History WesternAnimation / BatmanAndSupermanBattleOfTheSuperSons

* OhCrap: Earlier Damian and Jon realize that Lois Lane had ben taken over when she says that her son breaking into a tub of ice cream she keeps hiding is a great idea, When Damian opens the doors from the Watchtower hangar bay, he sees the brainwashed Teen Titans and Martian Manhunter staring at him. He immediately closes the door and remarks, [[CurseCutShort "We're in deep shi-"]] just as Martian Manhunter tears the doors back open.

* OhCrap: When Damian opens the doors from the Watchtower hangar bay, he sees the brainwashed Teen Titans and Martian Manhunter staring at him. He immediately closes the door and remarks, [[CurseCutShort "We're in deep shi-"]] just as Martian Manhunter tears the doors back open.

** Similarly, at the start of the movie, Clark leaves Jon with [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog an awkward excuse]] to save the Watchtower from burning up in orbit. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Jon and Damian purposefully crash the Watchtower in an attempt to burn Starro up in atmospheric reentry. The boys are saved from an untimely doom by a newly freed Clark, who catches the bridge of the Watchtower just in time as the rest of it falls to pieces.]]
* BrickJoke: "Still can’t fly," says Damian after pushing Jon off a tower at the end.

** The Fortress of Solitude is large based on it's 1978 counterpart, but with darker lighting and blue crystals. Jor-El even drops the "spanning the 28 known galaxies" quote.
** Batman claims that he was nicer when he and Superman first met, but are they referring to ''World's Finest'', how they met in the comics, or something else?

* HateSink: The audience can't hate Starro because he's that kind of villain who's hard to come by in real life. You can however, hate Melvin Masters for being the immature bully that he is. He constantly heckles Jonathan at his baseball games and is clearly jealous that he isn’t on the team due to his poor grades.

* AerosolFlamethrower: Lois packs a hair spray can and a cigarette lighter when going to Lex Luthor, the president of the United States, to ask him to issue an emergency national broadcast to warn everyone about the threat of Starro. She insists the lighter is just in there as a reminder since she quit smoking, but soon whips the can and lighter out to burn Starro when it reveals it has already possessed Lex. She then tells Jon that [[KillItWithFire Starro is weak to intense heat]] and to [[CurseCutShort burn this motherfu-]] before the broadcast cuts out.

* DieOrFly: Damian tries to invoke this by shoving Jon off a cliff in the Batcave when Batman says that Jon's powers might activate in the face of severe stress. [[SubvertedTrope All this does]] is force Superman to rescue Jon, who is understandably reeling from his near-death experience. Played straight when Jon [[TakingTheBullet throws himself in front of an arrow meant for Damian]], which activates Jon's NighInvulnerability just in time to save his life.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the beginning of the film, Jon is shown struggling with how to write a decent report on his parents, "the most boring couple in the universe". While his mom tries to give him some advice, he constantly points out the things she's forgetting in her rush to make it to the Daily Planet. He then immediately rebels against his mom's instructions to not look for his birthday present. This shows how he's BrilliantButLazy with a mischevious streak.

* TelephonePolearm: [[spoiler:Starro meets its end when a freed Clark hurls it at Jon, who knocks Starro into the upper atmosphere by using an entire tree as a baseball bat, burning the monster up with atmospheric friction.]]

* WhamLine: "Still can’t fly," says Damian after pushing Jon off a tower at the end.

* AdultsAreUseless: The teachers at Jon's school turn a blind eye to bullying and criticize Jon when he stands up for himself, saying that the bully needs more sympathy.

* SociopathicHero: As usual, Damian has a very warped view on right and wrong due to growing up with Talia and Ra for the first ten years of his life. He pushed Jonathan off a cliff to test his powers while bragging how he's killed people, temporarily paralyzes Jonathan's bully through a pressure point twice, tells Jonathan to kill a mind-controlled Lois, and mentions that he will kill Batman if he has to. However he's still a hero who's prepared to [[spoiler:sacrifice himself at the end of the film to kill Starro]] and genuinely wants friends, and while still finding it funny to push Jonathan off the Smallville water tower, Damian does come to care about him.
* SoftWater: When Lois is brainwashed by Starro into attacking Jon and Damian aboard the Batjet, Jon manages to blast her off with heat vision above lake, which she falls into and emerges unharmed despite still being aboard a plane moving at a reasonable cruising speed.

