Superman: Doomsday
Genre: Action/Superhero/Sci-Fi
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: John Malone
Based on DC Comics characters
Cast: Aidan Turner, Dakota Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chloe Grace Moretz, Frances McDormand, Halle Berry, Colin Firth, Gary Sinise, Bradley Whitford, Noel Fisher, Hugh Laurie, Mia Kirshner
Plot: A government convoy of armored trucks winds along a highway just beyond Metropolis. Inside, one of the trucks carries LexCorp-developed high-powered exosuits designed for military use. Suddenly, coordinated blasts knock out the lead and rear vehicles, boxing in the convoy. The Sons of Libert, a rogue paramilitary group in stolen LexCorp suits of their own, descend on the trucks. They disable the military escort and hijack the equipment with brutal efficiency. Superman (Aidan Turner) crashes down like a meteor between the truck and the Sons of Liberty. His heat vision slices through the attacker’s exosuit core in one blink. Another attacker fires twin plasma rounds—Superman absorbs them with a grimace and launches into the air, dragging the attacker skyward before hurling him into a riverbank. In less than two minutes, the convoy is cleared, the rogue tech neutralized, and no civilians are harmed. Paramedics and military responders arrive as Superman stands at the edge of the scene. His cape ripples behind him as reporters swarm to the wreckage. Overhead, drone footage captures his image on live TV. People cheer, but the commentary from anchors is already laced with worry for what have happened had Superman not arrived.
Later, in a TV studio, Lex Luthor (Daniel Craig) appears on a primetime panel discussion. In his impeccable suit and controlled voice, Lex argues that Earth cannot rely on an alien guardian indefinitely. He presents surveillance footage of Superman taking a full energy blast and not flinching. He ends his argument with asking the audience what they would do if suddenly Superman decides they are a threat. Watching from her desk at the Daily Planet, Lois Lane (Dakota Johnson) sighs and shakes her head. She closes her laptop and walks to the window. Clark enters the bullpen, dust on his shoulder and tie slightly loose. Their eyes meet. He tells her that he is going to go to Smallville that night and invites her along. Lois declines, insisting she has to write a response to Luthor's comments on TV.
Clark Kent arrives in Smallville as sun sets over the family farm. He helps Martha Kent (Frances McDormand) patch a fence behind the house. They work in silence for a bit. Martha glances over, sensing her son is miles away in thought. As she hammers a fence post, she comments that Superman took a beating on the news. Clark sighs. Martha reminds Clark that he didn't crash land on Earth to be a god - he just needs to be the good man she raised him to be. Martha goes inside to fix dinner, leaving Clark alone in the field. He looks up to the stars and closes his eyes.
Inside a top-secret DEO facility on the edge of Metropolis, Amanda Waller (Halle Berry) walks with Lex Luthor through a long corridor. Waller reminds Lex that just because the DEO granted LexCorp oversight of the alien specimens from Brainiac's crashed ship doesn’t mean he has free rein. Lex brushes off her caution, presenting himself as a dutiful partner in the name of national security. He gestures to containment chambers holding various alien tissues and organisms. He explains the he merely plans to study the biology of these interstellar anomalies to assess potential threats or utilities. Waller warns him that she expects full transparency in any research. After Waller leaves, Lex enters a deeper restricted lab, swiping through multiple levels of security. There, Dr. Emil Hamilton (Hugh Laurie), analyzes tissue samples. Hamilton informs Lex that the genetic code from several of the more violent specimens—particularly a regenerative species labeled Subject #42—has astonishing resilience. It adapts, evolves. Lex’s eyes brighten with fascination. Hamilton loads the code into a genome compiler. Nearby, a human-sized pod is cloaked under a heavy tarp. As Lex walks toward the observation platform, the tarp shifts slightly, revealing a monstrous outline growing beneath it. Luthor looks down at it like a proud father, whispering that soon, the Earth won’t need to fear aliens - because it will have one of its own.
