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Superman Substitute

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Superman Substitute	comment	As the character widely considered the first superhero, Superman is a natural point for any writer of superhero fiction to start with. Consequently, pretty much every superhero universe, whether playing straight, parodying, or deconstructing, contains at least one character clearly intended to be a version of Superman. There are many reasons why this trope is so common in superhero fiction. Superman's iconography is easily recognizable and immediately implies a superhero setting. This makes it easy to twist and put the writer's own spin on it. Superman is also considered the starting point for superheroes, which means discussions of him can have more meaning. While doing an Expy of a character like Batman might come across as critiquing or celebrating only Batman, stories attempting to critique or celebrate the superhero genre can use Superman as a base and be reasonably certain their attitudes can translate across to other characters. Superman is also famously considered one of the most powerful heroes, giving the character and their actions a sense of weight, whether as a hero or a villain. Superman's Older Than Television status and idealistic nature make him an easy target for parody or deconstruction as the embodiment of "The Man". Conversely, often a Superman Substitute is created because a writer wants to write a Superman story, but doesn't want to deal with the trouble of negotiating with DC Comics to handle one of their biggest characters without Executive Meddling, and so creates a Captain Ersatz to write him anyway. Of course, the simplest one is because he's the only one the writer knows. This was particularly common in The Golden Age of Comic Books, as the runaway success of Superman meant that many companies were eager to Follow the Leader. Plenty of early superheroes, most of whom are now forgotten, were functionally identical to the Golden Age Superman, with a throwaway origin to grant them their suspiciously similar powers and names like Dynaman or Super-American. The most famous of all was Captain Marvel, who actually outsold Superman at points, leading to one of the medium's most notorious lawsuits. Most modern takes on this trope tend to be more self-conscious, less trying to copy Superman and more trying to play with Superman as an archetype. These characters tend to include the following traits: They are The Cape, or in darker takes, are publicly regarded as such. In the latter case, they are also a Corrupted Character Copy of Superman. They have a Flying Brick powerset with some extras, traditionally including Super-Senses and some form of Eye Beams (though more low-powered versions may go the Golden Age route and only have Super-Strength and Super-Toughness). They are considered one of the most powerful and beloved heroes of their world. If they're part of a team, they will usually be the leader. They wear a costume similar to Superman's (chest symbol, cape, spandex, Underwear of Power, no mask). Their origin involves aliens, alien contact, or being the last of their kind, and their powers involve light (especially sunlight) or gravity as an explanation or power source. They have a Secret Identity, or once had one, and are often Clark Kenting. They identify heavily as American, and even if they don't, their costume will be red, blue, and/or yellow. They have a Something Person name, and/or a name that in some way includes a superlative. They are one of the older and more experienced superheroes and are often outright the first. (Some stories will even have them explicitly debut in the late '30s.) They have a Kryptonite Factor (which, in more parodic takes, often takes the form of an outright Weaksauce Weakness). Their supporting cast includes a Mad Scientist Arch-Enemy, an Intrepid Reporter love interest who often has a Loves My Alter Ego triangular relationship with their heroic and civilian personae, a Plucky Comic Relief male friend, a Distaff Counterpart who may or may not be related to him, and/or a more ruthless but still heroic Badass Normal foil. If the writer is really pushing it, an unusually high proportion of the supporting cast might share the same Alliterative Name initials, in reference to the large number of "L. L." characters in the Superman mythos. May be either an All-Loving Hero or a Hope Bringer. Or both. A common variant is to include elements of Captain America, typically by playing up the Captain Patriotic elements and changing the origin to include Super Serum, or Captain Marvel, by adding elements of magic or mythology or some kind of transformation. Expect this character to use lots of Dynamic Akimbo posing, too (our page image being a fantastic example of such). Notably, DC themselves have acknowledged this at points, suggesting that every world in The Multiverse has at least one of these on it (though some are farther than others). See also: Batman Parody, Spider Man Sendup, HULK MASH!-Up, Captain Patriotic, Wolverine Wannabe, The Fantastic Faux, and Wonder Woman Wannabe for other superhero expies.
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Superman Substitute / int_12300cc3	comment	In Watchmen, Doctor Manhattan has an entirely different set of powers, origin, and personality, being primarily inspired by Captain Atom. However, he's more or less an analogue to Superman in that his very existence challenges society, he plays a major international role, is backed and supported by the government, and likewise feels increasingly lonely and apart from humanity. The line of dialogue "the Superman exists and he is American" signifies who Manhattan is meant to represent.
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Superman Substitute / int_12fd5db0	comment	Megamind has Metro Man, defender of Metro City, who is more or less Superman with a few elements of Elvis, complete with analogues to Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Lex Luthor. He's a bit of a Smug Super in order to give more sympathy to the Villain Protagonist. He's also a downplayed Corrupted Character Copy; Metro Man is basically what might happen if Superman went through a mid-life crisis.
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Superman Substitute / int_1360d787	comment	Hero by Perry Moore has at least two of them; Uberman has the powers and the role. Justice has the powers derived from the sun, was sent to Earth as a baby from a destroyed planet, and was raised by a couple in Kansas. Turns out he's trying to destroy the Earth. Captain Victory deserves a mention, he had no powers but his secret identity was a Clark Kent expy. He worked as a journalist, disguised his identity with unnecessary glasses and was one of Earth's first superheroes.
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Superman Substitute / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm: Scion is a Flying Brick (among many other powers) who's adored by all, seen as an icon for other Super Heroes to aspire to, and is an alien who lost his family. It has also been noted that the Triumvirate each have aspects of Superman: Alexandria is an aloof Flying Brick, Legend has the personality and is the leader of the Protectorate (with his versatile laser blasts being compared to Superman's heat vision, cold breath, etc), and Eidolon representing the Silver Age Superman's tendency to randomly pick up new powers. (Eidolon is also the strongest superhero in the Protectorate â€” and, Scion excepted, the world.)
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Superman Substitute / int_13b7da6e	comment	Iron Munro was created because All-Star Squadron couldn't use Superman due to the Post-Crisis changes that came from the DC Multiverse being done away with and the inhabitants of Earth-One (home of the Silver Age and Bronze Age characters), Earth-Two (home of the Golden Age characters), Earth-S (home of the Fawcett Comics characters) and Earth-Four (home of the Charlton Comics characters) now inhabiting the same universe, particularly the Justice Society now being the Justice League's predecessors in-universe as well as out-of-universe and the Golden Age incarnations of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman being among the characters erased from existence. True to form, he has the same powers as the Golden Age Superman (Super-Strength and invulnerability), he basically looks the same only wearing street clothes and with a streak of white in his hair, and he's stated to be the son of Hugo Danner. Iron Munro is inspired by Aarn Munro, the character in the novel The Mightiest Machine by John W. Campbell.
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Superman Substitute / int_1937dd14	comment	Robert Reynolds a.k.a. The Sentry is a deconstruction, with him possessing a similar costume, phenomenal powers... and serious mental instabilities. It does not help that a lot of whether he's a straight substitute or a full-on deconstruction depends on what interpretation the writer prefers. The Retraux miniseries Age of the Sentry makes it even more obvious, with the wacky plots and good-natured attitude common to old Superman comics at the forefront. He even has a superdog! Recently, the consensus is that the Sentry, Robert, and the Void are all aspects of the same man, and when they merge, the result is a new version of the Sentry — still a Flying Brick with a Lantern Jaw of Justice out to protect Earth (now with added black hair, even), but dressed in red and black, with black hair, a casual attitude to killing, and the Void's Lovecraftian Superpower. In Marvel Zombies, reportedly, the hero who crosses universes while infected with the zombie plague was originally intended to be Superman, the implication being that the DCU had been infected too. However, they couldn't make it subtle enough, so he was given a quick Palette Swap and turned into Sentry (though he still has Superman's spitcurl◊). In a Development Gag, Sentry in the Army of Darkness crossover is shown with a rip in his costume◊ in the shape of Superman's S-symbol.
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Superman Substitute / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor despite being based on a pre-existing Norse God, generally fulfills this role neatly within the Marvel Universe. A Flying Brick with a red cape and blue outfit, who technically isnâ€™t human but a visitor from another world who falls in love with a human woman and is generally seen as the Big Good of Marvelâ€™s heroes. The parallels are only heightened in Jason Aaronâ€™s run where Thor has a All-Star Superman-esque sequence where he helps people across the planet, including visiting a man on Death Row and offering him comfort. Naturally Thor is the one Supes fights in JLA/Avengers. Thor has even done the "crush coal into diamond◊" trick like the Man of Steel himself.
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Superman Substitute / int_1b7fda65	comment	Marvelman, better known as Miracleman (whose rights are currently owned by Marvel), started out as a Captain Ersatz of Fawcett's Captain Marvel (himself an example) who was created as a result of the British publisher L. Miller & Son, Ltd. being unable to continue publishing Captain Marvel comics due to Fawcett being forced to cease publication after DC sued them. Alan Moore's run that revitalized the character noticeably made Miracleman's similarities to Captain Marvel's inspiration Superman more apparent, with him introducing a Distaff Counterpart and a Lois Lane Expy, aging up Mike Moran, and linking the character's origin to aliens. Add in the fact that Kid Miracleman is redesigned to be more like Captain Marvel, and the final battle ends up basically being a recreation of MAD's Superduperman but Played for Drama.
