Quote Originally Posted by GloatingSwine View Post
To be honest the original misses the point as well.

It tries to critique The Elite for imposing their will through superior power, but just has Superman eventually do the same to them. So ultimately its intended critique is just hypocritical because its critique isn't "someone else might be stronger than you eventually" but "this thing you are doing is bad, but I'm going to win by doing it as well so maybe you're actually right?".
I mean to me, it has nothing to with strength, more like Superman is showing by example what happens when he doesn't have the morality. How scary and terrifying it all becomes if supers don't hold themselves to the standards they do. Basically he pulls a superhero version of scaring them straight by for a second demonstrating what he could be if he wasn't so nice.