Superman

* Superman
* Clark Kent

The Kryptonian

> *"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor, & Justice are the reality that we all share, I will never stop fighting… ever."*
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> —Superman
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**Superman**, born **Kal-El** and legally named **Clark Joseph Kent**, is the last son of Krypton, sent as the dying planet's last hope to Earth, where he grew to become its protector. He is also a founding member of The Collective.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Birth

Kal-El was born on Krypton to Jor-El and Lara. After Jor-El discovered that the planet was doomed to destruction, he attempted to escape with his family into the Phantom Zone but was repelled by the criminals who had already been imprisoned there. With no other choice, he and Lara resigned themselves to their fates, placing their son in a prototype evacuation rocket, activating its Brainiac intelligence, and sending it to a planet with a yellow sun: Earth.

#### Earth

The rocket landed in Smallville, Kansas where the Kryptonian baby was discovered by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who had just learned that they could not have children of their own. Seeing this alien orphan as their chance, they gathered him up and took him home, leaving a stillborn calf in his place in the hopes of throwing the government off their trail. They raised him as Clark Kent teaching him their values. Eventually, Jonathan revealed Clark's true parentage to him, but left it to him to decide what it would mean to him.

On the night of his prom, however, because Clark had no superhero role models to make him feel comfortable becoming a hero, Clark was unable to save his adopted parents from dying in a car accident. After their funerals, Clark sold Kent Farm to a neighbour and moved to Metropolis to become a journalist.

### Becoming Superman

Upon moving to Metropolis, Clark took a job at the Daily Star and prepared himself to act as a vigilante at the age of 22, by having several shirts printed with the S-Symbol that had come to Earth with him emblazoned on them. His attempt to rescue a young boy caused him to reveal himself before he expected to, and the city came to know of the Superman.

Within six months, Clark had fully revealed himself and was targeting corrupt businessman Glen Glenmorgan when General Sam Lane and Lex Luthor took an interest in him. They staged several emergencies to trap him, finally succeeding with a train crash that endangered the General's own daughter Lois. In collaboration with the military, Luthor tortured Superman while his Kryptonian Rocket was studied. Upon his escape, Superman sealed his birth rocket away for protection but was too late to prevent its Kryptonian signal from alerting the Collector of Worlds to its location - and unaware that Luthor was complicit in making that happen.

### Main Career

#### Adulthood

Many years after these events, Superman grew into adult hood and became, according to some, the worlds greatest superhero. Clark would protect the entire planet for many years as he'd do everything from saving kittens from trees to stopping entire global disasters.

#### The Alliance

Eventually, Clark met a few other heroes on his level. One of these heroes was named Doctor Strange. Superman and Strange would work together to stop an attack from an unnamed mystical threat where both realised the other was very powerful and a good hero.

After some more time, and a few more global disasters, the pair decided together that there should be a group of heroes to save the world, one more elite and the other more ready to go straight away. This led to the formation of The Collective as the elite group of heroes as well as The Alliance, the more ready-to-go group of heroes who handle the regular high-end threats.

### Currently

Currently, Kal is still Superman, saving many people every single day as well as working his day job at the Daily Planet under the alter-ego of Clark Kent. and still has meetings with The Collective commonly and serves as Earth's protector to this very day and has no plans to stop saving the world, one bit at a time.

## Personality

Superman is exceptionally kind-hearted, possessing a strong sense of justice, honor, empathy, honesty, patriotism, and innate selfless benevolence. In addition, Superman, being the son of Krypton's most prominent Thinker Guild genius Jor-El, and having been a nerdy, bookish wunderkind as a teenager, is himself a highly prolific and eclectic genius, notably becoming a brilliant Daily Planet reporter as an adult (often labelled a "nerd" by Perry White), to the point of almost rivalling the far more experienced Lois Lane herself. As he matured, Clark learned early on how to stay calm and collected in tough situations, to control his pent-up anger and instead of impulsively releasing his incredible alien power on mere humans, he instead found different means. It was ultimately Kal-El's indomitable willpower, lawfully absolute loyalty and refusal to give up even under seemingly insurmountable odds.

