Superman

Superman, the alter-ego of Clark Kent, (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio) who was sometimes referred to as Man of Steel, (PROSE: The Shining Man) was a fictional superhero and the main character in the comic book series of the same name. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio)

Fictography
The last of his kind, Superman crash-landed on Earth as a baby, (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men) where he was given the name Clark Kent. In his later life, Kent worked as a reporter at the Daily Planet, alongside Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. His editor was Perry White. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio) At one point, he had a snow fortress. (PROSE: Dear Great Uncle Peter)

Powers and abilities
Superman had the ability to fly. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio) Kryptonite was his weakness. (AUDIO: Starfall)

Behind the scenes
As he revealed at the 2016 New York Comic Con, Superman, or more specifically Clark Kent, is Steven Moffat's favourite superhero. In writing the Ghost (Grant) in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, Moffat was particularly influenced by Clark Kent, and took inspiration from the Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Superman appears as a playable character in LEGO Dimensions.

When Paul Kupperberg served as editor at DC Comics, he edited and sometimes wrote for Superman, among other titles, and also wrote for the newspaper strip of the same title.

Jim Broadbent, who played Jean Pierre Dubois in Superman IV: Quest for Peace, played an invalid Eleventh Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death. He was considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor.

William Russell, Susannah York, Shane Rimmer, Sarah Douglas, David Neal, John Hollis, Tony Selby, James Garbutt, Harry Fielder, Alf Joint, Roger Brierley, Terry Walsh, Tony Sibbald, Robert Beatty, Henry Woolf, R. J. Bell, Esmond Knight, Eiji Kusuhara, Peter Roy, David Garth, Rex Robinson, Kiran Shah, David de Keyser, Burnell Tucker, Kerry Shale, David Forman and Alan Tilvern all appeared in the.

David Warner and Eliza Roberts played Superman's biological parents Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van in the episode "Foundling".

George Murdock appeared in two Superman television series: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and.