[OOC] Maximum Comics: Dawn of Justice | REBRANDING - PLEASE STAY TUNED

[Gowi]

Kyle Rayner Returns

| Identity |

Kyle Rayner
The (other/future) Green Lantern of Sector 2814

| Origin & Backstory |

Kyle Rayner was born to Aaron and Mara Rayner, an agent of ARGUS and a recipient of Social Security respectively. Early on in Kyle's life, Aaron died on duty. But because of this, his mother's checks were padded beyond the standard payouts to those on the program. Though there is no mistaking he has no special non-civilian clearance, many high-ranking government officials recognize the Rayners for the family's sacrifices towards a better world.

Growing up in Los Angelos, Kyle managed to go through the severe LA gang wars relatively unscathed, having learned when to wear what colors and how to peacefully defuse conflicts. Even from elementary school though, he had been surrounded by the gangs at all times and had long been under pressure to join them. Over the years he has been panged by seeing his own friends attempt to kill each other because of who else they were friends with, the colors they'd worn, misinterpreted gestures, and even their own ethnicities.

Through it all Kyle had chosen to express himself through art, the pencil being his most reliable companion. His sketches have even won citywide contests and been nominated for national attention. Kyle is without a doubt a gifted art student with specialized skill in biological forms and still lifes. Most often his works are photorealistic, which has led to him being sought out by friends, despite quaking with fear ant time someone would peek over his shoulder.

Because of his gift with the pencil, he was sought out by a local gang. Afraid of being attacked if he rejected their request, he accepted. All in all, he was taught to use a tattoo gun and forced to portray the gang's logo on a fleshy canvas thirty-two times over. Now thoroughly affliated with the gang, Kyle told his mom. His mother, as one would expect, struggled for a solution. A panicking fit convinced her to pack their bags almost instantly, going from Los Angelos to New York City.

Once in New York City, he was enrolled in the nearest High School, Midtown, where he found himself socially isolated. It wasn't that he necessarily felt there was no one he could relate to, but there was no one he wanted to relate to. Against his own will, he was enrolled in the art club where he exchanged sketches, paintings, and ideas with his peers. Before long, he was drawn into the groundbreaking craze that was superheroes. He began to draw masks, costumes, and weapons in his free time before applying himself to studying history.

By investigating the exploits of the previous Justice Society, he gained a love of studying history and passionately nurtured a love for superheroics. A short while later, he created his own speculative fiction comic series that touched on the lives of the original Flash, Hourman, Green Lantern, and captured them all in stunning detail. His comics capturing the Golden Age of superheroes has since developed a cult following on the internet and has a popular Myspace page.

Having overcome the temptations of gang recruitment and avoided succumbing to a life of total dysphoria, he feels somewhat self-confident in his ability to follow through with his decisions and intends to make the world a better place by following his dreams.

| Attributes |

Creativity

He recognizes that there is more than one way to skin a cat. This is useful when probing seemingly invincible enemies for a weakness. Even if his ring is, for some reason, ineffective he is prepared to perform environmental attacks, deception, or legitimate diplomacy if the need be.

Drawing

Kyle is capable of drawing highly realistic images with a pencil at (relatively) high speeds. For this reason, any constructs he makes are likely to have a large amount of nooks and crannies, assuming they're not simple geometrical shapes.

Green Lantern Ring

The flagship tool of the GLs allows the wearer to craft holographic, green masses out of concentrated light, directed by their own willpower. Auxilary functions include wireless communications, access to a comprehensive galactic encyclopedia, atmospheric synthesis, and a universal positioning device.

Indomitable Willpower

Necessary for all Green Lanterns is the ability to face their fears. Kyle is certainly capable of doing so, which the ring is able to detect despite his youthful naivety masking his bravery from other sentient life forms.

| Character Notes |

Kyle suffers from Women in refrigerators syndrome. Listing people he cares about or is involved with would be bad news. But you can expect to see Lanterns, Guardians, various alien species, Soranik Natu, Amon Sur & Black Sun, and the Spider Guild. Kyle is highly unlikely to really be alone. I figured it would be beneficial for storytelling purposes to adapt his tendency to create construct companions from simple battle strategy to character development. So expect a decent amount of imaginary friends (see Circle of Fire for further elaboration of the concept).

| Character Goals |

What is the nature of the story you want to tell?

It's about great power and great responsibility. Optimism and realism. Freedom and security. But mostly its about feeling like everyone's counting on you, trying to live up to their expectations, filling giant shoes, and figuring things out on the fly. Kyle is steeped in idealism and a simple sense of justice, but doesn't always know how to make the best of his circumstances.

Is this just another Green Lantern?

Yes, for once. He doesn't carry the entity Ion, he isn't the focus of an experiment, and he wasn't a vigilante beforehand. He's Kyle Rayner, an Earthling artist and millenial. But that's probably a welcome change. He'll be the equivalent of a Green Lantern Spider-Man, with his mom worrying about him and his responsibilities competing personally and epically.

How many other people's territory are you crossing into?

That of @Gowi and @Morden Man. If there's any involvement with Relic, the Nova Corps, or the Black Lanterns, it isn't my idea. Instead, a focus of mine is going to be the many aliens out there who need the protection only a Green Lantern could offer. Naturally I'll dip my hand into Gowi's bowl of Manhunter action. But by and large, my plans are not a rehash of New Guardians, Blackest Night, or any recent GL "events". Despite wanting to focus on aliens for assignments, Kyle will be drawn back to Earth emotionally for visits whenever he can, whether he is reprimanded for spending time on the third rock from the sun can be decided by the Oans (worked out between myself and the other Lanterns).

What are your major influences?

The rules of engagement in Green Lantern fiction have changed since Geoff Johns took over. Rather than ignoring his impressive body of work and contributions to DCs most unique superhero, I choose to acknowledge it and add it to all that has come before. Throughout the nineties, Kyle Rayner was the only Green Lantern. These are my greatest influences. Even though there are thousands of other Lanterns, Kyle will feel the weight of his sector on his shoulders and often there will be no one to lift it off. Despite the Oan army's numbers, there aren't exactly a lot of them to go around. And the story I want to tell is about the individual underqualified for a job that no one could ever hope to live up to.

Do you have any immediate plans?

Yessiree Bob. First off, Kyle's life will be abruptly interrupted by a recruitment into the Corps with no explanation initially. He won't be aware who Carol Danvers was initially. After a few increasingly difficult training sessions, it's directly off to battle on Mars where he'll face hard contact against an oppressive bunch of White Martians. Spinning out of the chaotic battle is drama I won't elaborate on for the time being.

Alt any time throughout the training period I would be delighted for him to be met by Alan Scott, as I'd imagine them getting to know one another. In all honesty it would be really neat given they are completely different generations of Lantern.

| References |

<sub>Red Robin - DC Universe: Gods Among Us

Aquaman - DC Universe: Age of Heroes

Micro-Bat - Teen Titans: Divided We Fall</sub>

@Nightrunner

I think this is the best look you've had with Kyle during your last like three attempts with the character, I could nitpick (Los Angelos? It's Los Angeles, right?) Though I obviously would like to work with you at some point, and I do need to talk to you about your martian plans through PM. But if Wraith and EE dig it, it seems kosher.

Hawkgirl

Shayera Sanders

Alias: Hawkgirl

Race: Thanagarian // Gender: Female
Height: 5'5" // Weight: 123 lbs
Age: 24 // Hair: Red // Eyes: Blue
Affiliations: None
Occupation: Exile

Color Code: Sheyera Sanders' Speech Color.

Backstory
Shayera was like any other Thanagarian child. She was given as much of her childhood as possible before throwing her to the wolves at the age of five. Beaten down with introduction to hand-to-hand combat, it didn't seem she was very gifted. In fact, many of her peers and instructors thought her as one of the weaker ones because of her more sensitive nature. However despite her more emotional state, she found a surprising inner strength that would often shock her peers time and again, while still somehow keeping hold of a somewhat more gentle aura.

As she continue to progress into teenage years, they were given a chance to finally learn melee weaponry after mastering hand-to-hand combat as best as one could by that age. Since Shayera had been somewhat lacking in the past and despite her will to push through, no one expected her natural talent for melee combat. So when she started to exceed her peers, she got reactions that ranged from praise when it came to the instructors, but contempt and jealousy when it came to her peers. This left her feeling alone and abandoned and if it weren't enough for a teenager, the fact that she had an eye for women also painted another target on her back for being ignored and teased.

Still, she pushed onwards because she had to. For those falling behind, they were exiled outside the cities no matter how much parents, family, or friends loved them - it was law. Yet the hardest part was to come towards her late teenage years. It was called mental training where you'd be subjugated to all forms of attacks: verbal, fear, anger, sadness, suggestions, manipulation, brain-washing, and even trained mind magic wielders. It was without say that this stage is where most students would fall out, however this was also the only stage you had a second chance to pass due to it's hardship and the fact that everyone was proven skilled and ready for combat.

It was not enough to say Shayera had passed with excellence. Instead, she was often praised as one of the truly gifted in being able to keep out outside influences - passing with flying colors at every turn. By this point and with given training before the tests, she had enough will to pull through anything and create barriers as if by second nature. Though some saw this as a double-edged sword when it came to her loyalty to the Empire, the Empire still saw potential in her.

At graduation (age 20), agents practically dragged Shayera away from her parents to attend special training. This was not training however and instead to proved to be previously 'illegal' experiments performed by the very same people that banned it's use. By using the most strong-willed students, for only they'd survive such an ordeal, they attempted to infuse Nth metal with Thanagarians. They did this by the use of nanobots and liquifying the semi-sentient, magical metal and hoping that one of the student's bodies might actually accept the transfusion.

By some miracle or perhaps fate, Shayera was one of the very few select to survive the process, it having secretly killed off hundreds of students due to rejections. What the Empire refused to acknowledge though was that Shayera's strong will was a double-edged sword that turned to cut it's master. With the use of her new found powers, she forced her way to an escape pod and launched out of their reach before they knew what had happened. The utter quickness of her escape was shocking and by the time they made it to the tracking program, she had already disabled the beacons on the pod.

Eventually the pod found it's way to Earth at the year 2005 and crashed a mere forty miles off of the coast of Themyscira. The isolated nature of Diana's island and protective magic net over it kept Shayera's pod from being read across the world as a potential threat. Though the world may have been largely ignorant of the Thanagarian's arrival, the Amazons saw this intrusion of their waters as a threat, giving Hawk Girl little chance to recover from the wreckage before being attacked.

Abilities
• Enhanced Strength: As a Thanagarian, she possesses naturally higher strength than any human. Though this isn't at the level of super strength. (Note: A later ability will augment this down the list.)
• Flight: All Thanagarians are winged creatures born from the subtleties of magic. Therefore can they not only fly as you might expect, but they may also sustain flight for long periods of time without flapping their wings.
• Minor Magical Resistance: Being born from small traces of magic, Thanagarians can resist minor spells easily, but are still subject to more powerful ones like many creatures.
• Enhanced Endurance: Thanagarians can take quite a beating compared to most mortals, but a sword will still cut through their skin, it just makes a noticeably less impact.
• Enhanced Sight: Seemingly Thanagarians take on the image of hawk-people and that isn't that far-fetched as they also have the eyesight of a hawk. This is up to 8 times sharper than a human, or having 20/2.5 vision (in other words, seeing something at 20 feet that a normal human has to be 2.5 feet away to see). Though this is more of a magical nature, seeing as their pupils don't grow larger to zoom in, but is rather aided by an innate magic.
• Nth Metal Infusion: Due to Shayera's unique condition, her body has been enhanced by an infusion of Nth Metal, a magically charged native metal of Thanagar. This allows her the use of super-strength (lesser than Wonder Woman and Superman), super-endurance/invulnerability (also lesser), regeneration, and tolerance to extreme temperatures.