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Superman Substitute / int_1bd83c95	comment	Icon is the Superman Substitute of Milestone Comics, being an alien Flying Brick with a costume including a cape. He's also a black lawyer, who's somewhat out of touch with the struggles of the lower class and underprivileged.
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Superman Substitute / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Like DC's Captain Comet above, the X-Men villain Exodus is basically psychic Superman, and while he doesn't hew as closely to the archetype as the good captain, he does check off many of the boxes, albeit with a twist — he's a Flying Brick, but only as long as he believes in himself; he's a team leader, but they're a team of super-villains; he's the Last of His Kind, but "his kind" are crusader knights rather than aliens, and so on. Since he was, as noted, a crusader knight and the most powerful and most devoted of Magneto's Acolytes (when he says he's Magneto's heir "in spirit and power" he is not kidding, in either respect), this means he most certainly does not have the personality.
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Superman Substitute / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Hercules was seen less as a Disney take on antiquity and more as an attempt to retell the story of Hercules in the style of Superman. In this version, he's a god Brought Down to Normal (but not entirely), was raised by Muggle parents, had an awkward teenage year at the farm, goes to a temple and talks to his space-Dad... er God-Dad, and as an adult falls for a snarky civilized girl (Megara) who dresses in purple and the bad guy is a megalomaniacal huckster in the vein of Gene Hackman's Luthor (Hades). One of the more interesting twists is that Meg/"Lois" starts out as a Punch-Clock Villain until Love Redeems.
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Superman Substitute / int_1f1826e5	comment	The Amalgam Universe's equivalent is Super Soldier. A sickly Kansas farmboy named Clark Kent was given an experimental serum derived from the DNA of a dead alien infant found in a crashed lifepod. The serum gave him a host of superpowers, allowing him to turn the tide during World War II, fighting with an indestructible shield bearing the alien child's emblem. Or in other words, he's an amalgam of Superman proper and Captain America.
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Superman Substitute / int_21795cc3	comment	The episode "SuperBabs" had Babs Bunny as the titular character fighting Montana Max in the role of 'Wex Wuthor'.
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Superman Substitute / int_21938c93	comment	Vision, introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron, is played as a Superman Substitute, in contrast to his often-destroyed comics counterpart. In terms of personality, he's shown to be The Paragon and worthy of using MjÃ¶lnir. In terms of powers, he's another Flying Brick (with the Super-Toughness amplified due to his 3D-printed cells being laced with vibranium) with energy blasts from his forehead gem (a.k.a. the Mind Stone).
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Superman Substitute / int_2342c40a	comment	The Tick (2016) has Superion, a cape-wielding superhero that can fly, has super strength, is extremely tough, shoots lasers out of his eyes, has a freeze breath, and is vulnerable to Big Bismuth.
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Superman Substitute / int_2932b28c	comment	Super Brainz of Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 and Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes. He just seems like a stock parody of The Cape at first, being a Flying Brick with a mostly different powerset than Superman and totally different origins.note He was either created in a lab or shot with a super-empowering ray, depending on which game he's in. However, he has his own Fortress of Solitude and dons a Clark Kent-esque disguise.
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Superman Substitute / int_2ba1d958	comment	Neo from The Matrix and its sequels is celebrated for "doing the Superman thing", i.e. Flight and other powers. He's a Messianic Archetype who had a mild-mannered civilian identity, has a committed relationship with a confident dark-haired woman, and his main enemies are not so different from Brainiac and Luthor.
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Superman Substitute / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: The short known as "Super-Rabbit" is a spoof of the Fleischer Superman shorts, starring Bugs Bunny in an ill-fitting Superman costume, getting his powers from specially treated carrots. When his carrots fall into the hands of his enemies, he decides to become "a real superman" - a U.S. Marine. Another short, titled "Stupor Duck", has Daffy Duck in the role of Cluck Trent, a reporter who becomes Stupor Duck in order to stop Aardvark Ratnik from threatening the world. However, Ratnik is simply a fictional villain from a soap opera Trent's boss was watching and that Trent mistook as being real. Hilarity Ensues. In "Fast and Furry-ous," director Chuck Jones described the coyote wearing a superhero outfit as animator Ken Harris in a Batman costume. The Looney Tunes Show revived the idea of Bugs Bunny playing the role of a Superman parody with an episode also called "Super Rabbit". Said episode combined various elements from the comics, Superman: The Movie and its first sequel, and Man of Steel. In it, Bugs as Super Rabbit fought a few other fellow Looney Tunes playing the roles of various Superman villains.
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Superman Substitute / int_2bf7632f	comment	Ralph Bakshi created The Mighty Heroes for Terrytoons and CBS. Strongman was the most direct of the heroes as the others had individual idiosyncrasies that matched their brands.
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Superman Substitute / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: The two-part episode "Legends" has the Justice League enter another dimension where they assist a hero team called the Justice Guild, who are pastiches of the Justice League's Golden Age precursors the Justice Society. One member of the Guild is Tom Turbine, who, in addition to being a Composite Character of Hourman and the Golden Age Atom Al Pratt, takes a bit after Golden Age Superman due to being a well-built man with chiseled features and a spit curl as well as having a T insignia on his chest like Superman does an S insignia. He even has a similar power set of being very strong and able to jump very high, when Superman in the comics only had flight, ice breath and other powers later on (some of which were incorporated into the comics canon after use in adaptations).
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Superman Substitute / int_30d735ec	comment	The Commander and Jetstream in Sky High (2005) are together a decomposite Battle Couple example. Considered the world's mightiest heroes, they are the parents of the protagonist Will Stronghold, who struggles to live up to their towering example (especially Commander's). They wear their all-American patriotism on their sleeves, their outfits being colored in red, white, and blue and the Commander having once had a sidekick named the All-American Boy, who now goes by just Mr. Boy. Superman's powers are split between them, with the Commander getting the Super-Strength and Jetstream getting flight. By the end of the film, it's shown that Will inherited both of his parents' powers, and will likely grow up into an example in his own right.
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Superman Substitute / int_3495152f	comment	Hancock is Superman if he were a reckless alcoholic who was hated by the public. Although deemed a superhero, he is one of the last survivors of a race of gods or angels rather than an alien.
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Superman Substitute / int_34d050c6	comment	In Darkwing Duck, Drake Mallard is meant to be a Batman Parody, but Gizmoduck, the publicly adored superhero who is seen as more powerful and capable and dresses in brighter costumes, is meant to be Superman's stand-in. Their dynamic resembles the DC Animated Universe version of World's Finest.
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Superman Substitute / int_3641a0ee	comment	Tatu and Patu: Hypercyberman the in-universe comic book superhero is beefy in a blue costume and red cape, can fly and has super strength, and has a weakness to a rare element called "rubberium".
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Superman Substitute / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019) has Homelander, the leader of (the secretly villainous) The Seven.
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Superman Substitute / int_397c7840	comment	Marshal Law's first arc focuses on the Public Spirit, a Deconstructive Parody of Superman, whose all-American nature is steeped in an ugly conservatism. Curiously, his powers are fueled by "pumping ions" and not true Super-Strength, and he takes steroids to give himself the muscular look. In the various sequels, it seems he also shares Superman's tendencies for spinoffs, including a 1940s one who operates as a failed Captain America and a "Junior" who resembles Legion of Super-Heroes Superboy.
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Superman Substitute / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: While Son Goku has long been compared to Superman, his actual origin is tied far more into that of Sun Wukong. It wasn't until Dragon Ball Z that we learned he was an alien sent to Earth as a baby - from a planet that was blown up mere days later. The twist is that he was meant to wipe out human civilization, but thanks to a bump on the head and a good upbringing, he became a Martial Pacifist and the Earth's greatest defender. As of Dragon Ball Minus and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Goku becomes far closer to this. His parents Bardock and Gine, noticing there was something wrong with Frieza suddenly recalling all Saiyans to their homeworld, stole an attack ball and sent the infant Goku to Earth for his safety, as the planet had enough food for even a Saiyan's immense appetite, its inhabitants looked like Saiyans without tails but weren't powerful enough to pose a threat to him, and the planet had nothing appealing to get Frieza's lethal attention. However, they planned to retrieve him later if their suspicions were proven wrong and tell their older son Raditz (who was already safely off-planet) in case they were right. However, they forgot to tell him just why they had sent him there, leading to Raditz assuming his brother had been sent to Earth on a planetary annihilation mission just like the one he was on-and becoming furious when he found out Goku had gone native. Like Superman with Lois Lane, Goku marries a dark-haired strong-spirited Earthling woman Chi-Chi. She gives birth to a sweet, largely non-violent boy Son Gohan, who, like Jonathan, has Hybrid Power, displaying a greater potential than even his own father, but is also seen as a hybrid freak by the pure-blooded members of their respective species. Comes full circle in as in a Shout-Out to Dragon Ball, Justice League #25 illustrated by Jorge JimÃ©nez has a moment directly inspired by the manga. When Superman has a Heroic Second Wind, the images of his father and son appear behind him as a clear reference to the Gohan/Goku Kamehameha from the Cell Saga. JimÃ©nez later confirmed the connection on Twitter. Speaking of Gohan, he becomes a kind of Superman Substitute in the Buu Saga when he becomes Great Saiyaman. This hero persona has a red cape and tights and contrasts wildly with his soft-spoken introverted and nerdy bespectacled civilian identity. Like Supes, Gohan has to balance his hero life with his normal life and is suspected by his dark-haired outspoken Love Interest Videl, before she like Lois learns the truth. Gohanâ€™s High School adventures are even somewhat similar to Smallville. Although there are a few differences as besides Gohan being half-alien while Superman is full alien, Great Saiyaman is more inspired by Kamen Rider and Toku than western superheroes like Superman. Dragon Ball Super saw fit to create a more direct Superman substitute with Jiren of the Universe 11 Pride Troopers. While nowhere near as friendly as most Supermen not made by Image, the guy's sheer power (rivalling or surpassing the Gods of Destruction), Heroic Build, pseudo-Eye Beams, and membership in a hero team makes his status as such likely. This is especially true for his manga incarnation, where he doesn't want to participate in the Tournament of Power because it will cost the existence of other universes while preventing him from keeping watch over his own universe for the duration of the tournament.
