Editing DC Comics (section)

===Superman===
Considered the first true superhero, although he actually built on tropes that had appeared in early pulp novels. Superman is famous; the last survivor of the alien planet Krypton, whose parents managed to launch him to Earth in an escape shuttle before Krypton's core destabilized and the planet exploded. Raised by good-hearted farmers in the Kansas village of Smallville, he dedicates himself to fighting for truth, justice, and <s>The American Way</s> <s>liberty for all</s> a better tomorrow.

He is perhaps most infamous as ([https://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/godman.html one of]) the most absurdly overpowered character in comics, with an arsenal of abilities that includes flight, superhuman strength and speed, nigh invulnerability, ocular heat rays, superhuman hearing and vision that can see through walls, and a freezing breath weapon. Ironically, he actually started out almost mundane; in the original comics, Superman's powers stemmed from his species having evolved on a planet with significantly higher gravity than Earth, making stronger and toughter than any human. Instead of flying his super-dense muscles allowed him to run at astonishing speds and leap vast distances; this is where the "leap tall buildings" thing came from. The very first cartoons retconned him into being empowered by the light of Earth's yellow sun and gave him the ability to fly for dramatic effect, and that as where it started. Later, a popular radio drama introduced his most iconic vulnerability in the form of Kryptonite, the radioactive remnants of his homeworld. The Sliver Age would expand this to the point of absurdity; there's an entire blog about it called [https://superdickery.tumblr.com/ Superdickery] because the shit from that era pretty much has to be read to be believed.

We have a [[Superman|seperate article about him]], mainly because he's iconic in his own right. Superman is one of the only superheroes who has won against evil in real life: [[Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Adventures of Superman (radio series)|that radio drama]] had Supes fight the Ku Klux Klan and make them look like such chumps it depressed their recruitment for years. 

Ironically, compared to Batman, he has the smallest "family" of superpowered knock-offs, of which the only relevant ones are his cousin '''Supergirl''' and his super-powered dog, '''Krypto'''. There's also '''Power Girl''', an alternate dimension's version of Supergirl mostly known for her huge rack who crossed over into the mainstream dimension and stayed there after her own was destroyed. However post-Crisis it was decided Superman should be the '''Last''' Son of Krypton and not the penultimate one. Only Supergirl and Power Girl survived, but both stuck with increasingly ''odd'' new origins (like "merged with some quasi-angel" and "daughter of a sorcerer whose son from the future then impregnated her with himself") before everyone just gave up and restored their original ones. They also killed Supes off for a while and had four knockoffs show up to keep fans guessing as to which, if any, was the real one. The only one of any historical relevance is '''Steel''', a black man in power armor who got to keep hero-ing with the "S" logo after the real deal came back and was the subject of a terribad Shaq vehicle.

For decades, DC's official policy was that Kryptonians aren't cross-fertile with humans and they avoided introducing a Superbaby despite Clark Kent being married to Lois Lane for several years. ([https://www.larryniven.net/?q=man-of-steel-woman-of-kleenex-by-larry-niven A certain essay by a famous SF writer] may have had something to do with it.) This would be changed when one of their regular continuity shattering events undid the retarded New 52 and brought back the old continuity. After this, the main Earth's Clark and Lois had a son, Jon, while they were off screen and he's now ~10+ish. Despite needing a retcon to exist, Jon was well loved due to good writing, especially his father-son relationship with his dad and friendship with Damian Wayne as the "Super Sons", and that he struggles to control his powers instead of being a Mary Sue. Naturally Brian Micheal Bendis set out to destroy all that when DC went full retard and hired him despite being obviously insane and no longer capable of writing his way out of a paper bag.