Skills
• Melee Combat Mastery: Trained like many Thanagarians at the age of five, she has nearly mastered all forms of melee combat to where she is comfortable with any sort of given weapon. Even if the weapon is alien to her, she can quickly understand it's shape, size, and weight effectively. She prefers, however, a mace.
• Hand-to-Hand Journeymen: By mastering melee combat, she has sacrificed part of her usual training but is never-the-less skilled with hand-to-hand combat, at least enough to hold off an attacker until she can get another weapon in her hand.
• Advanced Battlefield Knowledge: Having grown up in a combat-focused culture, she has learned and been drilled in various warfare tactics, able to think quickly on the field as well as analyze her opponents movements.
• Iron Will: Shayera was especially gifted in the arts of locking one's mind from external influences and thus has a consistent defense against any mentally-charged attacks or even subtle attempts at breaking in. Even mind magic usually has a fair bit of trouble breaking through these walls.

Weapons
• Modified Nth Mace: From Thanagarian culture, it is a basic mace that has been modified to have more weight at it's top. However from other view points, it's surface has also been lined with Nth Metal, making it stronger, lighter (only to hold, does not effect impact), almost impossible to break, and magically charged.
• Nth Dagger: A basic dagger that's been lined with Nth Metal, giving it the same qualities as above as well as making it sharper. With effort (or enough strength) you could cut through other metals like steel.
• Nth Short Sword: Same as the dagger, but with a longer reach.

Character Goals
My character goals aren't complicated as of right now, but mostly speaking, I want to explore an interesting combination of having Diana and Shayera together. Beyond that very exclusive interaction, I want to explore Shayera's exile into an alien world, her coming to terms with her new infusion, and generally trying to find her place in the world. Potentially at a later time, it would be nice to explore the Thanagarian military coming to collect their 'property' as it were and possible reactions from other heroes at this point (hopefully she'd be a somewhat welcomed member in some way). Though these goals leave a lot of opportunity to 'go with the flow,' I think exploring important questions like this will be fun.

References
• Legend by Fire
• In Murky Waters

@lydyn

Seems fine, I always preferred the science fiction route of Hawkgirl than the mythological fantasy route. I don't have any problems with it. GM staff? What'cha think?

[Morden Man]

I'm still shocked that we're over a week in and we don't have a Superman. Or a Fantastic Four. Or a Doom.

Someone do something about that.

[Gowi]

I'm still shocked that we're over a week in and we don't have a Superman. Or a Fantastic Four. Or a Doom.

Someone do something about that.

@Morden Man

I've had three or four people in PM tell me they are considering Supes.

[Byrd Man]

I'm still shocked that we're over a week in and we don't have a Superman. Or a Fantastic Four. Or a Doom.

Someone do something about that.

@Morden Man

You do something about it.

Do it.

Do it.

[Morden Man]

You do something about it.

Do it.

Do it.

@Byrd Man

I don't have enough of a messiah complex to do Clark justice.

[Gowi]

I'd have to finish my White Tiger arc pretty fast if we got a Clark. Not saying I've been wanting to tell a certain Kara story for four years and never got the chance, but I've been wanting to tell a certain Kara story for four years and never got the chance...

Blarghhhhh.

[Dblade26]

Well, I dunno about Superman but I think I can make some sort of contribution to the Maxi U.

|| Identity |
Wade Winston Wilson A.K.A. Deadpool, The Merc with a Mouth, The Chiyonozake, Codename: Wildcard, Whatever Other Title He Makes Up For Himself At The Moment

| Origin & Backstory |

1976-1994 Wade Wilson: The Early Years

Wade Wilson, younger brother of the much more well-liked Slade Wilson.

Even when he was born in 1976 this phrase was already dominating the life of the man who would later be known as Deadpool. Though he loathes elaborating on his early childhood for the most part, he'll gladly go on and on about how as he saw things Slade was always the golden child, how he could do no wrong and was destined for great things. Wade on the other hand became a 'hate-sink' of sorts, a focus for all of his parents' hatred and abuse, at least when they weren't neglecting him outright. Slade never really seemed to notice the discrepancy, likely because he was too busy being brilliant physically and academically. It was during this dark early period that Wade began to develop his now 'famous' sense of humor, lashing out at his parents with jibes and pranks and keeping up the face of a cheery jokester, although this only seemed to irritate his parents further. Things only got worse by the time he was twelve and Slade was eighteen in 1988, when Slade left their childhood home to join the military. His last words to his younger brother being 'There are no heroes in the world anymore, but somebody has to do something.' which only served to confuse Wade. Without their favorite around to heap praise on and brighten their day, the abuses of the Wilson household only got worse for poor Wade, and in turn his pranks, mockeries and petty revenges only got more elaborate which served to only make them angrier in what became a vicious cycle.

Finally after a prank involving a doorknob tripwire, a frozen turkey and a T-shirt gun that permanently crippled Wade's father, the Wilsons' had had just about all they could stand of their twelve-year-old youngest son. He was shipped off to Samuel Lane's Military Academy where it was hoped that he would 'straighten out, receive some much needed discipline and stop being such a goddamn disappointment'. There he became part of an odd, tightly-knit clique of misfits consisting of himself, Lois Lane, Steve Trevor, Jonathan Banks and noted Gotham 'rich boy' Bruce Wayne. Military school was a surprisingly good influence on Wade and he quickly became a highly successful student with a star-studded academic record despite his clownish tendencies. By the time he successfully graduated in 1994, Wade was on track to finally turning his life into something positive, and Sam Lane himself promised that they would 'make a fine soldier out of him'.

1994-1998 In the Shadow of Slade Wilson

However once Wade actually did join the military he found himself once again being unfavorably compared to his older sibling, who in the intervening years since he vanished had somehow become a legendary Cold Warrior famous for achieving the impossible across numerous covert operations towards the end of the Cold War despite his young age, thought by some within military and intelligence communities to be the next best thing to a legitimate Captain America and already transitioning seamlessly into a newly emerging era of intelligence operations and specialized warfare.

Wade himself was only spurred to work harder because of his perceived inferiority to his brother and records show that he was an exemplary trainee who quickly attracted the attention of SHIELD who reportedly 'were eager to find yet another Slade Wilson if possible'. A recommendation from Slade himself cemented the decision, with the elder Wilson reportedly saying his younger brother could make an even better operative than himself with the right influences. Therefore as soon as Wade's basic training was complete he was picked up by SHIELD and put through even more rigorous training to make him suitable for field operations. Wilson himself insists he remembers little of the details, saying 'Someone asked me if I wanted to be a spy, next thing I knew I was in Tunisia, killing a man with a spork.' The Tunisia incident referenced happened a little over a year later during Wilson's first deployment. The goal was the extraction of a captured former British intelligence officer nicknamed 'Blind Al'. Despite the alarming fact that an unknown issue meant he was given no equipment except a standard SHIELD field ration kit, Wilson neutralized every enemy on site using nothing but improvisation. However Blind Al ended up escaping on her own rather than going back to SHIELD with Wilson saying that she wanted nothing to do with the organization.

In the remaining three years Wilson spent with SHIELD he performed admirably, though Slade always seemed to be one step ahead regardless of what organization he was working for. Worse yet, before Wade Wilson could reach his true height as an Agent of SHIELD, tragedy struck. Wade contracted cancer that spread incredibly aggressively throughout his body. He was unable to continue as a field agent and before he knew it his case was deemed terminal. Refusing to give up, Wade begged his superiors to help him find something, anything that would save his life

1998: Diving into the Deadpool

As fate would have it his superiors at SHIELD did have a solution for Wade: He was to be subjected to an experimental process meant to artificially create a superhuman healing process based in part off of the modified and coincidentally successful super soldier project that his own brother Slade had undergone as well as gene therapies using samples and data collected from the mutant adventurer Wolverine in a joint venture between SHIELD's Cadmus the Canadian government's Department K. It was theorized that due to his close genetic connection to Slade, Wade would perhaps make for a more successful outcome than previous subjects.

But something went horribly wrong with the program and rather than curing Wade of his cancer the experiments only served to aggravate it until it started spreading throughout his body completely out of control. Labeling Wilson yet another failed subject they sent him to a separate facility to receive enough care and medical treatment to make him comfortable for the rest of his rather short life. But the facility known as 'The Hospice' was far more sinister than it appeared. Unbeknownst to the rest of the program the mad doctor in charge was using the failed regenerative subjects for experiments of his own, torturing them beyond the limits of human endurance in what he said was an attempt to test the extent of their failures but was in reality just an exercise in his own sick sadism. The conditions at the facility were so brutal and death of its' 'patients' so commonplace that in order to amuse themselves the staff ran what they called 'The Deadpool', a running series of bets to see which patients died off when.

Wade Wilson wound up outlasting all of the rest, no matter how horrific the experiments they subjected him to became. The healing factor Cadmus and Project K had worked to give him worked better than anyone had imagined, least of all Wilson himself. Because it seemed that although his body was still riddled with cancer and the torments he was subjected to were still leaving him covered in scars, Wade Wilson simply would not die.

This wasn't exactly great for Wade.

In time, the "Deadpool" became solely focused on when he would eventually drop and what method would finally be able to kill him. With each passing day the attempts became more agonizing, more complicated, more depraved...and Wade Wilson lost more and more of his mind. Finally Wade snapped completely and overpowered the facility guards who quickly found that the real answer to when he would drop was a resounding "never". Now completely insane, he rampaged through the facility, releasing the remaining patients and slaughtering everyone else inside before burning it the ground. Now freed of his tormentors but with his body scarred and twisted beyond recognition by a combination of torture and cancerous tumors and his mind wrecked beyond compare, Wade rechristened himself 'Deadpool'.

1998-2004: The Merc with a Mouth

The next six or so years fade into a haze of confusion and conflicting reports, and due to his unstable nature and copious amounts of brain damage even Deadpool himself is unaware of the full extent of his adventures or even where fact blends into his often vivid imagination. What can be said for sure is that Deadpool traveled the world as a mercenary, assassin and general gun-for-hire, taking numerous jobs both big and small in a nature generally too chaotic to reveal any patterns, although many if not all of them involved killing.

He may have traveled to Japan where at least according to himself he 'learned the ancient and deadly art of the Sumo' though his apparent skills at ninjutsu and penchant for japanese swordsmanship paint a decidedly different picture, as does the Foot's own name for him, spoken with a mix of trepidation and agonized, desperate annoyance: Chiyonozake, The Wolf of Rice Wine. Regardless, Deadpools skills and linguistic abilities support at least some connection with the area.

Another more readily confirmed series of jobs after his time in Japan places Deadpool in South America and the Carribean for an extended period of time. Specifically, Deadpool can be linked to numerous hits performed on the island of Santa Prisca during one of many periods of factional strife wherein he worked for multiple sides, including an infamously brutal if confusing stint in the employ of the Zesti Corporation during which he allegedly killed thirty people and burned down a hospital in exchange for a lifetime supply of Zesti Soda. When the lifetime supply was initially denied him after the Zesti Corporation realized he was likely immortal, he instead began hunting Zesti's Santa Prisca personnel and corporate mercenaries until it was given him in what one Zesti official described in a hidden dossier as 'The most violent soda-related incident in all of corporate history'.

Deadpool's later actions in Colombia are equally perplexing and violent, as he is said to have been hired by the government to take down a drug-lord founded cult that worshiped cocaine as its' god before being subsequently arrested after 'spending about a week doing all of their cocaine' with the cult's founder instead. In both cases he escaped prison, in Santa Prisca by breaking through a wall and squeezing himself out through a sewer pipe, and in Colombia by being 'beaten to death' by the guards and discarded outside.