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Superman Substitute / int_3cdcd366	comment	In The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman), we are introduced to the Great Society of Earth-4290001, led by Sun-God. Perhaps the most blatant example from Marvel, they have him going so far as to copy some of his signature poses, and even quoting him at points. He's even best friends with the Batman expy "The Rider" and shares a similar background (though he's revealed to have been extrauniversal, implying he might be the last of his universe rather than just world).
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Superman Substitute / int_3db9a5f1	comment	"Wishology" gives us Turbo Thunder. The Chosen One who was sent into space as a child when his homeworld became a Sacrificial Planet to The Darkness.
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Superman Substitute / int_3f5830c4	comment	The Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon had a movie parody segment titled "Supernerd", consisting of a spoof of Superman: The Movie where a bespectacled and acne-ridden geek with the secret identity of Nat Nerd has to thwart his nemesis Lex Lumpy's scheme of using a giant robot resembling Elvis Presley to steal candy, eventually succeeding by telling on Lumpy to his mother.
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Superman Substitute / int_402568f2	comment	In Black Summer, John Horus, though not very similar to Superman power-wise (he can fly and has some Super-Toughness, but his main power is a roving swarm of eye-shaped Attack Drones), is clearly meant to represent Superman within the world of the series. He's the leader of a seven-member team, he's fairly close to another member with a darker color scheme, he's a One-Man Army to the point of being able to survive a nuclear blast, and his main trait is his unshakeable sense of morals and justice. The comic is, essentially, about what happens when someone with Superman's morality and level of strength ends up having to deal with the fact that the US government is full of criminals more malevolent than any supervillain: that is to say, he tries to overthrow it by force.
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Superman Substitute / int_4064f208	comment	Aberrant has Caestus Pax, who along with the various other deconstructive elements takes the concept in a somewhat darker direction, with fascist leanings and a tendency towards being kind of an utter dick.
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Superman Substitute / int_44040f52	comment	The Halt Evil Doer! setting has two. Anthony Atlas/Antaeus/Titan Man (the latter being the name the press gave him) was the 1940s non-flying brick with powers similar to the Golden Age Superman. Mikhail/Divinos is the "classic" Superman, except that he arrived on Earth as an adult, and as a result sometimes comes across as distant from humans, a bit more like the Martian Manhunter.
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Superman Substitute / int_44231a75	comment	The first page of Kong Tower introduces Sergeant Omega, whose wavering competence due to lack of Required Secondary Powers, Kryptonite Is Everywhere, and general stupidity is a recurring joke.
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Superman Substitute / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: The first and most notable superhero in the setting (appearing circa 1930) was Harry Holbrook, The Chicago Champion, who believed himself to be the last Olympian (at least until he got a pair of Kid Sidekicks who shared his powers). Notably, the Superhero Origin story he created for himself was pure nonsense; he was in fact a Mutant with a variant of the Avatar power, which allowed him to absorb various spirits and use their powers, fusing them into what became known as the Champion Force. He even goes through some of the same stages which Superman did, as he initially could 'only' jump very far, before gaining the power of flight. Interestingly, the Champion of the series is a Legacy Character, as the original Champion was able to pass the Champion Force on to his protegÃ© when he died. The current (as of 2006) Champion is the sixth, and there is always another Avatar waiting in the wings (a student at Whateley Academy, selected for their sense of justice and honor) to take up the title when the current one falls.
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Superman Substitute / int_453a04b0	comment	The Fairly Oddparents: The Crimson Chin is a combined parody of both Superman and Batman in that he combines multiple aspects of both characters and one from Spider-Man in his origin of being bitten by a Radioactive person. The most notable attributes borrowed from Superman include relying on little more than a pair of glasses to protect his secret identity, working at a news company with "Daily" in its name, and at one point wondering if his powers not working is because of some "Chintonite" being nearby. The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story Untold Tales from the Big Superhero Wish even reveals that the Chin originally had a similar origin of being sent to Earth as an infant from a dying alien planet before a lawsuit (in-universe) necessitated changing his origin to what was established in the cartoon. "Power Pals" has Timmy Turner wish he had "super friends", which summons a pastiche of the Justice League as depicted in Superfriends. The Superman ersatz is named Super Sam, who essentially looks like Superman with the blue parts of the costume colored white and his S-insignia replaced by a medallion with two S's on it, one of which is reversed. Supes' heat vision is also parodied by Super Sam having the power of "sweet vision", which he uses to make an ice cream cone appear in a little girl's hand. "Chip off the Old Chip" shows Timmy Turner becoming a superhero in a red and blue costume with a cape and black hair in a spit curl during the music video sequence of Chip Skylark's song "Find Your Voice". Flappy Bob's origin in "School's Out! The Musical" is a nod to Superman. When their train was about to go off a cliff, they put baby Bob into a rocket which landed in a field. "Wishology" gives us Turbo Thunder. The Chosen One who was sent into space as a child when his homeworld became a Sacrificial Planet to The Darkness.
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Superman Substitute / int_46518682	comment	On Sesame Street, Grover's superhero alter ego, Super Grover, is an obvious parody of Superman. As part of his outfit, he wears a lightning bolt with a letter G on his chest.
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Superman Substitute / int_4857d094	comment	Carter Crossover from The Crossovers is Archetype, a Flying Brick who fights a Mad Scientist and is a kind hearted and honourable hero, to the point that he won't tell his wife that he's a superhero since he considers a written contract not to a serious promise that he has to keep. There's also his predecessor Prototype, also known as Kent Lewis, and his thirteen year old clone Archetyke. The twist with Carter isn't that he's corrupt or a bad hero, even if he did accidently expose his secret identity to his Arch-Enemy, but that he's Locked Out of the Loop to the fact that his wife is a vampire hunter, his daughter frequently travels to a fantasy realm to become a warrior princess, and his son is helping aliens invade the Earth
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Superman Substitute / int_48cf61a6	comment	"Power Pals" has Timmy Turner wish he had "super friends", which summons a pastiche of the Justice League as depicted in Superfriends. The Superman ersatz is named Super Sam, who essentially looks like Superman with the blue parts of the costume colored white and his S-insignia replaced by a medallion with two S's on it, one of which is reversed. Supes' heat vision is also parodied by Super Sam having the power of "sweet vision", which he uses to make an ice cream cone appear in a little girl's hand.
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Superman Substitute / int_4c07b746	comment	Jupiter's Legacy has Sheldon a.k.a. The Utopian and to a lesser extent his brother Walter aka Brainwave. Both are granted flight and super strength and through Sheldonâ€™s Superman-like ideals about never killing or interfering with political matters their superhero team Union of Justice successfully protects humanity for a century. Things start to go south when the next generation (including Sheldonâ€™s own family) struggles to live up his to rigid expectations and high standards, culminating in the death of a villain at hands of Sheldonâ€™s son Walter and triggers a public debate about whether The Utopianâ€˜s ideals are still relevant in a Darker and Edgier era.
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Superman Substitute / int_4c363bcc	comment	The card game Sentinels of the Multiverse has Legacy serving the same basic role as Superman and his daughter, Young Legacy or Beacon, serving as the equivalent to Supergirl.
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Superman Substitute / int_4f7b790	comment	Ikaris, of the Eternals, is a Human Alien Flying Brick with eye beams whose outfit is blue with gold accents. Despite Ajak being the leader, Ikaris frequently takes point in their clashes with the Deviants and is regarded by the other Eternals as the most powerful of the group. He's also (along with his fellow Eternals) one of the oldest superheroes in the setting, having arrived on Earth seven thousand years ago, predating even Thor. That's not even getting into The Reveal that they'd been active for millions of years before that. Phastos's son even compares him to Superman after meeting him for the first time, having seen him on TV, "wearing a cape and shooting lasers". Unfortunately for his fellow Eternals, his fanatical devotion to Arishem's will gives them cause to Beware the Superman.
