The mythology of Superman is a paradigm that embodies the cultural reality of the time; built around an archetypal ideology, fantasies of human spiritual ambiguity, a religious messiah, and a semiotic representation of modernity. In further study, it can be identified that Superman specifically changed to adhere to American culture during three distinct periods:; in the midst of the Great Depression and World War II, after World War II, and finally in the socially progressive change of the Vietnam period. In each chapter, Superman was reinvented to fit the definition of the times, a tool of propaganda rather than entertainment. Currently, America is entering a new phase of cultural change and Superman will therefore be redefined to represent the ideologies of truth, justice and the American way of this required era. Yet the simple superficial mythology of Superman has applications to cultural ideologies, questions of human freedom, dreams of a Freudian nature, and the complex relationship between fantasy and reality that required an introduction before in-depth research. Superman's representation of cultural ideology is that of "the ideas of the ruling class are in every age the ruling ideas", the Marxist interpretation of material production and mental production (Karl Marx, 1932, pp. 7 -8). Superman, as a title, implies that he is "better" than just a man; thus, providing divine qualities to a hero allows the construction of an icon that transcends diversity. Subsequently, Superman embodies a civil religion of American ideals in which everyone can identify. Promoting the qualities of a populist hero, Superman is an ideological symbol of American ideology against the myth of aristocracy; the principle of moral quality being hereditary. Superman's identification with an inferior ......ogy of the ruling class, symbol of the American way; that everyone is born with the capacity to be great, but no one is above it. Works Cited Arnold, M. (1869). Culture and anarchy. Berman, M. (1982). Everything solid melts into air. London: Verso. Foucault, M. (1967). Other spaces, heterotopias. Freud, S. (1973). The dream work. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books. Kant, I. (1794). What is the Enlightenment. Karl Marx, a. F. (1932). German ideology. Moscow: Marx-Engels Institute. Locke, J. (1995). Second Treatise on Civil Government (Vol. The Portable Enlightenment Reader). (I. Kramnick, ed.) New York: Penguin. Rousseau, J.J. (1995). The Social Contract (Vol. The Enlightenment Portable Reader). (I. Kramnick, ed.) New York: Penguin. Zizek, S. (2006). From Reality to Reality (Vol. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader). (J. Storeys, ed.) Harlow: Pearson.