Given the whole Gay Superman Situation, we can imagine that there was no way that the folks at Warner Bros. were going to let their new, embattled Man of Steel handle any footlongs to promote their internal employee screening menu (huge version with directions to the hot dog cart here) and risk overheated exegesis of the Da Vinci Code-level symbolism buried deep within an image of the superhero holding a problematically phallic snack food. Instead, they wisely handed off the perilous assignment to their unquestionably hetero villain, who, in our opinion, could have at least pretended to be impressed with the link's size.

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