Jordan Kent (Arrowverse: Superman & Lois)

Jordan Kent
Arrowverse‎‎: Superman & Lois
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Real Name	Jordan Kent
Other Aliases	Shortstack, Superboy, The Smallville Saviour Samaritan Smallville Samaritan
Relatives	Clark Kent (father) Lois Lane (mother) Jonathan Kent II (twin brother) Natalie Lane (great-grandmother, deceased) Jonathan Kent (adoptive paternal grandfather, deceased) Martha Kent (adoptive paternal grandmother, deceased) Jor-El (paternal grandfather, deceased) Lara Lor-Van (paternal grandmother, deceased) Sam Lane (maternal grandfather) Tal-Rho (half-uncle) Lucy Lane (aunt)
Base Of Operations	Smallville · formerly Metropolis
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Public Identity
Race	Kryptonian/Human hybrid
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Student
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Hazel
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	Arrowverse: Superman & Lois
Creators	Greg Berlanti · Todd Helbing
First Appearance	"Pilot" (February 23, 2021)

Jordan Kent is the son of Earth's only superhero Superman and the world's most famous reporter Lois Lane, who inherited his father's superpowers.

History

Early Life

Jordan was born a few minutes before his twin brother Jonathan. When the twins were born, their parents took them to the Fortress of Solitude and tested them for superpowers. The tests indicated they were unlikely to develop powers and therefore Clark decided not to reveal his secret to them, despite Lois wanting to.

While Jonathan was outgoing and popular, Jordan was socially withdrawn and suffered from a severe anxiety disorder. Jordan was very close to his brother who would often try to protect and look after him, but occasionally felt jealous of how everything came easily to Jonathan. He also had a distant relationship with his father, who was often absent and who he feared preferred Jonathan to him.

As a child Jordan took piano lessons, but quit when his anxiety got too bad for him to perform.

Season One

Jordan at Martha's funeral

The week that the Kent brothers started high school, their grandmother Martha Kent suddenly died. At the funeral reception in Smallville they met a local girl named Sarah Cushing who Jordan was instantly smitten with. While attempting to impress Sarah, Jordan fell from a hayloft and a stack of heavy metal poles fell on him. Jonathan threw himself on top of Jordan, seemingly shielding him, and both boys walked away with only minor injuries.

While their parents were in town, Jordan and Jonathan investigated the barn and found a secret underground chamber where their father's space pod was stored. When Lois and Clark returned, the brothers confronted them and Clark revealed that he was Superman, and that they believed Jonathan had inherited his superpowers. Jordan was devastated by the years of lies, blaming his half-Kryptonian nature for his mental health problems, and by the implication that Jonathan was the better and more worthy son.

Jordan using his heat vision

That night, Jordan went to a party at the Shuster mines with Sarah, who revealed that she had seen him taking his psychiatric medication and that she had mental health issues of her own, having attempted suicide the previous year. Jordan mistook Sarah's friendly overtures for romantic interest and kissed her, and her boyfriend Sean then attacked him. Jonathan stepped in to defend Jordan but Sean and his friends overpowered and began beating both brothers. While watching his brother get assaulted, Jordan suddenly demonstrated heat vision, blasting a nearby bonfire and causing an explosion which scattered the partygoers.

Clark arrived and took them both back to the farmhouse, where Jordan remembered that when Jonathan jumped on top of him, he had felt a surge of strength and turned them over so that Jordan was shielding Jonathan instead, revealing that he was the one with superpowers. Clark admitted to Jordan that he hadn't always been there for him but promised to do better.

Jordan at the Fortress of Solitude for the first time

The Kents relocated to Smallville, to be closer as a family and to allow Jordan to safely explore his powers. His parents decided to keep him out of school until he had full control over his powers. Clark took Jordan to the Fortress of Solitude where the hologram of Jor-El tutored him on Kryptonian history and culture, telling him he would be the one to ensure the heritage of Krypton survived. The additional attention from his father and the feeling of being special briefly improved Jordan's self esteem until the tests at the Fortress indicated that, besides above average levels of strength and durability, his displays of superpowers were freak occurrences and he would never be able to use them at will or be like Superman.

When they returned home Jordan was distraught that he was not apparently special and got into a shouting match with Jon, who was angry at his life being disrupted for Jordan's benefit. That night the brothers made up and he thanked Jon for agreeing to move to Smallville and for always protecting him. The next morning Clark allowed him to go to school as long as he took a signaling device that would allow him to call for help in an emergency.

Jordan and Sarah became friends and they would often hang out together at school, which made him a target for further bullying by Sean and his friends, even after Sarah broke up with Sean. In order to confront his bullies on their own ground he tried out for the football team against Jonathan's advice, and proved to be an excellent player due to his superior strength and toughness, mowing down the kids who had picked on him. During a drill where players would attempt to tackle each other one on one, he knocked Sean down then apologised for kissing Sarah and helped him up.

Jordan began to come out of his shell as the team accepted him, but when Clark learned that Jordan had joined the team he forbade him to play, fearing he could hurt someone due to his powers. Jordan was upset by this as he believed he barely had superpowers, and bitterly told his father he preferred it when he was absent. Jonathan convinced Clark that playing football was beneficial for Jordan and Clark agreed to let him play if it was what he really wanted, which Jordan assured him it was.

Jordan quickly became the team's star player and popular among his teammates. His mental health improved considerably and he ceased to have anxiety attacks. He also continued to develop his friendship with Sarah. The twin's grandfather General Sam Lane came to Smallville ostensibly to watch Jonathan's first game for the Smallville Crows, but really to chastise Clark for neglecting his heroic duties in Metropolis. Sam saw Jordan play and realised that he had superpowers, and invited himself to stay with the Kents for the weekend. Sam privately told the boys not to distract their father from his duties as Superman, warning them that people could be in danger if the greatest force for good in the world was not totally focussed on his work.

