Originally Posted by
JackDaw
Precisely.
Those stories that are allegedly taken off the table aren’t Superman stories. (I say allegedly...because how many times have we seen him temporarily de-powered by one ruse or another? Even at his peak power in the Silver Age, there were always red sun, red kryptonite, etc. Jeez...even a visit to the bottle city of Kandor if writers felt need to tell a Batman and Robin tale using him and Jimmy.)
Mega power is part of the essence of the character...it allows the exploration of one of the key Superman themes: how his character, his morality, prevents him from becoming either a monster or a god.
It’s a necessary part of the character, I think, that control comes from within him, not imposed on him by the existence of more powerful heroes/ law agents.