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* AngstWhatAngst: Unlike her twin, she doesn't seem all ''that'' troubled by the prospect of being eleven years old in body forever.
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!!Jonathan and Martha Kent

Superman's adoptive parents, who took him in when they found him as a baby after he was rocketed to Earth upon his home planet Krypton's destruction.
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* PapaWolf: Knowing the ways the Ultra-Humanite would harm his adoptoive son through the Chronoscope, Jonathan Kent personally cripples the villain.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Jonathan Kent's decision to cripple the Ultra-Humanite ultimately made the Ultra-Humanite more vindictive and focused on hurting and tormenting Superman.
* YouCantFightFate: Jonathan Kent actually tried to prevent the deaths of Bruce Wayne's parents Thomas and Martha Wayne after seeing the events happen on the Chronoscope by warning them about it, but Thomas and Martha willingly let their murders happen anyway because the knowledge that their deaths would result in their son growing up to become Batman convinced them that sacrificing their own lives was necessary to ensure Gotham City had someone to help defend it from crime.

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* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Here, Jim Gordon is her grandfather rather than her father. Or uncle. Or uncle who slept with his sister-in-law and may be Barbara's father after all or whatever they're going with these days.

!!Knight-Wing/Robin IV/Superman II (Clark Wayne)
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The son of Joel and Mei-Lai Kent, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr. and became the fourth Robin before choosing his own identity as Knight-Wing.

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* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Here, Jim Gordon is her grandfather rather than her father. Or uncle. Or uncle who slept with his sister-in-law and may be Barbara's Tony Gordon is also made her father after all or whatever they're going with these days.

!!Knight-Wing/Robin IV/Superman II (Clark Wayne)
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The son
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!!James Gordon

Police commisioner
of Joel and Mei-Lai Kent, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr. and became the fourth Robin before choosing his own identity as Knight-Wing.Gotham City.




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* DeducingTheSecretIdentity: When he comes to Bruce's door to ask for his help in stopping Ra's al Ghul, he explains that he figured out Bruce Wayne was Batman after observing that Batman first showed up in Gotham around the same time Bruce Wayne became old enough to inherit his father Thomas' fortune.
* SecretSecretKeeper: He reveals to Bruce that he always knew Bruce Wayne and Batman were the same person.

!!Thomas and Martha Wayne

Bruce Wayne's parents, whose deaths were why he became Batman in the first place.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: It's established here that Jonathan Kent saw their murders happen on the Chronoscope and attempted to warn them, but the knowledge that their deaths would result in their son Bruce growing up to become Batman and their feeling that their lives were a necessary price to pay to ensure Gotham City had a hero to defend it from crime ensured that Thomas and Martha willingly let their deaths happen anyway, but not without first telling their son how much they loved him.
* GoodParents: They really cared about their son Bruce and made sure he knew how much they loved him before they got killed.
* HeroicSacrifice: In spite of being warned by Jonathan Wayne that they'd both die that night in Crime Alley, they chose to let the events of their murders unfold anyway because they saw their lives as a necessary price to pay for their son to become Batman and defend Gotham City from crime in his adulthood.

!!Knight-Wing/Robin IV/Superman II (Clark Wayne)
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The son of Joel and Mei-Lai Kent, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr. and became the fourth Robin before choosing his own identity as Knight-Wing.
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* AsianBabymama: She's a Veitnamese woman who marries Joel and has his child.

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* AsianBabymama: She's a Veitnamese Vietnamese woman who marries Joel and Joel, has his child.child, is abandoned by him because he's blinded by his desire for retribution against his father's alleged mistreatment of him and is ultimately a better person than him.

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* CompositeCharacter: The fact that he's Supergirl's father in this continuity makes him a composite with his uncle Zor-El.



* CompositeCharacter: She takes Alura In-Ze's role as Supergirl's mother.



* AsianBabymama: Joel's.

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* AsianBabymama: Joel's.She's a Veitnamese woman who marries Joel and has his child.



* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His father was also a Green Lantern and named him after the greatest Lantern of all.

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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His father was also a Green Lantern and named him after the greatest Lantern of all.all, almost certainly referring to Hal Jordan.


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* DecompositeCharacter: He impersonates Lex Luthor after stealing his body, with the real Luthor not resurfacing until after the Ultra-Humanite has died and his robots have put Luthor's brain in a mechanical body, in the process becoming this continuity's Metallo.


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* CompositeCharacter: He becomes this continuity's Metallo in place of John Corben, with his brain being put in a robotic body powered by kryptonite.
* DecompositeCharacter: What is initially assumed to be Lex Luthor turns out to be the Ultra-Humanite impersonating Luthor after stealing his body, with Luthor's brain eventually being put into a robotic body and returning to battle Superman after the Ultra-Humanite has died.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Given that she is Superman and Lois Lane's daughter in this continuity, her surname is Kent instead of Zor-El.
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* HappilyAdopted: To Bruce Wayne Jr, having never known his real father and assumed Bruce Jr. was his natural father at first.

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* HappilyAdopted: To Bruce Wayne Jr, having never known his real father and assumed Bruce Jr. was his natural father at first. Even when he learns the truth about his biological father, it doesn't negatively affect his perception of his adoptive father.
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* LegacyCharacter: Assumed the role of Batman after Bruce retired.

