Right. Smallville also implied he might be nigh-immortal (at least till he de-powered himself, per the Arrowverse's "Crisis on Infinite Earths").
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Superman and Wonder Woman got trapped in a pocket dimension for 40 thousand years and boned the whole time. After he got out, after he remembered that he was married to Lois, he apologized for cheating and acted like it never happened.
In John Byrnes Generations, an elseworlds story, Batman and Superman started in the 1940s, and each of the issues in the 4 issue limited series covered one decade. At one point, Clark has to start wearing old man makeup so Lois does not look like she's cheeky old bat robbing the cradle.
All of the DC Annuals one year were about what happened to the heroes after the world ended. Thousand year old Clark is explaining to his great great grand son, that every new generation of Kryptonian Human hybrid offspring is a little weaker than the last, and it really shows by how less graphically they explode out of their human mothers when being born. Why, he says, I can imagine a day when my distant progeny might just crawl out of a vagina without killing their mother.
In Alan Moore's "What ever Happened to the man of Tomorrow?" which is the absolute conclusion to the DC comics stories that started in the 1930s, Superman fakes his death, and Clark uses Gold Kryptonite to strip his own powers, and he lives happily ever after with Lois growing old together. There's a time travel flub in this issue where Supergirl from the Past before she dies in Crisis, shows up, bumps into her boyfriend Braniac 5, and he starts crying.
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Well, like others said, the Pre-Crisis Superman was virtually immortal. Then there is this excellent Elseworld story by John Byrne
There's a bunch of further volumes of generations, that fleshes out the original mini series.
Maybe he only depowered himself when he is working on the farm?
Raising your kids human, without lying constantly, requires being human.
Assuming you're talking about Action Comics #761, it's quite the opposite, actually. He remains true to Lois, struggling to hold on to his memories of her even as they fade over the centuries:
It's a lovely story.
When I recently rewatched Smallville, I realized just how much sense it would make for this version of the character to permanently give up his powers to have a life with Lois. There's an early, memorable episode of the series ("Hourglass") where Clark experiences a nightmarish vision of his future, standing alone at night in a stormy graveyard surrounded by the graves of everyone he loves, having outlived them all. And he was always pretty conflicted about his abilities anyway. It's clear in "CoIE" that Lex believes (with contempt and disgust) that Smallville Clark surrendered his abilities in exchange for a normal life and family, and I think he's right, that's exactly what Clark did.
I think I read an issue somewhere after that where he explained what happened to someone else, and I just made it filthy.
Although I read 761 last night and he thought Diana smelled pretty.
Another 200 years and Diana would have come home pregnant.
Although I read 761 last night and he thought Diana smelled pretty.
Another 200 years and Diana would have come home pregnant.
I can respect that.
History of Superman on Sesame Street:
No, it's not. Kryptonians aren't real.
Okay, the proper answer actually has to do with that, because the Kryptonian lifespan may be different in different versions. In some versions, Superman ages the same as normal humans do, in others he lives tens of thousands of years, and while the variations aren't as extreme, I also don't think there is one clear answer for Kryptonians living on Krypton (or just under a red sun).
In one version of the future, Clark lives on the sun for 653 centuries, but in another book set in present day, Superman dies of solar toxicity from flying too close to the sun.
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Wouildn't that just be like a huge overload of energy by him doing that?
The comics never say JUST how long they live, but they're frequently shown to age much slower than humans. The first real indication of this was in "Dark Knight Returns" where Bruce was all white and not in the best shape (despite only being 55) but Superman looked exactly the same.