At a party, Jonathan's friend Tag Harris fled alone into the woods in distress, and the brothers chased after him. They found Tag suffering immense pain from uncontrollable superspeed. As Tag had been injured in the bonfire explosion, Jordan believed that he had somehow bestowed superpowers on Tag. Jonathan wanted to call Clark for help, but Jordan, remembering Sam's warnings and blaming himself for Tag's situation, tried to help him. Tag threw Jordan away, knocking him unconscious. Jonathan used Jordan's ELT to call Clark, who quickly arrived and subdued Tag.

Back at home, Jonathan assured Jordan that he was not responsible for Tag's problems, which was proved true when Sam explained that government scientists had determined Tag's powers came from being exposed to an unknown element in the mines. When Clark asked why Jordan had tried to deal with Tag himself instead of calling for help, the brothers revealed that Sam had warned them not to bother Clark with their problems, to their parent's fury.

Sarah asked Jordan to go on a date to Smallville's Harvest Festival with her, which was Jordan's first date ever. The night of the Festival, Sarah and Jordan talked and got closer, however the moment was ruined when Jonathan arrived with two older boys and drunkenly made fun of them both. Disgusted with Jon's behavior due to her father's alcoholism, Sarah stormed off. The next day she told Jordan she was not ready to date anyone at the moment, but asked that they stay friends, which he agreed to.

As Jordan was walking home, he was ambushed by Tag, who blamed Jordan for his condition. Tag beat Jordan up but he was able to call his father for help. Superman chased Tag off and Jordan was able to make his way home.

After the attack Jordan began experiencing painful migraines triggered by his developing super-hearing. Jonathan wanted to tell their parents but Jordan was worried Clark would forbid him to play if he knew and begged Jonathan not to tell. The Crows' next game was against Jonathan's old team in Metropolis, which was made up of the kids used to pick on Jordan and he desperately wanted to beat them.

At the game, Jordan was temporarily incapacitated by another migraine and did not protect the Crows' quarterback, resulting in him being hurt when he was tackled by Cutter, Jordan's former grade school bully. Jonathan was sent in to replace him and the Kent brothers managed to rally the team and lead them to an unlikely victory, with Jordan viciously blocking Cutter when he tried to tackle Jonathan. In the final play, the entire Metropolis team piled on Jordan and the two teams fought. Jordan had another attack and an uncontrollable burst of heat vision, which Clark blocked with his hand.

Back at the hotel room, Jonathan told Clark about Jordan's migraines and he chastised them for not telling him. Clark had to leave when Sarah's mother called him and he learned that Sarah had been kidnapped by Tag. When Clark went out to look for Sarah some of their teammates invited them to go out and celebrate, which Jordan enthusiastically agreed to although Jonathan was reluctant. Cutter and some other Metropolis players tracked them down and began to harass Jordan, with Cutter trying to goad him into a fight. Although Jonathan tried to talk him down, Jordan swung at Cutter's head with his full strength, which would have seriously injured him if it connected. Jonathan caught Jordan's fist in midair, which shattered the bones in his hand. Jordan was wracked with guilt but Jonathan refused to accept his apology and Clark was furious with him for using his powers in anger.

The next day Sarah told Jordan Tag's theory and assured him that if something was going on he could tell her. Jordan told her he had no idea what Tag was talking about but she was unconvinced. Having disappointed his father, hurt his brother and lied to his only friend, Jordan broke down crying and told Lois he wished he didn't have powers. He had another, far more severe migraine and then fell to the floor having a seizure. Clark looked at his brain with his X-ray vision and then frantically flew him to the Fortress.

At the Fortress the Jor-El hologram confirmed Clark's suspicions that Jordan's super-hearing had activated. He attempted to teach Jordan how to control his hearing by focusing on a single sound, but Jordan was unable to handle the sensory overload and was only able to function by using noise-cancelling headphones. He eventually managed to focus his hearing on Sarah, and overheard her and Jonathan talking. Believing that Jonathan was attempting to flirt with Sarah, he punched a hole in the wall in a rage. When Jonathan came home Jordan confronted him, accusing Jonathan of making moves on Sarah. They argued and Jordan was unable to tolerate the pain of Jonathan shouting at him, eventually collapsing when Jonathan slapped the wall.

That night, Jordan overheard their father being attacked. The brothers put their conflict aside to save him and Jordan used his hearing to guide Jonathan in their fathers truck to the warehouse where the fight was taking place. After the attacker was defeated and the family was safely at home Jordan apologised to Jonathan for spying on him and for the fact that Jonathan needed to lie to cover for him. They made up and their parents decided to no longer keep secrets from them, promising to answer any questions they had. Jordan asked them to explain who the man that attacked Clark was.

After injuring Jonathan, Jordan quit the football team. As he went to hand in his uniform he met Sarah, who was considering auditioning for a school musical revue. She was ambivalent about auditioning, but Jordan convinced her to as he had had to quit music was a child. At the audition, Sarah's father failed to show up as promised and she was too nervous to perform alone, so Jordan offered to accompany her on the piano and the two gave an excellent performance.

The Fortress burning the kryptonite inside Jordan

During final rehearsals on the day of the revue, Jordan suddenly began sneezing and coughing up freezing air. He called Clark who rushed him home, and Jordan's condition rapidly deteriorated as he became dangerously ill. Lois and Clark quickly deduced that Jordan had been accidentally infected by a Kryptonite-based bioweapon developed by the Army which Clark had earlier been exposed to. Jordan wanted to go back and not let Sarah down, but he began having difficulty breathing and Clark flew him to the Fortress. The Jor-El hologram scanned him and determined that the Kryptonite in his lungs had caused a respiratory infection and his lungs were filling with fluid. The infection had also triggered his freeze breath and the fluid was beginning to solidify, which would kill him. The only treatment was to burn the Kryptonite out of him. The procedure was intensely painful but Jordan made a full recovery.

The next day Sarah agreed to speak to him and told the twins how she believed her father's alcoholism had finally gotten too much. Believing she deserved to know the truth they told her that Kyle had actually been possessed and took her to see him where the Army was holding him prisoner. The Kryptonian possessing Kyle mocked Sarah, telling her that her father was dead, and Sarah felt terrible that the last thing her father heard her say was her calling him a drunk. Jordan tried to comfort her and encouraged her to hold onto hope.

