10 Worst Things Superman Has Ever Done In The Films

10. It Is Forbidden To Interfere With Human History

For a film made in 1978, Superman holds up remarkably well today, mostly because of just how excellent Christopher Reeve was as Superman. He was the Michael Keaton of Supermen, in that there are others to have played the role, but none were ever better.

1978's Superman is a classic Supes adventure filled with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Lex Luthor. However, at the end of the film when Superman has been busy saving the day from Lex Luthor's missiles, he realises that Lois has suffocated after her car fell into a pit and trapped her underneath the rubble.

In a fit of anger and pain, Superman flies up and starts orbiting the Earth, going faster and faster until the Earth stops and starts spinning backwards - somehow reversing the flow of time.

Now, the ability of Superman to do this aside (because honestly, it is a touchy topic among the fans), he had been expressly warned by Jor-El not to do it at all - "It is forbidden" - Kal is reminded by his father as he does it anyway. The sequence showed that Superman was willing and capable of doing the thing he had been forbidden from doing if it meant sparing his pain.

As well as that, the truth is that stopping the Earth's rotation at all would kill everything on it - which should have been enough of an argument for Superman not to do it in the first place.