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Superman Substitute / int_51c25c5f	comment	The "Supertoon" setting in Toons ''Tooniversal Tour Guide" has Ultrapig, the classic example of the Strong-Jawed Hero character type.
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Superman Substitute / int_529b1c77	comment	normalman is an inversion, a non-superpowered child sent to a planet where Everyone Is a Super. His bent friend Captain Everything is a more straight example but he's an idiot and has New Powers as the Plot Demands mentioned as his main power In-Universe.
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Superman Substitute / int_5510cefb	comment	One-Punch Man: Saitama is the most obvious comparison, heâ€™s got a cape, red boots, is strong and invulnerable to an insanely ridiculous level much like Silver Age Superman and generally holds back his full strength and doesn't go looking for fights unless his friends and innocent people are threatened. There's some difference though as Saitama isn't an alien, he got his abilities through training, he's bald (similar to a certain Superman villain), he can't fly (only jump super high), can't shoot Eye Beams and Saitama has a much more bitter and sardonic personality than Supes. He's also more violent to his enemies, being totally willing to kill with a single punch. Then again, this Anti-Hero-like behaviour and being unable to fly or use crazy powers does make Saitama akin to Golden Age Superman. Saitama serves more as a deconstruction of the Man of Steel, since he's tired of being so powerful and becomes a superhero as a hobby rather than out of a genuine desire to help people. Though it is revealed Saitama does believe in The Cape. Blast, Hero Association's most powerful hero (since they don't know about Saitama's strength) is another clear Superman analogue, especially in the webcomic where Blast has a Superman-like haircut, a cape, and tights, whilst in the manga, he has bulky armour with large shoulder pads and shades (though he does have an insignia on his chest like Superman and the shades make him look like Eradicator). Blast also has a civilian job like Superman and according to Fubuki has Eye Beams. There's several differences though: Blast's powers are even flashier than Superman's as he can perform dimensional travel, besides the usual extreme strength and toughness. He's also not a Hope Bringer like Superman, bluntly telling Tatsumaki after rescuing her in a Flash Back not to expect anyone to save her, instilling Tatsumaki with the Jerkass behaviour that she has today. Like Saitama, Blast can be seen as a mild deconstruction of Superman.
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Superman Substitute / int_56e40a48	comment	His Supreme Power counterpart is even more overtly a Superman analogue (right down to being rocketed to Earth as an infant from a dying alien planet and almost being adopted by a rural couple), though he's considerably Darker and Edgier, being more or less "What if Superman were raised by the government instead?".
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Superman Substitute / int_57965cef	comment	Captain Marvel is a female example, an enhanced human who received her powers from a Superhuman Transfusion using Kree blood. (At least, that's what she's told. It's later revealed that, while she did indeed get a transfusion, her powers actually come from the Tesseract.) She is considered the strongest hero in the MCU, able to fly at the speed of light and fire photon blasts. She wears a largely red-and-blue, spandex-appearing outfit with a Chest Insignia, and her main weakness comes from difficulty controlling her emotions. What's more, Superman's connection to American patriotism also comes over, as she was once a human woman named Carol Danvers who had been a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, and switches her outfit's colors from Kree green to red and blue once she rediscovers her human past.
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Superman Substitute / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: In "Red Dwarf: The Promised Land", Rimmer of all people becomes this (along with The Flash) in his hero persona "The Mighty Light" after upgrading to Diamond Light. He becomes a ridiculously powerful stud with superpowers including flight, laser beams, and super strength and he even gets the trademark Superman-hair flick.◊ Unfortunately for Rimmer, the excessive power drains his Light Bee and he soon goes back to normal. However, during the Darkest Hour in the finale, Rimmer regains his Diamond Light form and pulls off a Big Damn Heroes, acting like The Cape in the process, although the Smeghead rears his head when Rimmer is begrudgingly forced to give up his powers to save Kryten.
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Superman Substitute / int_5e233a87	comment	The 2019 Dial H for Hero series has Miguel Montez assume a form based on Superman named Supermiguel. Near the end, he also uses the Y-Dial to become Reign of the Supermiguels, a quartet based on the four replacement Supermen who debuted in the aftermath of The Death of Superman (with the changes of the Eradicator's equivalent being female and Steel's stand-in being mashed up with Cyborg as depicted in Teen Titans Go!).
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Superman Substitute / int_5f89c8b8	comment	PS238 has Atlas, whose son, Ron/"Captain Clarinet", is one of the more important characters. At first he's pretty standard: he's the Sole Survivor of the doomed planet Argos, was raised on a farm, is vulnerable to Argonite and is married to a journalist with L.L. initials. However, eventually he and Ron's mom divorce, and then we find out that the government lied to him about his origin — he's actually a Hidden Backup Prince to The Empire. Among Earth-born metahumans, the Flight, Invulnerability, and Super Strength (FISS) "package" is the single most common power set. Julie Finster is the 84th recorded FISS and she suffers from massive self-esteem issues.
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Superman Substitute / int_5fec1505	comment	Comics' Greatest World has Titan, a Flying Brick who's part of the group of superheroes "Catalyst: Agent of Change" as their champion to guard Golden City. However, his Smug Super attitude and Hair-Trigger Temper make him leave this group to "forge his own legend" and eventually makes a Faceâ€“Heel Turn becoming the villain of the Will to Power arc.
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Superman Substitute / int_6247fab	comment	Captain Sturdy is a very clear Superman pastiche, with the short "The Originals" even revealing that he's held onto the shrunken city of Maldor until he can restore its citizens to normal size, a nod to Superman having the bottled city of Kandor as one of the few remnants of his home planet Krypton in his possession.
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Superman Substitute / int_64eedb73	comment	The Umbrella Academy has Scientific Man, who's an Affectionate Parody and Composite Character of both Superman and Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. Like Superman, he has a cape, tights, and Eye Beams, and like Manhattan, he has the blue glowy skin and even does the Levitating Lotus Position while overlooking Hotel Oblivion on a barren planet. Unlike Superman and Doctor Manhattan, Scientific Man has a villainous role, being The Dreaded warden of the Extranormal Prison and reveals upon breaking out that he considers mankind "a disease". Like Superman, Scientific Man has a weakness, as electricity will knock him out due to his hyper-conductive molecules.
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Superman Substitute / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Major Man from the episode "Major Competition", who wins over the people of Townsville and appears to make the girls redundant. However, it turns out that he deliberately causes problems so he can fix them, and when faced with a threat he didn't create, he's totally helpless.
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Superman Substitute / int_69071a1b	comment	Mutants & Masterminds: The core book, and later the Meta-4 setting, had Protonik, who fits most of the requirements (first superhero, The Cape, Flying Brick, vision powers) with two twists. Firstly he started out as a Captain Patriotic Super-Soldier, before later announcing he was a citizen of the world. Secondly, he was a Russian Captain Patriotic Super Soldier, during the Cold War. The Freedom City setting has (or rather, had) Mark Leeds, the Centurion, who fitted almost exactly, only with the addition of an Ancient Rome theme. The first superhero (debuting in, yes, 1938) and leader of the premier superhero teams of the Golden, Silver, and Dark Ages, he died in battle with the setting's Darkseid expy prior to the game's time period. Unlike Superman, he stayed that way. He has more recently been replaced by his daughter from an alternate timeline, Centuria, who's similar to Supergirl. There's also his fellow hero Captain Thunder who has elements of Captain Marvel with parts of the origin story of Hal Jordan. In the Lockdown sourcebook there's a disgraced African American hero called the Golden Marvel who was unfairly imprisoned. Not long after an eventual presidential pardon, he transferred his powers to his grandson, who became NGM, the New Golden Marvel and joined the teenage superhero team called the Next Gen. The Paragons setting has Patriot, who is a Captain Patriotic take on the concept, with a dark secret that the game master is free to define. There's also Luminary, an amnesiac hero with the typical Flying Brick power set and the added twist of also having light-manipulation powers; after rescuing a passenger plane, he was recruited as the leader and the poster boy of Vanguard Mission Team Alpha. The Halt Evil Doer! setting has two. Anthony Atlas/Antaeus/Titan Man (the latter being the name the press gave him) was the 1940s non-flying brick with powers similar to the Golden Age Superman. Mikhail/Divinos is the "classic" Superman, except that he arrived on Earth as an adult, and as a result sometimes comes across as distant from humans, a bit more like the Martian Manhunter. One of the default character archetypes in 3rd Edition is essentially a basic one of these, named the Paragon - a Flying Brick whose outfit is a spandex suit and a cape, with the extra of being able to survive in space.
