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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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.


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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 (Wally West), 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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