Deadpool also spent some amount of time in what is now the general area of the Latverian Union, often fighting in minor wars, rebellions and disputes in the region and is known to have had at least a few run-ins with Victor Von Doom, though the exact nature of these interactions is extremely unclear. An unconfirmed rumor likely started by Deadpool himself and then forgotten about is that he was 'a Cosmonaut in the Latverian Space Program, or at least launched into space by a P.O'd Doctor Doom' and as a result joined up with a series of other space-going contractors and mercenaries for a time before being 'unfairly labelled a notorious criminal throughout galactic space' and forcibly 'exiled' back to Earth.

in addition to missions done solo Deadpool has previously tried to join several different organizations of note during his adventuring period.

For example he had at least a few times attempted to join the X-Men during that span as an 'honorary mutant', though they have always turned him down despite his protests that he shares genes with former actual X-Men member Wolverine thanks to the experiments performed on him. Further claims of 'bromantically charged time travel adventures with an alternate-future son' of former X-Man Scott Summers should also not be taken at face value, nor should his claims of being on 'A secret, super dark and gritty X-Men team you don't know about'.

He has also worked for Fu Manchu's Si-Fan on at least one occasion, although for some reason the experience was so traumatic that the Asiatic crime-lord now considers hiring him a sort of 'nuclear option', never to be repeated outside of the direst circumstances. Similarly, Deadpool allegedly both joined and was kicked out of the Guild of Assassins during this timespan, although according to Wade himself he voluntarily stopped working for the Guild for his own personal reasons instead.

With the return of superheroes, Deadpool's mercenary career soared to new heights and fell to new lows. For instance he reportedly had numerous conflicts over the years with the government sponsored superhero team known as The Great Ten in China that eventually resulted in him being officially banned from the country, although due to the information-controlling nature of the People's Republic of China and Deadpool's own faulty memory the official nature of his transgressions against both the country and the team are unknown. Deadpool's own insistence that he was originally 'hired to steal a giant alien robot hidden under the Great Wall of China' remain unsubstantiated.

Deadpool also claims he had previously been approached to try and find a way to assassinate Superman, but insists that he decided not to go through with it and spent the rest of his time in Metropolis alternately hitting on and leaving prank calls on Lois Lane's voicemail in an unsuccessful attempt to annoy her into giving him an interview and helping him publish his memoirs. When questioned by ARGUS interrogators as to why he didn't go through with the original job, Deadpool replied that he was 'kind of a huge fan' of Superman and didn't want to make a bad first impression on him.

2004-2005:Task Force X

After this hazy period of poorly dated and morally questionable potential adventures Wilson was finally arrested more permanently, this time by ARGUS. After spending some time contained in an ARGUS cell bored out of his mind he was approached by ARGUS' current director Amanda Waller who gave him an offer: He could cooperate with her in a new initiative she was putting together, or he could refuse and spend an even longer time bored in an ARGUS cell before being handed over to whatever government or entity asked nicely enough first. Naturally being the agreeable gentleman that he is, Wade chose to comply with Waller's 'request'.

Thus, he was relocated to an even more secretive ARGUS holding facility, fitted with an implant capable of paralyzing him at will, and set to wait as a reservist member of Amada Waller's Task Force X. Since then he's waited nearly a year for a chance to do something, anything other than sitting bored in his cell. Now, with the threat of Hydra and the apparently 'resurrected' Red Skull on the Horizon, Wade finally sees his chance to do some real good and be the hero he was always meant to be! Or at least have some fun killing Nazis.

| Attributes |
Powers
Functional Immortality: Deadpool has the ability to regenerate to even greater extremes than either his brother Slade or Wolverine himself. Though throughout his life Deadpool has experienced nearly every kind of conceivable damage, he keeps on going and eventually repairs himself. If sliced apart, his limbs can be reattached in moments, or else he can just regrow them at an extremely rapid pace. Organs can be near-instantly regrown and even beheading barely slows him down, although his body often needs to reattach his head. Even having at one point had his entire body liquidated from the waste up, he survived. As an extension to this Deadpool seems to be incredibly resistant to toxins and immune to diseases, although apparently he can still derive some form of enjoyment from recreational drugs and toxins like alcohol.

It has been theorized that Deadpool may never actually age and could in fact live forever though whether the extremes of his healing factor are caused due to the unique mix of Slade Wilson's super soldier formula and Wolverine's healing factor X-Gene or any combination of the latter two with Wade's 'super-cancer' is anyone's guess. Few scientists have studied Deadpool and those who try are generally driven insane by his chatter or equally baffled by his bizarre biology. What is known and occasionally functions as a weakness is that his healing factor is tied into his emotions and psychology. So things like depression or just plain giving up can sometimes make him literally fall to pieces, although never actually die.

Limited Superhuman physiology: Due mainly to his immense regenerative abilities Deadpool is able to exert a certain amount of superhuman strength, for instance lifting and throwing a car, leaping far higher and further than would be thought humanly possibly, punching through reinforced concrete or the like. He has also demonstrated seemingly super-human reflexes to dodge bullets and other attacks and can temporarily run down cars or go on for far longer than a human should be able to. While these abilities may seem impressive and completely superhuman, they mainly occur due to Deadpool's healing factor allowing him to bypass the built in limiters of the human body as often as he pleases without dealing with the long-term damaging effects. Technically his super-strong punches shred his muscles and shatter his bones with their own force and impact and running that fast should destroy every tendon in his legs over time, but he can just as quickly regenerate. Even the mental strain of his reflexes being boosted by an Adrenalin rush so often is accounted for by the healing factor repairing brain cells and replenishing body chemicals in record time.

Psychic Immunity: Whether due to his sheer insanity or the constantly regenerating and shifting nature of his brain, Deadpool is largely immune to psychic abilities and interference.

Skills

Master Martial Artist: Deadpool has trained in numerous martial arts and learned even more about armed and unarmed combat through practical lived experience and generally getting the crap kicked out of him enough times that he's picked up how to do the same to others. Although he says he learned sumo wrestling techniques in Japan, various other Japanese martial arts seem more likely, especially ninjutsu and kenjutsu. While not as refined a fighter as some of Marvel's most skilled martial artists, Deadpool's unpredictable nature and healing factor make him a dangerous hand-to-hand fighter to even masters of the martial arts.

Master Assassin: Deadpool has studied numerous assassination techniques across the world and is proficient in both unarmed assassination techniques and armed assassination techniques using everything from bladed and improvised weapons to guns and explosives. He is a skilled marksman and sniper but oftentimes prefers to do his work up close, with the katana being a favored weapon of his. His abilities as an assassin also include covert operations techniques, espionage techniques, infiltration methods and escape artistry.

Stealth: Although he's often accused of not knowing the meaning of the word, when he chooses to be Deadpool is actually a master of stealth capable of putting highly trained ninjas to shame and capable of breaking into and out of even the most secure facilities.

Multi-Lingual: because of his love of traveling the world, meeting exotic people and then killing them, Deadpool is fluent multiple languages. These include in English, Spanish, German, Russian and Japanese. Deadpool may know additional languages including several he's made up but the reality is far more questionable.

Unpredictable: The very nature of Deadpool's insanity means that at times even he has no idea what he's going to do next, and his bizarre, cancerous body is notoriously hard to get a read on. Therefore it's very hard for many to predict Deadpool's next move and he can show a surprising amount of ingenuity and adaptability in and out of combat.

| Character Notes |
People

Slade Wilson:Wade's allegedly perpetually more well-liked and perfect 37-year-old older brother, Slade Wilson is currently one of the top and most trusted field agents of SHIELD and reports directly to Nick Fury himself. Despite quickly approaching 40, age hasn't slowed Slade down one bit. This is because Slade received an experimental Super Soldier serum based off of Captain America's own and although it put him in a coma for over three months it also gave him increased physical abilities, a healing factor upon which Wade's own is partially based, and increased his mental capabilities to nine times that of the average man. Slade Wilson is a legend in his own time in the military and intelligence communities and his trusted image serves as a potent contrast to Wade's own.

Yellowtext-A voice that exists only in Wade's head, Yellowtext serves as a counterbalance to Wade's own insanity and claims to be the last vestiges of the version of Wade that existed before he went insane at the Hospice. Yellowtext can be just as sarcastic, joking and goofy as Deadpool, but tends to have a more serious and upright moral character and conscience.

Amanda "The Wall" Waller- The current head of ARGUS and also the designer and head of operations of Task Force X, Amanda Waller is one of the most formidable figures in the world of intelligence and espionage.

Blind Al-An elderly blind former British Intelligence operative Deadpool rescued back before he went crazy who will hopefully become influential in Wade's life once again in the future, if he ever gets out of Waller's cage that is.

More to come as Deadpool's story progresses.

| Character Goals |
I want to bring Deadpool to life in Maximum Comics. Not just as a zany walking punchline although I do want to try and make him entertaining, funny and at times silly. Instead I want him to also be an actual, fleshed out character with emotions and depth and characterizations other than his comedic side even if his goals and dreams are incomprehensible or strange. This Wade Wilson is still the same sort of crazy, darkly humorous psycho, but somewhere deep, deep deep in there is still a person who never asked to be a monster or a lunatic and is just trying to live life the best way he knows how.

| References |
This is to make sure you can write at a level that the game needs. Link 1-3 posts of your writing level in other RPs.

[Spud]

Posted, hope that was an okay intro post. (^____^)b

[Morden Man]

I did not know Deadpool's middle name was Winston.

You learn something new every day.

[Sloth]

I did not know Deadpool's middle name was Winston.

You learn something new every day.

@Morden Man

Lex Luthor's middle name is Joseph.

That's probably less fun than the alliteration of Wade Winston Wilson though.

[Ruby]

Expect a finished Wonder Woman CS by the end of the weekend.

Edit: Or, since I had time, I could just finish it and post it now. ^_^

[Ruby]

_{(The first two sections of the below sheet are from the POV of SHIELD. More fun that way.)}

Identity:

According to our team that ran into her (and paid for it) she introduced herself formally as Princess Diana, Defender of the Amazons, Shield of Themyscira, Goddess of War.

Her last known (fake) passport reads: Diana Prince.

SHIELD has simply come to call her...Wonder Woman.

Origin/Backstory:

First, let me start off with what we know:

You don't want to corner her. A force recon team tried it in Istanbul in the mid-80s, and it didn't work well for the force recon team. Every single commando in the team was left sipping from a straw for a few months. Worse, she was able to get men trained for over two decades on how not to talk to give her everything we had on her, and then some.

The mid-80s? She's old. We do believe we're dealing with the same woman, not a mantle passed down through the generations. This isn't Zorro, folks. The Historian theorizes she may be thousands of years old; although the oldest possible hit on her we have is from a photograph taken just after World War One. Of course we can't be certain it's her, but we're certain it's her. Again, from the Historian:

"It's quite fascinating, but I do believe we have evidence of this individual dating as far back as the Ancient Greeks themselves. In 1978 a Hydra think tank was discovered and secured in the Bavarian Alps; an old mine turned Nazi conclave during the Second World War turned Hydra facility after the Second War World. In the catalog of the facility's contents was bits of an ancient text believed written by Polybius (c. 208-116 BC), an ancient Greek who was captured by Romans and turned historian in his captivity. He makes note of a daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta that stands apart from Olympus, hidden by Zeus along with her place of birth, though for what reason Polybius fails to state. The most intriguing thing is that while Polybius refers to Zeus as Jupiter in the Roman style, he refers to the daughter as αρτεμης--Attic Greek for "safe", but not the word most commonly used for the Greek goddess Artemis (that is αρταμος, "the butcher", a more fitting word for a Goddess of hunting). I must assume if Polybius meant the goddess Artemis he would have used the latter, but as the Roman name for Artemis is Diana, it seems reasonable to deduce that (writing to a largely Roman audience), Polybius did this to differentiate between two separate figures. That Polybius was revealing a mysterious figure previously unknown to the Romans. The Nazis, in their quest for the mythological, zeroed in on this figure in hopes Zeus' hiding her meant she remained in the mortal plane, and even believed to have a photograph of her from just after the First World War also cataloged among the facility's contents. The Germans named her the Amazon; quite fitting if this is in fact the daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons according to myth. Though why an Amazon Princess would be wearing a tiara as in the photo is unknown, so perhaps the photo is of just a mortal woman of impressive stature. An interesting story, all the same."

