Kal-El (Inverse World)

:For other uses, see Bizarro (disambiguation).
Kal-El (died 2021; resurrected 2022), also known as "Bizarro" on Earth-TUD25,, is the son of a late unnamed woman, the brother of the late Tal-Rho, the husband of Lois Lane, and the father of Jonathan and Jordan-El.
After stealing the pendant of the dictator Ally Allston, Kal went to Earth-TUD25 to destroy her pendant before both versions could merge together, but he got stuck in the Shuster Mines. He was later released by AmerTek Industries and confronted by his Earth-TUD25 counterpart. Eventually, Kal was trapped by Superman in a fortress in the desert, but was freed by the A.I. of Lara Lor-Van to save her children from Lieutenant General Mitch Anderson, who ended up weakening Kal with X-Kryptonite and killing him.
Later, his body was taken by the Department of Defense and was eventually stolen by Intergang at the behest of Bruno Mannheim. He was then transported to an underground lab in Hobbs Bay where Mannheim brought him back to life to save his wife’s life. After Mannheim's arrest, Kal-El was released, becoming a zombie until he was found by Lex Luthor, who cruelly experimented on him and turned him into a mindless beast, beginning a life-to-death duel with Superman.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Kal-El and his brother Tal-Rho were born on Krypton and were sent by their mother to Earth when their planet exploded. Kal has an arctic fortress that contains an A.I. from his mother. At some point, he became a world famous superhero and married Lois Lane. Around 2005, Lois became pregnant with twin boys, Jonathan and Jordan-El. When he found out, he went to a bar in Smallville to tell his brother that he was going to be an uncle and was going to move from Metropolis to a farm Smallville. There, Tal met bartender Lana, they fell in love and eventually got married, with Kal being his best man. Due to his work, Kal was largely absent from his children's lives.
===Another world===
====Rise of Ally Allston====
In late 2021, Kal and his family went to an event and he didn't realize that a man was going to fall off a building, so Jon saved him, revealing his powers. Jon also became a famous superhero and his sidekick, helping him stop bad guys and eventually becoming more beloved by fans. At some point, Kal had trips with President Seinfeld. Later, Kal argued with Jon for acting alone and this led Jon to resent him even more and join Ally Allston's cult. Kal became obsessed with stopping Ally and began using Green Kryptonite to increase his powers, causing Lois to be disappointed and leave the farm with Jordan. Kal became enraged and burned the ranch using his heat breath. Eventually, the prolonged use of Kryptonite had psychological and physical side effects.
Tal visited Kal at the farm, warning him about what the Kryptonite was doing to him and that he and Lana had decided to team up with Ally, Kal felt betrayed and ordered him to leave. When Ally and her followers took control of the government, Kal tracked Lois, Jordan, and Sam Lane to a hidden bunker where they took refuge. By then, the effects of the Kyrptonite had already warped him. He apologized to his family for never being present and said that he planned to steal Ally's pendant (an ancient artifact that was capable of granting the user godhood if paired with its other half) and take it to another Earth, where he believed he could destroy it and stop her from merging the two worlds. After having defeated her guards, including Lana, Kal stole Ally's pendant. Later on, he put on armor, took another dose of Kryptonite, and traveled to the mines, where he went through a portal, ending up in Smallville's Shuster Mines on Earth-TUD25.
====In another dimension====
Despite his intake of Kryptonite, Kal remained stuck in the Shuster Mines in Smallville due to the X-Kryptonite there weakening him, resulting in him being sealed into his armor. His efforts to get out caused several earthquakes in the city and Superman, his Earth-TUD25 counterpart, to suffer seizures with painful headaches, intense visions, and fits of rage.
When several members of AmerTek went into the mines to investigate, Kal killed them all. Dr. Kit Faulkner described him as "even more powerful than [she] hoped."
Later, Kal was able to escape the mines and fought Superman and John Henry Irons, during which time he said "leave me alone" backwards. When Superman started receiving painful visions, Kal did too and flew away to the Fortress of Solitude. When his armor was removed, he resembled Superman, down to a damaged suit with a backwards S on his chest. Kal then said the word "home" backwards.
Later, he flew to the Kent Farm to kill Superman, so his visions would stop. After a brief confrontation with Superman and John Irons, he fled and flew to Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. There, he was confronted by the Supermen of America. In his battle with them, he killed two of the Supermen, with Tag Harris being the sole survivor. Superman appeared and fought Kal. John Irons attempted to help Superman with his hammer but was struck by Kal, who ran away again. John was later hospitalized because of this.
