Jor-El

"You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders."

- Jor-El

Jor-El is the father of Superman and a protagonist in the Superman series. He was a renowned scientist from the planet Krypton. Jor-El was the one who first discovered that Krypton's days were numbered and wanted to preserve the planet's populace. Though he failed to convince the council that Krypton will be destroyed, either by supernova or the planet's core exploding, he managed to send his son Kal-El to Earth, preserving the best of Krypton in doing so.