The force recon team reported the woman that they cornered in the Mid-80s was, you guessed it, wearing the same tiara in the photo and looked exactly like the woman from the photo found in the Hydra lab. As it's not the strangest thing in the SHIELD archives, we believe the Historian didn't just stumble onto proof an ancient Greek was telling the Romans about an interesting story, but an actual super weapon they could use, that Polybius was bargaining with this information. Lucky for the Romans, they never found her, and never got the chance to corner her.

Secondly, what we think:

Mentions of such a woman pop up, again and again and again, and always when things in the world get violent. A figure matching the description is mentioned rescuing German women from Russian troops in the twilight of World War Two. If you don't know what the standard practice was when a member of the Red Army found a German woman, I'll let you look that up on your own, but it wasn't pretty. Another description shows up in the Greek Civil War around 1948; again saving a group of women from men that had other than honorable intentions. Again, in the Korean War, saving a group of American nurses from a MASH unit from enemy fire. The Six-Day War. The Ethiopian Civil War. The Troubles. Soviet war in Afghanistan. The Falklands. Every time she swoops in, saves people, disables all belligerents in the area, and zooms out.

This is a do-gooder, with a soft spot for other women; makes sense if she's really an Amazon. The profilers think she's a warrior that grew restless on the place of her birth that Zeus supposedly hid from the world to protect her, and started wandering. While her spurts of activity due correlate to conflict zones, she doesn't appear at all conflicts, leading them to suspect she has a life outside of wandering do-gooder, or that she isn't supposed to be wandering off too much. But if she really is living on a hidden Themyscira from myth, and really is a/the Goddess of War, then her odd periods of activity tend to make more logical sense. She'd have things to tend to from time to time.

But now that the world's really started to change from the emergence of metahumans left and right, does this mean the table's set for this restless goddess to finally become truly active? Depends on who you ask. One of our agents got a strange tip from an English "magic" user (putting it politely) that a God of Dreams and a Goddess of War were going to have a sit-down somewhere in London; wanting to exchange the location for information on some demon. Our agent disregarded it, and maybe that was to our detriment, because that was only a year ago.

Satellites and cell phone hacking have produced no less than a dozen images of this woman in the last year; most recently in Washington, DC, of all places. That was a month ago. She's getting active, and she's doing it without hiding so much. More importantly, doing it outside of open warzones. We think she's finally coming out to play with the other metahumans.

Update: Agent Steve Trevor has been dispatched with Drone Recon Squadron 5 to a small Greek airbase secretly used by the CIA, and us. If she's really out there on some island, we'll find her. Goddess or not, Amazon or not, we're absolutely certain of one thing: this is a Wonder Woman, and we need to find her before Hydra does.

Attributes:

As the Goddess of War, Diana has a supernatural connection to all soldiers, and may grant a boon to those warriors she deems both in need and worthy of such honor. As most modern day warriors subscribe to other deities, Diana's role has become that of a watcher and (at most) a subtle influence in the background. Whereas this idleness drove Ares to scheme and plot fatal mischiefs, Diana is at peace with sitting on the sidelines as Goddess of War. Afterall, she takes a decidedly more direct approach to influencing world affairs.

Otherwise, she has shown in the past the abilities of superhuman: Strength, stamina, agility, reflexes, durability, speed, and flight. In addition as a Goddess, she does not age beyond her physical prime--unless she desires to. She is also an enhanced intellect, focusing more on strategy and tactics than the technological or scientific; but as a visitor to the 'modern age' she's shown the ability to catch up amazingly fast; as she was able to use a modern smartphone in less than five minutes despite never being on the internet before. As part of that enhanced intellect, she seems capable of learning (and retaining) any martial art intuitively just by observing. Batman, eat your heart out.

Equipment

Aegis of Athena

Her bulletproof bracelets were formed from the remnants of Athena's legendary shield, the Aegis, to be awarded to her champion. The shield was made from the indestructible hide of the great she-goat, Amalthea, who suckled Zeus as an infant. These forearm guards have thus far proven indestructible and able to absorb the impact of incoming attacks, allowing Wonder Woman to deflect automatic weapon fire and energy blasts of various types and degrees. In addition, Hephaestus has modified the bracelets to allow Wonder Woman the sorcerous ability to manifest weapons of metal mystical in appearance from each bracelet. Each weapon, marked with a red star, takes shape from a flash of lightning, and when Wonder Woman is done with them, the weapons disappear, supposedly, back into her bracelets.

Lariat of Hestia
The Lasso of Truth, or Lariat of Hestia, was forged by Hephaestus from the golden girdle of Gaea. It compels all beings who come into contact with it to tell the absolute truth and is virtually indestructible.

Other Items

Diana occasionally uses additional weaponry in formal battle, such as ceremonial golden armor with golden wings, pteruges, chest-plate, and golden helmet in the shape of an eagle's head. She possesses a magical sword forged by Hephaestus that is sharp enough to cut the electrons off an atom.

Wonder Woman's Tiara has also been used as a razor-edged throwing weapon, returning to her like a boomerang. The Tiara allows Wonder Woman to be invulnerable from telepathic attacks. It allows for Diana to telepathically contact people such as the Amazons back on Themyscira using the telepathic power of the red star ruby in the center of her Tiara.

Character Goals:

My main goal is to introduce Wonder Woman to the modern world; a storyline of discovery both internal and external, both for the world, and for Diana herself. I want to show her struggling, at times, to understand the motivations and values of current society. Just as importantly, I want her introduced to the metahuman community. She's a standard bearer; she leads, simply put, but she's got to follow and inspire confidence before she leads. Without going out and meeting other metahumans, there's no way she can be a leader in something like the Justice League. Speaking of, she won't trust SHIELD initially, but she will have admired the Justice Society--possibly leading her to try and sow the seeds for an eventual new 'Justice' team.

Initially, if we're both accepted, lydyn and I planned on introducing Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman in the same story arc: Hawkgirl crash lands on Themyscira; this will force a Diana who has had to take on the throne after Ares murdered her mother and grown solitary in nature to emerge to confront this unwelcomed visitor. It will also temporarily break Zeus' spell over the island, allowing Steve Trevor's drones to find the island long enough for SHIELD to attempt to make contact, if they want. The goal of the story arc is to end with Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman leaving Themyscira and attempt to make a difference in this new world.

References:

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[Sloth]

Wonder Woman

@Ruby

[Gowi]

I thought Ruby would do something more decidedly... greek than that pic...

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[Rin]

Hider

I've always liked this one myself.

[Gowi]

The second one I used would probably be how I'd handle Diana, myself. Note to self: save pic.

[DrewVonAwesome]

Alright let me ask a possibility...

If I were... perhaps... to make a Superman who... LETS JUST SAY... wasn't actually like Clark Kent.

Like I basically took what I thought was going to happen with All Star Superman when Superman gave Lois his powers for her birthday. What with Superman going away soon and all that...

Basically can I make Lois Lane as Power Girl because Superman is dead?


If not I'm cool bringing back a certain idea...



You know the one.

[Hexaflexagon]

And after much deliberation, discussion and nearly a day of editing while slowly driving @Gowi insane. I present to you ladies and gentlemen in this corner; weighing in at 235 lbs, standing at a solid 6'3", the hero of Earth, the last son of Krypton and the Man of Steel himself. Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin I mean Superman!

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"According to the word of God, the meek would someday inherit the earth. Someday. But God never accounted for the mighty."

| Identity |

• Kal-El
• Clark Joseph Kent
• The Man of Steel
• Defender of Earth
• Superman

| Origin & Backstory |

The Fall Of Krypton

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
~ William Butler Yeats

Orbiting a red dwarf star some fifty light-years distant from Earth named Rao, the planet Krypton was once very much like our world. The Green Lantern Corps have dubbed Krypton's sector of space 2813 (Earth's being 2814) and was under the protection of Green Lantern Tomar-Re when it was destroyed. Krypton's primordial era produced some of the most dangerous organisms in the Universe. It was for this reason that Krypton was chosen as the place to create Doomsday through forced evolution. Doomsday was an infant who was released into the dangerous environment of prehistoric Krypton and killed, the surviving and strongest genetic matter was cloned and re-released so the process could be repeated until the resulting being was powerful enough to survive.

He became too strong, he killed most of the planet's population before clinging to a cargo ship fleeing the planet and went into space with nothing but a strong primal hatred of all life. Doomsday escaped Krypton via a ship that regularly came to deliver supplies to his creator, Bertron, who he also killed and went on a killing spree across several planets. Doomsday faced the Green Lantern Corps, killing several hundred of them, but was ultimately defeated by the alien hero Radiant and entombed. Since it was deemed that keeping them on their planet would be an insult, Doomsday was sent into space, at which time he eventually landed on Earth, tomb and all. Up until its destruction, many dangerous animals, including ferrophage moles, still existed on Krypton.

Krypton during its Golden Age became an expanding empire that conquered other planets across the galaxy. The Kryptonian military was lead by Admiral Dru-Zod the First who commanded entire fleets of ships, seeking world's ripe for conquest. Some three-hundred years ago, Admiral Zod's capital ship, the Doomsday crash-landed on Earth in the region that would eventually become known as Texas. His Sunstone ship lie buried beneath the ground for centuries. Soon, the Kryptonian Empire was dismantled after the Kryptonian high council decided that their methods were too aggressive. So, ended Krypton's Golden Age.

But as Kryptonian civilization flourished, the planet turned towards isolationism. Space exploration was abandoned as Krypton quarantined itself from the surrounding galaxy. All Kryptonians were unable to leave their planet or they would die instantly. This was the result of the Eradicator altering their genetic codes of Kryptonians to keep them planet-bound after a group of them left Krypton to explore and colonize other planets. The Eradicator punished these Kryptonians by altering their genetic codes to be vulnerable to lead, which resulted in the Daxamites.

It was at this time that the young scientist Jor-El and his brother, Zor-El was both born. By their adult years, Jor-El became a high-ranking member of the Kryptonian Science Council and had a wife Lara Van, from the Labor Guild, while his brother Zor-El became married to Alura Ze, and had a daughter named Kara-El. Jor-El was a protege of the eminent scientist known as Non and together they discovered that Krypton was suffering from severe geological disturbances - disturbances that threatened to destroy the entire planet. Jor-El brought his concerns to the Science Council, but they dismissed his assertions as a vehicle of paranoia and discord. Jor-El and Lara even soon had a son named Kal-El.

Many years ago, the penal system of the planet Krypton sentenced their criminals by placing them in suspended animation. Jor-El discovered the existence of the Phantom Zone and introduced it as an alternative means of imprisonment. He had little knowledge of the true inner workings of the zone, but believed that it was a more humane form of punishment over that which they had previously employed. He developed a projection device that could send and retrieve people into the zone with the simple flick of a switch. The first prisoner to be exiled to the Phantom Zone was the renegade scientist Jax-Ur. Jax-Ur, a former colleague of Jor-El's, was responsible for destroying Krypton's moon during an attempt at interstellar space travel. When the moon was destroyed, a lunar colony of Kandor was lost as well, drawing the attention of the Coluan villain Brainiac to Kandor. Brainiac, also known as Vril Dox I, was a Coluan scientist.

