The death of Superman

[scarfman]

crossposted from a comment at multi_genre_fan

...what's up with Clark? In every format I've ever seen for the character of Superman, his hair is usually hanging loose when he's in the cape & tights and slicked back when he's in the suit & glasses. So why is it that Lois & Clark reversed this?

I wondered about that at the time. I saw it as symptomatic of the dekryptonianization of the character that started or at least was foreshadowed with the first Reeve movie, as I discussed in the 90s (in the voice of Archy the Cockroach) here. To summarize: Jules Feiffer's assertion, that Superman is the only hero who assumes his true identity when he takes his mask off, is no longer true. So, in Lois and Clark, the reason his hairstyles were reversed was, I suspect, because someone wanted it said, "The sensitive nineties guy, not the muscleman, is who he really is."