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| “ | I thought coming here would be a chance to start over, but I guess I'm just gonna be a freak like always | „ |
| ~ Jordan Kent |
Jordan Kent is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Jonathan Kent) of Superman & Lois.
He is the son of Superman and Lois Lane and the fraternal twin brother of Jonathan Kent II. Unlike his brother, Jordan inherited their father's superpowers which became one of the main factors why Jordan and his family moved to Smallville. Eventually, his brother began calling him Superboy.
History
Background
Jordan Kent was born in 2006, shortly before his twin brother, Jonathan.
When he was a child, Jordan was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder after suffering outbursts and tantrums. During their summer vacation, Jordan and Jonathan often joined their parents on visits to their grandmother, Martha Kent, in Smallville, where Jordan became friends with Lana Lang Cushing's daughter, Sarah Cushing, who Jordan later developed a crush on.
Eventually, Jordan trained to be a pianist but quit the classes when his anxiety got worse.
Moving to Smallville
When Jordan and Jon were at school, their grandmother died of a stroke and they attended her funeral.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Human-Kryptonian Hybrid physiology: Jordan Kent possesses a completely unique human-Kryptonian hybrid physiology, permitting him to expand remarkable powers below the affect of Earth's yellow sun. His hybrid genetic make-up offers him the equal capability competencies as a complete-blooded Kryptonian. Zeta-Rho even diagnosed Jordan as a super vessel for Kryptonian power, claiming that Jordan's untapped power might be absolutely activated. When Zeta-Rho took manage of his body, Jordan displayed the total variety of Kryptonian powers, acting feats past some thing he had imagined. Since being free of Zeta-Rho's manage, Jordan's powers have endured to develop and evolve. Tal-Rho and Lois Lane stated great development in his competencies, prompting his grandfather, Sam Lane, to take a hands-on technique in schooling Jordan. Through this schooling, Jordan found out to sharpen his competencies and preserve manage over his rising powers. Sam Lane later confided to Lois that Jordan changed into turning into one of the maximum effective beings at the planet. Interestingly, Jordan's father, Superman, located that Jordan reacts in a different way to Kryptonite publicity than a complete Kryptonian would. This specific resistance indicates that Jordan’s hybrid nature ought to sooner or later permit him to surpass his father in power and ability. His journey toward mastering his powers reflects both his growing confidence and the immense potential within him. However, the A.I. of Lara argued that because Jordan and his brother are part human, their genetic makeup sets a ceiling on their growth, meaning they’ll never quite reach or exceed Superman’s full power.
- Solar energy absorption: Jordan Kent’s frame is able to absorbing, storing, and the usage of power from Earth's yellow solar to energy his capabilities, just like a complete Kryptonian. However, his hybrid body structure does not permit him to shop sun power as efficaciously as his father, Clark Kent. Jor-El’s AI defined that Jordan can handiest take in and keep restricted quantities of sun power, that's why his powers took an awful lot longer to happen as compared to Clark. While Clark started growing his powers with the aid of using the age of four, it wasn’t till Jordan turned into fourteen that his capabilities first emerged. Despite this slower development, Jordan skilled a surge in his powers after being quickly managed with the aid of using Zeta-Rho. During that time, his capabilities had been driven to their complete potential, permitting him to show the whole variety of powers that he had struggled to get entry to before.
- Accelerated Healing Factor: Jordan Kent possesses an extended healing factor, permitting him to get over accidents an awful lot quicker than a regular human. This capability’s potential has been confirmed on numerous occasions. For example, he fast bounced lower back after being attacked via way of means of Tag and confirmed no lasting results after being tackled and crushed via way of means of a whole rival soccer team. His better recuperation allows him live resilient in hard situations, making it hard for accidents to gradual him down for long.
