Thanks to Jimmy's help, Lois manages to escape to help Superman.

" Although none of his attempts to kill Superman work permanently ( though a classic non-canonical story from 1961 entitled " The Death of Superman " has Luthor finally killing Superman after lulling him by pretending to go straight, although Supergirl then arrests him and he is exiled to the Phantom Zone ), Luthor routinely manages to escape from prison and threaten the world again.

Superman manages to destroy the Kryptonite-powered ship and recover the crystal-simultaneously confronting Lex with the fact that, despite his claims that Superman has been ' holding him back ' from helping humanity, the only thing he accomplished with Superman being absent for a year was to find a large robot that he used to try to destroy everything -, but Lex manages to escape custody yet again.

With Superboy's aid, Luthor manages to cure Lena, allowing her to walk and think logically again for a brief moment, before he then quickly reverses the process, leaving Lena completely catatonic, and informs Superboy that so long as Superman is alive, he will never reveal how he did it.

He tortures Superman until the latter manages to escape.

After Superman manages to rescue the Kryptonian bottled city of Kandor from Brainiac, Kara is reunited with her parents.

Superman then manages to figure out with help from the Justice League computer that Blue Kryptonite may reverse the aging process because Blue Kryptonite is harmful to Bizarro and therefore should be helpful to Superman.

Fortunately, Mxyzptlk is able to reveal the truth about the world to Superman, who, despite his current lack of faith in himself — caused mainly by the fact that not even Lois Lane believes in him in this world — manages to find the power to break the cycle and defeat the Joker.

Superman tries to get Mxyzptlk to say his name backwards at different attempts ( one of them in his Clark Kent guise ) and finally manages to trick Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards by messing up the pronunciation of his name.

Superman manages to throw the " New Krypton " island out of the atmosphere and into space.

Superman manages to enter Brainiac's ship after penetrating its force field.

Ultimately, Superman manages to convince Gog of the error of his ways.

While Superman was attending to Batman's wounds, Jonah ambushed him and manages to kill Superman using Kryptonite bullets, and blowing his head off in the end.

The Furies capture Superman and take him to Apokolips, followed by Supergirl, who manages to trounce Lashina, Mad Harriet, Stompa, and Granny herself.

During a battle with Lex in his LexCorp office, Superman manages to witness the trapping of his friends Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Professor Emil Hamilton within the virtual realm.

Johnny manages to summon Superman, and the would-be conquerors ' plans are defeated.

In the season ten finale of the series he fully adopts the Superman identity, when he takes action to save Earth from Darkseid, who was drawn to Earth by Clark's actions and sought to take the hero as a host.

This sample had been found by the scientist who resurrected John Corben as Metallo, powering the cyborg with the alien matter in a paranoid attempt to save the world from Superman, as a mistranslation of a message from Jor-El caused the scientist to conclude that Superman was the leader of an alien invasion force.

However, once it becomes clear that it is as much in their interests to save the multiverse as anyone else's, Luthor and Brainiac reluctantly ally their faction with Superman and the other heroes.

Clark Kent becomes Superman for only as long as necessary, in order to save people.

All the stories are bookended by Bizarro Wars, a comic written by Chris Duffy with art by Stephen DeStefano in which Mxyzptlk seeks the aid of Superman to save the fifth dimension from a cosmic conqueror named " A ", but ends up with Bizarro ( here introduced as a new character that neither Superman nor Mxyzptlk formerly knew of ) instead.

Armed with two scripts for Superman and the sequel Superman II, he shot principal photography for both films to save on set dressing and actor / crew overheads.

In the final ( noncanonical ) pre-Crisis Superman story, Alan Moore's Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow ?, Krypto sacrificed his life to save Superman by biting the throat out of the Kryptonite Man.

He was able to save his infant son, Kal-El ( Superman ), sending him in a homemade spaceship towards the Earth, just moments before the explosion of Krypton.

For this perceived betrayal, Zod declares that he will escape and conquer Krypton ( confident that Jor-El will actually discover some way to save the planet ) and force the scientist and his son to kneel before him one day ( this echoes the statement Terence Stamp made in both Superman movies Donner directed: " You will bow down before me, Jor-El!

Jor-El sacrifices his remaining life-force to restore his son's powers so that Superman can save Earth from Zod.

He claims that without Superman and the ship that brought him to Earth, his Kryptonian collection is incomplete, and for that he must pass a test: pulling the life support of both the Kandor and Metropolis bottles, he must decide which city to save, using indestructible Kryptonian clothes he also preserved.

