User:Leader Vladimir/Kal-El (Prime Earth)

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 * Image                  = Superman 0168.jpg
 * RealName               = Kal-El
 * CurrentAlias           = Superman
 * Aliases                = Clark Kent
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Justice League
 * Relatives              = Jor-El (father, deceased), Lara Lor-Van (mother, deceased), Jonathan Kent (adoptive father, deceased), Martha Kent (adoptive mother, deceased)
 * Universe               = Prime Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Metropolis


 * Gender                 = Male
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 * Eyes                   = Blue
 * Hair                   = Black
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 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Journalist


 * PlaceOfBirth           = Krypton
 * Creators               = Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster
 * First                  = Action Comics Vol 1 1


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Superman is the most powerful being on planet Earth, an alien immigrant 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 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.
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Early life
Kal-El was born on the planet Krypton to Jor-El and Lara. Krypton was on the brink of disaster, and Jor-El and Lara placed their son on an experimental rocket to save his life. Jor-El wraps Kal-El on his father’s old cape and programs the ship to travel to a planet with a yellow sun so that Kal-El develops superpowers.

The spaceship lands on Earth. Upon landing, the alien child was discovered by Jonathan and Martha Kent in Smallville, Kansas. The kindly couple decided they would adopt and raise him, naming him Clark Kent. Jonathan and Martha instillied Clark with a strong moral code of honesty and justice, telling him to do the right thing and never give up. Clark became friends with Pete Ross and Lana Lang. As he grew up, Clark developed superhuman powers. When he was 13 years old, he managed to subdue a rogue bull. Alongside Clark’s parents, Lana and Pete would promise not tell anyone about Clark’s abilities.

Rise of Superman
When he was adult, Jonathan and Martha died in a car accident and Clark sold the Kent farm. Deciding to use his powers for the benefit of mankind, Clark moved to Metropolis and got a job as reporter in the Daily Star. He made friends with Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen and at first stayed at his apartment, but in time, he got enough money to afford his own apartment. He moved into a building and became friends with landlady Mrs. Nyxly. Using his powers for good, Clark became a vigilante working to expose the crimes of corrupt business man Glen Glenmorgan.

On his first major appearance, he was shot with an RPG, causing him to lose his cape. The cape was found by a boy who wanted to escape from his abusive father. The boy was about to run over by a train, but Clark saved him and promised the bullying father would never bother him again. This series of events was seen by Jimmy and his reporter friend Lois Lane, who would run a story, naming the vigilante “Superman”.

As months passed, Superman had become a known presence in Metropolis, recognized as a champion for the oppressed against the corrupt elite. While he was admired by Metropolis’s oppressed masses, he was considered an enemy by the government. General Sam Lane, Lois’ father, had been assigned to capture Superman.

On his most recent activity, Superman forces Glenmorgan to admit his crimes. While he escapes from the police, Superman saves the inhabitants of Galileo Square from a demolition crew scheduled to take the building down. Later, Clark discovers that Lois and Jimmy were travelling on a train sabotaged by Glenmorgan. Although Superman saves the train, he collapses from the effort and the U.S. army captures him.

Superman is taken to a military facility, where he is tortured by Lex Luthor, the army’s scientific consultant. Breaking his restraints, Superman escapes through the complex and finds the rocket that brought him to Earth. He decides to return later for the ship and escapes from the facility, having a small encounter with Lois Lane.

Clark returns to his apartment, where the police question him about his work for the Daily Star and his sympathies for Superman. The police, having found incriminating on Clark's apartment, leaves and Mrs. Nyxly reveals to Clark that she knows that he is Superman. Later, Glenmorgan, who somehow managed to avoid arrest, appears in a TV broadcast to denounce Superman as a danger to society, angering Clark. Later, as Clark continues his reporter work, the city is attack by an army of robots called "Terminauts."

Superman attempts to stop the Terminauts but is attacked by John Corben, a U.S. soldier outfitted with a suit of armor designed to take Superman down. Fortunately, John Henry Irons, a military scientist and a Superman supporter with an armor of his own, defends Superman from Corben. However, a large portion of the city is encased in a bubble and taken to a large spaceship. General Lane asks for Superman's help to save his daughter and Superman says he has a plan.