- Flight: Jordan Kent has advanced the capacity to fly, which first manifested in a second of desperation while he had to keep Kyle Cushing from a fire. Initially, Jordan struggled to manipulate his flight, however he confirmed sizeable development in the course of a warfare with Jonathan-El. Recognizing his potential, his father, Superman, started out schooling him to grasp the skill. While Jordan nevertheless had trouble with landings early on, he steadily stepped forward with practice. Over time, Jordan's flying competencies superior considerably. He have become able to hovering throughout complete continents in moments or even leaving Earth's atmosphere. With endured schooling and experience, Jordan’s flight capabilities developed into one in all his maximum wonderful and dependable powers.
- Superhuman Durability: Jordan Kent possesses superhuman sturdiness, making his frame some distance extra immune to harm than that of a normal human. Early on, this sturdiness turned into inconsistent. For example, he most effective suffered a moderate concussion no matter falling 30 toes and having big steel beams crash onto him. However, he ought to nonetheless be injured via way of means of ordinary people thru punches and kicks, and he turned into prone to assaults from Tag, whose electricity and pace had been enhanced. Despite those early inconsistencies, Jordan established moments of astonishing sturdiness, inclusive of while he punched thru a wall with out harm and walked farfar from a automobile crash unharmed. After being possessed via way of means of Zeta-Rho and following the defeat of Tal-Rho, Jordan's powers—which include his sturdiness—progressed dramatically. He turned into capable of face up to effective assaults from Bizarro Jonathan, a Kryptonian with superhuman electricity, and suffered most effective minor wounds. His sturdiness, however, nonetheless seems to be under his father’s, as it’s uncertain if Jordan is absolutely bulletproof like Clark. Nonetheless, Jordan's resilience has endured to grow. He survived being smashed right into a truck and pushed thru a couple of partitions even as combating Lana-Rho, displaying little to no discomfort. Additionally, for the duration of education on the Fortress of Solitude, he trained getting struck with lasers and didn’t experience any pain. As Jordan’s powers mature, his sturdiness is turning into certainly considered one among his most powerful assets, permitting him to bear an increasing number of extreme affects and attacks.
- Space Survivability: Jordan Kent has evolved the capability to live on within side the vacuum of outer area, an extremely good extension of his Kryptonian based powers. He established this functionality while he flew into area to rescue his uncle, Tal-Rho, and efficaciously lower back to Earth with none symptoms and symptoms of harm. This suggests that Jordan's frame can bear the harsh, airless situations of area, inclusive of excessive temperatures and absence of oxygen. His cappotential to carry out such feats highlights the ongoing boom of his superhuman resilience and strength.
- Superhuman Speed: Jordan Kent has evolved superhuman velocity, permitting him to transport quicker than the human eye can perceive. After Zeta-Rho unlocked his potential, Jordan verified this potential whilst he hastily stored Jon and Candice from a drug supplier instantly. His velocity is so exceptional that it creates a slow-movement impact in his surroundings, permitting him to keep away from assaults like heat imaginative and prescient from an X-Kryptonite-stronger consumer before sneaking up in the back of them. Jordan has showcased his velocity in numerous important moments. He outran a collapsing cave, wearing each Jonathan and Natalie to safety. He additionally saved his father, Superman, with the aid of rushing him out of harm’s way whilst Lana-Rho attacked. In any other instance, Jordan used his velocity to show Lana-Rho’s freeze imaginative and prescient again on Jonathan-El earlier than it could hit him. Additionally, he stuck Natalie’s kinetic hammer in mid-flight, in addition to proving his potential to react at superhuman speeds. Jordan's velocity has come to be an essential part of his fight and rescue skills, permitting him to outmaneuver and defend others in risky situations.
- Accelerated Perception: Jordan Kent has evolved an improved perception, permitting him to revel in time as though it slows down around him at some stage in moments of extreme danger. This strength first manifested whilst an XK-stronger opponent fired warmth imagination and prescient at him. As Jordan diminished his arms, the whole thing around him appeared to transport in gradual motion, giving him the possibility to speedily circumvent the attack, reposition himself at the back of his opponent, and gain the upper hand. This heightened cognizance and response velocity have come to be key components of his evolving abilities, supporting him in reacting to threats with fantastic precision and agility.
