Why Superman is More Important Now Than Ever...

I didn't appreciate Superman until these last ten years. After seeing people endlessly idealize the antihero and brute force, I've realized how absolutely necessary idealism is. Not just as humans, but for a functioning society.

Superman isn't Superman because of his gifts, he is Superman because of how he chooses to use them.

The whole thing about people finding Superman boring and lacking in personality is mainly a western phenomenon. In much of Africa, were i am from, and most of the world (many manga heros were inspired by him) he is still belived and adored as a great hero and personality mainly because our societies don't have the weird cultural obsession with relativism and we prefer heroic characters who stand for good, no matter how cliched it seems❤

Lex Luthor liking Clark but hating Superman will never not be funny.

You know Superman is a good guy when even a writer like Garth Ennis who idealises the anti-hero praises him.

After Homelander and Omniman, I honestly think a golden hearted, compassionate, good morale superman is what we need tbh

As a fan of Nightwing, I started to slowly appreciate the importance of Superman. Superman showed the importance of having a heart in hero work to the young Dick Grayson. Because of that, I started watching reading Superman in different medias.

If being an all around good natured person is a revolutionary idea, something has gone terribly wrong.

Characters like Superman, Optimus Prime, Ultraman (The Japanese one), and Gamera are some of my favorites in all of fiction. Those characters that, while they will acknowledge that there is malice in the world, they will always see the good that coexists with said malice, and will always fight to protect it. And it’s always inspiring.

25:54 I always roll my eyes whenever someone brings up how "one bad day" can ruin someone and set them on a dark path, because they either don't know, or deliberately ignore that the reverse is just as, if not more powerful.

Just ONE good day, just ONE act of kindness and compassion can save a life, like the times when Superman encountered a depressed individual at the edge of a skyscraper. He never used his Kryptonian powers to resolve it. He just used a few kind words, and a hug, two of his greatest abilities.

All it takes is one good day, to see the beauty in living, and to set someone on a better path.

It’s sad that Superman has been overlooked as just a ‘boyscout superhero with no problems’, even though Batman and Spider-Man are my two favourite superheroes, I can’t deny that Superman is the best hero, not because of his powers, but because of his kindness and compassion, one of my favourite animated movies ‘The Iron Giant’ perfectly encapsulates the vetoes and meaning of the Superman character, and it’s me I’ll always remember and hold close to my heart

what I love most about Superman is when you peel back his powers, and more importantly, his identities, you find his truest self

beyond the hero, Superman; beyond the last son of Krypton, Kal-El; beyond the mild mannered farm boy Clark Kent, you learn who he is, deep down: a good person, plain and simple. he doesn't do what he does out of some burden of glorious purpose, or for glory and fame. he does it because it's the right thing to do, because helping people is the good thing to do

Superman is the epitome of a good person doing what they can to help. The idea of a friend who will always come through for you is so beautiful. Superman is such an inspiration.

"In many ways, Clark is the most Human of us all....
...Then he shoots FIRE from the sky, and it is very difficult not to think of him as a God. And how lucky we all are that it never occurs to him." - Batman, 'Batman/Superman: Public Enemies'

"Clark Kent is who I AM. Superman is just what I can do." - Clark Kent

"'Kingdom Come' flew, so 'Injustice' could stumble along like a drunken amnesiac." - Me

Superman is the iconic....the most iconic and amazing superhero....I have always gotten inspired by this character and love him a lot. ❤

Where Spider-Man is someone who has to keep reminding himself that "with great power must also come great responsibility" and is in a constant battle with his selfish impulses, Superman is someone who internalizes that responsibility at an early age and makes it part of his identity. Rather than having to remind himself, he reminds others through his actions and the choices he makes with the power that he refuses to be corrupted by, not against the temptation of corruption but out of a fundamental understanding of the very simple fact that corruption is bad and kindness is good.

"no one can ever be as good or kind as superman" maybe but we'll never know unless we try

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A brief moment that really stands out to me. It’s something I love about Superman. He knows he’s essentially living in a world of paper. He could kill anybody with the flick of his finger, but he never will, because he’s a good man through and through. So instead of going into conflicts guns blazing, he relies on his brain, and his ability to reason with his adversaries. That’s what makes him stand out from all the others.

I'm one of those who criticises the Man of Steel portrayal of Jonathan Kent - 'should I just have let them die?' 'Maybe'
There is no way he could ever have said 'maybe' in any previous portrayal. It's like Churchill saying 'maybe we should consider a surrender'.
JK wouldn't have hesitated to say 'no, of course not, but don't let them see it was you'.
On the other hand, looking at the climax of the movie, Zod had to die at the end. He was actively trying to fry an innocent family.
There were only three ways I can think of in which Zod could have been removed as a risk.
1)Return to the Phantom Zone. That would involve returning to the ship and hacking into it somehow (Luthor stole Zod's fingerprint)
2)Imprisoning him in a Kryptonite cage. Lethal over time, even if Kryptonite were easily available, and no one knew of it then.
3)The death of Zod. Kal-El had a stark choice - kill Zod, or watch an innocent couple and their children die horribly, followed by countless more.
Zod was a rabid dog, who had to be put down for the protection of others.
Superman's cry at the end was for what Zod had forced him to do. It's the pain my grandfathers felt in WW1, having to kill enemy soldiers to save their own families from a ruthless dictatorship

Superman: The Greatest Superhero Of All Time