Clark Oppenheimer

Clark Oppenheimer is a fictional character from The Tick comics and the cartoon and video game based thereupon. He is a thinly-disguised parody and/or analogue of DC Comics character Superman. Clark was born as Ka-Ro, on the alien world of Ottercreek, which exploded shortly thereafter. His father, Ban-Al (referred to by The Tick as a "Spooky, disembodied alien head" and "Marlin Brando"), had anticipated the destruction of Ottercreek, and spirited his son away to Earth aboard a rocket which crashlanded in the farmland somewhere to the west of The City. In time, Clark moved to the north pole, where he created his Fortress of Fortitude using Ottercreek technology that his father had sent along with him in the spacecraft. Eventually, he emerged as The Caped Wonder, a superhero working as a reporter for the Weekly World Planet in The City. He has all the typical Superman powers—X-ray vision, super strength, invulnerability, flight, heat-vision, super hearing—but is vulnerable to... full article at wikipedia