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Superman's S isn't really an S

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Despite prominently wearing a massive 'S' on his chest, Superman's logo was retroactively changed to be a deeply profound alien family crest. The writers essentially convinced the world that an extraterrestrial symbol for hope just coincidentally happens to look exactly like an English consonant.

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