"Sure, I can bend steel with my bare hands... but what really matters, what true power really is--is making sure no matter how dark things get, there's always hope. That's what it means to be Superman."
Summary[]
Clark Kent, born as Kal El and better known as Superman in the New 52 DC Comics series, is re-envisioned with a modernized and nuanced character portrayal. As one of the most iconic superheroes, this iteration of Superman presents a younger and more relatable version, reflecting a contemporary perspective. Clark is depicted as a journalist at the Daily Planet, grappling with the challenges of his dual identity while protecting Metropolis and the world. His character embodies the quintessential traits of courage, morality, and the struggle to balance his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing, exploring themes of alienation, responsibility, and heroism. Superman’s abilities in the New 52 are a hallmark of his character, showcasing his immense power as a Kryptonian. His powers include superhuman strength, speed, durability, flight, heat vision, and super-hearing, all derived from Earth's yellow sun. Clark's invulnerability and regenerative capabilities make him nearly unbeatable in combat. The New 52 series also explores the evolution and limits of his abilities, adding depth to his character by testing the extent and boundaries of his powers in various scenarios. Clark Kent's relationships and dynamics are central to his narrative. His romantic relationship with Wonder Woman, although complex, becomes a cornerstone of his personal life, highlighting his human side. As Superman, his alliances with other superheroes, particularly within the Justice League, are pivotal. He forms strong bonds with Batman in particular, navigating the challenges of working as a team. Superman’s adversaries in the New 52 range from traditional villains like Lex Luthor to new threats like H'El, challenging him both physically and morally, and forcing him to confront the implications of his actions as a superhero. Throughout the New 52 series, Superman's storyline is marked by significant events and character development. Notable arcs include his early days as a hero in "Action Comics," where his journey begins in Metropolis, and "Superman Unchained," which delves into his role as Earth's defender against formidable foes. His involvement in crossover events like "Doomed" and "Trinity War" highlights his importance in the wider DC Universe. These storylines emphasize his growth from a young hero into a more seasoned and reflective Superman, tackling complex issues and conflicts while upholding his ideals of truth, justice, and the pursuit of a better world.
Young[]
Output:[]
Physical Strength[]
- Easily overpowers and stops a raging bull.
- Stops a train as it is about to hit a child.
- Stuck a thug through a wall.
- Cracks an asphalt road by landing on it.
- Catches a bulldozer as it is busting a building wall and snaps it off, tossing it into another wall. Then using it to wreck a tank.
- Rips open the metal doors to a monorail tube, then standing in the way of it to try to stop it.
- Breaks free from the electric chair he was stuck in, rips out of the ground, and blwos a hole through the wall with it. Then kicking a steel bunker door off the hinges and crumples it. Then busts through a wall into an elevator shaft and busts into the elevator itself through the bottom and knocking out the soldiers inside.
- Blocks a truck from hitting a little girl.
- Tears apart the smaller Terminaut robots.
- Destroys the torso of a giant Terminaut robot by tossing a news van at it.
- Destroys more Terminaut robots as he fights Metallo.
- Tears through Brainiacs machines as they try to confront him.
- Punches Brainiac-Metallo, pushing it back.
- Overpowers Brainiac-Metallo in a brawl, breaking it apart. Then using a spear to pierce Brainiac after they separate.
- Flicks the miniature spaceship that brought him to Earth at Brainiac, overriding his system.
- Blocks a train from colliding with a school bus.
- Knocked a wife beater through the wall of his apartment and into a nearby river.
Heat Vision[]
- Heats up the guns some soldiers are using, they beginning to melt and set their gloves on fire.
- Melts one of Brainiacs machines.
- Destroys the head of one of Brainiacs robots.
- Melts Brainiac-Metallo's bullets as they leave the chamber and fly back into his face.
Defense:[]
Blunt[]
- Undisturbed as he uses himself to stop a train from hitting a child.
- Uses himself to try to stop a monorail that is set to blow up, the monorail moving over 200 miles per hour. Even after colliding with him and the rail being blown up, the monorail blows through multiple walls of a building and tears up a street until colliding with the Daily Planet, Superman crushed between it and the Daily Planet and knocked out.
- Blocks a truck from hitting a little girl.
- Tanks getting run over by a military truck.
- Tanks punches from Brainiac-Metallo.
Piercing[]
- Even early on, bullets do nothing to him.
- Blocks a pistol with his bare hands., then rifle bullets bounce off him.