After Superman successfully depowered the Subjekts, including Kyle, Lois and the twins took the Cushings home. Sarah thanked the twins for being honest with her and told them she hated how families kept secrets from each other, unaware they were still not telling her the full story. She asked Jon to give her and Jordan a moment alone, and when he did she kissed Jordan and told him she wanted to be more than friends.

However, Jordan's happiness was short-lived. When the family got back to the farm, they were attacked by Morgan Edge, who had learned Superman's secret identity and planned to kill his human family to sever his ties to humanity. Jordan tried to fight his uncle off with his heat vision but was no match for the adult full Kryptonian who easily overpowered him. Before Edge could kill them, Superman arrived and agreed to join him in exchange for their lives.

Jordan and Jonathan were both worried about their father, although Lois assured them he had been through worse. The boys wanted to help but felt powerless, until Jon suggested Jordan could use his super-hearing to track Clark down. Jordan's confidence had been shaken by Edge effortlessly overpowering him, but with Jon's encouragement he was eventually able to hone in on his father's location. Clark managed to tell Jordan he was in the Badlands before Edge stopped him, and told Jordan that anyone he sent after them would not find Superman, but someone else. The brothers passed the information to Sam, who sent John Henry Irons after Superman. Although Irons planned to kill Superman, he was able to help him break his brainwashing and Superman reunited with his family, introducing John to them as a friend rather than an enemy.

The school planned an assembly for all students to discuss the events of the last few days. As everyone in town knew that Lois and Sam were involved, the boys were given a story to use if anyone asked them for details. Sick of the treatment from the other students, who blamed her parents for what happened, Sarah walked out of school and Jordan followed her. She took him to a lake she used to visit with her grandmother and they kissed, but they were caught by a sheriff's deputy and arrested for trespassing as they were technically on private property. They were let off with a warning and handed over to their parents. Jordan and Jonathan were both grounded, as Jon had also skipped class.

Jordan is possessed by Zeta-Rho's mind

Over the next three weeks, Jordan's relationship with Sarah blossomed. Her parents planned to leave Smallville but Sarah assured him that would not happen as they had only a received a single very low offer for their house. Sean invited Jon and Jordan to a party and noticeably snubbed Sarah. Jordan did not want to go without her but she encouraged him to. At the party Sam attempted to call him and tell the brothers to return home as Edge had returned, but Jon told Jordan to ignore the call. Midway through the party Sarah arrived and told Jordan that her father had accepted a job in another town and they were going to move away. Jordan wanted to try to keep their relationship going long-distance but Sarah was unsure if they could make it work.

Edge and Leslie Larr attacked Metropolis and fought Superman and John Irons while Lois reported live on the scene. The partygoers watched the broadcast and saw Leslie almost kill Lois but Irons saved her. That evening, Sam tracked Jon and Jordan to the party and took them home, but along the way Edge attacked their car and caused it to crash. Jon tried to shoot Edge with Sam's Kryptonite gun, however Edge was too fast and easily dodged the bullet and kidnapped Jordan. Right before Edge carried him away he told Sarah he loved her. Edge took Jordan to his hideout beyond the range of Superman's senses or Irons' sensors and implanted Zeta-Rho's consciousness into him, also enhancing his powers to the level of a full Kryptonian.

In Jordan's body, Zeta ordered the Eradicator to resurrect the Kryptonian Defense Council. He then went to a volcano in Japan and temporarily released control over Jordan, who called out to Superman for help. When Superman arrived Zeta took control and attacked him, but Superman refused to fight back for fear of hurting his son. Zeta eventually left when he heard the Eradicator resurrect the Defense Council.

Zeta lead the Eradicator and the Defense Council to attack the Shuster Mines, where the Eradicator would use the vast quantities of X-Kryptonite to convert the entire population of Smallville into Kryptonians, while Zeta and the Council protected him. As Zeta expected, Superman and John Henry Irons attacked them. Irons knocked Zeta unconscious with a red solar blast and carried him to the Kent Farm where Lois used a Kryptonian device to enter his mind, trying to reach Jordan and help him resist Zeta. Zeta realised what she was doing and woke up, attacking Jon Kent. Lois was able to find Jon trapped inside his mind and help him fight Zeta-Rho. Jordan destroyed Zeta's consciousness inside him, just in time to prevent him killing Jon.

At a victory party at the Cushing's house after Edge was defeated, Jordan reaffirmed to Sarah that he loved her, she replied that she loved him too.

Season Two

The Kent family meets Natalie Irons

However, over the next three months they drifted apart. Jordan took Sarah to her favorite lake but she was not receptive and claimed she was sick, and that night Jonathan warned him that Sarah may be planning to break up with him.

John Henry Irons and his daughter Natalie, who had escaped her dying reality, moved into the Kent farmhouse. They took Jordan's room and he moved in with Jonathan. At school, Sarah continued to be standoffish and chose to spend time after school with Natalie rather than him.

Jordan accompanied his father and the supposedly powerless Tal-Rho to Tal-Rho's Fortress, where Tal-Rho activated a hologram of Lara to scan Clark to determine the cause of his recent mysterious seizures. While the Lara hologram was scanning Clark, Tal-Rho asked Jordan if his mother also favored his "weakling" brother, but Jordan refused to engage with him. When Clark began suffering a seizure, Tal-Rho broke free of his restraints, showing that he still possessed his powers. Tal attempted to kill Clark but Jordan defended him. Although his powers had grown since their last encounter and he managed to put up more of a fight, Tal-Rho still overpowered him and almost choked him to death until Clark recovered and saved him.

