Should Superman be outright best at anything?
Whenever we have threads about DC’s most intelligent..we effectively see answers dominated by Lex, Mr Teriffic, Bruce, assorted scientists, some other members of Bat family. If Superman gets a mention it’s usually along lines of “if he was written correctly then he would be near top of list”, rather than anybody confidently claiming that he’s consistently written as among DC’s top intellects.
And it’s been widely accepted for a long time now that Flash is now portrayed as much faster, rather than a bit faster.
Fighting skills? Practically everybody in Bat family supposedly has more fighting skill and know how than our guy..the inference being if he was depowered practically all the Bat clan would take him out.
Outright strength? He must be near top..but for me this is a fairly limited power, and loads of others are effectively shown in same ball park, either via super strength or devices like GL rings.
Where he ought to be unrivalled...given his super senses, reporter experience, etc...is reading human body language and predicting people’s actions. But strangely, he’s often (nearly always?) shown as blindly trusting others, and not particularly good at reading character and motives.
Have I missed something? Is he really peerless at anything?