Something to keep in mind is the Hoechlin Superman is the Cavill Superman 20 year later. So perhaps by then his attitude had changed, the worse was all behind him now. He had grown into the character.
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Its a little bit of both.the Supergirl series was developed when DC/Warner's was leaning hard into the New 52/DCEU interpretation of Superman as being the general base version, so they borrowed the idea he killed Zod from the DCEU and that he was mistrusted at the beginning of his career from both N52 and DCEU. Of course at the time there were really no plans to fully feature him in the flesh on the show beyond a faceless cameo or a shot of his boots.
Oddly enough,in the few glimpses we saw of him in season one,it's pretty apparent he's wearing the classic suit,trunks and all.
When it comes to comics,one person's "fan-service" is another persons personal cannon. So by definition it's ALL fan service. Aren't we ALL fans?
SUPERMAN is the greatest fictional character ever created.
Cavill's Superman was embraced pretty well at first. The reason for some of the tension in MOS was because his reveal was simultaneous with Zod's ultimatum, but he quickly won the military over and his first test as a hero resulted in the city of Metropolis building a monument to him. BvS is filled with references to the public's "love affair" with Superman, and the only people who initially mistrust him are people like Wallace, Bruce, and Lex. Their reasons for going after Superman are precisely because Superman is so beloved; they think the public's faith is misplaced and they want to kill him or expose him as a fraud, which are all fairly typical motivations for these characters. The public only starts to question Superman when Lex's plans are enacted in Africa, and even then the montage voice over and June Finch's actions portray the public as more introspective about how they interact with a being like Superman. A range of perspectives are represented with few, if any, being outright negative.
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