Superman is not a superhero. He's a normal-sized Kryptonian who, lucky for him, found the planet Earth whose inhabitants' physical powers were inferior to his, whose inhabitants' physical powers were proportionate to the problems they had caused on their home planet. Was Superman a superhero on Krypton? He couldn't have been because in order to have been, the difference between his physical powers and those of his Kryptonian peers would have had to be the same as the difference between his physical powers and that of his Earth-bound peers. And that's not the case.
As an extension of this argument, it can be said that everyone on Earth is a superhero - just that we haven't found a race of beings physically inferior to us.
Another thing about superheroism is a matter of intention. When Superman was forced to leave Krypton, did he chalk out a course for a planet where he knew he could be a superhero? No; he landed up on Earth accidentally. Assuming his story was real and happening in a parallel universe: Superman was lucky. And as far as I'm concerned, intention is important: the end result of all of a superhero's actions ought to have been intended because, otherwise, the uniqueness that comes with being 'super' vanishes. Even theists are unwilling to accept luck for how aimless it tends to be and instead attribute certain events to a supernatural being's intentions.
Just FYI.
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