It is important to note however, that Superman may have flown in the past but may suddenly lose this ability thus it is only assumed that he can fly.

He and Green Lantern seek out Superman, who they think may have a better idea of what's going on because he's also an alien.

Sometimes the distinction as to which persona is the " real one " may be blurred or confused, as has sometimes been the case with Clark Kent and Superman.

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.

Thus a particular cartoon series may appear in a number of formats or time block, such as The Batman / Superman Hour.

Superman quickly realizes that Halk Kar is less powerful than he is and — instead of subjecting him to embarrassment over the fact that he may be weaker than his younger brother — opts to use his own powers to cover for Halk Kar's deficiencies.

Joe Btfsplk may have been the inspiration for the name of the impish character Mr. Mxyzptlk from the Superman comic books.

Before doing so, he points out that not everyone may want Superman to find all of Earth's kryptonite, and that he would have to be at least part human to know that.

Understood de dicto, however, this may be a perfectly reasonable belief, since Lois is not aware that Clark and Superman are one and the same.

* Billy Gray as Alan, a teenager who snaps a photo of Superman that may reveal the superhero's earthly identity in " Shot in the Dark ";

Lobo also has a strict personal code of honor – he will never violate the letter of an agreement ( he said in Superman: TAS that " The Main Man's word is his bond "), although he may gleefully disregard its spirit.

One could expound an infinite list of relational properties that may appear to undermine Leibniz's law ( i. e. Lois Lane loves Clark Kent, but not Superman.

Given the events of the Superman Annual, " Rock " may well have been Nemesis for some or all of his appearances with the Squad.

Superman survived his death by entering into a hibernation-like state, and the Eradicator's use of him as a " conduit " by which he could absorb solar energy " restarted " Superman's body ( Although sources such as Professor Hamilton and Batman have noted that available evidence suggests that the remaining solar energy reserves in Superman's body when he died would have actually " run down " before the Eradicator took his body, suggesting that other factors may have contributed to his resurrection ).

A later encounter with a villainous sentient sun from the future known as " Solaris " would reveal a future where Superman is still alive approximately 83, 000 years in the future, leading him to speculate that death may never come for him.

Marvin's similarity-yet-dissimilarity to Martin may be a nod to Bizarro's resemblance to yet difference from nemesis Superman.

The New Adventures of Superman may refer to:

For this reason, Perry may well suspect that Clark and Superman are the same person, but due to his personal admiration for both Clark and Superman, he has never confided this suspicion or knowledge to anybody.

His real name may be Kal Kent ( All-Star Superman ).

This Major Victory may or may not be identical with the second Major Victory from the Superman stories.

When most people think of a superhero or a comic book celebrity, Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman will usually be the first that comes to mind.

Not to be confused with Superman supervillain Cyborg Superman, a technopathic entity who prefers cybernetic forms, who is occasionally referred to as merely " The Cyborg.

Feeling that Clark is the real person and that Clark is not afraid to be himself in his civilian identity, John Byrne has stated in interviews that he took inspiration for this portrayal from the George Reeves version of Superman.

In post-Crisis continuity, Lois Lane, feeling that someone like Clark could not be Superman, never suspected the dual identity beyond one isolated incident before Clark finally revealed it to her.

* The explanation most commonly offered is simply that, despite their physical resemblance, Superman and Clark are perceived as being too different in mannerisms and personality to be the same individual.

Later in the film, when the need to change is more urgent ( as he believes the city is about to be poisoned by Lex Luthor ), he simply jumps out a window of the Daily Planet offices, changing at super-speed as he falls ( the film merely shows the falling Kent blurring into a falling Superman ) and flies off.

In the Superman: The Animated Series episode " The Late Mr. Kent ", wherein Clark Kent is presumed dead, Superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being Clark and having to be someone else instead (" I am Clark Kent.

I'd go crazy if I'd have to be Superman all the time .").

In a previous episode, the third part of the " Last Son of Krypton " arc, Jonathan " Pa " Kent assures his adoptive son that he will " always be Clark Kent " and that " Superman just helps out every now and then.

