History Sandbox / MonsterSuperman

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* ''ComicBook/Superman2023'': [[MadScientist Dr. Pharm]] is a callous scientist and rival to [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor himself]], planning to upstage and ruin Lex. Pharm kidnaps and [[PlayingWithSyringes horrifically experiments]] on hundreds of [[DisposableVagrant homeless people]] to carry out his plans. Pharm torturously experiments on [[HorrorHunger Parasite]] to cause him to multiply and drain people of energy and endanger Metropolis. Pharm later experiments on and [[SuperEmpowering amplifies]] Silver Banshee's [[SuperScream scream]] against her will to attack the city. Later capturing Toyman, Pharm tortures him to take control of his robots and try and destroy the city. Pharm ultimately attacks [=LexCorp=] and reveals that he plans to unleash a lethal Kryptonite-infused virus on the city and [[FrameUp blame the resultant mass casualties on Lex]] to ruin his reputation, all out of spite.

* ''ComicBook/Superman2023:'' [[MadScientist Dr. Pharm]] is a callous scientist and rival to [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor himself]], planning to upstage and ruin Lex. Pharm kidnaps and [[PlayingWithSyringes horrifically experiments]] on hundreds of [[DisposableVagrant homeless people]] to carry out his plans. Pharm torturously experiments on [[HorrorHunger Parasite]] to cause him to multiply and drain people of energy and endanger Metropolis. Pharm later experiments on and [[SuperEmpowering amplifies]] Silver Banshee's [[SuperScream scream]] against her will to attack the city. Later capturing Toyman, Pharm tortures him to take control of his robots and try and destroy the city. Pharm ultimately attacks LexCorp and reveals that he plans to unleash a lethal Kryptonite-infused virus on the city and [[FrameUp blame the resultant mass casualties on Lex]] to ruin his reputation, all [[DisproportionateRetribution out of spite]].

* ''Infestation'' [[labelnote:Issues]] Superman Vol. 2 issue 169, Adventures of Superman Vol. 1 issue 591, Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 1 issue 113, Action Comics Vol. 1 issue 778[[/labelnote]]'': [[EnergyBeing Viroxx]] is an [[AncientEvil ancient]] living [[TheVirus virus]] who feeds on the energy of entire star systems. He has devoured countless worlds, turning sapients he finds promising into his sadistic Warrior-Cells and Brood-Leaders who turn inhabitants of worlds into more energy for him to feed on. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] by [[PlanetEater devouring a planet]] populated by billions, Viroxx turns the wife of brilliant scientist Korsa Majalis into his Brood-Leader, leading to her converting her own daughter into energy. Viroxx [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] when Flotilla, the fleet compromised of survivors of 800 worlds devoured by him, and Superman face him while he is in the process of devouring another planet. Viroxx has Brood-Leaders turn [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] into one of them, knowing that Superman's love for her will lead to him being unable to let Viroxx be destroyed and take Lois with him. Viroxx attacks Flotilla in retribution for standing against him, before continuing to devour star systems filled with life. Viroxx battles Superman and Flotilla again and tries to absorb Superman and Korsa along with the weapon the latter created to destroy him, before planning to devour Earth as his next meal.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanSpaceAge'': [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]], the consummate CorruptCorporateExecutive, is depicted here as a {{narcissist}} who seeks superiority over all. Using a military defense contract to build an underground bomb shelter and acquire two hydrogen bombs for testing, Lex truthfully plans to hide his followers in the shelter and recreate society [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]] after setting off WorldWarIII, activating one of the bombs to completely annihilate Coast City. Intent on [[FalseFlagOperation the Soviet Union being blamed for the crime]] so that the U.S. will retaliate and begin a nuclear holocaust, Lex attempts to set off the second bomb in Metropolis when his first attack fails to generate the expected response, preparing to sacrifice an unwitting employee to see this through. Though foiled, Lex is able to secure his release two decades later and sets out to make [=LexCorp=] so powerful that the world will depend on him for survival. Lex funds [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] in a vendetta against Wayne Enterprises that results in Lucius Fox being forced into becoming a suicide bomber, seven children being endangered, and [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne]] killed, giving Lex the perfect opportunity to take over and assert his seeming victory over the entire world.

