Superman

For a gallery of images depicting Superman, see Superman/Gallery.

Superman
Main aliases:	Clark Kent, Man of Steel
First mentioned in:	Mind your step!
First appearance:	Doctor Who? 64
Appearances:	see list

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Superman, the alter-ego of Clark Kent, (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio) who was sometimes referred to as Man of Steel, (PROSE: The Shining Man) was, by most accounts, a fictional superhero and the main character in the comic book series of the same name, (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, etc.) however one dissenting account presented him as a real person who once visited the Brick Boulevard. (WC: Doctor, Doctor, Doctor) He also existed as a real person in Earth-33⅓. (COMIC: Doctor Who? 64, The Incredible Doctor Who History Tour (No. 7.))

Biography

Superman, among others, on the Brick Boulevard. (WC: Doctor, Doctor, Doctor)

The last of his kind, Superman crash-landed on Earth as a baby. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men) In his later life, Kent worked as a reporter at the Daily Planet, alongside Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. His editor was Perry White. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio) At one point, he had a snow fortress. (PROSE: Dear Great Uncle Peter)

Superman was present in the Brick Boulevard when the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Venkman, and Doc Brown, crashed their vehicles into each other. (WC: Doctor, Doctor, Doctor)

Powers and abilities

Superman had the ability to fly. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, COMIC: The Incredible Doctor Who History Tour (No. 7.)) Kryptonite was his weakness. (AUDIO: Starfall)

References

Superman on the cover of Action Comics Issue 1. (COMIC: Doorway to Hell)

He appeared on the cover of Action Comics Issue 1. He was depicted lifting a car over his head. (COMIC: Doorway to Hell)

In one issue of a comic, he was faced up against Batman, and, as the cover promised, "only one [could] survive!" (PROSE: Curiosity)

In 1957, Korky Goldsmith claimed that Superman and Nyssa "would get along like a house on fire" as she was likewise the last survivor of her planet. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men)

Both Terry and Eugene Jones admitted their long-absent father Shaun, an ordinary cashier in Cardiff, "wasn't Superman". (TV: Random Shoes)

Supergirl uses a portrait of Superman for a demonstration of the utility of glasses as a disguise. (WC: Supergirl Meets E.T.)

The Twelfth Doctor read a Superman comic, and revealed to Grant that Superman and Clark Kent were the same person, making the point by drawing Clark Kent's glasses on Superman. When Grant told him that it was known by everyone (in the real world), the Doctor noted that Lois Lane did not know despite being a reporter. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio) Supergirl, the host of Meet That Hero!, would later attempt to prove to her viewers that glasses could work as an effective disguise by demonstrating that a woman was unable to recognise Clark Kent as Superman. (WC: Supergirl Meets E.T.)

Noah Holland had a toy torch in the shape of Superman. (PROSE: The Shining Man)

One New York City resident, upon seeing the Doctor's TARDIS materialise, wondered if Superman would come out of it. (COMIC: Kane's Story)

Other realities

Earth-33⅓

Superman, among others, in the TARDIS of Earth-33⅓. (COMIC: Doctor Who? 64)

A version of Superman existed in Earth-33⅓. (COMIC: Doctor Who? 64, The Incredible Doctor Who History Tour (No. 7.))

He once entered the Doctor's TARDIS, along with Spider-Man, Batman, Iron Man, Captain America, and Jet Lagg when the Fifth Doctor landed it in New York during a crimewave. (COMIC: Doctor Who? 64)

He later flew over the TARDIS while thinking to himself that he could "leap tall TARDISes with a single bound", as the Sixth Doctor introduced Peri to several individuals notable to American history. (COMIC: The Incredible Doctor Who History Tour (No. 7.))

Behind the scenes

Information from invalid sources

Superman standing in front of the Lion Temple. (WC: Endless Awesome)

Superman once flew through the air before being hit on the head by Batman's Batarang. He later stood in front of the Lion Temple. (WC: Endless Awesome)

He once told the Doctor “Me? Time travel? Oh, no. I couldn't do a thing like that.” When Wonder Woman entered the Doctor's TARDIS, she remarked that it looked like something Superman would change outfits in. (GAME: LEGO Dimensions)

Other matters

As he revealed at the 2016 New York Comic Con, Superman, or more specifically Clark Kent, is Steven Moffat's favourite superhero. In writing the Ghost (Grant) in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, Moffat was particularly influenced by Clark Kent, and took inspiration from the Christopher Reeve Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s.

A version of Superman appears as a playable character in LEGO Dimensions alongside the first 13 incarnations of the Doctor (including the War Doctor), existing in a parallel universe relative to the Doctor's own. As a result, the reference to Superman in WC: Supergirl Meets E.T. implicitly referred to the "real" Superman from his cousin Supergirl's home universe, rather than to the fictional version from the DWU. However, LEGO Dimensions is not considered a valid source by this Wiki, and this information is not present in Supergirl Meets E.T. itself, which doesn't actually preclude the possibility that Superman is a fictional character with no particular ties to the real individual Supergirl.

When Paul Kupperberg served as editor at DC Comics, he edited and sometimes wrote for Superman, among other titles, and also wrote for the newspaper strip of the same title.

Jim Broadbent, who played Jean Pierre Dubois in Superman IV: Quest for Peace, played an Eleventh Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death. He had previous been one of the many performers considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor.

William Russell, Susannah York, Shane Rimmer, Sarah Douglas, David Neal, John Hollis, Tony Selby, James Garbutt, Harry Fielder, Alf Joint, Roger Brierley, Terry Walsh, Tony Sibbald, Robert Beatty, Henry Woolf, R. J. Bell, Esmond Knight, Eiji Kusuhara, Peter Roy, David Garth, Rex Robinson, Kiran Shah, David de Keyser, Burnell Tucker, Kerry Shale, David Forman and Alan Tilvern all appeared in the 1978-1987 Superman film series.

David Warner and Eliza Roberts played Superman's biological parents Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van in the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "Foundling".

George Murdock appeared in two Superman television series: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Smallville.

External links

• Superman at DC Database
• Superman at the LEGO Dimensions Wiki
• Superman at DC Extended Universe Wiki