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Superman Substitute / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor is considered the God of Thunder and beloved by many in the universe, and for a while was considered the strongest Avenger alongside the Hulk and eventually grows even stronger. He's also a Flying Brick in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War. He's one of the first superheroes due to being a battle-capable warrior in Asgard for over 1000 years. Vision, introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron, is played as a Superman Substitute, in contrast to his often-destroyed comics counterpart. In terms of personality, he's shown to be The Paragon and worthy of using MjÃ¶lnir. In terms of powers, he's another Flying Brick (with the Super-Toughness amplified due to his 3D-printed cells being laced with vibranium) with energy blasts from his forehead gem (a.k.a. the Mind Stone). Captain Marvel is a female example, an enhanced human who received her powers from a Superhuman Transfusion using Kree blood. (At least, that's what she's told. It's later revealed that, while she did indeed get a transfusion, her powers actually come from the Tesseract.) She is considered the strongest hero in the MCU, able to fly at the speed of light and fire photon blasts. She wears a largely red-and-blue, spandex-appearing outfit with a Chest Insignia, and her main weakness comes from difficulty controlling her emotions. What's more, Superman's connection to American patriotism also comes over, as she was once a human woman named Carol Danvers who had been a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, and switches her outfit's colors from Kree green to red and blue once she rediscovers her human past. Ikaris, of the Eternals, is a Human Alien Flying Brick with eye beams whose outfit is blue with gold accents. Despite Ajak being the leader, Ikaris frequently takes point in their clashes with the Deviants and is regarded by the other Eternals as the most powerful of the group. He's also (along with his fellow Eternals) one of the oldest superheroes in the setting, having arrived on Earth seven thousand years ago, predating even Thor. That's not even getting into The Reveal that they'd been active for millions of years before that. Phastos's son even compares him to Superman after meeting him for the first time, having seen him on TV, "wearing a cape and shooting lasers". Unfortunately for his fellow Eternals, his fanatical devotion to Arishem's will gives them cause to Beware the Superman.
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Superman Substitute / int_6dab1b2f	comment	Dynamo5 has Captain Dynamo, protector of the City, champion of the people, a wonderful husband... who is found to have been EXTREMELY unfaithful after his death, having had at least six kids. One of which with his arch-nemesis.
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Superman Substitute / int_6e299f95	comment	Like Superman with Lois Lane, Goku marries a dark-haired strong-spirited Earthling woman Chi-Chi. She gives birth to a sweet, largely non-violent boy Son Gohan, who, like Jonathan, has Hybrid Power, displaying a greater potential than even his own father, but is also seen as a hybrid freak by the pure-blooded members of their respective species.
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Superman Substitute / int_71f71b8a	comment	Konami Man in Road Fighter shows up whenever a player drives to a certain point in the level without crashing. He is often mistaken by players for Superman and was perhaps inspired by him, but he eventually evolved into a superhero mascot character in his own right rather than just a mere Superman expy.
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Superman Substitute / int_765cd538	comment	This is made even more evident in Ultraheroes, where he's by far the most powerful of the team, with Paperinik the Devilish Avenger fulfilling Batman's role and Emil Eagle as the Mad Scientist Big Bad (a role reprised from previous Super Goof stories from Italy, in which he was an outright Lex Luthor Expy).
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Superman Substitute / int_76924871	comment	Sunstar in Second Coming lands in all of the usual trappings of the trope; he's The Ace among superheroes, has Flying Brick powers with laser vision, has his own kryptonite (solanite), is a Human Alien raised on Earth, et cetera. However, he isn't as flawless as Superman, having accidentally killed humans in robot suits thinking they were just robots and briefly took on a "With Great Power Comes Great Perks" stance after a brief talk with God.
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Superman Substitute / int_7c884aca	comment	Omegaman from Ennui GO! not only takes plenty of cues from the Man of Steel (i.e. His secret identity is a newspaper reporter, has his own version of Kryptonite called "Alphasite", started his hero career at a young age as "Kid Omega", etc.), but he even explicitly considers Superman to be an inspiration for his heroic career.
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Superman Substitute / int_7e7b7fe4	comment	Another short, titled "Stupor Duck", has Daffy Duck in the role of Cluck Trent, a reporter who becomes Stupor Duck in order to stop Aardvark Ratnik from threatening the world. However, Ratnik is simply a fictional villain from a soap opera Trent's boss was watching and that Trent mistook as being real. Hilarity Ensues.
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Superman Substitute / int_80497d0c	comment	Mr Might of the Freedom Brigade is the Superman of Earth-12, having the expected powers and also a back story as Barb-Ell, son of Dumb-Ell of the planet Neon, who predicted the planet would explode, and, when nobody believed him, sent his only son to Earth. (The other Neonians were right.) However, his main significance is that he's the father of Awkwardman of the Inferior Five, who is Does Not Know His Own Strength combined with The Klutz.
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Superman Substitute / int_8078fcbd	comment	Supreme (no, not tha- ...eh) started as a Darker and Edgier Expy, and under the pen of Alan Moore, became a Captain Ersatz of the Silver Age Superman, including more and more homages to Superman's supporting cast. Most notably was the inclusion of a Legion of Super-Heroes-esque team called the League of Infinity, and his own younger female sidekick (a la Supergirl) called Suprema.
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Superman Substitute / int_817e43e7	comment	One sketch on Short Ribbs, "Superbilly", has Billy Barty spoofing George Reeves' portrayal from the 1950s Adventures of Superman TV series. Patty Maloney is a Lois Lane expy, who is abducted by a villain that resembles a cross between Daffy Duck and a certain Libyan dictator.
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Superman Substitute / int_847bc578	comment	The Reckoners Trilogy: The titular Big Bad of the first book, Steelheart, is this of the Corrupted Character Copy variety. Steelheart is a Nigh-Invulnerable Flying Brick with some other powers, has a archetypical "heroic" appearance-namely a cape that leaves his face exposed, Lantern Jaw of Justice and Heroic Build- and is considered one of, if not the, most powerful epics in the world, as well as one of the first. Even his codename is similar to Supes secondary title as "the Man of Steel". The main difference is that Steelheart is evil, ruling over Chicago as its paranoid, mass-murdering tyrant. Also similar to Superman, Steelheart has a Kryptonite Factor, but instead of a alien rock, it's people who do not fear him.
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Superman Substitute / int_882f1fdb	comment	The short known as "Super-Rabbit" is a spoof of the Fleischer Superman shorts, starring Bugs Bunny in an ill-fitting Superman costume, getting his powers from specially treated carrots. When his carrots fall into the hands of his enemies, he decides to become "a real superman" - a U.S. Marine.
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Superman Substitute / int_88900e5d	comment	In the Martin Morning episode "Super Martin", Martin wakes up as a muscular caped superhero with the powers of flight and Super-Strength and his initial on the front of his red, yellow, and blue costume.
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Superman Substitute / int_88aef33b	comment	Invincible The comic and the animated show feature Nolan aka Omni-Man, the father of main character Mark, who looks like Superman with a mustache. He's a Corrupted Character Copy, as it turns out, and something of an Archnemesis Dad to Mark once Mark learns the truth about him though he gets better. Omni-Man is essentially the answer to the question "What would Superman be like if he came from a society that had adopted fascistic/Social Darwinist beliefs and was out to conquer the galaxy?". This ironically makes Omni-Man have more in common with Goku or Vegeta and it was only after the fact Robert Kirkman was noted of the similarities, having never seen DBZ. The main character, Mark a.k.a. Invincible, is a combination of this and Spider-Man Send-Up. However, by the end of the comic, Mark does become more similar to the Silver Age Superman, as he has his own family and goes on space adventures.
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Superman Substitute / int_8a95c055	comment	Soon I Will Be Invincible has Corefire as the archenemy of Doctor Impossible. The world's greatest superhero ticks most of the usual boxes including his ability to come back from the dead. This version of Superman gained his power in a lab explosion, however, and is implied to be a jerk. Doctor Impossible is an Unreliable Narrator, though.
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Superman Substitute / int_8c22af8f	comment	As of Dragon Ball Minus and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Goku becomes far closer to this. His parents Bardock and Gine, noticing there was something wrong with Frieza suddenly recalling all Saiyans to their homeworld, stole an attack ball and sent the infant Goku to Earth for his safety, as the planet had enough food for even a Saiyan's immense appetite, its inhabitants looked like Saiyans without tails but weren't powerful enough to pose a threat to him, and the planet had nothing appealing to get Frieza's lethal attention. However, they planned to retrieve him later if their suspicions were proven wrong and tell their older son Raditz (who was already safely off-planet) in case they were right. However, they forgot to tell him just why they had sent him there, leading to Raditz assuming his brother had been sent to Earth on a planetary annihilation mission just like the one he was on-and becoming furious when he found out Goku had gone native.
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Superman Substitute / int_8d32e966	comment	The Squadron Supreme is an Alternate Company Equivalent for the Justice League of America, with Hyperion serving as the team's counterpart to Superman, even having a civilian name that's alliterative (Mark Milton) and working for a newspaper company. Amusingly enough, his Lex Luthor equivalent Emil Burbank resents Hyperion for accidentally making him extremely hairy rather than bald. His Supreme Power counterpart is even more overtly a Superman analogue (right down to being rocketed to Earth as an infant from a dying alien planet and almost being adopted by a rural couple), though he's considerably Darker and Edgier, being more or less "What if Superman were raised by the government instead?".