Kal discovered that Dr. Kit Faulkner was one of Ally Allston's followers and killed her in her office. Lois Lane walked in and he ran away instead of hurting her. He tracked Ally down and tried to kill her, but Superman stopped him, and they had a brief fight, where Superman realized that Kal was his inverse due to them having opposing powers. Superman led Kal to the Shuster Mines and knocked him unconscious with a shard of X-Kryptonite. Superman took Kal to Tal-Rho's Fortress, where Lara Lor-Van's A.I. trapped him in yellow energy and was able to give him the ability to speak coherently. When he woke up, he told Superman that he needed to kill Ally before she destroyed his world. He also told how he got to this world and why he's been killing people, to destroy Ally's pendant, but Superman was afraid to believe it.
====Death====
Superman and Tal-Rho went to the fortress. Kal was still trapped and remembered Tal's counterpart from the Inverse World, whose wife tried to kill him. Eventually, they were tracked down by Lieutenant General Mitch Anderson, who used X-Kryptonite to give himself superpowers. Superman and Tal-Rho were weakened by red solar radiation and Anderson managed to overpower them and shoot Tal-Rho with Kryptonite bullets. Because of this, Lara Lor-Van's A.I. released Kal so he could save her children. As he fought Anderson, Kal proved to be immune to green kryptonite. Anderson deduced that X-Kryptonite was his weakness and repeatedly hit Kal with X-Kryptonite gas, weakening him to the point where Anderson could break his neck and kill him.
===Post-Mortem===
====Used by the Mannheims====
His corpse would then be transported to one of the DOD's secret facilities and be kept there for several months. However he would then be stolen by Intergang on the orders of Bruno Mannheim after James Distefano successfully transmitted all of the locations of the DOD's secret facilities back to him. His corpse would then be transported to an underground lab underneath Hobbs Bay medical facility. It was there that Mannheim resurrected Kal so he may use him to try and find a cure for Peia Mannheim’s terminal cancer. 
Superman used a holographic projection of Kal-El in the new Fortress of Solitude to train his son Jordan alongside a hologram of Atomic Skull.
====Resurrection====
Mannheim kept Kal comatose so it would be easier to operate on him. The plan ended up failing, and after Peia’s powers destroyed Bruno’s lab, Kal woke up, screaming in pain as bumps developed across his face and hands.
Spending weeks locked up, Kal-El became a cannibal, eating several mice before being found by the evil billionaire Lex Luthor and his henchman Otis Grisham, whom he attacked in a rage, eating him while Lex looked.
===Becoming a beast===
====Tortured by Lex Luthor====
====Battle against Superman====
==Personality==
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|-|As a superhero=
According to Jordan; Kal-El once embodied the same noble and selfless nature of a hero as his Earth-TUD25 counterpart. Likewise, he was a loving family man, eager to be there for his family. But between never having a civilian disguise that his counterpart has and the constant fame and wealth he was showered with, Kal eventually let the ego-boost go to his head. 
Kal became cocky, showboating, self-entitled and careless, he came to see being famous and beloved as no different than helping people, spending more time working on his public image and endorsements than protecting society. He would pander to the fans so much, he would fail to hear people in need, once letting a person fall to their demise if not for Jonathan's intervention. While still truly loving his family, his shameless glory-seeking unintentionally led to neglecting his family.
Kal only began taking an interest in Jonathan again; when his powers manifested. While attempting to teach Jordan to be hero, Kal's efforts became more about promoting his son as part of his commercial brand. With his insecurity at Jonathan become more popular than him and his arrogant control of how Jonathan was to perform as a hero, Kal ultimately further pushed his son away. This continued self-entitlement eventually also led to Lois and Jordan leaving him from his inability see the fame was making him neglect his family and actual hero duties.
|-|As Bizarro=
Kal would become addicted to the power Green Kryptonite gave him; which; ultimately led to his downfall. It made him become very aggressive and reckless. Following his various failings, Kal eventually came to admit to hoping to make up for all of it. Risking everything, he came to Earth-TUD25; with good intentions, hoping to save both worlds. But unlike his Earth-TUD25 counterpart; Kal was willing to kill; in order to protect the world.
|-|As a beast=
When Mannheim brought Kal back to life and he was trapped in the tunnels under Metropolis for several weeks, Kal has changed into a type of animalistic personality. He eats other living things to survive including people. After being experimented on by Lex Luthor and becoming a gigantic monster, Kal has completely lost his ability to speak and is now a mindless beast that is unwillingly loyal to Luthor. 
