Christopher Reeve refused fake muscles for Superman 

He is THE Superman! No one has done it better and closer to the comics!

Something funny to hear Darth Vader trained Superman.

No wonder superman is powerful he was trained by a Sith Lord

You can see David Prowse's physique in "A Clockwork Orange"

Have you done a video on Kurt Russell on how he took 18 months to get in shape for the movie Soldier?

Yes, you nailed it. I absolutely agree with your comment.

1000% Correct!!!!

He gave us an ideal to strive for

@@TheMendo123 I think he really nailed it to the point they can’t find a better actor to play super man

Reeve was my favorite, but I think Brandon Routh's portrayal is more like how Superman would act.

AMEN 🙏

Brilliant as Clark Kent too. ❤

yes, this why many fans of Superman is pissed off and angry at Gunns decision to fire Cavill. because Cevill himself is a mirror image of Superman just like Reeves was. also RIP, Reeves!

@@jeremys6631 Yeah, but under THAT logic, we'd have to have Brandon Routh back...no thanks..🙅🏾‍♂️ And i like Brandon....but THAT film...just no...🤮

@@fluorosco that was so overlooked. he was quite brilliant as Clark Kent.

I can't say the same regarding Chris Hemsworth.

Imagine thinking reaching this physique in 2 months is possible without steroids. You people are why nobody has a good understanding of what a good physique is anymore.

@@zzodysseuszz Quiet woman.

​@@zzodysseuszz Nobody is saying that what are you on?

He wasn't competing in sports, so what would the problem be with taking steroids? And besides steroids, all the men in Hollywood are on testosterone and hgh.

Krypton had a red sun they weren't super strong on krypton, it was only when they got to earth that they got God like powers

@@shawnbass-ig2bvyea on krypton they were normal on earth they got powers

@@shawnbass-ig2bv I think @topsecret1837 refers to golden age (earth 2) Superman, the Kal-L.

In the 78 film his father says his dense molecular structure will make him almost invincible and his mother worries that he will seen as strange and "different". Thats why his father recorded many lectures about morality and set boundaries for him. It seems he didn't want him to become arrogant.

Yes, but on Krypton he'd be normal. Lifting normal things, looking normal. On earth, he's picking up very, very heavy things, which would make muscle grow pretty well. When people go into space, it's the opposite...muscle atrophy because they're using them less. So using them more will do the opposite.

that is pretty cool imagine meeting chris reeves he was one of my childhood heroes

It's a real shame what happened to him

You said Reeves with an S on the end, glad you spelt it that way coz I also remember him being Reeves. Well guess what, the Mandela effect happened now your in a parallel universe a different timeline where he always was Reeves. Sound strange? Look up Mandela effect changes you'll see

@@andoncroftwhat the fuck are you talking about? It’s always been reeves, no on else ever thought it was anything different. Ever.

Ele foi um herói na vida. ❤

Facts. His moral character in real life, made Superman "perfection".

Stop, I will cry..

Yeah, 'cause we can he'll or heights, right? 6'4" is actually really tall.

@@elduderino9439 Yep even for me a 6ft tall man.

True

Lies again? Heavy Weight

He was cobsidered the best of the original supermans this man was top g legend of superman of his time but sadlt he broke his neck horseback riding and died

@@benboiy4601 he did not die that day. He died October 10th, 2004 from cardiac arrest brought on by a bad reaction to an antibiotic he'd been given for an infected pressure ulcer. Those are common among quadriplegics and others who are confined to a wheelchair or bed bound due to an inabilty to move independently to allow blood to circulate.

@@joaniekeyser4036 oh yeaasshhh now I remember sure the pills they gave him killed him but he still say some of the cause was from the injury of his broken neck

​@@benboiy4601 little bit more to that story, he was paralyzed for 20 years and helped push stem cell research, and a bunch of humanitarian efforts.

Sad bro died so young

handsome but you getting carried away

​@OwO ok we won't

Along with other all-around great people like Reeve ofc.

You know steroids cause cancer specifically lymphoma the same cancer he died from.

Yes! Christopher Reeves

Superman should be short and ugly

He was not super muscular. That was the point of this video. And you don't have to be. Your attitude encourages a lot of young men to use steroids.

@@johnnastrom9400 you should focus on your home work

@@johnnastrom9400 If that's what you took from that comment, you're a dunce

​@@johnnastrom9400 wtf are u talking abt just sttfu like actually

Smallville’s Superman is just like that too. Sweet smile.

