Superman | The Doomsday Scenario

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*kraang!*

I want to see a world without Superman, and for five episodes in the second season, such a world exists. A continuing motif in the first season will be a mysterious creature punching a metal wall. Only its fist will be seen that season. Nobody knows where he came from. Nobody knows what it is. Nobody knows WHY it is.

The middle of the second season will see the creature's release. It is a creature of hatred, power, and savagery. He will be Superman's greatest challenge. Allies and enemies will take on the creature, but in the end, he will fight the Man of Steel. Neither will walk away from the battle. The arrival of the Doomsday creature and death of Superman are a turning point in the series. Their deaths were a key for a benevolent being to plan an invasion. The remains of the body is being kept under the direction of Lex Luthor, who promised it to his Intergang partner, the mysterious Boss Dark Side, who takes the carcass to his real dominion, revealing more about the big boss than anyone realizes.

As for Superman's death, it's a game-changer. Emotions will run from anger to confusion to sadness to opportunistic. Those that mocked him on as regular basis are stunned and realizing what they have lost. Those that admired him now live to honor his memory. His loved ones mourn quietly, especially his mother, his childhood best friend, and the woman he loved.

For Intergang, it's a mixed blessing. Some are more celebratory that the bane of their existence is dead and they're free to rule the streets of Metropolis. Some are a little somber, angry that the world's most noble hero was defeated by a mere, lowly creature that's beneath them all.

For Lex Luthor, the opportunity has arisen for him to unveil a "reincarnated" Superman clone that will take the place of the original. This clone will be flawed and become a "bizarro" character that will prove himself as a twisted hero. Luthor utilized a female DNA pattern similar to Superman's, the heroine Matrix, to create a genetic pattern. The clone breaks down because the process used to create it is flawed (he wanted to make a full-sized adult clone, rushing the genome and genetic materials, and making them unstable). He felt the clone was a vast improvement over his last clone, which was the doomsday creature itself.

The resurrection will also introduce viewers to the Fortress of Solitude, an Arctic underground locale that houses numerous Kryptonian artifacts, including the Eradicator, a device whose sole purpose is to protect the last of the Kryptonian bloodlines from eradication. It kidnaps the body of Superman, purifing it with a bombardment of solar radiation and a mental torture that rewires his brainwaves.

The Death of Superman isn't the end of the series. In a way, it's a beginning of a more adventurous chapter in the life of the Man of Steel.

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