10 Worst Things Superman Has Ever Done

4. Destroying People's Homes Because They're Poor - Superman In The Slums

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Man, those heady days of the late-1930s threw up some stories with slightly questionable morals at their core.

In Action Comics #8, Superman in the Slums featured the Big Blue Boy Scout coming to the most ridiculous, callous of decisions when realising that a group of criminals originate from the poorest part of Metropolis.

Inspired by a newspaper headline detailing a tragic cyclone disaster in Florida, Supes realises that the best way to bring down the crime levels in Metropolis is to destroy the most struggling, desperate, low income areas of the city. And so, he literally takes his superpowers and a hammer to the houses of Metropolis' poverty-stricken residents.

While he does give some of the children of these areas mild warning of what he's going to do, the Man of Steel expects these families to take up their life possessions and simply find themselves a new place to live somewhere else.

In hindsight, this sort of disturbed, single-minded, extreme approach from Superman was an accidental indicator of what the Last Son of Krypton was capable of in future stories like the whole Injustice: Gods Among Us shenanigans.

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