He's just a really nice person who happens to have

>>93190995
>The powers of a God are just flying and punching people
Gods do fantastic shit. They bring people from the dead, they stop time, create life... Why do people keep calling Superman a god when he's anything but?

>>93192424
He solved the unsolvable riddle, created small galaxies on his cosmic anvil, gave the people of Kandor a new life, gave Zibarro meaning in his life of ignorance, he created the Superman-Serum that allows you to have all his powers without any of his weaknesses.

Pretty godly, but he's not all-powerful. Nor all encompassing.

>>93192600
God would've saved his dad.

>>93192632
Someone had to stop the Chronovore.

But you're right, he's not "God" in the very strict "all-knowing and all-powerful" sense of the way, but he is all-loving, a nice guy and does what he can, divinity is not about might.

>>93192424
the Christ figure shit is terrible

>>93192747
>divinity is not about might
nor about being a nice person. Greek gods were real cunts sometimes.

>>93190995
>>93192747
He's just a guy from Kansas who wants to do the right thing.

>>93192424
???

Since when?

>>93192424
>>93192632
>>93192747
>>93193346

Different mythologies have different conceptions of gods, which is a long and convoluted question most people really aren't interested in it. However, in the way that most godly beings are conceived and conceptualized in fiction or theology, Superman's canonical powers certain fit.

>>93193479

He's got midwestern values which inform his decisions and motivations, e.g, "the right thing"

>>93193346
All Star Superman says otherwise.

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>>93190995
>"It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all.
>"Then . . . he shoots fire from the skies, and it is difficult not to think of him as a god.
>"And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him."

>>93192632
Like he saved his son?

>>93193968
His son came back to life from the dead, didn't he?

Man, Superman was never like a god. He has heat vision, he's really strong and can fly. I cannot understand all the godlike comparisons outside of "Clark is the only superhero" settings.

>>93190995
>person
Men are still good, we fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild, we can do better, we will.

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>>93193931
>that crease in the page makes it look like Supes is holding a fire-poker or something

Oh the terror.

>>93194006

In the classic sense of the word, not in the judeo-Christian sense.

>>93190995
No no no. You've got it all wrong.

He's clearly a distant, lonely Jesus analogue. I mean, he's the last of his kind and he has the powers of a god. How could he not be like that?
>mfw when Snyder and his defenders actually believe this