Superman

If you like Superman then the web page superdickery is one of the funniest pages on the net. This page has hundreds of superman covers where he is doing horrible things.

This probably speaks more to how overpowered Superman is than anything. That is the problem I have found in most superman stories. Smallville is the most recent example of this. The first season they threw someone with powers at him every week, and every week he seemed to end up standing right next to Kryptonite. In later seasons they have moved away from that.

In Justice League Unlimited they have gotten around this some by weakening him compared to the superman in the comics, but they still have to write around him in order to tell many of their stories. Superman is sent off world to do something important because without that he would simply solve the problem.

Yet his being overpowered is also a weakness in certain situations. The most obvious being every time he has fought Batman. I'm certain that at some point they have fought and Superman has won, but every time i have seen a real fight between the two Batman wins. He has to win because otherwise there is no suspense. Superman, with every power in the world manages to overpower the guy with a grappling hook and a cool car. Not much of a surprise.

And then there is Lex Luthor. Again going back to Smallville, one of my favorite moments on the show is when Lex Luthor is describing a normal person fighting Superman and how it seems that the human would be the hero. And in any other story he would be. You can't have the hero with so much more power than the villain, except that with Superman it somehow works. Perhaps because we all want someone as powerful and good as Superman looking out for us.