[SymbiSpidey]

Personally, I don't think the DCEU characters are well-developed at all. Yes, there is something that can be said about the pressure Clark feels and about him having to make tough moral decisions. My problem stems from the fact that Clark/Superman is supposed to be Superman yet feels like the least human character in the movie. Outside of the heavy-handed God allegory, Superman is just...boring in the movies. He has no real discernible personality and spends large chunks of MoS and BvS just looking mopey and depressed, even when he's in the middle of saving lives. He has no real charm, charisma or chemistry with the rest of the cast. And that's the problem. Everything in those movies about trying to humanize Superman is undone by the fact that Superman is not written like a living, breathing person but rather the thesis to some allegory or philosophical debate.

What tends to get missed when it comes to the MCU is how nuanced these characters are, even when it comes to the humor because it informs so much about who these characters are. Hawkeye and Iron-Man both quip mid-fight but it's so different. Iron-Man will be scathing and insulting, Hawkeye is more likely to comment on the absurdity of their situation. Thor's lines make him sound like a ditsy jock who ultimately has his heart in the right place (such as when he keeps calling Rocket "Rabbit", but you know it's never meant to be insulting, he just genuinely doesn't know the difference between the two because he's unfamiliar with Earth creatures). Even a comedic character like Drax, where the humor doesn't necessarily come from what he says, but from his absolute deadpan delivery of everything that lets you know that he 100% takes the ridiculous shit he says seriously.

It's little touches like that that make the MCU work for a lot of people.