The Flash Season 3: 15 Things You Need To Know About Flashpoint

13. Kal-El Is Far From Super

The Flash Flashpoint
DC Comics

The Last Son of Krypton is always the quintessential hero, the ever-strong, do-the-right-thing sort of figure who leads by example and is a clear symbol of hope for a world so often shrouded in darkness. Not in Flashpoint, he’s not.

For poor Kal-El, rather than land in rural Kansas and get found by the Kents, he instead crashes directly into Metropolis. With many civilians killed during the crash, the military are quickly on the scene and take the would-be-Superman into custody, launching what was known as Project: Superman.

Kal is experimented on for years, living a solitary existence and looking like a scarily thin shell of the hero longtime comic book fans have come to love and know. The only person who ever has any time for him is General Sam Lane, who essentially views him as a son.

Within Kal, many of the powers of our Superman exist, it just takes a while for them to come to fruition and to be controlled. Unfortunately for the Flashpoint take on Superman, he grows up as a military experiment who lives a life of misery for the most part.

One of the key changes that this caused is that the Flashpoint world has no form of Justice League whatsoever. That’s not to say that there aren’t some familiar “heroes” still around, but they are a little different to what we’re used to.

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