Editing DC Comics (section)

===Superman===
Considered the '''original''' 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 liberty for all.

He is perhaps most infamous as the most absurdly overpowered character in comics, with an arsenal of abilities that includes flight, superhuman strength, nigh invulnerability, ocular heat rays, superhuman hearing, superhuman speed, x-ray vision and a freezing breath weapon. Ironically, he actually started out as relatively small powered; in the original comics, Superman's powers stemmed from his species having evolved on a planet with significantly higher gravity than Earth - as a result, on Earth, Superman's strength was far greater than any human, and the durable biology needed to resist the pressure made most human-level threats insignificant. He couldn't even fly originally, but instead his superhuman strength let him run at incredible speeds and leap huge distances. The very first cartoons gave him the ability to fly for dramatic effect, and that as where it started. In particular, he lost the "heavyworlder" origin and instead his powers became something his alien biology could only do if he charged up on solar energies from a yellow sun, whilst a popular radio drama introduced his most iconic vulnerability in the form of Kryptonite, the radioactive remnants of his homeworld.

We have a [[Superman|seperate article about him]], mainly because his fame is partly separate from the DCU.

Ironically, compared to Batman, he has the smallest "family" of superpowered knock-offs, mostly consisting of 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, and in the Silver Age Supergirl had two super-powered pets; Streaky the super-cat and Comet the super-horse... who was actually a [[centaur]] accidentally transformed into a horse and then given immortality and other super powers to make up for it by the [[witch]] who did it. He actually had a Bronze Age revamp which was even sillier. Most of these were excised from continuity after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, since it was decided Superman should be the '''Last''' Son of Krypton and not the penultimate one. Only Supergirl and Power Girl surviving, but both stuck with increasingly ''odd'' new origins (shit 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, though the restrictions lasted long enough that some alternate universes gave Supergirl non-Kryptonian origin (such as DCAU's making her a girl from the planet Argo, which was unable to support life due to collateral damage from Krypton's destruction, that survived due to suspended animation)s. During the Death of Superman arc, four copies popped up:'''Steel''' (vigilante who fought with powered armor and a giant hammer after being inspired by Superman and openly not Superman. Has a really, ''really'' bad movie starring Shaquille O'Neal.), '''Superboy''' (imperfect teenage or younger clone of Supes), the Cyborg Superman (who quickly went nuts), and the Eradicator (a lost Kryptonian superweapon that's largely forgotten about now).

For decades, DC's official policy was that Kryptonians aren't cross-fertile with humans and avoided introducing introducing a Superbaby despite Clark Kent being married to Lois Lane for several years. 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 all his then recent material showing he had clearly gone crazy and was no longer capable of writing a decent comic.