Grimdark and Boy Scout do not go well together, but grimderp is all that uneducated uncultured hollywood hacks can write.
They also are completely without imagination, unable to empathize with something that hasn't directly happened to themselves.
They've all got aphantasia.
Superman is a demigod, at minimum. His problems will not be on the same scale or tier as ours. But he is not omni-potent. He is not omni-scient. His problems may not be the same as ours, but they will still have parallels. We all know the stress of a time crunch. We all dread the idea of loss. We all seek happiness. It doesn't take good writing to make a character who is utterly alien, into something we can empathize with, but it does take a minimally baseline non-psychopathic writer. I am not European. I am not African. I am not Martian. I am not Kryptonian. But if the writer isn't a complete racist sociopath, they can write emotions and problems, feelings and ideals, that still resonate with the readers.
But that seems to be lost in the modern era of writing.
There are hexapedal psychic lizards with metal skin that I empathize with more than modern stories, because modern stories have writers who don't know what "empathy" is.
Superman is the Boy Scout.
Grimdark and Boy Scout do not go well together, but grimderp is all that uneducated uncultured hollywood hacks can write.
They also are completely without imagination, unable to empathize with something that hasn't directly happened to themselves.
They've all got aphantasia.
Superman is a demigod, at minimum. His problems will not be on the same scale or tier as ours. But he is not omni-potent. He is not omni-scient. His problems may not be the same as ours, but they will still have parallels. We all know the stress of a time crunch. We all dread the idea of loss. We all seek happiness. It doesn't take good writing to make a character who is utterly alien, into something we can empathize with, but it does take a minimally baseline non-psychopathic writer. I am not European. I am not African. I am not Martian. I am not Kryptonian. But if the writer isn't a complete racist sociopath, they can write emotions and problems, feelings and ideals, that still resonate with the readers.
But that seems to be lost in the modern era of writing.
There are hexapedal psychic lizards with metal skin that I empathize with more than modern stories, because modern stories have writers who don't know what "empathy" is.