* ''[[ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd At Earth's End]]'': The [[ApocalypseHitler DNA Diktators]], revealed to be cloned twins of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, are two biology-perverting madmen obsessed with continuing their work from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in creating a "MasterRace". As clones of Hitler, the Diktators happily take responsibility for their original form's crimes, and continue these in the present by rounding up thousands of innocents, performing horrific experiments on them that leave them in constant agony, then [[HumanResources grinding them up into raw material]] to create an army of mutant Nazi stormtroopers. After their mutant monsters fail to murder numerous children who escaped the Diktators' grasp, the Diktators order the children, alongside Superman, all murdered by their various creations, even having defiled the corpse of the hero Batman by using his corpse to create nightmarish bat monsters that they sic on Superman to torment him. Utter sociopaths with delusions of godhood and megalomania, these clones of Hitler display all of their original's cruelty and evil in their quest for a perfect race.

* [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], in his first appearance, kidnapped Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Steve Lombard in order to blackmail Superman into giving him the keys to [[ComicBook/WarWorld Warworld]], then tries to kill both Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} with the weapon. He later traveled to Prince Gavyn (one of the Starmen)'s homeworld, murdered Gavyn's sister, and tried to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty force Gavyn's girlfriend into marrying him]] so that he might take over the planet. Beaten by Gavyn and Superman, he seized control of a Sun-Eater and unleashed it on Earth's solar system, seeking to wipe out all human life. It was in his last appearance, however, in the iconic ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'' storyline that Mongul showed just how low he could sink. Ambushing Superman on his birthday, Mongul used the Black Mercy plant to trap him in a [[LotusEaterMachine fantasy world]], from which Superman could only escape by sacrificing his heart's desire; in Mongul's own words "It must have been like tearing off your own arm." While Superman is occupied with this, Mongul tries to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat Wonder Woman to death]], while gloating about [[HeManWomanHater how women are too weak to stop him]]. Eventually trapped by the same weapon he had used on Superman, Mongul dreams of a galaxy awash in bloodshed, with himself seated on a throne, orchestrating it all.

* ''Godfall''[[note]]''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Vol. 1 issues #812-813, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol. 1 issues #625-626, ''Superman'' Vol. 2 issues #202-203[[/note]] & ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Vol. 1 issues #821-825: [[AbsoluteXenophobe Preus]] is a Kryptonian CPC officer. First encountering Superman in the bottle city of Kandor, Preus pursued him to Metropolis, where the manifestation of his Kryptonian abilities convinced Preus that he had become a deity with a duty to "[[KnightTemplar cleanse the impure]]." Furious at Superman--whom he had once worshiped as a god--for having let the citizens of Metropolis live, Preus tried to level the city before being stopped by Superman and Kandorian Empireth Lyla. Recruiting a cult of white supremacists, Preus set himself up as a god-figure, forcing the women in the cult to sleep with him--an experience [[OutWithABang many did not survive]]--and readying them for a race war with the rest of the USA. When ComicBook/MartianManhunter tried to stop him, Preus crucified him and tortured him with fire. When Superman arrived, Preus ordered his cult to launch a SuicideAttack on the Man of Steel, aiming to force Superman to massacre the humans he was so dedicated to protecting. Hating everything that did not conform to his ideas of racial purity, Preus was representative of the very worst Kandor had to offer.

* [[PersonOfMassDestruction Blanque]] is a mass murderer who [[MadArtist fancies himself an artist]], using his telepathic powers to bring swathes of death wherever he goes in an effort to create his "masterpiece". Blanque is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] massacring the entire population of a small town for fun, and [[ComicBook/SupermanLoisAndClark when Superman stops him]], Blanque reads his mind to learn his secret identity. With this knowledge, Blanque homes in on Lois Lane and their 10-year-old son to kill them first. Blanque [[ComicBook/ActionComics later]] becomes part of the Superman Revenge Squad, cheerfully onboard with Hank Henshaw's plan to destroy Earth to spite Superman.

