>>109623437>This is the worst idea.why? i assume if you actually had any justification that you would have included it
he's invincible, if not by way of his own abilities then by plot armor, and he's the epitome of morality. both make him unapproachable. he's basically the lone ranger. that's not relateable and that shit doesn't really fly anymore, superman's just grandfathered in. the question was how would you modernize him, not how would you keep doing the same old crap.
he obviously isn't superman without his sense of right and wrong, it doesn't make much sense to take it from him, and making him "ebil lol" is one of the shittiest tropes that's been done and overdone for him and everyone else and the end results are usually bad.
the far more interesting question is, is he still superman without his powers? the answer of course is yes, that's the point of superman, that his will and determination and desire to right the wrongs of the world aren't something inhuman, he just has an inhuman capacity to do something about it. that's why he's stood the test of time, not because of his op powers or terrible costume design or countless shitty story arcs, and that's what people should be reminded of.
yeah yeah, marvel took everyone's powers away, it's been done blah blah blah. whatever. superman is an extremely unique opportunity. he's simultaneously a single character and the prime archetype, so exploring any concept with him can be both highly focused and microcosmic and still speak broadly about superheroes in general.
plenty of writers have tried to force you to look at superman through a human lense, to try to examine how he thinks and feels in contrast to how we think and feel. it's a shallow way to try and make him more human. to force superman to look at himself and the world through that same lense is entirely different.
make him effectively human. it'll just be totally disregarded as noncanon or retconned anyway.