Performing the largest leap he has done, Superman travels to Earth's orbit and enters the alien ship. There, Superman finds the trapped portion of Metropolis, along with a bottled Kryptonian city named Kandor. He also encounters the entity behind the Terminauts and the disappearance of both cities: Brainiac. As they face each other, Brainiac forces to Superman to choose which city will he save: Metropolis or Kandor. Superman decides to protect both cities and puts on a Kryptonian armor Brainiac had stored on his ship, which would become his legendary costume.

Using the ship that brought him to Earth, Superman encases Brainiac in a crystal and returns Metropolis to Earth. The people of Metropolis recognize Superman as a real hero and Clark decides to take a job in the Daily Planet, alongside Lois and Jimmy. As Superman is granted the key to the city from the mayor, he reveals his alien origins and his intentions to be a champion of the helpless. He also establishes a base of operations on Brainiac's spaceship.

Justice League
Superman would also become a founding member of the Justice League. After a small misunderstanding that led to a confrontation with Batman, Hal Jordan and Flash, Superman decided to join them in investigating the appearance of Parademons across the world. The assembled heroes also met Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Aquaman. The group comes face to face with Darkseid, the leader of the Parademons who wanted to take over Earth. During the fight, Superman is captured by Darkseid's forces and taken to his world, Apokolips. Batman enters Apokolips, rescues Superman and brings him back to Earth, where Superman personally confronts Darkseid and throws him back to Apokolips, saving the world. The seven heroes are admired across the world and decide to join forces to become the Justice League.

Attack of Lord Vyndktvx
After the Justice League's debut, Superman would have new enemies in his early years as a hero.

Shortly after the battle with Brainiac, Superman met the Legion of Super-Heroes and they travelled to Superman's past in order to save his younger self from the Anti-Superman Army. This group of villains attempted to steal a piece of Kryptonite from Superman's rocket in order to kill Superman, but the heroes were able to stop them.

Superman would find himself pitted against Maxim Zarov, a hunter who had suspicions that Superman and Clark were the same person. Also, Superman was forced to retire his Clark Kent identity and get a new identity as "Johnny Clark", a Metropolis firefighter.

During his time as Johnny Clark, Superman came across Captain Comet, a telepath who wanted to take Susie Thompkins, Lois' niece, with him, as she had telepathic powers as well. With Susie's help, Superman is able to hold Captain Comet off. Also, with the help of Batman, Superman brings his Clark identity back from the dead. Clark has a conversation with Mrs. Nyxly, who reveals herself to ba fifth-dimension person called Nyxlygsptlnz. She tells him that a man from the fifth dimension, Vyndktvx is planning to ruin his life and Superman must stop him. Superman is also able to release Krypton, the House of El's dog, from the Phantom Zone.

Later, Superman saves a Mars colonization program from an entity called the Multitude, but Vyndktvx kills the colonists. Vyndktvx organizes the Anti-Superman Army to destroy Superman once and for all. As Superman confronts the Anti-Superman Army, Lois and Jimmy join forces with the legion of Super-Heroes to get help from Mxyzptlk, Nyxlygsptlnz's husband. With the help from his allies, Superman banishes Vyndktvx back to the fifth dimension. Nyxlygsptlnz thanks Superman for saving their worlds and Superman asks her to bring the Mars colonists back to life. As Mxyzptlk and Nyxlygsptlnz return to their dimension, Superman is free to live his life without interference.

New Adventures
Superman was then afflicted by some sort of infection, causing him to collapse. Under the care of Dr. Shay Veritas, Superman begins to heal, but the infection separates itself from his body and becomes a creature of its own. With Dr. Veritas' help, Superman destroys the creature, but its virus spreads over to Metropolis, infecting several people. Superman manages to cure the people, but he is then attacked by the virus' creator, Lex Luthor. After a lengthy fight, Superman defeats Luthor, who is arrested.

Superman also meets Kara Zor-El, another surviving Kryptonian. Their first meeting becomes a fight and Superman explains her Krypton's fate. Although Superman offers to help her, Kara decides to go her way.

