in real life after the six-hundredth-odd time somebody jumped off a building so they could get a selfie with him, Superman would start cooking us with heat vision from orbit just to watch us run around
what came to mind was a joint called The Mighty that hit some of the same themes, turns out there might be a movie of it:https://www.firstshowing.net/2011/paramount-pictures-snags-the-mighty-comic-book-for-the-big-screen/ …