Talk:Kal-El (Prime Earth)

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Superman and the Men of Steel
Flashpoint rebooted the universe again, resulting in the DCnU. In this new timeline, as told in Superman and the Men of Steel, Clark once again didn't begin wearing a costume until early adulthood. Crash-landing on Earth after the destruction of Krypton, Jonathan and Martha Kent found him and took him in, swaddled in his grandfather's cape emblazoned with the symbol of the House of El, the military close behind to confiscate his rocket. While close friends in his childhood with Lana Lang and Pete Ross (even sharing the secret of his powers with Lana), he knew nothing of his alien origins beyond what his parents could tell him and the cape, wondering if he was from the future or if perhaps his biological parents had abandoned him; one of his few moments of pure joy in childhood was a brief visit by the Legion of Super-Heroes, telling him that there would beyond all doubts be a future to fight for.

As his abilities gradually increased throughout his childhood, his parents raised him to use his powers to help the common man, but also never to use his powers to 'punch down', regardless of the target. Sadly, the Kents died in a car crash the night of Clark's senior prom, with Jonathan asking Clark on his deathbed to use his powers to be a force for good in the world. Becoming Superman shortly after graduating college before his powers are developed to the point of flight, he wears the cape over jeans and a t-shirt with the El emblem, making his public debut rescuing a child trapped in front of a train. He makes a name for himself as Superman working to protect Metropolis from crime and corruption, while as fledgling reporter Clark Kent seeking to expose the criminal actions of "Mr. Metropolis", Galaxy Communications CEO Glen Glenmorgan. Before working at the Daily Planet he starts out working at their competition for George Taylor at the Daily Star, although he develops a close friendship with Lois Lane's partner Jimmy Olsen.

Despite heavy support from the disenfranchised people of Metropolis, he is initially considered a vigilante and public enemy in the eyes of the law, and is hunted down in the streets by General Sam Lane and the army's genius consultant Lex Luthor. He is in fact captured by Luthor early in his career and stored at a military base, though breaking free and discovering his rocket, gaining a clue as to his true origins. After saving Metropolis from the twin threats of an out-of-control government designed anti-Superman weapon Metal-Zero and the coming of the alien Collector, as well as learning the truth of his Kryptonian origins - in the process retrieving his rocket, the Kryptonian bodysuit that would come to serve as his uniform, and the miniaturized Kryptonian city of Kandor - Superman is accepted by Metropolis and the Earth as a champion and the first "superhero", shortly thereafter finally developing the power of flight, though the government and Luthor still consider him a potential threat.

Justice League
This origin story is later changed following Flashpoint in the DCnU, with Superman shown meeting Batman and Green Lantern. Superman initially believes them responsible for the existence of a Father Box, and the Flash assists them in fighting, until a squadron of Parademons appears. They later join with Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Aquaman. The group comes face to face with Darkseid, the leader of the Parademons who intends to conquer the Earth. During the fight, Superman is captured by Darkseid's forces and taken to his world, Apokolips. Batman manages to reach Apokolips through a boom tube, 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.

DCnU
In this new timeline, details of Superman's origins have changed and he is shown to have never married or developed a relationship with Lois Lane. Superman begins a relationship with Wonder Woman.

New Adventures
After the Justice League's debut, Superman would have new enemies in his early years as a hero. Unbeknownst to himself at the time, one of his earliest threats was in the form of the time travelling Anti-Superman Army. This group of villains attempted to steal a piece of Kryptonite from Superman's rocket in order to kill Superman, but his future self reunited with the Legion of Superheroes, travelling back in time 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 briefly retire his Clark Kent identity after seeming to be killed in an explosion, deciding he can do more good protecting people full-time and getting 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, who warns of Earth's imminent destruction- a sentiment echoed by a reprogrammed Collector A.I. in his early Fortress of Solitude, who warns of the coming of "The Multitude", a cosmic force of annihilation that only Jor-El was ever known to stop. Shortly afterwards, a meeting with Batman convinces him that he should resurrect his Clark Kent identity, as it helps people in ways Superman cannot. Clark has a conversation with Mrs. Nyxly about the problem, who reveals herself to be a fifth-dimensional being called Nyxlygsptlnz. She tells him that a man from the fifth dimension, Vyndktvx is planning to ruin his life and Superman must stop him, granting a wish to restore his secret identity before being felled by a sniper bullet from Zarov, rebranded Nimrod.

Many of Superman's adventures in the interim between his confrontation with Captain Comet and his final duel with Vyndktvx have been noted. Superman relocated his Fortress to an arctic location built on Kryptonian crystal technology, and in his first duel with an inhabitant of the Phantom Zone, the mad "Phantom King" Xa-Du, manages to release Krypto, the House of El's dog, from the Zone. A trophy seen in his Fortress includes the containment suit of "Superman Blue", indicating this Superman went through a similar series of events. He additionally established further Fortresses, including a Yucatan base. Superman was at one point forced to battle Erik Drekken, a biologist who inadvertently mutated himself to be able to move up and down the evolutionary scale. Superman additionally encountered an unknown but unimaginably powerful alien life form that emerges as the skies of Metropolis turned red, killing Superman and destroying the city, an event known forever after as Doomsday, giving the beast a name. However, Superman somehow returned to life, defeating Doomsday and repairing the city. Superman was also 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. They fought again, with Superman pushed so far in the confrontation psychologically that he nearly kills Luthor, instead leaving him with significant facial scarring from his heat vision. Knowing Luthor could escape any conventional prison complex, he challenges the super-genius to devise a jail even he could not escape, which Luthor acquiesces to in an attempt to prove himself.

