Superman


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Superman is an alien from the planet Krypton. His Kryptonian birth name is Kal-El. His adopted name is Clark Kent. He was considered the premiere hero on Earth and a member of the SuperFriends.

As a Baby
On Krypton Kal-El was born to Jor-El and Lara on the planet Krypton. Eventually, Jor-El, who happened to be one of Krypton's leading scientists, discovered that Krypton was doomed, and that it would soon explode. When he assembled a council meeting, to tell them that an evacuation plan must be made right away, the council members laughed at him, telling him he was crazy.

Jor-El went ahead with a plan anyway, but only had time to build a small ship big enough to transport only two people. He and Laura placed their infant son, Kal-El into the ship, and at the last minute it was decided that Kal would go alone. So they sent him rocketing toward the Earth with hopes that he would survivand be made strong by the yellow sun.

On Earth
 * See also: Baby Kal-El Lands on Earth

The rocket-ship eventually landed on Earth, in the town of Smallville, where it was found by Jonathan and Martha Kent.

They decided to take the child to an orphanage. But things go crazy. A few couples come in but decide they do not want to adopt him, because his superpowers cause too much disaster! At one point he flies off to the zoo and brings back a full grown lion. This freaks one couple out, and they decide there's no way they're going to adopt such a trouble making child.

They Kents eventually adopt the boy, and named him Clark Kent, who now, under the Earth's yellow sun, possessed powers far beyond those of mortal men.

As a Boy
Martha Kent has a difficult time keeping Clark from using his super powers at the grocery store.

When Pa and Ma Kent leave Clark with a babysitter. The young lady soon finds out that she has her hands full when dealing with a super powered child who wants to stay up late to watch television.

Clark goes to school for the first time and meets his future childhood sweetheart, Lana Lang. Clark gets in trouble when another student blames him for letting the class guinea pig out of the cage. Clark goes on a camping trip with his boy scout troops. They all gather around the campfire and tell ghost stories, and then hear noises in the forest, but when they go to investigate, they discover that it's only forest animals.

The Kents take young Clark to the circus, and he inadvertently becomes part of it!

Clark is unhappy with his life at the Kent Farm, so he decides to run away from home, but when he sees how much more problems he faces on his own, he decides to go back.

It's Clark's birthday, and many kids come to celebrate, including Lana Lang. Clark secretly uses his super powers to have an X-ray vision peak at his birthday presents.

As Superboy


Clark takes his Driver's test, passes and receives his license.

Clark goes on his first date with Lana Lang to a concert.

Clark decides to play football but Pa asks him to reconsider joining the team, because with his super powers it's not really fair.

Clark Kent graduates from High School.

While still in his late teens, he adopted the identity of Superboy, who used his powers and abilities to protect the citizens of Smallville from evil, and the rest of the world.

Clark befriends a boy named Lex Luthor. One afternoon Luthor is working on cure for Superboy against the deadly influence of Kryptonite in his home laboratory, he accidentally causes a minor explosion. Superboy arrives and sees smoke coming out of the window, he mistakes it for a fire and using his superbreath, he blows at the smoke, but in doing so, he accidentally blows the fumes directly on Lex causing him to become bald. This leaves Luthor furious at Superboy, believing he was jealous of his intelligence, so he vows to have his revenge on Superboy.

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Years later, he leaves Smallville and moves to Metropolis where he becomes a reporter for the Daily Planet.

His partner at the Planet is Lois Lane.

At this point, Clark's Superboy days are a thing of the past, and his superhero name is changed to Superman!

Eventually, Superman becomes a member (most likely founding member) of the Justice League of America.

At some point during the early '70s, Clark Kent becomes an anchorman at GBS. But he apparently still works for the Daily Planet as well, or at least he returns to work for them in the late '70s.

Personality

Superman's personality is that of a "Boy scout". Which comes as no surprise considering he was a boy scout as a kid.

As Superman, he appears brave and often admirable, while as Clark Kent, appears somewhat cowardly, and even clumsy.

He apparently has a strong fondness of disco music. One of his favorites was disco versions of Mozart songs, called "Disco Mozart," which he purchased on cassette tape.

Hidden Lair
Superman’s secret hideout, the Fortress of Solitude, is hidden in the arctic.

Powers
Thanks to Earth's yellow Sun and weak gravity Superman posses the following powers:
 * Vast Super Strength
 * Invulnerability
 * Flight
 * Super Speed
 * Heightened senses
 * Various vision based powers
 * X-ray vision
 * Heat-vision
 * Telescopic vision
 * Microscopic vision
 * Infrared vision
 * Ice Breath
 * Superbreath

Weaknesses

 * Although Superman is invulnerable to nearly everything, under the yellow Sun, Kryptonite is the one substance that can destroy him.
 * Green Kryptonite renders Superman physically weak and painfully ill.
 * Red Kryptonite has effects on Superman that are unpredictable.
 * Blue Kryptonite has a strange healing effect
 * Gold Kryptonite is capable of removing a Kryptonian's super powers permanently.
 * Many forms of magic can also hurt Superman, since those forms of magic are as powerful or more powerful than he is.
 * Also, if Superman was to travel to an alien world with a red Sun, he would lose his powers, and therefore be as vulnerable as any other human. Red solar radiation can be synthesized as well.

Equipment
None

Transportation

 * SuperMobile