At some point, he cloned himself to get a lab assistant; the clone would later be called Vril Dox II. He acquired a spaceship and went on a journey through space, acquiring knowledge and using his robotic drones to capture living organisms of various alien species. Along the way, he came to Krypton, and kidnapped the entire city of Kandor, miniaturizing it in his spaceship, while Jor- El 's brother, Zor-El and his family stayed behind at Argo City. An elite military unit, called Black Zero, commanded by General Zod's wife, Ursa was killed attempting to defend Kandor from Brainiac, except Ursa herself. Brainiac also created a remote scout unit, which was programmed to think it was the original Vril Dox. After Brainiac's attack, Zor-El created a force-field around Argo City using a Braniac Probe. Over a short expanse of time, the Kryptonian Science Council began exiling the worst of the planet's criminals into the zone, the most famous of which was the military insurrectionist General Zod.

General Zod, the descendent of Admiral Zod, gained prominence in the Kryptonian Military Guild for his heroic, though futile, efforts to protect the city of Kandor from Braniac, however lost credibility however when he defected from the Kryptonian Defence Council, along with his wife Ursa, after they had been instructed to arrest Jor-El and Non after they both had made sensationalistic claims of Krypton's pending destruction. But, suddenly Non was abducted by the Kryptonian Science Council for continuing the claims and was brainwashed, lobotomized, and turned into a brutish, mute savage by the Council to be silent. When Zod, Ursa, and Jor-El found out, both Zod and Ursa sided with Jor-El. But, they and Non was arrested and tried for acts of sedition. They were sentenced to spend eternity in the Phantom Zone, where they would continue to exist as disembodied wraiths by Jor-El, which lead to their revenge against him and his heirs.

Jor-El was later threatened by the Science Council with harsh penalty of exile to the very Phantom Zone he himself had discovered if he were to make public his predictions of their planet's imminent doom or otherwise attempt to "create a climate of panic." So he decided to create a star-drive ship designed for his only son, Kal-El, to escape the planet and its people's fate. Also, Jor-El had created a serum that he invented that would allow a Kryptonian to leave the planet safely; which he gave to his son Kal-El upon leaving for Earth. He also had his family dog in his household, Krypto used for a test flight of the rocket that would carry baby Kal-El to Earth.

But, before he could do so, Jor-El explored the galaxy in search of a suitable planet and sent out dozens of probes designed to collect various data. His research revealed that Kryptonians living in a yellow-star system developed enhanced physical characteristics including super-strength, speed and agility. One of Jor-El's probes landed on the planet Earth where it was discovered by motorist Thomas Wayne while he was on a drive with a pregnant Martha. When Thomas touched the probe, his consciousness was instantly transported to Krypton where he met Jor-El so that Jor-El could better learn what kind of world Earth was to help him decide which of many possible candidates he should sent his son to. Although their meeting was brief, Jor-El developed a fondness and respect for Thomas Wayne. Thomas tells Jor-El that the people of Earth aren't perfect, but are essentially a good and kind race, who would raise the child right. He decided that Earth would be the perfect planet for his son to be raised.

Finally internal pressures in Krypton's volatile core led to its destruction. Within a period of time, Jor-El's worst nightmares came to pass. Massive earthquakes erupted across the planet and Krypton literally shook in its death-throes. With little time to spare, Jor-El and Lara placed baby Kal-El into his rocket ship and sent him towards Earth. Meanwhile, Brainiac returned to consume Argo City. Krypto was too sent to Earth, but his rocket was blown off course and drifted in space for many years until the rocket picked up the signal from Kal-El's rocket that landed on Earth. Krypton exploded and everyone on the planet, including Jor-El, Lara, and the Kryptonian Science Council were killed. Now, all that remains is dust.

Last Son

"Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them."

Kal-El's ship would eventually find its way down to Earth and crash into a field in Kansas. It was here that Jonathan Kent and Martha Kent would find him. The two desperately wishing for children of their own but never able to have any due to medical complications took Kal-El in as their own hiding the remnants of his ship inside of their barn to protect him from the truth. Here Kal-El would gain his new name, a name of earth. Clark Joseph Kent. Here in the rural town of Smallville, Clark would grow up and spend the years of his childhood.

Despite his parents attempts to keep his identity a secret throughout his early school career his Kryptonian heritage came into display. The earliest being when he was a small child and playing with blocks where his small hands crushed the wood material in his hands down to a fine dust not knowing the extent of his power. This came to head at the end of grade six where in the midst of a swift and terrible summer swell his School Bus went off the side of an old bridge and went plummeting into the water. Clark blacked out at the time but a few on the bus remembered what happened including two of his close childhood friends Lana Lang and Pete Ross. After these events Kal-El's parents were forced to come to terms with the fact that they couldn't just keep hiding his heritage and the truth from their son. Though Martha and Jonathan did have arguments over it with Jonathan worried about what would happen once the truth went public and would they fear his son, condemn him.

None the less though two days after the Bus incident his father brought him into the barn where the remnants of his crashed ship remained all these years. Jonathan told him the truth about how he fell from the sky, wrapped in a cape one summer afternoon. Despite feeling that the act would tear his son away from him, he handed him his grandfather's cape that had been kept in the capsule ever since. It was the first time Clark had ever touched something from Krypton and it felt alien and yet like home Clark actually being brought to tears because of the event. Jonathan then sat his son down and told him what needed to be done. That his parents loved him but the rest of the world may not understand what he was and they might hate him for it. So that he would have to keep his true past a secret what little information he did know and try and keep his powers underneath wraps.

After this and for the remaining years of public education he would become torn about his fate. With so little answers and many more questions he wondered who he was and what he was. He wondered where he came from and why he was sent to Earth. He wondered why his real parents had left him, did they truly not love him? During this time he also began to act out against the wishes of his father more and try and fight what little crime there was in the surrounding Kansas Area while wearing a hoodie to conceal his face. Though this would come to an end shortly before he graduated High School when he hit a man trying to rob a woman n and ended up putting the man into a coma and having the woman he had just saved run away from him in fear. He had a semi-serious relationship with Lana Lang and even reviled his powers to her but Clark's distance put the relationship into tremendous strain and they broke up. Lana would end up dating and marrying Clark's other friend Peter later on. During this time he was also visited by the heros of the future the Legion of Super Heroes soon after the incident with the mugger to restore his confidence and assure him that everything would be okay. They told him that he would be the hero of an Earth worth fighting for and that in their time he was to become one the greatest legends in the entire galaxy. Leaving him once again with more questions than answers.

Still unsure of his future, Clark on athletic and academic prowess got into Metropolitan University where he decided to study Journalism. He figured if he couldn't use his powers for good, he may be able to help in another way by telling the truth. His time at the university would be well met meeting many varied individuals including fellow Journalism student Louis Lane. Through internships and hard work he ended up gaining the attention of one Perry White the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet. The DP was Metropolis' prominent newspapers and one of the more respected press sources on the American East Coast. Mr. White impressed with Clark's writings and his levels of commitment signed him on as a reporter along with fellow Metropolitan U graduate Louis Lane. Clark would travel across america and the globe for a few years after college reporting on the issues that plagued society while trying to terms with his destiny.

Though he would be called home in late 2001 to tragic news. Jonathan Kent had been mortally wounded in a car crash. Clark arrived with his adoptive father on his deathbed. Here Jonathan maybe in his old age and maybe in his final moments told his son a different take on life. That he should not hide his powers because of the fear of being afraid, that Clark had to be the one that saved them all. After Jonathan's passing, a somber and worn out Clark walked through his old house retracing old footsteps unsure and angry at himself for not being there. Searching for old comforts he walked into his old room and there on a bed much too small for him lay a suit of some sort, Blue, Red and Yellow, emblazoned with an S just his size another of the artifacts of Krypton that had been stored away in the Pod. On it was a note from his adoptive father that read very simply.

Dear Clark;

I'm Proud of You.
~~
And thus Superman was born

Man of Steel

"It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all. Then... he shoots fire from the skies and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him."

And so in the shadows of one of America's greatest tragedies, Superman returned to Metropolis. He saw the city with a new lense one that was dark and seedy rife with crime and enshrouded it with darkness and he would be the light to cast away that darkness. He started out small donning his iconic costume only at night and dealing with minor thugs, gang bangers and drug pushers. Though even with this soon rumors began to accumulate of some man in a cape saving everyday citizens from danger with amazing powers. This was prompted by shaking camera footage of his antics posted on the Internet on forums documenting the rise of this new wave of heroes like Batman and himself. Slowly the people of Metropolis became more and more aware of their mysterious hero and soon he decided it was time to make his grand entrance. The time came during an attempted robbery of the Metropolis National Trust. Out from above the sky fast as a speeding bullet he came and without any effort stopped the robbers 18 wheeler truck with nothing more than an open fist. His appearance became some of the biggest news in the country as everyone wondered who was the superman? This included Metropolis Police Commissioner William "Bill" Henderson and the one and only Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor was the billionaire scientists and engineer responsible for the foundation of LexCorp. Using his highly developed background in Science, Engineering and Business as well as the connections of an upper class bringing he started out with five employees and these days has over five thousand. Starting out as a aerospace engineering firm, LexCorp would end up becoming a producer of what Luthor coined as "Future Technologies" experimenting in everything from genetics, computer science, biological engineering and everything in between. Following the hostile takeover of almost all of the other major companies in Metropolis, Luthor ended up becoming one of the richest men in the world and the heart of Metropolis making sure everything flowed and just the way he liked it. And nobody was the wiser that underneath it all it was just a front to run of the world's largest criminal empires. The rise of this filthy alien would be a hindrance to Luthor's plans. So Luthor drummed up the populace against the Man of Steel portraying him and his deeds as dangerous and reckless and that some "alien" such as himself had no place in the affairs of business. Some believed him and it did not help when Luthor much to the disgust of Bill Henderson got the Metropolis PD under his payroll and had them declare Superman as a clear and present danger to society.

Yet most of the public rallied behind him as a hero and defender of the city despite Luthor's wishes. He would stop other crimes including a terrorist plot put forth to blow up the Daily Planet Building, stopping a brewing gang war in its tracks as well as dealing the the assassins that unknowing to him that Luthor had sent after him to attempt to deal with him and also to gauge the Man of Steel's own strength. Eventually though he would gain the trust of the American People after he defeated Metal-Zero an anti-Superman weapon that almost destroyed all of Metropolis and stopped the evil Brainiac from taking over Metropolis. He was revered as a hero of the people and was christened as the first of America and the world's new wave of heroes. During this time he also confronted Lex Luthor in his office and there Luthor explained that despite his success and heroics when it all goes wrong that he was going to be the one they blame. And that when he fell Luthor would be the one to pick up the pieces and rearrange them as he saw fit.

Mistakes

"You can't wear a mask Clark. When people see you and can see the things you can do, the power you have, they'll be terrified. They need to be able to look into your eyes, see your face, so that they can see the decency and kindness that's always there and know they have nothing to be afraid of."

Following the events of so called "Year One", Superman would end up fighting more crime in Metropolis as more heroes and supervillains began popping up around the world. He would end up making new allies as well such as Jimmy Olsen, a new reporter at the Daily Planet and close confidant of the Man of Steel. Krypto after a long sojourn stuck in space would eventually crash down to Earth and reunited with last of House El. It was also a time of great darkness as Superman was first confronted with Darkseid, ruler of Apokolips. After a brief brawl Darkseid teleported Superman to his realm of Apokolips. Superman stuck in this dark and strange world attempted to start a rebellion leading those oppressed by the ruler to try and topple him and his regime. But Darkseid proved too strong and the rebellion was crushed though in the process, Superman was able to return home. Having his real taste of defeat, Superman promised to become stronger to deal with the darkness that threatened earth,

Superman was shocked to meet a being calling herself Supergirl, someone who first appeared similar to Lana Lang. Supergirl explained she was from a Pocket Universe and pleaded with Superman to help save her world. Superman agreed and met the Lex Luthor of that universe, a benevolent scientist responsible for creating the Matrix Supergirl. He explained that The Pocket Universe exists solely so that the Legion of Superheroes can come there from the future.

