Superman: Up in the Sky

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Between the various media adaptations and the " Imaginary Stories", arguably more than any other fictional character. Blue Means Cold: One comic features Cynthona the Kryptonian goddess of ice. She can create monsters from frost and generate ice and her outfit is blue, as is her skin. Superman: Up, Up and Away! is a Superman family crossover story arc that was published in 2006. It was told in the Superman and Action Comics books, with Kurt Busiek and Geoff Johns as writers. Intrepid Reporter: Even with his powers gone, Clark still protects Metropolis as an investigative reporter. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Arrogant God vs. Raging Monster: Superman has met many enemies who are brute strength and no brains. But only the mindless Doomsday, famous for clearing entire planets of all life, has given him such a fight that was not only able to "kill" Superman, but making him fear the idea of battling the monster again. When you can scare a guy capable of punching through planets and has many more powers than you, and then keep getting up immune to whatever of those powers he used to kill you last time, you know you are destined to fight each other quite a few times.Superman has been published continuously by DC Comics for eight decades and counting. He first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June, 1938). Restraining Bolt: Lex devises a way to deactivate Metallo's cyborg parts, effectively turning him into a statue.

Exposition Beam: Superman's first step in locating the missing girl's location is stopping at Rann and using their technology to beam in all the documented information they have about all usage of the zeta beam used to kidnap her. Sardath warns Superman that this is a terrible idea because an active zeta exists everywhere all at once, meaning that not only would sorting through all interactions to find where one girl was taken be an impossible task, the sheer amount of information would crush Superman's mind, with Sardath treating Superman's insistence on trying it anyway as inviting certain death. Fortunately, Supes isn't built like most mortal minds, and after experiencing several trippy and variously traumatic dreams, he ends up managing to guess the girl's location, as well as identify her name: Alice. In Superman Unchained, Wraith ended up on Earth this way. Unlike Superman, however, he ended up landing at a military installation and sent for a purpose he appears to have known, thus leading to very different development. Arranged Marriage: In the Post- Flashpoint Krypton parents often choose their children' spouse via gene-matching, although this custom was being phased out by the time of Kal-El and Kara Zor-El. A "Supergirl" 2011 story showed Alura wanting to get her daughter gene-matched, and Kara complaining she wanted to choose her partner freely. Clark: I remember what pa used to say: "Listen to what a man says, judge what a man does." You keep saying you can't save her. Fine. But it seems like the only thing you really can't do... is leave. Amicable Exes: He generally gets along quite well with Lori Lemaris, though in fairness, they don't bump into each other that often. Things can be more awkward with Lana, who still carries a torch for him.Superman: Up in the Sky was interesting. It's a rather different style of telling a story, using multiple short stories that are joined together in an over-arching "main plot". The Boxing Episode: Chapter 3 sees Clark forced into a literally out-of-this-world boxing match against an alien mercenary named Mighto, who was hired by Alice's kidnappers and only offers to tell Clark their identities if he can beat him in a boxing match without his superpowers, including his Super-Strength. Clark gets clobbered through the rounds as Mighto ends up being much faster and stronger, but his utter refusal to go down and give up on Alice ensures he ends up winning just by sheer attrition.