That's how most people in our world saw us. There are few people in our world who have powers like ours. That alone gave plenty of reason for them to be afraid of us. It's why a tenuous alliance was made between us and the government. It's why they secretly developed contingency plans in case we took things too far.

[As much as Kirk would like to defend himself and Bekka and Hernan, he can also understand why people like Luthor thought of them as monsters]

It was only recently that things started to change.