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Heat vision.

Sunlight. Focused. Fired.

Two red beams of light cutting into a steel girder, throwing sparks

Krypton

The planet
he came from.

A red sun, a doomed world, one rocket.

A planet cracking apart in front of a red sun and a glowing nebula

In cinemas 9 July 2027

Man of Tomorrow.

Filming has wrapped. The countdown is on.

A vast dark alien starship trailing cables, hovering over the night side of a planet edged with green light

242days to go

Weaknesses

Kryptonite.

The rock from home that can stop him.

A cluster of glowing green crystals on black rock

Actors

Nine Supermen.
One page.

From Kirk Alyn to David Corenswet.

Daily quiz

Five questions.
Every day.

Keep your streak going.

What can Superman do?

Every power

Story of the day · Film

No trailer before Christmas.

James Gunn has played down reports that the first Man of Tomorrow trailer will play with Dune: Part Three, saying there won't be one in December.

Start here.

Six ways into everything Superman.

Coming up · 18 November

Superman history.

Superman, explained · Powers

X-ray vision.

Sees through everything. Except lead.

Illustration: an old brick and plaster wall with a light switch and a socket. Through the X-ray lens you can see the pipes, the wiring and a hidden safe behind the bricks, but one box stays solid black and reads "Lead. Nope.", because Superman's X-ray vision can't see through lead.

The powers make him super. The kindness makes him Superman.

Superman, in numbers.

1938

The year he first appeared, in Action Comics #1.

20+

Colours of kryptonite in the comics, from green to rainbow.

88

Years of Superman, and still flying.

Superman, explained.

Cited, and labelled by continuity.

Trivia and firsts

Superman and Britain

Superman's British side: the 1978 film made at Pinewood and Shepperton, its royal premiere, a British comic that flew first, and kryptonite in London.

15 sources

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Super-breath

How Superman's super-breath and freeze breath work, when they first appeared (1940 and 1959), whether they work in space, and their best uses.

6 sources

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Super-hearing

How Superman's super-hearing works, its disputed first appearance in 1938–39, its limits, and how the films show him learning to control it.

4 sources

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Superman's heart

Does Superman have a heart like ours? What happened when it stopped after Doomsday in 1992, and how the Fortress's regeneration matrix brought him back.

4 sources

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