Clark tries to tackle the beast but is easily backhanded aside.
Superman tries to leave for the Watchtower to stop Luthor when Doomsday lands behind him. Superman subdues Ares, allowing Wonder Woman and Aquaman to bind his hands. The scene quickly switches to the mainstream DC universe with Superman battling Ares, the God of War, in the skies above Metropolis as the rest of the Justice League battle Black Adam and Sinestro while the Titans handle some of Batman's rogues at the Watchtower, with Lex Luthor revealed to be behind the madness. In response, Superman ousts Bruce's identity, seizing his assets and even sways his son, Damian, who already despised his father and agreed with Superman's methods, to his side, but not before Damian accidentally kills Dick Grayson and steals his identity as Nightwing. With the massive armies of the regime, his lover Wonder Woman's Amazons, and his best friend Lex Luthor both financing and supplying weapons and advanced technology, Kal-El is able to achieve total peace through force.Īnyone who attempts to resist is swiftly murdered, a fate that befell his world's Green Arrow and several super-villains, prompting Batman to begin an Insurgency against Kal-El's rule. In the five years in-between the events of the game, Superman virtually eliminates crime on Earth and establishes absolute power and control through his regime, the One Earth Government, taking like-minded super-heroes and villains as his generals with himself acting as High Councilor. With his eyes igniting in a fury, Superman kills the Joker by shoving his fist through his chest and ripping out Joker's heart, with the madman dying with one last smile and cackle of insanity. When the Joker mocks Superman by asking him if he'll ever find love again and muses that he might not kill his next family, this proves the final straw. Outraged and thirsty for vengeance, Superman snatches the Joker by his neck and lifts him up, shoving Batman aside with a gentle push when the Dark Knight tries to intervene. As the Man of Steel stalks toward the Clown Prince of Crime, who sits back down, further mocking the fact even if they lock him up, he will escape causing even greater destruction. When the Joker mockingly points out Metropolis' similar fate to Krypton, Superman smashes his fist against the wall near Joker's head and then throws him across the room. Superman rages over the Joker's manipulations of him before somberly lamenting the loss of Lois and their unborn son. He orders Batman aside, though when the Dark Knight tries to assure Superman he is handling this, Kal-El quickly throws the table in-between himself and the Joker aside and grabs the psychotic clown, slamming him against the room's two-way mirror.
Mirroring the comic, Superman first appears breaking down a wall of the room, so enraged his eyes burn red with heat vision.
Injustice: Gods Among Us begins with scenes of Metropolis utterly devastated by a nuclear blast, with the Joker being held in an interrogation room by Batman in Gotham. Still grieving the loss of Lois and their unborn son, Superman maintains that peace can only be achieved through subjugation-But as a new threat looms, can old enemies forge new alliances? He now rules as High Councilor of Earth, killing all who oppose him.Īfter the Regime's fall, Superman now remains a permanent resident of a prison built to contain and suppress the Man of Steel. He would usher in a golden age of superheroes, being at the forefront of it all as the founding leader of the Justice League.Ī deeply troubled dictator, Superman was drugged into killing his wife Lois, their unborn son, and all of Metropolis by the Joker. Upon discovering his powers, Clark moved to Metropolis where he would become Superman, the Man of Tomorrow. Landing on Earth in a Kansas farm, he was raised by a considerate couple under the name Clark Kent, that would help him learn righteous morals and have a good heart.
Born on the distant planet of Krypton, Kal-El was sent by his brilliant scientist father off to a populated planet upon the self-destruction of their planet.