Clark Kent

**Superman** is the most powerful being on Earth, an alien refugee named **Kal-El** from the planet Krypton who was raised in Smallville, Kansas, to become an American superhero. Raised with high moral ideals, he uses his incredible strength, speed, flight and various other superpowers to fight evil and to protect the innocent. In his civilian identity he is **Clark Kent**, a mild-mannered reporter working for the Daily Planet in Metropolis. He is a founding member of the Justice League of America.

## Biography

Kal-El was born on the dying planet of Krypton as the last son of the House of El, and his parents Jor-El and Lara sent him to Earth in a rocket as a baby. He grew up in Smallville, alongside his best friends Lana Lang and Lex Luthor. Lex and Clark had a falling out after Luthor Manor burned down with Lex's father inside during an experiment to contact extra-terrestrials.

Returning to Smallville at the age of 25 after freelancing around the world as a reporter, he decided it was time to start making a difference in the world, donning the Kryptonian symbol of hope given to him by his parents as his heritage. He designed a costume after traditional Kryptonian clothing with no mask so the public could trust him and moved to Metropolis.

Securing a job interview at the Daily Planet with Perry White, Clark met Jimmy Olsen for the first time and immediately fell in love with Lois Lane. He was forced to make his first public appearance as Superman, saving both of them when the city was attacked by experimental military helicopters. Lex Luthor was revealed to be responsible in an act of corporate sabotage against Wayne Enterprises in their first conflict as arch-enemies.

Luthor announced to the media that he believed Superman was an alien invader. Testing this theory, he discovered Superman's weakness by exposing him to Green Kryptonite. This fear-mongering climaxed in a staged Kryptonian invasion of Metropolis by Luthor, using real troops and holograms to discredit Superman. Superman was ultimately able to end the attacks, exposing Luthor's scheme and proving himself as a hero to humanity.

## Personality

Superman is commonly seen as a brave and kind-hearted hero with a strong sense of justice, morality and righteousness. He adheres to a strict moral code often attributed to the small-town American values with which he was raised, thanks to his adoptive parents. His commitment to operating within the law has been an example to many other heroes but has stirred resentment among others, who refer to him as the "big blue boy scout." Superman can be rather rigid in this trait, causing tensions in the superhero community, notably with Wonder Woman (one of his closest friends) after she killed Maxwell Lord.

### Secret Identity: Clark Kent

To protect his secret identity, Superman has constructed a persona in his civilian identity as Clark Kent. To the world at large, Clark is a mild-mannered and clumsy person. Only Lois Lane, his wife, knows that this attitude is just an act.

Having lost his home world of Krypton, Superman is very protective of Earth, and especially of his family and friends. This same loss, combined with the pressure of using his powers responsibly, has caused Superman to feel lonely on Earth, despite his many friends, his wife and his parents. Previous encounters with people he thought to be fellow Kryptonians, Power Girl (who is, in fact, from the Krypton of the Earth-Two universe) and Mon-El, have led to disappointment. The arrival of Supergirl, who has been confirmed to be not only from Krypton but also his cousin, has relieved this loneliness somewhat.

### Relationship with allies

Superman has worked with and fought alongside every hero in existence. As expected, though, only a few of them are real close to the Man of Steel.

* **Batman**: The relationship between two of the greatest heroes in the world is long-storied and complex. Superman and Batman have had arguments and fallouts and been at odds with each other... but they're ultimately friends, no matter what. Bruce is one of the very few persons Clark would trust to watch his back. When his split halves got merged back and History got changed, Superman only told three persons he trusted above all about it, and one of them was Batman.
* **Wonder Woman**: Clark and Diana were attracted to each other when they met. In the beginning they thought about getting together, but after a very brief relationship they considered they were better as friends. Since then they have been very close friends and siblings-in-arms.