The Daily Planet is bought out by Morgan Edge under Galaxy Communications, renaming his news media the Planet Global Network and demolishing the old Planet building. This caused Clark to develop differences with Lois, who had become head of Edge's media divison. As Superman saves a fire monster from destroying Metropolis, Clark and Lois make peace. He also meets Jonathan Carroll, Lois' new boyfriend.

Later, Superman is forced to fight a creature he cannot detect with his super-senses. With the help of the people of Metropolis, Superman defeats the new enemy. Clark begins working with Heather Kelley, who then becomes an ice entity. Although Superman stops the ramapage, Heather disappears.

The three creatures that attacked Metropolis earlier confront Superman at his old apartment and throw him into outer space, assuming his shape and causing trouble across Metropolis. With Supergirl's help, Superman stops the creatures' attack. Later, Clark visits Heather at the hospital.

Encounter with Helspont
While on patrol, Superman battles a mysterious robotic drone. During the fight, the drone teleports Superman to the Himalayas, where Superman meets the drone's creator Helspont, lord of the Daemonites. Having watched Earth’s metahumans for a long time, Helspont wants Superman to help him take over Earth, but Superman refuses, causing Helspont to attack him. Although Helspont outclasses him in power, Superman refuses to surrender and manages to pin Helspont to a mountain where his base is located. However, Helspont disappears without a trace.

Days later, Superman meets Helspont again in Earth’s orbit. Helspont effortlessly hurls Superman into the moon, causing him to collapse. He regains consciousness the ship of Grifter, but they don't have long to talk before the ship's hull is breached by a creature named Biomass. Superman knocks the creature out into space, sealing the breach behind them with his heat vision. Superman punches Biomass through the hull of Helspont's ship, and ends up on the bridge, facing down the captain once again. Helspont mocks Superman's sympathy for the millions who will be killed.

Helspont reveals his origins and rise to power. His plan is to harvest humanity’s genetic property to develop metahuman powers and use it to restore his race’s genetic purity. Before disappearing, Helspont makes tantalizing mention of Jor-El. Superman's interest is piqued, but he receives no answers. Alone again, in space, Superman realizes that he has no idea what he should do in the face of Helspont's threat.

H'El on Earth, Psi-War and Krypton Returns
After his fight with Helspont, Superman asks Dr. Shay Veritas for help in making a training regime to increase his power in case Helspont returns. After a few weeks of exercises in the Block, Dr. Veritas' scientific complex, Superman returns to Metropolis, knowing that he has ignored his life as Clark Kent. At the Daily Planet, Clark finds out that Lois is planning to move out with her boyfriend. He also grows dissatisfied with his work, knowing that Morgan Edge is manipulating the Daily Planet's articles, so he quits the Daily Planet. Later, Superman discovers a mysterious alien dragon attacking Metropolis. After a lengthy brawl that leads to Ireland, Superman kills the dragon in an explosion. But in that moment, Kara appears to Superman, telling him that the creature he killed was a Kryptonian animal. She says that if a Kryptonian animal is on Earth, then that means Krypton must still be alive.

Later, Lois visits Clark at his apartment, where they talk about Clark's recent departure from the Daily Planet and Lois' moving with Jonathan. In that moment, Clark recieves a visit from Supergirl. To avoid an awkward moment, Clark gets Lois out of the apartment. Later, Superman and Supergirl go to the Metropolis Centennial Park. Supergirl reveals he has found another Kryptonian, H'El, who introduces himself to Superman. H'El expresses his plan to save Krypton and shows Superman the unconscious body of his clone, Superboy. H'El tries to kill Superboy, but Superman stops him, and the two engage in a fight. Superboy and Supergirl attempt to intervene, but H'El brutally knocks them out. After briefly paralyzing Superman with a vision of his failure to protect the Suicide Slums three years ago, H'El leaves Metropolis, but not before stating that he will save Krypton with Kara's help, no matter what price Earth has to pay.

Superman brings the wounded Superboy to the Fortress of Solitude in order to help him recover from his injuries. With the help of Cyborg and Dr. Veritas, Superman devises a way to cure Superboy. Detaching his Kryptonian armor, Superman places it on Superboy. Both realize that the armor is the only thing keeping Superboy alive, as H’el caused serious damage to Superboy’s cellular structure. Suddenly, H'El appears and kicks Superman and Superboy out of the Fortress.

