A hug might be coming. Who can say. They are proportionately more likely from Clark, as a rule, but plenty a superhug potential has gone squandered.

And Bruce can probably tell that Clark wants to refute that statement, that first one, because of course he does. Self-aware enough to know that he doesn't know enough to lift it up out of platitude, even of an extremely well-meaning kind.

But still. "He said you were a great dad," he offers, anyway. "I can't imagine that hate would enter into it, and stick around. He doesn't seem the type."