Why are flying, super strong and super fast characters so common in the DCU? Between Superman and all the other kryptonians, Daxamites, the Shazam family, Wonderwoman, Martians and probably a bunch of other unrelated characters it seems like an overly common power set. Marvel has a similar issue with mentalists, but in their case that’s limited to mutants. I think it due to the fact that they have Superman, but that makes it even more confusing. Your not going to out ”Superman” Superman. So you end up with Clark and a bunch of Superman-lites. It’s almost like flying brick is the power set people go with when they don’t want to be creative and think up new powers.