He realizes that it is time to discover his purpose, and bids an emotional farewell to his Earth mother. His adopted father Jonathan Kent tells him that he was brought here to Earth with the powers he has for a purpose, and it wasn't for showing off in front of his friends.Īs Clark tries to get his father to race him to the house, Jonathan suffers a fatal stroke and dies, making Clark feel ashamed that with all his powers, he couldn't save his father. After a few months pass, Clark hears the call of a mysterious green crystal hidden in his parents' barn. Frustrated, Clark kicks a football high into the air and then races back home at super-speed, amazingly outracing an approaching locomotive. Clark accepts the offer, but realizes that he has so much work to do and so watches Lana drive off with her friends. That was when he learned he could fly.Īt age 18, Kal-El, who is now Clark Kent, is busy putting away equipment for the Smallville High's football team when his friend Lana Lang invites him over to listen to records.

One day, a particularly huge leap sent him flying into the roof of the barn, which he fell through and would have smashed the ground but instead he hovered a few inches above the ground. As a teenager, Clark found himself able to leap great distances and heights, and would often bound through the cornfields near his home. Kal-El easily lifts up the truck, making the Kents wonder if the child really came from outer space somewhere. The Kents discuss what they wish to do with the child when the truck falls off the jack, almost crushing Jonathan who was working underneath it to change a flat tire. They see a young three-year-old child emerge from the wreckage unharmed. It burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere and crash-lands in a nearby Smallville field, causing Jonathan and Martha Kent to pull over and investigate. The star ship carrying Kal-El travels through space, causing the child to age a few years while also educating him. Both Jor-El and his wife Lara bid their son a sad goodbye as the star ship is launched from Krypton minutes before the planet and its sun explodes. Undaunted by their ignorance, Jor-El develops a star ship in which he will send his son to a primitive planet called Earth.

Kal-El was born the son of Jor-El, a member of the Science Council on the planet Krypton, who had trouble convincing them that Krypton and its sun are on the verge of destruction.

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