After being expelled from the Fortress, Superman tells Superboy that they will need help in recovering it. They travel to a special prison designed to hold only one person: Lex Luthor. There, Superman questions Luthor about H'El's plans. Superman believes that H'El wants to go back in time to prevent Krypton's destruction, and Luthor says that it can be done, but to do so, H'El will create an explosion that will destroy the entire solar system. To stop H'El, Superman calls the Justice League and prepares to attack the Fortress.

In the Block, Superman and his allies formulate a plan to stop H'El. Given that H'El has powers beyond Superman's, the Man of Steel that a shard of Kryptonite hidden in the Fortress might give the Justice League an advantage. When the team assaults the Fortress, however, H'El has already taken the shard to power the machine he is building to facilitate his journey through time. H'El also activates an alien device that traps Superman into perpetual pocket dimensions. Superboy goes into one of the device's portals in order to save him.

After a journey through several bizarre dimensions, Superman and Superboy return to the Fortress and reunite withe Justice League continue the attack. Eventually, Superman and Superboy reach H'El and Supergirl (who had decided to help H'El complete his plan), but H'El moves the Fortress someplace else, leaving the heroes in the outside. Suddenly, H'El activates his machine, unleashing a large golden beam into the sky.

H'El's star-chamber begins draining the Sun's energy. Superman, Superboy and Wonder Woman rally to destroy the machine, but H'El attacks them, ripping the Kryptonian armor off Superboy and reattaching it to Superman, saying that if Superman is going to die, he should with his Kryptonian honor intact. Superman clashes with H'El, telling Wonder Woman to help Superboy destroy the star chamber.

Superman takes a hit from H'El and is launched into outer space. There, he meets the mysterious Oracle, who fills Superman's mind with memories of Krypton. When Superman attempts to talk to the Oracle, the Oracle simply disappears. Superman returns to Earth to stop H'El. Although Superboy destroys the star chamber, H'El already has enough solar energy to power his ship and travel to the past. However, Supergirl (who had discovered the true extent of H'El's plan) stabs H'El with a Kryptonite shard. Poisoned by the shard, H'El disappears into a time portal. With the crisis over, Superman takes Supergirl to the Fortress so he can cure her Kryptonite poisoning.

After the battle with H'El, Superman was called to a U.S. Senate hearing to discuss the existence of the Fortress of Solitude. The Senate representatives want to investigate the Fortress in order to secure or remove anything that might be considered a threat to the world. However, Superman refuses, appealing to his right to privacy and the fact that the Fortress contains technology beyond humanity's control. Clark also becomes a blogger to make ends meet.

Later, Superman is attacked by the New God Orion, who believes him to be a threat to the universe. Fortunately, Wonder Woman stops the confrontation and discovers the reason behind Orion's attack. Hector Hammond, after falling into a coma, used his telepathy to hide his consciousness within Superman's memories. Wonder Woman and Orion banish Hammond back to his own body and Orion departs, apologizing for his earlier attack. He also uses his Mother Box to grant Superman protection from telepathic assaults.

Continuing his investigative work, Clark goes to Gotham City, where a mysterious Chinese woman gives him a folder containing info about an urban myth called "the Twenty". Returning to Metropolis, Superman finds Lois, Jimmy and Perry to act irrationally and display aspects of his own personality, which causes Superman to believe someone is trying to attack him mentally. During this series of events, Superman discovers Lois has fallen into a coma and brings her to the hospital.

Later, Clark tells Cat about his findings on the Twenty, believing that a story that big could help bring ClarkCatropolis on the map. An earthquake hits Metropolis and Superman discovers the destruction is being caused by metallic tentacles derived from Brainiac's technology. Before Superman can do anything, however, he is incapacitated by a psychic attack caused by the H.I.V.E. Queen, one of the Twenty.

Recovering from the psychic attack, Superman attempts to stop the Queen, but she has the upper hand. In that moment, Hammond enters the fray and engages the Queen in a mental struggle, using the people of Metropolis as soldiers. As Metropolis is engulfed in chaos, Superman goes to the H.I.V.E. headquarters to directly stop the disaster. Upon arriving, he finds the building in ruins. Superman finds the heavily injured Hammond, who says that the Queen is dead. In that moment, a new villain arrives: the Psycho Pirate, a telepath who knows about Superman’s secret identity.

