Originally Posted by
Kuwagaton
It's actually not even half of his run, just in his last and most creatively free year. The biggest cause you can easily pinpoint is logic. At some point, outside of mainstream comics, someone so powerful and smart would evolve past violence in their approach. But if you need a cause, I dunno, maybe Ending Battle. Superman runs a Batman style gauntlet through his rogues where Lois "dies" at the end. That was just barely into where I became a regular (and I never did care enough after reading some of EB) that it was just easy to go with it.