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And in the real New York people are obsessed with superheroes even though they're not real. Imagine how obsessed they'd be if those heroes were real and could be spotted out in the wild. I mean sure, you'd probably have some Gothamites / Metropolites who were too cool to care. But, you'd also have obsessed fans staking out the places where these heroes were likely to appear.
And, for Henry Cavil's stunt, people didn't notice him or didn't recognize him. But, he was in Times Square. The place people would stake out to try to find him would be red carpet premieres of things. Similarly, Superman superfans would stake out The Daily Planet. Even if they didn't know he was Clark Kent and worked there, they'd know that he always seemed to be around whenever Lois Lane was in danger.
Yeah but you're not getting the disguise, it works because nobody expects to see Super Man walking around looking like a nerd.
There are countless stories of people spotting a teacher at a nightclub, or someone they know from church at some fetish event. Just because you don't expect to see someone somewhere doesn't mean you won't recognize them when you see them.
Also, as far as everyone knows, Superman doesn't have a civilian identity. It's pretty public knowledge in most continuities that his name is Kal-El, that he's a Kryptonian, and that he lives in the Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the arctic. Sure's he's in Metropolis a lot, but he also clearly has something going on with Lois Lane.
Wasn't there a plotline about a reporter trying to kidnap Lane to force Superman to show up, or am I hallucinating?
In a movie? A TV show? A comic book? In the golden age? Bronze age? Silver age? Platinum age? Modern age? Copper age? Chrome age? Plastic age?
idk, it could have been fanfic for all I remember