- A needle used by the military snaps on contact with his skin.
- Both him and his cape take no damage from the miniguns being fired at him.
- Tanks being shot by Brainiac.
Explosive[]
- Tanks a rocket launcher to the torso, falling off the building he is on, the wind knocked out of him.
- Tanks a tank shell blowing up on his back.
- Tanks getting shot by a tank shell from a Terminaut bot.
Cape[]
- A boy using his cape defends himself from a knife, it snapping on impact. The boy then downing the man trying to stab him with a punch to the gut, it causing internal bleeding.
- The cape takes no damage from multiple heavy automatic guns firing at it and a flamethrower being used on it.
- Both him and his cape take no damage from the miniguns being fired at him.
- Blocks gunfire from Metallo.
- Blocks laser beams from Brainiacs machines.
Electric[]
- Tanks getting electrocuted by a net fired from a cannon.
- Tanks but is drained by getting electrocuted by a souped-up electric chair, it supposedly being enough to fry a mountain gorilla.
- Tanks getting electrocuted at 300,000 volts at 10 amps.
- Continues to tank electric torture, eventually able to recover enough strength to break out.
- Tanks getting electocuted by Brainiacs machines.
Energy[]
Speed:[]
Travel[]
- Runs in front of a train to stop it from hitting a child, then jumping away.
- Drops Glenmorgan from the venue of a building and flies down to catch him.
- Escapes the military compound he is in with a couple jumps.
- Its takes him going all out with a ramp to help to achieve Mach 32 to escape the planet's atmosphere.
Combat[]
- Blocks a pistol shot with his hand, then running at a speed comparable to the rifle bullets.
- Flies away from some "robocopters" and gunners about to fire at him.
- Blocks another rifle shot with his hand as he runs from the military.
- Can outrun pistol shots.
Reactions[]
Misc:[]
Kryptonian Physiology[]
- Sees an ulcer inside a cop and warns him about it.
- Sleeping gas only works at a limited capacity on him.
- Immune to sarin gas, also sees through one-way mirrors.
- Can telepathically communicate with his ship.
- Can still hear everyone kidnapped from Earth while they're on Brainiac's ship which is outside the atmsphere of Earth.
- Can see the ship Brainiac has everyone in from the surface of the planet, it being outside the atmosphere.
- Finally learns to fly after becoming Superman formally.
Intelligence[]
Weaknesses:[]
Sub-Type[]
- Feat
Other Feats:[]
Sub-Type[]
- Feat
Base[]
Output:[]
Physical Strength[]
- Smacks back Green Lantern as they try to confront him.
- Smashes Batman into a wall.
- Shatters Hal's chain constructs trying to restrain him, then shattering the ball he uses to protect himself and Batman.
- Sends Barry Allen flying with a flick.
- Clears out dozens of Parademons by himself, using a truck as a bludgeon at one point.
- Draws blood from Darkseid in the middle of a fight with the Justice League, then knocking him back by ramming into him.
- Brawls OMAC, sending him through walls as they fight.
- Easily throws Kara into the air and above the clouds when she won't stop attacking him for no reason.
- When Batman is amped on a fear gas offshoot, Batman attempts to brawl him, but it is shown and explained that Batman would have died had it not been for Superman's control.
- Lifts up a chemical tanker truck with ease, then lifting up and throwing the Daily Planet globe at a monster.
- Beats the nanite monster that was previously smacking him around when he couldn't see it, having tackled it into a building.
- Shatters giant robots with his blows.
- Beats back the three nanite monsters that have copied his powers at once.
- Tackles the nanite copy of himself off Kara as it about to kill her, holding it back with ease.
- Continues to beat up the copy and destroy it.
- Beats up a monster that is attacking Metropolis, ripping up the street to block energy blasts, then sending it flying through buildings.
- Rams the monster through a building in their next fight.
- Rams Helspont into a mountain, brawls him, and then blows up the top of a mountain when ramming through it to attack Helspont.
- Smashes some stone formations underwater to help a submarine pass by safely, then lifting it to surface.
- Destroys a road from under when he rises from the ground.
- Brawls the advanced alien that was beating on him earlier.
- Brawls and beats a large Daemonite monster.
- Fights off some zombie monsters.
- Casually busts through the walls of Arkham.
- Stops Wonder Woman from trying to swing her blade at Hal Jordan by grabbing it by the blade.