Even the way he talks and smiles! You can tell hes a total sweetheart! And the fact he was so determined to genuinely do his best for the role just ❤❤❤❤ hes absolutely my favorite superman by any standard

So you think Henry Cavill is big when he's not even 6ft tall.

@@gauravpandey8328 theres a difference between big and tall

@@gauravpandey8328 it’s easier to be big when shorter… the same weight will appear smaller/lighter on someone taller.

He literally compared a guy on PEDs as "today's standards" vs a guy that wasn't. No fucking shit.

@@holographicfrog1503 literally, most of these lot don't know what PEDs even are and how normalised it is for some

Where the fuck do you live that 225 is not big by “todays standards” like what 😂

my dude, those "today" actors are on heavy steroid usage besides purposely getting unhydrated to make the skin thin showing more muscles, they just don't tel it openlyl but anyone can see

Plus in the original comics. Superman weighs 225 and is 6'4. Comic accuracy on the nose

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​@@andrewlex2240but the original superman was George Reeves though back in the 1950s before Christopher Reeves though.

​@@MrLionelg33And?

@@MrLionelg33 Alright But than You Don't Know The real Sory Of Jerry Siegel And Joe Schuster....The Two D.C. Companyman Are Steal From Jerry & Joe The Caracter And Made That Series in 50's.... But Jerry & Joe Got Back Superman In 1978 When The real superman Christoph Reeve Is Comming Out....Watch The Doumetary About it... So Christoph Reeve The One And Only!

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So true, in the 80's my grandpa was paralyzed due to home accident, he saw Superman on betamax and he repeated it over and over after rehab when he gets home and he was able to walk again! Christopher Reeves' Superman was just so positive!

He smiled and didn't scowl

Not all of us were losers like you. We didn’t need to look up to fictional characters or celebrities to be inspired smh

Then he fell off that goddamn horse

I mean, no, people on PEDs can absolutely look like this, and I wouldn't be surprised if Reeves was on testosterone supplementation if this transformation was decently quick. Taking steroid's doesn't make you a bodybuilder, taking a serious amount of them combined with the right work does. Plenty of dude's on gear look worse than Reeves did in his prime because they don't know what they are doing.

True!

You can achieve much more being natural, but ofc you have to be doing it for an extensive amount of time, you can't easily bulk up lean mass because of a role

Not even close!! One can do better.

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯🔥

Lolol hilarious chadwick crap actor

@@cantagiousca5220 bad bait

Lot of hard work was put into gaining 33lb of muscle in 10 weeks. Well that and the steroids of course. Same thing the modern actors do, Hugh jackman, and chris hemsworth to name a few notable ones.

@@cyruskhalvatihe literally is natty bro wdym

​@@cyruskhalvati Hugh Jackman is natty, Chris Hemsworth is not

Henry cavill is natty bro

​@@callumbennett2013 Hugh is not bro, pick up the history

Ehhh

Brother, he's been replaced so many times already

@@Day9294_This is gen x bias they don’t think anything new is good

He’s the real Superman what do you mean? His personality as Superman was literally copied tons of times. That’s how iconic and well fitted he was for the character

Not until you all started wanting to cancel everything!

superhero isnt about being a certain height

Fr he's literally got everything on looks aspect

He is around halfway there

@@AC-mp7cxSo there is no difference between a 5’0 superman and a 6’4 superman?

@@Mantelarbro thinks 8 pack matters more than face 😂😂😂

I agree

All the actors playing super heros these days are on PEDs.

We have better supplements and food nowadays

@@victorrahman we have better food now than we did in the 80s? Lol, reeve wasn’t around during the Irish potato famine, the food is the same, we just have a little more education these days on the science of muscle building and diet

​​@@victorrahman the food is worse. There is a decline in nutritional value in fruits and vegetables traced all the way back to 50s. Industrial methods of growing food are unsustainable.

Henry didn't beat him. Just matched

and now he rolls perfectly

Let’s not forget Reeve was also the best Clark Kent hands down

Role*

U clearly don't know what superman is then

He had the mind of superman, the body followed, but he had the humility and humanity of Clark.

Yeah now they use steroids 😂

@@Glime_sznChristopher? Who?