- Superhuman Strength: Jordan Kent possesses superhuman power, even though it hasn't yet reached the extent of his father, Clark Kent, because of his restricted potential to save solar energy. However, his power continues to be far past that of a regular human. His herbal athleticism changed into glaring at the football field, where he should without difficulty overpower other players. During education together along with his father, he confirmed his power with the aid of using embedding his fist in a timber log. His power has additionally prompted unintended harm, which includes while he by chance broke Jonathan's wrist at the same time as protecting him from Jimmy Cutter. Jordan’s power was additionally confirmed in moments of anger, like when he punched through his bedroom wall after a dispute together along with his brother. He’s sturdy sufficient to boost Jonathan with one arm and, after Zeta-Rho unlocked his complete potential, his power grew even further. He changed into a capable of land effective blows on his uncle, Tal-Rho, producing shockwaves along with his punches. Under his grandfather Sam Lane's education, Jordan honed his competencies with the aid of using punching heavy baggage off their hooks and sending fighters flying with uppercuts. His strength has grown to be even greater awesome in combat. During a combat with Jonathan-El, Jordan released him excessively into the air with a single knee strike. Later, he established complete manipulate of his strength via way of means of knocking out Lana-Rho with the kinetic hammer. Jordan’s persistence education and shockwaves have made his superhuman strength an important asset in battle.
- Superhuman Breath: Jordan Kent has evolved superhuman breath, such as the capacity to generate freezing air. His first encounter with Kryptonite brought about this electricity all at once whilst he had become ill and sneezed, unexpectedly cooling the air around him and growing ice. After the Kryptonite was purged from his body, Jordan started to benefit from managing his freezing breath with the assistance of his grandfather, Sam Lane. Sam educated him with the aid of using having him freeze water mid-air because it was thrown from a bucket, supporting Jordan refine his technique. Jordan later verified enormous mastery of this capability with the aid of using freezing a whole car, showcasing the developing electricity and management of his freezing breath.
- Superhuman Hearing: Jordan Kent has advanced superhuman listening, giving him fairly touchy auditory senses. However, this capacity has been validated to be both a power and a challenge. Every day sounds may be overwhelming for him, regularly inflicting migraines and pain. For instance, Jordan became capable of paying attention to the snap of Jonathan’s bones whilst he by accident broke his wrist. Jor-El’s hologram defined that Jordan's better mechanosensory belief triggered an allodynic response—making all sounds painful till he should learn how to manipulate and clear them out through practice. With schooling and focus, Jordan commenced making progress. He became capable of in short music in the voices of Sarah and Jonathan, although he misplaced attention whilst he overheard them bonding, which distracted and disenchanted him. Over time, his manipulation progressed significantly. Jordan correctly used his awesome listening to find his father, Clark, from miles away. On any other occasion, he prolonged his listening to throughout continents, in short selecting up sounds from Australia or New Zealand earlier than in the long run listening to his father's shout from the Badlands. Jordan’s capacity to eavesdrop upon remote conversations has additionally been verified in greater diffused ways, together with when he overheard a private dialogue between his father and Lana Lang Cushing, leaving Sarah puzzled. His grandfather Sam Lane even remarked that Jordan’s extraordinary listening makes him greater powerful than a satellite, highlighting the exquisite potential of this power.
- Heat Vision: Jordan Kent has evolved the capacity to assign extreme beams of warmth from his eyes. His ability first emerged during a second of severe emotional stress, caused whilst he changed into crushed through being bullied and witnessing his brother Jonathan get overwhelmed by Sarah’s ex-boyfriend. Since then, Jordan has received more manipulate over this power, and the usage of it efficiently throughout battles together with his paternal uncle, Tal-Rho. He validated ease in activating his power during their second confrontation. With the guidance of his grandfather, Sam Lane, Jordan skilled to refine his accuracy and precision. His physical games focused on tin cans and later lighting fixtures more than one candle without melting them. His education paid off, as Jordan has become able to reduce through stable rock with ease. His manipulation and ability have been similarly validated in a fight whilst he exactly used his to intercept and neutralize Jonathan-El’s freeze mid-attack. Jordan's mastery of this has come to be a key detail of his ever-developing superhuman abilities.
