Over the past decade, Herbert Chavez has had surgery on his nose, cheeks, lips, chin and thighs, as well as injections to whiten his skin, in a bid to resemble the Man of Steel.
'Superman is my idol. I want to look like him,' the 35-year-old Filipino said.
'That's why I copied his nose and the proportion of Superman's face.'
During the day Chavez works as a dress designer - sometimes wearing thick-rammed glasses to mimic Superman's Earthly incarnation Clark Kent.
But like Kent, he transforms into a cape-wearing crusader at will.
His 'super power' is teaching children good values rather than saving toppling buildings with his bare hands (since he is yet to find a way to acquire actual supernatural skills).
'We should show them that even if you're just a regular father or mother, anybody can become a superhero,' he said.
But his obsession with his idol has yet to peak - he's planning to insert metal into his legs to taller and have sculpting on his abdomen to give him a more Superman-like appearance. source:metro.co.uk
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