Eventually, Superman encounters the Multitude at last in the form of angels attacking a Mars colony, stopping them by attacking them through a hastily-configured energy field extending into the 5th dimension (providing humanity with the Unified Field Equation in the process), but Vyndktvx kills the colonists, revealing the Multitude was a mere extension of his being. Vyndktvx organizes the Anti-Superman Army (Xa-Du, the Kryptonite Men, a blackmailed Suzie Thompkins, Nimrod and Erik Drekken) to destroy Superman once and for all, hunting him through the streets of Metropolis as the sun is turned red, draining him of his powers. 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. Superman is pinned down by the Anti-Superman Army, wrapped in Kryptonite chains and confronted Vyndktvx's secret weapon, the thought-powered corporate controlled Superdoomsday of Earth 45, who has already slaughtered the Supermen of Earths 36 and 42. With the help of nearby Metropolitans, Superman escapes his chains and battles Superdoomsday with the brief aid of Lex Luthor, who refuses to allow anyone else to kill his nemesis. With help from his allies, Superman achieves telepathic connection with every being on the planet, imploring them to say their names backwards: the psychic feedback of so many 5-D words, which Superman knows to have severe effects on beings with enhanced senses,forces Vyndktvx to say his own name backwards to escape the pain, banishing him back to the fifth dimension; Superdoomsday's body activates a self-destruct sequence after being abandoned, but Superman quickly flies it to the moon with his last reserves of energy. Nyxlygsptlnz thanks Superman for saving their worlds and tells Superman she can grant him one final wish, which Superman uses 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.

Superman also meets Kara Zor-El, his biological cousin and another surviving Kryptonian. Their first meeting becomes a fight and Superman explains Krypton's fate to her. 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 division. 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 rampage, 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.

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 and Battle with Ascension
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 receives 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 the 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.

In one particular adventure, Superman prevents a space station from crashing into the Earth. The Man of Steel initially accuses Lex Luthor of being responsible for the station’s fall, but later finds evidence that a cyber-terrorist group called Ascension was the true culprit. After stopping another terrorist plot by Ascension, Superman investigates the activities of General Sam Lane in the Utah Salt Flats. Lane reveals a full armory of anti-Superman weaponry and an alien soldier with the same solar powers as Superman. Superman and the alien soldier have a brief fight, but the alien soldier, introducing himself as Wraith, wants to bring Superman to the military facility he works at. Wraith explains he came to Earth in 1938 and has been working in unauthorized operations for the U.S. Army to bring down terrorists. Despite General Lane’s protests, Superman and Wraith agree to work together to stop Ascension.

Superman and Wraith fly to Tokyo and confront an army of robots created by Ascension. Working together, the two allies defeat the robots, but Superman gets a call from Perry, who says that Lois has gone missing in her research on Ascension. To facilitate his search for Lois, Superman brings Wraith to the Fortress of Solitude and manages to locate Lois in an Ascension submarine. Unfortunately, Ascension begins its endgame by firing every nuclear weapon on Earth at once. While Wraith tries to intercept the missiles, Superman directly attempts to rescue Lois from the Ascension sub. Although the Ascension group commits mass suicide, Superman saves Lois and secures a piece of crystal technology similar to Kryptonian sunstone called Earthstone, which he uses to destroy the missiles before they hit their targets. Unfortunately, Wraith attacks Superman to obtain the Earthstone, but Superman beats him with a special ring Batman designed to counter Wraith’s powers. Later, Superman brings Lois to the Fortress of Solitude to keep her safe. Suddenly, General Lane attacks the Fortress to obtain the Earthstone.

Wearing a special armor, Superman confronts General Lane’s forces but Lane’s army eventually overpowers him. Fortunately, Lois uses the Earthstone to deactivate all of her father’s weapons. Then, Superman goes off to confront Wraith, who has been attacking Batman and Wonder Woman. Superman’s fight with Wraith spans the whole planet, and even the moon, until it culminates in Earth’s mantle. Superman is able to defeat Wraith and reunites with Lois and General Lane in the Arctic, where they find a nearly-frozen Jimmy. Lex informs Superman that Wraith’s species is planning to attack Earth, but he has designed a weapon, a syringe containing concentrated solar energy, that can defeat them; unfortunately, if Superman uses it, he will die. Refusing to let himself be manipulated by Luthor, Superman confronts the alien fleet in space. The aliens attack him with red sunlight weaponry, until Wraith intervenes and injects himself with the syringe. Wraith saves Superman and humanity, but destroys his own species and himself.

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 Clark Catropolis 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.

