Super Facts

Lets see how much of a Superman fan you really are! Here's One-Dozen Superman Facts!

1. Superman was created as an allegory to immigration in America, with both Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster being the children of Jewish immigrants they reflected on to Superman how alienated they felt and how differently immigrants were seen and treated.

2. Despite being America's greatest superhero and an American icon, Superman's not a legal citizen of the USA. John and Martha Kent forged his birth certificate. This-combined with Fact #1-creates the ironic conclusion that not only is America's most popular superhero an immigrant-he's an illegal immigrant!

3. Superman is one the only comic book characters to technically have two sets of parents. His birth parents Jor-El and Lar-El and his adopted parents John Kent and Martha Kent. Despite The Kents raising Superman from infancy, the personalities are The Els are stored on a computer system in Superman's Fortress of Solitude to aid Superman whenever he needs advice.

4. In the Golden Age of comic books superpowers weren't consequential meaning Superman had unlimited superpowers. He even had powers that were made-up for one instance in one story. He could change is appearance to other aliens and even create doll-sized versions of himself.

5. Superman's Fortress of Solitude is kept tidy by robots Superman created himself. They tend to the multiple alien creatures he keeps in the Fortress zoo, operate all the technology inside the Fortress, and have even been designed to look identical to Superman in the instance Clark needs to throw off the possibility of anyone learning his secret identity.

6. Actor Nicholas Cage is a huge Superman fan. He has a lengthy comic book collection that has been sold and bought back depending on who he's dating or married to. He named his son Kal-El after Superman's birth name and Cage was incredibly close to playing Superman in a Tim Burton Superman film that never got past the costume fitting.

7. Because of his near-invulnerability Superman's hair cannot be cut. One string of hair can hold up a 100 pound weight. In order to shave and cut his hair, Superman must set and fire his own heat vision at a specific frequency at a mirror. The heat vision will bounce off the mirror and onto his face and burn off his individual hairs.

8. It is a common misconception that Superman is a simpleton. Superman's brain processes at levels beyond human, he operates technology generations beyond our own, and his ability to think fast allows him to predict, prepare and prevent his enemy's strategy.

9. Superman may not be as fast as The Flash, but he is fast enough to vibrate through solid matter and see/communicate with any member of The Flash Family while they move at super speed.

10. The Adventures of Superman Radio Show (1940-1951) received information from an author who had sneaked into The Ku Klux Klan and learned their secrets. The radio show did an episode featuring Superman defeating a KKK-like organization, and the vivid descriptions of the episode decreased membership and crippled recruitment for the KKK.

11. To escalate the threat of every episode, the writers of "Justice League: The Animated Series" often showed Superman being injured to show just how powerful their enemy was. This caused some fan dispute as viewers found Superman being too much of a wimp.

12. Superman originally could not fly. He could "leap tall buildings in a single bound", but when the character was adapted into a cartoon in 1942 the animators found it silly to draw Superman jumping and landing over and over again and decided to give the character the power to fly to make animation easier and less tedious. This simple animation change resulted in Superman gaining his signature superpower.
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