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* LegacyCharacter: Assumed the role of Batman after Bruce retired. It's also revealed in this continuity that he's actually the second Robin with Bruce originally using the identity briefly in his late teens.

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* MakeMeWannaShout: Since Kara has a resistance to Kryptonite, he uses a sonic attack to stun her when he attacks her wedding.



* SuperScream: Since Kara has a resistance to Kryptonite, he uses a sonic attack to stun her when he attacks her wedding.



* SonicStunner: Or maybe MakeMeWannaShout or {{Vibroweapon}}? She wields something called a sonic mace, about which we receive little information.

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* SonicStunner: Or maybe MakeMeWannaShout SuperScream or {{Vibroweapon}}? She wields something called a sonic mace, about which we receive little information.
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* LastRequest: In 1975, on his deathbed, Joker asks Batman (BJ, that is) to let him look under his mask and confirm something he'd always suspected so he could die happy. Batman turns him down flat and walks away.

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* LastRequest: In 1975, on his deathbed, Joker asks Batman (BJ, that is) to let him look under his mask and confirm something he'd always suspected so he could die happy. Batman turns him down flat and walks away.away under the reason that a monster like the Joker doesn't deserve to die happy.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlives both his son Joel and his daughter Kara in ''Generations I''. ''Generations II'' would also have him outlive Lar-El and Vara, the children he had with his second wife Beautiful Dreamer.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlives both his son Joel and his daughter Kara in ''Generations I''. The alternate timeline in ''Generations II'' III'' would also have him outlive Lar-El and Vara, the children he had with his second wife Beautiful Dreamer.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlives both his son Joel and his daughter Kara.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlives both his son Joel and his daughter Kara.Kara in ''Generations I''. ''Generations II'' would also have him outlive Lar-El and Vara, the children he had with his second wife Beautiful Dreamer.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Technically, her relationship with Bruce (fully Human) counts. And of course, she's the result of one.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Technically, her relationship with Bruce Bruce, Jr. (fully Human) counts. And of course, she's the result of one.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlives both his son Joel and his daughter Kara.



* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Supergirl is his daughter in this continuity, when traditionally she is his cousin.



* NeckSnap: How she died at the hands of Ultra!Lex.

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* NeckSnap: How she died at the hands of Ultra!Lex.She was killed when Ultra!Lex snapped her neck.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: She is Supergirl's mother in this continuity.



* InterspeciesRomance: Technically, her relationship with Joel (fully Human) counts. And of course, she's the result of one.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Technically, her relationship with Joel Bruce (fully Human) counts. And of course, she's the result of one.


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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Lois Lane is her mother in this continuity.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Supergirl is usually Superman's cousin, but here she is instead his daughter.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that, and the deception [[NiceJobBreakingItHero most likely helped destroy his relationship with them]].

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that, and the years of deception [[NiceJobBreakingItHero most likely helped destroy his relationship with them]].them instead]].

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* SuperpowerLottery: Just like her dad, except, again, half as strong.

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* SuperpowerLottery: Just like her dad, except, again, half as strong.powerful.



* CharacterDevelopment: After Mei-Lai nurses him back to health, Joel actually matures somewhat as she helps him find some degree of peace in his life. However, the hatred Luthor-Humanite had stoked in his heart for his parents was rooted too deeply for her to ease.



* GlorySeeker: Joined the army during the Vietnam War in an effort the earn the respect he felt was lost to him before he was born and proved both willing defy his orders and commit atrocities against innocent people in order to earn accolades.



* IgnoredEpiphany: Claims that at the very last moment he felt a strange hesitation toward killing his sister, as though he didn't really want to.

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* IgnoredEpiphany: Claims that at the very last moment he felt a strange hesitation toward killing his sister, as though he didn't hadn't really want wanted to.



* TheNeidermeyer: Gets shot by his own troops in Vietnam after they lay waste to a village of innocent civilians. Is later brought back to health by his future wife Mei-Lai.
* ParentalSubstitute: Luthor-Humanite gets his hooks in him when he's young, and Joel comes to see him as the only ''real'' family he has, due to his blood family's "deception".

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* TheNeidermeyer: Gets shot by his own Decidedly ''not'' AFatherToHisMen, the young Kent had troops in Vietnam put under his command and is implied to have little respect from them, particularly after they lay waste he forced them to defy their orders by crossing the borderline into civilian territory and claiming that what looked like a village full of innocent civilians. Is later brought noncombatants was actually a Viet Cong base. One massive war crime later, Joel refused to acknowledge his mistake and attempted to kill off the few remaining women, old men, and children who had survived their attack so they couldn't report to their "commie masters". One of his discontented men shot him down before he could do so and Joel was left lying in the mud while his men left the area. Mei-Lai, one of the survivors of Joel's attack, took pity on him and treated his wound, nursing him back to health by his future wife Mei-Lai.
and helping him calm some of the anger within him. Ultimately, they married.
* ParentalSubstitute: Luthor-Humanite gets his hooks in him when he's young, and Joel comes to see him as the only ''real'' family he has, due to his blood family's "deception". As you can see above, he wasn't a particularly good influence.



* WomenAreWiser: A gentle, grounded counterpart to Joel and later Bruce Jr.