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==Powers and abilities==
===Powers===
*Altered Kryptonian physiology: As a Kryptonian, Kal possesses special abilities. He may even be stronger than his Earth-TUD25 counterpart, as he has been fighting him on equal terms even while weakened by the yellow sun. Upon being resurrected by Bruno Mannheim, it appears that Kal’s powers have gotten even stronger than before, as shown by how Kal survived having Bruno’s lab collapse on top of him, and how his eyes glowed bright blue; indicating his freeze vision has been enhanced. His eyes also now constantly glow blue which might mean he can’t turn off his freeze vision. After being experimented on by Lex Luthor and growing more enhanced, the creature's abilities exceed those of his counterpart, enough to make even the Man of steel bleed. 
**: When Kal was beneath the Shuster Mines, his punches at the rock caused several earthquakes. He was also able to equal Superman; who is one of the physically strongest individuals on Earth. Upon losing his humanity after being mutated into a mindless beast, Kal has a bit more superior stength than his counterpart.
**: Kal is able to move at immense speeds; able to match Superman in combat.
**: Kal is able to fly at tremendous speeds.
**: Kal is incredibly durable, able to endure very powerful explosions, hits from Superman and even intense blasts of the latter's heat vision; with little to no noticeable harm at all.
**: As seen from John Henry Irons' attempt to weaken Kal; with red solar flares, he remained completely unfazed.
**: Inverse of Superman's heat vision, Kal-El is able to produce very cold beams from his eyes, that can freeze his target and, additionally, create icicles if he chooses to. After mutating, it is unknown if Kal can still use his freeze vision, but it is possible that he can.
**: He is able to produce an amount of fire from his mouth, in a similar but inverse manner to Superman's ice breath. When Kal grew into a beast, his fire breath has become a lot bigger and stronger than it was before.
**: From high in the air he was able to zoom in on Dr. Kit Faulkner walking in the street.
**Superhuman hearing: Kal was able to hear an ELT that Lex Luthor activated to summon him from far away. 
**Green Kryptonite empowerment: As an inverse of Superman, exposure to green kryptonite; makes him stronger; instead of weakening him.
**Accelerated healing factor: As an inverse of Superman, as long as Kal's cells are supercharged, he can heal extremely fast. Kal's healing factor vastly increased due to the experiments of Dr. Aleister Hook administering a resurrection drug and possibly other things, and Lex Luthor discovered it practically made him immortal, abusing this power to transform him into a mindless animal. 
***Resurrection-induced immortality: Being injected with a resurrection drug, along with possibly other currently unknown experiments, mutated Kal-El's biology, allowing his body to heal and resurrect itself on his own after each death without further doses of the drug. This ability seemingly has no known limit, however, it comes with reduced mental capabilities, a known side effect of the resurrection drug.
****Adaptational evolution: One of the effects of Kal's mutation from Hook's experiments is that his skin hardens and spikes start to develop, and he becomes immune to whatever method of death previously killed him. Lex abused this ability to the point where Kal evolved into a hulking, rock-like creature, losing his humanity but gaining an immense bloodlust.
===Weaknesses===
*X-Kryptonite: As Kal has an inverse biology to Superman, rather than empower the being, X-Kryptonite weakens him to a certain extent, allowing Superman to knock him out.
*Brute Force: Beings of similar power like Kal-El can possibly kill him since his punch caused doomsday to bleed a little as he hit the moon's surface , however, it must be noted that even if he does manage to be killed he only becomes stronger.
*Water submergence: Despite his now-virtual invulnerability as Doomsday, Kal is vulnerable when submerged underwater, as his vastly increased size and weight make him slower and open to being temporarily frozen by fellow Kryptonians. Being frozen within a large enough body of frozen water could theoretically stop him, though it wouldn't kill him for good.
*Yellow sun energy: As Kal has an inverse biology to Superman, yellow sun energy weakens him to a degree rather than increases his power, similar to how red sun energy weakens Kryptonians native to Earth-TUD25.
*Green Kryptonite addiction: While Green Kryptonite empowers Kal, it also causes him to become more cocky like his son's Earth-TUD25 counterpart, along with other side effects, which ultimately led to his death.
**Degeneration: While Green Kryptonite makes Kal stronger, it seemingly only extends to his powers, not his durability. Kal's skin became a pale white and the skin around his eyes, mouth and cheeks turned black. However his former appearance started to be restored thanks to the experiments conducted on him by Dr. Aleister Hook "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". This is likely due to the chemicals Hook injecting Kal with burning off the Kryptonite in his system. 
