It's a self fulfilling prophecy. People are obsessed with super heroes because they are hopeless and helpless to change the society and move forward due to the large forces in society holding us back that can only be changed with collective action. But no collective action happens because, at least in America, people expect one person to rise up and fix everything, to "save the world," as it would be. This is as impossible in the real world as the concept of "saving the world" itself is stupid, childish, selfish, grandiose, and ultimately beyond delusional.

Why does the world need saving all the time? It's been going on for millions of years (human populated world) or billions of years (the whole universe) without ever needing saving. Maybe instead of waiting for Superman to come fix our healthcare or inequality or climate or insert any other modern problem, we should try to do something about it ourselves together. Unfortunately, these movies standardize the idea that people working together cannot achieve anything and only super heroes alone or in small groups can. That's completely delusional, the opposite of reality. And this mindset has become the cornerstone of our real society feeding the helplessness that leads to hopelessness that leads to hoping to be "saved" by imaginary children's stories.