### Romances

* **Lois Lane** is Clark Kent's life love. Although details of how their relationship played out vary, usually Clark meets Lois in his first day in the Daily Planet and falls for her at first sight, but it takes a while for Lois warming up to Clark. Before marrying Lois Clark Kent loved some other women like **Lana Lang**, **Lori Lemaris**, **Ruby Carson**, **Terri Chung**, **Catherine Grant** and **Wonder Woman**.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Superman's cellular structure is much more dense, resilient and biologically more effective than human tissue. He does not possess superhuman strength levels despite his enhanced cellular ability without his cellular structure charged with yellow solar energy. Without such charging, his physical capabilities are identical to a human of his height and weight who engages in regular physical activity. As an alien, he possesses several organs whose functions are not yet disclosed or understood but are believed to be part of or the source of his bio-matrix force field and reclamation aura. Superman's body also stores energy actively within his bio-cellular matrix as an energy pattern that is linked to his body's electromagnetic field. This energy powers most of his electromagnetic capabilities such as flight, heat vision and other "sight"-based abilities while supplementing his physical abilities to superhuman levels. Superman has been shown to repel Darkseid's Omega Beams with his heat vision and has been shown to handle extreme heat from the Earth's Core.
	+ **Solar Radiation Absorption**: As a Kryptonian, his cells function like a super battery, hyper metabolizing specific wavelengths of radiation as fuel to enable living functions and/or superhuman abilities. Different wavelengths of radiation have different effects on Superman's physiology and well-being, but his cells cannot absorb or utilize all types of radiation. The wavelength of his home solar system's red sun enables his body to function on an identical level of a healthy human while the Earth's solar radiation in both its raw and filtered state through the Earth's atmosphere acts as fuel to enable all of his powers. Every time Superman uses any of his superhuman abilities, his body expends absorbed sunlight, and he is capable utilizing any of them to various degrees through controlled circumstances. The solar-based radiation of a foreign blue star proved to increase his known abilities under a yellow sun to a higher degree and enabled additional powers. The existence and constant exposure to proven "healthy" radiation sources is not required for him to live and utilize his powers, but prolonged periods without exposure to them and/or utilizing his powers will require Kal-El to recharge in order to live and continue using his powers. His emotional state correlates to fluctuations in his solar storage. The more stress he is under, the more energy he retains from the sun.
		- **Superhuman Strength**: Superman possesses near limitless strength, though the exact limits of Superman's strength is unknown. He is capable of lifting far in excess of one billion tons. Even being strong enough to break out of full Chrono-Suspension with just his strength. Different periods and intensities of exposure to Earth's solar radiation can cause his strength to fluctuate over time, but due to him living on Earth since he was a baby; Clark has managed to absorb incredible amounts of reserves of Solar Energy within himself. As time goes by, his strength and power tends to increase, whether he notices or not. Superman's known feats of strength include lifting an enormous pyramid and flying it to Mars without any strain, physically overpowering Darkseid in combat, moving Earth away from the Sun with aid of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) while Starbreaker was pushing it toward the Sun (a feat that would require quintillions tons of force), and having the strength necessary to shatter a small planet with numerous blows. Unhealthy levels of high exposure to solar radiation can exceed Superman's "normal" strength level. Clark's strength is so immense that when he's no longer holding back, his punches can shatter the boundaries of space and time, including separate timelines. Even when he was engaging in battle against his Earth-Two counterpart. Who was already strong enough to punch through dimensions inside the Universe Orb in order to get back into the New Earth universe. A great testament of Superman's strength is when he and Captain Marvel of Earth-5 once lifted the Book of Infinite Pages which weights infinity if not, more than an universe momentarily before dropping the book. He, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) pulled the Moon into Earth's atmosphere and back out. Alongside Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter pulled the Earth back into orbit with Wonder Woman's Lasso. Contained a black hole in his hands with help from Green Lantern (John Stewart). While being mind-controlled by Maxwell Lord he punched Wonder Woman from the Sun back to Earth. While fighting Black Adam he stopped himself from throwing a punch that would've split a moon in half when Adam turned his back. He stopped a falling asteroid and impact with the relative load of a five thousand megaton bomb.
