Originally Posted by
jackolover
Firstly, Superman is many things to many people, so one POV of Superman is difficult.
To me Superman was an alien, who got a positive POV about Planet Earth from his parents. (Superman could have ended up a Dictator when he became an adult, and took over the world. I’d have liked a What If? about that). Continuing, to me, Superman is this happy-go-lucky kid in a play box of complicated human behaviours, and he looks on it all as amusing, sometimes sad, to be immersed in their little drama’s. Superman can be divorced from all of this crazy that goes on in DC verse, but, he chooses to be in it. In the Daily Bugle, the source of all poison news, and false news. He chooses this. It’s like living in volcano magma boiling you alive, yet, he keeps up a humor and an amusement with human interaction, and, he marries one of them, and starts a family himself.
This is a guy who should be separate from the trivial human condition, because he is so far above it as to not need to get involved. Yet, he has a fascination with all of humanity’s complexities, and, I must say, he must love what humanity is doing, and how it’s doing it.
This light side of the human condition Clark Kent enjoys? It’s a joy to be Superman. Cynicism? I don’t see it coming into his character, at this point. If it does? Then Supermans mental health being in question will be a big problem, if he ever gets in that state. (I think Spider-Man only ever got in a dark place once, around the time of the fake parents and clone saga, but he was a small-time power set compared to what Superman could get up to).