Superman

Superman
Superman in "The Baffles Puzzle."
Species	Kryptonian
Gender	Male
Member of	Super Friends
Affiliation	Daily Planet Mystery Incorporated
Occupation	Superhero Reporter
Father	Jor-El Adoptive father, Jonathan Kent
Mother	Lara Adoptive mother, Martha Kent
Cousin(s)	One, Supergirl
Marital status	Husband to Lois Lane in Super Sons/Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon Special
Children	One son, Jon Kent, in Super Sons/Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon Special
First appearance	SF: "The Power Pirate" (1973)
Played by	Danny Dark
Superman as Clark.
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

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. He grew up to live a double life as the protector of the city of Metropolis and a reporter for the Daily Planet.

Appearances

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

• The Super Friends
• 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

Biography

Past life

Superman was originally Kal-El, the son of Jor-El from the planet Krypton. Jor-El warned his fellow scientists that Krypton will explode in its final moment. Although his calculations were scoffed at by the elites around him, he used that knowledge to build a rocket ship for his newly-born son. He and his wife Lara sent their son's ship to Earth, where it managed to escape from the dying planet. When the ship landed on an empty field, the infant Kal-El was taken by Jonathan and Martha Kent. 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.

Now part of the Kent family, Clark was raised in the idyllic town of Smallville, where he slowly become aware of his abilities and heritage growing up. When he was a teen, he created the superhero mantle of Superboy, which would then later transition into Superman upon adulthood. He briefly became a friend to a young Lex Luthor, who had once admired him and at one point wanted to create an antidote to Superboy's Kryptonite weakness. After a minor accident caused Luthor to lose his hair, he forever vowed revenge on him and became his arch-nemesis.

Later into adulthood, Clark left his hometown to pursue a career in Metropolis City. He was then 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; both of whom became his closest allies. When not as the mild-mannered reporter, Clark uses his Superman identity to help out Metropolis' citizens—and the entire world—in the name of truth and justice.

Gallery

Main article: Superman/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• Superman is a DC Comics character created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. He debuted in Action Comics #1 (published in the year 1938).
• 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.

In popular culture

Main article: Family Guy