Days later, Clark has dinner with Wonder Woman, but they are interrupted by Lois Lane, manifested as an astral projection. Ever since she fell back into a coma, Lois's telepathy has grown exponentially. Clark visits her at the hospital and listens to her father, General Sam Lane, talk about something called "the Tower." Later, the Parasite attacks the hospital. As Superman goes to confront him, he realizes the Parasite has come for Lois.

Superman attempts to protect Lois from the Parasite, but after seeing him absorb both his and Lois' powers, he considers the idea of Parasite curing Lois. Superman allows Parasite to absorb Lois' energy. Superman's plan works and the power overwhelms Parasite, causing him to collapse. Lois awakens from her coma, but she does not seem to remember Superman's identity. Although Lois is safe, Superman is conflicted about the fact that he risked her life to protect his secret identity.

Superman finds a doorway in space and, under Dr. Veritas' instruction, leaves it under surveillance. Clark goes to his apartment, only to find Jimmy there. Even though Jimmy had previously earned a large inheritance from his parents, he wanted to feel normal again; so Clark allows him to be his roommate once more. Shortly afterwards, Cat visits Clark and informs him that Morgan Edge offered to buy their website, but Clark persuades Cat to turn down the offer. Later, Superman goes to the police precinct to interrogate a member of a criminal group who had previously ambushed Lois. In that moment, Starfire appears on the precinct, warning Superman of a threat coming to Earth.

The suspect Superman was interrogating earlier transforms into an inhuman creature. Starfire kills the creature and informs Superman the Daemonites have created weapons that transform humans into Daemonites. Superman and Starfire confiscate the weapons and track the Daemonites down to an abandoned fairground, where they find a Daemonite. Before Superman and Starfire confront him, however, the creature commits suicide.

Trinity War and Forever Evil
Superman and Wonder Woman, having committed to a relationship, enter Kahndaq and save hostages during wartime, causing an international controversy. Batman confronts them about it and reveals that he kept a piece of Kryptonite in the Batcave in case Superman went rogue. However, the Kryptonite has been stolen. In that moment, the Justice League falls from orbit and is about to crash on Earth. Superman is able to stop the Watchtower. Inside the Watchtower, the Justice League finds an unconscious Despero wearing a ring of Kryptonite, which was obtained from the Batcave. Later, Superman meets Batman at the Batcave. Batman gives Superman a box that contains the only way to take Batman down in case he ever goes rogue. 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 fail-safe. 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.

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.

Superman and the other heroes are finally released from the Firestorm Matrix when Batman uses Wonder Woman's lasso of truth on Firestorm. However, Superman is still infected with the Kryptonite shard inside his nervous system, but Luthor is able to extract it, saving Superman's life. At the same time, Luthor had assembled a group of villains that had defeated Crime Syndicate. Later, at the Batcave, Superman and the Justice League talk about the enemy that destroyed the Crime Syndicate's world and come to the conclusion that Darkseid will return.

The Underground World
While having lunch, Clark hears a sound coming from Venezuela. As Superman goes to investigate, he finds a gigantic underground creature attacking Lana Lang and her crew. While Superman attempts to stop the creature, he realizes the creature is sentient. Military forces attempt to intervene and when Superman attempts to stop them, a mysterious soldier known only as the Ghost Soldier attacks him. Superman temporarily incapacitates the soldier and takes the creature to the Fortress of Solitude. There, Clark watches the creature transform into a humanoid child.

Clark and the child, named Baka, become friends until Clark receives a call from Lana, who shows him pictures of an underground structure she found while drilling on Venezuela. Superman and Baka return to Venezuela to make sure Lana is safe and find her at the mercy of a group of underground beasts, led by the warrior Ukur. Before Superman and Ukur come to blows, Baka causes a cave-in. As Superman saves Lana, Ukur brings them to an underground land named Imperial Subterranea.

Superman and Lana meet Kokya, Queen of Subterranea, and agree to visit her palace. However, they discover a group of small underground creatures being tortured to power the light orbs that power the city. Superman and Lana save the creatures with help of Baka and the Ghost Soldier, who reveals his identity to Superman. The four escape to the surface but as the underground creatures are not used to sunlight, they are transformed into large monsters. The Ghost Soldier stabs Superman in the back, berating him from bringing monsters to the surface.

While Superman recovers from his wound, the Ghost Soldier kills the creatures he brought to the surface. Angry at the Soldier's cruelty, Superman freezes him. Also, Ukur gets to the surface, demanding Baka comes with him. Seeing that the military is intending to purge the area, Superman reluctantly agrees. As Ukur and Baka return to Subterranea, Superman seals the entrance with a boulder and takes down the military's drones. He then goes to find the Soldier's commanding officers.

Arriving at the Tower's headquarters, Superman confronts the Tower's commander, Harrow, who claims her actions are meant to protect the world and destroy Superman, who she sees as a threat. Harrow summons an army of ghosts to fight Superman, but he is able to turn them against her, forcing Harrow to release them into the afterlife. Although Harrow has been defeated, she disappears and claims Superman and her will meet again.

Doomed and Convergence
All of Smallville's inhabitants inexplicably fall into a coma. Superman, thinking Doomsday is involved to the event, investigates and comes across the Eradiactor, a living embodiment of entropy, who warns that Superman will destroy Earth. Later, as Superman continues his investigation in the Fortress of Solitude, Cyborg tells him an island in the Bahamas has been destroyed.

