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| “ | On to the next mine. Next corporate pig farm or sweatshop factory. Years of running, all across this planet. From the jungle to the big waters to…whatever you call those places that are nothing but sand…and it's always the same. Always misery. Always Lazarus. Except this time, I've left myself weak and sun-starved. Dreaming of so long ago…When I still knew who I was. Maybe it was for the best I hadn't already left. Because after all these years of watching these poor people treat the poorest and lowest among them as little more than cattle…I've gotten tired of running. | „ |
| ~ Superman |
Kal-El is one of the main protagonists of the Absolute Universe in DC Comics. A survivor from the planet Krypton whose parents sent him to Earth as a child, he grows up to fight for those mistreated by the corrupt Lazarus Corporation as Superman.
Biography[]
Origins[]
Kal-El was born into Krypton's rigid caste system, a world defined by a scientific elite who hoarded power and resources while dictating the future of the planet. Kal-El was perfectly content to be average. He found freedom not in academic pursuits, but in the rugged, wide-open spaces of the Redlands. He saw his future not in a laboratory or a council chamber, but as a laborer, the lowest class. To him, the laborers were the true "men of steel"—hard-working people who built their own lives regardless of society's disdain.
His parents, Jor-El and Lara-El, shared his path, working as laborers, though their position was a deliberate choice. They were heterodox thinkers who warned the scientific council that their reckless control over the planet's resources would bring about disaster. Their warnings were dismissed until a toxic, radioactive gas began to erupt across Krypton.
Jor-El and Lara-El had an ambitious plan to save many using escape vessels, but in the chaos, only their son could be secured. The ship's artificial intelligence, Sol, launched Kal-El from the doomed world, sending him on an unlikely journey to the distant planet Earth.
He landed in Smallville and was raised by the loving couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent. Under the glow of Earth's yellow sun, Kal-El’s biology transformed, granting him extraordinary powers. His happy life on the farm was shattered when the grasping Lazarus Corporation—a corrupt, multinational megacorporation—seized the Kents’ land in an attempt to capture him.
For years, Kal-El remained an elusive figure, hiding his abilities while he observed the world. He eventually learned the truth: the Lazarus Corporation was not just corrupt, but was actively abusing its workers and hoarding resources—a mirror image of the scientific elite who doomed Krypton.
Determined to prevent Earth from sharing his homeworld's fate, Kal-El decided to fight back. Using his powers to remain unseen, he began to dismantle the Lazarus Corporation's operations while secretly aiding its struggling workers. He adopted a new purpose, rising from the shadows to become the champion of the working class: Superman.
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