Superman only wants you to be good. Whether you like it or not!
As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.- The whole scenario of Beware the Superman featuring a Soviet-raised Superman is pretty much as terrifying in-story as it is in reality, as this version of Superman is not malevolent but simply a more controlling version of the conventional Superman with a Utopia Justifies the Means mindset after years of serving under the oppressive leadership of Josef Stalin. Factor in the point of Superman being displayed as virtually unstoppable, you end up getting a kind of Invincible Villain scenario if you happen to be against him. He eventually takes over most of the world as a Totalitarian Utilitarian where only a few nations besides America remain free despite being in turmoil and literally has his citizens' lives scheduled to his liking.
- This version of Superman is also willing to forcibly brainwash dissidents and criminals using neurological implants to induce forceful happiness and put them in menial jobs until he feels they're ready to enter society. Even simply voicing dissatisfaction in private can be construed as incitement to disobey which is seen as a viable justification for being turned into a Superman Robot. Paranoia Fuel considering it's described how Superman's super-hearing is comparable to some form of ever-listening Big Brother.
- Bizarro in this verse is pretty disturbing to look at, considering he appears to be a brain-damaged tumor-like humanoid creature that displays strangely altered powers. Not to mention it's implied to be intelligent considering it was able to defeat this world's version of Lex Luthor in a chess game.
- The fight between Superman and Bizarro has disastrous effects on the surrounding populace, killing the operators of an underwater nuclear submarine and later killing thousands in London when Superman is thrown into Big Ben.
- Shortly after their first encounter, Superman punches Bizarro, and comments that his burst of "telescopic x-ray vision" gave crewmen of the submarine a severe case of radiation poisoning; though it's implied they survived this initial hit, Superman also comments that "birds became irradiated and dropped from the skies for fifty miles around."
- The series revelation of the world being trapped in an Ontological Paradox is fairly terrifying on an existential level. Basically no matter what Superman does he'll eventually cause the world to become set on the track to becoming Krypton, destroyed by its Red Sun, and have him sent back in time to continue the same arduous chain of events all over again despite all hopes to do otherwise. And the Red Sun will eventually degrade Superman's powers and mind over the years as he lives until Krypton's destruction, so he won't even be able to understand the paradox is occurring.
- The ending is philosophically nightmarish. It implies that even if we ever do manage to solve the problems of this crapsack world, victory over life's problems is so boring, so existentially miserable that we will want to die - but be unable to kill ourselves except through the inaction of waiting billions of years for the sun to swallow us. With anti-aging tech we may become functionally immortal, too. The only means of being genuinely happy may be lobotomy.
