Originally posted by 753
He is not proactive at all. And he could have done a lot to Luthor but his own moral inhibitions prevented that. Luthor's presidency was all full of horrible horrible deeds and he knew for a fact that luthor was a mass murdering sociopath.
He's proactive, not stupid. Most people didn't know of Lex's true nature and Superman couldn't prove anything. If he had just arrested Lex Luthor it would have just been a public embarassment for him. Luthor was untouchable. He does things by the book but if you look at JLA/Avengers you can see that Superman thought the heroes of Marvel didn't do near enough and that they had allowed their world to seemingly go to shit. Thor doesn't do nearly as much to help the world as Superman does.