I know that secret identities predate computer analysis by decades,

The explanation is called "it's a story about a invincible flying man that can shoot lasers from his eyes and you shouldn't read too much into such details."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6o1GIEsQE

>>93328021
>10,000 hours of WayneCloud computing time and not one stinking match!

It happened in Byrne's Superman, Lex thought it was too stupid to be true that Superman would spend time as a print reporter

>>93328021
Batman wears a mask that fucks his features up for the software. You could also argue that Clark vibrates his face or something like the flash. Or his Glasses are magic and hypnotic. Realistically, thouh, Superman would be caught by facial recognition.

Would his glasses being able to throw off facial recognition be too weird?
Like they were some experimental LexCorp brand that ended up in Clark's hands after his first trip to the optometrist?

Everyone in the government were gay for superman, instead of outing him they had fap parties watching Clark use the bathroom

>>93328021
>but is there an explanation for how superheroes stop people with facial recognition software from finding them?

With Superman, it's simple. Nobody thinks he HAS a secret identity. They know he's Superman, his real name is Kal El, they know he has a home(The fortress of solitude has been public knowledge in most continuities), they know he can get food whenever he wants it, and... that's it. So a guy like Clark Kent looks like him, so what? Superman doesn't hide his face, it's not like he's shown any reason he would care if someone knew who he was. He literally flies around showing his face to the world, what difference is it?

Batman's easier because it's just his lower jaw, and it would be a match for multiple individuals assuming anyone got a clear picture of him, which very few non-heroes do.

Never say "Don't think about it", because if you can't figure that shit out you shouldn't be worrying about people pointing it out, you'll enjoy it all the same.

Whatever happens to reveal an identity like that will have a contrivence to undo it at the end of the story. Like the time Lex did exactly that in the OP but threw a fit and refused to believe he was some random smuck.

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>>93328151
>You could also argue that Clark vibrates his face or something like the flash.

>>93328021
>but is there an explanation for how superheroes stop people with facial recognition software from finding them?
Facial recognition software STILL doesn't work. Literally, it doesn't. You can try to test it with maybe a few thousand sample faces, but the issue is that false positives is so huge that you can't really identify anyone with it. This is why no one has ever been arrested using the damn things. It is fiction, just like those "enhance the image" narrative shortcuts.

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>celebrities like Clark Kent

>>93328021
Because most of them have used their shapeshifting or illusion creating friends to appear in the same place at the same time.

Nobody thinks Superman has a secret identity, and even if they did they'd have no reason to suspect it was Clark Kent, considering they've been photographed side by side.

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>print media
>well-known face

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>>93328021
This>>93328223
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But most importantly this>>93328081

>>93328021
You seem to be under the impression that facial recognition software is at all reliable. Why is that?

>>93328021
Clark Kent? The sports writer for the Planet who keeps getting moved to do other sections because they keep downsizing? Christ the only reason he is well known is because you see that tub of lard waddling behind her or because that fuck has no clue about baseball.

>>93328286
>It is fiction, just like those "enhance the image" narrative shortcuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk

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>>93328256
Source? Looks like a fun read.

>>93329369
Superman/Batman Annual 01

It's pretty great and even Not-Leagally-Deadpool shows up.

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>>93328021
Reminder that Superman was created in the 1930s when literally every man dressed like this. It was easy to blend in.

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>>93328021

>>93329188
That might explain Luthor, but not others.