Clark Kent, also known by his birth name Kal-El or superhero alias Superman, is a fictional character and a superhero in the 2021 The CW television series Superman & Lois; originally developed as a part of the Arrowverse franchise of television series, first mentioned in the 2015 pilot of Supergirl, based on the ...
This wasn't meant to alienate us from the Arrowverse, but because a lot of the other shows are sadly no longer going to be on the air, it felt like the right thing to do.” “We have to think about this as a separate Superman, a doppelganger of the one who was in the Arrowverse,” he added.
While The Flash doesn't feature Superman in any major capacity, it does include cameos by multiple takes on the character. The film's multiversal stakes end up involving four different incarnations of the Man of Steel, and only one of them hails from the DC Extended Universe.
Thanks to “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the Arrowverse has its own Justice League team. The most well-known live-action version of the JLA debuted in the DCEU's Justice League movie, but another incarnation of the group exists in The CW's DC universe.
Earth One's Superman exists alongside other revamped DC characters in Earth One titles, including Batman: Earth One and Wonder Woman: Earth One, as well as other graphic novels.
This new Earth-2 Superman was seemingly killed alongside his world's Batman and Wonder Woman while fighting off an invasion from the planet Apokolips led by Steppenwolf.
In some ages Superman was so powerful he could fly to different worlds because his store of solar energy was so high. In other worlds, including Smallville, he lost his powers immediately when exposed to a red sun. Then you have things like Superman returns where he used a spacecraft to go through space.
DC is famous for having strict rules regarding the use of the Bruce Wayne/Batman character on television, preferring to keep him for the big screen. It is for this reason that Batman has yet to make a full, in-the-flesh appearance in the Arrowverse, but that doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
In 2023, the franchise concluded with the ninth and final season of The Flash. The 2018 and 2019 crossovers, "Elseworlds" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths", saw multiple DC television series and films retroactively added to the franchise's multiverse.
Yet it wasn't AI, Cage said, that was responsible for his cameo in last summer's The Flash. The film envisioned a younger Cage as a multiverse version of Superman that inspired by Superman Lives — Tim Burton's Man of Steel project that was famously canceled before it could get off the ground in 1998.
Plenty of Leaguers are fast without it, and Superman is among the fastest. The Man of Steel's powers have some limits and weaknesses as well, but Superman's speed is an integral part of his abilities. He may not match some of the Flash's feats, but often that's about nuance, not speed.
Why was Nicholas Cage playing Superman in The Flash?
As you may remember, Cage tested as the Man of Steel for what would've been a Tim Burton-directed feature that was ultimately scrapped. With The Flash being about the multiverse, in another timeline, Cage does sport the red cape and blue suit but he said that what he filmed was not what appeared on-screen.
While this was the only mention of the character in the show, it's since been confirmed that Oliver is dead in Superman & Lois. After the airing of the season 2 finale, showrunner Todd Helbing explained that a version of Oliver did exist in the show's canon as Green Arrow, but he met “an unfortunate end” [via Looper].
While the face of the Arrowverse's Bruce Wayne (Warren Christie) has shown up a few times on Batwoman—on a magazine cover, on top of Tommy Elliot's face, and in Luke Fox's (Camrus Johnson) near death vision—the character himself is still a no-show.
Batman guards his secret identity, only revealing it to a select few–including Superman and Green Arrow. Batman trusts these heroes not to reveal his secret to anyone else–a trust that Green Arrow has now violated.
' Batman may have more skill than Green Arrow in a lot of ways, but Oliver has surprised all kinds of foes over the years. He's worked with Batman, so he knows how The Dark Knight operates. If anyone could figure out a way to beat Batman, it's Green Arrow.
Presumably due to the years of being Batman taking a toll and breaking his own code, Bruce Wayne abandoned Gotham City and disappeared, also leaving his vigilantism and Batman persona behind. Three years after his disappearance, Gotham City had once again descended into a hopeless crime-ridden state.
In Season 8, Diggle refuses the invitation from the glowing green cube he came across in the series finale of Arrow and decides to remain with his family instead of becoming a Green Lantern.
Gotham City, as well as entire Earth-1, was destroyed in the Anti-Monitor Crisis, when an antimatter wave decimated the multiverse. But A new Gotham City was created on Earth-Prime after the Crisis.
For a long time, the reason for Batman's weird TV status came down to brand maintenance. As the only truly successful superhero franchise in Hollywood, Warner Bros. executives did not want to dilute the Bat-Brand, especially in an era when TV was considered inferior to film.
In the first stories about Superman's origins, all Kryptonians possess on their homeworld the same powers Superman has on Earth. In later depictions, their abilities are attributed to the differences between Earth's gravity and that of Krypton and the different radiation of the stars they orbit.
According to the comics, Superman can fly because of a combination of powers he derives from Earth's “yellow” Sun and from his extraterrestrial biology. On his birth planet, Krypton, gravity was much stronger than it is on Earth, so Kryptonians developed a physique that could resist its pull.
Superman can go very long without sunlight and still exert himself and do strenuous activities. In fact, Superman has bench pressed the weight of the earth for 5 days straight, without producing a single sweat droplet, and was deprived of sun, therefore, he was running on his Solar reserves.
