{"id":1253826,"date":"2026-03-01T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=613025"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:36:09","slug":"supermans-relationship-with-americas-government-keeps-getting-more-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/supermans-relationship-with-americas-government-keeps-getting-more-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman\u2019s relationship with America\u2019s government keeps getting more complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/supermans-relationship-with-americas-government-keeps-getting-more-complicated.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/dc\/612757\/superman-lois-lane-good-or-bad-journalist\">extremely contentious interview<\/a> with her boyfriend\/coworker Superman\/Clark Kent (David Corenswet) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/611560\/superman-james-gunn-dcu-reboot-review\">James Gunn\u2019s 2025 reboot movie <em>Superman<\/em><\/a>, Lois Lane presses him about the fallout of his intervention in an overseas war between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/612362\/superman-ending-meaning-james-gunn-boravia\">aggressive country of Boravia<\/a> and its weaker neighbor, Jarhanpur. \u201cYou seemingly acting as a representative of the United States will cause more problems around the world,\u201d she notes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">He testily counters, \u201cI wasn\u2019t representing anybody except for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Gunn\u2019s version of the hero isn\u2019t a traditional defender of \u201ctruth, justice, and the American way.\u201d But that\u2019s far from a radical spin on the character. Writers of Superman movies, comics, and TV shows have spent decades grappling with how closely the hero should be tied to the U.S. government. Superman is from an alien world, but he was raised in Kansas as Clark Kent. He\u2019s been embraced as an American icon, appearing on U.S. postage stamps, and receiving commemorative statues in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enjoyillinois.com\/explore\/listing\/superman-statue\/\">city of Metropolis, Illinois<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/guidestudio.com\/up-up-and-away-superman-exhibit-takes-off-at-cle\/\">Cleveland<\/a>, the city where the character was created. Just as the date of his arrival on Earth has shifted from decade to decade to keep the story modern, his values and actions have changed along with the political climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The first Superman story was published in 1938, but the character quickly became narratively tied into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/heres-how-supermans-iconic-motto-of-truth-justice-and-the-american-way-evolved-over-time-180986927\/\">America\u2019s 1941 entry into World War II<\/a>. Superman comics showed him fighting Nazis and pitching war bonds, and \u201cthe American way\u201d was added to the list of causes he fights for, along with \u201ctruth and justice.\u201d But at home, Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster portrayed him as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20250703-how-superman-started-out-as-a-radical-rebel\">absolutely willing to challenge authority<\/a> and take on powerful people in America, ranging from slum lords to Metropolis\u2019 mayor to factory owners making shoddy cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Superman\u2019s commercial success combined with the jingoism of the Cold War and the 1954 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbldf.org\/comics-code-history-the-seal-of-approval\/\">Comics Code Authority<\/a> led to a more fantasy-focused version of the hero who mostly punched alien invaders or monsters in fights without a clear political message. The transition is clearest in the 1952-1958 <em>Adventures of Superman <\/em>TV series: Superman spent the first two seasons fighting gangsters and crime lords, but the later seasons toned down the violence and made the bad guys more cartoonish. That dynamic shifted again post-Watergate, though, as American faith in government was shaken. While Superman responds directly to a request from the president of the United States to fight General Zod in 1980\u2019s <em>Superman II<\/em>, in 1987\u2019s <em>Superman IV: The Quest for Peace<\/em>,<em> <\/em>he defies both the United States and the Soviet Union with his plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/supermans-relationship-with-americas-government-keeps-getting-more-complicated-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Dave Gibbons\/DC Comics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In Roger Stern and Tom Grummett 1991\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Action_Comics_Annual_Vol_1_3\">Action Comics Annual<\/a>, Superman runs for president himself in an alternate future. That required changing some comic book lore so he wasn\u2019t sent to Earth as a baby, but instead was born on U.S. soil from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/superman-eligible-elected-president-of-the-united-states\/\">an artificial womb<\/a>, so he could claim birthright citizenship. Mark Millar\u2019s 2003 miniseries <em>Superman: Red Son<\/em> explores Superman\u2019s Americanness by laying out how the Cold War might have played out differently if Superman\u2019s rocket had landed in Ukraine instead of Kansas, and he became an agent of the Soviet Union. The conflict in Gunn\u2019s <em>Superman <\/em>mirrors Superman\u2019s intervention in Iran, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dc.com\/comics\/action-comics-1938\/action-comics-900\">2011 arc<\/a> that led to him <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/29\/superman-renounces-his-u-s-citizenship\/\">renouncing his American citizenship<\/a> so he would no longer be viewed as an instrument of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sometimes dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/when-superman-first-called-big-blue-boy-scout\/\">the Big Blue Boy Scout<\/a>\u201d because of his wholesome all-American image, Superman is sometimes portrayed as having a strong respect for official government hierarchy and duly elected authority. He\u2019s a patsy of the Reagan administration in Frank Miller\u2019s 1986 miniseries <em>The Dark Knight Returns. <\/em>After nearly killing himself stopping a nuke from hitting the U.S., he\u2019s deployed to stop Batman from causing too much trouble. Superman fills a similar role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23420907\/henry-cavill-superman-movies-black-adam-post-credits-scene\">end credits<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/23414843\/black-adam-review-dwayne-johnson-hawkman-doctor-fate\"><em>Black Adam<\/em><\/a>, where ruthless U.S. government operative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23425433\/black-adam-amanda-waller-dcu-hierarchy\">Amanda Waller<\/a> orders him to intimidate the anti-hero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note<\/strong>: The following contains spoilers for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23836383\/my-adventures-with-superman-ivo-parasite-new-villains\"><em>My Adventures with Superman<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/comics\/21397299\/the-suicide-squad-villains-characters-cast-comics-explained\"><em>The Suicide Squad<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and <em>Superman.