**Headaches: Prolonged usage of Green Kryptonite gave Kal headaches. These headaches would worsen when he arrived on Earth-TUD25, due to telepathic connection with his counterpart. Kal acted even more aggressive than usual, as he crossed a line he usually wouldn't, killing the teens on Superman of America - even if he believed they were allied with Ally Allston.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Monstrous appearance: Although Kal's physical appearance appeared to be healed from Mannheim's experiments, this was only superficial, as once his normal biological functions resumed after he awoke from his coma, he started screaming in pain as bumps developed across his face and hands. It appears he was mutated by Hook's experiments, although what exactly was done to him is unclear. What is known is that the resurrection drug was used on him, although it's not known if he was injected with his counterpart's blood as well.
==Equipment==
*Suit: Kal has a protective suit similar to the one of his Earth-TUD25 counterpart, only with the symbol of House of El inverted and the cape in tatters.
===Former equipment===
*Armor: Kal used an armor to travel between the Inverse World and Earth-TUD25. His armor was damaged during his confrontation with his Earth-TUD25 counterpart and he got rid of it in the Fortress of Solitude.
*The Pendant: The pendant is an artifact as old as time, born when the Inverse World and Earth-TUD25 were split. The pendant produces waves of energy when in the presence of Superman. He stole the pendant from the Ally Allston of the Inverse World. It was later stolen by Tag Harris and given to Mitch Anderson.
==Appearances==
===Superman & Lois===
===Comics===
====EARTH-PRIME====
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==Trivia==
*He had an orange cat named Krypto.
*He and his family lived like celebrities. Ironically, J'onn J'onzz of Earth-38 had scolded Kara to avoid that after she gave an interview to Cat Grant; unlike how this attracted Reactron, Kal and his family were able to live peacefully for years, until Ally Allston's Inverse Society took over the Inverse World.
*Green Kryptonite affects him the same way as it did the artificial Kryptonian Bizarro, making him degenerate into a gray form with black eye with enhanced powers; only his irises glowed blue, likely due to his mind not having deteriorated from a coma/brain death. Though he was still as violent as Jane Doe, albeit because his self-restraint was diminished from the psychological effects; much like how Red Kryptonite affects regular Kryptonian by removing the inhibitions.
*Kal's Green Kryptonite usage is a parallel to Jonathan's X-Kryptonite usage.
*Kal-El's codename, Bizarro, was not officially mentioned until . However, the name was alluded to in several lines throughout Season 2:
**"There's a bizarre version of Superman on the loose."
**"But then this bizarre version of you busted through the earth's crust, and now I'm wondering what if the two are related?"
**"I was me, but not me... more like this bizarro version of myself."
**"Everything about this me is bizarre."
**The very episode title 
**"So if Ally Allston merged with her bizarro self, does that mean she's some sort of god now?"
**"Not yet, but if Jonathan merges with his bizzaro self, he'll be as strong as she is."
**The very episode title 
**"She's not gonna stop until she completes everyone by combining them with their counterparts from that Bizarro World."
*Kal's bizarre, zombie-like behavior upon resurrection may have something to do with his neck being snapped, as another test subject, Henry Miller, was left dead when John Henry Irons killed him with his hammer.
*Before being transformed into a beast, the resurrected Kal-El appears to have a brief moment of consciousness and clarity that resembles his former self. As he does not know Ally Alston was defeated and imprisoned, it may be possible that his somber, apparent consent for Lex to continue killing him was so he could become strong enough to protect his family from Ally, at the sacrifice of his soul.
**Though it is possible that Kal reacted this way as Lex gave him no choice.
==Behind the scenes==
*In the DC comics, Bizarro was created by writer Otto Binder and artist George Papp as a "mirror image" of Superman. He debuted in Superboy #68 (October, 1958). However, unlike Kal-El, the comic version of Bizarro is an artificially created being, originating from the same universe as Superman and with a severely diminished intellect. Like Kal-El, some comic versions of Bizarro have a family, comprised of a Bizarro Lois Lane, and their son, Bizarro, Jr, both of whom have the same chalky skin and low intellect as Bizarro.
**Jane Doe/Bizarro previously appeared in the episode .
*The armor he wore resembles Doomsday's containment suit after it was defeated by Radiant.
*Paul Lazenby confirmed that he played an adaptation of Doomsday.Paul Lazenby confirms he plays Doomsday
==References==
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Category:Villains
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