		- **Shock Wave Projection**: Superman is strong enough to create powerful sonic booms with just the clap of his hands. In his fight with Doomsday they created craters in the street, shattered windows from Metropolis to Gotham and shifted buildings across Metropolis. When he fought Black Adam, he landed punches with the volume of cannon blasts and the impact of a small bomb. He thunder clapped and dispersed an F4-F5 tornado with 100 MPH winds. His stomps are like a baby nuke that can be felt for hundreds of miles away.
		- **Superhuman Speed**: He is capable of moving, reacting, running and flying at superhuman speeds. While not as fast as the Flash (Wally West), Superman can still fly at speeds faster than speed of sound. He can use this power to disarm opponents, catch bullets or shrapnel and cross vast distances in seconds. Thanks to his training with the Flash (Wally West), Superman has been able to use his speed very creatively when in combat and travel vast distances faster than he normally could. Superman's speed is so great that even time manipulation has little effect on him. Clark has claimed to Sensor Girl that he could subdue her in a femtosecond, along with the Flash (Jay Garrick) stating that Superman is among four other beings (Power Girl, Green Lantern, and Red Tornado) outside the Flash Family who are faster than him. He can even run and catch the Flash (Barry Allen) going at the speed of light and capable of having a causal conversation with the Flash in attoseconds. While racing the Flash (Wally West) he ran at supersonic speeds, 2215 mph.
			* **Molecular Acceleration**: Superman can vibrate his molecular structure at various levels to achieve various effects. If he chooses, Superman can excite the molecules of whatever substance he vibrates through to critical mass causing it to explode. He even casually caught Captain Marvel Jr. just by simply vibrating at hypersonic speed, thus matching the speed of Mercury. By matching the vibratory frequency, Superman exorcised a phantom planet from reality, thus saving the universe.
			* **Intangibility**: Superman can vibrate his molecules to achieve an intangible state. While in an intangible state, Superman is immune to all attacks. He can also vibrate so fast that light does not reflect off him, rendering him invisible.
			* **Phasing**: Superman possesses the ability to control his speed and angular momentum at the molecular level and control his molecular interactions to allow his body to pass through any substance.
			* **Superhuman Agility**
			* **Superhuman Reflexes**: Although Superman relies mostly on his invulnerability, his reaction speed is beyond faster than the finest human athlete. Stopped two hundred fired bullets at once. He and the Flash (Wally West) stopped five hundred bullets at once.
		- **Superhuman Stamina**: He has the ability to maintain continuous physical actions for an undefined period. Clark has unlimited stamina if he is consistently exposed to Earth sunlight.
		- **Regenerative Healing Factor**: After getting shot with a Kryptonite bullet by Metallo the wound was still closing up even though the bullet was slowing down his cellular restoration. He quickly healed after Wonder Woman cut his throat with her tiara.
		- **Flight**: Superman is capable of flying at supersonic speeds (over two thousand miles per second) in a planetary atmosphere and at faster-than-light speeds while in space. He once traveled from the Vega star to Earth - a distance of over 25 light years - in minutes if not seconds, meaning he is capable of flying over one million times the speed of light. Also flies so fast that spaces bends around him at that velocity time slows down. He entered a black hole at almost the speed of light while accelerating. Superman accelerated to just under lightspeed in order to perform the Infinite Mass Punch.
		- **Heat Vision**: Superman can fire beams of intense heat from his eyes. These beams can be made invisible, allowing him to work undetected, and can be adjusted to affect matter on a microscopic level. Feats include powering up the giant ion planet moving engines, annihilating an army of Doomsday clones in one blast, potentially rivaling the heat of a Star and bypassing a target's outer shell, avoiding damage to a person's skull for surgical purposes. His Heat Vision was capable of piercing Epoch's Omega Barrier, along with replicating an event similar to that of a Blackhole. No one knows the true scope of Kal's Heat Vision, only that it surpasses by any of the standard of scientific measures, thus being derived of the sun. Therefore there may be no limit to the amount of he could discharge. His mastery over this power has allowed him to utilize it, to shoot for omni-directional use.