Superman left for the 30th Century and in an attempt to help save the day Luthor accidentally released General Zod, Faora, and Quex-Ul, three Kryptonian criminals, from the Phantom Zone. The Kryptonians proceeded to destroy the atmosphere of the Pocket Earth, killing everyone on the planet, save for a handful that Lex protected in Smallville. Superman was unable to stop them from killing the rest, Superman in a deep rage exposed the criminals to gold Kryptonite, taking away their powers, and then decides they must be punished for their crimes -- he exposes them to green Kryptonite, killing them. After burying Maxtrix he leaves the pocket dimension now only a world of death.

The guilt of taking life would weigh heavily on Superman's shoulder . Superman mostly out of guilt would fall into a moderate psychological breakdown, and began fighting crime in the guise of Gangbuster. Long time vigliante and superhero, Guardian discovers this after a brief fight. Superman decides after what he's done that he has to leave Earth.

After several adventures in outer space, Superman is captured by Warworld and confronts Mongul for the first time. He meets the Cleric and encounters the Eradicator. Superman is pitted against Draaga in Warwold's arena, and when he refuses to kill Draaga, Mongul attacks Superman. Superman is saved from Mongul by the Cleric, who teleported him away. Superman accepted the Eradicator device from the Cleric, who died shortly after of wounds received from his mistakes thereafter, and deposes Mongul as the ruler of Warworld. Draaga becomes the leader of Warworld, but is humiliated by his defeat at Superman's hands of steel. Tired he returned home back to Earth.

A New Dawn

"You must not count on a Superman to patch up your lives every time."

The prodigal son's return was met with little hurrahs or fanfare. Tired and disillusioned he tried to find his way back to normal life but found it difficult. His life as Clark Kent seemed so far beyond him now and the life ahead of him was clouded in darkness. He saw it all in front of him, all the gears and machinery connecting the big devices of life together and he saw that it was corroding. Despite anything he did every time he would put a villain behind bars another would rise in his place. Was he even fit to be the Superman anymore with blood upon his hands and the failure to save those he would of called his friends? Well life had funny ways of getting people out of ruts and Superman's came in the form of a ship long lost in space feeling from a destroyed world.

Kara-El had landed on Earth

Discovered and intercepted by Superman, Clark would find Kara, a girl about 10 to twelve years of age confused and with all of her senses absorbing the effects of Earth’s particular atmosphere and solar connection whilst awakened by a strange man bearing the symbol of her house on his chest; not a pleasant introduction at all. It would turn out that time would mend all wounds and the experience of at least having somebody that was of the House of El beside her would make it all the more easier. However this would come with consequences as her landing did not go unnoticed as SHIELD’s extraterrestrial division called SWORD, and Lex Luthor himself would investigate. Clark had to act quickly to get the girl out of there before either Sword or Luthor got her. So he got the hell out of Dodge, avoiding the SWORD response team but not before Luthor could witness the Superman flying away with a girl in his arms... a most interesting sight indeed.

Clark then ran aground trying to figure out what to do next. He couldn't figure out exactly what to do with the Girl; nobody he knew as Clark would work and Martha was out of the question as well since despite being a strong woman in her advanced age she would be unable to handle the young girl as she began to adopt to her full powers. He couldn't just abandon her or send her somewhere far away and leave her alone and confused on an alien world and he couldn't let her become a test subject for Luthor or SWORD. As he weighed his options it became apparent that only one was truly left for him, taking the girl under his wing.

It has been two months since then and has been a sort of learning experience for the both of them. Clark has slowly been getting back into the groove of things on Earth battling the Villains of tomorrow today. But he's still unable to shake the doubts from his mind as a new darkness approaches threatening to consume Metropolis and the world. To face the darkness ahead he knows he will not be able to go at it alone....

| Attributes |

• Superhuman Strength: The exact limits of Superman's strength is unknown, but he has been shown as capable of lifting far in excess of one billion tons.
• Invulnerability: His body is nigh-invulnerable due to his superhumanly dense cellular and anatomical structure as well as his radiating bio-electrical aura.
• Longevity: Superman can live almost indefinitely if he resides under continuous exposure of Earth's sunlight.
• Superhuman Stamina: He has the ability to maintain continuous physical actions for an undefined period. Clark is shown to have unlimited stamina if he is consistently exposed to Earth sunlight.
• Flight: Superman is capable of flying at supersonic speeds in a planetary atmosphere and at faster-than-light speeds while in space.
• Superhuman Speed: He is capable of moving, reacting, running and flying at superhuman speeds. While not as fast as the Flash on a planet, Superman can fly at speeds faster than light and is considered one of the fastest beings in the universe.
• Superhuman Hearing: Superman has incredible hearing at extreme variances of sound and pitch frequency, allowing him to pick up noises from across the globe.
• Super Smell: On various occasions, Superman has demonstrated that his sense of smell is significantly enhanced to the point he can smell odors across the entire planet.
• Self-Sustenance: He does not need to eat or sleep doesn't require oxygen to breathe enabling him to travel in space and underwater unprotected.
• Healing Factor: Superman has been shown to have an accelerated "healing factor" enabling him to heal almost instantaneously from most wounds.
• Super-Breath: Superman can create hurricane force winds by blowing, and also chill his breath to freeze a target. He can also breathe in large amounts of air to dispel clouds of gas by exhaling it.
• Heat Vision: Superman can fire beams of intense heat from his eyes.
• Super Vision: Superman also possesses a superior sensory arrangement of visual capabilities.
  Electro-magnetic Spectrum Vision: He can see into all of the EM Spectrum. Superman can see and identify radio/television and any and all broadcast/transmitted frequencies, allowing him to avoid detection through radar or satellite monitoring methods.
• Telescopic Vision: The ability to focus his vision to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics.
  Microscopic Vision: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the sub atomic level.
• X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through anything except lead. Since it is passive, this ability would not generate harmful radiation in the same manner as a focused projection of hard X-rays.

| Character Notes |

Metropolis

This bustling metropolis on the Eastern Seaboard is the current home of Superman. An economic center and well known for its many science firms that have their corporate HQs in their towering skyscrapers. The people of Metropolis have openly welcomed Superman as their savior. Home of the Daily Planet as well as LexCorp. Lex Luthor's control over the city is less than subtlety expressed with LexCorp logos and Lexcorp stores dominating the city streets. While the emergence of Superman has brought down small crime, the rise of Super Villains emerging his increased.

Allies

• Krypto: House El's family dog sent into space along with Superman at a young age. The two reunited together after Krypto crash landed on Earth.
• Lois Lane: One of the Daily Planet's premier reporters and friend and associate of Clark Kent. May have the hots for Superman.
• Jimmy Olsen: Junior Reporter at the Daily Planet and Lois Lane's partner. After he began taking pictures of Superman's heroics the two met and hit it off with Jimmy becoming one of the man of steel's close confidents. Little did Jimmy know that Superman was also one of his other idols in the journalistic world Clark Kent.
• Perry White: The Editor in Chief of the Daily Planet and the boss of Clark Kent
• Lana Lang: Childhood friend of Clark and former romantic fling, one of the only people that know that Superman is Clark Kent. Married to Pete Ross.
• Pete Ross: Another old friend of Clark and husband of Lana Lang, small town politician in Kansas.
• Martha Kent: Clarke's adoptive mother and one of his biggest supporters, a kind elderly woman who is a lot smarter than she lets on.
• William "Bill" Henderson: Police Commissioner of Metropolis.
• Kara-El: Superman's niece, after crash landing on Earth she is currently staying with The Man of Steel

Foes

• Lex Luthor: Brilliant Scientist, one of the smartest men in the entire world, owner of one of the three most successful business in the world. Hates Superman, a lot.
• Darkseid: Ruler of Apokolips, New God, Really angry and really bad.
• Mongul: Ruler of Warworld, displaced by Superman and looking for revenge.
• Eradicator: Another survivor of Krypton kept alive by the kindness of the Cleric. Fought in the arena at War World where Superman managed to defeat him and earn equal parts rage and respect from the warrior. Whenver he appears chaos is bound to follow
• Will be updated as we go along

| Character Goals |

I will be the first person to admit that writing for Superman is really damn challenging. This mainly stems from the fact that when you have basically a nigh immortal god, making him relatable to us puny humans comes as an issue. Why should we feel bad for the man that bullets bounce off of and that can benchpress the Earth if he wanted? Well usually it is done in one of two ways either you ramp up the scale like some action movie always going for bigger explosions, to make him feel small and tiny you need to make your villana bigger and bigger to make him see inconsequential. This is a proven way of doing things and it is a reason why things like the Doomsday arc were so well received. Or you can go the other way and take things from a more psychological perspective, of a deeper analysis of this god-like figure and how he reacts and reflects the society he is in. See Superman: Red Sun and All Star Superman and these were always the stories I found more interesting.

What I can say about Superman or the planned structure I have for him is one of growth and acceptance. Something of a coming of age tale if you want to call it that or more likely a coming to acceptance tale. Allowing a Superman still very much young and experienced to be able to find how to become the hero that his father always wanted him to be. While of course being open to other collaborative arcs with other heroes and the eventual creation of the Justice League if that ever happens as well as a collaboration mixing somebody's idea for Supergirl _{coughgowicough}. I can't promise that I will write the best Superman story ever told, if I did say that I would by lying to you. But what I can say is that this is a story I've been dying to tell and if you let me I'll do it as much justice to it as I can.

| References |

You know what I do.

[Gowi]

Thus the War of the Supermen begins anew.

[Morden Man]

And after much deliberation, discussion and nearly a day of editing while slowly driving @Gowi insane. I present to you ladies and gentlemen in this corner; weighing in at 235 lbs, standing at a solid 6'3", the hero of Earth, the last son of Krypton and the Man of Steel himself. Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin I mean Superman!

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"According to the word of God, the meek would someday inherit the earth. Someday. But God never accounted for the mighty."

| Identity |

• Kal-El
• Clark Joseph Kent
• The Man of Steel
• Defender of Earth
• Superman

| Origin & Backstory |

The Fall Of Krypton

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
~ William Butler Yeats

Orbiting a red dwarf star some fifty light-years distant from Earth named Rao, the planet Krypton was once very much like our world. The Green Lantern Corps have dubbed Krypton's sector of space 2813 (Earth's being 2814) and was under the protection of Green Lantern Tomar-Re when it was destroyed. Krypton's primordial era produced some of the most dangerous organisms in the Universe. It was for this reason that Krypton was chosen as the place to create Doomsday through forced evolution. Doomsday was an infant who was released into the dangerous environment of prehistoric Krypton and killed, the surviving and strongest genetic matter was cloned and re-released so the process could be repeated until the resulting being was powerful enough to survive.

He became too strong, he killed most of the planet's population before clinging to a cargo ship fleeing the planet and went into space with nothing but a strong primal hatred of all life. Doomsday escaped Krypton via a ship that regularly came to deliver supplies to his creator, Bertron, who he also killed and went on a killing spree across several planets. Doomsday faced the Green Lantern Corps, killing several hundred of them, but was ultimately defeated by the alien hero Radiant and entombed. Since it was deemed that keeping them on their planet would be an insult, Doomsday was sent into space, at which time he eventually landed on Earth, tomb and all. Up until its destruction, many dangerous animals, including ferrophage moles, still existed on Krypton.

Krypton during its Golden Age became an expanding empire that conquered other planets across the galaxy. The Kryptonian military was lead by Admiral Dru-Zod the First who commanded entire fleets of ships, seeking world's ripe for conquest. Some three-hundred years ago, Admiral Zod's capital ship, the Doomsday crash-landed on Earth in the region that would eventually become known as Texas. His Sunstone ship lie buried beneath the ground for centuries. Soon, the Kryptonian Empire was dismantled after the Kryptonian high council decided that their methods were too aggressive. So, ended Krypton's Golden Age.

