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But there is one scene in Superman that feels out of place even in that context, and it's during Lois Lane's first flight. Superman meets her at her apartment (one with a rooftop garden that implies she must have been trafficking cocaine on the side). After some light chit-chat, he picks her up and takes her soaring around the city. She then composes an internal monologue that nearly ruins the scene's magic:

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Imagine a 2019 superhero movie in which a character stops and, in a voiceover, says the following with 100 percent sincerity:

Can you read my mind? Do you know what it is that you do to me?

I don't know who you are. Just a friend from another star.

Here I am, like a kid out of school. Holding hands with a god. I'm a fool. Will you look at me?

Quivering. Like a little girl, shivering.

You can see right through me. Can you read my mind?

Can you picture the things I'm thinking of? Wondering why you are all the wonderful things you are.

You can fly. You belong in the sky. You and I could belong to each other.

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If you need a friend, I'm the one to fly to. If you need to be loved, here I am.