		- **Invulnerability**: His body is nigh-invulnerable due to his superhumanly dense cellular and anatomical structure as well as his radiating bio-electrical aura. Superman is under some circumstances resistant or immune to different forms and levels of lacerations, blunt force trauma, energy-based assaults, falls from great heights, explosions, the cold void of space, toxins and all known diseases on Earth. His supercharged bio-electric "aura" acts as an invisible "force field" radiating within a few millimeters from his skin. He can willfully utilize his aura strengthening its power to a greater degree to provide an additional defense against certain levels of physical and energy attacks for a considerably short period of time but doing so can endanger him should the attempted feat prove inefficient for any reason. Superman uses his aura by expanding it around a person(s) or object(s) to enable their structural stability when lifting or traveling with them. Superman's invulnerability has been in constant flux over the years. He survived the blast of nuclear warheads, entered the Earth's sun and emerged unharmed, withstand the impact of an exploding star, and survived being in the vicinity of an explosion equal to 50 supernovas while already significantly weakened by red sunlight. Superman withstood being at the epicenter of a planet's worth of gravitational pull, pressure like being at the center of a star. He survived being in the equivalent of a black hole's gravity field.
		- **Longevity**: Superman can potentially live indefinitely with little to no aging to his being, so long as he continuously retains enough yellow solar radiation in his body.
		- **Self-Sustenance**: He does not need to eat or sleep so long he has enough yellow solar energy (but is still capable of doing so) and doesn't require oxygen to breathe enabling him to travel in space and underwater unprotected.
		- **Super-Breath**: Superman can generate hurricane force winds by blowing, and also chill his breath to freeze a target. He can also breathe in large amounts of air to dispel clouds of gas by exhaling it. He solidified enough lava to lift Metropolis.
		- **Superhuman Senses**: All of Superman's senses are heightened to superhuman levels.
			* **Superhuman Hearing**: Superman has the ability to expand his hearing range, giving him the ability to hear sounds before the sound waves actually reaches him. This also gives him incredible hearing at extreme variances of sound and pitch frequency, allowing him to pick up noises from across the globe. He has shown enough control to block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source/frequency. His hearing is so acute he can hear someone's distinct heartbeat out of crowd of eleven million people. He can detect changes in wavelength and determines when mind-control is occurring. Batman says he can hear molecules bonding. He heard Green Lantern calling for help from a million miles away. He can tell when the average pulse rate in Metropolis is two points higher than usual. Superman can hear every sound in Metropolis when he needs to.
			* **Super Smell**: On various occasions, Superman has demonstrated that his sense of smell is significantly enhanced to the point he can smell odors across the entire planet. He once smelled sulfur discharge in the ozone, alerting him to a volcanic eruption.
			* **Super Vision**: Superman also possesses a superior sensory arrangement of visual capabilities.
				+ **Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision**: He can see into all of the EM Spectrum. Superman can see and identify radio/television and any and all broadcast/transmitted frequencies, allowing him to avoid detection through radar or satellite monitoring methods. Superman can trace cell-phone signals. He can also trace frequency links. Superman can a sense fractional fluctuation in the quantum fields of a valley. He can see Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet.
				+ **Telescopic Vision**: The ability to focus his vision to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. From Earth he saw a million-mile scar on the Sun. He can see to the edge of the universe.
				+ **Microscopic Vision**: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the subatomic level. He can see the traces of ionic particles. Superman can see the individual strands of DNA in someone and the genetic markers of human blood. He can also see the genetic makeup of New Gods.
				+ **X-Ray Vision**: The ability to see through anything except lead. Since it is passive, this ability would not generate harmful radiation in the same manner as a focused projection of hard X-rays. He saw that the earth had been transformed into a single-cell organism. He also determined when a force field completely covered a spherical area.
				+ **Thermal Vision**: The ability of see through the heat tracks left by a living being or object.

