Soon after, the Daily Planet was bought out by businessman Morgan Edge , initiating a major change in the reporting style of the Planet. Unhappy with the changes, Clark quit working for the paper and, to make matters worse, found out that his love interest Lois Lane was now in a serious relationship with another man named John Carroll.
Later, in his hero identity, Superman was confronted by another Kryptonian survivor called H'El , who wanted to recruit him by force to join his unholy crusade of saving Krypton. After learning that H'el wanted to use the Fortress of Solitude to go back in time to save Krypton by extinguishing Earth's sun, Superman called in the Justice League and his teenage clone Superboy to fight H'El and prevent the destruction of the solar system.
While investigating the shady government group known as Ascension , Superman uncovered the beast known as Wraith , an alien with very similar powers to him that was captured and trained by the US government to bring down terrorists. After learning about their common purposes, Superman and Wraith agreed to work together to stop Ascension.
Superman and Wraith defeated a small faction of Ascension, but Superman was soon betrayed by Wraith, who sought what was known as an Earthstone.
Following a colossal battle, Superman defeated Wraith and not long after this, Lex Luthor informed him that Wraith's species was planning to attack Earth and the only weapon that could be used against them would kill Superman. Main article: Superman: Psi-War.
After the battle with H'El, Superman was called to a U. Senate hearing to discuss the existence of the Fortress of Solitude. The Senate representatives wanted to investigate the Fortress in order to secure or remove anything that might be considered a threat to the world. However, Superman refused, appealing to his right to privacy and the fact that the Fortress contained technology beyond humanity's control.
Clark also became a blogger to make ends meet. When it was discovered that the villain Hector Hammond , after falling into a coma, used his telepathy to hide his consciousness within Superman's memories, Wonder Woman and Orion team up to banish Hammond back to his own body and save Superman. For the future, Orion used his Mother Box to grant Superman protection from telepathic assaults. Continuing his investigative work, Clark went to Gotham City, where a mysterious Chinese woman gave him a folder containing info about an urban myth called "the Twenty".
However, before he could break the story, Superman was incapacitated by a psychic attack caused by the H. Queen, one of the Twenty. Superman and Hector Hammond teamed up to stop the Queen, but, upon her defeat and apparent death, a new villain arrived: the Psycho Pirate , a telepath who knew about Superman's secret identity. The Queen created the Swarm in order to prepare the world for Brainiac's return.
With the Queen dead, the Psycho Pirate wanted to release the people trapped in the Swarm, so he trapped Superman in a illusionary world in order to absorb his energy. Lois, having developed psychic powers of her own, freed Superman from the illusions. Queen, who had barely survived the Pirate's attack, and defeated the Psycho-Pirate and destroyed his Medusa Mask.
During the battle, Lois learned Superman's secret identity but conveniently fell into a coma from her new power usage. Superman brought Lois to the hospital to be treated and, when she reawakened, she had forgotten the information and lost her powers. Main article: Krypton Returns. Superman was dragged into space by a mysterious force called the Oracle that told him that H'El had survived and had managed to bring Krypton back to life by altering the timeline, which threatened the entire universe if they did not go back in time to stop him.
With the help of Faora , Superman traveled to Kryptonopolis a few months before Krypton's destruction, where he met his mother Lara.
Superman and Jor-El traveled to Krypton's core and fought H'El, and Superman used H'El's own chronal powers against him by freezing him with his super-breath, locking H'El in a state of eternal limbo. Superman and Supergirl were reunited in the present, but they learned that Superboy sacrificed his life to stop H'El. Mourning the loss of their friend, Superman and Supergirl returned to Earth.
Main articles: Trinity War and Forever Evil. In the hopes of ridding the world of evil, Pandora tried to have members of the Justice League open her box , believing that their virtuousness would prevent the calamity that occurred when she opened it. While trying to understand the escalating tension of opening the box, Superman and Wonder Woman were ambushed by Dr.
Light and, during their fight, Superman accidentally killed Light with his heat vision. Light unintentionally. After being freed by Lex Luthor and his group of rebellious criminals , Superman was eventually saved by Luthor, who was volunteered to remove the Kryptonite from his brain. Main article: Superman: Doomed.
After discovering Doomsday wrecking havoc and harboring a dangerous toxin within his body, Superman ripped the beast in half and used his super-breath to inhale the toxin to stop it from spreading. The military declared Superman an enemy of the state and they sent Metallo and Atomic Skull to eliminate him.
Steel tried to help Superman fight the enemies, but, after a suicide attack with kryptonite by Metallo, Superman became weak and his transformation into "SuperDoom" was accelerated.
While in space, SuperDoom tried to help an alien colony but lost control and attacked their leader. When Brainiac's forces returned with reinforcements, Superman attempted to turn back into SuperDoom to fight them. Unfortunately, Superman lost control of his body completely to the virus. Once free, the hero captured Brainiac and took him inside a black hole, [53] returning back to Earth sixty days later.
During an alien attack on Metropolis, Superman was assisted by a stranger called Ulysses and together they defeated Klerik , one of the alien soldiers. Superman then learned that Ulysses believed himself to be the last survivor of Earth.
On their way to Ulysses' home planet, there was another confrontation between Superman and Ulysses [61] and the fight was brought to Metropolis, where Superman unleashed a new power he didn't know he had: a super flare of solar energy, beating Ulysses for good.
Unfortunately, the solar flare drained his powers for a day, leaving him as a normal human until they slowly began to come back.
At the Daily Planet , Clark started to get text messages from an unnamed source that gave him tips on criminal operations that he was able to stop as Superman. Unfortunately, he got more messages from the unnamed source, who revealed they knew Clark's secret identity and forced him to capture a woman called Condesa. Realizing that Condesa knew about the person blackmailing him, Clark chose to team up with her instead.
Lois, not wanting Superman to suffer through the blackmail any longer, leaked his secret identity as Clark Kent to the world, as well all the information she had on HORDR. Because of his outed identity, Clark was fired from the Daily Planet by Perry White, who felt betrayed that Clark kept such an important secret from him. Clark was forced to change his image - he cut his hair, improvised his signature symbol with a Superman merchandise t-shirt, and tore up his cape to fashion himself knuckle bandages.
Superman still attempted to help the people of Metropolis even in his weakened state. Some sources say its February 29, which reportedly began as a joke to explain why Superman stays eternally youthful he was born on Leap Day, so he only ages every four years.
All in all, most would agree that Superman is perpetually somewhere between his mids and mids, but seeing as he is essentially immortal , his age is practically irrelevant, anyway. The Comics Have The Answer.
Eddie is a recent graduate of Skidmore College. Now, he is very excited to be writing for Screen Rant. His hobbies include creative writing, reading, gaming, and constantly re-watching the Marvel movies. Superman preceded Batman by a few months.
In the spring of Superman 1 hit the stands, the first comic book ever devoted to a single character. Since then, the two have often teamed up—and occasionally clashed—across a number of different mediums.
Credit: Getty Images. The U. War Department demanded that publication be delayed. Most Superman love interests are initialed L. In the comic book universe, Superman rarely falls for anyone not initialed L.
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