A miracle among his native home, Kal-El was the first natural birth to occur on Krypton in several centuries. Kryptonian society had been structured in such a way that new members of society were grown to a specific purpose. As a natural birth, Kal-El was not caste into such mold and his genes were unmodified. Due to this, Kal-El is the only living Kryptonian to achieve a Kryptonian's full potential when dosed in the radiation of a yellow star. However Kal-El's birth did not come at a time of peace, the boy was born into the midst of a Kryptonian civil war with Genral Dru-Zod leading an army against Krypton's ruling council. With the two parties caught up in their struggle, neither yielded the words of Kal-El's father Jor-El. Jor-El, Krypton's top scientific expert, had discovered that the planet was dying and that society's current method of harvesting power from the planet's core was going to destroy it.

Wanting to pass on the knowledge of Krypton, Jor-El had found a similar planet under a younger star where his son could be sent to not only live but to grow up and become a protector to ensure Earth didn't repeat the same mistakes that Krypton had. Landing outside of the Kansas town of Smallville, the baby Kal-El was found by farmers Johnathan and Martha Kent who were on their way home from a fertility clinic having just found out that Martha was unable to have child of their own.

-First natural birth in centuries on Krypton, as such is the only Kryptonian to gain powers under a yellow star.
-The shuttle that carried baby Kal was caught in the shockwave of the explosion of Krypton dousing baby Kal in Kryptonian radiation. While his cells were able to absorb the radiation, exporsure to sources of it such as fragments of Krypton can severely harm Kal. Several variations exist depending on the properties of the particular fragment [Blue (Blocks Kal's solar absorption rendering him powerless.) Green (Health degards, lethal in high douses or extended exposure), Red(Drug like effects leading to lowered inhibitions and abnormal behavior, addicting)]
-Kryptonian Alloys are also harmful to Kal, capable of punctuing his skin. Additionally any plantlife grown in Kryptonian soils contain some of the same elements of Kryptonite making food from Kal's homeworld toxic to him. It should be noted that these substances only affect him if ingested or otherwise injected into his body. Kal can wear, touch and otherwise interact with Kryptonian items. However concentrated Kryptonite (often used in Kryptonian gems) emit radiation which affect Kal from a distance proportional to the size of the sample.
-Kal is also vulnerable to all forms of magic.
-Raised in Smallville by John and Martha Kent
-Adoption was made legal by Lionel Luthor in thanks for John and Martha saving him and his son after their chopper was crashed in the Smallville Meteor Shower.
-Was fairly awkward through elementary school, eventually came into his own in his later years in highschool becoming Smallville High's star quarterback.
-Currently attending Metropolis University on a football scholarship.
-Best friends with childhood friend Pete Ross, foreign exchange student Lori Lemaris and journalism student/highschool sweetheart Chloe Sullivan who interns at the Daily Planet with James 'Jimmy' Olsen under the shadow of star reporter Lois Lane. Clark lives across the hall from Lisa Lasalle, with whom he enjoys a mutual flirtation.
-Clark has yet to become Superman, having run away from his destiny despite having discovered the Fortress of Solitude (Colonization Ship which the Shuttle that carried Baby Kal was able to upload the conciousness of Jor-El and Lara Van-El into).

The Bat-Man is a staple of Gothamite culture. When he first appeared, he'd been in a black and grey suit of thin cloth with a mask covering all but his eyes and mouth, with tall pointed ears erected atop the opposing edges of his skull. When too much gunfire neared his critical areas, he added a target to his chest. Bright yellow, it gave criminals something to aim for--the best protected spot on his body.

Years later, around the time of the Apokiliptan invasion, he'd developed his outfit into a fully blown battle suit with a features catering to the marriage of freedom and security, agility and protection. His target was no longer necessary, therefore it was removed. He'd gotten to the point where enough people knew where to shoot. A shining black bat silhouette rests on his chest now.

His future costume will be fresh, with a brown cloth over his cape and cowl, masking the entirety of his face. A beige tone was selected to coat his torso and appendages, while the previous darker brown matches his boots, gloves, and utility belt. The eyes are more intimidating than before, a selectively glowing red lense covers his pupils. The result is that he truly looks like a giant brown bat. In many ways, it is intended to look like this.

Bruce Anthony Wayne was the son of the already wealthy Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha. Thomas had actually begun a project that would give the everyman the ability to protect himself, physically and legally. The project was despised by countless wealthier men, so Wayne became a target. Seeing it as a possibility for a better future, he was protected by clandestine agent Alfred Jarvis.

After a few too many attempts on Thomas' life had been made, Wayne decided that it was necessary to disappear. He took his son to see a screenplay one night before his and his wife's 'murder' was staged. Bruce was left in the care of Alfred Jarvis. Bruce was put through a carefully selected series of educational classes that equipped him to become one of the most competent men in the world.