​@@Glime_sznStop spreading hate even Henry Cavill refused to take steroids

@@VihaanBelani cmon you believe that lol look up how fast he got built

I grew up with that Superman, i can't watch the others, its trash

@@GabrielGarcia-300 in denial 😂😂😂

Reported

That's henry cavill

@@malsawmzualakhawlhring9875 Henry is a terrible Superman. Sorry.

What happened to him ?

he had a terrible horse riding accident that left paralyzed from the neck down but yeah he was a great man the real Superman

@@brauliomachado6872 Damn I didn’t know about that poor guy.

​​@@deepthe2972reatment for a pressure ulser common with quadriplegics, he had an alegic reaction to the drug, died of a heart attack age 52

@@deepthe2972 he had a horrendous horse riding accident, basically fell off the horse and landed straight on his head, doctors said if he landed one inch to the left he would have died and one inch to the right he would have been totally fine

i do

@@JupitersSprite Talk about your mammy instead.

@@user-ud9ow5yi7n my mom is pretty cool, how is your mom?

Until eminem

Until South Park

He was trained by darth vader lol

Weight gainer

@@TheDripMeister Weight gainer is just carbs

​@@TheDripMeister nah he had the newbie gains

a lot of people don't understand the taller you are the harder it is to get bulky

1000% agreed.

Good to see you remember Reeves, as it used to be...

Christopher Reeve, not Reeves.

@@ValiantWrestling semantics.🤨

I grew up watching him in the spanish channels, his mannerism his way of being strong and kind, influenced me alot, he will always be my only true version of superman.

And youd be dumb to believe him. He went from 178lb to 220 in less than 10 weeks. I love Christopher reeve but i call it like I see it. Theres no way that someones gaining 20% lean body mass in 10 weeks. That math just aint mathin.

​​​@@cyruskhalvatiten to eight weeks is plenty of time. It really doesn't take a very long time for your body to transform if you have the consistency and dedication. 178 to 220 is not a huge leap. That's about 45 lbs. He bulked up, had a high protein diet, which with proper training can have you gain muscle mass incredibly quickly, and he also took vitamins. Achieving 45 in growth within ten weeks is incredibly achievable. Doing that and having the muscle definition you see actors having nowadays however, is far less likely and incredibly suspicious of steroids or PEDS.

@@cyruskhalvatiwhen you become a doctor

@@ADreamAgo512 gaining 20kg of lean muscles in 10 weeks is not normal at all. In no way. Not with the best workout and diet plan in the universe. Especially considering that there was no memory effect since he had been skinny for his whole life before that. He probably took human growth factors which were really popular among actors of that era, not considered juicing and often sold to the actors as vitamin pills.

@@cyruskhalvatiYou have no clue . It’s easily done , I know cause I’ve achieved it back in my 30s .

He truly is Superman

Was??

@@kufenkiproduction7069 I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but he died 20 years ago.

@@Slekbit oh shit if my calculations aren't wrong wasn't he 53 at that time. He still had time

Hell yeah it is.. good lord.

that’s still a unit today lmfao. imagine Mike Evans, jus the *slightest* bit shorter.

It still is lol

He was a big guy, just needed to add some muscle and he didn’t even go overboard. Henry Cavil is a solid 6 ft and looked amazing but he was still smaller than Reeves and don’t think he weighed more than 200lbs.

Wouldnt say a unit bro 😂 that's the right weight for a man of 6ft4. Hes a unit for putting in the work like that and its the 70s bro not 5000 years ago 😂

Thank you, most women do love a strong man like me. That's why they call me superman 😜

I was so in love with CR!!! He was the Superman I identified with as a young girl because I love the dichotomy of being mild mannered in the office and having a super confident alter ego otherwise. I have a Superman S tattoo because of him. RIP Christopher Reeve.

@@markharris1473awkward

​@@markharris1473calm down, kid

@@markharris1473you weird

*of....... of Superman....

He's always gonna be Superman to me

Yeah but you’re definitely 45 years old or older

@@kevinsanders2071 I'm 44 m but I've seen other Superman's and they're just not that impressive except for the most recent one

@@meggrotte4760 Henry cavil is definitely my favorite one but I’m 22, reeves was dope i just don’t like the graphics n shit compared to nowadays. Its not really fair to compare em i guess

And a big package

He's also handsome, i think he looks a lot like the original comic superman

​@@007oskariafter Reeves, comics started looking like him.

gayass

He was a gentleman in the truest sense. The kindest most decent soul you'd ever meet. A rare gem.

