You mean if humans evolved in zero-G or something? Sure maybe It sounds silly but it is a major evolutionary liability that our brains are pretty big and heavy so we put a lot of energy into holding our heads up, it's one reason our species is prone to back problems
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It's not just that Superman *himself* is super strong but that the things he interacts with also get whatever measure of super-strength necessary for his powers to work in the way the audience expects Picking up and throwing things without tearing them apart
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It's like the thing about Superman giving the speech about the "World of Cardboard" Like, there's a certain level of physical strength the materials that make up the world have, and they don't scale up or down, it's fixed
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now i'm imagining superman being careful to line up his fingers with the jack points before lifting a car [iirc officially his body projects a structural integrity field to things he's holding, which is also why his clothes are immune to bullets]
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my favorite example of this is in Superman (1978) where he catches, and then carries, a falling helicopter by one of its skids
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