### Abilities

* **Expert Combatant**: Due to having superpowers all his life and constantly engaging in battle with various foes, Superman has been able to fully master them. He 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 any foe and capable of defeating almost any adversary. Additionally, he was taught by his father Pa Kent how to defend himself by teaching him how to throw a punch. Kal has been trained in boxing by Wildcat. When back in High School he was trained in wrestling and became an expert at it. Superman was also trained by Granny Goodness in Apokoliptian warrior training, Mongul in Warworld gladiator combative methods, was trained by **Wioska** a former combat instructor of Apokolips, learned to master his combat speed enough to deliver thousands of blows in a few seconds thanks to the Flash, Wonder Woman in Amazonian combat, the Karate Kid in armed and unarmed combat and even learned some advanced martial arts techniques from Batman. Not only has Kal been well trained, but he's actually an experienced fighter; due to him fighting for 1000 years in Valhalla alongside Wonder Woman and Thor. Along with the alternate lifetime and journey throughout time and space that both him and Batman endured. Clark has fought the likes of Guardian, Orion, and Wonder Woman, in battle, each to a stalemate. When focused, Kal can enter a state of pure combative violence, when it's necessary. In that state, he can truly cut loose and utilize his powers to their fullest. Thus, he pushes out all thoughts that can result in distraction and becomes very effective on the battlefield. Kal has claimed and shown his combat and reaction speed is superior to the Flash's. Clark can engage in battle so fast, that he can move and fight in different parts of the world **(Egypt, China, Siberia and Arizona),** in just a **few seconds.** Kal periodically goes off to another planet with a **Red Sun,** to fight and survive without his powers so he can learn to rely on himself, during events where and when he’s powerless. Even when having his body swapped with Lex Luthor, he's still capable up putting up a fight, taking out General Immortus. Superman is considered a combat master, for he has been trained by some of the world's greatest warriors. His knowledge helps him to use his skills with precision and avoid unnecessary damage. His combat skill is so great, he bared through and overcame the Last Line in battle, all four of them were trained soldiers with Kryptonite powered weaponry. He even fought and lasted for several minutes, holding out against the All-American Boy, a Doomsday project infused with Kryptonite Physiology; just right after defeating the Last Line. Clark managed to accomplish in defeating the trio of gods, Mixcoatl, Baal-Hadad and Morrigan in battle, by himself. Not even Lex Luthor could take Clark down in a fight when he had no powers, was battered and weary; yet Kal still won before passing out.
	+ **Aikido**
	+ **Boxing**
	+ **Capoeira**
	+ **Judo**
	+ **Karate**
	+ **Krav Maga**
	+ **Muay Thai**
	+ **Ninjitsu**
	+ **Wrestling**
	+ **Torquasm Vo**: Torquasm Vo is a Kryptonian discipline that Superman uses sometimes. It's a means of entering the Theta State, where the user has full control of the realm, which the user can alter the surroundings however he or she fits, with the use of either their memories or use of their thoughts. Superman first used this martial art against Dominus after escaping the Phantom Zone. 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, as when using this technique he's capable of dragging his opponent into the Theta State, with him. Superman used that ability during his fight against the Eradicator. It was used to create an illusion to let Superman enter inside the Eradicator. Superman can even run this technique through his consciousness, to find the difference between two memories of the same event, to discover which one of them is the real one; basically Superman's utilizing a lie detector when this technique is active. He can even share his findings with someone else.
	+ **Torquasm Rao**: 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. This discipline not only empowers Superman, but also allows him to heal both his body and spirit from any harmful threats. When entering the astral plane also known as the Rao State, Superman can enter different dimensions when using this technique like Lois Lane did, regarding the use of his astral form, if he so chooses to. Superman can use this technique to however he wants, even in a dream, giving him full control in that state of consciousness. Such as when he created super static electricity with super friction, just by rubbing his hands together, while he was dreaming.
	+ **Horu-Kanu**: The deadliest form of physical combat on Krypton. A martial art that involves taking advantage the body's pressure points. Superman learned this martial art in private and used it when fighting Batman who was filled with Green Kryptonite energy, Maxima, Tempest, Mongul II and Ultraman.
* **Pedagogy**: Throughout Clark's time as a superhero, he has good history of training a multitude of other people in combat and even helping some with mastering their powers; people involving the likes of Starman, the Flash, Lois Lane, Batman, Supergirl, and training other Kryptonians into military soldiers.