The one responsible for the destruction of the island is Doomsday, whose blood now contains a toxin capable of instantaneously killing anyone within a hundred yards, meaning Superman is now the only one who can survive a direct confrontation with him. As Superman discusses Doomsday's threat with the Justice League, Luthor informs them Doomsday is absorbing the life-force from its victims to gain enough power to destroy Superman. Luthor suggests Superman should leave Earth and perhaps Doomsday will leave as well. Superman agrees and confronts Doomsday in outer space. The confrontation ends in Smallville, where Superman rips Doomsday in half. To prevent Doomsday's toxin from spreading into the atmosphere, Superman inhales it all from Doomsday's corpse and falls unconscious.

As Superman wakes up, he finds himself covered in Doomsday's blood. The Justice League arrives to assist him but Superman, still weakened after the battle, flies off and goes to sleep in a forest in Alaska alongside Krypto. As soon as he awakens, Superman watches a group of hunters kill a wolf. In a fit of rage, Superman knocks the hunters unconscious. He later attempts to enter the Fortress of Solitude but its security systems no longer recognize his DNA. After seeing grey spikes grow on his knuckles, Clark returns to Metropolis.

As he returns to his apartment, Clark slowly undergoes a mutation that transforms him into a Doomsday-like creature, with grey rock-like skin and red eyes. Diana visits Clark to make sure he is alright, but Clark becomes aggressive towards her, as the virus is beginning to affect his mind. Diana urges Clark to fight the virus' influence. Clark returns to normal but laments the fact his inner beast is still waiting to get out. To avoid causing damage, he decides to turn himself in to the authorities.

Superman is held in the same facility Lex Luthor had been previously imprisoned at, while the Justice League works to find a cure. As his mutation worsens, Superman requests a visit from Lois Lane. Superman has a vision of the Teen Titans in danger. Wanting to help, Superman leaves the facility and finds the Titans, effortlessly defeating their enemy. The Titans are unnerved by Superman's condition, causing Superman to leave.

The military declares Superman an enemy of the state and Superman escapes to Chile to avoid causing more trouble. There, he meets Steel but their conversation is short, as they are both attacked by Metallo and Atomic Skull, who have both been authorized by the army to take Superman down. Steel subdues Atomic Skull while Superman discovers Metallo has been equipped with Kryptonite explosives for a suicide attack. Metallo triggers the bombs, releasing a large Kryptonite cloud that covers the entire world. Although the blast kills Metallo, Superman survives, but the Kryptonite explosion has weakened his state of mind and accelerated his transformation.

While a mutated Superman causes destruction in the jungles of Brazil, Clark has a mental confrontation with his inner monster, dubbed "Superdoom", to retain control of his body. Wonder Woman calls her friend Hessia, an Amazon healer, to help Superman keep his mutation in check. Hessia believes Superman is beyond saving and attempts to kill him. During the fight, Hessia reveals she was the one who revealed Superman's relationship with Wonder Woman to the world because she wanted to see if they were right for each other. Wonder Woman intervenes and takes Superman to Earth's orbit, where the Kryptonite has no effect. Superman momentarily regains control and decides to leave Earth. As soon as he leaves, however, Superman is attacked by Red Lanterns Guy Gardner, Zillius Zox. Among them is Supergirl, who has become a Red Lantern as well. Before things can escalate, Wonder Woman stops the fighting and convinces the Red Lanterns to let Superman leave.

After two days, Superman goes to the asteroid belt and smashes as many asteroids as he can in order to vent his anger. Then, Supergirl comes to Superman and takes him to the other side of the galaxy. There, they find an alien colony established on a moon is about to be destroyed by an alien criminal known as Hakar. Superman reluctantly confronts Hakar, while the moon's inhabitants attempt to escape. Hakar explains he has a condition that causes him to consume all sorts of energy, including that of the moon's core. He gave the colonists enough time to evacuate the moon before he lost control of his hunger and destroyed the moon. Superman, exerting enough control over his new Doomsday powers, manages to stop the moon's debris from destroying the escape fleet. Hakar attempts to make peace with Superman, but Superdoom takes control of Superman again and brutally attacks Hakar.

Superdoom hears a signal emitted by Lana and flies to Jupiter's orbit, finding Lana and Steel under attack by Brainiac's forces. After Superdoom takes down Brainiac's ships, Steel explains him that more ships will attack Earth. Superdoom reaches the invasion fleet and confronts its commander, a cyborg with Superman's appearance.

After ripping Cyborg Superman's right arm off, SuperDoom goes to Earth and begins fighting Brainiac's forces alongside the Justice League. SuperDoom also burns the nanites inside Lois' body, freeing her from Brainiac's control. SuperDoom attempts to destroy a village, Wonder Woman confronts him while Clark attempts to regain control of his body. The Justice League is able to purge all the Kryptonite from Earth's atmosphere and SuperDoom transforms back into Superman. The Justice League also takes down Brainiac's army. However, the Cyborg Superman reveals he constructed a portal in the moon, which allows Brainiac's mothership to arrive at Earth.

