Superman Ends World War II...No, Really!

The problem of having a character such as Superman is that the concept is far too it’s too unrealistic to function in the world as we know it. That issue has been prevalent since Superman’s debut in 1938, and it won’t just vanish with yet another reboot. The problem is that Superman is just too powerful; war would not exist in a world where one man could end it within a few hours by sheer force of will. But then that’s why such stories and concepts are called fiction and escapism. It’s also one of the many reasons why people turned away from Superman in the 1970 and early 1980ss, the character was a God on Earth. He could hear a pin drop a galaxy away, he could move entire planets out of orbit, he could time travel and move faster than light. In short there was nothing that he could not do. Nothing could injure him; by the mid 1970s he was even immune from Kryptonite, supposedly his only weakness, other than magic, which was dubious at best. At the same time Marve