* ''The Feral Man of Steel'', by Darren Vincenzo, Frank Fosco, & Stan Woch: [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is portrayed as a petty noble who [[AmbitionIsEvil desires power above all else]]. Slaughtering an entire native tribe to get his hands on the "Star Gem", in reality green kryptonite, Lex joined the hunt for the "Jungle Man", who in reality was a Kryptonian K'L'L that was raised by wolves. Furious that Lois Lane rejected his proposal, Luthor assaulted her, only to discover that the Star Gem severely weakened K'L'L when the Kryptonian came to defend Lois. Deciding to use it for his own gain, Lex massacred all men who were loyal to the leader of the traveling team, Richard Burton, and left Richard himself to burn alive, using the Star Gem to capture K'L'L and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force Lois to marry him]]. Torturing K'L'L with the Star Gem and treating him like a wild animal, Lex tried to force him to kill UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria by threatening to hurt Lois [[SadisticChoice if he refused]].
* ''Kal'', by Dave Gibbons, José Luis García-López, et al.: [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Baron Luthor]] shows himself as a [[FeudalOverlord corrupt tyrant]] who oppresses the people, has anyone against him killed and rigs fights to the death. Upon [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lady Loisse]] marrying Kal, Luthor claims the right of "[[DroitDuSeigneur first night]]", attempting to rape her. When Loisse resists, Luthor [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown savagely beats her to death]] and tries to kill Kal when he rebels in retribution.

* ''[[ComicBook/SupermanSpeedingBullets Speeding Bullets]]'': [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] himself becomes [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] in this alternate retelling of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne's backstories. A [[CorruptCorporateExecutive powerful, amoral businessman]] disfigured in an accident, Luthor is the one responsible for the death of the Waynes in this continuity, executing the burglars he sent to do the job afterward. Violently possessive of Lois Lane, Luthor schemes to make her his own, intending her to be the queen of his own "Jokerania." To remold the city, Luthor sends mercenary armies to utterly devastate Gotham to remake it from the ground up [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]], killing hundreds--to which Joker merely quips "[[ForTheEvulz why not?]]" when Batman furiously demands why so many have suffered for his convenience.

** The [[EvilGenius Ultra-Humanite]] attacks the Metropolis World's Fair with a giant robot in 1939, intending to kill civilians until he gets $1 million. After he is stopped, he takes Lois Lane as his hostage until Batman and Superman find his lair. He reveals that he has set the Hyperglobe to blow up Metropolis, but Batman and Superman stop him. Though seemingly killed, it is later revealed he has swapped brains with Lex Luthor. Years later, he exposes Lois's unborn son, Joel, to Gold Kryptonite, rendering him powerless, and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates him]] into believing that Superman stripped him of his powers. In 1979, Joel and the Ultra-Humanite attack the wedding of Bruce Wayne Jr. and Supergirl, leading to the deaths of Supergirl and Lois. Hours later, Joel also dies, because the concoction from the Humanite that gave him superpowers is ultimately fatal. In 1989, when Superman tracks him down, the Ultra-Humanite reveals he had several of his close friends and family murdered and plans to [[GrandTheftMe swap brains with Superman]] to gain his powers. When Superman stops him, it is revealed that the Ultra-Humanite has made it appear that Superman killed him in cold blood out of spite for Superman.

* ''Super Seven'': [[GalacticConqueror Kryll'n]], aka Grend'll, is the leader of the Malazza-Rem Confederacy, a group of alien marauders who RapePillageAndBurn their way through entire planets to take over as many as they can. Coming to Earth, Kryll'n has his hordes destroy Coast City, killing 7 million people, ordering 500 or even a thousand more innocents killed for every time a meta-human was seen or rebelled. Viciously massacring the rest of the rebellion himself, Kryll'n eventually enslaves mankind, [[HumanResources harvesting them]] for the use of the Malazza-Rem, and, when the Super Seven unite, Kryll'n promptly makes a point of trying to kill every last man, woman, and child within Metropolis to spite them. Kryll'n is even revealed to have murdered Superman's love, Lois Lane, using Lana Lang to lure him in with the promise Lois was still alive to entrap Superman, murdering Lang the instant her use expires and [[TakingYouWithMe dragging down Superman with him in death]].

