Is Superman immortal?

[Guts/Batman]

We've all seen him be "killed" but is he otherwise immortal?

[Antonio B.]

We've all seen him be "killed" but is he otherwise immortal?

Well he will die one day. His aging seems to have slowed down vastly. I mean he grew into adult hood (peak for the adult male) and seem to have stopped aging. Stories with him as older only show the sides of his head gray and that is years into the future and he still looks the same otherwise. From what I have read/heard; his cells don't break down like humans.

[Shellhead]

Pre-Crisis, the (Golden Age) Superman of Earth-2 was depicted as having gray hair at the temples. That didn't stop him from beating the hell out of Power Girl when he turned evil in the early issues of Infinity, Inc.

EDIT: And I believe that he was only about 20 years older than the Superman of Earth-1.

[Smokey]

wasnt there a DC story where supes is alive 100,000 years from now? also i think the older he gets the more he ages, since he cant get diseases(besides that alien virus) then technically his organs or any other parts of his body would never begin to deteriorate as long as he's under a yellow sun..

[sikkbones]

maybe getriatric superman will the focus of a PSA special comic involving respect for the elderly.

[Matt]

In the DC 1 Million storyline, 'our' Superman was well and truly alive in the 83rd (or whatever it was) century.
My guess is that as long as he's powered by a yellow sun, he doesn't age since his cells wouldn't deteriorate like a normal human's would.

[Luigi]

Not according to the new Superman All-Star story.

Or if you go by Batman Beyond, he just has slow aging like Wolverine.

[Smokey]

er i meant the older he gets the less he ages , not more, my bad

so if it takes him say 10 years to age 1 year, then the next time it will take 20 or something...but probably more extreme than just 10, however he seemed to go from age 2-3 to 28 pretty much like any normal person

[stealthwise]

Isn't the most important thing whether or not his brain cells can regenerate (unlike a normal human)? If the brain can sustain itself, you can't truly die.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

In the DC 1 Million storyline, 'our' Superman was well and truly alive in the 83rd (or whatever it was) century.
My guess is that as long as he's powered by a yellow sun, he doesn't age since his cells wouldn't deteriorate like a normal human's would.

That was the 853rd century.

There is also another story, called "where is Thy Sting", in which Death (not the one from The Endless, unfortunately), comes for Superman, because he is "the only man who has the potential to live forever".

EDIT: so, as long as he's fueled by a star that's not red, Superman IS immortal.

[Smokey]

and the longer he's alive the stronger he grows, jeez imagine a superman a million years from now..he'd own everyone

[666MasterOfPuppets]

He will own everyone in only 83,200 years (Superman Prime).

[davids]

every ones death when he touched them. All he saw when he touched Clark was an image of a cape streaching out forever!

[Guts/Batman]

every ones death when he touched them. All he saw when he touched Clark was an image of a cape streaching out forever!

lol sucks to be him. I don't know if i would like to know that i would live forever instead of just finding out along the way.

Think a "young" Darkseid will show up ever?

[Smokey]

lol sucks to be him. I don't know if i would like to know that i would live forever instead of just finding out along the way.

Think a "young" Darkseid will show up ever?


i hope not

[Lightbend]

Well, it's pretty easy to establish that 'Jor-el' isn't Jor-el. It's very possible we're dealing with one of three villains.

a) It's a program, meaning it could be Brainiac.

b) There has been time distortions and dimensional travel involved, something within Darkseid's power.

c) The voice is done by Terrence Stamp, meaning this could all be an elaborate ploy to make him Kneel Before Zod.

[SuperManny]

We've all seen him be "killed" but is he otherwise immortal?

I like how Grant Morrison pretty much kept him immortal by the end of DC One Million, just like the concept and cultural icon that Superman is and should be: timeless.

As far as young Darkseid goes.....we saw one in Doomsday:Year One Annual. ;)

[Static-Pulse]

We've all seen him be "killed" but is he otherwise immortal?I just read Alan Moore's story "The Big Chill" from Wildstorm Spotlight #1 like ten minutes ago, so I'm a bit biased and far from objective here... Assuming the DCU is a universe that adheres to entropy as we know it, if Superman's cell deterioration is stemmed by yellow sun energy, then he could theoretically live until the last yellow sun went red.

[XerxesTWD]

Yeah, that Majestic story was fantastic.

Nobody writes Superman or his homages nearly as well as Alan Moore.