Man Of Steel (T.V Series)

Man Of Steel is an American superhero action-adventure television series developed by Ali Adler, Vince Gilligan and David S. Goyer that aired on the CW and premiered October 22, 2013. It is based on the DC Comics character Superman, created by Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster. Superman is a costumed super hero and one of the last surviving Kryptonians. The series is set in the Archerverse sharing continuity with the other television series of the   universe.

2013-2014

Created by Ali Adler, Vince Gilligan and David S. Goyer.

Main Cast EditEdit

 * Tyler Hoechlin as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman- 19/19
 * Meagan Goode as Natsha Irons
 * Paul Wesley as Adam Kent
 * Grant Gustin  as Winslow "Winn"  Schott Jr.
 * David Harewood as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter and Mr. Bones
 * Bruce Campbell as Perry White

Recurring EditEdit
Episodes
 * Rachel Weiz as Lara Lor-Van
 * Brandon Routh as Jor-El
 * Susan Sarandon as Martha Kent
 * Bruce Greenwood as Jonathan Kent
 * Cooper Timberline as Young Kal-El (Flashbacks)
 * Jude Law as Lex Luthor
 * Unknown as Lucas Lane
 * Unknown as Silver Banshee
 * 1) "Pilot"- Kal-El is sent to Earth before Krypton's impending destruction. The planet's implosion forces his ship off course and into the Phantom Zone for 24 years, before landing on Earth. Kara, now operating as the superhero Supergirl in National City, puts Clark in the care of the Kent's in Smallville. Twelve years later, Clark working at the media conglomerate Daily Planet, decides to get rid of his Blur identity and embraces his powers as a vigilante. He tells his co-worker, Winn Schott, about his secret and he starts aiding him. His cold-hearted boss, Perry White, titles the vigilante "Superman". Adam, Clark's adoptive brother, works at the D.E.O , under the leadership of Robert Todd, investigating alien activity. Clark learns that there are hundreds of aliens on Earth, most of whom came from a prison that was run by his father, Jor-El. His actions attract the attention of an alien called Vartox, and he is able to defeat him, although he then kills himself. Natasha Irons, another one of Clark's colleagues, reveals that Kara sent her to look after him and presents him with a new cape. Vartox's superior is revealed to be Zor-El, Jor-El's identical twin brother, who wants to conquer Earth.
 * 2) "Stronger Together"-  In an effort to put a positive image on Superman in the wake of a serious mishap, Clark asks Winn and Natasha to help him perfect his skills, while Robert and Adam put Clark through extensive physical training. Clark learns that an alien of the Hellgrammite species who escaped from Fort Rozz, Jor-El's prison, is on Earth searching for chlorine-based food. The D.E.O prepares an ambush for the Hellgrammite, but it escapes, kidnaps Adam, and takes him to Zor-El, who uses Adam as a trap for Clark. As Clark and Zor-El fight, Robert injures Zor-El with a Kryptonite knife and Adam kills the Hellgrammite. Learning that Clark has become more powerful than he had imagined and that humanity has a means of weakening Kryptonians, Zor-El muses that his "plans" may need to be postponed. Adam provides Clark with an interactive artificial intelligence of Jor-El's consciousness. Meanwhile, Perry pressures Natasha to get him an interview with Superman. In the end, Clark agrees to the interview and prevents Natasha from getting fired. It is also revealed that Robert might have a secret of his own when his eyes glow red.
 * 3) "Man Of Steel"- During the interview with Perry, Clark accidentally reveals that he is Supergirl's cousin. After Perry exposes the relationship, Clark is attacked by Reactron, who seeks to kill him in order to get his revenge on Supergirl, but he manages to send him fleeing. He later goes to Lex Corp and kidnaps Lex Luthor to get him to fix his suit. Clark later learns that a reactor meltdown Supergirl stopped in the past killed Reactron's wife. He goes to the hideout of Reactron, identified as Ben Krull, and manages to save Lex, only to get badly injured by Krull afterwards, but Supergirl comes to save him. He gets mad at Natasha for calling Supergirl for help. During a party Perry organized, Krull breaks in to find Superman. While Natasha distracts Reactron, Clark covers his hand in lead so that he can use it to safely remove the power core in Krull's suit and defeat him. Clark, who has feelings for Natasha, witnesses her ex-boyfriend, Lucas Lane, also Lois Lane's younger brother, paying him a visit to restart their relationship.