* **Genius Level Intellect**: He has shown incredible intelligence and computational abilities; his mind works sharply and with extreme speed relative to earth-humans. Kal discovered that he's 1000 times less intelligent than Brainiac. Who's spinal station can process and sort knowledge of over 7 octodecillion beings, with Brainiac's brain being 70 times that. 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). After implanting microbots into a few periods of a John Sandford book. He was not only capable of reading the book, but also complete texts of science, history, philosophy and current events; all at the same time.
* **Eidetic Memory**: After his powers returned his memory became phenomenal. Clark's memory is so grand that he managed to memorize every nut, bolt and circuit of the Miracle Machine, after Brainiac 5 showed it to him no more than a few seconds.
* **Mental Resistance**: After an attack by the Key involving telepathy, mind control and illusions. Batman suggested that the League should train with Martian Manhunter to combat this vulnerability, for future attacks. Thus Superman built up his mental defenses with the aid of Martian Manhunter, to make his mind more resistant against such threats. Which became useful when Clark fought against Arion's mind control spell; battling to reclaim his mind while utilizing the resistance techniques, that J'onn taught him.
* **Indomitable Will**: Superman has shown to have a powerful spirit, free of corruption and temptation. Having been raised by a kindly Kansas farmer and his wife, he was taught to protect life and help others. He is very optimistic and never gives up, even when things look bad. Superman has learned how to place mental inhibitors on his own power so that he doesn't accidentally "flex and cause the tectonic plates to shift." To him, they are the barriers that allow him to feel human enough to live a healthy life, and he only ever releases one of them when fighting a particularly powerful opponent or performing a difficult task.
* **Meditation**: During his 20s, Superman traveled around to see the world and learn more about his powers. After first meeting with his "then" lover Terri Chung, they traveled to Bhutran. There, Superman learned of their customs and the secrets they had to offer, which involved meditation and yoga techniques; taught to him by Terri's father the former Rhana Bhutra. Superman even learned some mediation techniques that allows him to slow his heart rate down to mimic death and one to slow his metabolism down to allow him into a meditative state; all of which he learned while studying in Bhutran and from Batman. His training in Bhutran was most effective when his powers went out of control, due to excessive amounts of energy coursing through his body, at the time. He even resorted to meditation when creating the world of Metropia. His meditation practice was definitely useful when he first used Torquasm Vo to enter the Theta State, when fighting against Dominus.
* **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. Superman recommended to Supergirl that she should go train with I-Ching herself. Just so that she could regain proper control over her powers, after her fight with the Fatal Five.
* **Acrobatics**: There have been times when Superman has lost his powers and had render to rely on his own nimbleness, agility, balance and body coordination to help him get by and survive.
* **Swordsmanship**: Considering Superman's reputation in hand-to-hand combat and his use of his powers. Superman is actually quite the skilled swordsman, capable of fighting on par with the Space Pirate Captain Freelance in a duel. Fighting alongside a magic based Justice League from a parallel future and even fighting Doomsday for a period of time. He fought on par with Hon-Ur when he briefly clashed blades with him, when he was powerless. He even slayed a Troll while protecting Jimmy Olsen, when he realized it wasn't even alive due to it not breathing and having no pulse. He overcame a copy of himself in a sword duel, when traversing the Fortress of Solitude without his powers.
* **Firearms**: Despite all of Superman's great power and fighting skill, he has at times used guns. Whether weakened in power, in acts of desperation or training purposes. Kal, if he needs to, will resort to the use of a firearm.
* **Tactical Analysis**: Clark was capable deducing a proper way of subduing and escaping the Justice League, while in mid-fight with them.
* **Investigation**: Both as a superhero and as a journalist, Superman is an expert at gathering evidence from all kinds of sources. Even Batman has given Superman props for his deductive reasoning skills. Green Arrow also refers to both him and Batman as the Hardy Boys. Clark even managed to solve how Massacre was capable of predicting his opponent's moves, by discovering that he can sense nerve signals, over the course of their battle. Kal reveals he was taught how to learn of his opponent's weaknesses and use it against them. Utilizing that skill, to identify and adapting to foes, that are able of getting stronger and smarter over the course of a battle. While striped of his powers, he has shown deducing the Key's identity via his voice and speech pattern, along with knowing he was still in the Fortress of Solitude, just by listening to the Key's prerecorded message. He managed to discover Mixcoatl, Baal-Hadad and Morrigan's weakness to iron in mid-battle and utilize it to his advantage.
* **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 on 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.
* **Intimidation**
* **Ventriloquism**: Used to practice in high school.
* **Multilingualism**: English, Kryptonian, and Spanish. Superman also speaks Japanese. He can also speak Serbian and Turkish.
* **Occultism**: Zatanna educated Superman on different kinds of magic, and different effects of it.

