Despite his parents and out-there music, and general eccentricities, Jaden Smith is a normal 16-year-old high school kid who does high school things. Like go to prom. Prom is a normal high school activity—a rite, even. But doing it in the normal black tux way would have been antithetical to his being. Instead, he went superhero, not stag, and fortunately for all of us, there’s proof.
First: just a cape and some boots. No big. That’s gotta be typical enough and could justifiably been taken outside the one-week period before/after Halloween where wearing costumes is accepted by society.
But then there’s the armor, akin to what 8-year-olds dressed as Batman sport. Good thing he’s not rocking a mas—
Oh. Like father like son, right?
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