Back in Metropolis, Clark Kent returns to the Daily Planet. Perry White (Bradley Whitford) catches him up on a flurry of reports involving increased DEO funding and LexCorp's public-private alliance. Lois butts in, commenting that it's obvious Lex Luthor is trying to build himself a military and no one is asking why. Clark pulls Lois aside, pleading with her to be careful. She reveals she has a source claiming LexCorp has been moving alien materials into DEO labs. Clark offers to help with the investigation, but Lois says that she wants to see what she can uncover without Superman.
Inside the Metropolis Civic Hall, a community fundraiser event honors victims of Darkseid's recent invasion, with families still displaced and neighborhoods still rebuilding. Clark Kent lingers at the edge of the room, watching children paint while volunteers in “Metropolis Strong” shirts collect donations. Unseen, he slips away, returning moments later in the familiar red-and-blue suit of Superman. The crowd hushes. Superman doesn’t give a speech. He kneels beside a young boy who lost his home and softly reminds him that home isn’t just a place - it’s the people who love him. After the event, Superman hovers alone above the glowing skyline of Metropolis.
In the DEO containment lab outside Metropolis, Lex Luthor stands before a massive chamber, glass fogged from within. Amanda Waller arrives, demanding answers about the unusual energy readings coming from the alien containment wing. Lex, flanked by Dr. Emil Hamilton, assures her it's just residual interference from their tests. But behind closed doors, Lex enters a private lab. Inside, a bio-chamber pulses with grotesque life - a mix of alien DNA, engineered tissue, and Kryptonian sample data, all bound together in a humanoid beast. After Waller has left, Hamilton warns Lex that the creature is still unstable, but Lex insists it's ready. He activates a neural override and releases the creature into a reinforced proving chamber, wanting to test its combat viability. The chamber explodes outward almost immediately. Waller sees the security feed and realizes Lex has gone rogue. She issues a full lockdown—but it’s too late. The creature - Doomsday - bursts through concrete walls and disappears into the tunnels beneath the facility, heading toward the city.
Above Metropolis, Superman hears a sound he’s never heard before - a guttural roar echoing through the city. He descends to the ground, eyes scanning, ears stretching. At the Daily Planet, Lois Lane sees police alerts pour in about unexplained seismic activity and gas main ruptures across the industrial district. Superman arrives at the scene just as a section of street collapses into rubble. From the debris emerges Doomsday, massive and bristling with jagged bone, its eyes wild and empty. Without hesitation, the monster charges. The first blow sends Superman flying through two buildings. As he recovers, he realizes this creature isn’t just strong - it doesn’t feel pain, and it doesn’t hold back.
The fight rages through Metropolis. Superman punches Doomsday through buildings and into a train yard, but the creature keeps getting up, adapting with each hit. Civilians scream and scatter as shockwaves tear through the city. Superman does everything he can to draw the battle away from populated zones, but Doomsday keeps turning back, drawn to destruction. Lois and Jimmy Olsen (Noel Fisher) try to reach safety as the skyline erupts behind them. News helicopters circle above as Superman slams Doomsday into a bridge, trying to keep him contained. In the chaos, Waller watches from the DEO command post, horrified that Lex’s weapon is unstoppable.
n the heart of Metropolis, Doomsday and Superman clash with terrifying force. Buildings crack under the shockwaves of their blows, the ground trembles, and debris rains down as civilians flee. Superman fights valiantly, pushing his body beyond its limits. Heat vision flares, punches land like thunder, and for a moment, it seems he may have the upper hand. But Doomsday’s body regenerates with each wound. The monster grows more savage, relentless. As Superman weakens, Doomsday slams him into the pavement with a deafening crack. Superman forces himself to stand, bloodied and gasping, and drives one final, earth-shaking punch through Doomsday’s chest. The monster reels—wounded, but alive. In retaliation, Doomsday drives his bony arm spike through Superman’s torso. The Man of Steel collapses to the ground, motionless. A hush falls over the devastated city. Without fanfare or interest in the destruction he’s caused, Doomsday turns and walks away—calm, silent. He leaps miles across rooftops and highways, returning to the DEO facility like a creature fulfilling its purpose and now seeking containment once more.
