Although the world's first superhero, Superman, began in the pages of comic books in 1938, most of us probably first encountered Clark Kent/Kal-El on the screen. And since 1941, there has been some kind of Superman movie,

Christopher Reeve’s straightforwardly charming portrayal, which he debuted in 1978, remains culturally pervasive; Brandon Routh’s performance in 2006’s Superman Returns was a broad homage to it. Henry Cavill’s work in the Snyder-verse,