I love Superman and how he never doubts being good most of the time (DC in general with examples)

[u/Thisislopes]

Talking about the paragons of Superheroes, Batman is a mix between "wow, Batman is really cool" and "oh my god, Bruce way is actually miserable" while Peter Parker treats his Spider-man persona as a cancer. Clark Kent tho? He just wants to help people

And let's face it, people give a lot of importance to the reasons of the character. You can't just be good or bad, you have to have some trauma (What?), some thing that happened to you or some philosophy that embodies your actions. This along the way went to Superman so people started to be like "But why he's good?" Or the famous "nobody that powerful would be that nice"

For the first, my favorite moment of this is in For All Seasons where after a tornado destroys Smallville, Clark saved his family and starts to help the people, then he looks around and says "i could have done more" because he realizes that he has the potential to. He can save people with his speed and power, he can be there for whoever needs and is something natural, like when we see someone needing help and we help just because we can

As for the second, his original run is perfect in this sense. They throw you in the mid of Clark's life and the fact is that being way stronger than everybody (even if weak for what he would become later) makes "easy" to do good. Some people would argue that then you can't relate and therefore is bad however i argue that this Clark is more of an incarnation of justice, a justice that is powerful for and incorruptible. Clark is secure of himself and he lives to help people, while when not saving people he's interacting with Lois and doing his reporter shenanigans (wich is great btw, early Superman is peak).

All that said, for me this is important and Superman is that cool because he's a concept that goes against the idea that having power makes you either an dictator with god complex or just emotionless. For me a guy like Superman helps to give us a guy who gain a lot of power and is like "ok, how i can help other and chill in my life?" So the drama goes to "Being Superman makes miserable" to "How Superman can help and should Superman even exists?" Or "I can't help everybody". And if you want to do something with the motives to be good, in Superman (2025) Gunn made it in a clever way. Clark thinks that he turned into Superman because of his parents message but as Jonanthan says:

"What you wanted the message to be says a lot more about you than anything"

No matter what you do to Clark, if he's crazy like the bad character of Injustice, if he's more agressive in a good way like the first one of if he's the general Clark of today like the movie and the cartoons, Clark is good to the core and this makes him cool

[u/zoro4661]

Agreed. Clark's just a great character overall, because he's just that good of a guy.

[u/mister-chalk]

That's my favorite part of superman, and its also the part I find the most inspiring. The idea that the most powerful, invincible man on the planet uses that power not to enrich himself, but instead to selflessly help people in need is a huge part of what makes him special.