Jor-El

**Jor-El** is an artificial intelligence functioning as Clark Kent's guide on Earth. It was created by the Kryptonian scientist Jor-El, who copied his own brainwaves into Kal-El's ship before sending it to Earth. He resided first in the spaceship, after its destruction in the Kawatche Caves and finally in the Fortress of Solitude. Jor-El was created in order to guide Kal-El down the right path of becoming a hero, evidenced by the fact that the real Jor-El refused to send the orb containing the clones to Earth for fear they would abuse their powers and thus, doom the human race.

### Powers and Abilities

Under a red sun, Jor-El has no powers, but as on Earth and as an A.I, he has the following abilities:

* **Possesion**: Jor-El being nonphysical, can possess humans. He has possessed Jonathan and Lionel. Jor-El can also reside himself in Kryptonian objects, like Clark's ship, the Kawatche caves, and then the Fortress.
* **Energy projection** - Jor-El was able to pin Clark with a wave of strong energy. Jor-El was able to conjure up a tentacle of energy to choke Jonathan.
* **Kryptonian power granting and removal**: Jor-El can bestow and remove Kryptonian powers from an individual at his whim. He gave Jonathan Kryptonian powers temporarily. He later took Clark's powers after the latter broke his covenant with him, but eventually gave them back after Clark died. Jor-El, upon Chloe's constant testing and pleading, restored Kara's memories and powers. He imbued Lois with Clark's powers until sundown.
* **Kryptonian** **Powers**: While possessing a human who lives under a yellow sun, Jor-El gains all Kryptonian powers and abilities.
	+ **Super Strength**
	+ **SuperSpeed**
	+ **Invulnarability**
	+ **Super Hearing**
	+ **Molecular Manipulation**: Jor-El can reconstruct or destroy matter. He used Jonathan to heal Clark after he got stabbed with Palak.
	+ **Remote teleportation**: Jor-El can teleport humans and Clark anywhere he/they desire. However, he cannot fetch someone from the Phantom Zone.
	+ **Time manipulation**: After Clark constructed the Fortress of Solitude, Jor-El grew in power and was able to manipulate time, allowing Kal-El to use one time crystal and later a time portal. Jor-El can also freeze time.
	+ **Telepathy**: Jor-El can mentally communicate with Clark and those around him. He was even able to speak with Clark while he was balancing between life and death in the Abyss of Life and Death. Jor-El, as a machine, can also mentally interface with Kryptonian objects, most notably through the Key and the Fortress.
	+ **Simulation creation**: During Clark's training, Jor-El created several life-like simulations, which included full sensory experience. He later showed Clark an alternate reality in which he never arrived on Earth and Lex Luthor was President of the United States.

### Season 1

Jor-El resided within Kal-El's ship since it left Krypton. The ship was programmed to protect Clark until he was ready to fulfill his destiny. After the ship and the Key were reunited, it flew to protect Clark from the tornado.

### Season 2

It was more than a year later when Clark met Dr. Virgil Swann, who revealed that Clark's biological parents intended to look out for him. Dr. Swann intercepted a message which stated:

*"This is Kal-El of Krypton, our infant son, our last hope. Please protect him and deliver him from evil. We will be with you, Kal-El, all the days of your life."*

Dr. Swann was also able to explain to Clark that Krypton was destroyed and, based on the way things are going on Earth, speculated that Kryptonians destroyed themselves. Clark soon received another message from Jor-El through his spaceship, which raised more questions than answers:

*"On this third planet from this star Sol, you will be a god among men. They are a flawed race. Rule them with strength, my son. That is where your greatness lies."*

Clark interpreted this as meaning that Jor-El sent him to conquer Earth; this made him extremely nervous, and he was keen to cut all ties to his Kryptonian heritage.

Just a few months later, on his 16th birthday, Clark received another cryptic message from Jor-El telling him to leave Smallville to begin his journey toward his destiny. Jor-El burned a mark on Clark's chest, which he referred to as the "mark of his ancestors"; it would prove to be an instrument of control.

Not wanting to abandon the life that he had built, Clark refused to go and destroyed the ship through which Jor-El was communicating, but the blast from the exploding ship caused Martha to have a miscarriage. The guilt from this caused Clark to leave Smallville; therefore, his attempt to cut connections with his Kryptonian family backfired, as he actually damaged his relationship with his adoptive family and Jor-El was still heard, insisting that Clark will obey him eventually.

### Season 3

While away from Smallville, Clark wore a red kryptonite ring to further distance himself from what he used to be. Aware of Clark's disobedience and reckless behavior, Jor-El periodically caused the mark on Clark's chest to burn painfully until Clark removed the ring. Nevertheless, Clark was insistent on removing Jor-El from his life and put the ring back on as soon as the burning stopped.

