>>115455983Just look at the character's history and you'll find a series of reasons why instead of people going "hurr so borimg" or "they just don't get him man"
Even before Christopher Reeve, Superman was already the embodiment of nostalgic Americana, long away removed from his origins as a crusading rebel and immigrant power fantasy (and DC tried their damn hardest to get those immigrant creators out of the equation). The George Reeves Superman was so emblematic that Donner's Superman leaned heavily on it's image, even though times had changed significantly and you wound up having a character saying he stands for Truth, Justice and the American Way post Watergate and Vietnam and so on. They banked his cinematic return on that same idea in 2006, and in Man In Steel they took such an extreme approach to the other way around that it only turned people off, and that's even before BvS.
Discounting the movies, you also have the rise of Marvel characters in the 60s, constructed almost precisely in opposition to Superman and rising to popularity as the cool and edgy alternative to DC, and staying there for the following decades in comics up until the 80s, where DC indisputably gets back on top thanks to Watchmen and TDKR, it's with two that spend a considerable chunk of their stories on how much Superman sucks (and if you ever wondered why Batman took Superman's spot in the 80s, it's that he broke through at the exact moment Superman was weakest). Hell, we're still getting stories about how Superman sucks even today (The Boys, Brightburn, even The Tick dipped into it)
These are the two main issues, but there's a ton of others.
And frankly, all of this is fixable. If Batman and Captain America could do it, so can Superman. But DC needs to get over itself first and just let him BE. Give him better comics and one solid movie hit and you'll see people remember why they liked him in the first place.