As Brainiac begins absorbing every mind on the planet, Superman creates a new plan: use the Phantom Zone projector to seal both Earth and Brainiac's mothership in the Phantom Zone to give the heroes enough time to defeat Brainiac. Discovering the heroes' strategy, Brainiac disables the Phantom Zone projector, destroys the Justice League satellite and attempts to crash his mothership into the planet, but Superman and Martian Manhunter manage to push the mothership away.

Shortly afterwards, Superman and Martian Manhunter rescue Lana and Steel from the remains of the Justice League satellite and takes them to the Fortress of Solitude. There, the heroes realize Brainiac targeted Metropolis and Smallville before any other city because he knew how much those cities meant to Superman. In other words, he wants to get back at Superman for foiling his first invasion five years back. As he goes to face Brainiac's army, Superman releases SuperDoom from his mental prison. Then, SuperDoom assumes control of Superman's body, apparently killing Superman.

As SuperDoom breaks through Brainiac's defenses, Brainiac resurrects Superman and reveals his full plan; according to him, the combined psionic power of all the minds he has captured throughout the universe can change reality to his will. He wants that power to recreate his world, including his wife and son. Lois manages to transfer all of Brainiac's psionic power to Superman, who frees all the people Brainiac has captured and cures himself of the Doomsday virus. Then, Superman traps Brainiac and himself inside a black hole.

The black hole throws Superman into deep space, where he is captured by a new version of Brainiac, who throws Superman into the Blood Moon, an artificial planetoid created by Brainiac. The Man of Steel realizes the Blood Moon is sentient and Brainiac has been using it to house several Earth cities from across the multiverse. Superman deduces his Earth will be Brainiac's next target, so he flies off to stop him. Superman meets up with Earth’s heroes and watches as the Blood Moon makes its way to Earth. A wave of energy is released from the Blood Moon and Superman can only watch as the Oracle dies and the universe starts breaking apart. Shortly afterwards, the Blood Moon vanishes and reality stabilizes but Superman expresses his belief that he and his fellow heroes will see the Blood Moon again.

After sixty days of travel, Superman returns to Earth. However, Supergirl tells him that even after the world's population was restored, thousands died in the invasion, among them Lana's parents. Also, Dr. Veritas is trapped within the Phantom Zone and there is no way to rescue her as the projector imploded. Sad, Clark publishes an article that argues that the world does not need Superman. However, Lois, who has forgotten Superman's identity, writes an article that says that Superman is still a positive influence on humanity, inspiring Clark.

Superman reunites with Wonder Woman after she defeats Giganta in London. As they fly to Diana's apartment, they witness a large plant creature sneaking out. Superman deduces the creature is in a fact a rare Kryptonian plant he gave Wonder Woman shortly before the events of the arc happened. As the plant feeds off oil, they realize it will attempt to feed off the world's petroleum supply. Superman argues with Wonder Woman about how she was unable to feed a plant, but Wonder Woman counters she was busy saving the world. Wonder Woman flies off, while Superman tracks the plant creature down to a series of oil rigs off the coast of Scotland. Not wanting to hurt the creature, Superman asks Swamp Thing for help. As he touches the creature, Swamp Thing learns how to speak Kryptonian and is able to convince the creature to return to its original form. Later, Wonder Woman tells Superman that it was Eris who made them argue the first place. They apologize for their unncessary argument and restart their relationship.

The Men of Tomorrow
Perry invites Clark to the Daily Planet and attempts to convince him to take his old job back. Later, a large spacecraft attacks Metropolis and Superman confronts Klerik, one of the ship's soldiers. With the help of a stranger called Ulysses, Superman defeats the enemy soldier. Superman explains Ulysses that he is on Earth; and Ulysses, who believed himself to be the last son of Earth, is surprised Earth has survived.

After the battle with Klerik, Clark asks Perry for information about the Ulysses Research Lab, until Ulysses goes to the Daily Planet looking for Superman, recognizing him as Clark Kent. To prevent Ulysses from revealing his secret identity, Clark takes him to his apartment and tells him to stay there while he goes to the ruins of the Ulysses lab. As he searches through the debris, Metropolis is attacked by robot soldiers. Superman and Ulysses quickly defeat them and Superman tells Ulysses that he discovered his parents, Peter and Bridget Quinn, were scientists who worked in the Ulysses Lab and survived the accident that almost destroyed the lab. Superman takes Ulysses to his parents' home. Ulysses is reunited with his parents and his real name is revealed to be Neil.

Superman helps Neil to get acquainted to his parents while Ulysses is able to trace the enemy robots' energy signature and trace it back to the place where they were created, a factory hidden in Metropolis' scrap yard. As they investigate the factory, Superman and Ulysses encounter the Machinist, the creator of the robots. He has been making those robots to make a fortune out of weapons that can harm Superman. The Machinist attempts to brainwash the duo with mind control devices but Ulysses kills him. However, the Machinist the duo had faced was just a brainwashed decoy: the real Machinist is somewhere else and Ulysses had just killed an innocent man.