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Superman Substitute / int_8dd8ec81	comment	The Sailor Moon manga has Sailor Venus debut as this, being at first the most powerful and experienced of the Sailor Senshi, The Cape and their role model, the most beloved hero in town even after disappearing for months and Sailor Moon taking over her job, the only one who could fly (at least until she taught the others how off-page), and, even after her identity was revealed, The Leader of the team. This is somewhat Deconstructed, as the sheer effort of presenting herself as an invincible role model in spite of her Dark and Troubled Past has taken a toll on her sanity and solidly tied her self-esteem to her role as a superhero.
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Superman Substitute / int_8df52a8d	comment	The original Starbright is a pretty clear homage to the Silver Age Superboy, as a clean-cut all-American teen hero from a small town, with his nemesis being similar to Lex Luthor, a put-upon Teen Genius who doesn't understand that Starbright's heroism is sincere until too late.
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Superman Substitute / int_8df544cd	comment	The titular character of Superior is one, with the added twist of being a kid who's turned into an in-universe fictional character.
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Superman Substitute / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters episode "Captain Steel Saves the Day" reveals that Ray Stantz' favorite superhero is Captain Steel, who has a considerable number of similarities to Superman, such as wearing a blue, red, and yellow costume with a cape, having most of his powers and his archenemy Dr. Destructo being a balding Mad Scientist with yellow Powered Armor similar to what Lex Luthor wore in the comics at the time.
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Superman Substitute / int_935a012a	comment	Powers has Super Shock, commonly acknowledged as one of the most powerful superheroes alive and The Paragon. Unfortunately, his major appearance is the volume where his isolation and disconnect from humanity results in him becoming a Super Supremacist who decides to enforce to his own order on the world. And it turns out that as powerful as people had known he was, Super Shock and his teammates had been considerably downplaying his real power to avoid a worldwide panic...
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Superman Substitute / int_95a46db4	comment	Doctor Slump features a parody of Superman, known as Suppamannote a.k.a. Sourman. However, Suppaman is portrayed as a Heroic Wannabe that lacks superpowers and is an asshole to anyone he meets, even helping criminals to save his own hide.
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Superman Substitute / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia has All Might, who is the Big Good, The Cape, and a Primary-Color Champion. He can't fly, unlike most Superman Substitutes, but he can Super jump, like the Golden Age Superman, and his power was passed down similar to Captain Marvel rather than alien heritage.note While he can't fly the normal way, he can still achieve Not Quite Flight thanks to his Super-Strength being strong enough to create powerful wind blasts that he can use to propel himself in the air by punching/kicking and then allowing the momentum of the air blast to carry him in the opposite direction. He also manages to be a Captain Patriotic for America, despite being Japanese.note All Might began his hero career in the United States and achieved great fame there before returning home to Japan, and continues to hold great affection for America. He is also taken as The Paragon for all heroes to take guidance for being the strongest, most charismatic, most effective, and one of the longest serving heroes. Plus his status as "the Symbol of Peace" is very similar to Superman's status as "the Symbol of Hope".
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Superman Substitute / int_980c3316	comment	There's also his fellow hero Captain Thunder who has elements of Captain Marvel with parts of the origin story of Hal Jordan.
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Superman Substitute / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super saw fit to create a more direct Superman substitute with Jiren of the Universe 11 Pride Troopers. While nowhere near as friendly as most Supermen not made by Image, the guy's sheer power (rivalling or surpassing the Gods of Destruction), Heroic Build, pseudo-Eye Beams, and membership in a hero team makes his status as such likely. This is especially true for his manga incarnation, where he doesn't want to participate in the Tournament of Power because it will cost the existence of other universes while preventing him from keeping watch over his own universe for the duration of the tournament.
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Superman Substitute / int_985d0d05	comment	Season 3 of THE MONUMENT MYTHOS has The Last Son Of Alcatraz, a mysterious entity who escaped the previous universe's destruction and who came to the Nixonverse with otherworldly powers that heavily resemble the Man Of Steel's, including the ability to fly and Super-Strength. The video where he first appears in even uses old audio from the The Adventures of Superman radio show to describe him and his powers. Unlike Superman however, he uses his powers to interfere in The Korean War where he lessens U.S. casualties and brings peace to Korea without bloodshed. This pisses off the United States so badly that they nuke him and brainwash him into becoming their superweapon.
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Superman Substitute / int_98b9912e	comment	In some Disney comics, Goofy has a Super-Powered Alter Ego called "Super Goof". He wears a blue cape and red overalls, and has pretty much the same set of powers as Superman, such as Flight and Super-Strength. The only major difference is that his powers come from eating special peanuts called "Super Goobers". This is made even more evident in Ultraheroes, where he's by far the most powerful of the team, with Paperinik the Devilish Avenger fulfilling Batman's role and Emil Eagle as the Mad Scientist Big Bad (a role reprised from previous Super Goof stories from Italy, in which he was an outright Lex Luthor Expy).
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Superman Substitute / int_99c24198	comment	The Pro has The Saint. He's quite a nice and well-meaning fellow, but since this is a Garth Ennis book, of course his ideology is going to get dragged through mud (ironically, Ennis exempts Superman himself from scorn when writing the Man of Steel). When the titular Pro (a hooker) tries to teach him what sex is... well she ended up fine, but a plane got shot out of the sky, forcing The Saint to save the passengers without his pants on.
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Superman Substitute / int_9a29f3a4	comment	Top 10 has Atoman, who is the leader of a whole Ersatz Justice League of America, who are actually a pedophile ring.
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Superman Substitute / int_9b4a7e7b	comment	Blue Marvel has the design, the powers, the weakness, and the personality. His problem? He's black, and when he was active initially, that wasn't a good thing for a hero to be.
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Superman Substitute / int_9be1af9a	comment	The Multiversity features an inversion of this trope, with several characters of the depicted worlds in The Multiverse being clearly designed to resemble other Superman Substitutes, while also being alternate universe counterparts to Superman. These include Hyperius (Hyperion), Savior (Samaritan), Supremo (Supreme), and Optiman (Ultiman). It also retroactively makes a number of other characters into their worlds' counterparts to Superman, including Earth-13's Etrigan, Captain Atom of Earth-4, Super-Chief of Earth-18, and Doctor Fate of Earth-20.
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Superman Substitute / int_9e655f20	comment	Titanium Rex from Supermansion is essentially a geriatric Superman past his prime, sharing not only the same role as the resident leader of the local Super Team, but even a similar backstory of being an outsider (though Rex came from an underground empire as an adult rather than from space as an infant).
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Superman Substitute / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	The Boys: As a Spiritual Successor to Marshal Law, it uses the equally scummy Homelander as its Big Bad. He even has an identical backstory to Superman, though it's completely fake; he was created by a corporation. Unusually, he's one of the few heroes given any kind of Freudian Excuse. He believes he's committed atrocities that he can't remember doing and he's lost his mind when it was somebody else disguised as him — his clone, who was created as a contingency to take out the Homelander if he started disobeying, and took steps to ensure this when the Homelander wasn't going to do so himself. He actually fills the role of Batman in the Justice League Expy. Stormfrontnote Named after a notorious neo-Nazi webforum is another, Nazi-created version (and one of the covers shows him sitting on a cloud while sneering at the viewer, in a parody of a well-known All-Star Superman cover), although the role he occupies is Thor of The Avengers. His personality and political leanings get him an ass-kicking by a Frenchman, a Brit, an American, and a Russian.
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Superman Substitute / int_9e87a012	comment	Clark Oppenheimer of The Tick is basically only saved from being a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo by a few Parody Names and that we only ever see him in his... er... disguise. This being The Tick, Clark gets a pretty merciless parodying.
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Superman Substitute / int_a0e1af96	comment	Martian Manhunter became derivative of Superman over time, with him possessing the powers, the origin, the weakness, and the costume. It's often rumored that he was an outright stand-in in early issues of Justice League of America. He has a number of twists to it, however: his powers include several others (particularly intangibility, telepathy, invisibility and shape-shifting), he came to Earth as an adult and therefore actually experienced the loss of his people (especially haunted by the loss of his wife and daughter), he was teleported to Earth by a scientist's experiment rather than arriving there in a rocket ship, his weakness is fire, and he's clearly alien in appearance while Superman isn't.
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Superman Substitute / int_a366d0a8	comment	Kamoshidaman is a blatant one in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. However, he only looks like The Cape, and in reality, he's a Villain with Good Publicity much like his real-world counterpart, and he's an In-Universe Designated Hero.
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Superman Substitute / int_a4420d22	comment	Captain Sunshine of The Venture Bros. is a mix of several heroes, but he's clearly intended to be Superman at first glance, with his sunlight-fueled powers, brightly colored caped costume, and obvious secret identity. In a bit of a Genius Bonus, his secret identity is a newscaster, something Clark Kent became for a few years in the 1980s after writers decided that his being a reporter was a bit dated (and changed back from it after they realized how badly it would stretch the limits of Clark Kenting).
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Superman Substitute / int_aca28662	comment	G-Girl from My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a Clingy Jealous Girl who got Flying Brick powers from a Magic Meteor.
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Superman Substitute / int_b00aafbe	comment	Prime, of The Ultraverse, is more or less one, though with a bit of Captain Marvel in the mix.
