10 Moments When Superman Was A Real Jerk
10. When He Mistreats His "Pal" Jimmy Olsen
If you pick a random cover from Jimmy Olsen's 163 issue comics series, which ran from 1954-1974, chances are your pick will feature Superman doing something awful to Jimmy on the cover, and it goes beyond mates pranking each other for a few laughs. Superman has seemingly done everything he could in order to hurt Jimmy both emotionally and physically.
If he's not trying to kill him, he's forcing Jimmy to marry a gorilla, burning his gifts with his heat vision, making him gain a massive amount of weight so he can make fun of him for being fat, or just telling him he's annoying twerp. Superman might be a cruel jerk, but based on all this evidence Jimmy has to be a sadist as well. There's no other explanation why Jimmy would go through such awful treatment in order to stay "pals" with Superman.
Jimmy has to have an ocean of psychological problems from dealing with Superman, especially since hes willing to suffer indignity after indignity just to stay friends with Superman. We know Supermans a jerk, so the real question is: why do these people stay friends with him?