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Superman: Fictional Superhero and Illegal Alien All Rolled Into One?

Judy Ramsook
July 2, 2006
This person was not born in any medical facility in Anytown, USA. He literally dropped from the sky and landed in a fictional small town known as Smallsville. Although he was taken in and raised by the Kents, this person would grow up to be a fictional hero, in a fictional world, but is he also something else as well. Is he a fictional illegal alien?

In today’s society, a mention of the term illegal alien can have negative connotations because of the goings on in the world as a result of such individuals. For some illegal aliens have been known to be criminals and the like, thus becoming a burden to the country which they entered illegally. For the most part though, a good quantity of these persons are just looking for a better life for themselves and their families. A life they cannot find in their own countries.

How can a person be declared an illegal alien. He or she is one who enters a country without proper documentation such as a visa, passport or a lack of a combination of both documents. In order to arrive in a country this way though, one will have to go through great lengths and risks to sneak across the country’s border, or become a stowaway on a ship, plane, cargo or other relevant form of transportation.

Clark Kent, the fictional alter ego of Superman did just that when he was placed in a ship by his biological parents and crash landed into Earth amid a meteor shower via comic book sketches.

He had no documentation which granted him permission to enter his new fictional home of Smallsville, USA. It was just him as a baby, tucked quite snugly in a ship small enough to hold that one passenger it carried; the babe from a fictional planet known as Krypton.


As that boy grew he began to be aware of super human powers and strengths no ordinary human around him possessed. It was then that this Clark Kent character realised he was different from his peers and adults, even his adoptive parents; the Kents.

Being raised in a fragile human world, Clark Kent ended up using his powers to rescue a race of people he would come to cherish.

So since he was busy saving people in distress or others from the clutches of the bad guys and no one around him, save for his adoptive parents, at first knew of his powers, life went on as usual in that fictional world of Smallsville, USA.

Since then, this fictional superhero has acquired a real fan base here in the real world. With millions of comic books being sold each year and counting, not to mention television series, and movies, this fictional illegal alien really stands out.

The ironic thing? This fictional, illegal alien, heroic character who would later come to be known as Superman ends up fighting for truth, justice and the American way, in between the pages of a series of comic books, movies, and television series.

All which take place in fictional locations known as Smallsville, or Metropolis, USA. To that, this writer says, rock on Superman/Clark Kent. Rock on!