Why doesn't Superman ever go after crack dealers?

Yet another reason why batman is better.

Because then Superman would be a narc. And killer asteroids are way cooler than your friendly neighborhood crack dealer.

I’d like to think some of the larger, mortal villains in the Superman universe have some sort of connection to everyday criminal activity.

Batman is cooler, anyway.

Thats a very good question. But superman would be tired cause there is a lot of crack on the streets LOL

Superman has done that, particularly in 1984 or so, when an entire issue was devoted to him trying to get kids off drugs. (I bet that was funded by the White House, they way they funded TV shows at the time on the same issue)

They had Superman addressing inner-city crime in the 90’s and early 2000’s. He was always running into Intergang, the most boring gangsters ever. All the crimes were pretty boring too.

Superman does best when he is saving the clumsy humans from accidents and saving the entire world.

Because crack dealers need to be rescued, too. Superman is the man of the people, and druggies are people. It would be easier for Superman to rescue them then to fight them.

@tinyfaery Superman never fights crime in the ghetto. That’s all Batman right there.

Superman needed to get up off that crack rock.

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Then he wouldn’t be able to get HIS crack.

maybe crack has kryptonite in it. i mean, it was developed by the government, right?~

Because Superman is hooked on the H himself. Probably the same dealers who were selling crack cocaine.

Besides, let’s face it.

Superman is at his best when he’s standing in front of bullets and lifting shit.

Hello – he was probably lost in the k-hole.

why do you think he had “Clark Kent” and “Superman” as alternate personalities? ketamine.
he probably dropped some H for the come down.

@eponymoushipster Maybe Kryptonite has an addictive narcotic effect on Superman and that’s why it’s his weakness.

that’s my guess. or he’s just a skeezy hypocrite.

Maybe they are bribing him. Buying him off with nude pictures of Lois Lane.

@DarkScribe No need. Superman has x-ray vision.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic No need. Superman has x-ray vision.

Maybe he would prefer something less bony.

@DarkScribe it was shown that he has levels of x-ray vision. he can decide how deep into something to look. im sure he wasn’t seeing bones when he glanced onto fair lois.

@eponymoushipster t was shown that he has levels of x-ray vision. he can decide how deep into something to look. im sure he wasn’t seeing bones when he glanced onto fair lois.

You obviously know far more than I do about super-heroes.

Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. ;)

I was thinking along the lines of crack being kryptonite.

@DarkScribe for the purposes of this thread, it’s a good thing.

I didn’t think they had crack in Gotham City

Because there was no such thing in Superman’s day.

Superman does remove lots of drugs from the streets with money

OK, geek answer:

Of the big guns in the DC universe (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, Batman), Supes is the least “street-level” in terms of power set and the way he is written. As you move down the list above, the power level drops and the characters focus narrows (G.A. and Batman actually don’t have any powers – it’s all skill, training and gadgets).

If these heroes were real, it wouldn’t make sense to have Supes bagging street thugs when there’s bigger fish to fry. Sure, he could easily nab drug dealers, but Batman can’t easily stop a crashing jetliner. So they play to their strengths. Everybody has a job to do.

Because Superman needs to get “high” too!

@cprevite in other words, because Metropolis has a very high chance being blown up by a madman and is a magnet for crashing planes, drug dealers are, by comparison, small fry?

@eponymoushipster: Very true. It has also been argued that these major catastrophies happen to Metropolis more frequently because of Superman’s exsistence. He is a target. Without him, would some of these “Super Villians” have come to be?

@cprevite he’s a menace!

Obviously, Superman and others alike to his kin, are published by a crack dealer

Assuming of course that Superman is real, I would say we only get to see him do the big stuff. I’m sure he probably takes care of them when Lex Luthor isn’t causing trouble.

Because the CIA created crack and brought it into to major port cities with high African-American populations to get everyone hooked. Duh. In that narrative, crack is sponsored by the good guys, so why would any superhero go after them?

This requires that you accept that A) this is what happened (I’m willing to entertain the idea) and that B) the US government is the good guy.

Am I going to be put on a watchlist for posting this?

Cue the CIA appearance.

@Mamradpivo Noted.

Impostor. You’re not the CIA. This is the CIA.