WHO'S IN YOUR GENES »
Think about it though, how many super powers does Superman exhibit? Three? Four? Well it has to be more than that surely because he has Super Strength, Super Hearing, Super Speed and flight just off the top of your head. Well Kal-El, Krypton's ambassador to earth has 27 separate super powers. These include: Flight, including the ability to fly across space to distant universes, shooting through hyperspace systems and special warps emerging far away outside of our comparable measure of the universe unscathed.
The planet of Krypton is actually filled to the brim with super powered genius entities. This planet could not ever function as a society. Every single member of it is a living weapon, ready to go off at any second and bum fuck society. Kryptoians can carry planets around, ripping them from their orbit and just flying around with them. Imagine that power in the hands of your average moody loner. This is pre-1986 though, when John Byrn the then writer of Superman powered him down to make writing challenges for the character less impossible. They introduced the gimmick of solar radiation. In different colored suns, the Kryptoians have different powers, and in the yellow light of a sun like ours, they are unstoppable. Superman can do anything and yet he is fundamentally stunted as a character. He is boring as an alien, because he is just like us physically except over developed. No superhero name has ever been more accurate than Super-man. Spiderman is not half man half-spider, Aqua man is not made of water, The Flash has nothing to do with quick bursts of light Giant man, sadly, is not a porn star and yet, superman is just a man who is super. You'd think that a solar dependant race from beyond the fringes of space would be worlds different considering they live on a planet made of crystal, a lot smaller than earth, with far less water in the folds of a different colored sun. His skin tone would be different, having reacted to the processing of a different light. He'd be taller, thinner, adapted to a lower level of gravity; constant flight probably would lead to atrophied limbs, leading over generations to his legs being vestigial. So basically, we are looking at some kind of hyper sentient, flying cactus. If Martian Manhunter comes from a planet deadly close to ours and looks completely different, it follows logic that the Krytponians would be weird looking.
So now we have ourselves a specially evolved hyper-dimensional being, let's take a look at how he should look at humanity. Arthur C Clarke said that after enough time has passed eventually technology would be indistinguishable from Magic. Surely this is true on a biological level, the needs and desires of man today would be incomprehensible to a man from 2000 years ago.
Peter Chung in End Sinister the final episode of Aeon Flux (a TV series he developed for MTV as a reaction to his run on Rug-rats, focusing more on characters that could be more physically active, adult and sexual and covers many problems of genetic and scientific endeavors in a futuristic society. (But Rug-rats is an important show too and shouldn't be ignored as simply a kids programme, because it demonstrates how the actions of adults are incomprehensible to the mind of a child)) points out the exact same thing through the guise of Trevor Goodchild, the scientific genius despot of the future society when they meet a super-evolutionary being that they think to be an alien but are in actuality the next stage of humanity.
The needs, drives, and wants, whether sexually, emotionally or physically of a being such as Superman, or a man of steel cactus being, would be different from that of a human. He could never love Lois Lane as she would release sexual stimulants for a human male. The body language would be for that of a homosapien locked into place over millions of years, I mean on Krypton it could be customary for the male to mark his woman with a strong cocktail of urine and sexual fluids. It might sound ridiculous, but hell Monkeys do it even now and it'd only have taken our ancestors to be a slightly different species of chimp and we'd be doing it. No matter how nice the parents of Smallville are his genetic imperative and the basic teachings of social interaction instilled in him by his biological parents before being blasted into space would render him inextricably unable to slot into the human social machine.
Not to mention the huge abandonment issues involved with having your entire planet de-atomized whilst you shoot through space in a crystal space cot.
Finally the last reason Superman would be the biggest ass-hole on the planet is because of his perceptions of the human race. A highly developed brain, a vastly superior intellect to that of a human, social alienation the ability to see the entire electro-magnetic spectrum would result in a complete inability to understand us as people. We'd be the equivalent to chimps.
What a dickhead.