* AnimalLover: While less pronounced than his comic counterpart's menagerie of pets, Damian clearly loves Batcow and is irritated when Jon tells him that she needs milking since it'd imply that Damian is neglecting her. Jon similarly enjoys spending time with the animals on his family farm while doing chores with his dad, milking Batcow anyways and handing a pail of her milk to Batman.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Jonathan is upset about how often Clark has to leave and how he misses his baseball games, but once he learns he's Superman he's overjoyed and forgives him.

-->'''Jon:''' Hey, Mom. Can I go play video games and break into that tub of ice cream you've been trying to hide in the freezer?\\
'''Lois:''' ''[in CreepyMonotone]'' That sounds like a marvelous idea. Now come and give me a hug.\\
'''Jon:''' Yeah, she's been taken over.

* CharacterDevelopment: Jonathan starts the film as an AscendedFanboy who can't wait to become a superhero, but during the invasion starts to realise the dangers involved and by the end understands what Clark meant by how being a hero requires sacrifice. Damian also changes from being incredibly arrogant and mean to Jonathan to becoming a better team player, even agreeing at the end that he and Jonathan should keep working together as the Super Sons. Batman himself also gets a bit of development; Bruce's parenting of Damien is largely painted by his son's role as Robin and is never really openly affectionate to him, but near the end when he and Superman reunite with their sons after the Watch Tower crashing, Bruce warmly embraces Damien and later takes him for a traditional father-son outing (i.e. watch Jonathan's baseball game).

* PressurePoint: Damian instantly renders Melvin catatonic by jabbing him in the chest with a technique he learned from his grandfather, Ra's al Ghul. He then remarks that Melvin will recover... in a week. Damian repeats this when Melvin tries to jeer at Jon again at the baseball game.

* SociopathicHero: As usual, Damian has a very warped view on right and wrong due to growing up with Talia and Ra for the first ten years of his life. He pushed Jonathan off a cliff to test his powers while bragging how he's killed people, temporarily paralyzes Jonathan's bully through a pressure point twice, tells Jonathan to kill a mind-controlled Lois, and mentions that he will kill Batman if he has to. However he's still a hero who's prepared to [[spoiler:sacrifice himself at the end of the film to kill Starro]] and genuinely wants friends, and while still finding it funny to push Jonathan off the Smallville water tower Damian does come to care about him.

* CharacterDevelopment: Jonathan starts the film as an AscendedFanboy who can't wait to become a superhero, but during the invasion starts to realise the dangers involved and by the end understands what Clark meant by how being a hero requires sacrifice. Damian also changes from being incredibly arrogant and mean to Jonathan to becoming a better team player, even agreeing at the end that he and Jonathan should keep working together as the Super Sons.

* SociopathicHero: As usual, Damian has a very warped view on right and wrong due to the training Talia and Ra's gave him. He pushed Jonathan off a cliff to test his powers while bragging how he's killed people, temporarily paralyzes Jonathan's bully through a pressure point twice, tells Jonathan to kill a mind-controlled Lois, and mentions that he will kill Batman if he has to. However he's still a hero who's prepared to [[spoiler:sacrifice himself at the end of the film to kill Starro]] and genuinely wants friends, and while still finding it funny to push Jonathan off the Smallville water tower Damian does come to care about him.

* FireForgedFriends: Jon and Damian start out on fairly bad terms, due to Jon's naivete and Damian's arrogance causing them to annoy the hell out of each other. After some TeethClenchedTeamwork and CharacterDevelopment the two form a bond are actively referring to each other as friends by the end.

** Jon's baseball team is the Smallville Crows, reflecting Clark's high school football team in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. They're up against the Midvale Spartans. In the Silver Age, Midvale was where Superman hid Supergirl away as Linda Lee, and in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' "Spartans" were used instead of "Crows" as a nod to the director Creator/ZackSnyder's [[Film/ThreeHundred previous work]].

* BookDumb: Downplayed. Jon doesn't like school and is clearly more interested in doing farm chores with his dad than studying. His motivation to study drops even more after developing superpowers like his dad's. But it's pointed out that he consistently maintains high grades to keep his spot on the Smallville Junior High baseball team. He also comes to some clever inferences from what his parents tell him and brings up the idea of him and Damian fighting each other's fathers to beat them.

* FireForgedFriends: Jon and Damian start out on fairly bad terms, due to Jon's naivete and Damian's arrogance causing them to annoy the hell out of each other. After some TeethClenchedTeamwork and CharacterGrowth the two form a bond are actively referring to each other as friends by the end.

