User blog comment:20thCentFopp/Is Marvel’s Thor a Better Written Superman?/@comment-1458758-20131216074121

I actually like Super Man as a character, but I do think that people have kinda lost the idea of how to challenge him.

In simple terms, he's not without his weaknesses and I don't just mean Kryptonite. Yes he's powerful, but other super strong entities can harm and beat him. If we're dealing simply with their earliest appearances, his abilities to fly, turn back time and half the other things he does are no longer in play, so using them against him whilst contrasting Thor's initial appearance is kind of unfair, but even modern super man, cheating dDeath or no, if faced with something in the same weight class, can be bloodied and beaten.

Even then, Super Man, unlike Thor, is human. He may be of alien descent, but he was raised human and I think that's what a lot of writers tend to forget. He may have powers surpassing literal gods, but he still has the mind, morals and mentality of a guy who grew up on a farm in the arse end of nowhere. To me, that's how one should challenge Super Man. Thor may act human, have the faults of humans, but at the end of the day, he could go home and live happily on Asgard with no worries about humanity, but Clark Kent, because he is Clark Kent first, has to contend with life as it is. Sure he has all these powers, but that's not going to help him if he gets in an argument with Lois, or he's fired from his job at the Daily Planet or his identity gets revealed or even, heaven forbid, he's faced with a problem where his moral code doesn't have a neat answer.

It's not that he's infallible, it's that Super Man has gotten to the point where no one seems to want to admit that he is flawed. They all present him as perfect while the things that would deny this idea, his upbringing, his morals, the fact that characters like Darkseid exist all get ignored.