Kal-El (My Adventures with Superman)

## Superman

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  *Ms. Lane, the truth is, I'm still piecing together who I am and what I can do. But at the end of the day, I'm here to protect the people of Metropolis. That's what matters.*
— ****Superman**** src
**Superman** (born **Kal-El**, legally **Clark Kent**) is a powerful, friendly, and awkward Kryptonian superhero who protects Earth, and acts as a reporter for the *Daily Planet* in his civilian identity. He is a close ally of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.

## History

### Origins

Kal-El was born on Krypton to Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van, who sent him to the planet Earth as an infant in a special pod to escape their planet, which was soon to be destroyed. The pod crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas, and was discovered by the kindly human farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, who adopted the baby Kal and named him "Clark Kent", raising him as their own.

As Clark got older, the radiation from Earth's yellow sun seeped into his Kryptonian cells to give him incredible abilities. Under his parents' guidance, he became ethical, kind, and helpful, but also rather awkward and anxious. Even after he was told about his Kryptonian heritage, Clark stayed away from the pod, buried in the field of the Kents' farm, out of fear of losing his human connection.

### Becoming Superman

When Clark grew up he went to a college or high school where he met the curious and excitable Jimmy Olsen, during their first meeting Clark broke the door handle in half trying to open the door. Clark tried to play it off as though the screw were loose and while Jimmy didn't believe him he decided to pretend to seeing how sensitive the subject seemingly was for Clark.

Later on Clark and Jimmy graduated and got a job at the Daily Planet, on their first day Clark on his job ran into Lois Lane unaware she was going to become his coworker. Clark later met her again at the Daily Planet along with Jimmy and his boss Perry White, the 2 at the moment were interns for the planet. Despite Perry telling them to not go anywhere and stay at the planet and make coffee, Lois claimed that Perry was just saying that so that way they would impress him. Clark and Jimmy were surprised by this but decided to go along with it and met up with Flip Johnson and the Newskid Newspaper who gave them information in exchange for having their paper featured in the newspaper.

While they do this, Clark notices Lois getting texted by Perry but Lois lies and tells him that Perry wants them to continue. The 3 then get within a warehouse where Clark gets a call from Perry telling them if they do not get back to the planet they are fired. Clark confronts Lois who admits to having lies and the 3 go their separate ways with Jimmy following Lois. Clark feels guilty for arguing with Lois when Flip informs him that Lois and Jimmy are being attacked by robots, Clark finds them being attacked and after failing to help them as a "normal man" Clark grabs a jacket and uses his abilities to help them eventually stopping all of them leading to Lois giving him the alias "Superman". The 3 head to the planet with their new story but Perry does not believe them due to the blurry images but Lois is determined for them to try again.

The next day Lois drags Clark and Jimmy to an abandoned office within the planet claiming it as their "base of operations". Lois tells them that she wants to know more about Superman and Clark decides he wants to know more about himself to and comes up with an excuse to head to the Kent Farm. There Clark tells his mother Martha about Lois and what he did and the 2 go in the backyard and Clark digs up his spaceship. Martha is worried that the ship may change Clark but Clark assures her before going in where he meets Jor-El who shows him the destruction of Krypton before giving him a a Kryptonian protective suit. Clark comes out of the ship and after some small edits to the suit he saves Lois and Jimmy from Livewire, Clark seeing the battle clean it up and later comes back to the apartment and then met up with Lois where the 2 discussed the day and nearly kissed only for Jimmy to interrupt it.

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## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Clark possesses the same potential powers as an average Kryptonian. These include:
	+ **Solar Energy Absorption**: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Clark's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. Their 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 their 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.
	+ **Heat Vision**: Clark can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. can vary the heat and area affected.
	+ **Super-Hearing**: Clark's hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.
	+ **Enhanced Vision**: Clark'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**: Clark can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. They can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, they can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows them to see the aura generated by living thing.
		- **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**: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Clarks can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. They can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived—such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans—is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects.
		- **Microscopic Vision**: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
		- **Infrared Vision**: Clark can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
	+ **Flight**: Clark 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.
	+ **Invulnerability**: Due to the interaction of dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Clark is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
		- **Enhanced Immunity**
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Clark is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on body converting yellow solar radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink, and sleep.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Clark's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of musculature. strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables 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.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Clark is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time.
	This also confers:
		- **Superhuman Agility**
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**
	+ **Super-Breath**: Clark is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from lungs. can chill the air as it leaves lungs to freeze targets. can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into lungs.
	+ **Longevity**: Clark can live longer than regular humans, remaining at their prime as long as they was under the exposure of the "yellow" sun.

### Abilities

* **Investigation**
* **Tactical Analysis**

### Weaknesses

* **Vulnerability to Red Sunlight**: Being exposed to red sun radiation, even artificial ones, reduces Superman's powers.
* **Vulnerability to Kryptonite**

## Notes

* This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series *My Adventures with Superman* and is an adaptation of Superman. The original character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and first appeared in *Action Comics* #1.
* **Superman** is voiced by Jack Quaid, and by Kari Wahlgren as a child.

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### Footnotes

1. ↑ *My Adventures with Superman*: "My Interview with Superman"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *My Adventures with Superman*: "Adventures of a Normal Man: Part 2"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *My Adventures with Superman*: "My Adventures with Mad Science"
4. ↑ *My Adventures with Superman*: "Adventures of a Normal Man Pt. 1"

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