What out of continuity story would you make?

[Vakanai]

Pretend DC lets you write a Superman story, but it has to be unique and not in continuity. It can be a part of their upcoming Zoom, Ink, or Black Label lines. What sort of story would you make?

[Jon Clark]

Kal-El's landing is detected by various world governments and after an unsuccessful attempt at seizing the infant by the US, the Kents go underground raising Clark off-the-grid. Everytime he attempts to use his powers to help someone it results in the Kents moving again and assuming new identities. Picture the life Clark was leading in the movie Man of Steel but his having been doing this from early childhood along with Jonathan and Martha as well.


Eventually he gets caught performing a rescue in a way that brings him to the attention of the world or possibly he just gives up hiding when the Kents die and he has nothing left to protect by keeping to the shadows.


He now becomes a different type of Superman. His powers free him from needing to eat or worry about a roof over his head- so he has no "secret identity". He might take some under-the-table jobs and walk the streets in regular clothes but on any given day he might call himself "Clark Kent", "Jonathan Smith" or "Carl Jonson" depending on how things are going. There is no Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen he hangs out with, though he might drop in on some people he's known if he thinks he can do so without someone connecting them to Superman.

His relationship with the law is far less cordial. He doesn't have a problem with the average police officer, but he refuses to recognize anyone as having authority over him. Clark is a pretty law abiding guy by nature, so I'm not making him someone who goes around trying to pick fights with authority. It's more of a thing where this Superman would step into a hostage situation and ignore the police surrounding the place or politely but adamantly refuse to "come down to the station and answer a few questions". This Superman wouldn't worry about "evidence" if he gets into conflict with Lex Luthor, he'd simply declare a one-man war on Lex and his assets. At the end of the day he'd take food from a big chain store if that was the only solution he saw to aid a hungry family.


The story would be about Superman coming to the realization that he can't solve every problem on his own but at the same time it would show how this Superman deals with the things like black-ops and viillains who hide behind the law.

[Vinsanity]

I would do something like The Daily Planet turns more Daily Mail and having Clark quit (with Cat) and then he becomes a crusader on blogs and stuff to try and uncover a secret plot done by Lex Luthor to buy off all the free press to help him become president or something.

So the Clark Kent working with Superman trying to stop attacks on disadvantaged people.

[Miles To Go]

Clark commutes to England and gets caught up in Brexit trying to protect people from violent "Britain First" campaigners.

[Heavunion]

Simple, Lex Luthor is Superman, he felt from the sky and became Lionel Luthor's son to grow as the Lex we know while Clark Kent is the guy we know, he never had any powers so he acts more confident since he doesn't have to pull an act. I think it's a interesting premise, you get to be in the head of a Lex Luthor who have everything and is an absolute winner and you get the Clark Kent vs Superman battle which would be interesting to see

As for the story, it would start with Clark Kent starting in the Daily Planet in a Metropolis that sees Lex Luthor as a god ( of course, he doesn't hide his identity ) and the Daily Planet's Editor-In-Chief is Lex's wife, Lois who is very cynical and doesn't believe anyone is good. It would be a journey for Clark to make Lois sees the good in humanity, expose Lex by simply showing them that Superman should never be above the people and the ending would probably be similar to Spider-Man 2, Lex got out of control and Clark reminds him of what Superman means and Lex kill himself in the end to redeem himself

[superduperman]

I'm already writing one now as a sort of fan fiction. It's about someone on the Kryptonian governing council who actually believes Jor-El and comes to Earth at the same time as Kal. It's about his life on Earth monitoring Kal growing up and he falls in love and gets married and his wife has a miscarriage and dies in labor. He does various odd jobs and at one point getting a job working on the Kent farm and even on the Gotham police force. He uses his powers in secret. He also meets various DC characters early on like Abin Sur, John Jones, and even a young Bruce Wayne! I haven't worked out all the details yet but it ends with the debut of Superman.

[Zodlike]

Kal-El's landing is detected by various world governments and after an unsuccessful attempt at seizing the infant by the US, the Kents go underground raising Clark off-the-grid. Everytime he attempts to use his powers to help someone it results in the Kents moving again and assuming new identities. Picture the life Clark was leading in the movie Man of Steel but his having been doing this from early childhood along with Jonathan and Martha as well.


Eventually he gets caught performing a rescue in a way that brings him to the attention of the world or possibly he just gives up hiding when the Kents die and he has nothing left to protect by keeping to the shadows.


He now becomes a different type of Superman. His powers free him from needing to eat or worry about a roof over his head- so he has no "secret identity". He might take some under-the-table jobs and walk the streets in regular clothes but on any given day he might call himself "Clark Kent", "Jonathan Smith" or "Carl Jonson" depending on how things are going. There is no Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen he hangs out with, though he might drop in on some people he's known if he thinks he can do so without someone connecting them to Superman.

His relationship with the law is far less cordial. He doesn't have a problem with the average police officer, but he refuses to recognize anyone as having authority over him. Clark is a pretty law abiding guy by nature, so I'm not making him someone who goes around trying to pick fights with authority. It's more of a thing where this Superman would step into a hostage situation and ignore the police surrounding the place or politely but adamantly refuse to "come down to the station and answer a few questions". This Superman wouldn't worry about "evidence" if he gets into conflict with Lex Luthor, he'd simply declare a one-man war on Lex and his assets. At the end of the day he'd take food from a big chain store if that was the only solution he saw to aid a hungry family.


