Superman: Earth’s Man of Tomorrow Movie

Superman: Earth's Man of Tomorrow is a 2013 American superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Rebirth Fanon-Verse. The film follows the early days of Clark Kent's career as the superhero Superman in Year One.

### The Last Son of Krypton

The planet Krypton is destabilized from the mining of the planetary core. Just before the planet explodes, Krypton's supreme council chief advisor Jor-El infuses the genetics codex into his infant son, Kal-El, the first naturally born Kryptonian child in centuries. Jor-El manages to send Kal-El in a spacecraft toward Earth before being killed by General Zod during an uprising.

### Clark Kent

Kal-El lands in Kansas, where he is adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent and named Clark. As he grows older, he develops superhuman powers that Jonathan urges him to keep hidden. Martha gifts Clark a new suit with an "S" imprinted at the front and a cape when he is ready to be a hero.

### Superman

Becoming a reporter at the *Daily Planet* in Metropolis, Clark meets and develops a romantic attraction to coworker Lois Lane. Lois is involved in a helicopter mishap. Clark publicly uses his powers for the first time to save her, astonishing the crowd gathered below. He then thwarts a jewel thief attempting to scale the Solow Building, captures robbers fleeing police and depositing their getaway cabin cruiser on Wall Street, rescues a girl's cat from a tree, and saves Air Force One after a lightning strike destroys an engine. The "caped wonder" is an instant celebrity. Daily Planet boss Perry White wants the newspaper to find out more information about him. Superman visits Lois at her penthouse apartment the next night for an interview and takes her for a flight; Lois subsequently writes an article naming him "Superman".

### The Rocket

Clark attends the launch of an orbital rocket telescope that was made by LexCorp in hopes to seek other life in the universe, however, reporter Lois Lane exposes LexCorp CEO Lex Luthor of the rocket's true plan that would destroy Metropolis and gross neglegiance leading to his arrest. Meanwhile, Clark befriends S.T.A.R. Labs janitor Rudy Jones, who informs Clark about extraterrestrial experiments going on inside the lab. Suddenly, the rocket heads to Metropolis and Clark stops the rocket as Superman. Unbeknownst to Clark, he is being watched by a mysterious figure in a trench coat.

### The First Encounter With Lobo

S.T.A.R. Labs detect a UFO grabbing the attention of Clark, who is confronted by an alien bounty hunter named Lobo and learns he is the last of his kind with a bounty on him. During the fight, which is lead to S.T.A.R. Labs, Rudy is caught in the crossfire of the damage being fused with unknown substances while Lobo learns Clark's weakness is Kryptonite. Just as Clark is being beatened by Lobo, the figure appears, revealing himself as a Martian to the public and intervenes. While the Martian distracts Lobo, Clark uses Earth's sun to heal and ultimately defeat Lobo.

### The Martian

That night, the Martian introduces himself as J'onn J'onzz to the Kents and reveals Clark's Kryptonian history to him. He then warns Clark to not stay hidden from humanity as they can be Xenophobic despite Clark's disagreenments.

### The Hospital

At the hospital, Rudy awakens and discovers he has the ability to drain life, turning them into husks.

### Stopping Toyman

Clark faces Winslow Percival Schott, a criminal who uses toy-based or toy-themed devices and gimmicks in his various crimes, who goes by Toyman, who attacks Metropolis but Superman defeated him and took him to prison.

### The First Encounter With The Parasite

Rudy attacks S.T.A.R. Labs in an attempt to gain answers from Lobo but frees him in the process after draining his cell's energy which transforms Rudy into a parasite-like creature and begins invading Metropolis. Superman and J'onn work together to stop Rudy. However, during the battle, Rudy is draining their powers while extracting information from them. The battle results in J'onn's death after being burnt by Rudy.

### Lex Luthor

A powerless Superman requests help from Lex from prison to help him restore his abilities by sending him to the sun. Through S.T.A.R. Labs CCTV footage, Superman realises Rudy is the Parasite due to Lobo's grenade which was an organic EMP. The organic EMP consisted of a purple foam/liquid and was designed to absorb any and all energy it came into contact with, but instead bonded with Rudy's DNA to create the Parasite. Lex deduces that the Parasite would have gained Superman's weaknesses from absorbing his energy, and reveals that he has enlisted Lobo after buying out S.T.A.R. Labs.

### The Final Fight With The Parasite

Lex, Clark, and Lobo devise a plan to lure the Parasite into Metropolis' power plan and use Lobo's Kryptonite ring in hopes to weaken it. The plan becomes unsuccessful when the ring fails prompting Lobo to suicide-bomb the Parasite. Lex equips the ring with a magnifying pulse rifle and shoots the Parasite, ultimately taking it down. Lex then double-crosses Superman but is stopped by an alive J'onn, who faked his death using his abilities. With the plan failed, Superman tries to calm the Parasite down by using his humanity and in turn, Superman formally introduces himself to the world as Kal-El. Suddenly, the power plant begins to overload. Superman stopped the plant with freeze breath but Parasite attacks him, Superman defeated Parasite.

### Earth's Man of Tomorrow

In the aftermath, Superman and J'onn meet at the roof of *The Daily Planet* where they also see Lobo alive due to his regeneration. J'onn laments that they are each the last of their species but Lobo reveals there might be more Martians and Kryptonians out there with J'onn heading off to find them. Clark visits Lois at her house and said, "Do you want an interview with Superman? You got him!" Clark said and fly off from the floor with Lois shocked and smiled and they share a kiss before Superman flying into the sunrise.

### The Post Credit Scene

In the post credit scene, Luthor was in prison but was bailed up by his assistant, Mercy Graves and Luthor told her about a plan to take down Superman for good.

## Cast

* Henry Cavill as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman
* Dylan Sprayberry as Young Clark Kent
* Amy Adams as Lois Lane
* Bryan Cranston as Lex Luthor
* Christian Bale as Rudy Jones/Parasite
* Jason Momoa as Lobo
* Harry Lennix as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter
* Diane Lane as Martha Kent
* Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent
* Andrew Scott as Winslow Percival Schott / Toyman
* Michael Shannon as General Dru-Zod
* Aya Cash as Sub-commander Faora-Ul
* Paul Wight as Nam-Ek
* Russell Crowe as Jor-El
* Laurence Fishburne as Perry White
* Tao Okamoto as Mercy Graves
* Whitney Peak as Jenny Jurwick
* Jack Quaid as Jimmy Olsen
* Richard Cetrone as Tor-An
* Mackenzie Gray as Jax-Ur
* Julian Richings as Lor-Em
* Mary Black as Ro-Zar
* Samantha Jo as Car-Vex
* Regina Hall as Tawny Young
* Sibi Blazic as Maya Jones