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Fortress of Solitude

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NotesEdit

• The Earth-One Fortress of Solitude was located at the North Pole, and the Fortress as seen in the films Superman: The Movie and Superman II are likewise located at the North Pole. In Post-Crisis continuity, both the first and third fortresses have been located in Antarctica.

• The concept of the Fortress of Solitude was originally developed by pulp novelist, Lester Dent, for his action hero, Doc Savage. Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster drew a lot of inspiration from Doc Savage, including the character's first name, Clark.

• The Earth-Two Superman maintained his own private fort, but this was referred to as the Secret Sanctuary and was not located in the Arctic.

• Batman is one of the few individuals who has successfully broken into the Fortress of Solitude.

• The giant arrow-shaped key as well as the large door opening into the Fotress were constructed from a special metal alloy known as Supermanium.

• It will be one of the fight arenas in Mortal Kombat vs. DC video game.

Alternate versions of the Fortress of SolitudeEdit

• The perfect/imperfect Superman duplicate known as Bizarro once maintained his own private sanctuary on his home world of Htrae. This building was known as the Fourtriss uv Bizarro and was located in the middle of an arid desert.

• In the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated series, Super Friends, Superman occasionally visited the Fortress of Solitude. Although it differed greatly from the version seen in the comics, it bore several similarities to the original Fortress featured in the comic books.

• In the 1978 Warner Brothers movie, Superman, Kal-El maintained a different version of the Fortress of Solitude. This version of the Fortress was not built inside the interior of a mountain range, but existed as an independent edifice built atop a flat, icy expanse. The Fortress was constructed of a crystalline alien mineral native to the late world of Krypton. Unlike the Fortress from the comic books, the movie Fortress was sparse and barren with no advanced equipment or trophy rooms.

• In the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman television series, young Clark Kent built a treehouse in his home town of Smallville, which he referred to as his Fortress of Solitude.

• In the Superman animated television series, Kal-El operated out of a Fortress of Solitude similar to that of the Earth-One Fortress.

• In the WB television series, Smallville, a teenage Clark Kent makes use of a Fortress crafted in the likeness of the one seen in the original 1978 movie. He also once described his private loft at the Kent farm as his "Fortress of Solitude".