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* WomenAreWiser: A gentle, grounded counterpart to Joel and later Bruce Jr.
Jr., who helps calm the turmoil within them. though she didn't manage to get Joel to overcome his hatred for his parents.



* ShipTease: One panel in ''Generations III'' shows her with both her arms wrapped around one of Batman/Bruce Sr.'s arms. Even though there's no supporting dialogue or anything, that's ''awfully'' familiar.

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* ShipTease: One panel in ''Generations III'' shows her with both her arms wrapped around one of Batman/Bruce Sr.'s arms.arms and snuggled up to him. Even though there's no supporting dialogue or anything, that's ''awfully'' familiar.



** Invents one which can give a human all the super powers and abilities of a full-blooded Kryptonian...for about an hour or so. Then they disintegrate into goo.
** Ultimately, he manages to create a serum which will activate the dormant super-abilities of those with Kryptonian heritage, which he plans to take after exposing Superman to Gold Kryptonite and stealing his body. While the first part of his plan works, Superman kills him before he can BodySurf again and eventually uses this serum to not only restore his own powers, but those of Clark Wayne, his grandson by Joel Kent.

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** Invents one which can give a human all the super powers and abilities of a full-blooded Kryptonian...for about an hour five hours or so. Then they disintegrate into goo.
die rather painfully.
** Ultimately, he manages to create a serum which will activate reverse the dormant super-abilities effects of Gold Kryptonite on those with Kryptonian heritage, which he plans to take after exposing Superman to Gold Kryptonite K and stealing his body. While the first part of his plan works, Superman kills him before he can BodySurf again and eventually uses this serum to not only restore his own powers, but those of Clark Wayne, his grandson by Joel Kent. Somehow it ''also'' works on Batman in the ''Generations III'' timeline, too. Don't think about it too hard.

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* CrusadingWidower: After Luthor-Humanite's manipulations kill his wife and children at his daughter's wedding, Clark goes on a decade-long hunt for the body-switching bastard.



* NoPlaceForMeThere: Between him, Batman, their descendants and all the other heroes in their wake, Earth (and indeed our whole galaxy) has gotten a little too peaceful and boring for him by the 30th Century.

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* NoPlaceForMeThere: Between him, Batman, their descendants and all the other heroes in their wake, Earth (and indeed our whole galaxy) has gotten a little too peaceful and boring for him by the 30th Century. When it turns out Batman feels the same, the two of them (and Lana Lang) go off looking for some trouble.



* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Justified. At one point he scoured the universe looking for a cure for cancer in order to save Lois from the disease, but he couldn't find any that were compatible with human physiology.

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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Justified.
** He spent ages trying to create a SuperSerum which would give Lois and Joel Kryptonian powers, but anything that worked was also fatal to humans.
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At one point he scoured the universe looking for a cure for cancer in order to save Lois from the disease, but he couldn't find any that were compatible with human physiology.



* InterspeciesRomance: Techniocally, her relationship with Joel (fully Human) counts.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Techniocally, Technically, her relationship with Joel (fully Human) counts.counts. And of course, she's the result of one.




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* TogetherInDeath: In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III'', her spirit shows up to usher Bruce Wayne Jr. into the afterlife when he elects to end his extended lifespan at last. One might assume something similar happened in the unaltered/restored timeline.



* BlessedWithSuck: The formula that Ultra!Lex gave him that would give him superpowers would also end up killing him. Exactly as Ultra!Lex planned.

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* BlessedWithSuck: The formula that Ultra!Lex gave him that devised which would finally give him superpowers would also end up killing him. Exactly as Ultra!Lex planned.



* CassandraTruth: After years of deceit from his family, Luthor-Humanite revealed the real truth to Joel--not only was his father Superman, but the so-called "hero" had ''deliberately'' exposed Joel to Gold Kryptonite in the womb so that Joel would never be able to surpass him as a hero! When Joel confronted his deceitful parents, they tried to lie their way out of it, but even after they admitted that Clark was Superman, they claimed that it was ''villains'' who'd exposed Joel to the Gold K! ''Uh-huh''. Not only that, but his father tried to get him to buy some sob story about how he'd tried and ''tried'' to craft a SuperSerum which would give Joel and Lois Kryptonian powers, but anything which would do that would also kill a normal human. Shyeah right!

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* CassandraTruth: After years of deceit filthy lies from his family, corrupt "family", Luthor-Humanite revealed the real truth to Joel--not only was his father Superman, but the so-called "hero" had ''deliberately'' exposed Joel to Gold Kryptonite in the womb so that Joel would never be able to surpass him as a hero! When Joel confronted his deceitful parents, they tried to lie their way out of it, it once again, but even after they finally admitted that Clark was Superman, they claimed that it was ''villains'' who'd exposed Joel to the Gold K! ''Uh-huh''. Not only that, but his father tried to get him to buy some sob story about how he'd tried and ''tried'' to craft a SuperSerum which would give Joel and Lois Kryptonian powers, but anything which would do that would also kill a normal human. Shyeah right!



* InterspeciesRomance: Married Mei-Lai a full human to his half-Kryptonian (altered to be human).
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that, and the deception [[NiceJobBreakingItHero most likely helped wreck his relationship with them]].