As the police investigate the factory and check the corpse, Superman tells Ulysses the man they thought was the Machinist was already dead. Ulysses is able to track the Machinist down to a freighter. After defeating the Machinist’s robots, Superman and Ulysses confront him but the Machinist detonates the freighter and disappears in the blast, leaving only his mask behind. Later, Clark returns to the Daily Planet and attempts to talk to Perry about Ulysses, when all of a sudden, Ulysses broadcast a message all over the world, expressing his intention to bring six million people to the Great World, the planet where he was raised.

After Ulysses' annoucement, he and Superman discuss the ethics of bringing humans to the Great World. Superman believes Ulysses is taking extreme measures and that humanity can make Earth a better place to live, but Ulysses remains adamant that Earth is doomed and his adopted homeworld is humanity's best chance at survival. Later, Superman confronts Ulysses at the Quinns' home, demanding to know his true intentions. Ulysses angrily knocks Superman unconscious and takes him prisoner.

Ulysses imprisons Superman onboard the fourth dimension ship and explains that works as a seeker for his adopted world. His mission is to sacrifice sentient beings to keep his planet functional, just as he has done with other planets. Superman discovers Ulysses' parents have sneaked onboard the ship and convinces Ulysses to release him so they can save all the people onboard. Unfortunately, their attempt causes the Great World's destruction. Believing Superman deceived him, Ulysses attacks Superman.

Their fight reaches Metropolis and Ulysses attempts to destroy the city, but Superman stops with by unleashing a huge explosion of solar energy. Batman explains to Superman that he has developed a new power, a super flare, that expels all that solar energy in his body in a concentrated blast. The drawback, however, is that his powers are completely drained for the next 24 hours, making him human. Clark makes a new Superman uniform, as the previous one had been destroyed in the super flare. After the battle, Clark is re-hired by the Daily Planet and reveals his secret identity to Jimmy. At first, Jimmy has trouble believing Clark's secret, as Clark has not demonstrated his powers to him, but later acknowledges his friend is telling the truth after seeing him risk his life to convince a mugger to turn himself in to the police and then regaining his powers.

The Justice League runs tests on Superman’s new solar flare power, and seeing how nervous Clark is at this situation, the heroes all agree to have dinner together as normal people. With his powers drained, Clark gets drunk and his friends to take him to his apartment so he can rest. Unfortunately, hours later, a group of criminals hit the streets with laser weapons and Superman is forced to fight them with his powers not yet fully replenished. Although he is injured, Superman is still able to beat them. The next morning, Clark arrives at the Daily Planet with a bandage on his forehead, noticed by Lois.

Before Truth
Despite not having super powers, Clark Kent still attempted to fight crime. After losing his powers, a woman named Ada "Condessa" Amoragujeta appears at the Daily Planet and is arrested by fake FBI ageants for being involved in a scandal with Leland Norvel. Clark rescues Condessa and flees with Jimmy and Lois Lane to the outskirts of Metropolis. Condessa reveals that a criminal organization known as HORDR who uses technology to find out information about dozens of people worldwide to us use as leverage. Later on, Condessa reveals that she work for HORDR. While investigating the group, Clark confirms to Lois that he is Superman. Also the reporters meet the leader HORDR Root who blackmails Superman into joining him. The reporters come upon computers showing Clark Kent changing into Superman and during the battle with the HORDR bots, Superman uses his solar flare power to destroy the complex leaving Superman in a comatose state.

Several of Superman's friends brings him back to Lois Lane's apartment where Clark and Lois talk about Clark's secret and the solar flare ability. Promising to keep Clark's secret, the two test if Clark's abilities have returned while Jimmy vomits out a HORDR bot containing a message for Superman. The HORDR bot projects an image of HORDR Root who tells Superman to go the designated area or else the whole world would know of Clark's secret. Superman and Lois go the area in a secluded canyon where HORDR forces Superman to demonstrate his solar flare ability. Superman complies but Lois tells Superman that she revealed Clark's secret to the world. This makes Clark mad and when General Sam Lane arrives to arrest Superman, he escapes.

With Superman's secret identity revealed to the world, several supervillains including Killer Croc, Livewire, and the Royal Flush Gang go after Superman and even threaten his loved ones. Superman manages to defeat several villains and with help from Jimmy Olsen, sends a video message to all supervillains, warning them to stay away from his friends and family. Clark is fired from the Daily Planet and shaves his head.

Hard Truth
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H'el on Earth
''Here's a quick summary I put together for you to rewrite/cite as you see fit. Next story is Psi-War, which goes up to issue 24.''

Superman began testing his limits in Dr. Veritas' advanced research facility, though testing ceased after his limits exceeded the scope of the equipment. Clark returned to work at the Daily Planet but got fired after making a stand against the owner about the integrity of the paper. Upon leaving the building he discovered an enormous beast attacking Metropolis and flew into action. (Superman Issue 13)

After defeating the beast, Kara arrived and angrily informed him that it was a prehistoric animal indigenous to Krypton called a Tripedal Curosiananiun. With her came H'el, a surviving student of Jor-El with intentions to preserve what remains of Krypton. To prove his sincerity he planned to snap the clone Superboy's neck which instantly provoked a fight. H'el revealed that he also considered Superman tainted by Earth, another abomination needing to be cleansed. (Issues 13 & 14)

