Here's the thing - I (and millions of other people) just watched Avengers: Age of Ultron this past week, and it's hard not to draw parallels between the stories we care about today and the ones of centuries past. It's a pretty ridiculous story, containing elements of both reality and fantasy, just like the older fables. It draws on characters that have been around for decades and have changed significantly in that time - Thor, the Hulk and Iron Man were all created in the early 60's, Captain America's been around since the 40's. Heck, even the super-villain Ultron, a robot, was created in the late 60's and has undergone several re-imaginings.
On the DC-side of things, Superman and Batman have gone through dozens of different iterations since they were introduced in the late 30's. Hundreds of years later, when historians are sifting through our cultural legacy, they'll see a lot about these superheros. It's hard to see how they won't be treated as significant aspects of our lives - there's just too much about them out there, over too long a period of time, for them to be considered minor elements. I can see people in 2500 getting confused about the details of what we believed about these characters, just as we get confused about the details of some past legends from forgotten civilizations.
Not sure where I'm going with this, just a random thought, but it's fun to try to see our world the way we tend to view the world of the past.
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