### Weaknesses

* **Vulnerability to Kryptonite**: Since the destruction of Krypton, its remains (rendered radioactive by the explosion) have been spreading throughout the universe as Kryptonite, a crystalline substance whose specific radioactive wavelength is lethal to Kryptonians native to this reality. The most common form of Kryptonite is Green Kryptonite, and its effect is directly poisonous to him. Kryptonite from other realities do not necessarily have the same effects on all Kryptonians.
* **Vulnerability to Magic**: Superman's biomatrix is his most powerful asset, but the strength of this field is also its greatest weakness. Its permeability to certain wavelengths makes him vulnerable to certain radiations, particularly magical energies whose chaotic electromagnetic or extra dimensional signatures disrupt this force field. Superman's vulnerability to magic varies depending upon the special effects of the magic. He can be injured and worn down by magical entities. Magic can have powerful and unpredictable effects on Superman and his magical enemies have often proven to be the most dangerous.
* **The Black Tide**: If Superman's chi flow is disrupted by being overwhelmed by this disturbed substance, he'll suffer from fatigue and pain; until he sub comes to unconsciousness. Eventually he will die, unless acupuncture is administered in time.
* **Lead**: Superman cannot see through lead with his x-ray vision powers.
* **Solar Energy Dependency**: His abilities will eventually weaken without replenishing his energy reserves with normal (yellow) sun radiation, especially if he doesn't have any direct contact with yellow sunlight. When exposed to the same red solar radiation as Krypton's red sun Rao, it causes Superman to lose his powers within a large amount of exposure until the exposure to yellow sunlight will reverse this effect.
* **High-Pitched Noises**: Because of his super hearing, Superman's ears are extra-sensitive to extreme noises. This gives individuals like Black Canary and Silver Banshee who use sonic screeches, a particular advantage in combat against him.
* **Psionics**

