>>103239261He only discarded timelines where he or his original where the cog in the machine. He is more science, since everything you see is scientific based.
For example Superman grew up on a different planet and on earth so he is stronger (ok) invulnarable (ok till you get to clothing), shoots laser (what?), can fly like a roket and not like a bird (fantasy), have cold breath (fantasy), gets powered by the sun (fantasy but guess thats retconed) and when krypton stones come he looses all these things (fantasy)
While you have Manhatten that gets tachyon destroyed (science), reforms himself by mind (pseudo-scientific), since he learned to rebuild himself on molecular level know how to interact and change atoms (science), is connected to his past, present, future thanks to tachyons (science) and can send information back to change electricity (science)
even manhatten is very fantastic its science from the beginning and defined watchmen