Desperate to make his son accept his destiny, Jor-El made a deal with Jonathan: Jor-El agreed to give Jonathan superhuman powers to enable him to bring Clark back to Smallville; however, Jor-El insisted that Jonathan hand Clark over to him when the time came for him to fulfill his destiny. Jonathan chose to disobey Jor-El, and helped Clark stay away from him.

Clark later found a memory pendant that acted as a journal during Jor-El's brief visit to Earth. He was able to interface with this pendant and share his biological father's memories, and learned that Jor-El, in his youth, was also rebellious and fell in love with a human woman, Louise McCallum. Clark also learned that Jor-El met his adoptive grandfather Hiram Kent and probably chose Jonathan and Martha to become Kal-El's adoptive parents.

This experience helped Clark to understand Jor-El better, and he began to feel that he and Jor-El were not as different as he imagined. One year later, a near-fatal treatment to restore lost memories allowed Clark to relive his earliest memory of his Kryptonian parents placing him inside the ship, granting him his first look at his mother Lara and providing him with some hope that his parents hadn't been the monsters he'd assumed they'd been in the past. Clark began to understand that Jor-El cared for him, a fact that was further reinforced when Jor-El apparently temporarily granted Jonathan the power to heal Clark after he was wounded by the Starblade.

Jor-El eventually decided to collect the debt that he was owed from his deal with Jonathan, so sent a brainwashed girl named "Kara" who thought she was also from Krypton to get Clark to return to him through a passage in the wall inside the Kawatche Caves.

Having now discovered more about Jor-El, Clark was slightly more trusting towards him, although he was still reluctant to give up his life in Smallville until "Kara" mentioned Lara. Clark's desire to get to know his birth mother helped to convince him to submit himself to Jor-El.

However, Chloe Sullivan discovered that "Kara" was really a local girl that had been missing since the meteor shower; this revelation came too late, as Clark was already at the Kawatche Caves. As Clark had second thoughts, Jor-El threatened to kill Jonathan. The lengths that Jor-El was prepared to go to indicated how much he valued Clark and wanted him to fulfill his destiny.

Clearly valuing the life of his adoptive father over his biological father, Clark gave in to spare Jonathan's life. As a result, Clark spent the subsequent three months being reprogrammed by Jor-El to become his Kryptonian counterpart Kal-El.

### Season 4

Three months after that, Jor-El returned Kal-El to Earth, where Kal-El began searching for the Stones of Power, using the full extent of his powers. Kal-El's quest was cut short when Martha used black kryptonite to free Clark from his Kryptonian alter-ego.

About a year later, Clark received a letter from the recently deceased Dr. Virgil Swann advising him to seek Jor-El's guidance. He went to the Kawatche Caves and used the Key to make contact with his Kryptonian father once again. Now that Clark was older, Jor-El could not force him to do as he wanted: he could only advise him. He explained to Clark that the Stones of Power contained all of Krypton's knowledge, as well as the consequences would be disastrous if they fell into human hands. Jor-El's prediction came true when the Crystal of Air was stained with the blood of Genevieve Teague and caused another meteor shower, releasing Brainiac and two Disciples of Zod.

### Season 5

After Clark united the Stones of Power and used the Crystal of Knowledge to create the Fortress of Solitude, Jor-El told him that he could not return to Smallville, but must instead stay in the Fortress and prepare to save Earth from Brainiac and Zod. He began to train Clark, but was interrupted when Clark saw that Chloe Sullivan, who had been transported with him to the Arctic, followed him to the Fortress and was freezing to death. When Clark begged him to let him save Chloe, Jor-El initially forbade him to do so but acquiesced, telling Clark that he must return to the Fortress before sunset or there would be consequences. When Clark failed to return, Jor-El took away his powers.

When Lionel was exposed to the Crystal of Water, he became a Kryptonian vessel for Jor-El to use in the event that Clark needed his aid. When Clark was shot by Gabriel Duncan and died, Jor-El possessed Lionel, giving his body Kryptonian powers in order to retrieve Clark. He brought Clark to the Fortress and resurrected him as the Kryptonian he truly was. Jor-El then warned Clark that, due to his resurrection, someone he loved would have to die in his place (with Clark's death having upset the balance of the universe). Before parting ways with his son once again, Jor-El wanted Clark to remember that he would always love him.

Later, Jor-El was suspected of infecting Martha with a Kryptonian virus and Clark insisted that he heal her and let her live. However, it was not Jor-El who was responsible: it was Brainiac. But even though he was not responsible for infecting Martha, Jor-El reiterated to Clark that he could not alter destiny and someone he loved would still die.

Eventually, Jor-El's warning came true, when Lana Lang died. In answer to a desperate plea from Clark, Jor-El allowed Clark to travel back in time and prevent her death. However, the universe found a balance, with Jonathan Kent having a fatal heart attack.

