>>212175653Supes absolutely can be sarcastic. Especially when he's annoyed, but not explicitly angry. Usually it's done to one-up because he'll say something sarcastic because he doesn't perceive the actual obviousness of their situation, and then another character corrects him. It's how they humble him from time to time. He may be the Man of Steel, but he sometimes gets too big for his britches and thinks that his strength = his intelligence/wisdom when Supes is generally speaking not particularly wise. He leans on making good, moral decisions in lieu of being book smart, or having a tremendous IQ to go along with the rest of his powers. He's not a retard, he's just... not that guy and needs a reminder of it every now and again. He can also be incredibly petty and cruel at times, even when he isn't being written stupidly. When enemies that (we as the reader don't care about) confront him, he has a tendency to dispatch them in pretty horrible ways rather than the most "ethical" way. For instance, IIRC this guy was some mook from Apokolips, and Supes could have just easily kept him literally committing suicide by trying to repeatedly strike him. Does he? No. He just stands there and no sells while thinking that this guy killing himself is a waste of time.