Superman(Kal El) (1459)

**Clark Kent** (born **Kal-el**) is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet as well as the Kryptonian superhero **Superman.**

## Character Info

### Relatives

Jor-El (father, deceased)Lara El (mother, deceased)Zor-El (uncle, deceased)Alura El (aunt, deceased)Kara Zor-El (cousin)Jonathan Kent (adoptive father, deceased)Martha Kent (adoptive mother, deceased)Lois Lane-Kent (wife, deceased,)Sam Lane (father in-law)Elenor Lane (mother-in-law, deceased)Lucy Lane (sister-in-law)

## Out Of Character

### Status

Living

 History

 Kal El was born on the Planet Kypton to Jor El the planets leading Scientist and to Lara El in the Earth Year 1956. Jor El knew that his planet was doomed and after many Futile attempts to convince his government of the impending Doom he began construction on a spaceship to remove them from the planet. When he realized he did not have time to construct a ship able to take himself and his family he created one just for his Only Son Kal El. Only a few days old his wife and him sent Kal on his way to the only planet that Jor El felt was fitting enough for his son and that planet Was Earth.

Kal El was sent away mere hours before the planet was destroyed and he traveled for nearly a week at light speeds to earth where he crashes landed on Earth and with a Ton of Meteors from his planet scattered all over the planet. He landed on a Farm in Kansas where Jonathan and Martha Kent discovered his ship on their property. They adopted him as their own and hid his secret from everyone including Kal El till, he was 13 years old when his powers began to manifest themselves.

By 17 all his powers had manifested themselves, while he struggled to keep his secret he continues on life and worked in numerous small jobs in Smallville including being the lead reporter and eventual Editor of the Smallville Newspaper the "Small Times" at the age of 18 He decided to go to college.

### Beginnings as Superman (1978-1982)

The year was 1978, Clark had been working at the Daily Planet for about a year with his Child friend Lana Lang. Clark took Jor-El's advice to heart and donned a suit made by Martha while becoming one of the the world's first "superhero" of what we could be called the Brozen Age of heroes. His first heroic act was to save a boy from being crushed by a falling car, while simultaneously saving its occupants. His presence struck Awe in some, Hope in others and even Fear everyone wondered what his presence on Earth really meant, as no other Kryptonian had ever been reported on earth before.

He became known as the superhero Superman. Clark Eventually became friends with gossip reporter Cat Grant and many others at the Daily planet. His activities attracted the attention of Alexander Luthor I and Government officials all over the world.

### Protecting Earth(1982-2000)

Clark's heroic activities in Metropolis became a spectacle, especially when more powerful and fearsome villains began showing up.

#### (1982)(Kneel before Zod)

Clark Kent finds out from his boss Perry White that Lana Lang has gone on assignment to cover the story of a terrorist threat in Paris to detonate a nuclear bomb on top of the Eiffel Tower. Being the kind of reporter that she is, Lana hides herself underneath the elevator car as it rides up to the top of the tower to overhear what the terrorists are planning to do when an incident causes both the car to plummet and the bomb to start ticking away. Superman comes to the rescue at the nick of time, saving Lana and then flying the elevator car with the bomb deep into outer space where it detonates safely. Unknown to Kal-El, however, the shock waves of the explosion cause a nearby adrift Kryptonian vessel to sustain even further damage and send out a distress signal. which is picked up by a rogue remaining group of Kryptonian's lead by General Zod. Zod and his group eventually land on Earth and Demand total surrender of the planet to them, Zod demands that humankind surrender Kal-El, who he believes is his only threat on the planet, in return for peace. Clark agrees, and the U.S. military hand him over to Zod's second-in-command, Faora. Zod reveals that he intends to use a terraforming "world engine" to transform Earth into a new Krypton, eradicating most of the human population in the process, and a DNA converting device to convert human followers into genetically-engineered Kryptonians. After Clark escape Zod's ship, Clark defeats Faora, convincing the military that he is an ally. Zod deploys the world engine and initiates the process in Metropolis and over the Indian Ocean.

