Jordan Kent

**Jordan Kent** (born July 25, 2006) is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, the twin brother of Jonathan Kent, the ex-boyfriend of Sarah Cortez, and a student of Smallville High School.

Jordan is also the the nephew of Lucy Lane, the grandson of the late Jor-El, the late Lara Lor-Van, Sam Lane, and Ella, the surrogate nephew and cousin once removed of Kara Zor-El, and the adoptive grandson of the late Jonathan Kent Sr. and the late Martha Kent. He is also the half-nephew of Tal-Rho and the great-grandson of Lor-Van and Seg-El.

At Lois' request, Natalie and John Irons began living on the Kent farm and Jordan ended up befriending her. After Superman's disappearance while hunting Ally Allston in the Inverse World, Jordan started acting as a vigilante and was trained by his grandfather, despite Lois' disapproval, although she supported him after Jordan saved them. Jordan and Sarah also ended up breaking up due to his secret identity. After Jonathan started being hunted by his Inverse World counterpart, Jon-El, Jordan ended up revealing his identity to Sarah, and they decided to continue as just friends. Jordan eventually defeated Jon-El and Superman returned and stopped Allston.

## Early History

Jordan Kent was born in 2006, shortly before his twin brother, Jonathan.

When he was a child, Jordan was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder after suffering outburts and tantrum. During their summer vacation, Jordan and Jonathan often joined their parents on visits to their grandmother, Martha Kent, in Smallville, where Jordan became friends with Lana Lang Cushing's daughter, Sarah Cushing, who Jordan later developed a crush on.

Eventually, Jordan trained to be a pianist, but quit the classes when his anxiety got worse.Contents

## Physical Appearance

Jordan Kent is a handsome young man with short, curly dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and fair skin. He is fourteen in Season 1, 15 in Season 2 and 16 in Season 3 and 4. Of the twins, Jordan is older than Jonathan by six minutes. Being fraternal twins, they don't look alike; additionally, Jordan has a similar chin to Clark in his youth.

As Superboy, Jordan dons on a a black protective suit, Sam Lane had his team at the DOD make it, while adding a pair of pilot goggles that belonged to his father during the World War II.

## Powers

**Human Kryptonian Physiology**

* **Solar energy absorption:** Jordan cellular structure allow him to absorb, store and metabolize the energy spectrum from a yellow sun to fuel his abilities
	+ **Accelerated healing factor:** Jordan can heal faster than most humans.
		- **Flight:** Jordan has the ability to fly, which he awakened when he needed to save Kyle Cushing's life from a fire.
		- **Superhuman durability:** Jordan's body is considerably less vulnerable than that of a normal human
		- **Superhuman speed:** Jordan can move faster than the human eye can see
			* **Heat Vision** Jordan awakened this power when Heat vision was flying at him when he removed his arms protecting his face time seemed to slow down around him allowing him to move behind the XK junkie and beat him.
		- **Superhuman strength:** While Jordan's strength is not yet as tremendous as his father, Clark Kent's; due to his limited solar energy capacity, his strength is still elevated by human standards.
		- **Super breath:** Jordan's first experience with kryptonite left him sick and he rapidly cooled the air when he sneezed, resulting in the formation of ice. After the kryptonite was burned out of his system, he gained some control over his freezing breath.
		- **Super hearing:** Jordan's auditory senses are highly developed. His hearing is very sensitive, as common sounds are much more harmful to him, causing him to have migraines.
		- **Heat vision:** Jordan can emit red energy beams of intense heat from his eyes.
* **X-ray vision:** After his mother's surgery caused Jordan a panic attack, it triggered him to develop x-ray vision and can see through walls in the hospital; including skeletons of other individuals.

## Abilities

* **Expert hand-to-hand combatant:** Jordan began training in boxing with his maternal grandfather, Sam Lane to sharpen his powers
* **Musician:** Jordan is a trained pianist, performing Amos Lee's "Little Light" for Sarah's audition

## Weaknesses

* **Kryptonite:** Due to being half-Kryptonian, even while empowered, Jordan is vulnerable to the exposure of Kryptonite, a radioactive mineral from the planet Krypton. Depending on the nature of the said Kryptonite, it will cause a different adverse effect on him
	+ **Green Kryptonite:** Green Kryptonite not only physically hurts Jordan, but also weakens his physical attributes; making his resilience equivalent to that; of a normal human, but if he is exposed to enough Green Kryptonite for too long, it will eventually kill him. But despite being weaker than his father, he has a considerably higher resilience to Green Kryptonite. It is speculated to be because of his human half deluding the effects on his Kryptonian half.
* **Noise sensitivity:** Presumably due to enhanced hearing, loud noises such as a locker door closing or a bell ringing, can leave Jordan feeling disoriented, giving him headache-like symptoms. Since learning to control his powers, he has had less and less headaches.
* **Red sun energy:** Jordan is powerless when exposed to the energy of a red sun.
* **Power instability/Mixed DNA:** Due to being half-human, Jordan doesn't have constant access to his Kryptonian powers

## Relationships

* Lois Lane (Mother)
* Clark Kent (Father)
* Jonathan Kent II (Younger Fraternal Twin Brother)
* Kara Zor-El (Adoptive Aunt/Distant Cousin)

## Trivia

* Jordan was the alias assumed by Clark after quitting his superheroics in the famous story arc *Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?*
* Jordan's protective suit given by Sam Lane is based on the first supersuit Superman wore in the *Superman: American Alien* comics and in the *Superman: Man of Tomorrow* movie.
* This is not the first time that Superman and Lois have a set of twin children. In Superman & Batman: Generations #2, Superman and Lois have two children, Joel and Kara. Like Superman and Lois, one of their child has powers (Jordan and Kara) but one child doesn't (Joel and Jonathan). The difference is, Jonathan didn't get powers because he simply did not inherit them and Joel didn't get powers because he was exposed to gold kryptonite.

## See Also

* Jordan-El, his Bizarro counterpart
* House of El
* Kryptonians