When it fall to conjure a child , SupermanandLois Lanegot a good bit of training from an improbable reservoir . Years before Jon came into the humankind , the Man of Steel foster Chris Kent , a boy who was the scion of one of Clark ’s most beastly enemy .

In the last few years , fans have gotten to see a side of Superman that they had almost never seen in his decades - recollective career . With the macrocosm of Clark and Lois ' son , Jonathan , reader have had the luck to see Superman take on a more paternal part . Clark has been show as a love father , teach Jon about his Kryptonian inheritance and instilling the same value his Ma and Pa learn him when he was a male child . With Jonathan now in full - grown , fans can see the overconfident impactSuperman has had on his   Logos , express that Clark did a fairly decent job as a pop .

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But he was able to get some good practice in by being a father physical body to another potent young man . In 2006’sAction funnies # 844by Geoff Johns , Richard Donner , and Adam Kubert , a ship arrive on Earth containing a Kryptonian boy that   Lois and Clark take upon   themselves to raise properly . rename him Chris , Superman aids the child considerably , help him deal with his newfound powers and showing him love Chris has never experienced . Sadly ,   it ’s discover that Chris is really Lor - Zod , the biological son of Superman ’s enemy , General Zod . Though the varlet air force officer come back with a vengeance , Chris sacrifices the new menage and family he ’s found in society to seal Zod in the Phantom Zone once again .

Chris does reelect to Earth after a legal brief away in the Phantom Zone . And strangely enough , much like Jonathan Kent , Chris comes back aged up , much more sure-footed in himself and his force . Though his sentence with the Kents is considerably shorter than Jon ’s has been , Chris serve a similar role and , in many manner , was the image   who bear witness that Superman and Lois Lane were ready to take on a serious bump in their characterizations .

character who have been around for as long as Superman can sometimes stagnate when they do n’t take on any newfangled obstacles or alteration to their status quo . It was decades before the Man of Steel ever let out that he was , in fact , Clark Kent to his beloved Lois Lane and even longer after that the two tie the knot . Change is a prospect that some fans want , while other fans believe it can be detrimental to sure characters . Giving   Clark a foster sonshowed how a more fatherly persona beseem the hero and that after his decades - long career , it was a natural footfall that added to Superman ’s characterisation . If it was n’t for Lor - Zod , then neitherSuperman , Lois Lanenor their fans would have clear that being parents was a perfect fit for these wholesome zep .

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