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* InterspeciesRomance: Married Mei-Lai Mei-Lai, a full human to his half-Kryptonian (altered to be human).
human). As mentioned, he's also the result of one.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that, and the deception [[NiceJobBreakingItHero most likely helped wreck destroy his relationship with them]].



* MuggleBornOfMages: Born the only child of the couple without superpowers, but only because he was prenatally exposed to Gold Kryptonite by Lex Luthor (who secretly was the Ultra Humanite).

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* MuggleBornOfMages: Born the only child of the couple Superman and Lois without superpowers, but only because he was prenatally exposed to Gold Kryptonite by Lex Luthor (who secretly was the Ultra Humanite).



* WeddingSmashers: Interrupts the reception following Bruce Jr. and Kara's wedding so that he could kill his sister.

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* WeddingSmashers: Interrupts the reception following Bruce Jr. and Kara's wedding so that he could kill his sister.sister and give Luthumanite the opportunity to kill Lois.



* SatelliteCharacter: She doesn't get a lot of characterization compared to her sister or father, and spends pretty much all of her on-panel time reacting to things they say or giving generic heroic dialogue.



** In aforementioned alternate timeline, he eventually settles down with Lara Wayne, aka Supergirl-Blue. They marry and even have a son together, who is born as a perfectly normal human in spite of his heritage.



* MoralityPet: Mei-Lei and later young Clark as Robin become this for him, helping him reorient himself after the death of his wife.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicts one on Alan Scott after the JLA turns on him.

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* MoralityPet: Mei-Lei and later young Clark as Robin become this for him, helping him reorient himself after the death of his wife.
wife. Clark eventually becomes Robin, as Dick did for Bruce.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicts one on Alan Scott after the JLA turns on him.him, nearly killing the aging man before getting ahold of himself.



* TogetherInDeath: In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III'', after he's gravely injured fighting Darkseid's forces in the 24th century, he declines the medical treatment that would save his life so that he can be reunited with Kara again after over three centuries.

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* TogetherInDeath: In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III'', after he's gravely injured fighting Darkseid's forces in the 24th century, he declines the medical treatment that would save his life so that he can be reunited with Kara again after over three centuries. One might assume that something similar happened in the unaltered/restored timeline.

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* FakingTheDead: A mildly unintentional case as he never felt it necessary to inform his family he was still alive after being unexpectedly fragged by his troops and nursed back to health by Mei-Lai.



* TragicVillain: Let's see...Born the powerless son of the most powerful hero on earth, due to the machinations of his father's archenemy? Check. Deceived his entire life into hating his family by said archenemy? Check. Grows up into a miserable GlorySeeker [[TheNeidermeyer Neidermeyer]] who commits terrible atrocities in order to prove himself and gets fragged and left for dead by his own troops instead? Check. Accomplice to the murder of his mother? Check. Takes a SuperSerum that allows him to murder his superpowered sister with his bare hands? Check. The serum's poisonous and the last thing he sees before his death is the man he'd embraced as a ParentalSubstitute gloating about how ''every last thing'' he'd led Joel to believe about his life was a bald-faced '''lie''' specifically tailored to manipulate him into destroying his family and perishing right before his ''real'' father's eyes? Oh, you better ''believe'' that's a check! Bonus: He leaves a wife and son behind, having chosen his misplaced revenge over a peaceful life with them.
* TheUnfavorite: Luthor convinced Joel that Kara had been allowed to keep her powers because Superman hadn't seen a superpowered ''daughter'' as a potential rival.

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* TragicVillain: Let's see...Born the powerless son of the most powerful hero on earth, due to the machinations of his father's archenemy? Check. Deceived his entire life into hating his family by said archenemy? Check. Grows up into a miserable GlorySeeker [[TheNeidermeyer Neidermeyer]] who commits terrible atrocities in order to prove himself and gets fragged and left for dead by his own troops instead? Check. Accomplice to the murder of his mother? Check. Takes a SuperSerum that allows him to murder his superpowered sister with his bare hands? Check. The serum's poisonous deadly and the last thing he Joel sees before his death ''melting to death'' is the man he'd embraced as a ParentalSubstitute gloating about how ''every last thing'' he'd led Joel to believe about his life was a bald-faced '''lie''' specifically tailored to manipulate him into destroying his actual loving family and perishing right before his ''real'' father's eyes? Oh, you better ''believe'' that's a check! Bonus: He leaves a wife and son behind, having chosen his misplaced revenge over a peaceful life with the two of them.
* TheUnfavorite: Luthor convinced Joel that Kara had been allowed to keep her powers because Superman hadn't seen a superpowered ''daughter'' as a potential rival. In fact, the Kents loved them both equally.

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* BrainUploading: He uploaded himself to the AI in the Superman Museum, from there took over the Master Computer that controlled Metropolis, and then took over the world. The empowered Batman and re-powered Supergirl Blue eventually took him out for good, but it took a ''long'' time, as he was basically a [[DigitizedHacker living computer virus]] at this point.

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* BrainUploading: He uploaded himself to the AI in the Superman Museum, from there took over the Master Computer that controlled Metropolis, and then took over the world. The empowered Batman and re-powered Supergirl Blue eventually took wiped him out for good, but it took a ''long'' time, as he was basically a [[DigitizedHacker living computer virus]] at this point.