That evening, Sarah confessed to Jordan that she had kissed another girl at summer camp. Natalie, who Sarah had confided in, told Jordan that Sarah had hated keeping a secret from him, and pointed out that he was also keeping a secret from her. Jordan decided to tell Sarah the truth about his powers and their family, but Clark flatly refused to let him. They argued about it and Clark, who was being affected by his psychic link with Bizarro, became uncharacteristically furious, yelling at the top of his voice and almost blasting Jordan with his heat vision. After Clark's anger passed, he agreed that if Jordan still felt the same about Sarah in a year as he did now, he could tell her. He also gave Jordan a pendant which his adoptive father had given to Martha when they were teenagers to give to Sarah. Jordan gave Sarah the pendant and they reconciled.

The next day, Jordan and Sarah went to a convenience store owned by a friend's family. He noticed two men attempting to shoplift liquor and discretely used his Super-Breath to create a patch of ice in their path, so they slipped and dropped the stolen goods. Their friend called the police, revealing that the store was covered by CCTV which would have caught Jordan using his powers. Jordan called Sam in a panic, who was able to remotely corrupt the files, protecting Jordan's secret. That night, Jordan asked Sam to train him in secret so he could help his father in the field.

Sam and Jordan began training, and Sam asked Jonathan to join in so he could compare Jordan's abilities to a baseline. After being embarrassed by Jordan's effortless superiority, Jon challenged him to a "sparring match" that quickly degenerated into a fight, with Jonathan demonstrating enough strength and durability to fight Jordan evenly. Jonathan remained unusually aggressive for the rest of the day, and when Jordan tried to confront him about it that evening they argued until Jon's eyes suddenly glowed red. Jordan realised that Jon had powers, which Jon told him had only recently developed. Jon asked Jordan to keep his powers secret from their parents, claiming he was afraid Clark would make him quit the football team.

Jordan was excited to share the experience of having powers with his brother, but Jon wasn't as enthusiastic and didn't want to talk about it. Jordan found an empty canister in their room, which Jon claimed belonged to his girlfriend Candice. Jon was given the opportunity to start in a game between the Smallville Crows and their bitter rivals, as the team's usual starting quarterback Timmy Ryan was supposedly ill. Jordan went to the game with Sarah, and watched Jon lead the team to a crushing victory. They learned from a friend that Timmy was not sick but had been pulled from the team after his mother caught him huffing a strange gas from a canister. Jordan confronted Jon in the locker room and found a full canister in his bag, and realised that Jon was using X-Kryptonite to given himself powers. They argued and Jon almost blasted Jordan with his heat vision. Jon immediately calmed down and tried to apologise but Jordan refused to listen and they went home in silence. Jon was caught with drugs at school, refused to give up his dealer and was expelled.

A week later at school Sarah told Jordan that she had been talking to Aubrey, the girl who she had kissed at summer camp. She told Jordan that she wanted the three of them to be friends and asked him to hang out with them after school. Jordan was distracted when he overheard a strange adult harassing Candice and agreed without thinking. He realised that Candice was Jon's dealer and the man, called Mickey, was her supplier. He confronted Jon, who admitted it was true and told him that Candice needed to sell the X-Kryptonite to save her family from bankruptcy. Jordan agreed to keep it a secret.

Jordan as a vigilante

That night, as he was about to go into the diner to meet Sarah and Aubrey, his super-hearing picked up Jon and Candice being attacked by Mickey, who had used X-Kryptonite to give himself super-strength and speed. Jordan ran to them at super-speed and fought Mickey off, hiding his identity with a hood. Afterwards he returned to the diner, but decided not to go in. Meanwhile John Henry and Natalie moved out of the farmhouse into their own place.

Clark pursued Ally Allston into the shadow dimension and did not return. Jordan and the rest of the family were worried about him, but as Jordan could not discuss it with Sarah he distanced himself from her and focussed on training with Sam. A month after Clark disappeared, Jordan rescued Kyle from a burning building and was caught by John Henry, who had arrived to put out the fire. Lois learned that Jordan had been training with Sam and forbade him from any further superheroics.

The building was revealed to be a storage facility for X-Kryptonite, and so Sam and Lois realised that the trafficking ring was larger and more dangerous than they had initially believed. Jon convinced Candice to come forward, and she told them the approximate location of the X-Kryptonite processing facility on the outskirts of Smallville. Sam suggested they use Jordan's super-hearing to pinpoint it's location, and Lois reluctantly agreed as the alternatives would take too long. Jordan was able to find the facility and Sam and Lois went to investigate, with Lois instructing Jordan to stay in the car. Sam and Lois were captured by X-Kryptonite enhanced criminals and Sam convinced Lois to call Jordan for help. Jordan easily overpowered the superpowered adults and saved them, but in doing so missed Lana Lang's election victory. Sarah broke up with him due to his behavior over the past month and refusal to explain himself, telling him that she didn't want to be with him if he wouldn't put her first.

That night Jon-El, Jonathan's counterpart from the shadow dimension, came to the farm and attempted to use his pendant to merge with Jonathan. Jordan tried to stop him but Jon-El easily threw him aside. Fortunately Clark chased Jon-El through the portal and arrived in time to break them apart before the fusion could be completed. Jon-El told Clark he couldn't stop what was coming and flew away. Clark told his family everything he had seen in the inverse world, that Jon-El was working for Ally Allston and Ally had fused with her other self and gained immense power.

Jordan repeatedly texted Sarah, hoping to fix thing with her, but she ignored him. Lois took away his phone and advised him to write down all his thoughts and feelings in a letter so he could think about what he wanted to say to Sarah. The next morning Jordan wrote a letter to Sarah revealing all the family's secrets.

Lois went to City Hall to talk to Lana, but she was not there and Sarah claimed she had seen Jon outside her house that morning. Lois came home and told Clark that Jon-El may have captured Lana and Clark let it slip that he had seen Jon-El in Smallville the previous night but had not tried to capture him because Lana would have seen him use his powers. Jon and Jordan were both angry that Clark had chosen to protect his secret rather than warn Lana or take the opportunity to stop Jon-El before he had the chance to hurt anyone. Jordan was also upset that Lois had spoken to Sarah without telling him.

