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Man Gets Decades of Plastic Surgery to Look Like Superman
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Here's what sucks about being so into Superman that you want to dress up as him: He doesn't wear a mask. Any dude can be, say, Batman, as long as he doesn't have any facial hair or a deformed mouth or something. But when you put on the Superman tights, you're still stuck with your regular ol' head, which by the way looks nothing like Superman's. For a Philippines native named Herbert Chavez, there was only one answer: surgery.
Yes, Chavez decided that he loved Superman so much that he would dedicate years of his life to expensive plastic surgeries designed to make him look more like his favorite alien vigilante, because he apparently only watched the first half of Single White Female and thought it was a buddy comedy. Here's what he looked like back in 1995, before he embarked on his epic face-butchering crusade:
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Well, he seems like a decent enough looking dude, surely it won't take that much to-
And here's what he looks like now. Cue the music!
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AHHHHHH! UNCANNY FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE!
What you are looking at is the result of nearly two decades of cosmetic surgery, including nose resculpting, silicone lip injections, carving a butt crack into his chin with an angle grinder (we assume), and thigh implants. There are almost certainly more ingredients to this batshit cocktail, but those are the only ones Chavez will admit to.
The fruit of his labors looks more like a life-size action figure than Superman, although we admit that that might have been what he was going for.
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Thank God his parents didn't get him the Ninja Turtles pajamas he originally asked for.
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