For decades creators across various media, and even many audiences, have had the same opinion about Superman : “He’s just too powerful.” Creators couldn’t figure out how to write compelling stories about a man who cannot be hurt. Audiences couldn’t figure out how to relate to a guy who lifts buildings.

In some ways, James Gunn got around the problem in his Superman by depowering the central character. After all, the movie opens with a battered Supes crashing into the arctic, having lost his first battle. Throughout the rest of the picture, we also see him nearly suffocated and temporarily blinded by eye lasers. This isn’t the stoic Superman who smirks while letting bullets bounce off his impervious skin. However, Superman’s most important, most devastating vulnerability is under the

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