Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 38 This Man Comes from Earth

A person's personality and character are shaped by their experiences and memories from childhood to adulthood.

All past experiences and memories together shape the human self.

Bruce Wayne's parents were shot and killed when he was young, creating Batman, Gotham City's most terrifying urban legend. His mother's accidental death when he was young led the Flash, Barry Allen, onto the path of a superhero with heavy responsibilities.

In his first encounter with [Wrath], the offspring of [Triple Demon], the death of his parents almost completely destroyed Joey's already limited social connections.

He was more lonely than most Supermen, and then the cruel reality of the world pushed him to the limits that would break the moral norms of ordinary people.

But what if all of this could be fixed?

Batman's parents wouldn't have died in that alley that night, Barry Allen's mother wouldn't have been murdered by Reverse-Flash, and Joey Joseph Kent's adoptive parents wouldn't have had to endure such a cruel and merciless fate.

Perhaps it is some tragedies that have made today's heroes, but to be honest, no one deserves to experience such tragedies.

With a flash of yellow light, Joey arrived at the time he had set. He chose the time to be ten minutes after Laurie had dragged him away to repair the tractor. There were still two hours before Raven and [Rage] would descend upon this world.

I have enough time to turn things around.

He had even considered how to avoid the time paradox as much as possible—he only needed to hide with his adoptive parents until time came to the point in time from which he had traveled.

If I had continued to believe that my parents had died a violent death, I would have made the same choices as I do now in the future. This would have avoided the grandmother paradox and would have also been consistent with the possible Novikov self-consistency principle.

Joey looked at the lush green corn stalks around him, and the newly silking corn was growing well. If it weren't for the impending arrival of visitors from hell who would destroy the entire farm, this year would undoubtedly be a bumper harvest.

"Yes, yes, that's it."

Without hesitation, he stepped forward and knocked on the door of Kent Farm. Less than a week had passed since the incident, but it felt like half a year.

At this moment, Martha Kent is probably preparing venison burgers or pumpkin pie, while Jonathan Kent is either washing his Libyan-looking Toyota pickup truck or enjoying a beer.

"Dad, Mom..."

The door was obviously unlocked. After a symbolic knock, Joey casually pushed it open. He had countless things he wanted to say to his adoptive parents, but what awaited him was an unexpected situation.

It's the dark, gaping muzzle of a shotgun, from Jonathan Kent:

"Put your hands where I can see them, and then slowly roll out of my house, Cape Man."

"What?" Joey obediently raised his hands, retreating step by step under the pressure of the double-barreled shotgun:

"It's me, your son!"

Joey's words made Jonathan Kent even angrier. This ungrateful young man not only barged into his house in a Halloween costume, but also made fun of his flaws.

He and Martha Kent had tried many times, but they were unable to have children. They had considered adoption, but the procedures were complicated, and with the world situation deteriorating and the farm's income not promising, they gradually gave up on the idea.

"We've never had any children, you little beast, get out of my house right now!"

Joey stumbled out of the house, away from the Kent family's farm, with a shotgun pointed at him.

My parents seem to have aged a lot since a few weeks ago, and most importantly, they don’t recognize me at all!

After the initial panic subsided, he finally remembered to use his super vision and super hearing to observe the situation.

Jonathan Kent's radio was broadcasting the latest current events:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds an annual memorial service to mourn those who died on Sunset.

//After Hippolyta was assassinated at the wedding ceremony of her marriage to Atlantis on Paradise Island, the atmosphere between the two great powers on Earth became increasingly tense, and war was imminent.

Gotham City's crime rate has repeatedly hit record highs.

//The first contact between aliens and Earth: A member of the Space Garrison from a distant planet, "The Greatest Green Lantern," Abin Sue, gives a public interview before leaving Earth...]

"No, no, no..."

Something's wrong. This universe isn't the universe from before my time jump.

The cosmological constants don't match at all; the speed of light alone differs by almost 0.00034%, even the Earth's own G-force is 0.12% different, and the proportion of nitrogen in the atmosphere has increased by 0.97%...

I did not travel through time, but rather across an entire world.

Joey took out his pocket watch again and pressed it gently. He wanted to reverse the operation and return to his original timeline.

hum~

Joey landed on a desert.

This time, Joey first observed the parameters of the entire universe and found that it was still not the universe he had set out from.

At the same time, a stranger's voice called out from the side: "Help! Help!"

"Get lost!"

Joey had no time to care about the life or death of the wild man that had spawned in this wild universe.

He readjusted the watch's indicator, attempting to reverse his previous action, but the watch displayed a "low power" warning.

"My Deadpool [a type of alpaca], why doesn't he charge this important thing more often!"

Only then did Joey have time to notice who was calling for help beside him.

"Oh~"

Joey saw another "familiar face".

Tony Stark is truly "Stark" now.

The development of events was not complicated. He came to the Yuezhi to inspect the market and promote weapons. Everything was as easy and effortless as a performance. He exuded domineering power, and the military bowed down and offered him a lot of orders.

There were some minor problems along the way.

That is, he was attacked by local terrorists on his way back to the airport, and they used weapons produced by Stark Industries.

He was the only one left alive in the entire group because these terrorists wanted him to live so they could manufacture weapons for them, weapons powerful enough to defeat the local U.S. military.

Tony seized the opportunity, then secretly built a suit of Iron Man armor, fought his way out and regained his freedom, until his makeshift armor broke down, and then a figure in a red cape suddenly appeared in front of him.

The terrorists hunting him could catch up at any moment, while he was trapped inside the steel suit he had created and unable to move.

Joey tore open Tony's metal armor as easily as ripping paper, and pulled Tony out: "I know you."

"That's natural." While Tony was shocked by the other's power, which seemed to defy the laws of physics, he didn't forget to boast:

"Everyone in the world knows Tony Stark."

Joey didn't reply, but quickly flew away from the scene—this person's brains and resources were enough to save him a lot of time to charge the watch.