman - the
latter being in a constant state of rebirth and growth, forging his own
destiny ...and making his own choices. Which sounds rather like Neo.

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Gavin Smith
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