![]() ![]() The Man of Tomorrow (The Cyborg)'s shield was half-normal on the left side, but the red darkened to an almost black color on the right half. ![]() Later on, he wore a slightly altered, more curved version with an opening in the border and which was red and black instead of yellow and red. ![]() The Last Son of Krypton (The Eradicator) wore a normal shield when he attempted to continue Superman's career.In the 2013 film Man of Steel, when asked by Lois Lane what the 'S' stands for, Superman states that it is not an 'S', but rather the Kryptonian symbol for 'hope'.ĭuring the Reign of the Supermen story arc, Each of the four different Supermen was represented by a variant of the symbol, which each wore on their person. Later, writer Geoff Johns confirmed it was indeed a coat of arms, as well as a symbol for hope. In 2004, Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright series says the S-Shield is the Kryptonian symbol for 'hope' and Superman believes it may have begun as a coat of arms for the House of El. This was also included in the 1997 Superman encyclopedia. The symbol was featured on a medicine blanket given to an ancestor of the Kent family by a Native American tribe after he helped to cure them of a plague and was supposed to represent a snake, an animal held to possess healing powers by the tribe (implying that, by wearing this symbol, Superman was a metaphorical healer). After the Superman reboot story The Man of Steel, the symbol's story was that it was designed by Jonathan Kent and was derived from an ancient Native American symbol. One of the first alternative meanings was presented in Superman: The Movie, in which it was not an S, but rather the S-shaped Coat of arms of the House of El as it was Brando's idea to have Jor-El wear the 'S' as a family crest, folklore spun off from there. Initially, the S-shield had one meaning: S for Superman. ![]()
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