 * 4) "How Does He Do It?"- Perry leaves town, entrusting his son Jerry to Clark. A bomber starts targeting Luthor's company. On the opening night of Luthor's new bullet train, Clark and the D.E.O find out about two bomb threats simultaneously, one at the airport and one on the train. ARGUS goes to the airport, where Robert secretly uses his powers to deactivate the bomb. Clark goes to the train to save Jerry, who is on it with the bomber. As he confronts the bomber, she claims that she is doing it for her daughter. She requests him to save the people on the train after she starts the timer, killing herself. At DEO headquarters, Adam finds a fail-safe in the bomb defused by Robert, who claimed it was just a decoy. Clark deduces that Luthor was the one behind the bombings. As Superman, he confronts Luthor, who implies that the threats were used to test his skills. He also vows to find the person important to him on the train. Meanwhile, Natasha initially refuses to date Lucas, but Clark convinces her to return to him.
 * 5) "Livewire"- After fighting an alien escapee, Clark meets Adam at the apartment to greet the latter's mother, Martha, for Thanksgiving, inviting Winn due to his lack of plans. The Daily Planet's shock jock, Leslie Willis is demoted by Perry to traffic reporting after a controversial bashing of Superman. During a severe thunderstorm, Clark tries to save Leslie, but lightning strikes them both, imbuing Leslie with electromagnetic powers. Leslie takes the name "Livewire" and tries to take revenge on Perry, but Clark eventually stops her and she is imprisoned at the D.E.O. Perry and Clark become closer. Meanwhile, Adam tells Martha in a fit of rage at the dinner table that he's actually working for the DEO. Martha reveals Adam and Clark that her husband, Jonathan , offered himself up to work for Todd in exchange for Clark's safety and then died mysteriously. Adam and Clark decide to investigate Todd and find the truth about Jonathan's death.
 * 6) "Red Faced"-  Clark hurts a civilian due to her uncontrolled anger. Sam Lane, Jon's father and also a military general, arrives at the DEO with him as his attache, demanding Superman let them test his powers by fighting an android called Red Tornado, which is invented by T.O. Morrow. He overpowers Red Tornado, leading to Sam firing Morrow. Sam is later attacked by Red Tornado, but Clark saves him. ARGUS realizes that Red Tornado is actually a drone controlled by Morrow. Adam and Clark engage Morrow and Red Tornado, respectively. Adam kills Morrow, making Red Tornado engage Clark without control. He uses his heat vision enhanced by his rage to destroy it. Jon resigns from military service in order to stay with Natasha. Clark finds out that his powers have diminished when he cuts himself and starts bleeding. Meanwhile, Winn informs Clark and Adam that Jonathan and Robert went on a mission in South America, where Jonathan died, deducing that Robert is the last person to have seen him alive.
 * 7) "Human For A Day"- As Clark tries to adjust to life without his powers, an earthquake hits Metropolis. Winn informs Clark that he needs a rise of adrenaline in his blood to regain his powers. The team begins saving the Daily Planet staff upstairs by the elevator shaft, from where Natasha falls after saving everyone. Clark regains his powers and saves her before rushing to help the citizens. Winn becomes jealous of the intimacy between him and Natasha. Afterwards, Clark is attacked by Zor-El and his operatives. Meanwhile, the earthquake causes a D.E.O prisoner called Jemm, who has psychic abilities to read and control minds, to escape. Robert locks the facility and takes a team to engage Jemm, with the former being the only survivor. That causes Adam to become more suspicious of Robert. He locks him in a room and engages Jemm alone, being overpowered. Robert arrives in time and kills him. He explains to him that he is the sole survivor of an alien species and his name is J'onn J'onzz. He killed the real Robert after the latter killed Jonathan, who tried to save J'onn. He then assumed Robert's shape and identity.
