Superman X
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| First appearance | Legion of Super Heroes (TV series) season 2, episode 1 |
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| Alter ego | Kell-El |
| Place of origin | Earth |
| Team affiliations | Legion of Super-Heroes (animated TV show version) |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, invulnerability, heat vision, inherent flight, production of green crystalline structures, energy charged arms, immunity to Kryptonite. |
Superman X (Kell-El) is a fictional character in the television series Legion of Super Heroes. The character was based on DC Comics's Superman, who is also a major character in the series. Like Superman, he is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. Kel-El was designed after Mon-El, an already established Legion character. The explanation for creating Kel-El over Mon-El was that Mon-El was far too unknown to the audience.[1]
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Superman X is a clone originally hailing from the 41st century. He was created by the dual-minded cybernetic entity K3NT — a play on the name Kent, the family name of the original Superman's foster parents — using DNA from the original Superman and Kryptonite. K3NT's hope was that a being made in memory of past superheroes would be able to defeat the menace of Imperiex.
Before his first appearance, he obtained an artifact of long-forgotten technology—similar in appearance to the Boom Tube technology of the New Gods—that allowed him to travel through time. He used this to journey one thousand years into the past to the time of the Legion of Super Heroes, to recruit them in his fight against Imperiex. It was the Legion's eradication of evil in their time (their near-future, Kell-El's past) which led to an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. At some point after this, Imperiex appeared and nearly destroyed Earth. With the help of the Legion, Superman X was nearly successful at stopping Imperiex. However, when he was believed defeated, Imperiex stole the time-travel device and went to the 31st century. Imperiex's actions in the past changed the future, forcing Superman X and the Legion abruptly escape back to the 31st century before Superman X's timeline was completely consumed by a sudden proliferation of "antimatter" bubbles (a result of Imperiex's influence upon the past).
It appears that he will remain in the 31st century with the Legion, fighting Imperiex and learning to be a hero.
After Imperiex was destroyed by a Brainiac-corrupted Brainiac 5, Superman X and Superman join forces in a mental attack and free Brainiac 5 from his ancestor's influence. With Imperiex destroyed, Superman X's timeline is restored, and the clone returns there, but not before reciting the Legion oath, and thus becoming a full member of the team.
[edit] Personality
He apparently considers himself to be a living weapon and behaves in a taciturn, aggressive manner, unlike that of the original Superman. He is also far more cold blooded, and at the start of the series was willing to let members of the Legion of Super Heroes be killed if it meant he could go after Imperiex, and only helped them because they could help against Imperiex. However, he gets less cold as the season goes on. In "Unnatural Alliances", when Imperiex offered him a chance to kill a boy named Abel (who would play a key role in Imperiex coming into existence, and whose destruction in the past would erase Imperiex), Superman X couldn't do it, and Imperiex comments that before meeting the Legion, he would not have hesitated to kill the boy. Also in the same episode, he said he didn't get along well with children and even "stepped on one once".
After Brainiac 5 killed Imperiex, Superman X felt useless because destroying Imperiex was his duty.
Like his namegiver and ancestor, Superman X is the last survivor of his homeworld. Although he seldom admits it, this fact makes him feel alone in his present situation. In his first appearance, he expressed a distrust of Brainiac 5, making oblique references to the potential dangers Brainiac poses to others. However, he has not elaborated on this.
[edit] Powers and abilities
The Kryptonian DNA gives him the traditional powers of super-strength, speed, stamina, durability, endurance, agility, reflexes, flight, heat vision, freeze breath, invulnerability, X-ray vision, telescopic vision and microscopic vision. In addition, due to the Kryptonite in his DNA, he is immune to its effects on normal Kryptonians, removing one of Superman's few weaknesses, though light from the red sun and presumably magic may still affect him to an unknown degree. He also has powers beyond those seen in Kryptonians on Earth; he can project a beam from his hand that causes a green crystalline substance to materialize on or around an object or person. He can create an energy-based shield from the S-shield on his uniform and blade-like weapons from patches on the backs of his gloves. However, this may be all or partly technological in nature because Timber Wolf once broke through the shield while fighting him, resulting in a shower of sparks.
[edit] In comics
In Superman Vol. 1 #418 (April 1986): "The Replacement" Superman goes to help an alien race to deal with a threat on their planet. One of the aliens stayed behind as Superman's replacement and the media referred to him Superman X.[2]
