Like, i know i would probably kind of feel sad if i discovered that a whole planet exploded and that i was a member of it’s species, but i don’t think i would want to live there. It’s somewhere where i was when i was still a baby, most people forget their baby times around 3 years old.That would be like if was born in france, but my adoptive parents brought me to england when i was 1 year old and my dream world was one where i could met my french parents and live in france. Idk, i think superman dream world would not be one where his parents send him to earth due to thinking the planet was going to explode but later would be proved wrong. Thus coming in to see superman when he was older.
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He dreams of Krypton , but an idealized version of it. His “Jor-El” is a blend of Jor-El and Pa Kent , same goes for “Lara”.
His work is been a botanist with a little farm , his wife in the dream is a blend of Lana Lang and Lois Lane as well.
So, it’s not exactly like going from France to Engalnd. Both France and England still exist and both have primarily the same race(caucasian) so you wouldn’t really stick out.
Imagine if you were from France and it was destroyed but you were saved because your family sent you to live in Ethiopia. Certain degree you feel like an outsider because of who are and can’t really connect and there would be a lot of times that you wish you could build a life with your people. Its not uncommon for kids adopted for other countries to want to go to those others countries because they feel like an outsider.
That’s what SM. He wants to find a place that he truly belongs. Even though he has parents who love him and friends who care, he still feels like an outsider.
I think it’s more of an issue that he can’t (easily) imagine krypton whole and himself having cause to leave his family long term behind.
Clark Kent dreams of a world where he doesn’t need to be Superman and his sense of ethics is too strong for him to step down. The Black Mercy offered a dream of not needing to fight and actually having a quiet life with his family.
We know of 3 fantasies: Superman’s, Batman’s, and Mongul’s. Batman’s fantasy is that his father disarms the mugger and his parents are still alive. There are 2 reasons I can think of that Black Mercy would pick those two fantasies, rather than Supes achieving world peace, Batman being able to retire and making out with Catwoman, etc.:
They don’t need to become globe-trotting heroes and get into the kind of situation where you might be trapped in a fantasy by a psychic plant. So the Black Mercy is trying to create a narrative which won’t remind them of the events leading up to them encountering Black Mercy, by going so far back in the timeline that they never become the kind of person who would encounter this plant. The plant is effectively trying to “hide itself” underneath a pile of retcons
Black Mercy recognizes that adversity can force people to develop the willpower to escape the illusion, so it purposefully tries to identify and remove these events. Bruce and Clark are both “softer” in a fantasy/timeline where they grow up with healthy biological parents and aren’t burdened with the legacy of their otherwise-extinct line.
Both explanations also make sense for Mongul’s fantasy (which involves civilians screaming): Superman and the Justice League gave Mongul serious setbacks that forced him to get tougher and scrappier and acquire Black Mercy. In a fantasy timeline where he never meets them, he retains his hubris and won’t have any reason to worry that he’s been captured by Black Mercy.