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Superman Substitute / int_b1f8e5ae	comment	In The Little Rascals episode "The Zero Hero", Darla's favorite superhero, Captain Muscles, appears to pastiche George Reeves' portrayal of Superman, the main differences being that he has blond hair and an M insignia on his chest.
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Superman Substitute / int_b2fba3e0	comment	The Ultra Series reboot, Shin Ultraman, throws in a unique twist to the titular character's resemblance to DC Comics' Superman (a trait more or less averted in previous incarnations, humans simply accepted there's an Ultraman protector helping them deal with kaiju, simply just because). While previous versions had subtle similarities, the Shin incarnation reconstructs Ultraman's premise where he's an alien who identifies with humanity and protects them from alien threats at all costs. Ultraman's role as mankind's protector is explicitly shown, despite not being raised by humans, starting from the sacrifice of a good human. Initially, Ultraman's interest in humanity is akin to a scientist studying a primitive civilization, but he eventually embraces altruism. Unlike Superman, who sometimes wishes for a normal life, Ultraman desires to fully experience being human, from vulnerabilities to strength of will. Despite different paths, both heroes share an unconditional love for humanity and embody hope and protection.
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Superman Substitute / int_b32efa54	comment	Big Bang Comics is pretty much entirely comprised of various Expies of Silver Age heroes, and they therefore have Ultiman, a clear one for Superman.
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Superman Substitute / int_b370ddd1	comment	Thor is considered the God of Thunder and beloved by many in the universe, and for a while was considered the strongest Avenger alongside the Hulk and eventually grows even stronger. He's also a Flying Brick in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War. He's one of the first superheroes due to being a battle-capable warrior in Asgard for over 1000 years.
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Superman Substitute / int_b3e81703	comment	In the superhero arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space, Arthur is the leader of the Table of Justice as Kingman. He has some similarity to Billy Batson, getting his powers from the magic word "ACRONYM!", but beyond that, he's Clark all the way: he wears glasses in his secret identity; he works for the Daily Sword in Camelotopolis as a mild-mannered reporter (as does Guenevere, who strongly suspects Arthur and Kingman are one and the same); he has a superpet (Cabal the Kingdog) and so on.
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Superman Substitute / int_b70f8432	comment	Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors tweaks America Chavez's origin so that her parents put her into an Interdimensional teleporter to save her from their dying planet. In the comics, she left under her own power after her parents had died successfully saving the planet.
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Superman Substitute / int_b7f1d3d7	comment	In Superheroes Anonymous, the hero Blaze is a loose one. He has the Flying Brick power set but also is able to shoot fire (but he becomes vulnerable to damage during this time). Gail Gadot, the world's equivalent to Lois Lane in being captured (to the point of being known as "Hostage Girl") is constantly rescued by him as well. Amusingly, most people in the setting believe she's dating his Clark Kenting secret identity. She's not and is glad when Blaze finally reveals his feelings for her.
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Superman Substitute / int_b9dc08f3	comment	The Thundermans: Hank has the standard Flying Brick and Nigh-Invulnerability of Superman, an all-blue caped costume with a stylized letter T, and he's been called the world's greatest superhero many times. Personality wise, with his Formerly Fit Big Eater habits, and reminiscing of his glory days, he's more in line with Mr. Incredible.
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Superman Substitute / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles has Metaman, revealed in the DVD extras to have very similar powers to Superman, along with a similar name and costume... with the unfortunate exception of not being immune to a broken neck. Mr. Incredible himself has a few clear nods, mostly in his costume, powers, and name, though he's overall closer to The Thing in his role in the family.
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Superman Substitute / int_bb55a676	comment	The Shi'ar Imperial Guard are a pastiche of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and by extension, so is their leader, Gladiator — a Flying Brick alien with a primary-colored caped costume whose real name (Kallark) is a portmanteau of "Kal Clark" and codenamed named after a book that inspired Superman himself. He's not exactly the last of his kind (rather, his people are highly diminished) and are that way because he was ordered to slaughter them as part of a twisted graduation ceremony. He also definitely falls on the Good Is Not Nice end of the scale.
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Superman Substitute / int_bc49580a	comment	The Marvel Knights: Spider-Man storyline "Wild Blue Yonder" introduced Ethan Edwards/Virtue. The story basically shifts from Affectionate Parody to deconstruction to reconstruction. The two twists on the Superman formula are that he's deeply religious (believing that his powers are literally a gift from God) and has healing vision. His attempts at a secret identity are presented as absolutely useless; not only do the glasses not work, but he won't lie. When he discovers the Marvel U doesn't work like Silver Age DC, and also that he's actually a Skrull, he goes full '90s Anti-Hero for a while as the Tiller (and is equally inept as that, coming across like a naÃ¯ve farmboy trying to be The Punisher), before getting talked down by Aunt May and eventually moving overseas, where he seemed to become a Messianic Archetype (with the final twist that the Super-Skrull genetic engineering he had didn't include the healing powers). In the Identity Crisis (1998) storyline, Peter creates four identities to clear his name. One of them is Prodigy, who uses Spider-Man's iconic super strength and a bulletproof vest to be like the Golden Age Superman. He also had Superman's more altruistic and heroic sense of identity. Because of how super popular Prodigy was with the populace (even J. Jonah Jameson loved him!), Mary Jane tried to convince Peter to stick with it and Peter was tempted, but he ultimately returned to being Spider-Man.
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Superman Substitute / int_bc758ea9	comment	Tiny Toon Adventures: The episode "SuperBabs" had Babs Bunny as the titular character fighting Montana Max in the role of 'Wex Wuthor'. In "The Just-Us League of Supertoons", Batduck (Plucky Duck) and Decoy (Hamton J. Pig) tried to join the eponymous league, which featured Buster Bunny as Superbun.
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Superman Substitute / int_bcea8f7c	comment	The Freedom City setting has (or rather, had) Mark Leeds, the Centurion, who fitted almost exactly, only with the addition of an Ancient Rome theme. The first superhero (debuting in, yes, 1938) and leader of the premier superhero teams of the Golden, Silver, and Dark Ages, he died in battle with the setting's Darkseid expy prior to the game's time period. Unlike Superman, he stayed that way. He has more recently been replaced by his daughter from an alternate timeline, Centuria, who's similar to Supergirl. There's also his fellow hero Captain Thunder who has elements of Captain Marvel with parts of the origin story of Hal Jordan. In the Lockdown sourcebook there's a disgraced African American hero called the Golden Marvel who was unfairly imprisoned. Not long after an eventual presidential pardon, he transferred his powers to his grandson, who became NGM, the New Golden Marvel and joined the teenage superhero team called the Next Gen.
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Superman Substitute / int_c25176c5	comment	Ultragod in The Supervillainy Saga is the resident equivalent to Superman. His powers more closely resemble Green Lanterns even if he uses them to mostly replicate the standard Flying Brick power-set. He has a Supergirl equivalent in his daughter Ultragoddess, The Observatory as his Fortress of Solitude-esque base of operations, and a reporter wife named Polly Perkins. He's also African American, immortal, and a human astronomer empowered by aliens.
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Superman Substitute / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who's 2016 Christmas Episode, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", is a tribute to superhero comics in general and Silver Age Superman in particular, in which the Doctor lands in New York in The '90s and a boy named Grant Gordon swallows an Applied Phlebotinum due to a misunderstanding. The wish-granting gemstone gives him superpowers like his comic book heroes. Twenty years later, Gordon became "The Ghost", a vigilante superhero with the abilities of flying, super strength, X-ray vision, and other Superman-like powers, and a Lois Lane-like Loves My Alter Ego problem with the woman journalist for whom his civilian identity works as a nanny.
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Superman Substitute / int_c7018cd8	comment	The Project A-Ko movie shows her parents to be Lawyer Friendly Cameos of Superman and Wonder Woman.
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Superman Substitute / int_c9633211	comment	Destroyman from No More Heroes is inspired by Superman as he has a cape and similar superpowers.
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Superman Substitute / int_cb45dbdc	comment	Introduced in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, the PokÃ©mon Palafin is a dolphin styled after comic book superheroes in the vein of Superman (presumably as an allusion to real life accounts of dolphins rescuing people from drowning). Standing on its tail on land, it effects a Heroic Build with a shield-shaped insignia on its chest, and uses water to form gloved fists over its flippers and a high cape collar around the back of its neck. It assumes the classic Up, Up and Away! pose upon switching in and when attacking. Moreover, it evolves from Finizen (effectively its civilian identity) at level 38, likely a reference to Superman's first Action Comics appearance in 1938.
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Superman Substitute / int_cf871bfa	comment	Flappy Bob's origin in "School's Out! The Musical" is a nod to Superman. When their train was about to go off a cliff, they put baby Bob into a rocket which landed in a field.
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Superman Substitute / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: The villain Count Nefaria possesses the right powers and costume, though he's otherwise a straightforward bad guy, with his powers basically being a way for the Avengers to fight Superman without needing to negotiate anything. Superman even copies a few of his moves in JLA/Avengers.
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Superman Substitute / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show revived the idea of Bugs Bunny playing the role of a Superman parody with an episode also called "Super Rabbit". Said episode combined various elements from the comics, Superman: The Movie and its first sequel, and Man of Steel. In it, Bugs as Super Rabbit fought a few other fellow Looney Tunes playing the roles of various Superman villains.
