The planet Krypton was on the brink of destruction. Jor-El, a brilliant scientist, had predicted the catastrophe, but his warnings fell on deaf ears. As the planet's core began to destabilize, Jor-El and his wife Lara prepared to send their infant son to Earth, a planet they had studied extensively.
The small spaceship carrying their son, Kal-El, shot into the sky as Krypton erupted in a blaze of fire and destruction. Jor-El and Lara watched in horror as their homeworld was consumed by the very cataclysm they had predicted.
The spaceship hurtled through space, carrying Kal-El to a new world, a world where he would grow up to become the hero known as Superman.
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