* BrokenAesop: Jonathan's principal tells him that he should be patient with his bully Melvin because he has problems, and that if he took the time they could become friends. While this naturally foreshadows his relationship with Damian, the film treats Melvin as a ButtMonkey without giving him redeeming qualities. The message also falls apart because Damian genuinely wants to have friends meaning there's layers underneath his arrogance and rudeness, while Melvim simply likes to pick on Jonathan while never expressing any remorse. This is despite this apparently being the main theme the creators of the film were going for.

* TakingTheBullet: Damian dares a brainwashed Green Arrow to shoot him right in the chest while trying to fast talk and IndyPLoy his way out of a ring of brainwashes superheroes. Jon instead throws himself in front of the arrow, but is saved by his NighInvulnerability being activated in response to this stressful situation.

** The brainwashed Justice League and Teen Titans may still have their superpowers, but Starro is clearly unable to use them beyond the basics. For instance, the brainwashed Wonder Girl simply charges and screams at Jon rather than using her lasso for anything beyond a strangulation tool. Similarly, the brainwashed Superman never uses his X-ray Vision to locate the boys, instead proceeding through the storage room they're hiding in slowly.

* BookDumb: Downplayed. Jon doesn't like school and is clearly more interested in doing farm chores with his dad than studying. His motivation to study drops even more after developing superpowers like his dad's. But it's pointed out that he needs to maintain consistently high grades to keep his spot on the Smallville Junior High baseball team. He also comes to some clever inferences from what his parents tell him and brings up the idea of him and Damian fighting each other's fathers to beat them.

** Similarly, at the start of the movie, Clark leaves Jon with [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog an awkward excuse]] to save the Watchtower from burning up in orbit. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Jon and Damian purposefully crash the Watchtower in an attempt to burn Starro up in atmospheric reentry. The boys are saved from an untimely doom by a newly freed Clark, who catches the bridge of the Watchtower just in time.]]

* AngryGuardDog: Krypto is furious when Jon and Damian break into the Fortress of Solitude and chases the mdown while repeatedly firing his heat vision. He only stops when the digitized AI modeled after Jor-El appears and tells Krypto to heel and sniff Jon, upon which Krypto quickly realizes that Jon is Clark's son and licks him.

** Jon's journey in the movie begins and ends with his Little League baseball game. At the start, he strikes out because he can't focus with Melvin's jeering and Clark's absence getting to him. At the end, his parents and his new BestFriend Damian are all there to support him, with Damian silencing Marvin with a paralyzing PressurePoint attack. This, combined with Jon's newfound confidence and superpowers, lets him easily bunt the ball far away enough to easily run around the bases.

* TakingTheBullet: Damian dares a brainwashed Green Arrow to shoot him right in the chest while trying to fast talk and IndyPLoy his way out of a ring of brainwashes superheroes. Jon instead throws himself in front of the arrow, but is saved by his NighInvulnerabiltiy being activated in response to this stressful situation.

* AnimalLover: While less pronounced than his comic counterpart's menagerie of pets, Damian clearly loves Batcow and is irritated when Jon tells him that she needs milking since it'd imply that Damian is neglecting her. Jon similarly enjoys spending time with the animals on his family farm while doing farm chores with his dad, milking Batcow anyways and handing a pail of her milk to Batman.

* BatterUp: [[spoiler:Starro meets its end when a freed Clark hurls it at Jon, who knocks Starro into the upper atmosphere by using an entire tree as a baseball bat, burning the monster up with atmospheric friction.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: When a mind-controlled Green Arrow fires an arrow at Damian, Jonathan leaps in front of it, much to Damian's surprise who immediately feels guilty and complaining how he was starting to like him. Luckily Jonathan had developed invulnerability by this point, and the two work together to fight the heroes. [[spoiler:Later Damian and Jonathan realize that the best way to kill Starro would be to crash the Watchtower and have it be burned during re-entry. Because this has to be done manually, they place all the unconscious heroes onto ships and send them back to Earth. Thankfully Superman is freed from this and is able to save the boys.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex:
** The principal of Jonathan's school insists that Melvin has issues and for Jonathan to give him a chance and empathize with him rather than push him away. Whether or not this is true, Melvin constantly belittles Jon who is consistently shown to be Melvin's intellectual, moral, and (post-superpower awakening) physical better. This clearly irks Melvin, who props up his paper-thin ego by jeering at Jon's positive traits.

* AnimeHair: Damian has this.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Jon and Damian have this kind of exchange along with ItsBeenAnHonor at the end of the movie when [[spoiler:they're willing to burn themselves to death along with Starro in atmospheric reentry if it means saving the world. Despite their impending doom, Jon and Damian are perfectly calm about the whole situation and even share a laugh and a fist bump.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: Damian and Jonathan grow into this overtime, despite at first hating each other.