Clark stops the world engine in the Indian Ocean. The military and the Justice Society of America attack Zod's ship and return Zod's crew to the Phantom Zone. Only Zod remains, and he engages Superman in an aerial battle across Metropolis. In the process, Superman destroys the ship which Zod arrived in and completely thwarting Zod's plans. Zod notice Superman protecting the humans during their battle and decide to endanger them in order to weaken him enough to destroy him. Eventually Superman realizes the danger that the fight is causing the citizens and flies off, with Zod in pursuit. They battle in Antarctic all the while Clark tries and keeps the danger away from any populated area. Eventually He defeats Zod and returns him to the Phantom Zone.

### Y2K Attacks

tragedy struck for Superman on December 31st, 1999, just shy of Midnight a Mutant entered the daily planet and created a dangerous poison that leaked into the building He was too late to save many of the staff members at the Daily Planet. Superman arrived to find that his wife had survived the attack due to her concealed gas mask, but suffered a injury to the skull. She stayed awake long enough for her husband to find her, but Lana made the visibly murderous and angry Superman promises not to kill the mutant in retribution; he solemnly agreed. Trying to maintain his faith in humanity, he arrested the Mutant, but only for the Mutant to be killed by a new superhero named Hyperion.

Although Superman had Hyperion put on trial for his murder, Hyperion was acquitted for his cold-blooded act as the people accepted him for permanently ridding a very dangerous criminal. This act shattered Superman's faith in general goodness over the general populace's acceptance of murder as a reasonable way to deal with the criminal problem while overtly grown weary of superheroes like Superman whose refusal to kill allowed super-villains to terrorize the populace again and again once they escaped or were paroled. Feeling defeated by the public's perception, Superman gave up his public persona of Clark Kent and retreated from the world at large by spending his time in the Fortress of Solitude where he merely responded to incidents around the world that could not be handled by anyone else. until astronomers believed they had discovered the remains of Krypton, Kal-El deciding to seek out his home planet he left Earth in late 2000.

### Sad Homecoming (2001)

Kal-El disappeared for 1 year then One night, Returning to Earth after receiving word from his cousin of his Mother's Death He rescues cosmonauts floating in space without oxygen, he returns to Earth as Clark Kent to deal with selling his family farm after his foster mother Martha Kent's death, having failed in his hopes to find surviving Kryptonians. Clark Kent returns to Metropolis to his old job at the Daily Planet to find that the Daily Planet has been bought out by the tabloid tycoon David Warfield, and that Perry White was being pushed around by David to go a different way with the paper.

Soon the President of the United States releases a speech on television that peace talks between the United States and the Mutant Nation of Genosha have failed and that they are now considering building up nuclear defenses for possible war. Jeremy, an elementary school student whose class was watching this speech, is motivated to write a letter to Superman, saying if he could destroy all the world's nuclear missiles, then the world could be spared from blowing up one another. Superman initially tells Jeremy that he couldn't do that -- a response that the Warfield-controlled Daily Planet spins as SUPERMAN SAYS DROP DEAD TO KID -- but after a private talk with Perry White on the issue, he realizes that Earth is his home as well and he can't stand idly by and watch its citizens annihilate each other. He addresses the United Nations by stating that he will destroy all nuclear missiles starting immediately; a statement that gets surprisingly universal support.

Meanwhile, Lex Luthor comes up with a new plan to destroy Superman: by creating a superpowered being using Superman's own DNA, a sample of which he gets from a museum display showing the strength of Superman's single hair strand Lex brings the corpse of a\_\_\_\_to the Genesis Chamber and Kelor warns him of the ban of genetic modification by the Kryptonian Law Council. However, Lex ignores this and combines his blood with \_\_\_\_ and the Strand of Superman's Hair as the Genesis Chamber begins to transform the body of Zod Of course. Lex then executes his plan: unleashing an ancient Kryptonian deformity known as Doomsday designed to kill Superman. As the monster awakens, it roars at Lex Luthor before reaching out to kill him. It stops as Lex Ensured he had control over the creature before ever creating it, he orders it to attack Metropolis and lure Superman out and then Kill him while Lex stays behind to watch.

Superman promptly confronts Doomsday, and the two battle one another, destroying the Superman statue in the process. Doomsday's strength surpasses that of Superman, but the Man of Steel holds his own, managing to send the monster flying into a building. Doomsday is then shot at by military helicopters, but his body takes it all, adapting and only becoming more durable.

