Superman

Superman is a Kryptonian superhero and one of the main characters of the Super Friends franchise. He is voiced by Danny Dark. Having been born on the planet Krypton, he was named Kal-El, but was quickly sent to Earth before it exploded, where he was found by two elderly humans who named him Clark Kent, who grew up to live a double life as the protector of the city of Metropolis and a reporter for the Daily Planet.

TV series

 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
 * 1.8 "Foul Play in Funland" (mentioned)
 * Super Friends
 * 1.1 "The Power Pirate"
 * 1.2 "The Baffles Puzzle"
 * 1.3 "Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C."
 * 1.4 "The Weather Maker"
 * 1.5 "Dr. Pelagian's War"
 * 1.6 "The Shamon 'U"
 * 1.7 "Too Hot Too Handle"
 * 1.8 "The Androids"
 * 1.9 "The Balloon People"
 * 1.10 "The Fantastic Frerps"
 * 1.11 "The Ultra Beam"
 * 1.12 "The Menace of the White Dwarf"
 * 1.13 "The Mysterious Moles"
 * 1.14 "Gullivar's Gigantic Goof"
 * 1.15 "The Planet Spitter"
 * 1.16 "The Watermen"
 * The All-New Super Friends Hour
 * Challenge of the Superfriends
 * The World's Greatest Superfriends
 * Superfriends
 * Mork & Mindy
 * 1.2 "The Greatest Schmo on Earth" (mentioned)
 * Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
 * The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
 * Teen Wolf
 * 1.7 "Wolf Pride" (mentioned)
 * Space Ghost Coast to Coast
 * 3.3 "Lovesick" (mentioned)
 * 3.9 "Surprise" (mentioned)
 * 4.14 "Sphinx" (mentioned)
 * Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
 * 2.3 "The Devlin Made Me Do It" (mentioned)

Specials

 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! (mentioned)

Comics

 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC Comics)
 * #11A "Project Rainbow and the Poughkeepsie Experiment" (poster)
 * Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
 * #6 "A Super Friend in Need"
 * #9 "Truth, Justice, and Scooby Snacks"
 * #24 "Out of This World" (poster)
 * #37 "Nasty Tricks" (photograph)
 * #48 "Going Rogue" (photograph)
 * Scooby Apocalypse
 * #30B "A League of His Own"
 * #33B "When Atoms Collide"
 * #34B "Supermant!"
 * #35B "In the Belfry" (mentioned)
 * #36B "Awards Season"
 * Superman/Top Cat Special
 * #1A "...The Kalien Among Us"

Video games

 * MultiVersus

Past life
Superman was originally Kal-El, the son of Jor-El and Lara from the home planet Krypton. Jor-El warned his fellow scientists that Krypton will cease to exist, and that internal pressures would make it explode. Although his calculations were scoffed at by those around him, he used that knowledge build a rocket ship for his newly-born son. He and his wife sent their son's ship to Earth, where it managed to escape from the dying planet. When the rocket landed on an empty field, the infant Kal-El was taken by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Upon discovering that the baby was unhurt, the kindly couple hid his ship and took him to a orphanage, where he was soon adopted as Clark Kent.

As part of the Kent family, Clark was raised in Smallville, a small idyllic town in the middle of America. As he grew older, he created the superhero mantle of Superboy in his teens, which would later become Superman as he transitioned to adulthood. He also became a friend to a young Lex Luthor, who at one point wanted to create an antidote to Superboy's Kryptonite weakness. After a minor accident caused Luthor to lose his hair, he vows revenge on him out of jealousy for his intelligence, and became his arch-nemesis from that point on.

Later into adulthood, Clark left his hometown to pursue a career in Metropolis City. He was hired as a reporter at the Daily Planet by editor and chief Perry White. While working there, he had also met up with Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen around this time. When not as the mild-mannered reporter, Clark uses his Superman identity to help out Metropolis' citizens in the name of truth and justice.

Behind the scenes

 * Scooby becomes a parody of Superman in the TV special Scooby Goes Hollywood.
 * George Jetson becomes a parody of Superman in The Jetsons episode "SuperGeorge."
 * A young version of Superman would've appeared in Hanna-Barbera's proposed prequel series Junior Superfriends.
 * In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Mindless" and the Harvey Birdman: Attorney General special, Mentok is given Superman's background.
 * DC Comics forbade Warner Bros. Animation from using Superman in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? due to not wanting their superpowered heroes in the series, only to allow the Flash.