That could be a really interesting love triangle in the New 52. Let's say before Clark and Diana got together, he went on a cruise and had a one night stand with Barbara before she became the Cheetah. For a few years now, Barbara has missed and longed for Clark not realizing he's Superman. After her confrontation with the Justice League a while back and biting Superman and turning him into one of her were-Cheetah slaves, she's been thinking how something about him smelled & tasted familiar. Eventually she realizes that Clark and Superman are one and the same and that her greatest nemesis is now his girlfriend!
Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
what for, so we can have 2 women pulling each other's hair over a boy some more? No thank you. I really did love what Landis did with Cheetah but it disappoints me to learn that she was the option b. I can see now what Landis was going for, with Superman banging his arch-rival's girl...
Also I don't like that Superman, for me he's a coy, modest, adorably old-fashioned boy from Kansas that waits for the right one and puts a ring on her, that's what's absolutely charming about Superman. Keep that
What Clark does with his romantic life has never been a particularly heavy point of emphasis of any incarnation. Him being active sexually hurts absolutely nothing.
From a narrative and continuity pov there's no reason for this Clark to be old-fashioned anyway. Jonathan and Martha were hippies at one time according to issue #1. They definitely have positive values, but nothing to suggest old-fashioned ones.
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
Fact of the matter is he's an adult by this time and he's nice, smart, mysterious, somewhat aloof, and oh, extremely handsome. He's going to be approached. He's going to make some connections. There's absolutely zero wrong with acting upon them.
Besides, the notion that Superman, the guy whose nickname is The Man of Tomorrow should be old-fashioned, is part of the reason so many people don't get the character today. And I'm not even talking about relationships and sex here, I'm talking about the total character.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Sure. That said, why recast a current character's background to do so?
I just don't see much of a point. While "It's a small world.", it doesn't need to be that small.