Lois, the Kents, Jimmy, Perry and Alice, they keep him grounded in reality and give him the connection to the world, and the values he was raised with. When 'something' has to be done, you sometimes will do 'anything' to stop it. The first moment Clark's human bonds are severed from him he begins to fall into hell, following the road paid with all of his good intentions. Clark Kent is what makes Superman understandable to us, and what stops him from becoming a monster. Until he puts the glasses on again, and recognizes the human part of himself once more. Even when he uses his powers and all of his Silver Age glory, comes back and takes control away from the 'Dark Age' heroes he becomes little more then a benevolent dictator. Lots of stories deal with this theme, even Kingdom Come which overriding story arc with regards to Superman is that he is nothing without Clark Kent. Why? Because Clark has the borderline powers of a God, and when you have that power it's very easy to be corrupted by it. They help him stay in touch with humanity, without a personal connection to people it would be very easy for someone to fall even if they thought they were doing 'right'. Lois, the Kents, his coworkers and friends keep Clark emotionally and spiritually balanced and in touch with the people who have adopted him as one of their own. Of course then your living in a police state. If your willing to kill, imprison without parole, get rid of pardons, probation and other due process rights you can stop crime. Without his connection to mankind he begins to take the natural stance of someone with that power who thinks there is a problem. That's a supervillain in the making.ĩ chances out of 10 when they write a story about Clark going nuts, or become a totalitarian it has to do with someone killing of Lois (at the very lest) and sometimes multiple members of his human friends and family. Why would be he so unstable, so likely to go evil or nuts at the drop of a hat? That's not a hero. I hate this notion that Superman would mess up so easily if the Kents and/or Lois aren't/isn't holding his hand. Without the Kents or Lois to ground him, and paired with someone like WW, SM will mess up, For him rescuing the hostages was fine but stepping in and imposing their will on wars, governments, etc would cross the line. He believes their powers should be used to inspire not interfere. It's Wonder Woman who feels that they should actively go in these countries and stop civil wars and all that but Superman does not agree. But they didn't take formal permission from the local government before doing this and that country is unhappy about it they are accusing the superheroes of spying and it has become an issue for the American government because Superman, Wonder Woman, etc are associated by everyone with the USA. Superman and Wonder Woman went into another country to rescue some hostages. It was a reference to the latest JL issue which came out about two weeks ago. I was actually not surprised by them doing something like that, because this new version of Superman does not respect laws as the former versions do. Another interesting thing about them together, they do something wrong in another country, that compromises both America and The Justice League.

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