Okay, she doesn't always live up to this (in fact, I'd say it's more often that she doesn't), but here goes:

Well then, we need to pick a lane here- is the Carol Corps. too devoted to Carol herself, thus creating hostility to other Captains Marvel who may be her demographic cohorts…or is its devotion to Carol just a function of her being Marvel's most prominent woman, thus showing that Marvel is mistaken in keeping her…

Ultimately, despite what you WISH I'd say, my problem isn't that MOS is "serious". TDK is my favorite super-hero movie, and it's downright DIRE. My problem is-

"Articulate then, to me, how Superman's raw physical power—i.e. his capacity for violence—is not an essential element of the character. How is it not part and parcel of the concept?"

I want both, actually!

"Have you ever read the comics? Like, at all?"

I don't really think they are; look, every writer/editor is going to cherry pick the continuity they want to use anyway, so it's not like it *really* gets in the way.

Yeah, there's not really very many people at Marvel who are gonna tell him what to write.

"For once, we got a movie that played the concept straight and successfully conveyed the sheer scope and awe of the destructive capability such beings as Superman would possess."

I believe that, too.

"In short, they made a Superman movie for grown-ups."

"Also, I'm a toddler."

"There's nothing in the Superman mythos that predicates "colorful and fun"."

C'mon, sockhops and wheatcakes were never that big a part of the Spidey story. If you want to update those, then all you're changing is where Flash says he's going as he walks off panel/screen.

But the thing is, how much do you really need to update? Sure, change his wardrobe, and give him a computer/smartphone. Maybe tinker with the wrestling angle, depending on where we as a people are about that lately.

Yeah, that will remain, regardless of fads, a relatively cool looking action sequence.

Nah, Peter Parker, especially as a teen, is a social outcast who concentrates on his studies and his crippling sense of responsibility. He'd know what Snapchat and EDM are, but he ain't got time to master them.

"Fans hate it when people retcon 60 years of history for a few token cookies."

Honestly, Nightcrawler has gotten very few really memorable storylines.

And it's particularly disappointing in X-Men, because the Claremont years- at least the first half of them- really showed an awful lot of growing up and moving out.