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Several silver designs on his torso point to the buckle, which is a square with an S-shaped glyph in its middle a silver stripe going down the length of the legs and curves back midway from the waist.
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The Superman skinsuit is made of a blue chainmail-like material with gauntlets a series of separate bands circling his sleeves the S-shaped House of El glyph in red and yellow on the chest with with a middle embossed line (with Kryptonian hieroglyphics along both sides of it) in the middle of the "S". The skinsuit's altered appearance during Kal-El's mental torture
In honor of the extraordinary heroics that he had displayed while saving Earth, the citizens of Metropolis soon build a massive silvery-gray statue of the mighty alien hero, depicting him wearing the skinsuit. In the process of it all, the US military recognizes him as an ally, and nicknames Kal-El " Superman", due to the S-shaped glyph on his skinsuit's chest.įrom that point on, whenever protecting Earth from dangerous threats, Superman always dons his Kryptonian skinsuit.
He kept on the skinsuit during his meetings with Sub-Commander Faora-Ul and General Zod, his escape from Black Zero, his first battle (with Faora-Ul and Nam-Ek), his battle with the World Engine in the Indian Ocean, and his final battle with Zod. Kal-El's surrender - his first public appearance in the suitĪfter choosing to surrender himself to the people of Earth, Kal-El donned the skinsuit again, and flew to Peterson Air Force Base. He flew miles into the sky at extreme supersonic speeds, flying first from the Arctic across the Atlantic Ocean to the savannahs of Kenya, and then back over the ocean to the Monument Valley in Utah, after which he briefly flew into outer space.
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Determined to "test the limits" of his powers, Kal-El proceeded to leap immense distances through the air, finally learning how to fly (leaving several craters and sheering off a mountaintop in the process), by manipulating a gravitational field around himself.
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Kal-El then donned the suit as a rite of passage, and proceeded to walk outside, finally accepting his alien heritage and fully understanding his abilities, which allowed him to finally reach his full potential, becoming more powerful than ever before. He encouraged Kal-El to uphold what his family had once stood for by bringing this hope to Earth and humankind, embodying the best of both Earth and Krypton, thereby giving humankind "an ideal to strive towards".
It remained there until Kal-El discovered the ship and a holographic projection of his father Jor-El, which revealed the suit inside, while explaining to him that the S-shaped glyph on the chest is not only the symbol of the House of El, but also a symbol of hope, embodied in which is the potential that every individual has to be a force for good and righteousness. The skinsuit was stored in an ancient scout ship which had crash-landed on the planet Earth thousands of years ago, and it was originally worn by one of Kal-El's ancestors of the House of El. Kal-El's first flight, right after donning the skinsuit.