In desperation, Superman tackles Doomsday into space. The US President intends to shoot the alien monster down with a nuclear missile, and it is carried out, despite the protests of high Military advisors. Superman defiantly holds Doomsday in place as he sees the missile approach, determined to have the monster destroyed. The resulting explosion is so gigantic, that Batman can clearly see it from Earth's surface and reaches out to as many Heroes as he could in a short time.

Doomsday's body lands on the abandoned Stryker's Island, but he is far from dead, as the tremendous explosion seems to have only made the monster stronger, with its body once again regenerating. Batman then attacks it with his Batwing, unleashing an immense amount of firepower, but Doomsday is unscathed and brings the plane down with his heat vision and breath. Before Batman can escape his crashed vehicle, Doomsday corners him and fires a tremendous, superheated torrent at him. Wonder Woman arrives, however, just in time to save Batman, deflecting the beams with her indestructible bracelets, which creates a massive wave of energy outwards.

The Flash(Jay Garrick) Appears next to Wonder Woman and Batman the Three of them Began to fight the Creature, Batman only holding his own with an Exo powered suit. The Flash long since retired from Active Duty couldn't hold his own for only a few minutes before being taken out of the battle temporarily. Supergirl appears at the last minute to save The Flash and she joins the battle as well.

In the meantime, Superman is floating in space, with him being extremely weakened by the nuclear missile, rendered thin and undead in appearance. Soon, however, he is exposed to radiation from the yellow sun, which reinvigorates Superman's cells, returning him to full power. He then proceeds to defiantly fly towards Doomsday again, sending the monster flying into a gas tank.

Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Superman then proceed to jointly attack Doomsday in tandem, while Batman and the Flash tries to expose the monster to kryptonite, which would exploit its only known vulnerability. Wonder Woman soon manages to cut off the monster's right hand, but that only results in a sharp bony protrusion growing back in its place.

The Flash having went and retrieved weapons from the Batcave for Batman which included a Spear made of Kryptonite the Flash Attempts to use the spear on The Monster only to be severally injured by it.

while Wonder Woman has managed to temporarily restrain Doomsday with her indestructible lasso. Superman sees that the only way to stop Doomsday is to risk his own life. Hence, he says goodbye to his cousin and his longtime friend Batman, before taking hold of the spear and flying back to the battle scene, exposed to the substance himself in the process as he fly's towards Doomsday he speaks to Lana telling her he will soon see her.

He stabs Doomsday in the chest with the kryptonite spear, but since the weapon did not manage to fully pierce the monster, Doomsday is able to stab Superman in return, piercing the latter's chest with his arm bone protrusion. A desperate and mortally wounded Superman uses the leverage to further impale Doomsday with the spear, finally killing the creature, though dying himself in the process. A shocked and saddened Batman promptly arrives, and retrieves Superman's lifeless body, enveloping him in his own cape.

Superman is given a symbolic funeral with an empty casket in Heroes Park in Metropolis,

### Retired Life (2002-2015)

Nearly a year after his "death" Kal awakens in his grave, his body having healed from the wounds he suffered. Clark reveals he is alive to Batman whom offers him his Family farm as he had saved it from being sold to anyone else and gives it back to Clark who returns to the Farm to live a simple retired life as while he was revived his powers did not return. Other heroes, equally disturbed at the public's overwhelmingly positive reaction to Hyperion actions and eventual new heroes, withdraw from the world at large or travelled to off planet leaving a power vacuum that is soon filled by the new generation of "heroes" Hyperion represents.Kent appears back at the Daily Planet, revealing that after the attack he had been placed in a hospital and in a coma with no ID on him they declared him a John Doe. In reality Kal's body had been healed and eventually recoveree while alive Clark was alive, at that point his body had not recovered enough for his power to redevelop.

Clark eventually returned to the Daily Planet and become the Editor and Chief of the Daily Planet in 2015 and currently maintains that role to this day.

### The Return Of Superman

During Superman's absence, he intentionally failed to realize his importance as a constant inspiration/role model to other heroes. Other heroes, equally disturbed at the public's overwhelmingly positive reaction to Hyperion actions and eventual new heroes, withdraw from the world at large or travelled to off planet leaving a power vacuum that is soon filled by the new generation of "heroes" Hyperion represents.

