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What? You thought you could stay?
The best way to make a Superman movie is to play him completely straight. No irony poisoning, no push to “humanize” him when he’s already humanized.
You show the man that is the result of being raised by good parents, you show him in control, and you show him being the element that makes the world change.
In other words, you write a flat character arc, something forbidden by the mainstream.
In a sea of characters always finding themselves, having the one who knows who he is and what he has to do is such a jarring shift that it stands out.