He displayed the duality between Clark Kent and Superman perfectly

I think Henry whats his face looks the best, The one from the Keven Spacey movie was to thin i think.

Tom Welling ❤

​@@porko882 Brandon Routh is naturally bigger than either Reeves or Cavill. He didn't bulk up to his easily achieved potential because he was playing Reeves' version of Superman. He walks around at Reeves and Cavill's size without working out

Henry Cavill is the only one who actually had Superman’s body

Henry is the perfect Superman..

But did he or was it natty

@@mhm6 take it on face value. Who randomly says “and no steroids.” Sometimes you have to place trust in other people. I trust he was being honest with how upfront he was.

@@nick-dq1hh I want to kiss you bro

@@nick-dq1hh idk bout back then but nowadays most actors take roids

@@thomas.thomas Pretty rare back then. The idea of this video is that this is the first real muscular transformation specifically to fit a role. But I don’t know I’m sure there’s old examples.

Yes, he was an inspiration and his wife stayed by his side to the end.

Rip. 🙇🙏🥀🥀🥀

Man tears filled my eye reading this. He gave so much hope. 😢

I won’t stand for this and Christopher reeve won’t sit for this either. -Eminem

His face is spot on and most suitable superman....

That was a "super" point of view 👏👏👏

I literally just realized that he looked like superman getting a good glance at him, he just has a handsome face that sneaks up on you and that's perfect for superman AND Clark as certain faces are too recognizable

​@@TransformersNibbasInDisguise54no shit, that's why they cast him as Superman silly

@@walmarp that's literally why I feel silly lmao. I just looked at the screen and was like "wait that's superman" I'm just far more surprised they pulled off casting so well.

Such a great point 👌🏼

😂

Gay😂

​@@jerryrivera7704 And so was Christopher Reeve.

hot AF

Nah

How transphobic! Are you saying some manipulated and brainwashed teenage girl can't get a double mastectomy and by the power of her narcissistic nature still not be superman!?

Brandon Routh was the closest to Christopher Reeves in my opinion. All the others were too dark and not "innocent."

@@CNC-Time-Lapse To be fair Brandon Routh and Christopher Reeves are the same Superman technically

Cavill seems like a great dude too.

@@bu11ymaguire Yeah, I’m really sad the writing fell short for him imo.

he looks like handsome squidward

Exactly, the hair and face couldn't be any more perfect at the time

If they updated the costume but didn't go too far off base, to keep with the comic book look, it would last forever

💯 he is prettier than all the leading actors and actresses since back then till today. just like a Kryptonian should be.. not of planet earth 😅

​@@tomkuz_ by todays standards😃

Absolutely right it’s like he was born to play SUPERMAN

I agree

All natural too. So sad what happened to him.

Definitely one of the most handsome if not the most handsome man to ever grace the silver screen

@@animalmother5287 I completely agree. He was extremely handsome

Very "pretty" face. I think they put eye shadow on him here

True 😊

I liked Reeves. Someone should have told him a 6'4" 225 ilbs man shouldn't show jump on horses.

I left the theater the night I saw it believing a man could fly. Beautiful movie. RIP, Kal-El.

Born 86, but I feel the same.

My dad was born 45

Served vietnam all that crap when he first saw this with his son paul he found it .. meh it got old just like seeing star wars the first time im his son of the third family the other two well he was like rich almost multi millionaire but he married well wrong choice of women and was a top g real man and he moved on one by ine he left them never them leaving him

Born 71. I wouldn’t say he’s the only one, but he is the gold standard.

85' was a good year and he's the only "Man of Steel" I know! 💪💯

How does being 6'4" put him (or anyone else) at a disadvantage?

​@@michaelcoletta4547it's harder to build muscle the taller you are. That's why mf under the average height are able to fill out there frame by just reading the word creatine. (Of course you have to work hard in either situation but it is way harder for those who are tall)

​@@michaelcoletta4547 Taller you are, harder to look bigger and fill your frame with muscles.

@@stynershiner1854 Ahhh.. makes sense. I know having long arms is a disadvantage on the bench press, too.

Not really, it depends on muscle genetics and athleticism. He has a great frame and good genetics.

I'd say gentlemanly charm personally.