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12. Jor-El

Um…This is new. I was prepared to talk about Batman stuff this week, not Superman stuff. I’ll have to change my hat for this.

Okay. Jor-El was a Kryptonian scientist who was deeply worried about his home planet, so he stuck his baby in a rocket and shot it into space. That baby would crash land on Earth and grow up to be Superman. There are tons and tons of versions of Jor-El.

Original Recipe Jor-El was very proto-Superman, with a superhero-ish outfit and the Clark Kent good looks. Later, they’d reinvent Jor-El as an emotionless scientist on a very different version of Krypton. Then someone wanted to bring back the original, and they sorta did. And some people who liked that ‘70s movie started to turn him into Marlon Brando. Or a soldier/scientist.

They recently brought him back to life as a villain, because everything even partially related to Doomsday Clock is bad and disappointing. Ugh.