Sarah came to the Kent's, hoping to ask Jonathan if he had seen anything, but Lois told her that Jon had gone straight from her house to Candice's and hadn't seen anything. Jordan was annoyed that Lois would not simply tell Sarah the truth but Lois wouldn't let him interject. As Sarah was leaving Jordan tried to give her his letter but she refused to take it.

Jordan flying

Jon-El came to the farm again, having incapacitated Superman with Kryptonite, and Jordan went out to stop him. Jon-El initially dominated the fight but Jordan was able to rally as Jon-El was gradually weakened by the yellow sunlight. Jordan hit Jon-El with a knee to the face that sent him flying into the air and chased after him, flying higher than he ever had before. He defeated Jon-El but then had a panic attack as he realised how high he was and fell back to Earth. Fortunately Superman arrived in time to catch them both. Jordan knocked Jon-El out with a final punch once they were on the ground. Meanwhile Lana's counterpart came through the portal to merge with her but she was stopped by John Henry and Natalie.

Jordan told Lois that he was planning to reveal his secret to Sarah, and she acknowledged that the family seemed to be constantly at odds with each other. Clark came home and she didn't tell him what Jordan was planning to do, but Clark told them all that, since keeping his secret had put Lana in danger and her counterpart would likely come after her again, he thought he should tell her that he was Superman. He said he wouldn't do it if they thought he shouldn't and the entire family agreed immediately and unanimously that he should.

Jonathan was allowed to return to Smallville High School, however, he had become nihilistic and frightened after his encounter with Jon-El and learning about Ally's godlike power. At school, Jordan tried to initiate a conversation with Sarah by getting Natalie to say hello to her, but Sarah simply acknowledged Nat and kept walking. Jon encountered some of his former teammates who blamed him for getting the season cancelled, and ranted at them that their problems meant nothing and the world was about to end. Jordan and Natalie pulled him away and Natalie recognised that Jon was on edge. She suggested that they skip school and took the twins to her home, where she had been secretly building her own suit of armour. She had intended to use it herself to help her dad, but offered it to Jonathan to protect himself from Jon-El. The suit was unfinished and required a power source, so she took the twins into the Shuster Mines to collect X-Kryptonite to power the suit.

The kids made slow progress manually digging the X-Kryptonite from the rock, so Jordan used by heat vision to cut a chunk of it off. He inadvertently caused a cave-in but saved the others with his super-speed, leaving behind the X-K they had already gathered. Although the mission was a failure, they had fun together and got Jonathan out of his mood. They spent the rest of the day hanging out together at the Irons' home and Jonathan and Jordan stayed for dinner with John and Nat.

The next day ClarkSarah told the twins that Lana had asked them to stay away from the Cushing family after learning his secret. To take their minds off it, Clark planned a day of farm work for the three of them. Jordan snuck out to talk to Lana and begged her to let him tell Sarah the truth, but she refused and told him that Sarah would never be safe if he was part of her life. Clark tracked him down and took him to the Arctic to practice flying, so Jordan could appreciate the positives of his powers rather than how they had complicated his life. Jordan jumped into a crevasse and was able to overcome his fears and make a sustained flight for the first time. He was unable to control his speed and Clark needed to save him from crashing, but he was still overjoyed to be able to fly. When they returned home Jonathan was visibly hurt at being left out, but before Clark could talk to him he was called away to save Sam from Ally.

Ally drained Clark's energy and he almost died, but John Henry and Natalie were able to resuscitate him and get him to a hospital. John and Lois told the kids that Clark was stable but unconscious, and his powers appeared to be gone, possibly forever. Clark eventually regained consciousness and returned home, but he was severely weakened and his powers were not recharged by the sun. He and John Henry Irons went to the Fortress to find a way to speed up his recovery, and while they were gone the worlds began to merge and the inverse world's sun appeared in the sky. John and Clark returned from the Fortress and told them that there was no way to restore his powers. Their parents assured them that there was still a chance to beat Ally and told them to stick together, and asked Jordan to use his super-hearing to look out for threats.

Jordan vs. Bizarro Jonathan

Lana-Rho attacked the farm and Jordan attempted to fight her off but she easily overpowered him. Fortunately the Irons' arrived and chased her off. Jordan was devastated that he hadn't been able to save Clark, even though Lois told him that it was not his job to protect them. Later that day the Kents went to a town hall meeting Lana was holding to reveal the threat of the inverse world. Clark came as Superman to tell the sceptical townspeople that Lana's story was true and that he had lost his powers. Jordan took Sarah aside during the meeting and admitted he knew about the inverse world, claiming Lois had been investigating it for months.

They went to talk privately and Sarah asked Jordan if the inverse world was the reason he had been distant for months. He said it was and she asked him to tell her everything he knew, assuring him she could handle it. Before he could Lana found them and told Sarah to come home. Suddenly Lana-Rho appeared and Jordan yelled at them to run, revealing his heat vision. Sarah and Lana fled and Jordan attacked Lana-Rho. Once again Lana seemed to easily beat him, but Jordan heard Clark being attacked by Jon-El and was energised by his desire to protect his father. He fought Lana through the school and into the main hall where Jon-El was beating Clark and managed to temporarily get the upper hand over them both, even matching Jon in a heat vision versus arctic vision fight, but he was simply outnumbered and the two inverses began beating him down. He was saved when Natalie arrived in her armour and carrying her father's hammer to help him, and together the two of them defeated the evil dopplegangers.

Natalie disappeared after the fight but Jordan's hearing picked her up at the farm. The Kents went home and she told them that John Henry had disappeared trying to stop Ally and she had nowhere else to go. Lois and Clark told her she could stay with them. The worlds began to merge, and they were transported to Bizarro's dilapidated home on the inverse world. As some things from their house had also been transported over, Clark realised that people and objects were randomly shifting between the worlds as they merged. To their shock, Tal-Rho was waiting for them in the house, having also been transported to the inverse world.

