Brians Superman Post

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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

If only Superman would just KILL Lex Luthor... he'd come back in a few years anyway, just like that guy who Wonder Woman decapitated a few years ago who just came back.

Basically this. Superman is like "Killing is wrong ever" and he constantly keeps saying that despite, you know, being wrong. When Wonder Woman (ha 3 Ws in a roW) barely survived fighting him when Lord had him mentally controlled, and discovered there was no way to stop Lord if he was alive, she snapped his neck and BAM everyone was better off. Then he and Batman yelled at her for doing so when it was pretty much the only way.

I mean I'll excuse Batman that behavior towards the Joker because Batman is quite literally insane and manipulates even those around him, those he cares about, as pawns in his plots and lives to punish street level criminals because he never moved on from his parents' death turning him into like, the most emotionally stunted man alive, but Superman is supposed to be idealistic. And the type of idealism he is, is naive idealism- there's always a GOOD way of doing things and there's no questioning of it that's valid.

Additionally he's a really dumb fighter. He can move as fast as the Flash but rarely does, and really whenever there's a Doomsday-esque threat, unless it also has near light speed movement, should be defeated within seconds because Superman could punch 1000000000 times a second. Because he can move at lightspeed and punch that fast. He has laser eyes and can use them all the time- and should!- but rarely does. He has all that power and he can't even use it right.