Come to think of it, in the first film it's not as if Superman did any particularly inspiring things, except for a few speeches here and there. He "limits" himself to acting like a super-cop/super-fireman, more concerned with maintaining the status quo than truly improving the lives of humanity.
Jor-El said that his boy is not allowed to alter the course of human history, and that might not just mean Time Travel.
Something happened to the Fortress between movie 2 and 3 or 2 and 4.
If the Fortress was still telling him what to do, they would not have let him start hundreds of conventional wars, the moment all their nukes were tossed into the sun.
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