[ EU ] Superman was born with a twin brother . Their father did n't plan for two children and had built a ship to carry only one child away from doomed Krypton . Running out of time , he monologues to the two boys as he tries to decide which son to send away and save and which son keep and sacrifice .

The world was yours to have my sons. I dreamed of the days in which you would play in the fields of krypton and bask in the glory that is our world. Look to that ridge there. My father took me there to learn of the wonders of krypton's fauna, and where I began my interest in science. The building over there is where first met your mother and held a thousand tales that I can now never tell. 
 
 Now here we stand at the precipice of Krypton's doom, and now I have to decide which of you gets to live, and the other to stay... The day you were both born, I had never knew such happiness. Van, your cry was loud and boomed so that the very foundation shook beneath my feet. Kal, yours was a timid sound that had to press you to my shoulder to hear. 
 
 This craft I made was designed to hold one, and Kal you shall be the one to ride. Van, you shall lend me my final strength to send your brother off. He is weak, he is timid, and he shall be persecuted wherever he shall go. Kal, I send you because you shall value the inner strength you hold. May the Earthlings teach you to be humble, may they remind you to be a greater man than they. Van I hold you because you hold our hope. If we survive, you may be a last of a great race and can find the strength to move. 
 I love you both my sons and may krypton forever guide you. 
 
 Now that Kal is gone Van, may I have the strength to 
 