During his early childhood, he began exercising in the yard in a private gymnastics course. But he fell down into a bat's cave on accident. He was quickly rescued by Alfred, but not before being traumatized by the horde that gave a squealing roar. From then on, he was afraid of bats. He had outlandish nightmares about them. He was so scared that he was often accompanied in his dreams by a talking bat calling himself Camazotz, a Mayan symbol of death and destruction. The nightmares only worsened until he made a decision that would change his life forever. He embraced the inner bat.

Dressing up as a bat, he put years of training and academic study to use, building a personal arsenal of crimefighting weapons, tools, and vehicles. In his early days, he shot several armed criminals before he began to explore other, dependably nonlethal methods of incapacitation. Taking courses such as fencing and hand to hand combat gave him an intimidating array of options. On his eighteenth birthday, he inherited Wayne Enterprises with majority ownership, but mostly chose to elect board representatives to maintain his watchful regiment.

He was free to completely let loose with his training on a visit to Transylvania with his then girlfriend Julie Madison, when she was kidnapped by vampires. For the first time, he heard Camazotz when he was awake, loving Bruce's finesse and parallel savagery. Bruce felt motivated and powerful as never before, defeating both vampires The Monk and Dala, who claimed to be champions of Camazotz themselves, before rescuing Julie and returning home. Bruce nearly crossed the line of taking human lives about a dozen times against such threats as The Joker or Two-Face.

But he'd never come as close as he had when he met Tony Zucco, a mobster who orphaned Dick Grayson when he wasn't paid for 'protection'. Grayson was not a public name, he was the son of partial owners. But he, personally, was called Robin by circus goers. He was a performer who daredevilishly acted out adventures as a mysterious teenaged vigilante. Bruce happened to be attending that night, and he watched him gun down the Graysons before nearly killing Zucco. "Don't do it," Grayson cried, and legitimately forced Batman to reconsider by using himself as an obstacle.

Seeing that Robin had kept him from becoming a murderer, Batman took Robin under his wing before he trained him to do real vigilantism as hid partner. Thus, Robin kept him in check and prevented him from crossing a line since the start. Since Grayson was also without a legal guardian, he adopted him as a son. But then the family expanded when Bruce and Selina Kyle, a cat burglar he'd apprehended multiple times before reform, started an official relationship. Selina's teenaged daughter, Helena, had been assisting her for years, even into the reform.

Bruce Wayne married Catwoman, gaining Helena as a Stepdaughter, though he treated her like a princess, more like Xena than Ariel, though. The invasion in 2015 compelled him to band together with Superman and Wonder Woman before sending his adoptive children on their own less dangerous missions. The Apokiliptan ships touched down in every major city in the world, so Bruce went inside one of them alone, analyzed it, fought an army of immortals and self-destructed it, managing to escape before relaying instructions to the World Army. With the help of the others, countless lives were saved. But the forcefulness Bruce had to use to survive reawakened a taste for violence he'd believed he'd gotten past.

An obvious scumbag was sitting in a desk chair, spinning in a steady rhythm. His feet kicked off the ground twice for every distorted bit of prattling he heard over his cell phone. He impatiently inhaled, like he was trying to swallow everything on the desk beside him. A laptop, map of the Gotham area, cash box, and a warped ski-mask with the eyeholes stretched beyond their limits. Most outstandingly, a monitor with a sixteen year old girl streaming live.

Her black and purple outfit was almost as skin-tight as the ropes binding her to a wooden chair.

"Excuse me, hunter of men," the man in front of the computer boomed over a loud speaker, after ending his private call. "But I have a single question for you. If you answer correctly, it means you go free and I go to someplace you won't here from me. But if you don't.
.." With a keystroke, he decorated the perimeter of the room around her with blue javelins of untainted power, lightning.

The Huntress said nothing.

"What do you call it when I take your life from the person who appreciates you most?"

Helena was still, at a complete loss for words. But fortunately, as if by magic, the answer echoed behind her.

"Robbin' the Boy Wonder."

"Batman!" The Riddler shrieked!

"Captain Obvious, I presume," the aforementioned companion to the vigilante quipped.

"Grrr! You rhyme with lead but are more like Punk instead! What are you?"

The Batman shrouded himself and his two companions in a scalloped curtain of shadow before lightning struck--not twice--but twelve times all around the cape! When the falsely blue sky faded from around them, he dropped his trailing blanket before crossing his arms into his utility belt and retrieving a pair of bean-sized containers. At once, The Riddler's webcam was made useless, the screen filled with smoke before he heard the thundering of a thousand angry gods roaring, charging in his direction.

The door flung open, and standing in the vacant space was unmistakable silhouette of The Batman. Without getting a moment to prepare himself, The Riddler was overrun by a dozen light-speed strikes that grounded him in no time.