What kind of Fortress of Solitude do you prefer?

[belloq]

I'm cool with any of the versions I guess as long as the concept itself remains a staple. With the word 'reboot' floating around so much these days, you kind of have to begin to worry what they'll dump if one indeed gets made. I always thought of the Fortress as one of the darker aspects of the character, in so much that it objectifies his lonliness brilliantly. Even with the Kents, Lois, whoever else he's given his heart to, at his core, he's still feels alone to a degree; always the orphan. In all the incarnations that I've read or seen (although, I'm no SM expert to be sure), his times at the Fortress is where I always forget about 'what' he is and ponder 'who' he is. These moments make me sad for him and what he's lost, which makes him even more of a hero to me because he presses on and puts on his fronts for the sake of the rest of us. I'm rambling, sorry, but anyway, it wouldn't suprise me to see Warner do away with parts of the mythos such as this. Leave it to them to remove some of the darker aspects of Superman in hopes to make him darker.

[SupermanUF]

As much as I loved the movies as a kid, I remember, even then, wondering why Superman would even want to spend his time at the Fortress, when there was so little to do there.

I call my garage my Fortress of Solitude. It's where I work on projects, where I build things, where I go to just have a little peace and quiet and go through old cds or old pictures I have stored in boxes. I always felt like Supes' Fortress should serve the same purpose--a workplace, a retreat, and storage for mementos from the past.

I've always been partial to the comics version of the ice mountain, with the robots and museum and zoo and computers inside, because it felt homey, like Kal-El made it his own. Melding this with the cinematic Fortress seems like a natural thing to do, and I'm a big fan of it--it's my favorite version yet.

[ye5man]

As long as its not a tree house as seen in Lois and Clark!

[EvilSupes]

LOL! ;D

[Conor]

Ha ha yeah that was stupid! Let me leave the only thing I have of my Kryptonian heritage that I just fought so hard to retrieve outside unprotected in a tree house!! Was there gay robot's protecting it?? lol

[Deleted]

It...looks like a crystal.

[Jor-L5150]

i like the idea of krypton-tech making it , but it shouldnt stay the same , in the donnerverse it always looked the same.

it'd be cool , at the end of the next flick to see some artifact , some demolished robot , a container of kryptonite , a little alien critter- some element formt the film and we see superman putting it somewhere in the fortress. that'd be neat.
i'd also LOVE to see a shot like alex ross had in kingdom come where he used the crystal tech to monitor earth's media and look for places to intervene .



THIS could come across as silly if it wasnt handled right , but i thinkit's be neat if superman used heat-vision to melt an ice-berg and reveal this key

[Legsy]

What's a waht?

[Kal-Ex]

I like the idea of mixing the crystal technology with the FOS of the old comics, the Alex Ross picture is very nice . There’s something poetic with the crystal and I like that.

In the movies and in Smallville, everybody can go into the fortress and do wath they want I think the FOS is like the bunker of Superman, nobody is supposed to be able to enter exept him, that’s why I like the giant key.

And for me the fortress has to be located in the north pole. I will be very desapointed if they build it in the desert or in the jungle.

[HOSNI]

Aug 27, 2009 14:12:33 GMT -5 Legsy said:

What's a waht?

I could be mistaken, discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it WATH, which of course in German means a whale's v*gina.



PS Crystals..

[stargazer01]

NO giant key, PLEASE!!!!!

[Matt in the Hat]

Giant Key, Please.


Back in the day it was so interesting to see the fortress in the comics. There was soooo much in there, all full of secrets and projects. And served many purposes for it. Some of my fave stories have the fortress in it, from one where perry turned evil and superpowered and was attacking Superman, to "For the man who has everything", plus others. A superman with a bunch of tools is better than a Superman with a bunch of crystals with information, because it shows that not only does he know all this stuff, he made it and has use for it. And of course, makes you wonder more about what it is and where it came from. One of the appeals of the Silver-Age Era. Alan Moore's right on the button when DC "threw the baby out with the bathwater".

[stargazer01]

If there is another Superman movie in the near future.. or whenever, I'm pretty sure there won't be a giant key. The concept is waaay too cheesy and outlandish for live action.

[Matt in the Hat]

How about in All Star Superman? Where the mass of a white dwarf is put into a little key? That was kinda cool.