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The Latest Superman shield from the
new Man of Steel movie. According to the movie, this is a Kryptonian
symbol for hope. Lois Lane of course picks up on the fact it looks like
an S.
There have been some
different explanations for what the S symbol means. Initially, the
S-shield had one meaning: S for Superman. 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. 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. 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). 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. Later, writer Geoff Johns confirmed it was
indeed a coat of arms, as well as a symbol for hope which brings us back
to the 2013 film Man of Steel, where 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".
Marv Wolfman's novelization of the film Superman Returns depicts the
symbol as belonging to one of the three primary houses of Krypton that
brought peace to the planet after a civil uprising, a serpent coiled
inside a shield, a warning not to return to the ways of violence and
deception. The shield has since been taken as a coat of arms, resulting
in Jor-El's continued presence in the council despite his "mad"
findings. The other two are merely described, including Pol-Us' eye of
vigilance and Kol-Ar's open hand of truth and justice.
In almost all
versions, Superman's red cape has an all-yellow version of the logo,
with a thin black (in the comics) or red (in movies, matching the red
color of the cape) line separating the areas. A notable exception is in
the 2006 film Superman Returns, where there was no logo on the cape at
all, having suddenly appeared on the belt buckle in reverse colors
(yellow pentagon and S with red background pieces). The logo is also
absent from Superman's cape in the 2013 film Man of Steel. The commonly
cited reason for the symbol's absence in the movies was that because the
cape was computer generated for most scenes, having the yellow symbol on
the cape would have made computer animation too complicated. In the 2011
reboot of the comic book series, on his cape is a black pentagon and S
with red background pieces.
Here's the classic
look of Superman's shield found on the majority of Superman t-shirts.
The most popular Superman t-shirts
are ones that have the S-shield symbol which are more popular than
Superman's image himself.
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