I didn’t think he was turning the Earth backwards, but he himself was traveling back in time and the Earth Turing backwards was from his perspective, like watching a clock face turn backwards if you were going back in time or sped up if going forward.

But seriously, Superman takes revenge by going out of his way to pick a fight with trucker, who probably busted his hand, and then crashed the guy into a pinball machine. All he was doing was eating his “garbage,” and Clark comes in and starts some shit out of revenge. On the Kent farm, Pa Kent taught Clark that, “with great power come the great responsibility to kick the ass of those that embarrassed you regardless of consequences.”