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Waller, introduced in DC Comics in 1986, regularly serves as a modern embodiment of America\u2019s questionable ethics. She views Superman and other metahumans as a threat to her country\u2019s authority, and she\u2019s willing to use any means possible to even the playing field in case they need to be stopped. The version of Waller in <em>My Adventures with Superman <\/em>uses torture to get information about Superman, and sends increasingly powerful and unstable villains after the hero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Gunn\u2019s 2021 film <em>The Suicide Squad <\/em>is an indictment of America\u2019s history of backing friendly dictators over democratically elected leftists in Latin America, with Waller sending in the eponymous team when a revolution in the South American nation of Corto Maltese endangers U.S. interests there. She\u2019s more concerned about covering up the U.S. government\u2019s secret experiments in the country than about saving the locals from havoc caused by mind-controlling alien invader Starro. Gunn is also critical of the U.S. government in <em>Superman<\/em>, where Superman takes it upon himself to intervene to stop American ally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/612362\/superman-ending-meaning-james-gunn-boravia\">Boravia<\/a> from invading Jarhanpur. The whole conflict turns out to have been generated by billionaire Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) in a plot to carve up Jarhanpur, designating half of it as a country he plans to rule. That plot would seem cartoonishly evil if it wasn\u2019t for the fact that there are plans being floated to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/07\/tony-blair-thinktank-worked-with-project-developing-trump-riviera-gaza-plan\">Trump Riviera and Elon Musk manufacturing zone in Gaza<\/a>. Superman\u2019s insistence on doing what is right rather than what the U.S. government says he should have led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jul\/12\/superman-movie-woke-politics-immigration\">allegations<\/a> that Gunn\u2019s version is too \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/opinion\/612514\/black-superman-movie-woke-warner-bros\">woke<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/supermans-relationship-with-americas-government-keeps-getting-more-complicated-2.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Absolute Superman #6 shows Kal-El seemingly unconscious and buried in rubble, surrounded by men with guns in front of a \u201cWelcome to Smallville\u201d sign\" title=\"The cover of Absolute Superman #6 shows Kal-El seemingly unconscious and buried in rubble, surrounded by men with guns in front of a \u201cWelcome to Smallville\u201d sign\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>My Adventures with Superman <\/em>celebrates people who stand up against their own government\u2019s immoral orders. General Sam Lane goes rogue and abandons his work with Waller after deciding Superman\u2019s not really a threat to earth, in part because his daughter, Lois, convinces him of Superman\u2019s goodness. The ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/comics\/504039\/absolute-batman-superman-wonder-woman-review\"><em>Absolute Superman<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>series goes even further, reimagining Superman as arriving on Earth as a teen rather than a baby. When Martha and Jonathan Kent take him in for a few weeks, Homeland Security raids their home for suspected terrorist activity and violation of immigration law. He\u2019s forced to flee, and has spent the past five years as a stateless wandererer trying to protect the downtrodden after seeing how the leaders of both Earth and Krypton abandon their lower classes.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of Gunn\u2019s <em>Superman<\/em>, the hero hasn\u2019t just intervened in an international conflict himself, but inspired other heroes to do the same. It\u2019s a development that General Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) views with trepidation, an acknowledgement that the world is now full of superpowers who can cause regime change based on their own values, rather than submitting to the authority of any government. With Flag set to play a big role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/598341\/peacemaker-season-2-release-date-trailer\"><em>Peacemaker <\/em>season 2<\/a>, and Luthor being shipped off to the Waller-controlled Belle Reve prison, the relationship between the U.S. government and Superman will likely continue to be tense in Gunn\u2019s DC Universe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This version of Superman is a true idealist \u2014 and Gunn, like other creators before him, implies that he\u2019ll keep fighting for truth and justice even when that isn\u2019t the American way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/dc\/613025\/superman-vs-american-government-comics-movies-tv\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extremely contentious interview with her boyfriend\/coworker Superman\/Clark Kent (David Corenswet) in James Gunn\u2019s 2025 reboot movie Superman, Lois Lane presses him about the fallout of his intervention in an overseas war between the aggressive country of Boravia and its weaker neighbor, Jarhanpur. \u201cYou seemingly acting as a representative of the United States will cause more problems around the world,\u201d she notes. He testily counters, \u201cI wasn\u2019t representing anybody except for me.\u201d Gunn\u2019s version of the hero isn\u2019t a traditional defender of \u201ctruth, justice, and the American way.\u201d But that\u2019s far from a radical spin on the character. Writers of Superman movies, comics, and TV shows have spent decades grappling with how closely the hero should be tied to the U.S. government. 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