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Molly Edwards

Superman has a twist from an obscure 1970s comic book to explain why no one realizes Clark Kent's identity, because "the glasses always bothered" James Gunn

Superman.

It turns out Superman puts a twist on Clark Kent's classic disguise of a pair of glasses – and it's borrowed from a comic book published decades ago.

Instead of just wearing regular glasses in the DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters movie, Clark instead dons hypno glasses, which conceal his identity better than a regular pair of spectacles would by – you guessed it – hypnotizing onlookers.

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