The news of Superman’s death spreads like wildfire. Metropolis is blanketed in silence, and thousands gather in Centennial Park, where his body is laid to rest beneath a massive black banner bearing his crest. Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Perry White all stand together in grief as the casket - draped in red and blue - is lowered into the earth. Kara Zor-El / Supergirl (Chloe Grace Moretz) arrives too late, touching down as the final eulogies are spoken. She moves toward the casket, kneels beside it, and quietly touches her cousin’s hand, eyes filled with sorrow. As the ceremony ends, she lifts Superman’s body and gently flies him back to the Kent farm in Smallville. Martha watches from the porch as Kara lands.
In the Kent barn, the three women closest to Superman — Martha, Lois, and Kara — surround his still body laid out beside the dormant Kryptonian spacecraft. Kara studies the ship's crystalline control panel, noting how Kryptonian tech is designed to heal and restore. She hesitates before suggesting something desperate: flying the ship — with Kal-El inside — directly toward the sun. Kryptonians draw strength from solar energy, and this may be their only chance to revive him. Martha is reluctant, clutching Clark’s lifeless hand, but ultimately nods through her tears. Lois, after a long pause, agrees. Together, they gently load Superman’s body into the ship. Kara enters the coordinates manually, overriding the safety protocols. As the hatch seals, the ship lifts off silently into the night, streaking skyward like a comet toward the sun.
Inside the Daily Planet newsroom, Perry White stands at Lois' desk. Jimmy Olsen lingers nearby. Perry tells Lous that he world is going to want something real for his obituary - not just a recap of Superman’s powers, but who he was. Lois stares at the blank page on her computer screen. Jimmy offers a suggestion - to start with how Superman made people feel. She immediately begins feverishly typing. Jimmy snaps a photo of Lois at work.
Within the dark stillness of death, Kal-El finds himself standing in a spectral, crystalline field — a vision of Krypton’s afterlife. The red sky shimmers overhead, and before him appear two radiant figures: Jor-El (Colin Firth) and Lara Lor-Van (Mia Kirshner). They tell him he has crossed into the boundary between life and eternity. Jor-El urges his son to look back.
Back at the DEO facility, Amanda Waller stands in her private office, replaying footage of Doomsday’s creation — Lex Luthor and Emil Hamilton pouring over the genetic remnants recovered from Brainiac’s ship. Waller puts the pieces together, realizing that Lex didn't just fail to contain Doomsday - he made him. She calls General Sam Lane (Gary Sinise) and invites him to the DEO under the pretense of a security update. When he arrives, she shows him the evidence. She explains that the government gave Luthor access and he turned alien DNA into a monster. She asks Lane to take all the evidence and bury Lex Luthor.
Kal-El drifts weightless in a realm of glowing white crystals. His father, Jor-El appears. Lara Lor-Van emerges next to him. Kal-El looks at them with confusion and sadness. He asks them if he has now failed both of his homeworlds - Krypton and Earth. Jor-El steps closer, placing a hand on Kal-El’s shoulder. He tells Kal that death has not claimed him fully, and that the heartbeat of those he loves still echoes through him. Lara reminds her son that his strength was never only in his powers, but in the humility and hope he carried across two worlds. Around them, vivid scenes from Kal’s life emerge in waves of light - his childhood on the Kent farm, his first flight, Lois’ laughter, the battles he’s endured, and the people he’s saved. Jor-El implores him to return - the people of Earth still need a man who can inspire them.
Superman’s ship breaks through the upper corona of the sun. Inside the pod, his body begins to stir, bathed in golden radiation. Just as the ship begins to tear apart from the sun’s pull, Kal-El opens his eyes. His body surges with new energy. In a burst of speed and flame, he erupts from the pod and shoots back toward Earth.
Deep in the DEO facility, Doomsday rests - his monstrous body lies motionless. Suddenly, something shifts. His eyes snap open. He tears free from his bindings like they’re paper. Waller and Lane order their troops to pour in and attack. Doomsday walks through the corridors of the facility - soldiers' bullets bouncing off his skin.