The Psycho Pirate leads Superman to the Swarm, a prison for psionic people, explaining that he is also one of the Twenty. The Queen created the Swarm in order to prepare the world for Brainiac's return. With the Queen dead, the Psycho Pirate wants to release the people trapped in the Swarm, so he traps Superman in a illusionary world in order to absorb his energy.

Lois, having developed psychic powers of her own, frees Superman from the illusions. Knowing they are outmatched against the Psycho Pirate, Superman and Lois join forces with Hammond and the H.I.V.E. Queen, who barely survived the Pirate's attack. They work together and defeat the Pirate, with Superman destroying his Medusa Mask with his heat vision. During the battle, however, Lois learns of Superman's secret identity and falls back into a coma. Afterwards, Superman brings Lois' comatose body back to the hospital, but then, a mysterious force pulls him into outer space.

As he travels in outer space, Superman meets up with Superboy and Supergirl. The three meet the Oracle, who explains them that H'El, who survived their earlier encounter, has managed to bring Krypton back to life. However, H'El also altered the timeline and they must stop him from destroying the universe. With the help of Faora, the Oracle's servant, the three heroes travel to different points of Krypton's history to stop H'El's plans. Superman travels to Kryptonopolis a few months before Krypton's destruction, where he meets his mother Lara.

At first, Lara confuses Superman for an intruder and attacks him but stops after seeing the symbol of El in his armor. She also detects yellow sun radiation in his body and says he should wait for Jor-El. Superman watches Lara tell Jor-El that she is pregnant, but then his armor changes back to its usual colors. In that moment, Superman confronts a mysterious person who is aware about his travel in time.

This stranger is in fact Jor-El, who came from one of the alternate futures created by H'El. Realizing he was the one who created H'El, Jor-El has come to the past to stop H'El from conquering Krypton. Superman and Jor-El travel to Krypton's core and fight H'El. At first, Jor-El wants to kill H'El but Superman instead uses H'El's own chronal powers against him and freezes him with his super-breath, locking H'El in a state of eternal limbo. As Superman and Supergirl are reunited in the present, the Oracle informs them that Superboy sacrificed his life to stop H'El. Mourning the loss of their friend, Superman and Supergirl return to Earth.

Trinity War
After delivering Despero to Belle Reve Prison, Superman and Wonder Woman talk about their relationship. Suddenly, a mysterious woman named Pandora appears and asks for Superman's help in opening her box, saying that his purity of heart can eradicate the evils she unknowingly set free. However, when Superman touches the box, the evil forces within it begin to cause him pain. Pandora is shocked that Superman was affected, saying that he is more human than she realized. She shoots him with her guns, but Wonder Woman protects him. As soon as Superman lets go of the box, Pandora disappears, taking the box with her.

As Superman recovers, Batman informs that a new superhuman called Shazam has entered Kahndaq. Superman flies to Kahndaq as Shazam is attacked by the military. As soon Superman attempts to reason with the new superhero, Shazam attacks him. In that moment, the Justice League and the Justice League of America arrive at Kahndaq to defuse the situation. Suddenly, Dr. Light loses control of his powers and begins absorbing Superman's solar energy, unleashing an energy beam at Wonder Woman. In a fit of anger, Superman vaporizes Dr. Light with his heat vision, killing him. Superman becomes horrified at his actions as a fight breaks out between the two Leagues.

Superman stops the League fight, asking to be locked up for murder. Later, he is placed on a cell and asks Batman about the man he killed. Batman proceeds to tell him about Doctor Light and his family, and that Cyborg and Martian Manhunter are doing an autopsy to prove his death was not Superman's fault. Wonder Woman enters the cell, and tells Batman about what happened with Pandora and her box. Later, Superman, who is getting visibly sick, is visited by a mysterious stranger who asks him if he wants to find out who really killed Dr. Light.

