i’m almost convinced that it’s impossible to make interesting stories with superman as the main character, just because the entire crux of the character is that he can’t integrate. he’s like dr. manhattan, or godzilla, or unicron; just too powerful to work as a protagonist, but very interesting to write a world around.
uncritically building a superman story will always necessarily have to hand-wave some random reason for why he can’t just vaporise the antagonist on the spot, and it’s always the same hand-wave.
like, the iron giant is not about the iron giant. that’s why it’s good.
i’m almost convinced that it’s impossible to make interesting stories with superman as the main character, just because the entire crux of the character is that he can’t integrate. he’s like dr. manhattan, or godzilla, or unicron; just too powerful to work as a protagonist, but very interesting to write a world around.
uncritically building a superman story will always necessarily have to hand-wave some random reason for why he can’t just vaporise the antagonist on the spot, and it’s always the same hand-wave.
like, the iron giant is not about the iron giant. that’s why it’s good.
The Iron Giant is a great example - both because of the comparison, and because I love that film!