>>> Jor El was his Superman’s real pop, right? I get all that confused. There was Mon El and Kal El too
Don’t forget Lion El. He invented miniature locomotives on Krypton.
>>> When I first saw the movie, I thought they were getting a bit too dramatic having the emperor fight in the colosseum,
Before Gladiator, I learned of this Emperor in the film Fall of the Roman Empire. I made a point of acquiring a couple of the less expensive examples of his coinage as conversation pieces.
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/ancientresource/store/searchitem.asp
His cousin, Bag-el opened up a nice successful breakfast joint across town but nobody dares mention his sister, Broth-el, a successful entrepreneur in her own right.