## Notes

* **Superman** first appeared in Earth-Two continuity in *Action Comics* #1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. His history was rebooted for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity beginning in *The Man of Steel* #1 by John Byrne.
* Superman's origin story has been rewritten many times over the years, each time heavily changing which stories may be considered in continuity based on the interpretation. John Byrne wrote his definitive mini-series *The Man of Steel* in 1986 following the *Crisis on Infinite Earths*, part of sweeping changes in the Post-Crisis DC Universe to make stories more accessible. It was later updated and retold again by Mark Waid in his 2003 mini-series *Superman: Birthright*, which brought back many older plot points that had been non-canon during the Byrne-era. Geoff Johns rebooted the DCU during *Infinite Crisis* in 2006, although Superman's new origins wouldn't be completely explored until his 2009 mini-series *Superman: Secret Origin*.
* Thanks to various reality altering events such as Zero Hour, JLA/Avengers and Infinite Crisis as well as hypertime Superman's history changed. For example, originally he had no career as Superboy nor was he a member of the Legion of Superheroes. But shortly after Infinite Crisis he related how he first met the Legion of Superheroes and his time as Superboy with them. In the aftermath of Convergence the New Earth Superman, Lois and their son Jon were all transported to Prime Earth and lived under the name "Smith". As a result of the New Earth and Prime Earth Supermen being merged his history changed again and no reference to either a Superboy career or the Legion of Superheroes was made and events of Prime Earth history changed. That was until when Superman, The World Forger and the some of the members of the Justice League traveled to Nil, and he started to recollect somethings that happened; like where the Monitors used to live before the event of Final Crisis. The World Forger even enforces that the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis & the Dark Multiverse rising, did in fact happen.
* Kellel is the name given Superman when he acquired the powers of a god and oversaw Proto-Earth-1 with Batman and Wonder Woman.
* Superman appears as *Superman (Prime)* a playable character in the *Infinite Crisis* video game.

## Trivia

* Clark knows the **Art of War,** by Sun Tzu.
* Clark does not care about the Joker, if the situation ever arise that he needed to kill him, he would do it. He finds the Joker to be **nothing** that's full of uncertainties, a **nobody** trying to hog an imaginary spotlight. But he does find him smart and dangerous.
* Superman's African Samburu name is Moja Ini Chapa Nyumba, which means One Heart, Many Homes.
* Superman has gone to therapy a couple of times, his psychiatrist is Claire Foster.
* Superman hates magic.
* Superman does not drink alcohol.
* Clark was a vegetarian at one point in his life.
* Clark's favorite movie is *To Kill a Mockingbird*.
* Notable nicknames for Superman include: *The Man of Steel*, *The Man of Tomorrow*, *The Last Son of Krypton*, *The Big Blue Boy Scout*, *Smallville*, *The Metropolis Marvel* and simply *Supes*.
* Clark was a part of the Webelos Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America) Association.
* Superman has been credited for being a highly skilled fighter/warrior and student, by the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman, Thor, Maxima, Mongul, Draaga, Mongul II, General Zod, Kru-El, Black Racer, Mister Miracle, Himon, Orion, Granny Goodness, The Demon, Darkseid, Lex Luthor of Prime Earth, The Flash, Silent Knight, Wioska, and The Eradicator Program.
* Lex Luthor's theory about Superman's power was proven to be true, by Ruin. Clark's emotional state correlates to fluctuations in his solar storage. The more stress Kal is under, the more energy he retains from the sun.
* The aura that Superman's body generates, the same that protects his body from damage, prevents grime and dirt from clinging long to his flesh to keep him perpetually clean.
* Superman had Martian Manhunter as his high school civics teacher, even though he did it to keep an eye on Superman.
* Kal-El once had sex with Silver Banshee after undergoing a personality change, becoming more aggressive due to the magic unleashed by Tullus in order to help him fight Blaze. Though he did become attracted to her, he was still in love with Lois. Banshee used a spell that made her younger and caused Clark to forget her.
* Superman's trip to the country of Bhutran, during his travels, is one of his most favorite countries that he ever enjoyed traveling to. He often mentions his trip to Bhutran in presence of friends and often recollects his training in times of crisis or states of calm.