Just as suddenly they were transported back to their own world, but Lois remained behind and was replaced by her inverse counterpart. Natalie managed to reestablish contact with John Henry and left to go into the void and save him. The twins wanted to go with her but she only had one suit and likely even Jordan would have been ripped apart by the journey through the portal without protection. She told them they needed to stay with their family and Jonathan told her that she was part of their family too. She hugged them goodbye and told them she had enjoyed having them as "brothers".

Tal-Rho attempted to fight Ally, but she began to drain his energy too. Jordan heard Tal screaming and flew into the void to save him. He knocked Ally away while she was distracted, then carried Tal-Rho back to Earth. Seeing no other choice, Clark asked Tal-Rho to carry him into space and throw him into the sun, believing that would restore his powers. Clark was able to regain and supercharge his powers. He defeated Ally and undid the merge with help from John Henry and Natalie. At a celebration afterwards, Sarah apologised to Jordan for kissing Aubrey and initially keeping it a secret and he told her the truth about everything that has happened to him since the poles fell on him in the barn.

Clark took the family on a boat trip into the ocean, where he created a new Fortress in the sea for the family.

Season Three

Sarah asked that they start over as friends and Jordan reluctantly agreed, although he would have preferred to keep the romantic relationship going and continued to treat Sarah more like a girlfriend. When his father allowed him to fly home alone after a training session in the Fortress, Jordan made a detour to Malaysia to buy a gift for Sarah. While he was there a crane began to fall and Jordan attempted to stop it by welding the damaged parts with his heat vision, but only weakened the metal further and caused it to completely collapse. Clark arrived in time to stop the wreckage causing any damage and admonished for attempting solo heroics, telling him never to do so again without his express permission.

When he returned to Smallville he gave Sarah her present and she told him that his overly affectionate behaviour made her uncomfortable and asked him to back off. At his and Jon's sixteenth birthday party the next day, he avoided Sarah until she confronted him. He admitted that he still wanted to be with her but she told him that she needed some time away to herself and asked him to respect that.

Jon's ex-girlfriend Eliza invited him to a party in Metropolis and, as Smallville High had been closed due to a black mould infestation, Jonathan convinced Jordan that they should go, suggesting that he may meet a girl there who could help him get his mind off Sarah. At the party Eliza, who had not wanted or expected Jordan to come, took Jon away to speak privately and so Jordan wandered around the party alone. He saw Sarah, who had gatecrashed the party with Nat, in one of the rooms and attempted to slip away without her noticing, but he bumped into a kid carrying beers and drew everybody's attention. Jordan told Sarah he got nervous around her now that they were not dating and Sarah replied that she sincerely wanted them to be friends and for him to be as comfortable around her as he was around Jon and Nat. To help him loosen up, she suggested they hustle the kid he bumped into at beer pong. They had fun beating the guy and winning his money, but afterwards he made fun of Jordan. Sarah stepped in to defend him and they had an argument that ended with Sarah throwing a drink in his face. The Smallville kids had to run from the house, although Jordan did freeze the bully's treasured SUV with his super-breath before they went home. When Jon and Jordan got home, their parents told them that Lois had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Natalie decided to give Lois a watch which she had originally built for her mother, and engraved her and the twin's names on it so that they would symbolically be with her throughout her treatment. They drove straight to school from her house in Jon's truck, and left the watch in the glove compartment while they were in class. Jon's truck was stolen from the school parking lot, along with the watch. Jon suspected that Candice's petty criminal father may have stolen it and, although she refused to believe it and stormed off, both Jordan and Nat agreed he definitely did. Jon did not want to call the police on him and have him arrested, so they tracked the truck to a chop shop and stole it back.

Clark let Jordan help him fight a forest fire. During the mission his hood momentarily fell off and he was caught on a satellite camera. Although his face was not visible in the picture, his distinctive mop of curly hair was and so Sam took him to get his hair cut in order to make him less recognisable. Jordan refused and stormed off, telling Sam he knew nothing about being a hero. when he got home he found Lois and Clark questioning Jon about how he got a black eye and he eventually told them what had happened with his truck, and that Candice's father had hit him when he accussed the man. Lois took Jon and Jordan to the trailer park to confront Emmitt but he threatened them with a gun and, although Lois was unafraid, she left rather than let Jordan expose his powers by stopping Emmitt. Enraged by what had happened, Clark ordered Emmitt to stay away from his family, intimidating the man with his super-strength and threatening to come after him if he caused any more harm. Emmitt fled town, abandoning Candice, and so Lois allowed her to stay with the Kents.

The next day his parents chastised him for disrespecting his grandfather and told him to go back to the barbershop with Sam. Jordan apologised to Sam and, rather than force him to cut his hair, Sam gave him a new uniform which would conceal his hair, and the aviator's goggles his father had worn as a pilot in World War II.

Candice stayed with the Kents for the next three weeks, and Jordan quickly became frustrated with her. In town, Jordan bumped into Matteo, a boy from Metropolis who Natalie had hit it off with at the party but hadn't been able to exchange numbers with before they needed to run. He took Matteo to the farm, where Nat was racing ATV's with Sam. At the school Valentine's dance that evening, Sam told Jordan that he had never seen the point of dances and dating when he was younger. Jordan installed a dating app for seniors on Sam's phone when he wasn't looking and encouraged him to use it.

Jordan successfully beat all the holographic supervillains in the Fortress's training exercises and expected to finally be allowed into the field, however, Clark insisted he was still not ready. Jordan responded to a flash flood alone while Clark was busy elsewhere; although he had had Lois's permission, Clark was still upset and insisted Jordan needed further training. The next day Clark took Jordan back to the Fortress and made him fight two enemies at once. Jordan beat both enemies but Clark then blasted him with lasers without warning, and when Jordan argued that wasn't fair Clark replied that he needed to be on guard for any possible threat. Frustrated that Clark just kept adding lessons every time he completed his training, Jordan accused Clark of holding him back because he couldn't handle someone else being super and stormed off home.