## Physical Appearance

Superman is a 6 foot 3 inch tall, 235 pound, black haired, Caucasian male. In his Clark Kent persona, Kal is able to make himself look more hunched, fatter, disguising his eyes with a grey-ish colour as well as having his hair parted on another side. However, as Superman, Clark has a perfect posture, a superhuman physique, bright blue eyes and a signature hair style.

    Kal, originally having his traditional red and blue Kryptonian suit with red cape and red/yellow S symbol on it, changed his suit slightly by adjusting the 'S' symbol to be red and black for his own simple reasoning: "I change it to show people, that even in the darkest of times, hope is close by". The rest of Clark's suit stayed more or less the same, the differences mainly being the brighter colours of the blue and red.

As Clark Kent, Kal takes on a more casual-working look, that or a reporter for the Daily Planet. He wears a great many suits, but mainly baggy 2 or 3 piece suits, either grey, black or blue in colour. In addition, Kent has been known to wear glasses and/or a hat to conceal his identity.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a yellow sun, Superman possesses the same potential powers as an average Kryptonian. These include:
	+ **Solar Energy Absorption**: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Superman's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. His biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and his bio-cellular matrix, "yellow" solar energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when yellow solar radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.
	+ **Cosmic Energy Absorption**: Kal can absorb the likes of cosmic energy too, such as when his solar receptors were even able to absorbed energy from Starman, gained from the Totality itself. So much that he felt like he could crack the Earth in half with a footstep, if he wasn't careful.
	+ **Soul Energy Absorption**: Clark can even absorb the souls of other beings, empowering him enough to easily break out of Eradicator's grasp. Along with freeing them after the Eradicator's defeat.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Superman's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of his musculature. His strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables him to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass.
		- **Shock Wave Projection**: Superman is strong enough to create powerful sonic booms with just the clap of his hands. These sonic claps are powerful enough to be heard across states.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Superman is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to his perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. Superman was even fast enough to keep up with Wally West on foot, though he is still slower. Clark can move so fast that time slows down around him long enough for him to **long conversations** in just a **few seconds.** Superman's speed can even allow him to enter the **space between spaces,** thus giving him and General Zod the chance to talk privately.
		- **Molecular Acceleration**: Superman can vibrate his molecular structure at various levels to achieve various effects. Kal-El can vibrate fast enough to enter the **space between spaces,** to talk with Zod.
			* **Phasing**: Clark can even vibrate through solid objects such as when he and Superboy phased through Mister Oz's spaceship.
		- **Time Travel**: Superman was fast enough to jump into the timestream and travel throughout it, with the aid of the Cosmic Treadmill.
		- **Vortex Creations**: Superman can use his speed to manipulate airflow for various purposes. He was able to use his flight speed to funnel a toxic chemical out of the atmosphere and into space.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: Superman's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily make sharp turns and easily maneuver while flying and moving at superhuman speed.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes**: Superman possesses reflexes far greater than any normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger and events, and perceive the world in slow motion. His mind is able to process information at such speeds that he can perceive femtoseconds and attoseconds.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Superman is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on his body converting yellow solar radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink and sleep.
	+ **Superhuman Senses**: All of Superman's senses are enhanced to immense superhuman levels, allowing him to perceive the world in far greater detail than the senses the average human possesses.
		- **Super-Hearing**: Superman's hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, he can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.
		- **Super-Vision**: Superman's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus. This umbrella ability includes the following:
			* **Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision**: Superman can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. He can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, he can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows him to see the aura generated by living things.
			* **Infrared Vision**: Superman can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
			* **Microscopic Vision**: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
			* **Telescopic Vision**: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
			* **X-Ray Vision**: By focusing his vision, Superman can see through any volume of matter, except lead. He can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there and can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. Superman's enemies have attempted to use lead to hide things from his vision, mistakenly believing that anything with that material is somehow invisible to him. On the contrary, lead's opaqueness to his X-ray vision makes the material easy to spot with a wide-angle scan and allows Superman to narrow his search to those opaque objects. He can even use intensify his X-Ray vision to the extent that he could use it at a Gamma level to short out a Space Station's electrical engine.
	+ **Flight**: Superman is able to manipulate graviton particles to defy the forces of gravity and achieve flight. This ranges from hovering to moving in any posture, in any direction. He capable of flying at above supersonic and hypersonic speeds.
	+ **Heat Vision**: Superman can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. He can vary the heat and area affected.
		- **Super Flare**: Superman's last resort power that he'd discovered through his heat vision, was the ability to immediately expel all of his stored solar energy in one gigantic burst of explosive force. This Solar Flare utilizes all the stored energy within his cells at once, allowing for an all out AoE attack. He cannot use it more than once or twice however, as it drains him of all his powers until he can recharge his cells with solar energy. Give or take 24 hours, in that expanse of time, he is rendered virtually human and vulnerable. Luckily for Superman, thanks to the training he received from the Justice League, he learned to keep his flares smaller and more contained, so that it doesn't take as long for his powers to come back.
	+ **Interstellar Travel**: Superman is immune to the nature of space and is not inhibited by its lack of gravity. He can travel the reaches of space where no human body could possibly survive without the aid of technology or protection.
	+ **Invulnerability**: Due to the interaction of his dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Superman is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, his extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
	+ **Longevity**: Superman can live longer than regular humans, remaining at his prime as long as he was under the exposure of the "yellow" sun.
	+ **Soul Absorption**: While trapped in an astral form by the Eradicator, Superman was able to absorb the trapped souls of other Kryptonians, empowering him enough to easily break out of Eradicator's grasp. He was later able to release these souls, freeing them after the Eradicator's defeat.
	+ **Super-Breath**: Superman is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from his lungs. He can chill the air as it leaves his lungs to freeze targets. He can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into his lungs.
	+ **Self-Sustenance**: Superman doesn't need to eat or sleep so long as he has enough solar energy (but is still capable of doing so), and doesn't require oxygen to breathe.

