Kelex Kelex Kelex is a fictional robot appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Superman. Kelex first appeared in "The Man of Steel" #1 and was created by John Byrne. He first appeared in "The Man of Steel" #1, in which he was one of Jor-El's Kryptonian Service Robot on the planet Krypton. Presumed destroyed along with Jor-El and the rest of Krypton, Kelex has nonetheless returned as Superman's primary robotic servant within the Fortress of Solitude where he works as its property caretaker. When Kelex first appeared in 'The Man of Steel',
Superhero fiction Gail Simone has coined the term "Women in Refrigerators" (named after an incident in "Green Lantern" #54 where Kyle Rayner's girlfriend Alex DeWitt is murdered by the supervillain Major Force and stuffed into Rayner's refrigerator) to refer to this practice. Many works of superhero fiction occur in a shared fictional universe, sometimes (as in the cases of the DC and Marvel Universes) establishing a fictional continuity of thousands of works spread over many decades. Changes to continuity are also common, ranging from small changes to established continuity, commonly called retcons, to full reboots, erasing all previous continuity. It is also