Talk:Origin of Superman

message: What we do know is that this new origin contains aspects of each: Post-Crisis, Birthright, Pre-Crisis, the Donner/Singer Movies, and Smallville. These are:
===Post-Crisis===
*The Kents are still alive.
*Lex is a successful billionaire/scheming genius.
*Lex's hair receded over time, hence his baldness.
*Pete Ross did not find out about Clark's powers until much later in life.
*Clark first meets fellow Daily Planet staffers Lois Lane, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen as an adult in Metropolis.
*Lois is always trying to get the scoop on Superman and beaten to it by Clark Kent, who is shown to be assertive and vocal at times.
*Lois Lane and Clark Kent get married.
*Lex's first attempts to destroy Superman, including creating Bizarro. His presidency, removal from office, and his fall from LexCorp are told.
*Clark's powers start to rise in his teens. Lana harbors a crush on him, and he reveals his secret to her.
*Superman is killed by Doomsday and returns from the dead. While he is gone, four Supermen took his place.
*Jimmy Olsen wears modern-day attire.
===Birthright===
*Clark met Lex earlier on in Smallville, although he was not involved with causing Lex's baldness (since his hair receded).
*Superman was a baby, not a fetus, when sent to Earth.
*The S symbol is the House of El crest and also a symbol of hope.
*Before he became Superman, Clark was aware of his alien heritage, although he also knew this Pre-Crisis, Superman: The Movie, etc, but not with the laptop-type device that displayed holograms.
*In the One Year Later arc, Clark mentions traveling abroad in India and Africa, much like in Waid's depiction.
*Pete Ross is mentioned as joined the Peace Corps, in Action Comics #850.
*Lex Luthor is one of the world's greatest scientists and spent time in Smallville.
*Lex is close to Clark's age.
===Pre-Crisis===
*The concept of the Phantom Zone.
*Jax-Ur, the Zoner who destroyed one of Krypton's moons, debuted for the first time Post-Infinite Crisis in Action Comics #846.
*Krypto is now from the real Krypton, not a false version, and he arrives on Earth during Clark's boyhood. [edited by Spiderboy12 (talk) 00:44, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Continuity

message: *The concept of the Phantom Zone.
*Jax-Ur, the Zoner who destroyed one of Krypton's moons, debuted for the first time Post-Infinite Crisis in Action Comics #846.
*Krypto is now from the real Krypton, not a false version, and he arrives on Earth during Clark's boyhood. [edited by Spiderboy12 (talk) 00:44, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pre-Crisis

message: *Lex Luthor's biological father is named Lionel Luthor (rather than just being an actor, as in Birthright) and physically resembles John Glover.
*Lex comes from a rich family from Metropolis, and he inherits LexCorp.
*Clark did save lives in a low-profile way, but again not in costume.
*Clark did show evident signs of his abilities at a young age (lifted a bed over his head, got lost at age six due to his super speed, etc).
I took out and added some stuff based on what can be proven. It's a good idea to list all of this, since we likely won't have the complete history for a while. I'm also adding a Smallville section. We can add new information as it becomes available. NotSuper (talk) 03:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Smallville

message: I'm glad to see an article I started become so complete and definitive. Good job to everyone involved iwth making this an excellent encyclopedic source on Superman's origin! --CmdrClow (talk) 07:34, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Well done

message: ..,but when I grow up, I put away childish things. So, given such age-old wisdom - why is Wikipedia putting all this effort into such an infantile subject?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.179 (talk) 08:17, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  When I was a child...