Okay this might sound weird but I love how often Superman gets beat up.
Like you think if Superman and you think untouchable, impervious, immune to Anything you throw at him (with one glaring exception). But in this movie he’s got Constant cuts on his face, bruises, burns from lasers, or the strange sickly boils that kryptonite causes. (Which is its own kinda Cool As Hell, like Yes show the Body Horror of it all)
Showing a character Take a hit and keep standing/get back up is infinitely more powerful then if they never get hit/never Feel a hit. Because now we know, even if they get beaten they’re gonna get back up. They’re gonna Keep going. And it makes the power scale that much better.
(Same with him genuinely struggling to hold things, he’s not a God, he can’t do Everything, he can only do everything he can.)
He’s not in the way because he can’t feel it/he can’t die he’s in the way because if he isn’t someone else WILL. He’s doing good and it Hurts him and it kinda sucks, and that’s Always more interesting than ‘he’s doing good effortlessly.’
Like, there really is something special about starting a Superman movie with him Loosing a fight.