* Superman was forced to stop Brainiac and save the world after Brainiac kidnapped Lois Lane in the Sega Master System and Sega Genesis video game Superman: Man of Steel.

* Superman: Last Son of Earth and Superman: Last Stand on Krypton by Steve Gerber and Doug Wheatley presents a tale of fascism and xenophobia when scientist Jonathan Kent sends his son to Krypton to save him from an impending disaster on Earth.

Wonder Woman and Superman have now become a duo, using their superpowers to save lives in addition to their ambassadorial and governing duties.

In the introductory episode to Cyborg, " The Seeds of Doom ", Cyborg's abilities save Earth from Darkseid's seeds, but as Superman warns, make Darkseid a dangerous enemy to Cyborg, so Cyborg joins the League.

Owlman wants to kill it out of jealousy, Ultraman wants to raise it as his demented protege, and Superman tried to save it from both of them.

If he has any, it ’ s that he can ’ t do it all ; he can ’ t do enough and save everyone ... Batman is about angst ; Superman is about hope.

In part 2, the Female Furies defeat Supergirl and then Superman, who attempts to save her.

Superman, for example, sent from the " heavens " by his father to save humanity, is a messiah-type of character in the Biblical tradition.

* Action Comics Number 579, published by DC Comics in 1986, written by Lofficier and Illustrated by Keith Giffen, featured an homage to Asterix where Superman and Jimmy Olsen are drawn back in time to a small village of indomitable Gauls.

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

Thanks to Clark Kent's appearance as Superman and Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen being given exclusive interviews and photographs, the paper's circulation increases 700 %.

Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen constantly suspected Clark Kent of being Superman, yet when obvious evidence was right in their faces — such as times when Clark was missing his glasses — they never saw the resemblance.

* Super-Girl — In Superman # 123 ( August 1958 ), Jimmy Olsen uses a magic totem to wish a " Super-Girl " into existence as a companion and helper for Superman ; however, the two frequently get in each other's way until she is fatally injured protecting Superman from a Kryptonite meteor that a criminal has dropped towards him.

The film is a spinoff from the Superman film series starring Christopher Reeve, to which it is connected by Marc McClure's character Jimmy Olsen.

* Academy Award – winning actors Jimmy Stewart and Benicio del Toro both attended Mercersburg Academy, as well as John Hamilton, who played Perry White on Adventures of Superman TV series.

Cordelia's statement to Xander in the Zeppo, which compares him to Superman character Jimmy Olsen, is noted as another example qualifying Xander's everyman status.

" An example of the second use of " is not " is " Jimmy Olsen is not Superman.

The character made forty appearances in the Superman family of titles — Action Comics, Superman, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, Adventure Comics, Secret Society of Super Villains, and DC Comics Presents — from 1959 to 1984, prior to a reboot of the DC Universe as a result of the limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1-12 ( April 1985-March 1986 ).

Professor Phineas Potter is a supporting character in stories published by DC Comics featuring Superman and several related characters, most notably Jimmy Olsen.

Krypto is quick to defend Jimmy who along with Superman fall under attack, and is badly injured as a result.

Superman later decides to let Krypto stay with Jimmy when he realizes that Krypto has always preferred the company of younger people, such as himself as a child and Kon-El.

* Superman 50th Anniversary TV Special as James " Jimmy " Malone ( 1988 )

Jimmy succeeds in stopping a black kryptonite-afflicted Superman and transforms back to normal before the formula kills him.

It's not discussed as to whether Superman fought an original Doomsday in this universe, however Jimmy did know that it was based on Doomsday so this universe must have somehow had dealings with it.

Michael Landes ' modern-day take on the Jimmy Olsen character gained a cult following, as did Tracy Scoggins ' comedic take on Cat Grant, a more recent addition to the Superman mythos at the time.

George Reeves plays Clark Kent / Superman with Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen, John Hamilton as Perry White, and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson.

Now very popular with viewers, Jimmy was now being played as the show's comic foil to Superman.

Many of these plots had Jimmy and Lois being captured, only to get rescued at the last minute by Superman.

In one of the last episodes, " The Perils of Superman " ( a takeoff on The Perils of Pauline ), there was indeed deadly peril straight out of the movie serials: Lois tied to a set of railroad tracks with a speeding train bearing down on her, Perry White nearly sawed in half while tied to a log, Jimmy in a runaway car headed for a cliff, and Clark Kent immersed in a vat of acid.

It features Clark Kent / Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, and plays like a normal black-and-white episode of the second season, with series semi-regulars Tristram Coffin ( as a government spokesman ) and Billy Nelson ( as a criminal.