A streak of black cuts through the clouds, moving faster than sound. Superman bursts through Earth’s atmosphere, solar energy still radiating off his body. He heads not for Metropolis, but for home - Smallville. He lands in the Kent farm’s field. He’s wearing a sleek black Kryptonian suit, forged from the interior of his spacecraft and designed to absorb and retain solar energy. The silver “S” gleams against the dark fabric. Lois embraces him, tears in her eyes. Martha places a hand to his chest, surprised by the suit. Kara watches silently, moved. Superman senses something is wrong. Without another word, he launches skyward, headed for Metropolis.
Doomsday continues walking away from the DEO facility toward the heart of Metropolis. DEO strike teams and General Lane’s soldiers are already deployed, lining the avenues with tanks and mobile turrets. Amanda Waller watches grimly from a mobile command unit. The military opens fire, but Doomsday plows through the barricade, sending a tank flipping. A black blur suddenly slams into Doomsday from above with a thunderous force. Superman crashes into the creature, sending both tumbling down the street. Superman rises first - the silver House of El crest gleaming in the dust. Doomsday pulls himself from the rubble, locking eyes with the man he thought he’d killed. Doomsday charges, fists raised. Superman meets him head-on. Superman relies more on speed and evasiveness than in their first fight. As the battle crashes through the Metropolis Financial District, a streak of red and blue darts in from above - Supergirl, faster than sound, blindsides Doomsday with a full-force aerial tackle, slamming into the side of LexCorp Tower. Superman and Supergirl fight the monster together. Kara hurls Doomsday through an overpass while Superman follows with a midair punch that sends the creature skidding across the harborfront. For the first time, Doomsday is rattled. But then he adapts. He swings wide, catching Kara with a devastating backhand that sends her crashing through a monorail track. Superman lunges in rage but is met with a thunderclap punch to the chest, sending him flying across the skyline. Smoke rolls over the harborfront as Superman crashes into a row of shipping containers. He groans, rising slowly, suit torn. Across the waterfront, Doomsday roars. Supergirl crashes beside her cousin, bruised and bloodied. She mutters that they don't have a chance. Superman looks at her, but says she's wrong. He looks toward the sun peeking through the buildings and launches skyward. Superman soars above the city, absorbing sunlight like a sponge, every cell glowing with renewed energy. Supergirl attacks Doomsday to distract him, weaving around the monster's attacks. Suddenly, Superman dives - fists forward, heat vision blaring - into Doomsday's chest with everything he has. The impact detonates like a sonic boom. Doomsday staggers, roars, then falls backward. Superman collapses to one knee. Kara floats down beside him.
Emergency crews work through smoking ruins, stabilizing buildings and treating the injured. Doomsday’s monstrous corpse, now limp and grotesquely still, is being locked into reinforced containment restraints by heavy DEO guard. Amanda Waller stands near the wreckage, watching the cleanup.
Meanwhile in his penthouse, Lex Luthor watches the aftermath unfold on dozens of screens. News anchors speak of Superman’s resurrection and Doomsday’s mysterious origin. Lex pours himself a cocktail and sips as if savoring the chaos he helped unleash. The elevator opens. Armed soldiers flood the room. Lex doesn't resist - he simply sets his drink down and raises his hands.
In Centennial Park, thousands gather beneath a newly unveiled statue of Superman - one commissioned after his brief demise. Superman himself flies above the event. The crowd cheers for him just before he flies off.
On the Kent farm, Martha, Lois, and Kara clean up the last of a homemade dinner. Kara stacks dishes with ease, her strength cracking a plate in two. She mutters an apology as Martha just chuckles and tells her she's still adjusting to Earth life. Out back, Clark stands in the field, looking out across the land he once feared he'd never see again. Lois walks out into the field, she holds him tightly, telling him that she thought she lost him. He pulls her into a quiet embrace, then they kiss.
Lex Luthor sits alone in a glass cell. When Amanda Waller questions why he created Doomsday as a weapon of mass destruction, Lex doesn't deny it. Instead, he frames his actions as a strategic foresight, claiming Superman's death only proved his point about alien threats. Waller doesn't engage. She simply records the confession, then turns away.
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