The Man of Steel became a political lightning rod this summer with the release of the new movie, but world's most wholesome hero has actually been under attack since 1954, when Dr. Fredric Wertham published the anti-comics treatise 'Seduction of the Innocent.

"Superman" filmmaker James Gunn says his movie is political since it's about the "lost" US value of basic human kindness. That is our country, "director James Gunn said at a press event following the release of the film's first trailer.

Superman has had a connection to immigrants from the beginning. The superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were both the children of Jewish immigrants to the United States, from Lithuania and Ukraine, respectively, according to an article published by the Library of Congress.

James Gunn, the screenwriter and director of “Superman,” narrates a sequence featuring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan.

When the video of his birth parents makes him wonder whether his destiny is evil, it takes only a trip to his adoptive parents, Martha (Neva Howell) and John (Pruitt Taylor Vince), in Kansas, to set his mind at ease with a moral lesson of trivializing simplicity.

First introduced in 1938 by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in Cleveland, Ohio, Superman remains one of the most enduring figures in popular culture. According to the comic book lore, he is the sole survivor of the planet Krypton, sent to Earth by his parents after their home faced annihilation.

"Man of Steel" opened in 2013 with a respectable $200 million global cumulative, but also received middling reviews from critics.

To be certain, there are political themes in “Superman.” The main villain is a raging, self-centered billionaire who uses media, social and traditional, to spread lies and hatred. The secondary villain is a doddering, power-hungry elderly man with an unruly mop of hair and a flock of advisors who constantly shower him with unearned praise.

The Gunn brothers sparked controversy by describing "Superman" as an immigrant story, with Sean Gunn claiming those who don't support immigrants are anti-American.

Polygon Court debates Superman’s flagpole kid, the Boravia war, and what the movie’s ending really means James Gunn’s Superman kicks off a new era of DC movies, under the guardianship of Gunn and DC Studios co-chairman and CEO Peter Safran.