The Comic Books:
- Image Source:
- Accidental Innuendo (Spider-Man crossover)
- And That's Terrible
- Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes
- Armor-Piercing Slap
- Big Dam Plot
- Bizarro Universe
- Bloodier and Gorier (top half)
- Boot Camp Episode
- Boxing Lessons for Superman
- Breaking the Bonds
- Bucket Booby-Trap
- Call to Agriculture (Batman crossover)
- The Cape
- Catch a Falling Star
- Chronoscope (Batman crossover)
- Clothes Make the Legend (bottom-left; bottom-right)
- Combo Platter Powers (top-left; bottom-left; bottom-right)
- Comic-Book Time
- Correspondence Course (Superman #211)
- Costume Copycat (Action Comics #233)
- Dig Your Own Grave (Batman crossover)
- Doomsday Device
- Dork Age.The DCU
- Dynamic Akimbo (statue)
- Expo Label
- Eye Beams
- Fantastic Nature Reserve
- Forgotten First Meeting (Action Comics #358, Supergirl crossover)
- For Great Justice
- Go-Karting with Bowser (Batman crossover)
- Green Rocks (toy)
- Hidden in Plain Sight ("Hidden in Plain Sight
" by Ben Matsuya)
- Homing Lasers
- Human Aliens (bottom-left)
- Ignored Expert
- I Kiss Your Foot
- Im Standing Right Here.Quotes
- Internal Homage (top half: Action Comics #1)
- Intimidating Revenue Service
- Killer Space Monkey (Showcase Presents Superman Volume 2 [2006])
- Kryptonite Factor
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere
- Lawful Good
- Man of Kryptonite
- Mistaken for Own Murderer (Action Comics #301)
- Mook Horror Show
- Motif Merger (Batman crossover)
- Muggle Foster Parents
- Nigh Invulnerability. Comic Books (Superman Volume 1 #376, Supergirl crossover)
- No-Sell (Incredible Hulk crossover)
- Not Good with Rejection
- Older Alter Ego (Shazam crossover)
- Omnicidal Maniac
- Phallic Weapon (Batman crossover)
- Photo Op with the Dog
- Powerful and Helpless (Batman crossover)
- President Superhero
- Primary-Color Champion (top-center)
- Propaganda Machine (Action Comics #58)
- Psycho Electro
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... (Spider-Man crossover)
- The Real Heroes
- Re-Power
- Returning the Wedding Ring
- Sadistic Choice (Action Comics #259)
- Secret Identity
- Smug Super
- Stupid Sacrifice
- Super Powers for a Day
- Super Reflexes (The Flash crossover)
- Super-Speed Reading
- Super Strength
- Talking Is a Free Action
- Tandem Parasite (Batman crossover)
- Theme Initials
- To Be Lawful or Good (Fantastic Four crossover)
- Tonto Talk
- Trainstopping
- Übermensch (fan-art)
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Dragon Ball Z crossover)
- UsefulNotes.The Golden Age of Comic Books (Action Comics #1)
- Villain with Good Publicity
- Wife-Basher Basher
- Witch Hunt (Batman crossover)
- The Worf Effect
- Writers Cannot Do Math
- Trope Namer:
- Beware the Superman
- Bizarro Universe
- Boxing Lessons for Superman
- The Cape
- Clark Kenting
- Clark Kent Outfit
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check
- Fight Off the Kryptonite
- Flying Brick
- Green Rocks
- In a Single Bound
- Kneel Before Zod
- Kryptonite Factor
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere
- Kryptonite-Proof Suit
- Kryptonite Ring
- Phantom Zone
- Shooting Superman
- Super Breath
- Super Dickery: When Superman's heroic acts are twisted as signs that he's a JerkAss.
- Super Strength
- Super Toughness
- Superman Substitute: As a Fountain of Expies.
- Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
- Superman Stays Out of Gotham (co-Trope Namer along with that other guy)
- JustForFun.These Look Like Jobs For The Superman
- Up, Up and Away!
- "World of Cardboard" Speech
- X-Ray Vision
- Executive Meddling: In 1940, Jerry Siegel wrote a story called "The K-Metal from Krypton," that would have introduced an early version of kryptonite and Superman revealing his secret identity to Lois. Siegel's publishers nixed this story as damaging to the franchise and made it clear Status Quo Is God would hold while both story innovations would have to wait for years.
- Fountain of Expies:
- Superman himself has dozens! And if they're not expies they're parodies, and if they're not parodies they're deconstructions.
- Lois Lane set the trend for news reporter love interests for superheroes who often fixate on the superhero identity before coming around to the secret identity.
- Name's the Same: Despite her name, Lois Lane is not going to be in the musical version of Taming of the Shrew.
- Superman has fought Ultraman, but the one he fought isn't from Nebula M78
- Star-Making Role: Almost every actor who donned The Cape and blue outfit became a household name.
- Tribute to Fido: The miniseries Superman for All Seasons, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, gave teenaged Clark Kent a dog named Shelby, after Sale's own dog. It was a two panel gag, but Shelby later became more notable as the golden retriever in Smallville.
- What Could Have Been:
- Jerry Siegel intended to have Lois learn Superman's dual identity early on and get a Relationship Upgrade back in 1939 or so; as it happened, this did occur... in the mid-1990s.
- A man called Walter George Alton revealed in an interview that he was considered for the role of Superman but ultimately turned down for being too old. Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans may recognize him as the star of Puma Man.
- The Wiki Rule:
