by joel » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:18 pm
yes, i agree the much of the movies and tv shows have gone even further with how idyllic they represent both superman and the world he exists in.
and know that that there are cases in the comics where superman's infallibility have been focused on. they do have more contemporary comics that address a "darker side" to superman. but those are more the exception than the norm.
And I would say it's more so the world's all consuming trust in superman, that I can't get over. If anything the paranoid Lex seems more representative of a realistic reaction to an alien super being that could do what superman can do.
don't get me wrong i'm not saying i hate superman or think he's not important to the dc universe he exists in, just that i find his character less interesting than some others because of the sort of perfection and idealism his character represents and is designed to represent.
it's like if you look at the majority of alien life, in the dc universe you can see that variety of shapes/sizes they come in MM, dark seid, kilowag, sinestro, etc... the creators still designed him to represent human perfection in body and morality.