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Superman Substitute / int_d211d624	comment	Captain Carrot fills this role in the Zoo Crew, though he's otherwise pretty unique, being a comic artist who uses carrots to gain his powers. That, and he's a Funny Animal.
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Superman Substitute / int_d294048	comment	Red Panda Adventures: During World War II, Canada's military uses a formula called Royal Jelly, devised by reformed supervillain Doctor Bumblebee, to try and create super soldiers to use in the war effort. One of the results of this experimentation is the superhero Mr. Amazing, whom the Red Panda describes as an "ubermensch who converts power from the sun". He has the standard Flying Brick powerset, fires energy beams, and his costume is described as having a stylized letter A on it. His big weakness is ultimately that his power is finite; because Royal Jelly's reactions have been varying degrees of unstable, the scientists who gave Mr. Amazing his abilities tried capping the power to keep them from going out of control. This means he only has so much power to draw from and, once it's used, he'll die. He does exactly that saving the Red Panda from a Nazi-made ubermensch. Towards the end of the series, another Royal Jelly-made Flying Brick is the Black Eagle. In his case, the scientists went for a slow burn. Giving him treatments designed so that his powers would emerge slowly over time, giving his body time to acclimate to them. This worked but took so long that the scientists deemed the experiment a failure and made the Eagle their company clerk for the remainder of the war. The Black Eagle's powers didn't emerge until the war was over and he'd gone home, at which point he started covertly helping his superhero idol the Red Panda before becoming his formal successor as Toronto's protector. In his civilian identity of Harry Kelly, an agent of the Red Panda's since childhood, he's a reporter for one of Toronto's biggest newspapers, has a female reporter rival with an alliterative name, and his highlight episode before the series Grand Finale is against a Mad Scientist in a power suit ranting about how all should Beware the Superman. That episode also describes him as wearing glasses and said reporter rival calling him clumsy.
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Superman Substitute / int_d3525504	comment	In the Identity Crisis (1998) storyline, Peter creates four identities to clear his name. One of them is Prodigy, who uses Spider-Man's iconic super strength and a bulletproof vest to be like the Golden Age Superman. He also had Superman's more altruistic and heroic sense of identity. Because of how super popular Prodigy was with the populace (even J. Jonah Jameson loved him!), Mary Jane tried to convince Peter to stick with it and Peter was tempted, but he ultimately returned to being Spider-Man.
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Superman Substitute / int_d476b8cc	comment	Wonder Man (Fox) (no, not that one) might be the very first, debuting just thirteen months after Superman. Despite his different origin (he was given his powers by a ring he got from a monk), he was strikingly similar, so much so that DC sued his publisher as soon as the book hit the stands. Wonder Man never got his second issue.
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Superman Substitute / int_d6942bf2	comment	In Marvel Zombies, reportedly, the hero who crosses universes while infected with the zombie plague was originally intended to be Superman, the implication being that the DCU had been infected too. However, they couldn't make it subtle enough, so he was given a quick Palette Swap and turned into Sentry (though he still has Superman's spitcurl◊). In a Development Gag, Sentry in the Army of Darkness crossover is shown with a rip in his costume◊ in the shape of Superman's S-symbol.
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Superman Substitute / int_d7e4b25b	comment	Mr. Lostman from Gamma is that world's version of Superman, with their similarities ranging from having Super-Strength and being the first Cape of the setting to growing Stronger with Age. There is also Mighty Blow, who is the resident expy of Thor, but borrows quite a few aspects (mainly the "truant space policeman" origin) from Stan Lee's take on Superman.
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Superman Substitute / int_db59b2a3	comment	Caravaneer 2: The Man of Zinc is an obvious expy of Superman. According to the Church of the Man of Zinc, he used his godlike powers to fight for good, gives moral lessons to mankind to be good and condemn evil deeds, and died in his superhero duty to protect humanity, but returned.
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Superman Substitute / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: The first issue focuses on one of these, named Samaritan, who is so occupied by saving people that he frequently finds himself trying to make time to just fly for its own sake. Kurt Busiek is a little annoyed at people comparing Samaritan to Superman, though, noting that he has a lot of other elements in his mix (for instance, he's a time traveler, not an alien). Atomicus is a more clear-cut one, with him being a thorough deconstruction of the Loves My Alter Ego relationship that typified Silver Age Superman and Lois. Supersonic seems to be the other Silver Age Superman equivalent — aside from the name and the Flying Brick powerset, in his prime back in the '60s, he shared that version of Superman's status as a Genius Bruiser who favored defeating his opponents through Hollywood Science and clever tactics over simple brute force (and his habit of messing with his love interest). Also much like Superman, he doesn't do that stuff anymore, though in his case, it's due to old age and possible brain damage from his lifestyle, hence why he's retired. The original Starbright is a pretty clear homage to the Silver Age Superboy, as a clean-cut all-American teen hero from a small town, with his nemesis being similar to Lex Luthor, a put-upon Teen Genius who doesn't understand that Starbright's heroism is sincere until too late.
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Superman Substitute / int_df073316	comment	Stormfrontnote Named after a notorious neo-Nazi webforum is another, Nazi-created version (and one of the covers shows him sitting on a cloud while sneering at the viewer, in a parody of a well-known All-Star Superman cover), although the role he occupies is Thor of The Avengers. His personality and political leanings get him an ass-kicking by a Frenchman, a Brit, an American, and a Russian.
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Superman Substitute / int_e02d5288	comment	The comic and the animated show feature Nolan aka Omni-Man, the father of main character Mark, who looks like Superman with a mustache. He's a Corrupted Character Copy, as it turns out, and something of an Archnemesis Dad to Mark once Mark learns the truth about him though he gets better. Omni-Man is essentially the answer to the question "What would Superman be like if he came from a society that had adopted fascistic/Social Darwinist beliefs and was out to conquer the galaxy?". This ironically makes Omni-Man have more in common with Goku or Vegeta and it was only after the fact Robert Kirkman was noted of the similarities, having never seen DBZ.
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Superman Substitute / int_ef49e442	comment	Silver Age Sentinels has the Sentinel, who is also a Captain Patriotic type hero, similar to Statesman mentioned below.
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Superman Substitute / int_f079b358	comment	Brat Pack has True-Man, a being of godlike power and Slumburg's only genuine hero.
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Superman Substitute / int_f31d7d98	comment	Drawn Together's Captain Hero is more or less Superman as a Comedic Sociopath.
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Superman Substitute / int_f3fd0fef	comment	In The Shadow Hero, The Anchor of Justice is your typical Superman Substitute — a Flying Brick with a kindly, modest personality. And he's an alien, as well, although much less humanoid beneath his disguise than Kal-El.
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Superman Substitute / int_f42befdb	comment	Captain Underpants of course is a hilarious Affectionate Parody of Superman originally created by schoolboys George and Harold in an In-Universe comic where Captain Underpants was launched into space by his parents from his dying planet Underpantyworld and arrived on Earth. For fun and to escape punishment, George and Harold hypnotise their mean Principal Mr Krupp into thinking heâ€™s Captain Underpants, which quickly proves to be a bad idea when he goes out and fights crime for real to George and Haroldâ€™s horror since heâ€™s just a regular guy wearing a curtain and underwear. Although by the third book, Captain Underpants does take Extra-Strength Super Power Juice and becomes a Flying Brick for real. Unlike Superman, Captain Underpants' alter-ego Mr Krupp is a Jerkass, but in the Alternate Universe Krupp is a Nice Guy like Clark Kent, unfortunately his hero persona Captain Underpants in this universe is a Beware the Superman baddie. Captain Underpants also has a Kryptonite Factor in the fifth book... because George and Harold mistakingly gave him a weakness: spray starch in one of their comics which becomes bad later when a villainess uses it on him and thanks to the placebo effect, it works. Forcing George and Harold to create a comic that says the power of Underpantyworld was in him all along at which He's Back!.
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Superman Substitute / int_f491337b	comment	Jupiter's Legacy has the Utopian, a Flying Brick with a cape, an emblem in an escutcheon, and who acts as the leader of the superhero community and is a champion of good and the American way. However, he holds onto his Code, a set of moral rules that are becoming more outdated as time goes on, far too strictly, and has unrealistically high moral standards for his fellow superheroes, especially his children. He also isn't an alien but rather was Touched by Vorlons along with five others during The Great Depression.
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Superman Substitute / int_f794e49d	comment	David Brinkley of Superfolks is a clear one, down to being vulnerable to "Cronkite".
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Superman Substitute / int_f853c9d0	comment	This list doesn't detail the number of parodies of Superman's origin like Wundarr the Aquarian. Rocketed to Earth as a baby, it turns out his father was wrong about the destruction of his planet, much to his disgrace. He was also never discovered by a kindly couple, instead aging into maturity in stasis on his rocket pod, emerging as an infant in an adult body. He was so naÃ¯ve he mistook Man-Thing for his mother. There were a handful of other infant launches given a Black Comedy twist, like the hopeful parents' escape pod crashing into a ship or someone like Rocket Raccoon stealing it before they can put their child in there.
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