He barricaded himself in the Fortress of Solitude with plans to go back in time and prevent the destruction of Krypton, destroying Earth in the process. The Justice League arrived to meet Superman and Superboy and they departed together to stop H'el. The Star Chamber, using stolen technology fom Kandor, was activated and the process began. (Issue 15)

Deep in space, the Oracle awakened to witness the possible destruction of Earth. Superman was instantly summoned into its presence and given a vision of Krypton. Superman then returned to the fight while Superboy and the Justice League delayed H'el's time ship. In the final remaining moments, Supergirl stabbed H'el in the chest with a Kryptonite shard. As he died, he fell into the rip in time. His body was later found by a young Jor-El on Krypton many years prior. (Issues 16 & 17)

Wasoha (talk) 20:21, June 2, 2016 (UTC)


 * While this will probably be useful, I'm more looking to discuss which stories actually matter in the course of the character's development, rather than actually working on summaries. Then we'll know which stories actually NEED to be summarized. - Hatebunny (talk) 20:37, June 2, 2016 (UTC)


 * Well you created the H'el on Earth section on the page so I'm just filling it in. In the absence of any other progress I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing when I have the time. We can sit around and talk about getting work done for a year or we can actually get work done. I can't say what stories are worthwhile before reading them so I can't help there yet. By the time I've done a few of these it will be easier to pick and choose. For now I think the page just needs to make any sort of forward progress. Wasoha (talk) 20:50, June 2, 2016 (UTC)

Superman Prime Earth content in the New Earth version
I would move the page content for the newly created, but what I found? The new page with restricted editing only to administrators. There were editorial conflict here? I did not know that. --Agente Leite (talk) 16:38, June 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * No editorial conflict. It's just the current PE content on NE Supes page is horrible beyond saving. -- Tupka 217 16:40, June 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * I know that the content showed should have been here a long time ago. As I said, I would have moved the content, but you know... Now I saw that there was no editorial conflict, but do not get the protection from future editions. --Agente Leite (talk) 17:05, June 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * It shouldn't be moved. It should be condensed and cleaned up, perhaps, if that is at all possible. See also this discussion. -- Tupka 217 17:21, June 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * Ok. Thank you for the attention. --Agente Leite (talk) 18:46, June 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * Recent changes haven't helped matters as it appears that the Prime Earth Superman (along with his entire history) has been totally retconned out of existence.


 * And I just hope that they will come ask to merge the two attires again. Killing the youngest version and putting the older version in place was a great move, merging the two characters being the youngest version died was a grandiose idiocy by DC Comics. Agente Leite (talk) 16:40, July 26, 2017 (UTC)

Copy Edit
The link to Lois Lane (Prime Earth) in the first paragraph of Superman and the Men of Steel has a typo. DrJohnnyDiablo (talk) 08:02, June 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah, someone should get on that. Who can help?GZilla311 (talk) 00:05, June 8, 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not seeing it. The link works fine. Maybe I'm not awake enough yet. -- Tupka 217 11:37, June 8, 2016 (UTC)
 * Kyle fixed it. DrJohnnyDiablo (talk) 12:24, June 8, 2016 (UTC)

Is this Superman dead, and if so why isn't it written on his page?
I have heard from multiple people reading his title, and I got the impression from reading DC Universe: Reirth #1, that the Prime Earth version of Superman is now deceased and that his place in the mainstream DCU from now on will be taken over by the pre-flashpoint version of the character. If this is the case, then shouldn't his issue of death be listed on the article? Ohdear15 (talk) 07:49, June 9, 2016 (UTC)


 * That's exactly what he meant, but unfortunately only administrators can edit this article is preventing other people can edit it. Note that is not categorized correctly and is not updated. --Agente Leite (talk) 21:31, June 23, 2016 (UTC)

When that page will be unlocked so that others can update?
When this page was created, this can be edited only by administrators. Just take a look at the history. When this page will be made available so that another can update? --Agente Leite (talk) 15:57, July 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * I second the notion. its been a while since this page has been updated and no one seems to be interested in finishing it. Can somebody unlock the page now?--Loki 71 (talk) 17:13, September 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * And I think they do not care about it and just see the date of my last post here and answer me: "Any manager answered my question" The answer is no". I got talking to one of them and got no answer. Comparing this with the Marvel Wiki, this one wins rout in the category clutter. Remember that for almost five years, the page Superman Pre-Flashpoint was edited as if the Prime-Earth Superman as if they were the same person and only now they noticed the mistake because of Convergence and still talking about errors, they also put the name Clark Kent as alias (which is totally wrong), not as real name and I have corrected this error, but reversed as if I had committed vandalism. --Agente Leite (talk) 16:31, September 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * As I've mentioned in numerous places, the page is locked to protect it from attempts to merge the badly written mess on Superman (Clark Kent) with this page's history. The idea is that this page should be readable and informative. Play-by-plays of every story ever, with far too much detail, is not the way to do that. In order to avoid that, I recommended that we, as a community, work on building a timeline of Superman's Prime Earth stories (when they take place in relation to others, important flashbacks, and so on). And a general list of storylines that are important to the character's development. (Simple stories that don't add anything to the character should get less text on the page than one that removes his powers or kills off a character, right?). I have previously suggested that this list/timeline be created on THIS VERY PAGE!