* DrivenToMadness: Dying, having his wrecked brain repaired as best as possible and becoming a WetwareCPU with all the bizarre new senses and information that entails, as well as losing sixty-nine years of his life did a real number on him, pushing his inborn power lust and instability to new heights. And then he was trapped in a vault for four hundred years.

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* DrivenToMadness: Dying, having his wrecked brain repaired as best as possible and becoming a WetwareCPU with all the bizarre new senses and information that entails, as well as losing sixty-nine years of his life did a real number on him, Lexie, pushing his inborn power lust and instability to new heights. And then he was trapped in a vault for four hundred years.years, which doesn't particularly improve his state of mind.



* JokerImmunity: In the ''Generations III'' timeline, after taking over the world's computer network, Luthor gained a justified form of this, as he kept reinventing himself and returning every time he was thought to be defeated. Over a war that lasted decades, Batman and Supergirl Blue managed to cut off all his avenues of escape and finally [[KilledOffForReal delete him]] once and for all..

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* JokerImmunity: In the ''Generations III'' timeline, after taking over the world's computer network, Luthor gained a justified form of this, as he kept reinventing himself and returning every time he was thought to be defeated. Over a war that lasted decades, Batman and Supergirl Blue managed to cut off all his avenues of escape and finally [[KilledOffForReal delete him]] once and for all..all.



* TakeOverTheWorld: Claims he'll do this after his first resurrection, and then actually does so in the timeline of ''Generations III''.

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* TakeOverTheWorld: Claims he'll do this after his first resurrection, and then actually does so in the timeline of ''Generations III''.III'', by taking over the future-internet.



** His (understandable) reaction to his brain being kept alive for decades and put into a robot body is to wig out and escape, knocking around the servants who'd facilitated it.

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** His (understandable) reaction to his brain being kept alive for decades and put into a robot body is to wig out and escape, knocking around the Ultra-Humanite's servants who'd facilitated it.performed the operation.



* WetwareCPU: Post-resurrection, Lex spends some time as one of these for an incredibly advanced robot body, with its sensors and data banks feeding information directly into what's left of his brain.
* WhatHaveIBecome: He doesn't cope with his new situation very well, to say the least.

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* WetwareCPU: Post-resurrection, Lex spends some time as one of these for an incredibly advanced robot body, with its sensors and data banks feeding information directly into what's left of his brain.
brain. In the future (at least in the ''Generations III'' timeline) he sheds this and uploads himself into the future's equivalent of the internet.
* WhatHaveIBecome: He doesn't cope with his new situation ending up as a brain in a bottle very well, to say the least.



* LegacyCharacter: In 1969, while the elderly Joker is committed, a young new villain who calls himself Joker Junior begins causing trouble in Gotham City--however, Joker claims to have no offspring.



Amanda Mason was the daughter of Ransak, an enemy of Batman III and Robin IV, who was busted and sent to jail when she was twelve. Six years later she grabbed a set of his power armor and went on a rampage, only to be stopped by Knight-Wing during his inaugural mission.

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Amanda Mason was the daughter of Ransak, an enemy of Batman III and Robin IV, who was busted and sent to jail when she was twelve. Six years later she grabbed a set of his power armor and went on a rampage, only to be stopped by Knight-Wing during his inaugural mission.mission under that name.



* DisproportionateRetribution: Claimed she would kill the people who sent her father away as vengeance for his suffering, and destroy Gotham City. In time, she came to terms with the fact that her father deserved what he got.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Claimed As a teenage supervillain she claimed she would kill the people who sent her father away as vengeance for his suffering, to jail and destroy Gotham City.City in order to repay them for both his suffering and for taking him away from their family. In time, she came to terms with the fact that her father deserved what he got.



* ISeeDeadPeople: Superman manages to project himself from the Phantom Zone and startle her, in order to give Knight-Wing a little breathing space. He's not "dead", but the spirit's the same.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Strictly speak, since Clark Wayne is 3/4 human and 1/4 Kryptonian.
* ISeeDeadPeople: During her fight with Knight-wing Superman manages to project himself from the Phantom Zone and startle her, her for a couple of seconds, in order to give Knight-Wing his grandson a little breathing space. He's not "dead", but the spirit's the same.



* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: As a youth, she had difficulty accepting that her father was a violent criminal, and lashed out at the city that had punished him for his deeds.
* MisplacedRetribution: It's not as if Batman and Robin ''made'' her father build a power-suit and commit crimes. Of course, she was running on angry teen logic at the time.
* OfficialCouple: With Knight-Wing. Their romance developed after he testified on her behalf (getting her a sentence of only ten years in spite of all the damage she caused), and visited her regularly in prison. As she notes, it'll be a funny story to tell their grand-kids.
* PowerBornOfMadness: Knight-Wing notes that Ransak was atypically attacking randomly and without logic, which made "him" harder to fight since there was no pattern to discern. Turns out there was a pissed off teenager in the suit.

