Wow... Um were to start.
1) Thank you for giving a good and respectful view of the characters, you have my respect. however...
2) I wouldnt ever neccesarily call Princess Celestia a "God" in the terms of the MLP universe. Now while she is powerful and seems very wise, I see her like Darkseid, just a very powerful being that rules over as a god but still is sort of a Demi-god. But still i can see what your getting at in terms of physical and magical power. I still gotta give PC Supes some credit seeing how he once DESTROYED an entire solar system... (sun included) by sneezing at it. And by that extension, on many occasions has shown to be able to juggle planets and even create suns out of nothing but his heat vision. His vunerability to magic is a factor but, to quote the Superman wiki "While superman appears to be weak towards magic, that had become less of a case during the course of the Silver Age, as in his vast intelligence he was able to study all forms of magic across the board, and with the help of Captain Marvel (and other magic heroes) developed a tolerance for most forms of Magic." Also "Though it is stated he was vunerable to magic, it was only when dealing with characters with a Semi-Divine or Divine manipulation of Magic, even then the most these beings could do was hurt Him, but never kill." He has shown to be very resilient to pain in most forms anyway and does have a tolerance to hurt those he sees as a threat. Plus since Celestia does have major power over the sun, wouldnt she just be giving Superman extra energy?
3) While i am obliged to give the Princess credit with her moral value. Its Superman... Truth, Justice, and the American Way. The original superhero who always stood to do whats right. He was once recognized by Wonder Woman (Princess of Truth) to be one of the most dependable and loving characters of all time. He has the power to move mountains, but still will help get a cat out of a tree for a random girl, he can change the shape of the world, but still decides to help as superman and hide out as Clark Kent, which is really hard to believe when you get down to it. Even luthor, when he was once informed of it during the silver age, was told by his super computer that Clark Kent was Superman and he laughed stating "A golden god such as him would never stoop to being such as uneventful idiot." This shows that even with all of his power he still sees himself no better than the average man. He lost his entire world, and refuses to let that happen to happen to anyone ever again. Even the creator has a touching backstory to him, you see with Jerry Siegel before creating superman, had his father shot to death during a bank robbery, it was this incident that inspired him to create superman, even co-creator Jim Shooster once said "You get your father killed in a bank robbery, then 2 months later you create a bullet-proof man that stands for justice and all that is right, im sorry but theres a story there." His actions against fighting villians are good, but you must remember that Superman never had (and no offense here) a Deux Ex Machina to fall back on. He had to rely on his wits and strength just to fight many of the villians, no elements of harmony there to help at all. Seriously though Celestia was only really clear minded and not taken aback because she KNEW she had the magic fix everything button right in front of her, superman never had that luxury, he had to fight villians that were 10 times more ruthless than anything the ponies have faced (though it is a kid show so ill give it some respect for the villains they do have) and often had to do it ALONE and he never backed down. Even bloody and defeated he fought back, even with every bone in his body broken his fought back, even in the fae of death, with once last effort he... fought... back.
4) While i do stand on the fact that most Silver age/Pre Crisis Superman stories are, well goofy. There are very good and touching stories to be told, mostly the stories revolving around Superman trying to start a life. There are two superman stories that i would have to reccomend from this age however that might just change your opinion.
"Does the World need a Superman?" This one was a dwelve into tale about how Superman may be doing more wrong than right and that hes doing to much to help the earth and thus making all the people to relient of him. Its a very "decide for yourself" kind of story because its very open ended and has no real answers at the end.
"Whatever happened to the Man of Tommorow" Written by Alan Moore... Yeah the guy who wrot e Watchmen. Trust me all you need to know is its one of his BEST work, and the last Silver age story. Ill just say this aint a happy tale.
So thats my two cents on everything, sorry if i semed a little harsh in some areas, but still good argument. Farewell (oh and sorry for any grammar mistakes, typing this on a ipad.)
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