Your feelings are as fragile as glass

In some ways, Hero Day and Supreme Superboy Monkey were very much alike.

Hero Day.

Let us call him Hero Day for now.

As a puppet painstakingly created by the World Forger, a creature pieced together from matter, memories, and Fifth-Dimensional Power infused by the World Forger, he possessed the most absurd form of life and awakened consciousness.

Hero Day used the grand narrative of legendary superheroes to conceal the barrenness of reality and avoid facing himself.

Even when Chen Tao exposed his true nature to his face through the Wedding Dress Doomsday incident and questioned him about it, he still reacted exactly as Hero Day would. It was an embodiment of the French philosopher Sartre's concept of "bad faith."

Sartre believed that human beings were isolated, gradually invaded by materialism, industrialization, standardization, and Americanization. These forces forged beliefs within people, but those beliefs were all "bad."

Thus, Hero Day had merely been invaded and controlled by the World Forger's "bad faith."

Hero Day himself was not a superhero.

Supreme Superboy Monkey, however, had risen another level. He faced the meaninglessness of life head-on and rejected the mission and sense of belonging bestowed by the superhero symbol system. He embodied the absurd hero in the style of Camus.

Superboy Monkey confronted life's meaninglessness like Sisyphus pushing his boulder uphill. Even when he chose to help Chen Tao and Hero Day, it was not for some superhero mission or anything of the sort.

He simply thought:

Me, monkey. You, friend.

Monkey and friend together, living in the Prime Universe. Yay!

But Chen Tao had no mood to consider these complicated philosophical problems and existential paradoxes.

Barbatos and the Anti-Monitor were fighting inside one body. Chen Tao had never expected that the Dark Multiverse Batmen he had seized from The Batman Who