His loss, grief and pain overwhelmed him, causing him to forget his initial hardline, wholesome values and ethics, turning him corrupt and cruel.įrom that day forward, Superman decided that criminals would be better off dead, as demonstrated by having brutally killed the Joker in a blind rage, which was the first action that led him down the path into a cynical, brutal, hate-filled tyrant. As a person who had never experienced loss or fear, Superman was too ill-prepared to deal with the aftermath of his wife and unborn child's death. Worse, the Clown Prince of Crime also tricked him into destroying his home city, Metropolis. Lois Lane's death shook Superman greatly the once pure Man of Steel was heartbroken, having been manipulated by the Joker into killing the woman he loved and his unborn child. In the animated film, he is voiced by Justin Hartley. He was voiced by George Newbern, who also played previous Superman incarnations and Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII.
He is the former best friend of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the arch-nemesis of both the Joker and Darkseid. Over the years, he steadily became more and more brutal and fascistic, eventually becoming little more than an insane and unforgiving tyrant. After killing the Joker, Superman set out to create a new world order without crimes or atrocities. Once pure and noble, Superman was driven into villainy by the Joker, who tricked him into murdering his pregnant wife, Lois, as well as destroying all of Metropolis with a nuclear device. He is a twisted alternate version of the heroic main-universe Superman.
He is also the main antagonist of the 2021 Injustice animated film.
#SUPERMAN KILLS SHAZAM SERIES#
He is the main antagonist of the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game and comic series, the deuteragonist and central antagonist of Injustice 2 and a minor character in the comic series of the same name.
Well, since this was the final page cliffhanger of Batman/Superman #2, we’ll have to wait until next issue to find out.Kal-El, also known as Clark Kent and more commonly known as Superman, is the main antagonist of the Injustice franchise. Meet the Superman Who Laughs, aka, Superman going undercover as an ally of the Batman Who Laughs.īut are Batman and Superman just playing further into the BWL’s mind games? After all, he’s functionally the same person as Batman, with the same instincts. Joshua Williamson, David Marquez/DC Comics But if the BWL is expecting Shazam to have corrupted Superman, maybe the two heroes can have a man on the inside after all. They can’t mobilize the Justice League - because if the BWL already got to Billy Batson, he could have gotten to any of their other allies as well. Shazam fight, with our uncorrupted heroes just managing to escape with their lives. In this week’s Batman/Superman #2, we saw the ensuing Batman and Superman vs. The final pages of Batman/Superman #1 reveal that one superhero has already been corrupted: Shazam, one of the only DC superheroes who can take a punch from Superman and give that punch right back. It’s the same neurotoxin that created the Batman Who Laughs in his home dimension. So, even from his incredibly high-tech prison, the BWL has been able to kick off his plan to corrupt six heroes in the main DC Universe with specially crafted batarangs coated in a neurotoxin that destroys the victim’s moral compass. This time around, BWL seems to be going by the maxim “First Gotham City, and then the world - but if taking over Gotham City in The Batman Who Laughs doesn’t work, then just go for the world anyway.” Last we saw, BWL got his butt roundly kicked by Batman in his very own eponymous miniseries, The Batman Who Laughs. This is all playing out in DC’s new Batman/Superman series, from Joshua Williamson and David Marquez, a traditional team up title for, you guessed it, Batman and Superman. And this week we got to see what it looks like when one of the biggest and brightest DC superheroes corrupted by his influence. Just when we thought the Batman Who Laughs - that alternate reality hybrid of Batman and the Joker - had finally been put away for good, he’s got another plan for world domination.
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