There's a Superman story where he saves a North Korean submarine, and when a pissed off American general yells at him for it he explains that he values all life and isn't a shill for America just because that's where he was raised.
It's one of the more interesting sci fi themes that Superman comics can get into. Supes has the power to take over the Earth and impose his will on all humankind, but the good versions of Superman recognize that that would be a colonial project, enforcing Kryptonian culture on humans while many evil versions of Superman take over and their regime always ends up resembling an American fascism.
The modern capeshit genre's greatest failure, imo, is that it has narrowed the field of superhero stories to "magical people do cop shit" with only a handful of exceptions.
There's a Superman story where he saves a North Korean submarine, and when a pissed off American general yells at him for it he explains that he values all life and isn't a shill for America just because that's where he was raised.
It's one of the more interesting sci fi themes that Superman comics can get into. Supes has the power to take over the Earth and impose his will on all humankind, but the good versions of Superman recognize that that would be a colonial project, enforcing Kryptonian culture on humans while many evil versions of Superman take over and their regime always ends up resembling an American fascism.
The modern capeshit genre's greatest failure, imo, is that it has narrowed the field of superhero stories to "magical people do cop shit" with only a handful of exceptions.