 * 8) "Takeover"-Clark is overpowered by Zor-El and escapes. In a second duel, the former defeats the latter and brings him to the D.E.O, where the latter states that all he wanted was to save Krypton, the same thing he wants for Earth. He also reveals that Jor-El used Clark on Krypton to arrest the former. Clark confronts the interactive artificial intelligence of Jor-El, who refuses to confirm that Zor-El's plan could have worked. It is revealed that Zor-El wanted to get arrested in order to divert attention from his wife, Faora, and her team from attacking LEXCORP Technologies. Clark rushes there and engages her. Meanwhile, Perry's emails are hacked and his personal information is leaked to the press. Clark finds out that the chairman of the board was behind the hack and provides Perry with evidence by the help of Natasha, Jon and Winn, leading to the chairman's arrest. Clark also finds out from the leaks that Perry has a 24-year-old daughter named Naomi Fuller. Perry reveals to Clark that he has found out about the latter's alter ego.
 * 9) "Blood Bonds"- Faora overpowers Clark and leaves with Robert. Luthor sends the D.E.O. away from his facility, vowing to defend it himself, and returns to a secret experiment he is conducting. Faora offers to trade Robert for Zor-El, but Sam, who is placed in charge of the D.E.O by the President, refuses. He tortures Zor-El for Faora's location, and walks into a trap placed by Faora. Clark is distraught over both his defeat and the fact that Perry will fire him unless he is convinced that Clark is not Superman. Clark goes to ARGUS and talks with Zor-El who tells her that Jor-El believed his claim that Krypton was doomed, but sentenced him for his illegal methods while promising to work for his cause. Adam and Clark make the trade over Lane's objections and Zor-El orders Faora to withdraw despite her numerical advantage. Sam and his men leave ARGUS. Robert uses his shape-shifting power to present Perry with Clark and Superman simultaneously, casting doubt on his initial deduction of their identities. Clark, Natasha and Winn decide to find the secret about Luthor, who is shown in possession of an alien man.
 * 10) "Strange Visitor From Another Planet"- Miranda Crane, an anti-alien Senator, arrives in Metropolis and is attacked by an alien. Superman saves Crane and brings her to the D.E.O, where Robert reveals to Adam that the alien is a White Martian, whose species wiped out the Green Martians, Robert's species. Clark finds out that the Crane inside the D.E.O. is actually the White, who is a shapeshifter. The White escapes, abducting Adam. Robert proposes a trade of himself with Adam, which the White accepts. Clark interrupts the exchange, giving Robert the chance to attempt to kill the White, but Clark dissuades him and the White is incarcerated in the D.E.O. Crane withdraws from her anti-alien initiative. Meanwhile, Clark and Winn become distant to each other. Naomi pays a visit to Perry due to receiving a letter, which was actually written by Clark. Naomi and Perry find it hard to develop a relationship, but Clark later helps them reconcile. Naomi asks Clark on a date, which he accepts. An identical Superman appears in Metropolis.
 * 11) "Bizarro"- It is revealed that the new Superman is the man Lex has been experimenting on and has brainwashed him with the sole purpose of killing the prime Superman. Perry titles him "Bizarro", who later witnesses Superman saving civilians and realizing that Superman is not a bad person, as Lex has dictated to him. However, Lex convinces him to continue hunting Superman. Bizarro attacks Clark when he is out with Naomi, making him realize that Lex knows his identity. The DEO uses Kryptonite on Bizarro, whose face gets deformed instead and manages to escape. Clark decides to end his relationship with Naomi. Lex advises Bizarro to use a person Superman cares about, so he kidnaps Natasha. Clark arrives and engages him before Adam uses a modified Kryptonite to weaken Bizarro, who is rendered unconscious and kept in the DEO. Adam brings Lex to the DEO and locks him up, so he threatens Martha indirectly. Back at his apartment, Clark is attacked by an unknown creature.