As the Question releases Superman, he also gives him a newspaper clipping that states that Doctor Psycho, a supervillain who can control minds, was present on Kahndaq when Doctor Light was killed. Superman leaves his cell and encounters Cyborg, showing him the newspaper piece. Cyborg is convinced by this, but Director Amanda Waller orders the supeheroes under her command to take Superman into custody. However, the heroes are also convinced by Superman's innocence that they stage an escape. Superman, Martian Manhunter, Cyborg, Element Woman, Green Arrow, the Question, the Atom and Firestorm decide to track Doctor Psycho down and get answers.

Superman, the Question and the others, arrive in Pittsburgh to confront Doctor Psycho. Martian Manhunter looks into his mind and learns that he was sent to Kahndaq by the Secret Society, but did not do anything to control Superman's mind. Overcome with guilt, the Atom tells Cyborg, Superman, Element Woman and Firestorm the true purpose of the creation of the Justice League of America, and that she was spying on the Justice League, so that is how the JLA end up in Kahndaq. Superman, questioning Waller's involvement, requests that the group head back to A.R.G.U.S. Upon returning, the A.R.G.U.S. facilities explode.

Element Woman protects the group from the explosion using the strongest materials she could find. Amidst the rubble, the group accuses Director Waller, who also survived the explosion, of framing Superman into killing Dr. Light. She denies the accusations but Firestorm admits Waller made him create Kryptonite as a failsafe. Superman, still growing weaker from touching the box, requests the group to find survivors amongst the destroyed building and the heroes agree.

Superman and his group arrives at the Temple of Hephaestus, where the box is located. Suddenly, the box infects the assembled heroes with evil thoughts, causing them to fight among each other. Batman acquires the box in the fight, but is attacked by Superman, who feels if he dies, Wonder Woman would become attracted to him. Wonder Woman, hoping to stop Superman from attacking Batman, hits him, causing Batman be knocked back and lose the box. With the box dormant, Wonder Woman sees that Superman is still sick, and wonders why the box is physically affecting him and not others. Firestorm approaches and tells everyone that Superman is emitting Kryptonite. Element Woman goes inside Superman's blood stream and finds a small sliver in his brain. Atom then tells everyone that she put it there and was the mole. In Kahndaq, she traveled into his brain and planted the Kryptonite, which hit a nerve and triggered his heat vision attack on Dr. Light. In that moment, the Secret Society leader grabs the box and opens a portal to his universe, allowing the Crime Syndicate to enter the Justice League's world.

Forever Evil
The Crime Syndicate imprisons the Justice Leagues inside the Firestorm Matrix, which psychologically places them in situations that depict their greatest failures. Superman is placed in a situation in which he attempts to stop Doctor Light's accidental murder over and over again. Martian Manhunter attempts to break him out but Superman ignores him.


