Krypton blows up, but an orphan makes it to earth. Most Sci-Fi authors are atheists, or at least diagnostics, who like the Catholic tradition of science and basically nothing else except the outfits. The red ones are like the highest grade of Stormtrooper, the ninja ones. In Western literary tradition, going way back, the main character messes up, then he suffers until he is finished suffering and then the book ends or the play