 * 12) "For The Man Who Has Everything"- The creature, which is known as the Black Mercy, places Clark in a dreamlike state that has him imagining he is back on Krypton. The Black Mercy is part of a plot by Faora, who is using Earth's technology to launch "Black Zero", which she and Zor-El are planning to use to wipe out humanity. Zor-El secretly informs Adam of the Black Mercy, and the latter enlists the help of Robert, Winn, Lex, and Natasha to save Clark, with Adam entering Clark's mind to pull him out and bring him back to reality. When Clark comes back, he seeks revenge on Faora and stops her, who escapes with after revealing the word "Black Zero". Elsewhere, Zor-El engages Adam and Robert, who fights as the Martian Manhunter. The former overpowers him before Adam impales him with a Kryptonite sword, killing him. Clark arrives and Robert tells him that he killed Zor-El instead of Adam, who starts to feel guilty over whether he should tell Clark the truth. Faora vows revenge on Clark in the wake of Zor-El's death.
 * 13) "Truth, Justice and the American Way"- Clark and Faora pay their final respects to Zor-El, and she vows to kill him after she finishes mourning. Clark, Adam, and J'onn track down an armored alien known as the The Persuader, whom they discover was a guard at Fort Rozz. He has become a vigilante who kills the alien fugitives, including those convicted of non-violent crimes such as a professor sentenced for drug smuggling. Clark confronts the Persuader, but he takes him prisoner and plans to execute him for not joining him. The DEO pinpoints their location and Clark is able to save the professor and defeat the Persuader. Jor-El refuses to reveal anything about Black Zero and Clark realizes he cannot forgive J'onn for killing Zor-El. Meanwhile, Perry assigns Natasha and Lucas to investigate Lex's disappearance. Tensions between Natasha and Lucas develop after he reveals his knowledge of the DEO and friendship with Superman. The DEO releases Lex, threatening to disclose his criminal activity if he reveals Superman's identity or the D.E.O's' location. Clark finds competition in Perry's new "first assistant" Siobhan Smythe.
 * 14) "Solitude"-A hacker steals the personal information of several people and gives it to Perry for disclosure, which he refuses. The hacker, turned out to be an alien named Brainiac with the ability to use the internet for traveling, announces his decision to destroy Metropolis. Clark leaves the D.E.O. and enlists the help of Natasha and Lucas to stop Brainiac while the DEO enlists Winn for it. Lucas realizes that Brainiac's intention in the hacking was only one person, a military general with access to the nuclear arsenal. Brainiac infiltrates the nuclear base using the general's cell phone and launches a missile towards Metropolis. Superman stops it using the DEO's help. Winn uploads a virus to Brainiac, destroying him after he reveals to Clark that it was he who helped Clark's ship exit the Phantom Zone., which in turn facilitated Fort Rozz's expulsion. Clark decides to rejoin the DEO, and Adam reveals the truth about Zor-El, being forgiven by Clark. Lucas ends his relationship with Natasha, accusing her of loving Clark. Winn and Siobhan develop a relationship. Faora recovers Brainiac's pieces and revives him.
 * 15) "Descending"- After helping fight a warehouse fire, Superman inadvertently comes into contact with Red Kryptonite which overrides his inhibitions. Clark/Superman soon becomes more cold, shallow, and cynical, which causes Winn, Natasha, Adam, and even Perry to wonder what is going on with him. Clark even goes so far as to rat out the back-stabbing Siobhan by leaking information that Siobhan has been contacting CATCO for information on Superman's actions, which results in Perry terminating Siobhan's employment. It soon turns out that Lex Luthor created the so-called Red Kryptonite, in the hopes of stopping Faora's next attack. After the compromised Superman makes an attempt on Perry's life, Perry goes on TV and denounces Superman. Adam and Lex are forced to form an uneasy alliance while he tries to help the DEO stop Superman. After a climactic battle downtown, the D.E.O. is able to subdue and cure Superman, but at the price of Robert revealing himself as the Martian Manhunter.
