| Comics (Canon) | Golden Age • Pre-Crisis • Post-Crisis • New 52 • Rebirth |
|---|---|
| Comics (Alternate Realities) | Earth One • All Star • Red Son • Kingdom Come • Just Imagine • Turma da Mônica • At Earth's End • Millerverse • Superboy-Prime |
| Movies | Donnerverse • Superman vs. The Elite • DCEU • DC Animated Movies • Tomorrowverse • DC Universe |
| Shows | Fleischer • Super Friends • DCAU • DCAU (Justice Lord) • Smallville • Arrowverse • Superman and Lois • Justice League Action • Young Justice • My Adventures With Superman |
| Games | Injustice |
| “ | I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior, but every day I hear people crying for one. | „ |
| ~ Superman |
Summary
Superman is the protagonist of the movies Superman, Superman II, Superman III, Superman IV and Superman Returns.
He was born with the name Kal-El, on the planet Krypton. When his father Jor-El realized that the planet was doomed, he and his wife Lara Lor-Van sent Kal-El to Earth, where he would be found by Jonathan and Martha Kent. During his childhood and adulthood, he discovered that he had superpowers and decided to use them to become a superhero, taking the name of Superman.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 6-C | 5-B
Key: Canon Version (Superman I, Superman II and Superman Returns) | Non-Canon Version (Superman I, Superman II, Superman III, and Superman IV)
Name: Clark Kent, Kal-El, Superman
Origin: Donnerverse, retroactively incorporated into the Arrowverse
Gender: Male
Age: Late 20's (over 21 years old[1]) to early '30s
Classification: Kryptonian, Reporter, Superhero
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Social Influencing
- Longevity
- Flight (Is capable of flying in the skies and space[1])
- Space Survival (Can breath in outer space[2][3])
- Enhanced Senses (Vision [X-Ray] and Hearing; Used his x-ray vision to see the inside of Lois' purse, check her lungs for cancer and investigate Lex's hideout for his nuclear detonator.[1] Can hear Lex's secret message which is on a wavelength only dogs can hear and use it to track down his hideout,[1] and everyone on the planet while in space[3])
- Invulnerability
- Regeneration (Low-Mid)
- Attack Reflection (Can stop and reflect lasers with his bare hands[2])
- Energy Projection and Heat Manipulation (Can fire a heat vision from his eyes,[2] which is powerful enough to vaporize falling debris[3])
- Underground Mobility (Tunneled under Lex's island while using his heat vision[3])
- Breath Attack, Air and Ice Manipulation (Can exhale large amounts of air from his mouth, allowing him to put out fires,[3] and even ice to freeze a part of a truck[2])
- Memory Manipulation (Can erase people's memories by kissing them[2])
- Cloth Manipulation (Seemingly summoned his suit onto his body[1])
- Thread Manipulation (Can turn his emblem into a net[2])
- Illusion Creation and Duplication (Can create hologram duplicates of himself to confuse enemies[2])
- Time Travel (Can reverse time by flying around the world[1])
- Resistances to:
- Cold (Easily broke free after getting frozen solid[1])
- Radiation (Can traverse in space without any issue[2])
- Heat, Fire and Magma (Stood amisdt manga while restoring the San Andreas fault without any harm.[1] Flew through the flame-filled sewers with no problem.[3] Walked from Kansas to the Arctic[1])
Same powers and abilities as before, plus:
- Additional Enhanced Senses (Vision [Telescopic]; Saw Ricky's knocked out body across a wheat field.[4] Examined Nuclear Man's molecular structure[5])
- Additional Ice Manipulation (Froze a large portion of a lake[4])
- Additional Attack Reflection (As seen here[4])
- Additional Energy Projection and Heat Manipulation (His heat vision is capable of warping a mirror[4] and decapitating a mountain[5])
- Limited Transmutation (Can turn coal into diamonds[4])
- Creation (Rebuilt the broken bricks of the Great Wall of China with rays from his eyes[5])
- Telekinesis (Somehow made a doorbell ring when he was inside the room looking at the door[5])
- Additional Duplication (When turned evil by the synthetic kryptonite, split his inherent goodness out of his body to face him in the form of Clark Kent[4])
- Resistances to:
Attack Potency: Large Island level (Stopped the earthquake that would've destroyed most of California by sealing the San Andreas Fault line[1][Statistics Values 1]) | Planet level+ (Pushed the moon to create a solar eclipse[5][Statistics Values 2])
Speed: FTL (Circled around the Earth at these speeds[1][Statistics Values 3])
Lifting Strength: At least Class Z[Statistics Values 4] | Class Z[Statistics Values 5]
Striking Strength: Large Island level | Planet level+
Durability: Large Island level | Planet level+ (Survived attacks from Nuclear Man[5])
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Standard Melee Range; Tens of Meters with Heat Vision
Standard Equipment: His cape, a web emblem
Intelligence: Above Average (Is fluent in multiple languages.[5] Tricked the rouge Kryptonians by reversing the machine that can take away his powers to take away theirs instead.[2] Used a vat of acid that bubbles and overflows when heated up to defeat a supercomputer.[4] Deduced Nuclear Man's weakness[5])
Weaknesses: Kryptonite greatly weakens Superman and causes him intense discomfort. Is much more vulnerable to magic than other conventional attacks.
Note: The canon version includes the Brandon Routh version because Superman Returns and Crisis on Infinite Earths are canon with Superman I and II (more specifically the theatrical version) but not with III and IV.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
Notes/Explanations
Discussions
| Discussion threads involving Superman (Christopher Reeve) |