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@@swellymig9ooo979 true but thats in the comics...in real life is not that easy...look all the murders...rapists...just think about all the deep web stuff...im pretty sure people that are into that stuff were good guys at the begining
It’s kind of poetic in a sense, no matter which genuine version of Superman may be evil, he’s always able to redeem himself, he’s always perpetually good, or at least well intentioned.
@@fidelgarcia2224 but in most versions of the story he learns that from the Kents, he didn't understand the concept of good and evil when he left Krypton as he was to young. So there wasn't anything to "wash".
@@user-nz2vk9rq6y you’re NOT wrong. In gov we learned that parents political party is I think the strongest predictor of your political party and to me that checks out as low exposure brain washing lmao
I wanna see him throw down with a big bad like mongul or darkseid, I love you Wha? I LOVE YOU *RIGHT CROSS TO THE CHIN* I LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH *Drops a peoples elbow* Ah, the possibilities
How did Superman Prime not make this list? Murdered Teen Titans, Beat Earth 1 Superman to death (Pushing Kal-L and Kal-EL to the limit as a boy still), killed Green/Yellow Lanterns, took out the anti monitor, became the Time Trapper, exposed Sodam Yat to Lead, lets say his resume is nothing to sneeze at. He also just had a one-shot and The Batman who laughs didn't even want him around"
I mean to be fair injustice Superman was aready heading down a slippery slope in injustice year zero “I think I have bones broken that not even Batman has dared to break”-joker after getting the shit beaten out of him by Superman after he killed a lot of heroes
Injustice Superman also gets a yellow ring. He is exposed as a villain when he is caught live on camera killing heroes. This backfired though because it made the entire planet fear him and basically made him the strongest lantern.
That was just bad writing. Ganthet's attack had no effect on Superman, he easily took down a guardian and throw Mogo with Ganthet into the sun. He can't do that not even with all the fear on Earth.
@@alpborakirte801 exactly, in the main dc universe, when the guardians unleash their full power, it's equivalent to that of the big bang. How can you beat an entity that powerful by simply tossing them into the sun!?
@@alpborakirte801 He can do that even without a ring, you idiot. Injustice is one of the comics where people see the true potential of Superman's power. Be it Ganthet or Darkseid, all will fall if the Son of Krypton unleashes his full power.
I feel like I should remind you that there was an actual comic book story arc where KFC’s founder (Harland Sanders) travelled the multiverse to recruit his counterparts in order to defeat his evil doppelgänger.
Read dark Knights metal, or if nothing else the one shots of the origins of all the evil Batman versions of the justice league. Red death replaces the flash, murder machine replaces cyborg, the drowned replaces aquaman, the merciless replaces Wonder Woman, the dawnbreaker replaces green lantern, devastator replaces Superman and the Batman who laughs replaces Batman. They’re all led by barbatos or something. The actual storyline honestly was too much for me to follow, I didn’t really understand the whole thing but I was younger and read less comics than I have now, so I’ll give it another shot and hopefully make more sense of it but it’s still really good. The origins of all the evil Batman versions are so freaking, well, metal.
And these are just the actual canon versions. There's plenty of examples beyond DC, like Homelander (The Boys), Omni-Man (Invincible), The Plutonian (Irredeemable), and the kid from Brightburn.
Plus the only version of evil superman from the Dark multi verse they used was one killed by doomsday batman. There are others as well although I don't know if any of them got the same level of backstory since the whole Dark multi verse was mostly focused on Batman.
@@metazoxan2 There were three I saw in Batman Metal when they were holding Batman hostage. One where Superman had on Lex Luthor's Battlesuit. One where Superman killed the Batman of his timeline to take on his role, and some blue one with cosmic powers.
The high counsel Superman is probably the best example of this, considering how he murdered people, such as Shazam, Black Canary, and Green Arrow (just the first three that come to mind, though there are more), and then joining the yellow lanterns, making him partially responsible for the death of Guy Gardener, and forcing everyone to do exactly as he sees fit. He of course reveals Batman's identity, is responsible for the death of billions (hi Mogo), and manipulated people into helping him with his regime. The storyline is so hooking and I love it. 10/10 on the reason as to why he snapped aswell, with Lois and his unborn child dying at his own hands. The death of Joker was a shocker, and Harley Quinn's redemption seemed impossible until it happened. The Injustice storyline is, in my opinion, the most hooking alternate universe in DC history. 5 stars.
So basically when Superman is good, he's a shining beacon to all life that deep down we can all be better. But when Superman is bad, he's a prime example that deep down the choice for evil is rather easy when you give in.
I am very surprised that the Justice Lord Superman from the DCAU Justice League animated series wasn't included especially as he fried president Lex Luthor and lobotomized Doomsday with his heat vision, overall a great list of all the evil versions of Superman
Because he's basically the same as "Injustice" superman. They were trying to give a variety of evil Superman rather than all of them being "Superman if he decided to stop playing nice".
Crazy how much weight is thrown at Superman's regime in the comics that it's able to withstand and survive before it's taken down. Fully weight of the Green Lantern Corps. Olympic mythological gods. Stuff way more powerful than the Earth one Justice League that eventually took him down. It can kind of make the actual ending feel anticlimactic. But the narrative of evil heroes being beaten by the heroes they once were is pretty much the perfect way to end that story even if it did feel a little small scale in comparison to previous threats to the regime.
@@FDALl-ms5kg Yeah, they were released concurrently, but the comic series gave them more time to invest in the premise, and it seemed like they really went full tilt.
