#Also Last Son of Krypton is an Epithet used for the character. Guy from Rural New York isnt.

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

Anyone who says that Kal-El the last son of Krypton is a human more than a Kryptonian is wrong and misses half the tragedy of the Superman.

Kal-El isn’t human. Not really, that’s what’s tragic. Since he was a baby he has had more power than any human, but at the same time he’s had Krypton stolen from him. He’s the child of a world that doesn’t really exist anymore, he’s only left with what little was sent with him in a pod. That’s why so much of the Phantom Zone villains is so tragic for him, because they are like him, they can tell him who he is, but he’s not willing to do wrong to get that. They’re what’s left of his society and they’re the worst of it.

More than that though he speaks Kryptonese, he keeps Kryptonian practices like the Day of Truth alive, he uses the name of the Kryptonian god in his speech, he is Kryptonian, but he’s also not. His culture has been stolen from him, he can’t know the exact traditions of Krypton, he can’t know the slang and their inflections and the jokes or the puns they’d make, he can’t know what lullabies they sung to their children, he can’t know what the food they ate tasted like, because Krypton is lost.

Then there’s Kara and Kandor.

Kara, who grew up on stories of Krypton before it’s destruction, who knows the lullabies and the slang and the jokes but only in the terror of an unending abyss, only in the confines of a spec of dust hurtling through a vast and hostile environment that holds almost all of what remains of Krypton barraged by radiation and asteroids and monsters, a last desperate attempt at survival for their people as their population was slowly whittled down to nothing until she alone remained fired off in the only means of escape her home had left.

She can’t tell Kal how the fruit on Krypton tasted or how the moons looked (there was only one moon by the time she was born), she cannot remember these things from her brief childhood on Krypton before Argo was launched into space.

And Kandor. They cannot give Kal what he’s seeking. It is a city run by a mad machine, a city that has all the life and culture stolen from it and turned to what that machine feels it should be based off a textbook. A city of people trapped forever in that bubble unable to escape, unable to tell Kal of his home. Unable to see Kal as little but their savior. Kandor is like an amusement park version of an ancient culture. It has been scrubbed clean and simplified for the tourists.

Superman isn’t human, he doesn’t consider himself human, if he did you’d lose the tragedy and the point.