At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.

Although Kent is described in the show introduction as " mild-mannered ", he can be very assertive, often giving orders to people and taking authoritative command of situations, though, as in the Pre-Crisis Superman stories at that time, Clark is still considered the secret identity.

He is also considered to be the real person, with Superman the " alter ego ", though Kent often appears less in most episodes.

There was a reference that Jim Henson tried to sneak into Heaven only for him and Kermit the Frog to end up in a flat rectangle prison ( similar to General Zod in Superman II ) as Kermit begs for them to be released.

In an effort to reduce the use of kryptonite in Superman storylines, all known kryptonite on Earth was transmuted into " k-iron " in a 1971 storyline titled " The Sandman Saga ", though kryptonite could still be synthetically manufactured by a variety of known and unknown means, and additional material left over from the destruction of Krypton would continue to fall from space.

However, the crowd turns on the Army, and Superman orders the crowd to stop, telling them that they, not the Army, not Lex Luthor, nor himself, are meant to be Metropolis's saviors.

In both " JLA " and " 52 ," Grant Morrison states that Luthor's ego leads him to believe that the only reason Superman commits good deeds is to somehow strike at Luthor and prove who is better, arguing that it is impossible for Superman to be as good as he appears to be.

He apparently lost a fight to Superman so that water could be transported to the desert planet, as he had reactivated digging machines but discovered he could not find water.

Lex later sends Bizarro after the newly arrived " Superboy ", only for the creature to be defeated by Superman.

From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, " Clark Kent " was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

More recently, a slightly different take on the re-cutting of films was seen in a 2006 revision of the 1980 film Superman II.

While still forced to wear chains, Luthor was assigned the job of accessing the knowledge stored within the captured Brainiac, who had recently been defeated by Superman ( as seen during the " Brainiac " storyline ).

Some, like Superman and the Fantastic Four, are adored and seen as important civic leaders.

A typical robot before Asimov's Laws, seen in a Superman ( 1940s cartoons ) | Superman cartoon.

Smallville is retroactively shown as the Golden Age Superman's childhood hometown as well, as seen in the " Mr. and Mrs. Superman " series in Superman Family, as well as in New Adventures of Superboy # 15-16 ( March – April 1981 ).

In contrast to the super-strong Superman, he was a crippled and bald genius, and could be seen as one of the first examples of the evil genius archetype, due to his deformed body and baldness.

The video to that song also became one of the most widely seen Spanish music videos, with Bose playing both a Superman style superhero and an Indiana Jones type of adventurer in it.

The Legion as seen in Superman: The Animated Series.

NOTE: The Silver Age Phantom Zone appears to be prefigured in the 1950 Superman serial Atom Man vs. Superman, in which Lex Luthor uses a kind of matter-transmitter device to trap Superman in a limbo called the " Empty Doom " from which he can see and hear events in the " real " world but cannot touch anything or be seen or heard.

However, the crystal, once inserted into the console, instead opens up a vortex in which another black square is seen, with a figure resembling General Zod as portrayed in the Superman movies.

This depiction of the Phantom Zone suggests that the crystal shard seen in the first two Superman movies is not the Phantom Zone itself, but simply a vehicle that takes prisoners to this desolate wasteland which is referred to as the Phantom Zone.

The Bat-Cave was first seen in animation in various episodes of The Batman / Superman Hour, Super Friends, and The New Adventures of Batman.

* The Riddler made his first appearance in animated form in the Filmation Batman installments first seen on CBS Saturday Morning in 1968 as part of The Batman / Superman Hour with Ted Knight providing his voice.

The influence of Superman: The Movie can, to this day, be seen in superhero films outside the Superman storyline, and even outside the DC Comics universe.

He is also seen standing between the Question and Obsidian, during a scene in which Superman visits a metahuman bar.

This is seen in Superman / Batman # 32 ( March 2007 ).

* Krypto can be seen briefly in the DC Elseworlds story Superman: Red Son in the Fortress of Solitude.