Clark Kent (Superman)

# Superman

## Clark Joseph Kent

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*Insert Inspirational quote or description here ~ Ben.*

## History

### Early Life

It all began with an absolutely historic event on Krypton, the first natural birth in a long long time. Born to Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van, a boy they named Kal-El, a name that means 'Star Child' came onto the dying planet. Unfortunately for all three of them, Kal's birth came at the end of Krypton's lifespan. By the time he was born there was already a sense of chaos in the once great Kryptonian civilization, elements in the military under the leadership of General Zod had begun a coup and the planet itself could crack open like an egg at any time. As sad as it may be, Kal's time with his parents in the flesh would only last for a short period of time since they knew what needed to be done if they wanted their son to survive. Kal would have to leave the planet and luckily Jor-El already had the perfect one picked out for his son. In the middle of the chaos that the military coup brought with it, they managed to successfully send Kal into the deep unknown of space, as they looked up at their son becoming nothing but a small dark spot in the sky, all they could do was hope that Kal got to safety, that he'd be everything they had hoped for him to become... not soon after Kal's... evacuation, the planet cracked...

### Shuttle landing on Earth

For a boy at such a young age, Kal had already gone through so much already. So much tragedy surrounded him. Perhaps that is why faith guided him to the Kent family. Martha and Jonathan Kent, two simple farmers from Kansas who owned a farm pretty close to Smallville would find a baby in its spacecraft on their property. For a couple days, perhaps even a week or two they were hesitant to let themselves get too attached to the young boy since they expected government officials in black suits to pay them a visit but.. no one came. Weeks passed, and no one visited them. Finally, the Kents decided to name the baby Clark Joseph Kent, or Clark for short. They cared for him. They raised him. They were absolutely essential to forming Clark into the hero he'd eventually become. They had put inside of him the values he would come to hold dear for his entire life.

As Clark got older things got more and more complicated, a bit like you'd expect honestly. Both his parents and he quickly realized that he wasn't like the other kids. He was different. He was..in his eyes at least, a weirdo. He had little control of his abilities while they were developing, in class he began to see through people's skin, hear everything a lot louder and smell everything a lot better. His mom had to come calm the young Kent down many, many times at school. Kids are nasty to each other, this much is true and well known  for and by everyone who ever went to school, Clark's sudden panic attacks didn't help at all with other children making fun of him. Luckily, as he got older he got more used to his powers, had a better handle on them and got a lot more self control, which was needed because unfortunately despite the panic attacks going away... well the children were still the absolute worst.

### Lesson taught to him

One day, on a school trip however he risked his secret from being exposed to the wide world, his bus fell into the river and well... he had no choice but to push the bus out of the water to save everyone but uh, well this is when he learned that all of his actions have consequences. Some of the children saw it and told their parents. Some of the parents obviously didn't believe it but well some did and even confronted Clark's dad about it, Hell some even believed Clark was sent by God himself. Despite getting a... handle on the situation, Clark still had a lot of questions for his dad. Was he sent by God? Why would God do this to him? Jonathan, while hesitant, knew the day would come when he had to tell Clark, tell him the truth. He took his son to the barn and showed Clark the craft he arrived in, telling him that he's not from this Earth. He didn't want any of this... he just wanted to be a NORMAL boy, a normal son. Despite his dad reassuring him, Clark spent days in his room, barely eating, but soon enough... he came to terms with it. He was still his father's and his mother's son and that was never gonna change.

