Oh but you do have to with Superman. That’s the entire point of his character and when stories about him shine; when they’re about pressing morals and not so much a big baddy to fight. He can do about anything he wants, so it kinda’ requires him to be pressed in other ways. Stories that only put him in cliche fights or just have him morally grandstanding are the worst. He is idealized, and that needs to be reconciled with a world that has a lot of grey in it.

The recent superman movie did a decent job of it, the one with Krypto.