With the possible exception of people who have been living on the moon these past 80 years (emphasis on possible), you’ve seen Superman before, whether it’s in a movie, a TV show like Lois and Clark or Smallville o

It’s one of the most infamous relationships in all of comics, encompassing two diametrically opposed mindsets that have been in continual conflict throughout years of comics and across two blockbuster films.

Superman is inherently a science fiction character. His origin begins when this super-powered alien is rocketed from his dying world—a world more advanced than Earth in almost every single way.