### Abilities

* **Genius Level Intellect**: Superman has shown incredible intelligence and computational abilities; his mind works sharply and with extreme speed relative to earth-humans. Superman's analytical powers enable him to read information directly from machines (and, with careful usage of his heat vision, he can even reprogram machines).
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)**: Due to having superpowers all his life and constantly engaging in battle with various foes, Superman has over time become an excellent hand-to-hand fighter utilizing a fighting style that directly complements his superpowers. Superman's combat versatility allows him to adapt to almost any foe and beat them. Additionally, Superman has been trained in **boxing** and according to Captain Comet his brawling skills are formidable.
* **Indomitable Will**: Superman has shown to have a powerful spirit, free of corruption and temptation.
	+ **Torquasm Vo**: Torquasm Vo is a Kryptonian discipline that Superman uses sometimes. It is basically a means of focusing ones mental discipline to help fight adverse effects such as mental domination. It can be used to manipulate someone's mind.
	+ **Torquasm Rao**: A heavy-hitting martial art from Krypton. Allows him to tap into his instincts and separate himself from his body. Makes him able to prevent others from manipulating his mind and allows him to fight on the astral plane.
* **Intimidation**
* **Investigation**: Both as a superhero and as a journalist, Superman is an expert at gathering evidence from all kinds of sources. He's capable of deducing the level of fighting skill that a horde of **lizard men** had, over the course of a battle; alongside Batman and Wonder Woman.
* **Journalism**: Clark is one of the best reporters on the *Daily Planet*, rivaled only by his wife Lois Lane. He gained a Pulitzer Prize at least in one occasion.
* **Leadership**: Superman has proven many times over his ability to command respect and inspire others with his charisma, ardor and idealism. He often serves as the *primus inter pares* of the Justice League.
* **Meditation**
* **Multilingualism**: Superman speaks Mandarin Chinese.
* **Weaponry**
* **Chi Manipulation**: Superman learned the art of Bagua under the instruction of I-Ching. He learned how to manipulate his **Chi** or **Qi** to help him gain a better control over his powers.

## Equipment

Superman doesn't actually use any equipment, merely using his powers and abilities in battles.

## Relationships

### Family

* Jor-El (father) †
* Lara Lor-Van (mother) †

### Allies

* Daily Planet
	+ Lois Lane - Girlfriend and Colleague
* The Collective
* The Alliance

## Trivia

* Clark considers Bruce Wayne to be his best friend.
* Batman considers Superman to be his favorite superhero.
* Superman has been credited for being a highly skilled fighter/warrior, impressing the likes of Batman and Wonder Woman.