- Busts in to an apartment through the door and shoves the abusive renter into the concrete wall.
- Twists an Uzi with ease, breaks apart a second gun, and then manhandles Maxim Zarov.
- Easily takes out a rampaging transforming industrial vehicle and then helps build a housing complex in seconds.
- Smacks away a car thrown at him.
- Brute forces his way through Comet's psychic attacks and defenses.
- Easily saves a construction worker when the crane he is on is collapsing.
Heat Vision[]
- Melts the torso of a Parademon.
- Sears OMAC's face with a blast.
- Blasts a giant robot's hand.
- Destroys the nanite monster that copied his freeze breath and froze the entire city.
- Blows back a swarm of nanites that are trying to incapacitate him for some time.
- Beats his nanite copy in a heat vision beam struggle, the copy able to harm Kara with his blasts.
- Blasts back a monster and his electrical attack.
- Disintegrates rubble falling from a building after he rams a monster through a wall.
- Destroys a large boulder and a chunk of the mountain Helspont slams him into.
- Re-seals the hull of a submarine with some careful blasting.
- Melts concrete.
- Melts some energy rifles with a quick blast.
- Melts some cyborganic restraints that are strong enough to restrain him.
- Melts a Daemonite gun with a short blast.
- Overpowers Helspont's energy beams with his own heat vision.
- Melts a revolver in a short blast.
Freeze Breath[]
- Blows back blasts from a nanite monster that has copied his heat vision power and become a fire elemental.
- A nanite machine copying his freeze breathe power was able to freeze all of Metropolis and everything in it.
- Blows back a swarm of nanites that are trying to incapacitate him for some time.
- The nanite monster amalgam that uses his powers was able to freeze the road and uses this to make a police van crash.
Solar Blasts[]
Defense:[]
Blunt[]
- Tanks a hit from Barry Allen.
- Tanks hits from OMAC.
- Tanks hits from Kara without much issue as she attacks him immediately after she arrives on Earth, her first impulse being to attack the first person that she seems to know.
- Continues to take hits from Kara in her tantrum without any real damage shown.
- Takes seemingly no real damage from the amped Batman on the fear gas offshoot, Batman only able to throw him around but only really draw a bit of blood.
- Tanks hits from a nanite monster that is invisible to him, it sending him through buildings and airships.
- No-sells getting slammed into a mountain with a telekinetically controlled boulder by Helspont.
- Tanks getting with boulders made from the top of a mountain.
- Tanks getting punched by a meta who can alter her density.
- Tanks another punch from her.
- Tanks even more hits from her.
- Takes getting smacked by Helspont from orbit to the mooon.
- Takes hits from a large Daemonite monster.
- Tanks being kicked back and through some cars by Diana.
- Undisturbed from mind controlled civilians mobbing him.
- Gets crushed between a bunch of cars telekinetically thrown by Comet.
- Only annoyed by getting telekinetically tossed into a building hard enough to collapse the building.
Piercing[]
- Bullets from a minigun do nothing to him.
- Minigun fire continues to do nothing to him.
- Withstands being turned into a pincushion by Desaad.
- Pistols continue to not do anything to him.
- Superman, Wonder Woman, and Cyborg tank being assaulted by a magical storm of teeth before being sealed.
- Assault rifle fire does nothing to him.
- Stops Wonder Woman from trying to swing her blade at Hal Jordan by grabbing it by the blade, his hand undamaged.
Energy[]
- His first time getting hit by an Omega Beam heavily damages and incapitates him.
- Takes but is heavily damaged by an Omega Beam from Darkseid.
- No-sells a chemical tanker exploding on him, then tanking blasts from a nanite monster that has stolen his power of heat vision and has become a fire elemental.
- No-sells being shot by some kind of energy gun from some fodder.
- His cape blocks blocks energy blasts that melt small chunks of brick and concrete from a monster.
- Tanks getting blasted by Helspont.
- Tanks more blasts from Helspont, one sending him through a mountain.
- No-sells blasts from automatic energy turrets.
- His cape no-sells blasts from energy rifles.
- Survives an assault from an advanced alien using all kinds of energy grenades and blasters.
- Tanks more energy blasts from Helspont.
- Tanks a heat vision blast from Martian Manhunter.
Explosive[]
- A bombing at a building seemingly had no affect on him as he shows up later just fine.
- Unaffected by a rocket blasting his chest.
Cold[]
Cape[]
Speed:[]
Combat[]
- Blitzes past Green Lantern.
