superman looks like an inverse of man of steel. man of steel ended up kickstarting a universe in which superpowered people were treated as living gods. superman isn't the first (because wonder woman existed in the 1910s and 1980s but it's not like there was a -plan- for the dceu), but he's sort of this herald of power that ends up dooming humanity. More @Wikipedia
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