Kal-Il (New Earth-Three)

Born Bad
Kal-Il was born to Kryptonian scientist Jor-Il and his wife Lara-Il on the planet Krypton. Kal-Il's parets saw little in Kal-Il even as a baby and often ignored him. This changed however after his father made a deal with an alien being to destroy Krypton.

The alien would betray Jor-Il however and leave him stranded on the doomed planet. Jor-Il knowing there is no way to get off the planet himself decides to use a small test space pod to send his son to another planet. Jor-Il did not do this out of compassion however, but for a chance of revenge against the alien who betrayed him. Jor-Il and Lara would send Kal-Il's pod out of Krypton's orbit, but not before saying that he most likely will die before he makes it to a world anyways but he know it was a chance and how he does not care about anything other then revenge. This was Jor-Il's last words before the planet explodes.

Against Jor-Il's prediction, Kal-Il's pod manages to reach the planet Earth, where it lands in Smallville, Kansas. It ends up landing on the Johnny and Martha Kent's farm, where the couple grew pot among other things. Shortly after the pod lands the couple investigate the pot field afraid that someone is snooping around. The two find the pod and begin to panic and are tempted to kill the baby and sell the ship to the government, but as they says this Kal-Il eats a Kryptonite chunk that was lodged into the side of his pod. Upon doing this he grows stronger and develops super powers and then attacks the Kent's and orders them to pretend to be his parents or die.

He would later kill the Kent's after they tried to escape the farm when Kal-Il was 8, but by then he had killed everyone in Smallville and turned the now ghost town into his own private base.