- While too slow to deal with Flash well, he is able to land a flick.
- Superman and Flash move in to get the military away from the Parademon army, the bullets they and their bullets barely moving as they grab them and move them.
- Can run away from an Omega Beam for a short time before getting blown up by them.
- Throws Kara into the air above the clouds and then catches her as she begins to fall. Then when she tries to run away, he moves in front of her so fast she doesn't even see him come in.
- Blocks attacks from a fire elemental attempting to attack others, then tackling it and taking it to the atmosphere in a moment.
- Changes from his civilian clothes, flies out, then flies back in before a monster can attack people at the Daily Planet.
- Flies around a mountain to attack Helspont from behind.
- Moves into a house attacked by a meta and pulls the wife and child away from safety, the father being falsely reported to be Superman.
- Despite an alien being too fast for him before, he adapts and keeps up with it pretty well in their follow up fight.
- Outruns a nuclear explosion when the military bombs the nuclear reactor he is fighting in.
- Easily takes out a rampaging transforming industrial vehicle and then helps build a housing complex in seconds.
Travel[]
- Finds and keeps up with Flash who is running to metabolize a poison inside himself, this only after Barry has spent two days running and he has circled the Earth six times.
- Flies from Metropolis to Antarctica in a short time.
- Travels from ground to orbit in a short time.
- Easily saves a construction worker when the crane he is on is collapsing.
Misc:[]
Kryptonian Physiology[]
- Is unaffected by everything Batman throws at him, such as tear gas, sonic grenades, tasers.
- Can see through most things, although a Father Box is something he can't see through.
- His super breath can extinguish flames with ease.
- Uses x-ray vision to see through the city and see some hijackers who have taken a chemical tanker.
- Listens to the talk of the city to scope out for trouble.
- Sees inside the nanite monster copying his powers to find someone inside.
- Hears Lois Lane calling for him while drifting in the outer atmosphere knocked out.
- Can withstand the pressures of the deep sea.
- Easily handles saving people in a burning building while in his firefighter secret identity.
- His nails are harder than diamonds, his X-ray vision helps him do surgery, and his heat vision is precise enough to cauterize surgical wounds.
- Can read what is on a flash drive by looking at the actual flash drive itself.
- Unaffected by the radiation in Steel's lab that has him deep underground and in a hazmat suit for safety.
Kryptonian Suit[]
- His suit will form over his body starting from the symbol he wears on his undershirt.
- After the suit was whittled down to the core, it reforms and rebuilds itself by the time Clark wakes up for a fight later.
Intelligence[]
- When being attacked by a nanite monster that is invisible to only him, he takes it to an electronics shop to use the cameras and TVs in it to fight the monster.
- Reads every medical text ever published in moments, figures out how to operate on Lois Lane after she was attacked by Comet with debris lodged in her body, and successfully heals her in an operation that should've taken hours and wouldn't have been fast enough for how fast she was dying.
Mental Resistance[]
- Lasts the longest against Graves who mentally assaults the JL with illusions of their pasts.
- Upon learning Graves' illusions are indeed not real, he is the first to break out in their second fight.
- Somewhat handles but is repelled by a mental attack from Comet that is taking over nearby people.
- Gets snapped out of a psychic illusion from Comet with a bottle thrown at his head.
- Can now resist the mental attacks of Comet and the aliens that made him.
Weaknesses:[]
Kryptonian Physiology[]
Other Feats:[]
Symbol of Hope[]
- Ousts Glenn Glennmorgan, a mogul, for his corruption early in his hero career.
- When Brainiac offers the choice to save the last remnants of Krypton or the safety of Earth, he chooses that all lives will be safe.
- Lois Lane recalls when they were amateurs that an explosion occurred near them. When she was thinking of the story, she realized Clark immediately ran to save people.
Kryptonite-Influenced[]
Output:[]
Physical Strength[]
Heat Vision[]
Kills Dr. Light by blasting his face-off.
Defense:[]
Blunt[]
- Takes hits from Kryptonite Man.
- Brawls Kryptonite Man with help of a hazmat suit from Steel, although not fully protected especially when a hole is torn in it.
Takes but is knocked out by a blow from Wonder Woman.
Speed:[]
Combat[]
Misc:[]
Sub-Type[]
- Feat
Weaknesses:[]
Sub-Type[]
- Feat
Other Feats:[]
Sub-Type[]
- Feat