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* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: As a youth, she had difficulty accepting that her father was a violent criminal, and lashed out at the city that had punished broken up their family by sending him to jail for his deeds.crimes.
* MisplacedRetribution: It's not as if Batman and Robin Robin/Gothan City ''made'' her father build a power-suit and commit crimes. Of course, she was running on angry teen logic at the time.
* OfficialCouple: With Knight-Wing. Their romance developed after he testified on her behalf (getting her a sentence of only ten years in spite of all the damage she caused), and visited her regularly in prison. As she notes, it'll be a funny story to tell their grand-kids.
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* PowerBornOfMadness: During their fight Knight-Wing notes noted that Ransak "Ransak" was atypically attacking randomly and without logic, which made "him" harder to fight since there was no pattern to discern. Turns out there was a pissed off teenager in the suit.
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** Eventually, after inventing a surgery-free means of body-swapping, Ultra-Humanite planned to de-power and kill then transfer his mind into the body, with a re-powering serum at hand.

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** Eventually, after inventing a surgery-free means of body-swapping, Ultra-Humanite planned to de-power and kill capture Superman, then transfer his mind into the his body, with a re-powering serum SuperSerum at hand.



** Invents one which can give a human all the super powers and abilities of a full-blooded Kryptonian...for about half an hour. Then they gradually disintegrate into goo.

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** Invents one which can give a human all the super powers and abilities of a full-blooded Kryptonian...for about half an hour. hour or so. Then they gradually disintegrate into goo.

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* InterspeciesRomance:
** Naturally, his relationship with Lois (Human) counts.
** In the ''Generations III'' alternate timeline, he ends up in New Genesis for a while, where he marries Beautiful Dreamer (New God).
** At some point prior to 2919, he marries Lana Lang (Altered Human).



* InterspeciesRomance: With Clark Kent (Kryptonian) to her human.



* InterspeciesRomance: With Clark Kent (Kryptonian) to her altered human.



* InterspeciesRomance: Techniocally, her relationship with Joel (fully Human) counts.



* InterspeciesRomance: Married Mei-Lai a full human to his half-Kryptonian (altered to be human).



* InterSpeciesRomance: Joel Kent was half-Kryptonian, even if his alien genes were dormant.



* HybridPower: A chunk of Green Kryptonite can't kill Lara and Lois, but it still ''really'' hurts. It took extremely concentrated Green K radiation to kill her.

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* HybridPower: A chunk of Green Kryptonite can't kill the 7/8 Lara and Lois, but it still ''really'' hurts. It took extremely concentrated Green K radiation to kill her.



* HybridPower: A chunk of Green Kryptonite can't kill Lara and Lois, but it still ''really'' hurts.

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* HybridPower: A chunk of Green Kryptonite can't kill the 7/8 human Lara and Lois, but it still ''really'' hurts.hurts.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** As mentioned above, she fell in love with an alien named Ator, and while he did love her, he was reluctant to enter a relationship because while he was about 350 years younger than her, she was in a prepubescent body.
** Much later, after she'd aged to adulthood, she (Part-Kryptonian) married Bruce Wayne (Altered Human).



* InterspeciesRomance: Two, in the Alternate timeline of ''Generations III''.
** Dated Wonder Woman for about a century. (Altered Human/Divinely Animated Clay Statue)
** Eventually Married Lara Wayne (Altered Human/Part-Kryptonian).



* NotBloodRelated: In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III'', he married his adoptive granddaughter Lara Wayne.



* LegacyChjaracter: Assumed the role of Batman after Dick was killed.

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* LegacyChjaracter: LegacyCharacter: Assumed the role of Batman after Dick was killed.



* LecacyCharacter: Zigzagged. Although he was the first Robin to decline the role of Batman, he did (reluctantly) become the next Superman in the alternate timeline created by Darkseid's interference.

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* LecacyCharacter: InterspeciesRomance: Married Amanda Mason, a fully human ex-supervaillainess.
* LegacyCharacter:
Zigzagged. Although he was the first Robin to decline the role of Batman, he did (reluctantly) become the next Superman in the alternate timeline created by Darkseid's interference.


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* InterspeciesRomance: As a divinely-animated clay sculpture, her relationships with Steve Trevor (Human) and Bruce Wayne (Altered Human) were this.


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* SuperSerum:
** Invents one which can give a human all the super powers and abilities of a full-blooded Kryptonian...for about half an hour. Then they gradually disintegrate into goo.
** Ultimately, he manages to create a serum which will activate the dormant super-abilities of those with Kryptonian heritage, which he plans to take after exposing Superman to Gold Kryptonite and stealing his body. While the first part of his plan works, Superman kills him before he can BodySurf again and eventually uses this serum to not only restore his own powers, but those of Clark Wayne, his grandson by Joel Kent.

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* {{Flight}}: Able to cross over a hundred light years within hours.

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* {{Flight}}: Able to cross over a hundred light years within a few hours. This power also seems to be the one which declines the most quickly as human genes comingle with his bloodline, though his descendants are still impressively fast.



* SuperpowerLottery: Just like his mainstream Silver Age version.

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* SuperpowerLottery: Just like He's got all the powers of his mainstream Silver Age version.version, at the same planet-shoving, intergalaxy-flying levels.



* RedheadInGreen: Wears a flowing green outfit after taking Merlin's staff, and her suit in the future has green accents as well as a green cape.

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* RedheadInGreen: Wears a flowing green outfit after taking Merlin's staff, and her silver suit in the future has green accents as well as a green cape.



The son of Kal-El and Lois Lane. Married Mei-Lai Kent and fathered Clark Wayne, who was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr.

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The son of Kal-El and Lois Lane. Exposed to Gold K while in the womb by Luthor and the Joker, he was born a normal human. Married Mei-Lai Kent and fathered Clark Wayne, who was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr.