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 * Kryptonian Physiology: Superman's cellular structure is much more dense, resilient, and biologically more effective than human tissue. Strangely enough, he does not seem to possess superhuman strength levels despite his enhanced cellular ability without his cellular structure charged with yellow solar energy. Without such charging, his strength seems on par for a human of his height and weight who engages in regular physical activity.
 * Solar Energy Absorption: Technically, this is the main source of Superman's powers. As a Kryptonian, Superman's cells absorb yellow solar energy, and this in turn, fuels all of his powers and abilities. Superman's cells also store solar energy as well, allowing him to retain his powers under roofed structures or even at night, although he eventually needs a yellow sun to recharge his powers. Superman can also absorb solar energies of other class stars such as when he absorbed the solar energies of a blue star that increased his abilities to a higher degree and gave him additional abilities.
 * Superhuman Strength: The exact magnitude of Superman's strength is unknown. This is because Superman's strength, like his many other powers, has fluctuated over time. However, his strength should effortlessly range into the multi-megaton level at the very least. While the exact magnitude of Superman's strength is unknown, it is generally accepted that his strength easily surpasses the capacity to lift 1,000,000 tons, but how much more is not known exactly. This makes Superman the strongest being on the planet and one of the strongest beings in the universe. He has been shown to be able to bench press the weight of the Earth (approximately 6 sextillion tons) for 5 days, while inside the Earth itself (and thus deprived of replenishing his reserves of solar energy).
 * Invulnerability: Superman's body is nigh-invulnerable.. Superman has even been shown withstanding Darkseid's Omega Beams, although he was knocked out.
 * Longevity: Superman can live almost indefinitely.
 * Superhuman Stamina: Superman has the ability to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an undefined period. Theoretically, most incarnations of the character have unlimited stamina as his enhanced nourishment is produced from the solar energy his cells process. He can also hold his breath for an undefined duration.
 * Flight: Under one Earth gravity Superman is capable of flying at faster-than-light speeds. He tends to fly at speeds of Mach 10 in the atmosphere. His control of his flight is perfect and he can perform aerobatic feats such as hovering, flying backwards, and even lifting great weights while flying. Superman can fly at speeds many times faster than light. Superman can also fly in outer space. He has been seen to fly to the moon in minutes, so it can be assumed that he can fly faster than that without atmospheric interference.
 * Superhuman Speed: Superman is capable of enhanced reflex action and the ability to move at incredible speeds by sheer force of will. While not nearly as fast as the Flash, Superman can move at speeds much faster than light and is one of the fastest beings in the universe. Superman can match most other speedsters in their ability to perform super fast movements, reactions, and processes. He can use this power to disarm opponents with or without heightened reflexes, catch bullets or shrapnel or cross vast distances in seconds. Superman can also run at incredible speeds and even keep up with most speedsters.
 * Superhuman Hearing: Superman has 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. He can hear every single heartbeat, as well as the blood pumping through everyone's veins, hear every foot step, every cell phone signal as it lances through the air and more. He can identify a person by their heartbeat, or pick out a single voice in an entire world.
 * 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 without any problem.
 * Self-Sufficiency: Doesn't need to eat and sleep so long as he's under the effects of yellow sun radiation. His body stores the energy necessary to negate eating and sleeping for an indefinite period.
 * Healing Factor: In the extreme event that Superman is harmed, either by an alien matching his own strength or other occurrence, he has been shown to have the ability to heal almost instantaneously from any wound, assuming that the process is not impeded from some outside factor i.e. Kryptonite. This "healing factor" is supplemented by his stores of solar energy.
 * Super Breath: The ability to create hurricane force winds by blowing, and to chill his breath in order to freeze a target (this latter ability has also been called "freeze breath" and "arctic breath"). The ability to chill inhaled air is a function of Superman's great strength and invulnerability. When Superman takes air into his lungs they compress the incoming gas. When this gas expands upon exhalation, in a fashion analogous to the operation of an air conditioners compressor, the sudden increase in volume of the gas causes its temperature to drop proportionally to the size of this expansion. Superman can also breathe in large amounts of air, an ability used when dealing with and disposing things like clouds of poison gas.
 * Heat Vision: The ability to fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it with the conscious act of activating this power. Visually, the power is typically depicted as two beams of red light firing from his eyes. These beams can be made invisible, allowing Superman to work undetected. The area of effect can be consciously determined by Superman, down to the microscopic level.
 * Super Vision: He also possesses a superior sensory arrangement of microscopic, telescopic, infrared and ultraviolet visual capabilities. He is able to see the entire spectrum. STAR Laboratories has not been able to completely define how Superman has been able to utilize his powerful senses, part of the mechanism is physical, part of it is believed to be psionic in nature. Abilities include:
 * Electro-magnetic Spectrum Vision:Superman can see into all of the EM Spectrum. He 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 see the aura that every living thing generates.
 * Telescopic Vision: The ability to focus his vision to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics.
 * Microscopic Vision: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the sub atomic level.
 * X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through anything except lead. Opponents sometimes used lead-lined constructs in an attempt to hide things from Superman. He can see things behind a wall as if the wall were not there, or can "peel back" layer after layer of matter in his mind. Kal-El is able to focus his vision past layers of matter, literally seeing "through" them -- possibly perceiving x-rays, cosmic rays or other forms of energy invisible to normal human vision which pass through Earth's atmosphere (and solid objects) after emission from stars. Since it is passive, this ability would not generate harmful radiation in the same manner as a focused projection of hard X-rays.
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 * : Whenever he fights, Superman relies on an improvised fighting style that consists in overwhelming opponents with his massive strength.
 * Genius-Level Intellect: Superman has shown incredible intelligence and computational abilities; his mind works sharply and with extreme speed relative to earth-humans.
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