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Dean Cain complains new 'Superman' is too 'woke' and pro-immigration

Former Superman Dean Cain believes the hero has always been 'tremendously immigrant friendly,' but worries that James Gunn intends to push the character in too 'woke' of a direction.

Dean Cain, who played the Kid from Krypton on the series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997, confessed in a Wednesday video interview with TMZ that he has some reservations over James Gunn's new vision for the hero. In this landscape, Gunn's statement of fact that Superman indeed immigrated to Smallville from across the galaxy has inflamed right-wing commentators like Fox News host Jesse Waters, who joked that "Superman is fighting for truth, justice, and your preferred pronouns," and suggested the Man of Tomorrow should sport the symbol of the gang MS-13 on his cape. But Sean Gunn, James' brother, who also appears in the film as the billionaire Maxwell Lord, took the original baton from his sibling and ran with it, stating, "We support our people, you know?

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