Superman (2025)(2025)
Submitted by Jeremy
Superman (David Corenswet) has been around for three years, and while he has won the hearts of the people of Metropolis, evil billionaire Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) has plans to combat the Man of Steel. Due to Superman’s involvement in a conflict between the neighboring nations of Boravia and Jarhanpur, Luthor has brought out a villain called “The Hammer of Boravia” to fight Superman and beat him. Luthor and his henchwoman The Engineer also uncover Superman’s Fortress of Solitude and expose a translated message to the world where Superman’s birth parents, Jor-El and Lara, have ordered him to conquer the Earth and its people. This causes public opinion to turn against Superman.
Three other metahumans – Guy Gardner/Green Lantern, Mr. Terrific, and Hawkgirl – take over the superheroics while Superman turns himself in to the U.S. government. Luthor places him in a pocket dimension prison alongside another metahuman, Metamorpho. After Superman convinces Metamorpho that he is who he says he is (someone who will do the right thing, no matter what), he helps free Superman, along with his own son and Krypto The Superdog. Superman is helped by Mr. Terrific, along with Superman’s reporter girlfriend Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), in escaping and recovering at his childhood home in Smallville.
Luthor’s girlfriend Eve (Sara Sampaio), who was hooking up with Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo), exposes him by sending Jimmy files that prove Luthor was working with Boravian President Vasil Ghurkos to take over Jarhanpur and create his own monarchy. Lois, Jimmy, and their colleagues set out to expose Luthor, while Superman has to deal with both a rift opening across Metropolis as a result of Luthor opening the pocket dimension too many times, as well as another invasion of Jarhanpur. Superman battles The Engineer and the Hammer, the latter revealed to be a clone of Superman known as Ultraman who is being controlled by Luthor. Superman defeats The Engineer and has Ultraman sucked into a black hole, while Guy, Metamorpho, and Hawkgirl save the people of Jarhanpur, and Hawkgirl throws Ghurkos to his death. Mr. Terrific closes the rift using Luthor’s computer system, while the billionaire’s scheme is revealed, and he is also on the receiving end of a beatdown from Krypto before he is arrested.
Superman is once again seen as a hero, and he rekindles his relationship with Lois. He goes to recharge at the Fortress of Solitude, where he watches memories of himself with his adoptive parents, Ma and Pa Kent.