DavidCW

October 5, 2010 4:28 pm

So, sorry this is so long, but this was how I kept myself entertained at work today. 

Here is my Superman movie. Zod is behind a plan to take over Krypton. He uses Brainiac to complete some plan, and as a result Brainiac does something that causes the destruction of Krypton. Film one would deal with the destruction of Krypton, than skip straight to Superman already being established as a hero. Up until this point Superman is touted as Earths greatest hero, and is introduced in a battle with Metallo. He defeats Metallo and we find out that Luthor was behind Metallos creation. Luthor should be a business man, not a criminal on the run. After Metallos defeat Luthor tries to find another way to defeat Superman, and finds out a way to open the Phantom Zone to release Zod, OR perhaps to change things up a bit, we find out Zod escaped Krypton and pursued Kal El believing it to be Jor El. He follows him through a worm hole, and on the other side, though its minutes for him, he finds out years have passed and Kal El is the sole survivor. With him he brings a copy of the Brainiac program. He confronts Superman and is defeated, still not to full strength, and is approached by Lex Luthor who teams up with him. Luthors vast network provides Zod with the perfect avenue to download Brainiac into the system, thus providing him with total access to any global system he needs, including weapons etc. With Brainiac in the system Zod can now find a way to use Earth technology to open up the Phantom Zone and release his generals. Luthor, of course, hopes to kill Zod once Superman is dead and he has global control, but Brainiac, now that hes in the system, downloads all of Earths information, and decides Earth needs to be destroyed as well. At this point Zod is now stronger and knowing the control he has with Brainiac in the system he demands submission from Earths leaders. Superman confronts him and that is when Zod reveals his plan and launches a nuclear attack. As Superman tries to stop the nuke from reaching his targer he battles Zod, eventually beating him again, stopping the nuke in the nick of time, throwing it into space, only to be caught in the blasts shockwave, sending him plummeting to Earth. Zod believes him to be dead and moves forward with his plan only to find that Brainiac has turned against him and intends to destroy Earth and not release Zods people from the Phantom Zone. Zod has a kill switch for Brainiacs programming and threatens to deactivate Brainiac. Brainiac concedes and opens the Phantom Zone. Moments later Superman appears, battered and weakened from the explosion, moments too late to stop the Phantom Zone from being opened. He tries to stop it but in his weakened state, and with Zod increasing in strength, he gets his ass kicked. The battle explodes into the city and the two supermen attack each other, destroying much property in the meantime. Superman is on the verge of collapse, but in typical Rocky fashion, he finds a reserve of strength and subdues Zod, only to be attacked from behind by Zods people, now escaped from the Phantom Zone. Superman is beaten and almost killed, but Lex shows up and stops them, comparing his hatred of Superman to Zods hatred of Jor El in order to get the privelege of dealing the death blow. Lex takes Superman hostage and puts him in a room with red sun lighting and starts performing experiments on him, and torturing him. Lois eventually shows up and breaks Superman out. After a moment to recover and gain back his strength Superman realizes defeating Zod, his people, Brainiac and Luthor wont be possible with brute strength and comes up with a plan to defeat them. In the end Zod and Co are sent into the Phantom Zone, Brainiac is shut down, and Luthor manages to avoid blame.

 Without going into more detail, in future movies we find out that Luthors experiments on Superman go a long way and future movies can deal with the return of Brainiac in physical form (perhaps a bond between him and Luthor is created and Brainiac survives complete deletion), the creation of Bizarro, the creation of Parasite etc. By the 3rd movie Luthor may find a way to turn public opinion against Superman, citing the supervillains that have showed up tied to Supermans Kryptonian heritage. In part 2 it would be revealed that when Kal El was first sent to Earth his ships energy signatures caught the attention of Apokalyps (or however you spell it) who have been searching for Earth for some reason, but have been barred from open search due to a treaty with the New Gods. Perhaps a weapon exists on Earth that would help Darkseid defeat the New Gods or something. The Phantom Zone technology works on the same principles as Boom tube technology and when Zod was sent into the Phantom Zone this finally allowed Darkseid to pinpoint the existence of Earth. In part 2 we find out that Luthor has been using Kryptonion technology, combined with tech gained from Inter Gang to create a body for Brainiac, or perhaps a suit for himself if Brainiac exists in Luthors mind. This would set up the massive battle in part 3 where Darkseid reveals himself to Earth and Superman must stop him. Confronted with Earths greatest threat Superman defeats Darkseid and proves himself as Earths greatest hero. Alternately, all of the Apokalips stuff may be set up in the Superman movies, and that is what a Justice League movie can be about.

Obviously I borrowed ideas from the animated series, but in my mind TAS was my favorite version of Superman and there are soooooo many great ideas that would work perfect for a movie trilogy.

September 21, 2010 12:00 pm Does anybody have a recommendation for this book?

September 1, 2010 12:59 am Just caught up with Haunt and the art by Ottley and Capullo is stellar. The story started off iffy, but I trust Kirkman and think this may end up being another title not to wait too long to jump on to.

August 31, 2010 1:13 pm Fables fan here...worth it to check out Jack?

August 31, 2010 2:35 am Rocket Red? *snort*

August 10, 2010 7:10 pm Mexican Batman? Hee hee. Im there.

August 10, 2010 7:03 pm Any love for the Ultimate Universe? Ultimate Spiderman continues to be great, Ultimate X is an interesting spin, and Ultimate Mystery also has been good.

July 14, 2010 3:19 pm Barbara and Stephanie are an interesting comparison to the Bruce/Terry relationship of Batman Beyond.

July 14, 2010 3:18 pm Ive dropped Red Robin and Im sticking with this. 

July 9, 2010 12:45 pm @sturlach I cant agree more. Morrisons Batman is now as definitive to me as Millers or the animated series. He has created a new reality for Batman to live in and Im loving it! Im desperate to go back and read from the beginning now (I started late on this).