Batman beat Superman every year but then some idiotic thing came to mess it up. I was most mad at the dream thing not working, ragman not working, and Wonder Woman not killing Superman because none of those scenarios had any way for Superman to escape. Similar to red son when Superman only escaped because of Wonder Woman and made an enemy of her in the process
@@bearjuncture agreed and honestly it just drives me insane that we haven't gotten at least a Superman family animated movie with my boy Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy learning from his dad clark kent superman and Lois lane how to be a great hero because there's so much story potential to see that actually get adapted into a animated movie at least in my opinion.
@@TevyaSmolka I’ve got to be honest with you I never like Lois lane I always felt she was worthless, and I could never figure out how she became pregnant I mean literally Superman can bench press a moon
@@bearjuncture I disagree because I think Lois lane is a great character and her becoming a parent to her own son Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy and Superman Being the father was a great story and gave both characters great development and was tons of fun at least in my opinion. If you disagree cool more power to you I won’t stop you because at the end of the day we all have our own opinions.
One of Superman's Marvel copy is called Hyperion. An evil version of him, known as "King Hyperion" decided to take over the world. He killed everyone who opposed him. It didn't matter if they come alone or in groups. The X-Men, Avengers, Thor, Hercules, Galactus... all died. With their heroes dead, and their armies decimated, the humans of Earth refused to yield. They choose death over slavery and destroyed the surface of the planet with a massive nuclear barrage. Ironically, the attack killed everything on the planet, save for Hyperion himself, who became the god-emperor... of a radioactive dustball.
The evil superman trope isn’t just becoming tired it’s also eroding what is really wonderful about Superman. Also it suggests that there are almost more versions of Superman in the multi-verse as a bad guy then there are that he’s good… Which suggests statistically that superman is just one Lois Lane death away from being evil…Honestly that’s just bad for the brand
to be fair to the writers, when you have such a powerful character it is hard to do much other than have him deal with morality since there are only so many ways you can write him almost losing.
@@saadmalik9206 he’s not omnipotent or all powerful, that said he just requires deeper story lines that. Look at the JL animated series they aren’t all power centric battles.
@@saadmalik9206 personally I think he's at his best in Justice League stories as basically the cavalry arriving. It's always just so awesome seeing everyone else beaten down and then you see the S and it fills you with this hopefulness and reinvigorates the fight for the heros. That's my opinion anyway
"He has the power to take out the entire human race and if we believe there is even a one percent chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty!" - Bruce Wayne/Batman
They've probably reconned all aspects of "Crisis On Infinite Earths", but in the very 1st issue, Ultraman & the Crime Syndicate actually have a redemption arc. A very short one & probably not even completely altruistic, but it's there. As their Earth/universe is obliterated by the Anti-Monitor, the Syndicate actually teams up w/the heroic Luther to save it all. They don't, but they gave it their all. Even as Ultraman, Kal cannot resist playing hero, going so far to stop the expanding antimatter blastwave, though he knows he will die regardless. Great guy!...🤩
Justice League heroes: What are we supposed to do now that our strongest ally turns evil? Batman: We need Son Goku. Green Lantern: I’ll go search the universe for him.
Several of these Supermen aren't evil at all. In fact they're so incredibly good that they triumph over the indoctrination of Nazism, Communism, Darkseid, etc. and still bring peace and justice to their universes.
I thiught that the thumbnail was from the injustice Since once he used the yellow Lantern power ring, the would was so fearful of him that even guardians couldn't phase him
Kinda says something when Justice Lord Superman, the one whose go-to solution for dealing with problematic people was a heat vision lobotomy, didn't even make the list...
Actually Superman was right at least in the initial parts of the Injustice. Superman- "I took one life to save millions" Batman- "All it takes is just one step and once the line is crossed, there's no going back" In a nutshell, it requires utmost self control and determination to fight for justice when you know you may have to take some expedient steps just for the greater good
The slippery slope arguement only works when there's no self control over such actions. saying "okay, if they kill as many people as the joker, they gotta die" is a pretty high bar.
What about red son superman too also I would love to see doomsday and superman fused together make more powerful beast type character instead of Batman as the devastator one. Fantastic job on the video what culture
Justice Lords Superman from the Justice League animated series of the 2000s. Superman: Red Son Superboy-Prime at one point took the title of Superman-Prime. But with of without the "man" part, he was partly responsible for both Infinite Crisis and the Sinestro Corps War.
@@theonlyethanhiroshiki wow. Complete 180 from your last response. At least admit you fucked up when you insulted me and said he isn't evil. Or do you think that Red Son Superman gets a free pass despite being a overzealous dictator, whom in some ways is worse than Stalin? If you answered yes, than you're both immoral and stupid.
*Superman becomes a literal god from resting in a sun for a thousand years* "Yeah I can beat him with a couple of gadgets or maybe just outsmart him with my handy-dandy plot armor" -Batman
@@blakguyfromfortnite9340 He did, but ultimately he only wanted what was best for our world. I will admit that he his ways are completely unacceptable but the outcome of his rule only saved more lives. Plus he did bring ever lasting peace to our world. He did manage to defeat the greatest threats to the planet keeping our world safe eventhough it was through fear, we were safe under his rule. What can Batman do if Darkseid returns with his Invasion fleet? NOTHING. What can Superman do? EVERYTHING.
What about Justice Lord Superman with the black & white outfit? Not sure if that was ever in a comic but i do remember seeing it in a Justice League cartoon.
@@kenkei.mwaniki They didn't forget. They just chose to highlight the lesse known Nazi Superman instead. Since both are basically the same idea with Superman being raised by a Russian or Nazi dictator they didn't include both.
