I hope it’s just a tribute to Superman because if you kill Medic, I swear I’m gonna crawl into the comic itself and fucking bring him back from the dead just to tell him how egoistic of him was dying just for the sake of narration.
male friends: dude
female friends: dude
cis friends: dude
queer friends: dude
trans friends: dude
my parents: dude
my boss: dude
the president: mr. dude
the queen: your dudeness
the pope: holy dude
people who dont want to be called dude because it makes them feel uncomfortable or dysphoric with unwanted connotations of gender associated with the word: pal