Because they looked like that in the comics.
Or, because they looked like that in the show!
I guess, we all want to stick to the very first image that we came across. I mean, Brandon Routh's good looking too, but somehow it's always Dean Cain whom I recall when I hear the word Superman.
Why? Isn't it obvious, too? The first *Superman* program that I watched as a kid (actually a teenager) was *Lois and Clark*.
I didn't like Reeve's Superman-the movie. Can you believe it?
