Clark Kent

"*There is a superhero in all of us, we just need the courage to put on a cape.*"
—Superman to Lois Lane.[src]
**Clark Joseph Kent** (born June 18, 1990 as **Kal-El**) is a well-known hero all throughout Metropolis and Gotham known as **Superman**. He is also an investigative journalist at the *Daily Planet*, the boyfriend of Lois Lane and a good friend of Bruce Wayne, Jimmy Olsen and Cat Grant. After the destruction of his home planet, Krypton, shortly after his birth, Kal-El was sent to Earth and landed in Smallville, where he was discovered and raised by quaint farmers, Jonathan and Martha Kent. After some difficulty in his youth, Clark moved to the city of Metropolis where he began a vigilante career, eventually capturing the attention of the media and the world at large. During an incident with the villain Magpie, Clark had his first encounter with Gotham's own Batman, quickly becoming close friends and partners with him. Near the beginning of his career, Superman regularly went against billionaire terrorist, Lex Luthor, first sabotaging his plan to eliminate aliens from the planet. When he first surfaced as Superman, he was originally nicknamed the **Flying Man** and **The Blur** by the media.

## Biography

### Early Life

Kal-El was born on June 18, 1990 to renowned scientists Jor-El and Lara Van-El on Krypton. Shortly after Kal's birth, the planet became greatly unstable and ended up exploding, killing all of it's inhabitants, the sole survivor being Kal-El who was sent to Earth in a pod by his parents. Alongside the pod, they also sent out Kal's paternal cousin, Kara Zor-El and a Kryptonian airship equipped to aid them both during their time on Earth. However, they were both knocked off course, with Kara's ship being launched into the Phantom Zone and the airship ending up in the arctic on Earth, only to be discovered by Kal much later in his life.

Once the pod reached Earth, it crash landed in a small town known as Smallville where he was discovered and later adopted by a friendly farmer couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent who gave the baby the legal name of Clark Kent. Growing up, Clark slowly discovered his powers and mainly used them to help his adoptive parents around their farm, making sure to keep out of sight of neighbours. Growing up, Clark became close friends with Pete Ross, Lana Lang and Chloe Sullivan, eventually growing close enough with Lana to confide in her about his growing abilities.

Tragically, when Clark was in his early teens, his adoptive father passed away due to heart failure, leaving him and Martha devastated. As he got older, he expressed interest in journalism and eventually moved to the bustling city of Metropolis in order to study journalism at Metropolis University.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology:** Like all other Kryptonians, Clark normally has the typical abilities of an average human. However, once he is exposed to the energy spectrum of the yellow sun, his enhanced alien physiology grants him many extraordinary abilities that no human can match.
	+ **Solar Energy Absorption:**
		- **Accelerated Healing Factor:**
		- **Flight:**
		- **Heat Vision:**
		- **Invulnerability:**
		- **Superhuman Senses:**
			* **Superhuman Vision:**
			* **Night Vision:**
				+ **X-Ray Vision:**
			* **Superhuman Hearing:**
		- **Freeze Breath:**
		- **Superhuman Speed:**
		- **Superhuman Strength:**
		- **Superhuman Jumping/Leaping:**
		- **Superhuman Stamina:**
	+ **Extended Longevity:**

### Abilities

* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:**
* **High-Level Intellect/Expert Tactician:**

## Equipment

* **Superman suit:** Clark dons a protective super-suit when protecting innocent civilians and flying around as Superman. His first suit was hand-made by his's mother and worn by him for his first few months as a vigilante. The second suit was created by his parents as Krypton was dying and was placed in a Kryptonian airship sent to aid Kal-El. However, the ship was knocked off course and ended up landing and becoming submerged inside the arctic, later becoming the Fortress of Solitude. Soon after becoming Superman, Clark heard signals from the ship and managed to find it, creating the Fortress and donning the suit. The suit Itself is made from Kryptonian armour whilst the cape is in fact the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby.

## Appearances

### Films

* *Justice League*
* *Suicide Squad* (mentioned)
* *Titans* (mentioned)
* *Justice League: Legion of Doom*
* *Justice League: Apokolips*

### *Batman: Anarky*

Season 2
* "Frost Warning" (mentioned)
* "Man of Steel"
* "Frostbite" (mentioned)
* "Metapocalypse"
* "Arkham Has Fallen" (mentioned)

Season 3
* "New Beginnings"
* "Narrows Rising" (mentioned)
* "Bloodlines, Part 2"
* "Jokes On You" (mentioned)

Season 4
* "Amazons Attack, Part 3"

Season 5
* "Underworld Unleashed, Part 1"

Season 6
* "No Man's Land" (mentioned)

Season 7
* "Mad as a Hatter"
* "Desperate Measures"

### *Superman*

Season 1
* "Pilot"
* "Brothers In Arms"
* "Two's Company"
* "When Hero Meets Hell"
* "General, Care to Step Outside?
* "Tell The Truth"
* "No One Left Behind"
* "Amazons Attack, Part 1"
* "The Truth Leaves a Sour Taste"
* "Taking This One to the Grave"
* "The Wrong Lane"
* "Never Cross a Luthor"
* "Luck of the Irish"
* "Skin of the Cat"
* "Lois"
* "Superman's Best Friend"
* "Where There's a Luthor, There's a Super"

Season 2
* "The Adventures of Superman"
* "Child's Play"
* "Heartless"
* "Sparks Fly"
* "A New Me"
* "Oh, Brother"
* "I Am Zod"
* "Underworld Unleashed, Part 3"
* "It Only Takes an Army"
* "Trinity"
* "I Know Who You Are"
* "Like Mother, Like Daughter"
* "These Dark and Childish Obsessions"
* "Guardians of Metropolis"
* "The Guardian"
* "This is How it Ends"
* "New Krypton"

Season 3
* "Cousin of Mine"
* "Seeing Red"
* "Welcome Home"
* "Training Day"
* "The Luthor Curse"
* "Run This Town"
* "The Mannheim Way"
* "A Life Forgotten"
* "Super...Girl?"
* "Anti-Life"

Season 4
* "Shock Jock Therapy"
* "Fun and Games"

### *Wonder Woman*

#### Season 1

* "Pilot" (mentioned)
* "The Lonely Path" (mentioned)

## Behind the Scenes

* In DC Comics, **Clark Kent** is the Kryptonian superhero known as **Superman** who is mainly known for being the protector of the city Metropolis and also for being one of the most powerful superheroes in the DC Universe. He is regularly seen working with other heroes such as Batman, Wonder Woman and being a member of the Justice League.