Tyler Hoechlin has played five different versions of Superman, and each has own different origins and personality. Superman & Lois' season 2 finale came with a major revelation that the show does not actually take place on the Arrowverse's Earth-Prime. This news has drawn a wide range of reactions from both Superman and Arrowverse audiences, some disappointed that the show was cutting itself off from the Arrowverse and others surprised that it took Superman & Lois so long to break that news with how loose, at best, its Arrowverse connections had already been.
By declaring itself separate from the Arrowverse, Superman & Lois also, by extension, confirmed that the Man of Steel Tyler Hoechlin portrays on the show is a different one from the Superman he'd played in his Arrowverse appearances on Supergirl and the Crisis On Infinite Earths CW event. With Crisis rendering DC reboots meaningless and ushering in the multiverse era of co-existing parallel movie and TV continuities, Hoechlin playing two different Supermen is not a problem. However, Hoechlin's Superman tenure is even more extensive than that.
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With the different stories of parallel Earths he's been involved in on the CW, Hoechlin has set a Superman record with the five Men of Steel he has played. While Superman & Lois is where he has primarily donned Kal-El's red cape, Hoechlin's other versions of the Last Son of Krypton have each been equally important characters in his performance as Superman. Here are the five different versions of Superman that Tyler Hoechlin has played.
Tyler Hoechlin debuted as the Man of Steel as a recurring character on Supergirl, with Hoechlin also being one of
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