* CassandraTruth: Refused to believe his father when he said that any formula that would give someone Kryptonian powers would be fatal.

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* CassandraTruth: Refused After years of deceit from his family, Luthor-Humanite revealed the real truth to believe Joel--not only was his father when he said Superman, but the so-called "hero" had ''deliberately'' exposed Joel to Gold Kryptonite in the womb so that any formula Joel would never be able to surpass him as a hero! When Joel confronted his deceitful parents, they tried to lie their way out of it, but even after they admitted that Clark was Superman, they claimed that it was ''villains'' who'd exposed Joel to the Gold K! ''Uh-huh''. Not only that, but his father tried to get him to buy some sob story about how he'd tried and ''tried'' to craft a SuperSerum which would give Joel and Lois Kryptonian powers, but anything which would do that would give someone Kryptonian powers would be fatal.also kill a normal human. Shyeah right!



* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Swallowed every lie Luthor fed him without question. But then, he was only about ten or so when Luthor started brainwashing him.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Claims that at the very last moment he felt hesitation toward killing his sister, as though he didn't really want to.

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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Swallowed every lie Luthor fed him without question. But then, he was only about nine or ten or so when Luthor started brainwashing him.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Claims that at the very last moment he felt a strange hesitation toward killing his sister, as though he didn't really want to.



* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that.that, and the deception [[NiceJobBreakingItHero most likely helped wreck his relationship with them]].



* ParentalSubstitute: Luthor-Humanite gets his hooks in him when he's young, and Joel comes to see him as the only ''real'' family he has, due to his blood family's "deception".



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Hey, now, just because you've been deceived into despising your sister with every fiber of your being and are about rip her heart out of her chest is no reason to claim that a female could never be your father's equal, Joel! Shame on you! Shame!

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Hey, now, just because you've been deceived into despising your sister with every fiber of your being and are about to literally rip her heart out of her chest is no reason to claim that a female could never be your father's equal, Joel! Shame on you! Shame!



* RescueRomance: Falls for Mei-Lai after she saves his life in Vietnam after his own soldiers betray him and leave him for dead.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Mei-Lai asks him to set aside his hatred for his family and live in peace, but he just can't do it.

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* RescueRomance: Falls for in love with Mei-Lai after she saves his life in Vietnam after when his own soldiers betray him and leave him for dead.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Mei-Lai asks pleads with him to set aside his hatred for his family and live in peace, peace with her and their son, but he just can't do it.



* TheUnfavorite: Perceived himself to be this.

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* TheUnfavorite: Perceived himself Luthor convinced Joel that Kara had been allowed to be this.keep her powers because Superman hadn't seen a superpowered ''daughter'' as a potential rival.



* LegacyCharacter: Assumed the role of Batman after Bruce retired.



* LegacyChjaracter: Assumed the role of Batman after Dick was killed.



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* HappilyAdopted: To Bruce Wayne Jr, having never known his real father.

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* HappilyAdopted: To Bruce Wayne Jr, having never known his real father.father and assumed Bruce Jr. was his natural father at first.


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* LecacyCharacter: Zigzagged. Although he was the first Robin to decline the role of Batman, he did (reluctantly) become the next Superman in the alternate timeline created by Darkseid's interference.
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* TheEmpath: Thanks to both of them being born to super-heroic parents at practically the same time, Kara shares a psychic link to Stephanie Trevor that enables her to sense her emotions.

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* TheEmpath: Thanks to both of them being born to super-heroic parents at practically the same time, Kara shares a psychic link to Stephanie Trevor that enables her them to sense her each others' emotions.



* TragicVillain: Let's see...Born the powerless son of the most powerful hero on earth, due to the machinations of his father's archenemy? Check. Deceived his entire life into hating his family by said archenemy? Check. Grows up into a miserable GlorySeeker [[TheNeidermeyer Neidermeyer]] who commits terrible atrocities in order to prove himself and gets fragged and left for dead by his own troops instead? Check. Accomplice to the murder of his mother? Check. Takes a SuperSerum that allows him to murder his superpowered sister with his bare hands? Check. The serum's poisonous and the last thing he sees before his dies is the man he'd embraced as a ParentalSubstitute gloating about how ''every last thing'' he'd led Joel to believe about his life was a bald-faced '''lie''' specifically tailored to manipulate him into destroying his family and perishing right before his ''real'' father's eyes? Oh, you better ''believe'' that's a check! Bonus: He leaves a wife and son behind, having chosen his misplaced revenge over a peaceful life with them.

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* TragicVillain: Let's see...Born the powerless son of the most powerful hero on earth, due to the machinations of his father's archenemy? Check. Deceived his entire life into hating his family by said archenemy? Check. Grows up into a miserable GlorySeeker [[TheNeidermeyer Neidermeyer]] who commits terrible atrocities in order to prove himself and gets fragged and left for dead by his own troops instead? Check. Accomplice to the murder of his mother? Check. Takes a SuperSerum that allows him to murder his superpowered sister with his bare hands? Check. The serum's poisonous and the last thing he sees before his dies death is the man he'd embraced as a ParentalSubstitute gloating about how ''every last thing'' he'd led Joel to believe about his life was a bald-faced '''lie''' specifically tailored to manipulate him into destroying his family and perishing right before his ''real'' father's eyes? Oh, you better ''believe'' that's a check! Bonus: He leaves a wife and son behind, having chosen his misplaced revenge over a peaceful life with them.