 * 16) "Manhunter"- While Clark is trying to win back Metropolis' trust, the hot-headed Marine Colonel James Harper (guest star John Barrowman) begins an investigation into the J'onn affair with Lucas, having re-enlisted into the Army at his previous rank of Major, as his legal assistant. Robert/J'onn J'onzz then tells the backstory about how he first met Jonathan Kent (guest star Dean Cain) 10 years earlier while he and Robert were on a mission in South America to find him and how J'onn took his identity to oversee the DEO. After his interrogation, the vindictive Lucas implicates Adam with his knowledge about J'onn's real identity. After learning that Robert and Adam are on their way to Project Checkmate, Clark finally tells Lucas that he is Superman and convinces him to help rescue Robert and Adam. Robert learns that Jonathan is still alive, so he and Adam go on the run to find him, but not before manipulating Harper into resigning from the Marines and appointing Lucas as the acting director of ARGUS. Meanwhile, Siobhan tries to get revenge on Clark for getting her fired, but gets caught by Winn and discovers that she has the power to sonic scream.
 * 17) "Worlds Finest"- Siobhan discovers that the women in her family are cursed with the spirit of a banshee, which can only be quieted by killing whoever wronged them. Deciding to kill Clark, Siobhan frees Livewire from captivity at the D.E.O and suggests they team up to kill both Clark and Perry. Siobhan—now calling herself Silver Banshee—and Livewire kidnap Perry and wreak havoc on Metropolis Park. Meanwhile, Superman has a run-in with Barry Allen / Flash, a superhero from Central City, whom he asks for his help to find Livewire and Silver Banshee. After a climatic fight in a downtown park, Clark is able to subdue them and win back Metropolis' trust. At the end, Clark discovers that everyone in Metropolis has fallen under some kind of spell, revealed by Faora to be the result of Black Zero.
 * 18) "Black Zero"- The Black Zero effect has taken over Metropolis and even Supergirl is under control, leaving Clark, Perry, and Lex as the only ones immune. Now, Clark must find a way to stop Faora, but Lex is looking at destroying the Kryptonians with a Kryptonite bomb even at the risk of killing other humans. Perry objects and prompts Superman to find an alternative. The effect brings fugitives Adam and J'onn back after Adam tells Martha the truth about Jonathan and Robert Todd. When Brainiac senses the two returning, he defeats J'onn, but takes Adam and places him under mind control as Faora's payback for Zor-El's death.
 * 19) "Better Heroes"- Clark fights with Adam, who is controlled by Faora. Martha pleads with Adam to stop, as Adam is about to kill Clark with the Kryptonite sword, which breaks Faora's control over her. The team learns that hope is the key to stopping Black Zero. Superman inspires the citizens of Metropolis, waking them from the Black Zero trance. However, Brainiac convinces Faora to kill all the humans on Earth by increasing Black Zero's frequency. Lex warns Clark that he might not survive a solo fight with Faora and Brainiac; J'onn later insists on helping him. Clark and J'onn confront Faora and Brainiac at Fort Rozz, which is powering Black Zero. Superman defeats Faora in a heat vision battle and J'onn rips Brainiac's body apart. As Brainiac dies, he reveals that he locked the system so Black Zero cannot be shut down. Clark flies Fort Rozz into space, rendering Black Zero harmless; Adam rescues him using Clark's pod. Afterward, J'onn is reinstated as the Director of the D.E.O. and Perry gives Clark a promotion. While Clark celebrates at him house, a pod (similar to Clark's) crashes near Metropolis. Clark opens the pod and is shocked by what is inside it.