A few months later, Clark returned to the Fortress because Brainiac had chosen Lex Luthor to be Zod's vessel. Jor-El knew that Clark had no choice but to come to the Fortress because he lost his human father, but nonetheless explained to Clark that Zod was responsible for Krypton's destruction. To stop Brainiac's plan, Jor-El gave Clark a Kryptonian dagger to destroy "the vessel" in order to prevent Zod's release.

### Season 6

When Martha made her way to the Fortress with an injured and unconscious Lois Lane after their plane crashed in the Arctic, Jor-El explained to her what happened to Clark, Zod and the world. He told Martha that, in order to save Earth, she had to find the Kryptonian dagger and kill Lex, Zod's vessel. Before sending her back to Smallville with Lois, Jor-El conveyed his gratitude to Martha for raising Clark.

When Clark later came to the Fortress, he tried to communicate with Jor-El, but Jor-El did not answer him, as the Fortress appeared to be dead as a result of Clark using the Kryptonian dagger against Brainiac instead of Zod's vessel. But since Clark restored the Fortress using energy stored in the Crystal of El, Jor-El was also revived.

### Season 7

About a year later, Clark approached Jor-El about beginning his training and Jor-El had him start with his cousin Kara, telling him to watch over her. When Clark asked him about Kara's father Zor-El and why he neglected to tell him about that branch of the family tree, Jor-El replied that Zor-El could not be trusted and neither could Kara, as well as warned Clark that Kara posed a grave threat.

When Clark heard his biological mother's voice coming from within the blue crystal which then teleported him to the Fortress, Jor-El urged Clark to not let his emotions fool him, but his protests went unheeded as Clark placed the crystal into the Fortress' console, bringing Lara and Zor-El back to life as clones. Once the crystal was installed, the Fortress was under Zor-El's control. Zor-El attempted to cause an eclipse that would have brought an end to the human race, but Clark, powerless due to putting on Jor-El's victory ring (which contained blue kryptonite), was able to use green kryptonite against Zor-El and destroy the blue crystal, which not only took out the clones of Zor-El and Lara, but also teleported Kara to a random location with no memory of who she was.

Clark later returned to the Fortress and pleaded with Jor-El to help him find Kara, but Jor-El refused, saying it was not his concern, as well as lectured Clark on the numerous times that Clark neglected his warnings and never learned a single lesson of what his actions resulted in when let his emotions get in the way of his destiny. For Clark's lack of obedience, Jor-El froze him in a solid ice crystal for the remaining time.

About a month later, Bizarro flew up to the Fortress, as well as had a brief but tense conversation with Jor-El. After Bizarro left, Jor-El released Clark from the ice chamber and told him that the phantom was back and that he must defeat him.

When Chloe brought Kara to the Fortress, Jor-El listened as Chloe pleaded with him to restore Kara's memory and powers so she could rescue Clark, who had been kidnapped on Lionel's orders. Though silent, Jor-El granted her wishes.

Later on, Jor-El heard Clark's complaints through the Key and created a simulation of an alternate universe to show Clark what life would be like for everyone if he had never made it to Earth and what would happen to it, showing Clark why his destiny was so important. Once Clark came to his senses, Jor-El helped him travel to Krypton's past to stop Brainiac from killing his infant self.

### Season 8

Although Clark eventually regained his abilities thanks to the sacrifice of the Martian Manhunter, the Fortress remained inactive, as Clark was unsure if he could trust Jor-El. But when Brainiac began taking over Chloe's mind, Clark had no choice but to trust him.

During their 'reunion,' Clark confronted Jor-El about removing his powers. Understanding that Jor-El had to create a failsafe to stop his only son if he became a threat to the Earth, Clark reassured Jor-El that he was now dedicated to helping others; this made Jor-El realize that Clark had matured. Clark also said that their relationship would have to change so that Jor-El trusted Clark more than he had in the past. Coming to a mutual understanding, Jor-El helped cure Chloe; in return, Clark thanked Jor-El and called him "Father" for the first time.

Jor-El subsequently warned of the threat of a monster from Krypton that would bring destruction to Earth, and may be too powerful for even Clark to defeat. Clark agreed to take on the challenge, which pleased Jor-El and he reminded his son that he would always be there to help him. After Brainiac was removed from Chloe, the connection with Jor-El to communicate with Clark was gone once again.

### Season 9

After trapping Doomsday underground and cutting off all ties to his friends and human identity, Clark managed to fix the connection with Jor-El in the Fortress and began his Kryptonian training. He trained for three weeks in the Fortress until, while on duty in Metropolis, he found Lois on a monorail train that he saved. When Clark returned to his training and Lois kept clouding his thoughts, Jor-El told him that something or someone was holding him back and that, in order to fully embrace his Kryptonian side, Clark must leave his human life behind fully.

