Clark Kent

> "For truth, justice and the American way!"
>
> - Superman's catchphrase

Clark Kent is a mild-mannered reporter working at the Daily Planet in Metropolis. But known by few is the fact that Clark Kent is actually the heroic superhero **Superman** and one of the last survivors of planet Krypton.

## History

**Kal-El** of Krypton was a young infant when his home world was destroyed but his father, Jor-El, made sure that he would survive the horrific cataclysm and sent him away in a special spaceship to find a new home and thanks to the Crystal of Knowledge he had all the information on the Kryptonian race with him.

After crashing on planet Earth during a meteor shower in 1959, Kal-El would be found and raised by a middle-aged farmer couple named Jonathan and Martha Kent, who would soon discover that their new adopted son "Clark Kent" had several special abilities such as; super speed, super strength, endurance far beyond any human and many more would soon come.

### 1971

When Clark was fifteen and attending Smallville High with his friend Pete Ross and his on-and-off-again girlfriend Lana Lang he was hit by a car while traveling home on foot. The car belonged to the heir of the million dollar company Luthorcorp: Lex Luthor. Lex would be trapped inside the car after it deflected off of Clark and was hit into a river.

Clark would save the unconscious Lex and would soon begin a friendship with him. Many weeks later Clark would stumble upon a Luthorcorp scientist named Donovan Jamison experimenting on three students from Smallville High; Leslie Willis, Greg Arkin and Rudy Jones. Clark would attempt to stop him only for the meteor rocks that Dr. Jamison had been experimenting with to instantly cause him pain and cause him to fall to the ground.

Before Dr. Jamison had the time to move to kill Clark the three students he had been experimenting on escaped and knocked him out. Clark would soon make it his mission to protect Smallville from the "Meteor-people" nicknamed the "Meteor-freaks" by Pete Ross. Clark taking on the identity of "The Protector" would hunt down the meteor infected people and would attempt to help them get back to their lives but only Greg Arkin would want help in the end, with the other two becoming recurring enemies of Clark for most of his life in Smallville.

### 1974

On Clark's 17th birthday he went out biking with Pete Ross and would accidentally discover an ancient Indian cave where he would see several paintings showing abilities that he possessed and even several symbols resembling the ones on the bottom of his ship. When Clark touched the Cave walls it activated a robot named Brainiac which was living inside of Clark's ship repairing itself for the last 15 years.

Brainiac would tell Clark that he would have to find three powerful stones created by his ancestors that had been sent to Earth during the 1300s. When uniting the stones Brainiac said that it would create the Crystal of Knowledge; a database capable of showing and even recreating Kryptonian history. Clark would soon search for the stones but would cross paths with Lex who believed that Clark had been hiding something from him since they where friends and wanted to know what it was. Clark brushed Lex off and told him that if he ever found out what he was talking about he'd tell him.

After finding the first stone Clark would discover that Isobel the Witch (a dark sorcerous from the 1400s) had possessed Lana and had eyes set on finding the stones for herself. Clark and Isobel would fight only for Isobel to gain the first stone. The second stone would be found by Jason Teague (Lana's new boyfriend) and Lex Luthor; who had also grown close to Lana over the years.

The third stone would be found by a scientist named Virgil Swaan who had helped Clark in the past to discover his birth name of Kal-El. Virgil soon became a target of Jason Teague who's family was actually descendants of the original hunters for the stones of power and would attempt to take it from Swaan only to be stopped by Clark.

Soon came the climax where Isobel would attempt to steal all the stones of power and combine them within the Indian cave walls, during these thieveries Lex would discover that Clark was from a different world and would then end their friendship. Jason would attempt to stop Isobel from combining the stones only to get himself trapped inside of them.

Clark and Lex would both try and save Lana from Isobel's control and would fight her inside of the cave. Isobel was able to defeat Lex but Clark was able to use the power of the stones against her and defeat her, freeing Lana from her control but in fear of her finding out that he had powers he left before she awoke.

With the stones of power combined as the Crystal of Knowledge Brainiac would teleport Clark to the arctic where the Crystal would activate creating a huge Fortress where an A.I. programmed with all the knowledge and wisdom of Jor-El would outfit Clark with a special suit created from Kryptonian fabric. Clark then vowed that he would stop evils like Luthorcorp and Isobel and would fly away to now start a new journey in his life as The Man of Steel: Superman.

### 1975-1983

Across the next eight years Clark would save people on a regular basis while attending university, bent on becoming a starring reporter at the Daily Planet newspaper in Metropolis. Despite having the Superman suit he resisted the urge to show his face to people and would often leave before they had the chance to thank him for saving them.

Clark would soon become an incredibly popular mythological figure known through out most of America and even to an extent, the rest of the world. Now up there with the likes of Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster Clark would make sure to hide his face and even for a time considered wearing a mask.

On October 26st 1982 Jonathan Kent was out in front of the Kent family barn speaking to Clark and told him words that Clark would never forget; "Never be afraid to show your face Clark. Never." Jonathan would suffer a fatal heart attack a few minutes later.

Now with the last words of his father hanging over his head Clark dawned the Superman suit and this time, he had no intention of hiding his face to anyone.

## Abilities and weaknesses

### Abilities

* Super-strength: Clark has immense strength being able to withstand punches from beings twice his size and then through the punches back at them twice as strong.
* Super-speed: Clark can reach immense speeds almost faster then that of The Flash.
* Endurance: Clark can take an immense amount of damage, withstanding practically everything human/mutant related. When it comes to heat Clark can withstand immense amounts but can be damaged by it if the heat is beyond 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.
* Super-hearing: Clark can hear from miles away, even when injured.
* Super-breath: Clark's lungs can withstand and do much more then any human's, being able to breathe-in microscopic air-particles in space with ease and even use mere air to blast off opponents or objects. He can also manipulate the temperature of his "air-blasts", sometimes using them to freeze things. Lois Lane has nicknamed this ability "Arctic Breath".
* Super-vision: Clark can see things from miles away although he can sometimes loose this ability when injured.
* X-Ray-vision: Clark has the ability to see through anything except lead which no Kryptonian has the ability to see through unless powered up by Blue Kryptonite.
* Heat vision: Clark can blast waves of heat (sometimes verging on laser-like blasts) from his eyes, although this ability takes immense concentration.
* Flight: Clark has the ability to defy the laws of physics and fly. Although this power is also usually taken away when injured.

### Weaknesses

* Kryptonite: Kryptonite is Clark's most prominent weakness, causing him immense pain whenever he comes into contact with it, as it dissolves Kryptonians from the inside, slowly but surely killing them.
* Magic: Magic has the ability to hurt Clark just as much as it does anyone else.
* Red sun radiation: Red sun radiation has the ability to revert him into a normal being with no extra-ordinary powers.

## Notes

* He was born on February 29th 1957 and arrived on Earth on October 7th 1959.

### Out of Universe Notes:

* If there was any audio recordings of Clark Kent he would sound identical to real-life voice actor; Jason J. Lewis.