But as Kryptonian civilization flourished, the planet turned towards isolationism. Space exploration was abandoned as Krypton quarantined itself from the surrounding galaxy. All Kryptonians were unable to leave their planet or they would die instantly. This was the result of the Eradicator altering their genetic codes of Kryptonians to keep them planet-bound after a group of them left Krypton to explore and colonize other planets. The Eradicator punished these Kryptonians by altering their genetic codes to be vulnerable to lead, which resulted in the Daxamites.

It was at this time that the young scientist Jor-El and his brother, Zor-El was both born. By their adult years, Jor-El became a high-ranking member of the Kryptonian Science Council and had a wife Lara Van, from the Labor Guild, while his brother Zor-El became married to Alura Ze, and had a daughter named Kara El. Jor-El was a protege of the eminent scientist known as Non and together they discovered that Krypton was suffering from severe geological disturbances - disturbances that threatened to destroy the entire planet. Jor-El brought his concerns to the Science Council, but they dismissed his assertions as a vehicle of paranoia and discord. Jor-El and Lara even soon had a son named Kal-El.

Many years ago, the penal system of the planet Krypton sentenced their criminals by placing them in suspended animation. Jor-El discovered the existence of the Phantom Zone and introduced it as an alternative means of imprisonment. He had little knowledge of the true inner workings of the zone, but believed that it was a more humane form of punishment over that which they had previously employed. He developed a projection device that could send and retrieve people into the zone with the simple flick of a switch. The first prisoner to be exiled to the Phantom Zone was the renegade scientist Jax-Ur. Jax-Ur, a former colleague of Jor-El's, was responsible for destroying Krypton's moon during an attempt at interstellar space travel. When the moon was destroyed, a lunar colony of Kandor was lost as well, drawing the attention of the Coluan villain Brainiac to Kandor. Brainiac, also known as Vril Dox I, was a Coluan scientist.

At some point, he cloned himself to get a lab assistant; the clone would later be called Vril Dox II. He acquired a spaceship and went on a journey through space, acquiring knowledge and using his robotic drones to capture living organisms of various alien species. Along the way, he came to Krypton, and kidnapped the entire city of Kandor, miniaturizing it in his spaceship, while Jor- El 's brother, Zor-El and his family stayed behind at Argo City. An elite military unit, called Black Zero, commanded by General Zod's wife, Ursa was killed attempting to defend Kandor from Brainiac, except Ursa herself. Brainiac also created a remote scout unit, which was programmed to think it was the original Vril Dox. After Brainiac's attack, Zor-El created a force-field around Argo City using a Braniac Probe. Over a short expanse of time, the Kryptonian Science Council began exiling the worst of the planet's criminals into the zone, the most famous of which was the military insurrectionist General Zod.

General Zod, the descendent of Admiral Zod, gained prominence in the Kryptonian Military Guild for his heroic, though futile, efforts to protect the city of Kandor from Braniac, however lost credibility however when he defected from the Kryptonian Defence Council, along with his wife Ursa, after they had been instructed to arrest Jor-El and Non after they both had made sensationalistic claims of Krypton's pending destruction. But, suddenly Non was abducted by the Kryptonian Science Council for continuing the claims and was brainwashed, lobotomized, and turned into a brutish, mute savage by the Council to be silent. When Zod, Ursa, and Jor-El found out, both Zod and Ursa sided with Jor-El. But, they both and none were arrested and tried for acts of sedition. They were sentenced to spend eternity in the Phantom Zone, where they would continue to exist as disembodied wraiths by Jor-El, which lead to their revenge against him and his heirs.

Jor-El was later threatened by the Science Council with harsh penalty of exile to the very Phantom Zone he himself had discovered if he were to make public his predictions of their planet's imminent doom or otherwise attempt to "create a climate of panic." So he decided to create a star-drive ship designed for his only son, Kal-El, to escape the planet and its people's fate. Also, Jor-El had created a serum that he invented that would allow a Kryptonian to leave the planet safely; which he gave to his son Kal-El upon leaving for Earth. He also had his family dog in his household, Krypto used for a test flight of the rocket that would carry baby Kal-El to Earth.

But, before he could do so, Jor-El explored the galaxy in search of a suitable planet and sent out dozens of probes designed to collect various data. His research revealed that Kryptonians living in a yellow-star system developed enhanced physical characteristics including super-strength, speed and agility. One of Jor-El's probes landed on the planet Earth where it was discovered by motorist Thomas Wayne while he was on a drive with a pregnant Martha. When Thomas touched the probe, his consciousness was instantly transported to Krypton where he met Jor-El so that Jor-El could better learn what kind of world Earth was to help him decide which of many possible candidates he should sent his son to. Although their meeting was brief, Jor-El developed a fondness and respect for Thomas Wayne. Thomas tells Jor-El that the people of Earth aren't perfect, but are essentially a good and kind race, who would raise the child right. He decided that Earth would be the perfect planet for his son to be raised.

Finally internal pressures in Krypton's volatile core led to its destruction. Within a period of time, Jor-El's worst nightmares came to pass. Massive earthquakes erupted across the planet and Krypton literally shook in its death-throes. With little time to spare, Jor-El and Lara placed baby Kal-El into his rocket ship and sent him towards Earth. Meanwhile, Brainiac returned to consume Argo City. Krypto was too sent to Earth, but his rocket was blown off course and drifted in space for many years until the rocket picked up the signal from Kal-El's rocket that landed on Earth. Krypton exploded and everyone on the planet, including Jor-El, Lara, and the Kryptonian Science Council were killed. Now, all that remains is dust.

Last Son

"Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them."

Kal-El's ship would eventually find its way down to Earth and crash into a field in Kansas. It was here that Jonathan Kent and Martha Kent would find him. The two desperately wishing for children of their own but never able to have any due to medical complications took Kal-El in as their own hiding the remnants of his ship inside of their barn to protect him from the truth. Here Kal-El would gain his new name, a name of earth. Clark Joseph Kent. Here in the rural town of Smallville, Clark would grow up and spend the years of his childhood.

Despite his parents attempts to keep his identity a secret throughout his early school career his Kryptonian heritage came into display. The earliest being when he was a small child and playing with blocks where his small hands crushed the wood material in his hands down to a fine dust not knowing the extent of his power. This came to head at the end of grade six where in the midst of a swift and terrible summer swell his School Bus went off the side of an old bridge and went plummeting into the water. Clark blacked out at the time but a few on the bus remembered what happened including two of his close childhood friends Lana Lang and Pete Ross. After these events Kal-El's parents were forced to come to terms with the fact that they couldn't just keep hiding his heritage and the truth from their son. Though Martha and Jonathan did have arguments over it with Jonathan worried about what would happen once the truth went public and would they fear his son, condemn him.

None the less though two days after the Bus incident his father brought him into the barn where the remnants of his crashed ship remained all these years. Jonathan told him the truth about how he fell from the sky, wrapped in a cape one summer afternoon. Despite feeling that the act would tear his son away from him, he handed him his grandfather's cape that had been kept in the capsule ever since. It was the first time Clark had ever touched something from Krypton and it felt alien and yet like home Clark actually being brought to tears because of the event. Jonathan then sat his son down and told him what needed to be done. That his parents loved him but the rest of the world may not understand what he was and they might hate him for it. So that he would have to keep his true past a secret what little information he did know and try and keep his powers underneath wraps.

After this and for the remaining years of public education he would become torn about his fate. With so little answers and many more questions he wondered who he was and what he was. He wondered where he came from and why he was sent to Earth. He wondered why his real parents had left him, did they truly not love him? During this time he also began to act out against the wishes of his father more and try and fight what little crime there was in the surrounding Kansas Area while wearing a hoodie to conceal his face. Though this would come to an end shortly before he graduated High School when he hit a man trying to rob a woman n and ended up putting the man into a coma and having the woman he had just saved run away from him in fear. He had a semi-serious relationship with Lana Lang and even reviled his powers to her but Clark's distance put the relationship into tremendous strain and they broke up. Lana would end up dating and marrying Clark's other friend Peter later on. During this time he was also visited by the heros of the future the Legion of Super Heroes soon after the incident with the mugger to restore his confidence and assure him that everything would be okay. They told him that he would be the hero of an Earth worth fighting for and that in their time he was to become one the greatest legends in the entire galaxy. Leaving him once again with more questions than answers.

Still unsure of his future, Clark on athletic and academic prowess got into Metropolitan University where he decided to study Journalism. He figured if he couldn't use his powers for good, he may be able to help in another way by telling the truth. His time at the university would be well met meeting many varied individuals including fellow Journalism student Louis Lane. Through internships and hard work he ended up gaining the attention of one Perry White the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet. The DP was Metropolis' prominent newspapers and one of the more respected press sources on the American East Coast. Mr. White impressed with Clark's writings and his levels of commitment signed him on as a reporter along with fellow Metropolitan U graduate Louis Lane. Clark would travel across america and the globe for a few years after college reporting on the issues that plagued society while trying to terms with his destiny.

Though he would be called home in late 2001 to tragic news. Jonathan Kent had been mortally wounded in a car crash. Clark arrived with his adoptive father on his deathbed. Here Jonathan maybe in his old age and maybe in his final moments told his son a different take on life. That he should not hide his powers because of the fear of being afraid, that Clark had to be the one that saved them all. After Jonathan's passing, a somber and worn out Clark walked through his old house retracing old footsteps unsure and angry at himself for not being there. Searching for old comforts he walked into his old room and there on a bed much too small for him lay a suit of some sort, Blue, Red and Yellow, emblazoned with an S just his size another of the artifacts of Krypton that had been stored away in the Pod. On it was a note from his adoptive father that read very simply.

Dear Clark;

I'm Proud of You.
~~
And thus Superman was born

Man of Steel

"It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all. Then... he shoots fire from the skies and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him."

And so in the shadows of one of America's greatest tragedies, Superman returned to Metropolis. He saw the city with a new lense one that was dark and seedy rife with crime and enshrouded it with darkness and he would be the light to cast away that darkness. He started out small donning his iconic costume only at night and dealing with minor thugs, gang bangers and drug pushers. Though even with this soon rumors began to accumulate of some man in a cape saving everyday citizens from danger with amazing powers. This was prompted by shaking camera footage of his antics posted on the Internet on forums documenting the rise of this new wave of heroes like Batman and himself. Slowly the people of Metropolis became more and more aware of their mysterious hero and soon he decided it was time to make his grand entrance. The time came during an attempted robbery of the Metropolis National Trust. Out from above the sky fast as a speeding bullet he came and without any effort stopped the robbers 18 wheeler truck with nothing more than an open fist. His appearance became some of the biggest news in the country as everyone wondered who was the superman? This included Metropolis Police Commissioner William "Bill" Henderson and the one and only Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor was the billionaire scientists and engineer responsible for the foundation of LexCorp. Using his highly developed background in Science, Engineering and Business as well as the connections of an upper class bringing he started out with five employees and these days has over five thousand. Starting out as a aerospace engineering firm, LexCorp would end up becoming a producer of what Luthor coined as "Future Technologies" experimenting in everything from genetics, computer science, biological engineering and everything in between. Following the hostile takeover of almost all of the other major companies in Metropolis, Luthor ended up becoming one of the richest men in the world and the heart of Metropolis making sure everything flowed and just the way he liked it. And nobody was the wiser that underneath it all it was just a front to run of the world's largest criminal empires. The rise of this filthy alien would be a hindrance to Luthor's plans. So Luthor drummed up the populace against the Man of Steel portraying him and his deeds as dangerous and reckless and that some "alien" such as himself had no place in the affairs of business. Some believed him and it did not help when Luthor much to the disgust of Bill Henderson got the Metropolis PD under his payroll and had them declare Superman as a clear and present danger to society.

