Any chance you could add "Kent/Clark Kent/Kal-El" as acceptable answers for "Can leap tall buildings in a single bound"? Yes, I know it's pushing it, but he DOES have an alter ego after all.
Think about when you hear the word homicide you know that means murder. So any time you see -cide know it means death. You know that maternal means mother so you put those two together and you get matricide. If you commit homicide you kill a fellow hominid aka person and if you commit matricide you kill your mother.
Yes! As I scrolled through the comments, I couldn't believe more people hadn't mentioned this. I was certain it was going to be ol' Hans, and I couldn't believe it when "moleman" didn't disappear from the answer text box.
Yes moleman fits this clue perfectly, tried it in various ways before giving up.
I wonder which is more known (internationally), personally I think I only heard of magoo once before and think that was on this site. (Only the name though, so non the wiser)
Same. I typed in so many different answers and had to give up because the actual one never popped into my mind. I thought I was crazy when I couldn't get it.
Tons of cartoon characters can leap tall buildings in a single bound. I know you're supposed to get the reference, but if you don't (like me) you wouldn't know who to choose, and you wouldn't get why Sakura from Sakura Card Captor is wrong
Well, since Superman has been around for almost 78 years and you tried typing in a character from an anime that I've never even heard of, I would get why Sakura is wrong.
I wouldn't be surprised if at least in Japan and among the younger generation, Sakura is more known than Superman.
Anyway, and while perhaps the clue could be improved, it's fair play because it refers to the opening of the classic Superman TV show. "Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound --- 'Look, up in the sky,' 'It's a bird,' 'It's a plane,' 'It's Superman....' "
I'd be okay with the clue if it had quotation marks around the actual words, like "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." That would eliminate possibility of anyone who doesn't fit the intended answer.
I wonder which is more known (internationally), personally I think I only heard of magoo once before and think that was on this site. (Only the name though, so non the wiser)
Anyway, and while perhaps the clue could be improved, it's fair play because it refers to the opening of the classic Superman TV show. "Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound --- 'Look, up in the sky,' 'It's a bird,' 'It's a plane,' 'It's Superman....' "
Bender "Bending" Rodriguez, it made me happy