A couple of weeks later, Jor-El gave Clark temporary telepathy as part of his trials so that he can rid himself of his human intuition and embrace his Kryptonian intuition.

After Clark found Alia on a videotape of Toyman's attack at the Ace of Clubs, he went to Jor-El to ask about her. Jor-El told Clark of Alia's origins and that Kandor had somehow survived Krypton's destruction and its citizens have made it to Earth, arriving in the mark of their respective house.

A year later, while under the influence of red kryptonite, Clark offered to introduce Major Zod to his old friend Jor-El and brought him to the Fortress. Clark attempted to contact Jor-El, but Jor-El remained silent, much to Clark's annoyance.

Later, Clark came to the Fortress to explain to Jor-El what he felt he had to do to save Earth from Zod and his army, as well as that he knew what he had to do to fulfill his destiny. When he heard no reply, Clark was horrified to find the console shattered and became angry when Zod revealed himself and easily claimed responsibility, telling Clark that he would never speak to his father again.

### Season 10

After Clark sacrificed himself to send Zod and the Kandorians away, Jor-El spoke to Clark in the spiritual plane, warning him of a much greater evil coming. Later, at the Fortress, he revealed the darkness building up in Clark's heart along with his recently displayed vanity and pride. Jor-El then informed Clark that his recent prideful behavior had attracted the attention of a new evil greater than Lex and that it was heading for Earth as they spoke. He also warned Clark that this new threat prayed on the faults and corruptions of individuals and used them to turn them into its slaves and unless Clark rid himself of his faults, it would turn him in to a weapon against mankind. He then told Clark that he made a mistake in believing Clark would save the world and declared that Clark would never be Earth's savior.

When Kara returned to Earth, she told Clark that Jor-El summoned her from afar to return to Earth and take Kal-El's place as a hero, telling her that he disowned Kal-El and no longer thought of him as his son.

After watching a videotape of her mother, Lois found the Key and journeyed to the Arctic to talk to Jor-El about Clark. She told Jor-El that, unlike her mother who could no longer be there for her, he could still be there for his son and that he (Jor-El) was the reason Clark was being held back from being the hero he could be. Jor-El didn't respond, leading Lois to angrily reply that Clark was lucky to be rid of him: this prompted Jor-El to trap Lois within a field of energy. Fortunately, Clark came to save her. Just when Clark was about to finally give up on Jor-El, a section of the Fortress lit up, playing a projection of Jor-El and Lara telling him that he (Kal-El) was born of a great love and that they have no doubt that he will be Earth's greatest hero. Jor-El mentioned to Clark that he sent with him only his knowledge because he didn't want his son's life to be burdened by his ego and regrets at not being able to save Krypton, revealing despite all the harsh things he has said to Clark, he never actually meant it and was simply doing what was objectively best for Clark without taking emotions into account.

About a year later, after leading Clark Luthor to the Fortress and imploring him to turn from his evil ways, Clark Kent called out to Jor-El, who sent Clark Luthor back to Earth-2.

When Clark took Lois to the Fortress, they spoke to Jor-El to start a life bond, as the head of a Kryptonian house has to approve such bonds. Jor-El consented and started a trial in which the couple must learn from this experience: Clark's Kryptonian powers were transferred to Lois. To start the trial, Jor-El caused crystalline structures to fall upon Lois, which she was able to lift above her own head. Jor-El later called Kara to tell her that her mission was over and it was Clark's duty to defeat Darkseid. Later on, once the trial was over, Clark proclaimed to his Kryptonian father that he was finally done with these trials and silenced Jor-El from making any more decisions for him by removing the main crystal from the crystal console, thereby shutting the Fortress down.

Later, as Clark was flung through the air by Darkseid during their battle, he remembered Jonathan's words of guidance that spoke of reconciling with Jor-El, acknowledging that he was his father and still needed his guidance. Once Clark obeyed Jonathan's last request, Jor-El responded by showing Clark mental images of his trials over the past ten years, revealing to him that he always had the power within himself all along. Jor-El told Clark that this was his final trial and that he was ready to seize his destiny. Clark then mastered his ability to fly, which he used to defeat Darkseid.

Clark returned to the Fortress, where he was embraced by Jor-El's presence. Jor-El told him that his journey had come to an end and that he was truly proud of him for embracing his heritage and accepting his abilities fully. He told his son that he was the only one that could lift the darkness from the Earth, then revealed the suit he had previously placed in a crystal pillar. Before Clark took the costume, Jor-El gave him one final word of wisdom: Even though he had Jor-El's Kryptonian blood, it was his time in Smallville with his earthly parents, friends and enemies that made him into the hero he was destined to be, ***Superman***.