** [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] is an alien cyborg who partners up with Lex Luthor in order to make sure that Superman is compliant with Luthor's regime. Holding the bottled city of Kandor hostage, Brainiac murders a Kryptonian family for every time that Superman refuses to follow their orders. In an attempt to publicly discredit superheroes, Brainiac attacks Metropolis and orders Superman to not fight back or he'll have all of Kandor destroyed. Brainiac proceeds to wail on Superman when he refuses to flee, and continues on his rampage. While he is eventually stopped by Superman's daughter Lara, Brainiac's assault ends up killing thousands of people, including Captain Marvel, Jimmy Olson, and Lois Lane. Lara travels to Brainiac's hideout to free the citizens of Kandor by pretending to surrender, but not before Brainiac attempts to turn her into his subservient slave. Driven by {{sadis|t}}m rather than his usual logic, Brainiac takes immense pleasure in the pain and suffering that he causes others.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Matt Riggs]] is the Grand Scorpion of [[TheKlan the Klan of the Fiery Cross]], leading the Metropolis chapter the group, who wants to "purify" America of all nonwhite people. When his nephew Chuck gets into a fight with a Chinese-American boy named Tommy Lee during a baseball game, Matt decides to [[TaughtToHate induct Chuck into the Klan]]. Matt and his Klan followers go to Tommy's house, burn a cross on their yard and attempt to firebomb the house. After that fails, [[WouldHurtAChild Matt Riggs kidnaps Tommy]] and plans to have him [[TarAndFeathers tarred and feathered]]. Later, Matt attempts to bomb the Unity House children's community center, feeling it is a threat to American purity, not caring how many people die in the process. After the Daily Planet offers a reward for the unmasking of any Klansmen, Matt and his followers attack the Daily Planet and kidnap Lois Lane, Perry White and Police Chief Henderson, with Matt Riggs planning to murder them all. After being captured by Superman, Matt Riggs escapes from prison, murders his boss, the Grand Mogul of the Klan, for not being a true believer in the cause, and steals his weapons to use against Superman. Matt attacks a baseball game to lure Superman out, and when Matt tries to murder Tommy Lee, Chuck attacks his uncle to stop him, leading Matt Riggs to try to kill Chuck as well. After Superman overloads his laser gun, Matt Riggs reveals he has a bomb under his cloak and [[SuicideAttack he plans to blow up himself]] and [[TakingYouWithMe take everyone in the baseball stadium with him]].

* ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'': [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] himself proves to be the most evil version of the character ever seen in the Pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] continuity. Initially content with causing mayhem across Metropolis for the purpose of luring Superman out, Lex eventually allies with [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] and teams up to ostensibly threaten the world with a weather machine. Kidnapping Lois Lane and Mary Jane as leverage and hypnotizing a tribesman to act as the unwilling, murderous guardian of his secret lair in the process, Lex finally reveals the absolute depth of his wickedness when he reveals he simply intends to use the weather machine to annihilate the entire planet as the culmination of his "black ambition", gloating that even after his plan is sabotaged he's still doomed the Atlantic Coast to a tidal wave. [[AdaptationalVillainy Beholden to none of Luthor's more honorable traits here]], Lex ultimately attempts to destroy all humanity out of petty spite for never recognizing his genius, [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifying even Doc Ock]] with how far he'll sink to hurt Superman.

* [[DiabolicalMastermind Alexei Luthor]], from [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], is far more heartless and cruel than [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor his Earth-One counterpart]]. Endeavoring to take over Europe, Alexei would try to start a large war, only to be foiled by Superman. Steadily succumbing to hate and bloodthirst, Alexei tried to destroy the Daily Star to murder everyone Superman had ever loved before being found by Lex Luthor. Hijacking Lex's plan, Alexei planned to crash Earth-One and Earth-Two into one another, [[OmnicidalManiac annihilating both realities]], in order to take Earth-Three as a "consolation prize".