Yet most of the public rallied behind him as a hero and defender of the city despite Luthor's wishes. He would stop other crimes including a terrorist plot put forth to blow up the Daily Planet Building, stopping a brewing gang war in its tracks as well as dealing the the assassins that unknowing to him that Luthor had sent after him to attempt to deal with him and also to gauge the Man of Steel's own strength. Eventually though he would gain the trust of the American People after he defeated Metal-Zero an anti-Superman weapon that almost destroyed all of Metropolis and stopped the evil Brainiac from taking over Metropolis. He was revered as a hero of the people and was christened as the first of America and the world's new wave of heroes. During this time he also confronted Lex Luthor in his office and there Luthor explained that despite his success and heroics when it all goes wrong that he was going to be the one they blame. And that when he fell Luthor would be the one to pick up the pieces and rearrange them as he saw fit.

Mistakes

"You can't wear a mask Clark. When people see you and can see the things you can do, the power you have, they'll be terrified. They need to be able to look into your eyes, see your face, so that they can see the decency and kindness that's always there and know they have nothing to be afraid of."

Following the events of so called "Year One", Superman would end up fighting more crime in Metropolis as more heroes and supervillains began popping up around the world. He would end up making new allies as well such as Jimmy Olsen, a new reporter at the Daily Planet and close confidant of the Man of Steel. Krypto after a long sojourn stuck in space would eventually crash down to Earth and reunited with last of House El. It was also a time of great darkness as Superman was first confronted with Darkseid, ruler of Apokolips. After a brief brawl Darkseid teleported Superman to his realm of Apokolips. Superman stuck in this dark and strange world attempted to start a rebellion leading those oppressed by the ruler to try and topple him and his regime. But Darkseid proved too strong and the rebellion was crushed though in the process, Superman was able to return home. Having his real taste of defeat, Superman promised to become stronger to deal with the darkness that threatened earth,

Superman was shocked to meet a being calling herself Supergirl, someone who first appeared similar to Lana Lang. Supergirl explained she was from a Pocket Universe and pleaded with Superman to help save her world. Superman agreed and met the Lex Luthor of that universe, a benevolent scientist responsible for creating the Matrix Supergirl. He explained that The Pocket Universe exists solely so that the Legion of Superheroes can come there from the future.

Superman left for the 30th Century and in an attempt to help save the day Luthor accidentally released General Zod, Faora, and Quex-Ul, three Kryptonian criminals, from the Phantom Zone. The Kryptonians proceeded to destroy the atmosphere of the Pocket Earth, killing everyone on the planet, save for a handful that Lex protected in Smallville. Superman was unable to stop them from killing the rest, Superman in a deep rage exposed the criminals to gold Kryptonite, taking away their powers, and then decides they must be punished for their crimes -- he exposes them to green Kryptonite, killing them. After burying Maxtrix he leaves the pocket dimension now only a world of death.

The guilt of taking life would weigh heavily on Superman's shoulder . Superman mostly out of guilt would fall into a moderate psychological breakdown, and began fighting crime in the guise of Gangbuster. Long time vigliante and superhero, Guardian discovers this after a brief fight. Superman decides after what he's done that he has to leave Earth.

After several adventures in outer space, Superman is captured by Warworld and confronts Mongul for the first time. He meets the Cleric and encounters the Eradicator. Superman is pitted against Draaga in Warwold's arena, and when he refuses to kill Draaga, Mongul attacks Superman. Superman is saved from Mongul by the Cleric, who teleported him away. Superman accepted the Eradicator device from the Cleric, who died shortly after of wounds received from his mistakes thereafter, and deposes Mongul as the ruler of Warworld. Draaga becomes the leader of Warworld, but is humiliated by his defeat at Superman's hands of steel. Tired he returned home back to Earth.

A New Dawn

"You must not count on a Superman to patch up your lives every time."

The prodigal son's return was met with little hurrahs or fanfare. Tired and disillusioned he tried to find his way back to normal life but found it difficult. His life as Clark Kent seemed so far beyond him now and the life ahead of him was clouded in darkness. He saw it all in front of him, all the gears and machinery connecting the big devices of life together and he saw that it was corroding. Despite anything he did every time he would put a villain behind bars another would rise in his place. Was he even fit to be the Superman anymore with blood upon his hands and the failure to save those he would of called his friends? Well life had funny ways of getting people out of ruts and Superman's came in the form of a ship long lost in space feeling from a destroyed world.

Kara-El had landed on Earth

Discovered and intercepted by Superman, Clark would find Kara, a girl about 10 to twelve years of age confused and with all of her senses absorbing the effects of Earth’s particular atmosphere and solar connection whilst awakened by a strange man bearing the symbol of her house on his chest; not a pleasant introduction at all. It would turn out that time would mend all wounds and the experience of at least having somebody that was of the House of El beside her would make it all the more easier. However this would come with consequences as her landing did not go unnoticed as SHIELD’s extraterrestrial division called SWORD, and Lex Luthor himself would investigate. Clark had to act quickly to get the girl out of there before either Sword or Luthor got her. So he got the hell out od Dodge, avoiding the SWORD response team but not before Luthor could witness the Superman flying away with a girl in his arms... a most interesting sight indeed.

Clark then ran aground trying to figure out what to do next. He couldn't figure out exactly what to do with the Girl; nobody he knew as Clark would work and Martha was out of the question as well since despite being a strong woman in her advanced age she would be unable to handle the young girl as she began to adopt to her full powers. He couldn't just abandon her or send her somewhere far away and leave her alone and confused on an alien world and he couldn't let her become a test subject for Luthor or SWORD. As he weighed his options it became apparent that only one was truly left for him, taking the girl under his wing.

It has been two months since then and has been a sort of learning experience for the both of them. Clark has slowly been getting back into the groove of things on Earth battling the Villains of tomorrow today. But he's still unable to shake the doubts from his mind as a new darkness approaches threatening to consume Metropolis and the world. To face the darkness ahead he knows he will not be able to go at it alone....

| Attributes |

• Superhuman Strength: The exact limits of Superman's strength is unknown, but he has been shown as capable of lifting far in excess of one billion tons.
• Invulnerability: His body is nigh-invulnerable due to his superhumanly dense cellular and anatomical structure as well as his radiating bio-electrical aura.
• Longevity: Superman can live almost indefinitely if he resides under continuous exposure of Earth's sunlight.
• Superhuman Stamina: He has the ability to maintain continuous physical actions for an undefined period. Clark is shown to have unlimited stamina if he is consistently exposed to Earth sunlight.
• Flight: Superman is capable of flying at supersonic speeds in a planetary atmosphere and at faster-than-light speeds while in space.
• Superhuman Speed: He is capable of moving, reacting, running and flying at superhuman speeds. While not as fast as the Flash on a planet, Superman can fly at speeds faster than light and is considered one of the fastest beings in the universe.
• Superhuman Hearing: Superman has incredible hearing at extreme variances of sound and pitch frequency, allowing him to pick up noises from across the globe.
• Super Smell: On various occasions, Superman has demonstrated that his sense of smell is significantly enhanced to the point he can smell odors across the entire planet.
• Self-Sustenance: He does not need to eat or sleep doesn't require oxygen to breathe enabling him to travel in space and underwater unprotected.
• Healing Factor: Superman has been shown to have an accelerated "healing factor" enabling him to heal almost instantaneously from most wounds.
• Super-Breath: Superman can create hurricane force winds by blowing, and also chill his breath to freeze a target. He can also breathe in large amounts of air to dispel clouds of gas by exhaling it.
• Heat Vision: Superman can fire beams of intense heat from his eyes.
• Super Vision: Superman also possesses a superior sensory arrangement of visual capabilities.
  Electro-magnetic Spectrum Vision: He can see into all of the EM Spectrum. Superman can see and identify radio/television and any and all broadcast/transmitted frequencies, allowing him to avoid detection through radar or satellite monitoring methods.
• Telescopic Vision: The ability to focus his vision to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics.
  Microscopic Vision: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the sub atomic level.
• X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through anything except lead. Since it is passive, this ability would not generate harmful radiation in the same manner as a focused projection of hard X-rays.

| Character Notes |

Metropolis

This bustling metropolis on the Eastern Seaboard is the current home of Superman. An economic center and well known for its many science firms that have their corporate HQs in their towering skyscrapers. The people of Metropolis have openly welcomed Superman as their savior. Home of the Daily Planet as well as LexCorp. Lex Luthor's control over the city is less than subtlety expressed with LexCorp logos and Lexcorp stores dominating the city streets. While the emergence of Superman has brought down small crime, the rise of Super Villains emerging his increased.

Allies

• Krypto: House El's family dog sent into space along with Superman at a young age. The two reunited together after Krypto crash landed on Earth.
• Lois Lane: One of the Daily Planet's premier reporters and friend and associate of Clark Kent. May have the hots for Superman.
• Jimmy Olsen: Junior Reporter at the Daily Planet and Lois Lane's partner. After he began taking pictures of Superman's heroics the two met and hit it off with Jimmy becoming one of the man of steel's close confidents. Little did Jimmy know that Superman was also one of his other idols in the journalistic world Clark Kent.
• Perry White: The Editor in Chief of the Daily Planet and the boss of Clark Kent
• Lana Lang: Childhood friend of Clark and former romantic fling, one of the only people that know that Superman is Clark Kent. Married to Pete Ross.
• Pete Ross: Another old friend of Clark and husband of Lana Lang, small town politician in Kansas.
• Martha Kent: Clarke's adoptive mother and one of his biggest supporters, a kind elderly woman who is a lot smarter than she lets on.
• William "Bill" Henderson: Police Commissioner of Metropolis.
• Kara El: Superman's niece, after crash landing on Earth she is currently staying with The Man of Steelr

Foes

• Lex Luthor: Brilliant Scientist, one of the smartest men in the entire world, owner of one of the three most successful business in the world. Hates Superman, a lot.
• Darkseid: Ruler of Apokolips, New God, Really angry and really bad.
• Mongul: Ruler of Warworld, displaced by Superman and looking for revenge.
• Eradicator: Another survivor of Krypton kept alive by the kindness of the Cleric. Fought in the arena at War World where Superman managed to defeat him and earn equal parts rage and respect from the warrior. Whenver he appears chaos is bound to follow
• Will be updated as we go along

| Character Goals |

I will be the first person to admit that writing for Superman is really damn challenging. This mainly stems from the fact that when you have basically a nigh immortal god, making him relatable to us puny humans comes as an issue. Why should we feel bad for the man that bullets bounce off of and that can benchpress the Earth if he wanted? Well usually it is done in one of two ways either you ramp up the scale like some action movie always going for bigger explosions, to make him feel small and tiny you need to make your villana bigger and bigger to make him see inconsequential. This is a proven way of doing things and it is a reason why things like the Doomsday arc were so well received. Or you can go the other way and take things from a more psychological perspective, of a deeper analysis of this god-like figure and how he reacts and reflects the society he is in. See Superman: Red Sun and All Star Superman and these were always the stories I found more interesting.

What I can say about Superman or the planned structure I have for him is one of growth and acceptance. Something of a coming of age tale if you want to call it that or more likely a coming to acceptance tale. Allowing a Superman still very much young and experienced to be able to find how to become the hero that his father always wanted him to be. While of course being open to other collaborative arcs with other heroes and the eventual creation of the Justice League if that ever happens as well as a collaboration mixing somebody's idea for Supergirl _{coughgowicough}. I can't promise that I will write the best Superman story ever told, if I did say that I would by lying to you. But what I can say is that this is a story I've been dying to tell and if you let me I'll do it as much justice to it as I can.

| References |

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