For years Clark kept his true powers and identity a secret. For years he lived the life of a normal boy from Kansas, only with his amazing powers. His dad was a firm believer that the world wasn't ready yet to accept Kal-El so now Clark just stayed... Clark. Despite agreeing with his dad there was always this small part in Clark's brain yelling at him to go out and help people, to use his powers for the good of others but then there was the rest of him, telling him to trust his father and that the world truly wasn't ready. However sometimes fate doesn't care if you are ready or not, it forces your hand. One day though, a day that what was supposed to be a simple routine visit to Smallville for groceries turned almost into a tragedy. While he was walking home, Clark passed the local church that was just getting renovated and after a few minutes Clark could hear someone shout: "Watch out" followed by a scream, without a second thought Clark flew over to the church where he got just in time to see the church's bell falling down with a construction worker in its path. Clark held up the bell, flew up with it and threw it into an area of grassland, he let out a massive sigh of relief which turned into a shock as he realized the group of people looking up into the sky at the man who just prevented a tragedy, almost panicking he quickly flew away from the scene, unfortunately the cat was out of the box. People knew someone or something was out there and they knew that whatever it was just saved a man.

### Searching for answers

Clark who was now even more desperate for answers decided to look through the escape pod he arrived in and found a small key? He noticed that inside of the pod there was a small entrance, just about the size of the key he just found. After placing it in the entire pod and with it, the barn began to shake until finally a hologram of the Earth was broadcasted out of a small lens with on it a beeping red signal in the North Pole. While his mom and dad were understandably hesitant to agree with Clark going out there to find out more about where he came from, they obviously understood and with their blessing Clark set out to find out what was on the North Pole. The journey was long, as he didn't want to draw any more attention to himself but when he finally got to his destination... his life changed forever.

Not only did he find his biological father... or well his consciousness, he also learned about his family... and his purpose.

When he returned to his parents he was different compared to when he left. When he left he was curious and almost desperate even. Now he was hopeful, filled with newfound purpose. Unfortunately for him even in his absence Smallville was under a microscope ever since the incident. Clark knew he couldn't stay there any more, so he moved to Metropolis where he even got himself a job at the Daily Planet! More and more reports began to come in of a flying man with a cape and a giant S on his chest in the sky saving people, stopping criminals and giving the people a helping hand. First it was mostly just in Metropolis, but the reports of the flying man began to spread, a man the world would soon begin to call... Superman.

### Being a Hero

As time passed Clark continued to do good. But humans do not tend to trust that which they do not understand. The Government and even the Dark Knight of Gotham mistrusted the Man of Steel. If Clark wasn't the person in question then even he would have some concerns about a seemingly all powerful alien coming to the planet. The Batman, who was not only the greatest detective but also would become one of Clark's greatest if not the greatest friend, confronted Clark and after attempt after attempt from the Kryptonian he finally managed to convince the Dark Knight that he truly didn't mean any harm to anyone and only wanted to help people. After their... Interesting meeting Bruce had warned Clark that he was not the only one that had an interest in Superman, you see the government had apparently been looking into the alien but to his regret now, Clark dismissed Bruce, perhaps being a bit naïve believing that there was nothing to worry about. Not too long after however Clark was introduced to the part of Humanity that wasn't very… kind.

A man, a genius by the name of Lex Luthor had built a cage for Clark and to his own surprise the cage actually worked! The Government and Lex had found a way to use a Kryptonian mineral to weaken and harm Superman. They not only tested it on Clark but even used it as a way to extract some of Clark's DNA. Luckily for the Kryptonian, Batman and another hero, Diana Prince better known as Wonder Woman broke into the facility where Clark was held and managed to break him out, even later managing to get the Kryptonite out of Luthor's hands.

Despite the troubles this caused, it did lead to perhaps the most important event in recent history. You see, what the three heroes realized was that together, they could do a lot more good than apart, together they were stronger and together they would form what is now known as.. the Justice League.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology:** His Kryptonian physiology is the reason for the vast majority of his abilities. It provides him with these powers.
* **Solar Energy Absorption**
* **Cosmic Energy Absorption**
* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Speed**
* **Superhuman Durability**
* **Superhuman Reflexes**
* **Superhuman Senses:** One of which is a heightened Vision that lets him see in any Spectrum of light to change that can is helped by his Ocular heat beams.
* **Cold Breath**
* **Many others to list, will be updated later but essentially, Etc.**

### Abilities

* **Investigative Reporting**
* **Charismatic Leadership**
* **Inspirational Hope**
* **Empathic Humanity**