Without the moral restriction on superpower actions provided by Superman and his generation even the aggressive though still non-lethal Batman, in Kal-El's point of view there is little or no distinction between 'heroes' and 'villains' in the new superpowered combatants. Metahumans, Mutant's and Human's battle openly in the streets without true cause, concern for collateral damage, or innocent passersby. Average humans, demoralized by the loss of their true heroes, the disregard for them the new generation displays, and their inability to do anything about the state of affairs, had fallen into a societal depression. Efforts that celebrate human achievement, like professional sports, the Olympics and Nobel Prizes, had been nearly abandoned.

### Unretired (2015-)

Kal now going by Clark Kent Jr the son of his original identity to help Identify himself differently and remove any suspension of his lack of proper aging due to his alien genetics Clark is convinced by Perry White Jr to join the Daily Planet as a reporter which is transitioning to the Modern era and going nearly completely digital.

The dark state of the world comes to a head when a Fight between the "New Gods" and a small group of heroes destroyed an entire military base with excessive and unnecessary force, which indirectly resulted in the irradiation of almost the entire state of Idaho and parts of the surrounding states, taking out a large portion of America's food production.

Clark is convinced by Bruce Wayne to return to as Superman. The yellow aspects of his costume replaced by black as a badge of mourning for those lost in the in his life whom he cared about; it reminds him that even in Darkness Hope shines through.

## Powers

* **Kryptonian Physiology**: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, the average Kryptonian possesses the potential for the following power set:
	+ **Solar Energy Absorption**: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of their superpowers 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**: Kryptonians can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. Typically, the power is seen as two beams of red light emanating from the eyes. These beams can be made invisible, allowing the power to be undetectable. The maximum temperature of their heat vision is said to be around that of a nuclear detonation. They can also consciously determine the area affected, down to the microscopic level.
	+ **Super-Hearing**: Kryptonian hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill, practice, and concentration, they can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency. As such, they can identify a person by their heartbeat, or pick out a single voice in an entire city.
	+ **Enhanced Vision** Kryptonian 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**: Kryptonians 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. Kryptonians 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**: Kryptonians can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.

**Flight**: Kryptonians are able to manipulate graviton particles, in an unknown and apparently unconscious manner, to defy the forces of gravity. Under one Earth gravity, they are capable of speeds of multi-Mach speeds in Earth's atmosphere. Their control of their flight is very precise, and they can perform aerobatic feats such as hovering, flying backwards and even lifting great weights while flying.

**Invulnerability**: The bodies of Kryptonians are nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, their immune systems protect them from toxins and diseases. The most common explanations for this rely on the presences of a super-dense molecular structure, a supercharged bio-electric aura which acts as an invisible force field, or a combination of the two. With the aura, it is presumed to extend a few millimeters from the skin as well as within the body. A byproduct of the aura is that items close to the skin share their invulnerability. Using clothing as an example, loose fitting fabric would tend to shred or burn in adverse conditions, but skintight outfits would not.

**Superhuman Stamina**: Kryptonians have the ability to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. In theory they have unlimited stamina as their enhanced nourishment is produced from the yellow solar energy their cells process, which also provides the majority of the power for their superhuman abilities. However, their base physical structures do need to process food stuffs and they have a psychological need to eat and drink just as Earth humans do. They also require sleep on occasion so that they can dream. They can also hold their breath for an indefinite period of time.

**Superhuman Strength**: A Kryptonian develops enhanced physical strength after absorbing a sufficient amount of yellow solar radiation. This radiation interacts with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of their musculature to trigger superhuman levels. While the exact magnitude of their strength is unknown, it is generally accepted that it is sufficient to lift 100,000 tons or more. The specific range is unknown as a their strength, like their other powers, may fluctuate over time. Their strength is also more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables them 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. At full power, their normal strength levels are well into the multi-megaton range.

**Superhuman Speed**: Kryptonians are able to move at incredible speeds by sheer force of will. They can match most other speedsters in super-fast movements, reactions, and processes. They can use this power to disarm opponents without heightened reflexes, catch bullets or shrapnel or cross vast distances in seconds.

**Superhuman Agility**

**Superhuman Reflexes**

**Super-Breath**: Kryptonians are able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from their lungs. They can chill the air as it leaves their lungs to freeze targets in a variation sometimes called "freeze" or "arctic breath". They can also reverse the process and pull large volumes of air or vapor into their lungs.

**Vulnerability to Kryptonite**

**Vulnerability to Magic**