The story would be about Superman coming to the realization that he can't solve every problem on his own but at the same time it would show how this Superman deals with the things like black-ops and villains who hide behind the law.

That's really excellent.

This is the sort of Superman I would respect. Especially the one who won't accept human authority over him and won't let the criminals hide behind the Law.

I'd read that, if you wrote it. It's worthy of print, IMO.

[Zero Hunter]

Superman finally defeats Brainiac once and for all and learns how to enlarge all the cities he has taken. In another solar system he brings Kandor to a world with a yellow sun and enlarges it creating New Krypton. Soon after Superman is fighting someone on Earth and is blasted into the future. Generations pass and New Krypton has become the Kryptonian Empire conquering system after system "helping" other races by teaching them Kryptonian ways. They have conquered the Khund, the Thanagarians, the Dominators, the Coluns, and countless other worlds. Everything seems better with intersteller wars almost a thing of the past..... but are they. And where is Supergirl is all this.....

[LordMikel]

The idea has been thrown out that Superman is going to live a very long time. I'd like to see a Superman through the ages. A superman who has been alive for 100 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. How is he different?

[Minerboh]

I have a story. It's called The Real Superman.

As we all saw in Injustice 2, Bruce and Kara sent powerless Kal El into the Phantom Zone.
In my story, as a result of Dr Manhattan's meddling with the space time continuum, Kal completely repowered ends up in the Prime DC U. However, his presence there opens a black hole kind of anomaly that approches Earth.
There, he traps Superman and incapatites him. There with many plottings, he manages to take the Justice League one by one except Bruce. Learning from his mistakes from the Injustice Universe, Kal mamages to trap Bruce in his mansion.
Bruce realizing that this is not the real Superman (or the one who is familiar with) manages to bring Kal in his Bat Cave where he activates his view screen revealing the one person that can truly stop this crazed version of Superman, Lois.
Lois tells that she still believes in him and she's willing to forgive him only if he make amends with himself and with his comrades. Then she presents Jon.
Kal after seeing the face of the son he would have, returns to the self he was before the events of Injustice Year One.
As the anomaly brings the planet in the bring of destruction, Prime Superman joins forces with Injustice Superman. Injustice Supes realizes that the only way to save this Earth is that he must pludge himself inside the anomaly in hope that this will seal it. He also realizes that the name and the symbol of Superman is not just the power set or his fame, it is his ability to overcome the rising odds, to step in front of the danger or to the face of death so he can protect not only his love ones but to spare his adopted homeworld the same fate that befalled Krypton.
He has a touching chat with Prime Supes and he goes of to collide with the anomaly thus sealing it.
In the aftermath, Clark and Bruce talk. Klark then says that despite the fact that Injustice Supes made pretty horrible things in his Universe, his sacrifice managed to restore the real Superman which was trapped inside his fractured sanity. His good side which was still inside and it only needed a catalyst to give him power to resurface.

[AquaLantern]

A story where Superman is completely justified in beating the living crap out of Batman.

[Nick Miller]

I loves me some post apocalyptic stuff.

So.... 20 years later, the heroes s are fighting to survive, Sups has aged a bit, he’s not as all powerful as the sun is blotted out by debris. Meteor strikes on earth and Mars blew up. EMP interference has crushed most technology

Jon and Damian are young adults that lead the resistance against the alien invasion. Batman is missing.

[bat39]

The idea has been thrown out that Superman is going to live a very long time. I'd like to see a Superman through the ages. A superman who has been alive for 100 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. How is he different?

I have an idea for something similar to that.

It would start with Superman debuting in 1938, like in the Golden Age. But it will show his story in real-time thereafter and reveal how the existence of Superman (and superheroes in general) would have realistically affected the course of humanity over the last 80 years.

In fact, I would have the story be a continuation of the "Superman Ends the War" story from the Look magazine in 1940.

I'd start of with Superman ending the war (similar to that story, except he does it in 1944 rather than 1940). And then we see the role he plays in a post-war world. Initially, he's content to play the superhero and let humanity sort out its affairs. But between the Red Scare, the nuclear race, Civil Rights movement, Counter-Culture movement etc. he gradually starts to see the world spiraling out of control and starts to wonder if he should intervene. By the 1970's and Watergate, he full-on decides to start taking an active interest in national and international affairs...and starts to fall off the slippery slope.

I would have the divergence from the real-world be a bit more gradual. The 50's would play out similar to our world, except with superheroes being a thing. The 60's would have superheroes starting to intervene more, particularly when it comes to Civil Rights. By the 70's, Superman and many other heroes would basically become actors on the global stage. And so on it keeps spiraling until we end up in a very different alternate 2018.

As far as other heroes go...the JSA and the other Golden Age heroes would have been around in WW2. Wonder Woman is immortal and also around constantly (and we can possibly have a Superman/WW relationship over time after Lois dies). Batman would in this version be a legacy character - or maybe Bruce finds a way to stay young.

It would be a bit like Byrne's Generations, but with more emphasis on how Superman and superheroes affect the wider world.

[Crawford Crow]

A team up story with Superman and Superturtle :-)

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Clark and Kara landed on earth around the same time but separated and raised seperately. They meet as adults but have the powersets of Superman Red and Blue.