Quote Originally Posted by NaVi View Post
all the fans cry including those of superman, it is obvious, but for some reason the fans of other heroes come to the superman forum, to criticize superman and say that their hero is the best. there is a fashion to criticize superman for everything, while the other characters are forgiven, I am tired of that fashion.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

To a large degree, Clark is simply held to a higher standard. Crap that everyone else gets away with, Clark gets dragged through the mud over. He's the poster boy for the superhero construct, the godfather of the genre, largely considered to be among the most powerful characters in publishing, so he gets all the heat regardless of whether its fair or other characters are even more guilty of whatever is being thrown at Clark.

Diana gets some of this too, in some ways worse, in some ways better.

As for how his power/ability compares to his peers, there's this weird internal conflict where everyone has carved out niches where they get to reign supreme but because of Superman's status in our culture, he is constantly being challenged for his position in a way others don't really have to put up with (except Diana who gets more than her share of BS). Nobody really argues about Flash being fastest, or Diana being the best fighter from among the superhumans, but everyone will argue that their personal favorite is more "powerful" (whatever that actually means) than Clark, while in the same breath saying that Superman is too powerful. That they don't see the irony is pretty funny, once you get over the sheer stupid audacity of it.

I figure, if someone writes these characters in a way where everyone is on the front line of a big fight, or is otherwise comparing them on a singular metric and not playing to their individual strengths, then you shouldn't be paying for the comic. If Batman is throwing little bombs at Despero from ten feet away then it's not a comic worth reading. But if there's a big Despero battle and Bruce is using that distraction to sneak onto Despero's ship and sabotage Despero's big planet destroying laser? Then Batman gets to look badass without the ridiculousness of his little bombs having an impact on a guy who can break worlds in half and everyone can avoid the moronic "who could beat up who?" debates.