Back at the farm Clark apologised, but before they could talk more they both heard Lois screaming for help. Clark flew over to save her, telling Jordan to stay behind. However, Lois soon returned home unharmed, having merely been out for a drive. She realised Clark had been lured into a trap and told Jordan to search for him with his super-hearing. Jordan heard Clark being attacked and, as the DoD wouldn't make it in time, flew over in his new costume to save him. He initially overpowered a band of henchmen armed with Kryptonite guns, but a metahuman with them who had sonic powers knocked him down and one of the mercenaries blasted him with a concentrated burst of Kryptonite. Enraged, Clark broke free and knocked his metahuman attacker away, ending the fight. Fortunately, due to his half-human nature, Jordan was resistant to the Kryptonite and survived.

By the time of Lois' fourth chemotherapy treatment, she was becoming visibly frailer, and Jon suspected their parents were hiding something from the twins. He made Jordan carry him to the Fortress, hoping that Lara had access to a cancer cure. Lara claimed she didn't and called Clark. He arrived as Jon was arguing with the hologram and they both told him that there was nothing they could do. Clark ordered the twins to go home. When they got there, Jon searched through Lois's things and found a will, and goodbye letters addressed to them. The twins confronted Lois and Clark when they came home that evening. Their parents told them that making end-of-life documents was a normal part of dealing with cancer but Jon, who felt helpless and was close to an emotional breaking point, yelled at them for trying to hide the extent of Lois's illness from them. Clark told him he needed to have hope but Jon ranted that, while Kryptonians like Clark and Jordan may be able to simply hope, humans like him and Lois didn't have that luxury.

After Jon had calmed down, Lois and Clark apologised to the twins for keeping them in the dark, telling them they were just trying not to scare them. They also admitted that they hadn't asked Lara to help, because they would have felt morally obligated to share any Kryptonian technology she gave them with the world, and it could be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands.

Jordan responded to a fire in Smallville, using his super-breath to extinguish some of the fire and pulling a man from the burning building. He handed off the man to Jon, who had begun volunteering with the fire department, and then flew away before he was seen by anyone else. That evening, Sarah came round and told him that Lana had invited her to go to a Cure concert with her. As Jordan was a fan of their music he played a playlist of it for her. While they were listening, Jon burst in and yelled at Jordan for his heroics earlier in the day, as Kyle believed that Jon had run into the burning building against orders and would probably fire him. They argued, and Jordan eventually yelled that he should be the one to save people as he had powers. He immediately regretted saying it and tried to apologise but Jon stormed off.

Sarah told Jordan off for seeming to rub the fact that he had powers in Jon's face and told him that working for the fire department made him feel special like Jordan's powers did for him, and told him that he should go and talk to him. Jordan admitted she was right, and pointed out that Lana had invited her to the concert because she wanted to spend time with her. Jordan went to apologise but found Jon off the phone with Kyle. When he got off the phone Jordan tried to apologise again, but Jon told him it didn't matter as the firefighters had found ice on the scene and believed that someone with powers put out the fire, and that Kyle was on to him.

Jon was still upset with Jordan but they mutually agreed to keep Jon's suspension and Kyle's suspicions that there was a superhero in Smallville a secret from their parents. Jon helped Natalie meet with Matteo behind John Henry's back. Jordan apologised what he had said about Jon working with the fire department and they reconciled. Sarah forced them to hug their feelings out.

One day while Lois was in Metropolis, Clark suggested that the three of them hang out together, but the boys were distracted by a video game and only vaguely agreed. Soon after, Jon got a text from Sarah inviting them to a senior kegger and told Jordan they should go. Jordan was jealous that Sarah had texted Jon and not him, although Jon pointed out that every time Sarah tried to talk to him he would constantly turn the conversation to his love for her, which Jordan conceded was "half-true". Jordan said that they had already agreed to spend time with Clark but Jon replied that he would convince Clark to let them out of it and reminded Jordan that Clark regularly cancelled plans with them due to his duties as Superman.

Clark wanted to take them to a wrestling show in Metropolis, something they had often done when they lived in the city. Jon told Clark that they had made plans with Candice and Sarah, although he did not mention that they were going to a party or that alcohol would be present. Clark reluctantly agreed and they drove to the party on the outskirts of town. Jon quickly reunited with Candice and Jordan went to look for Sarah. He found her talking to George Dean, Jr. and repeatedly tried to interject into their conversation until Sarah gently asked him to leave and he sulked off to get a beer. Sarah later came to talk to Jordan by the kegs and asked him if he was always going to be hostile whenever he saw her talking to another boy and told him to stop making her feel uncomfortable. Jordan told her that he wished he had never fallen in love with her, she replied that she felt the same way and walked away. Jordan ended up hanging at the edge of the party, frustratedly listening to Jon and Candice, when his super-hearing picked up the police coming. The sheriff's department raided the party and the teens scattered.

Sarah ran off the road and flipped her car while trying to flee, and Jordan flew in and pulled her and George Junior out before they hit a tree. They both saw him standing in front of them for a moment before he flew away, although he was wearing his hood and goggles so Junior did not recognise him. Jordan returned home and called Clark with the ELT, telling him he had screwed up. Clark flew back to the farm and Jordan explained what had happened. Clark initially reassured him, but then smelled the beer on Jordan's breath and Jordan admitted he had gone to a party and drank alcohol. Clark grounded Jordan on the spot, to his shock, and he accused Clark of being bitter that he and Jon had chosen not to spend time with him.

Later that night, Kyle came to the farm, convinced that Jon had powers and was the one who extinguished the fire and saved Sarah. Clark needed to respond to a distress call but he could not convince Kyle to leave and Kyle refused to let him go without answers. With no other choice, Clark revealed his powers and told Kyle that he would explain everything in the morning. The next morning, Clark revealed to Kyle that he was Superman and Jordan had powers.