* TheEmpath: Thanks to both of them being born to super-heroic parents at practically the same time, Stephanie shares a psychic link to Kara Kent that enables her to sense her emotions. It also let her know when Kara died.

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* TheEmpath: Thanks to both of them being born to super-heroic parents at practically the same time, Stephanie shares a psychic link to Kara Kent that enables her them to sense her each others' emotions. It also let allowed her know when Kara died.to sense Kara's death.
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* TheUnmasking: Luthor/Ultra Humanite exposed Clark's identity on the same day that he killed all but one of his blood family. After ''that'', and with Joel's kid being raised as a Wayne, there was little point in maintaining the identity.

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* TheUnmasking: Luthor/Ultra Humanite exposed Clark's identity on the same day that he killed all but one of his blood family. After ''that'', and with Joel's kid being raised as a Wayne, there was little point in maintaining the identity.pretense.
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* To both his wives, even though his first marriage ended tragically with the death of Lois at the hands of Ultra!Lex.
* In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III'', he falls in love with and marries Beautiful Dreamer of the New Gods.

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* ** To both his wives, even though his first marriage ended tragically with the death of Lois at the hands of Ultra!Lex.
* ** In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III'', he falls in love with and marries Beautiful Dreamer of the New Gods.

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* GreenLanternRing: The first earthling to have one, as in regular DC continuity.

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* GreenLanternRing: ArtifactOfPower: The first earthling to have one, a Green Lantern Ring, as in regular DC continuity.



* GreenLanternRing: Duh. He demonstrates the ability to make things invisible and sense chemical types with it.



* RingOfPower: Duh. He demonstrates the ability to make things invisible and sense chemical types with it.



* GreenLanternRing: Hal's the one who unlocks its full potential.

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* GreenLanternRing: RingOfPower: Hal's the one who unlocks its the full potential.potential of the Green Lantern Ring.



* GreenLanternRing: Surprise.




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* RingOfPower: Surprise.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: As in canon, he plays this up in the early years.

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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Technically, he's the second black Green Lantern that we ''know'' of (he mentions his father), but there certainly could have been more by the 30th Century.


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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Technically, he's the second black Green Lantern that we ''know'' of (he mentions his father), but there certainly could have been more by the 30th Century.
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* TheUnreveal: It's easier to guess who she's ''not''. [[spoiler:Alledgedly, she was intended to be Kathy Kane aka Batwoman, but her real-life debut decade was incorrect for when she appeared]].

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* TheUnreveal: It's easier to guess who she's ''not''. [[spoiler:Alledgedly, [[spoiler:Allegedly, she was intended to be Kathy Kane aka Batwoman, but her real-life debut decade was incorrect for when she appeared]].

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Debuted as Superboy in 1920, became Superman in 1939. Married to Lois Lane, through which he became the father of Joel and Kara Kent (both of whom are deceased). Eventually married Lana Lang in his later years.

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Debuted as Superboy in 1920, became Superman in 1939. Married to Lois Lane, through which he became the father of Joel and Kara Kent (both of whom are deceased). Eventually married Lana Lang in his later (much much later) years.
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* CoolOldGuy: By the first miniseries' end.

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* CoolOldGuy: By the first miniseries' end.end he's over a thousand years old. And he remains active as Superman for all that time.



* ReadingLips: It makes eavesdropping with X-Ray Vision much more useful.

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* ReadingLips: It makes eavesdropping with X-Ray Vision much more useful.useful--although considering his Super Hearing he needn't bother.



* TheUnmasking: Luthor/Ultra Humanite exposed Clark's identity on the same day that he killed all but one of his blood family. After ''that'', and with Joel's kid being raised as a Wayne, there was little point in maintaining the identity.




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* {{Sidekick}}: Naturally! He was the first non-Bruce Robin.




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* {{Sidekick}}: Spent time serving as Robin III for Batman II.




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Another superhero who calls Metroplis home, implied to be a member of the JLA, though not outright stated.
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* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: After being hit with an EMP he has to detach his limbs so Flash can pick him up and take him to a power source.

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* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: After being hit with an EMP he has to detach his limbs so Flash V can pick him his torso up and take him to a power source.




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* AGodAmI: Claims to be the reincarnation of an Egyptian god, rather than a reincarnated prince.

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* CutLexLuthorACheck: The man found a treatment which could suppress the ravages of cancer long enough to allow Lois Lane to survive months after other doctors told her there was nothing they could do and even Superman failed to find a way to cure or slow it down. She was even able to leave what would have been likely her deathbed and attend in a wheelchair thanks to him! And he found that way ''specifically'' so he could have the joy of snapping her neck right in front of Superman.



* SecretKeeper: Deduced Superman's identity long before he reveals it to the world.




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* ReformedCriminal: She doesn't jet around in power armor or anything, but after her incarceration she works to rehabilitate criminals and get them back on the straight and narrow.

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* ReformedCriminal: She doesn't jet around in power armor fighting crime or anything, but after her incarceration she Amanda works to rehabilitate criminals and get them back on the straight and narrow.
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