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Originally Posted by Weapon X

Although I will say, that the argument about hundreds of stories being written about gods doesn't really work. Gods were always written about for religious purposes usually, to give people hope, not because they were somebody to root for.

Not always. In fact, the Greek Gods were often written in surprisingly human ways. Granted, most of the time it was of the "vengeful, spiteful and lustful" variety that prevented them from being protagonists, and pretty much made them the antagonists of many stories.

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Protagonists were demi-gods at the most, because they still had that mortal part to them.

You're only looking at surface level details there. As far as physical attributes, sure, some demigods were weaker than the regular Gods, but that's not what made them interesting characters. They were interesting characters because they had godlike power but still had close ties to humanity that made them more sympathetic and likable. You don't need to nerf them to accomplish that, you just need good storytelling. You need to put them in situations where their values and beliefs are put to the test. And that's so easy to do for a character like Superman where the challenge for him is to not exercise his godlike power to be judge, jury and executioner. But once again, writers don't understand Superman. They think making a good Superman story is to either make him a deadbeat dad, a ruthless dictator or make him more like Batman.