That night, the Kents had dinner with the Irons's, Lana and Sarah. Sarah tried to make up with Jordan, but he told her she only felt sorry because he had saved her life, and that he meant it when he said he wished he had never fallen in love with her. The next day, the entire family accompanied Lois to Metropolis for her surgery. While the doctor was explaining the procedure to them, Jordan had a panic attack and had to flee the room. Jonathan followed him out and tried to calm him down, but the anxiety had triggered Jordan's X-ray vision and he was unable to turn it off, making the attack worse. Jon was eventually able to get Jordan to focus by telling him he needed to calm down for Lois's sake and guide Jordan through his calming exercises.

When he had calmed down a little, Jordan complained that he now had X-ray vision to deal with, but Jon told him he was lucky that whenever he was stressed or upset he manifested a superpower. He told Jon that his trouble controlling his powers and them appearing at the worst times was due to his anxiety and that he needed to learn to relax and let things go. Jordan said he would try. Lois insisted on going through with the surgery, even though Peia Mannheim, the sonic metahuman Jordan had encountered earlier, was loose in the city creating devastation. During the surgery her tremors caused a compressed air canister to fall and almost crush Lois, but Jordan saw it through the wall and was able to run in and stop it at superspeed without the doctors noticing.

George, Jr. told everyone at school that he believed there was a teenaged superhero out there who had saved him and Sarah. Most of the kids laughed at him and Jon and Sarah tried to downplay the story, but Jordan supported Junior and talked up what a "badass" the mysterious hero must be. The story eventually reached a reporter named Katie, a former protege of Lois who would pursue the story relentlessly. Lana also told Lois and Clark that Jordan was "boasting" at school, having learned it from Sarah. His parents forbade him from using his powers, much to Jordan's frustration as he was finally getting recognition for his heroics. Jordan went to confront Sarah but she insisted Lana had gone to his parents without her knowledge. They argued briefly, as Jordan felt like she did not appreciate him saving her and she felt like his fixation on the accident was him trying to prevent her moving on; but before they could talk more a tornado alert was broadcast around the town.

Despite his parent's instructions, Jordan flew to help stop the tornado. Clark was in the process of freezing it and told Jordan to go home, but he refused. After the tornado was stopped, Jordan landed in front of a crowd of civilians instead of flying away. The people crowded round to thank him, taking pictures and videos, and Jordan happily basked in their adoration. He was wearing his hood and goggles so he was not recognised, but his existence was now undeniably confirmed to the world. His parents were furious with him but Jordan said that he didn't care about their rules anymore. They grounded him and he tried to storm off; Clark stopped him but Jordan pushed his father away with his super-strength. After a tense moment, Clark ordered him to go to his room until they told him to come out, and Jordan ran up at super-speed. Despite being punished, Jordan still enjoyed the online praise.

Jordan remained grounded for the next month, and continued to sulk and mope about being forbidden to use his powers. The school year ended but Jordan had no plans for the summer, as Clark refused to let him return to heroics. Lois and Clark told the twins that they were planning a family trip to Italy to stay in Tal-Rho's villa and the twins enthusiastically agreed; but when Clark suggested that they save money on plane tickets by having him and Jordan fly the family over Jordan was upset that they expected him to use his powers for a vacation but not to save people. Clark replied that he shouldn't have been using his powers to try and get fame and praise, and that if he really wanted to help people then recognition shouldn't matter.

That evening when they were having dinner in the diner, Clark noticed Jordan's hostile behaviour around Sarah and told him that as long as he held on to his resentment of her, he would only end up hurting himself. Jordan admitted to Sarah that he was still angry at her for breaking up with him had been looking for reasons to be upset with her. They agreed that they shouldn't be friends anymore.

That night, Jordan joined his family in town to watch a meteor shower when suddenly Clark, as Superman, crashed down out of the sky onto main street. A monster flew down after him and his friends and family rushed forward to help but he told them to stay back. He tackled the monster into the sky and they battled from Smallville to Metropolis and even to the moon.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Kryptonian/Human Hybrid Physiology: Due to his half-Kryptonian heritage Jordan manifests superpowers under the light of a yellow sun.
  • Solar Radiation Absorption: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Jordan's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. His cellular structure allows him to absorb, store and metabolize the energy spectrum of yellow sun radiation to fuel all of his abilities.
    • Accelerated Healing
    • Flight
    • Heat Vision
    • Super-Breath
    • Super-Hearing
    • Superhuman Durability
    • Superhuman Speed
    • Superhuman Stamina: Jordan was able to easily perform an exercise routine that left Jonathan, a high level athlete, exhausted.
    • Superhuman Strength: Jordan initially possessed an above-average level of strength for a boy his age and size. As his powers developed he became strong enough to break human bones with a single blow, punch dents into a tree trunk and even briefly hold his own in a fight against an adult full Kryptonian.
    • X-Ray Vision

Abilities

• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
• Music

Weaknesses

• Power Limitation: (Formerly) Due to his human DNA, Jordan's cells initially absorbed and processed only a limited amount of solar radiation. As such his powers manifested randomly and to a lesser degree than a full Kryptonian. His powers appear to have matured to the point that he has overcome this limitation. He is not as strong as his father but it is unclear if this is due to his human heritage or age.
• Solar Energy Dependence: Red solar radiation incapacitates Jordan and drains his powers.
• Vulnerability to Kryptonite: As he is half-human, Jordan is more resistant to Kryptonite than a full Kryptonian. However, he is not immune to it as a Kryptonite-based bioweapon almost killed him.

Other Characteristics

• Social Anxiety: Jordan suffers from an anxiety disorder which requires medication.
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• ELT: A signal device which plays a high-pitched tone only Superman can hear to summon him for help.
• Protective suit

Notes

• Jordan is named after his biological paternal grandfather Jor-El.
• Jordan is portrayed by Alex Garfin.
• Jordan's suit is based on the first supersuit Superman wore in the Superman: American Alien comics and in the Superman: Man of Tomorrow movie.

Related

• Appearances of Jordan Kent (Arrowverse: Superman & Lois)
• Images featuring Jordan Kent (Arrowverse: Superman & Lois)
• Quotations by or about Jordan Kent (Arrowverse: Superman & Lois)
• Character Gallery: Jordan Kent (Arrowverse: Superman & Lois)

Footnotes

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