 * I've had only one offer of help in this, and that help never came. Building a timeline/list of important stories is very important in making sure the page reads in a logical and informative way. It serves as an outline that makes writing the page history go much more easily. If you'd like to help with that, please volunteer. - Hatebunny (talk) 16:45, September 13, 2016 (UTC)

I would like to help, but I'm not informed, but help make small edits and looking for more on the subject on the Internet. As you can see, the page is incomplete, missing the events as Truth, Last days of Superman and some of the character's legacy. --Agente Leite (talk) 17:57, September 13, 2016 (UTC)

There's one thing I'm noticing...
I'm guessing there's a second intention as to why the page is being editable for administrators only. I swallowed a nice pretext that is to avoid an unauthorized merger, but so far the page has not been released for future updates and the administrators themselves do not update this page for months! As I always speak and no one listens: this site should have rules for joining the organization, but where are these rules? I'm sorry for the hype, but there are lots of pages like this and this one that are in the same problem and never solved. --Agente Leite (talk) 15:27, December 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * In regards to the Damian Wayne and Bleez problems you mentioned, we decided that the best course of action at the time was to avoid making Prime Earth pages for them because the changes to their histories were so minuscule it didn't seem necessary. Though I, as another admin, disagree with that, the consensus was what we have right now and I respect that.
 * As for locking Supes' page, that's just a traffic problem. Characters that generate the most traffic remain locked to avoid vandalism, editing conflicts / wars, and just people screwing around with it in general. That's not to say that anybody who isn't an admin will mess the page up, it's just that, as a high traffic page, it is more vulnerable to these types of problems that we'd just rather avoid having to clean up. --- Haroldrocks  talk  18:25, December 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm not the only admin who didn't like that? -- Tupka 217 18:38, December 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * You are not the only one. Kyletheobald (talk) 19:13, December 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh, I thought I was the only one. Yeah, can we do something about that...?--- Haroldrocks  talk  19:20, December 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * The problem is simply in the update because, blocked, nobody, besides the administrators can edit the page, even if it is to correct small errors. Note that the topic Truth is empty and does not even have the topic Legacy that should tell what happened after the death of this version of Superman and remembering that in the template, the name Clark Kent is in the wrong entry because it is the name that the adoptive parents gave the he. --Agente Leite (talk) 14:54, December 13, 2016 (UTC)

1. If there are small errors, they can be noted here so the admins can properly fix them. 2. The Truth section and Savage Dawn are missing, yes, but there is currently no editor capable of properly filling the gaps. 3. I'm not sure about a "Legacy" section. The character is dead, that is where his history ends. 4. Furthermore, I see the need to keep this page blocked in light of the recent events developed in Action Comics, where apparently Prime Earth Clark Kent and Prime Earth Superman are two separate beings; meaning that this page should be splitted and heavily modified. In order to prevent further confusion to the mess DC has already created, the best route is to keep this page protected until more and clear information is provided; and a capable editor comes along. - S.S. (talk) 16:16, December 13, 2016 (UTC)
 * There are a couple of noteworthy issues.

It should be mentioned that makes no mention of the Prime Earth Superman and instead relates a New Earth like continuity for Superman that seems to have taken place in the Prime Earth continuity.--BruceGrubb (talk) 01:50, May 22, 2017 (UTC)

New 52 Characters category
Please add it, as I cannot :)

Completion
Should someone chronicle the remainder of Red's history? DCLover1995 (talk) 19:27, June 12, 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes? -- Tupka 217 19:29, June 12, 2017 (UTC)

And there we go to confuse everyone again!
I had said some time ago about this confusion and from what I saw, no one cared what I said. They will again confuse the articles, now involving the two versions of Lois Lane and even renamed the Jon Kent page to Earth Prime, as if the boy had been born there. Now they're going to tell me that the two versions of Superman and Lois Lane have been merged and I know that's true, but there's no reason to do it in the articles of Prime Earth versions and sooner or later people will come up proposing to merge the articles again. Now just one question: because in this template does not have the "Status" entry to show readers that Superman and Lois Lane's Prime Earth versions have been merged with Pre-Flashpoint equivalents. Please, let's not make the same mistakes we made in the past and correct those who have posted, for example, the name  Clark Kent  as alias. Still coming back talk about errors, it seems that this page belongs to the administrators because it is months blocked and so far it has not been released for publishers who do not have the status to edit. Oh! Did not they use the word merge as a pretext to justify the blocking of this page, and is it being updated as if it were the New Earth version? --Agente Leite (talk) 15:26, October 25, 2017 (UTC)


 * It's a confusing situation. This is meant to unconfuse it. For all intents and purposes, this new merged Superman is and, by retcon, has always been, the Prime Earth Superman. Using the New Earth pages for that would be just as confusing.
 * If you're concerned over calling Jon a Prime Earth character because he isn't born there, well, he wasn't born on New Earth either. Because those weren't New Earth characters; they were time duplicates from Convergence.
 * As for the rest, I'm sorry, I can't form that into coherent English sentences. Please calm down and try again. -- Tupka 217 15:48, October 25, 2017 (UTC)