Superman Symbolism: What 10 Most Famous Villains Really Mean

3. Doomsday - The Danger He Poses

Doomsday was created by an alien geneticist called Bertron who was essentially his "father" Bertron arrived on Krypton several hundred thousand years ago when lethal and deadly monsters roamed the world. He was obsessed with creating a creature that could survive any environment and even cheat death itself. He created an infant in a test tube, using Kryptonian DNA, and subjected it to Krypton's harsh landscape and its savage, hungry inhabitants, using the best of the surviving genes to improve his next cloned creation. The infant died several times over and Bertron would use the deceased specimen to clone a new one every day. After ten years of scientific experiments, Bertron noticed that the baby was evolving, "mastering the life's need to survive", and finding itself unable to die by any means it had previously died. It grew in to Doomsday and went on a rampage around the galaxy. Given that Doomsday was created from Kryptonian DNA, he represents the danger Superman poses and what anyone with ill intentions could use Superman to create. Of course, he actually killed the Man of Steel, so he is also representative of the fact that Superman isn't completely invulnerable - even on a basic physical level.