<P> In the mid-1990s, when Superman's costume and powers changed briefly, during the "Superman Red / Superman Blue" comic book storylines, the shield changed colors and slightly changed shape, in accordance with the changes in the costume . In 1997's Superman Vol 2 #123 Superman's new powers forced him to find a suit that was capable of containing his new abilities . The effective material found to create Superman's suit, along with being blue and silver, was also courtesy of Lex Luthor . Not only did the colors and powers change, the logo also evolved into a re-imagined "electric" emblem . In the miniseries Kingdom Come, an aged Superman sported an S - like symbol against a black background in a red pentagon . </P> <P> In the 2000s TV series Smallville, the S symbol originally appeared as a diamond with a vertical infinity symbol (to be similar to the S), in an attempt to make it seem more alien . However, beginning with the Season Six opening episode "Zod," Clark is given a crystal bearing the S logo in the style of the Superman Returns logo and is seen several times throughout the series and specifically in the season finale when a beam shaped like the logo hits a Phantom Zone escapee . The logo also appeared in the first episode of the series, when the students captured Clark by giving him a kryptonite necklace (which they didn't know was a weakness) and tied him to a cross-like beam in a cornfield and painted a red' S' on Clark's chest (standing for Scarecrow, which was what he was meant to be as part of a high school hazing tradition) as a reference . </P> <P> Initially, the S - shield had one meaning: S for Superman . One of the first alternative meanings was presented in Superman: The Movie, in which it was not an S, but rather the S - shaped Coat of arms of the House of El as it was Brando's idea to have Jor - El wear the "S" as a family crest, folklore spun off from there . After the Superman reboot story The Man of Steel, the symbol's story was that it was designed by Jonathan Kent and was derived from an ancient Native American symbol . The symbol was featured on a medicine blanket given to an ancestor of the Kent family by a Native American tribe after he helped to cure them of a plague and was supposed to represent a snake, an animal held to possess healing powers by the tribe (implying that, by wearing this symbol, Superman was a metaphorical healer). This was also included in the 1997 Superman encyclopedia . In 2004, Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright series says the S - Shield is the Kryptonian symbol for "hope" and Superman believes it may have begun as a coat of arms for the House of El . Later, writer Geoff Johns confirmed it was indeed a coat of arms, as well as a symbol for hope . In the 2013 film Man of Steel, when asked by Lois Lane what the "S" stands for, Superman states that it is not an "S", but rather the Kryptonian symbol for "hope". </P> <P> In Supergirl (TV series, 2015) Season 1, episode 2 Kara states that the Kryptonian symbol stands for her family's motto, "Stronger together ." </P>

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