* ''Superman: The Man of Steel'' [[ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth 1996 Annual]]--"The Never-Ending Battle" : [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is TheEmperor who ordered the destruction of [[TheHero Kaleb's]] home planet Hydros and the genocide of its people. A survivor from the eventual destruction of planet Earth, Luthor created an empire from ashes and [[GalacticConqueror launched wars of conquest throughout the universe]], which he describes as "glorious". Keeping himself alive through centuries using multiple clones, Luthor's empire has a policy of [[FinalSolution annihilating the native population]] of planets with species similar to Kryptonians. Once Kaleb confronts him personally, Luthor reveals that the champions of the tournaments to become his personal guard are killed, with their genes used to improve his biologically engineered guards before trying to kill Kaleb with radiation that emulates Kryptonite for the Hydrosians. A decrepit and senile old man with massive power, Luthor's ambition, paranoia and grudges killed countless innocents.

* [[AbsoluteXenophobe Preus]], introduced in the "Godfall" arc, is a Kryptonian CPC officer. First encountering Superman in the bottle city of Kandor, Preus pursued him to Metropolis, where the manifestation of his Kryptonian abilities convinced Preus that he had become a deity with a duty to "[[KnightTemplar cleanse the impure]]." Furious at Superman—whom he had once worshiped as a god—for having let the citizens of Metropolis live, Preus tried to level the city before being stopped by Superman and Kandorian Empireth Lyla. Recruiting a cult of white supremacists, Preus set himself up as a god-figure, forcing the women in the cult to sleep with him--an experience [[OutWithABang many did not survive]]--and readying them for a race war with the rest of the USA. When ComicBook/MartianManhunter tried to stop him, Preus crucified him and tortured him with fire. When Superman arrived, Preus ordered his cult to launch a SuicideAttack on the Man of Steel, aiming to force Superman to massacre the humans he was so dedicated to protecting. Hating everything that did not conform to his ideas of racial purity, Preus was representative of the very worst Kandor had to offer.

* ''Superman'' Vol. 1 issues #657-658: [[AmbitionIsEvil Hassan-I-Sabbah]], aka [[EvilOverlord Khyber]] is the lord of TheHashshashin, having his assassins slaughter whomever they wanted before seemingly fading into myth to prepare for his greatest attack on Earth yet. As a foretold BadFuture portends, Khyber divides nations and causes horrible terrorist attacks for centuries, dealing and divvying power to a variety of supervillains, before defeating Superman himself and using the ensuing chaos to scar the world with war and disasters, killing billions and allowing whomever survives to exist in nuclear winter under the cruel rule of the supervillains he's dealt with. Killing Superman himself for real during their final battle, Khyber's ultimate end comes in the form of his own creation Sirocco, a man whom Khyber put all his capacity for remorse and guilt into, making him immortal while [[AndIMustScream forcing him to bear the emotional torment]] of every atrocity Khyber has committed for centuries.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Matt Riggs]] is the Grand Scorpion of [[TheKlan the Klan of the Fiery Cross]], leading the Metropolis chapter the group, who wants to "purify" America of all nonwhite people. When his nephew Chuck gets into a fight with a Chinese-American boy named Tommy Lee during a baseball game, Matt decides to [[TaughtToHate induct Chuck into the Klan]]. Matt and his Klan followers go to Tommy's house, burn a cross on their yard and attempt to firebomb the house. After that fails, [[WouldHurtAChild Matt Riggs kidnaps Tommy]] and plans to have him [[TarAndFeathers tarred and feathered]]. Later, Matt attempts to bomb the Unity House children's community center, feeling it is a threat to American purity, not caring how many people die in the process. After the Daily Planet offers a reward for the unmasking of any Klansmen, Matt and his followers attack the Daily Planet and kidnap Lois Lane, Perry White and Police Chief Henderson, with Matt Riggs planning to murder them all. After being captured by Superman, Matt Riggs escapes from prison, murders his boss, the Grand Mogul of the Klan, for not being a true believer in the cause, and steals his weapons to use against Superman. Matt attacks a baseball game to lure Superman out, and when Matt tries to murder Tommy Lee, Chuck attacks his uncle to stop him, leading Matt Riggs to try to kill Chuck as well. After Superman overloads his laser gun, Matt Riggs reveals he has a bomb under his cloak and [[SuicideAttack he plans to blow up himself]] and [[TakingYouWithMe take everyone in the baseball stadium with him]].

* ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Matt Riggs]] is the Grand Scorpion of [[TheKlan the Klan of the Fiery Cross]], leading the Metropolis chapter the group, who wants to "purify" America of all nonwhite people. When his nephew Chuck gets into a fight with a Chinese-American boy named Tommy Lee during a baseball game, Matt decides to induct Chuck into the Klan. Matt and his Klan followers go to Tommy's house, burn a cross on their yard and attempt to firebomb the house. After that fails, [[WouldHurtAChild Matt Riggs kidnaps Tommy]] and plans to have him [[TarAndFeathers tarred and feathered]]. Later, Matt attempts to bomb the Unity House children's community center, feeling it is a threat to American purity, not caring how many people die in the process. After the Daily Planet offers a reward for the unmasking of any Klansmen, Matt and his followers attack the Daily Planet and kidnap Lois Lane, Perry White and Police Chief Henderson, with Matt Riggs planning to murder them all. After being captured by Superman, Matt Riggs escapes from prison, murders his boss, the Grand Mogul of the Klan, for not being a true believer in the cause, and steals his weapons to use against Superman. Matt attacks a baseball game to lure Superman out, and when Matt tries to murder Tommy Lee, Chuck attacks his uncle to stop him, leading Matt Riggs to try to kill Chuck as well. After Superman overloads his laser gun, Matt Riggs reveals he has a bomb under his cloak and [[SuicideAttack he plans to blow up himself]] and [[TakingYouWithMe take everyone in the baseball stadium with him]].

* ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan'': [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Matt Riggs]] is the Grand Scorpion of [[TheKlan the Klan of the Fiery Cross]], leading the Metropolis chapter the group, who wants to "purify" America of all nonwhite people. When his nephew Chuck gets into a fight with a Chinese-American boy named Tommy Lee during a baseball game, Matt decides to induct Chuck into the Klan. Matt and his Klan followers go to Tommy's house, burn a cross on their yard and attempt to firebomb the house. After that fails, [[WouldHurtAChild Matt Riggs kidnaps Tommy]] and plans to have him [[TarAndFeathers tarred and feathered]]. Later, Matt attempts to bomb the Unity House children's community center, feeling it is a threat to American purity, not caring how many people die in the process. After the Daily Planet offers a reward for the unmasking of any Klansmen, Matt and his followers attack the Daily Planet and kidnap Lois Lane, Perry White and Police Chief Henderson, with Matt Riggs planning to murder them all. After being captured by Superman, Matt Riggs escapes from prison, murders his boss, the Grand Mogul of the Klan, for not being a true believer in the cause, and steals his weapons to use against Superman. Matt attacks a baseball game to lure Superman out, and when Matt tries to murder Tommy Lee, Chuck attacks his uncle to stop him, leading Matt Riggs to try to kill Chuck as well. After Superman overloads his laser gun, Matt Riggs reveals he has a bomb under his cloak and [[SuicideAttack he plans to blow up himself]] and [[TakingYouWithMe take everyone in the baseball stadium with him]].

* ''Superman vs. Aliens II: God War'', by Creator/ChuckDixon et al.: [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] is the tyrannical dictator of Apokolips who uses the monstrous aliens known as [[{{Franchise/Alien}} Xenomorphs]] as weapons in this crossover series. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] by forcing his men to drag a spacecraft out of Apokolips and crash it into the slums, Darkseid callously ignores his minions' protests that it will kill millions of his slaves before it does just that. Discovering the eggs of [[FaceHugger facehuggers]], entities that implant the infant Xenomorphs inside hosts, Darkseid [[BadBoss tests a facehugger on one of his top scientists]], leading to the man's brutal death as a Xenomorph [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong bursts from his chest]], and Darkseid then begins his new plans for war with New Genesis. Implanting dozens of his soldiers with Xenomorphs, Darkseid has them attack New Genesis, only so as to allow the Xenomorphs to burst forth and slaughter everyone in their way, and, when Superman and Darkseid's son, Orion, travel to Apokolips to stop him, they stumble across the fact that Darkseid has used hundreds of his slaved as breeding materials for more Xenomorphs. In the end, Darkseid "saves" Orion and New Genesis from the Xenomorph threat, [[TheChessmaster solely to plant doubt in Orion so he will one day turn on New Genesis and become Darkseid's slave]].