When it comes to live action depictions of Superman, the names Christopher Reeve and Henry Cavill generally spring to mind first. However, the DC Comics legend has been portrayed by many others over the years - on big and small screen. The 1990s was a decade that passed by without a Superman film, but on TV screens the Man of Steel was very much still going strong in the form of Dean Cain's portrayal in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
The show ran for four series and despite Cain's popularity in the role, his career did not take the same upward trajectory as that of his Lois Lane co-star Teri Hatcher. Cain remained largely stuck to the small screen, with a career tailing off into TV films and low budget affairs, albeit he was never short of work. This diminishing return appears largely due to the fact that in 2016 he made the bold move of publicly endorsing Donald Trump for US president.
Republicans are frowned upon in acting circles, and very few actors have gone on to have successful careers once they have espoused conservative views. In a profession dominated by left-wingers and Democrats, known Republicans are marginalised and quite often mocked and smeared by the similarly leftist-dominated mass media. Dean Cain was cast just once in 2017 and has only appeared twice on TV in the last nine years. However, he opted to double and then triple down on his support for the Donald, endorsing both his 2020 re-election campaign and his successful 2024 run. Cain is also unashamedly Christian, making him doubly ostracised in acting circles.
Despite all the rampant discrimination, Cain remains a popular dude and has more than 850,000 followers on X, where he regularly shares conservative content. It was also on X - then Twitter - that he delivered an epic burn to a user that took exception to his declaration that trans figurehead Dylan Mulvaney and his male pal were not genuine females. "You were never Superman either", the user remarked, to which Cain replied: "Correct, I pretended".
Perfection.
Last week's trans Doctor Who meme generated 16 comments and 12 shares on Facebook, despite our collapse in distribution last week.
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