- X-Ray Vision: Jordan Kent has an advanced X-ray, which first manifested in the course of a second of extreme tension whilst his mom underwent surgery. His panic assault brought about the capacity, permitting him to look through partitions within the hospital, together with the skeletons of different sufferers and staff. As he persisted to develop into his powers, Jordan's X-ray became greater refined. He gained the capacity to understand infrared warmth signatures, which helped him find his grandfather, Sam Lane, who had become buried deep underground. He later used this capacity strategically to identify armed guards' internal shipment containers, giving him the upper hand with the aid of permitting him to plot a stealth assault. Jordan's X-ray imaginative and prescient has turned out to be an important device for each rescue and combat, presenting him with heightened recognition of his surroundings.
Abilities
- Expert Hand-to-hand Combantant: Initially Jordan had slight combating fashion as whilst his powers matured, he threw punches at his paternal uncle which made shockwaves blows on every strike until he turned into defeated through the latter. Afterwards his grandfather Sam Lane gives to teach Jordan in boxing which advanced his combativeness applied together along with his ability as he fought in opposition to Thugs more suitable with X-K, Inverse Jonathan-El any other Kryptonian hybrid who fight turned into brutal till Jordan had the higher hand, each Inverse Kryptonians with resource through Natalie. At the own circle of relatives fortress, Kent constantly educated in simulations of holograms which made him an professional fighter validated as he struck several combatants armed with Kryptonite guns in saving his father, carried out a twisted arm flow on huge opponent to then toss him to a wall and in the end battled Doomsday along his brother.
- Skilled Pianist: While no acknowledged rationalization been given. Jordan has an expertise and gambling a piano as an audition withinside the talent show. He plays "Little Light Shine" for Sarah Cushing to sing to.
Weaknesses
- Green Kryptonite: Green Kryptonite not only physically hurts Jordan, but also it weakens his physical attributes; making his resilience equivalent to that; of a normal human, but if he is exposed to enough Green Kryptonite for too long, it will eventually kill him. But despite being weaker than his father, he has a considerably higher resilience to Green Kryptonite. It is speculated to be because of his Human-half deluding the effects on his half-Kryptonian.
- Noise: When Jordan's enhanced hearing came in, loud noises were difficult for Jordan. This includes the simple closing of a locker and the bell ringing. Because of this, Jordan wore special headphones that canceled out sound. However, Jordan has gotten more control of his powers after being host to Zeta-Rho.
- Red solar energy: Jordan is powerless under the radiation of a red sun.
- Social anxiety disorder: Jordan was diagnosed with a personal anxiety disorder when he was a child and has been taking benzodiazepines as medication and going to therapy. However, this has toned down after Jordan gained powers, becoming Sarah's boyfriend and bonding with his parents and brother
- Power Instability/Mixed DNA: Because Jordan Kent is half-human, his Kryptonian powers aren't always stable or consistent. Jor-El’s A.I. explained that Jordan might have sudden bursts of abilities—like heat vision—but he likely won't be able to use full Kryptonian powers regularly, since his cells don’t store solar energy as efficiently as a full Kryptonian’s. However, this might be tied to his age, meaning his powers could grow as he matures. Early on, Jordan had trouble controlling his powers, especially when he was emotional. His first use of heat vision was painful and left red rings around his eyes, likely from the intensity. After Zeta-Rho possessed him and Jordan eventually regained control, he began to manage his powers more effectively, and they've continued to develop steadily since.
Trivia
- According to "A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events", Jordan was born before Jonathan.
- Jordan is a fan of "Flake" by Fidlar.
- Jordan was named after his biological paternal grandfather, Jor-El.
- Jordan was also the alias assumed by Clark in Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel?.
