History WesternAnimation / BatmanAndSupermanBattleOfTheSuperSons

* AscendedFanboy: Jonathan was already a fan of superheroes, especially Superman and Batman, so he couldn't be happier to learn that he's half-alien and that he has powers.

* YouthfulFreckles: Jon has a cluster of freckles beneath each eye to reflect his youthful exuberance and joy over learning that he has superpowers and is the son of the (second) greatest superhero in the world.

* AdultsAreUseless: Principal Cunningham, the headmaster of Jon's school, is a living embodiment of one of the most common [[MiscarriageOfJustice miscarriages of justice]] found in any school setting, both in fiction and in reality: "Spare the Bully, Punish the Victim" While he defends Melvin's bullying by saying he is going through mental issues, Jon was clearly standing up for himself.

* AdultsAreUseless: The principal at Jon's school defends Melvin's bullying by saying he is going through mental issues. Clearly, Jon was standing up for himself.

* SuperEmpowering: A single occasion seems to show Starro's spore able to do this on a host, when Lois is easily able to hold on to the outside of the Batplane while it's flying and then pound repeatedly on the canopy glass with her fist and head and break through it, all without being injured in even the slightest.

** The Teen Titan members are nearly all the same lineup as the early ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' team members.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: As Superman notes, Damian's and Jonathan's first interaction reminds him of when he met Batman. Batman however disagrees, claiming that he had been far nicer than his son.

** 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 bunt the ball far away enough to easily run around the bases.

** The Fortress of Solitude is largely based on its 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 "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest World's Finest]]", how they met in the comics, or something else?

* Monologuing}}: Lampshaded when Damian complains about Jor-El talking as much as his dad does. Later Starro plays it straight, EvilGloating how it's going to take over the Universe.

* ChekhovsGun: While rushing to get to work on time, Lois grabs a hair spray can instead of the water bottle before Jon reminds her what she took. Lois keeps the hair spray anyways, reasoning that she might need it later. After being freed from Starro's mind control, she uses it as part of an AerosolFlamethrower against the spore attached to Lex Luthor.

* OhCrap: Earlier Damian and Jon realize that Lois had been taken over when she says that her son breaking into a tub of ice cream she keeps hidden 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.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: When Jon and Damian are first confronted by a brainwashed Lois, Damian insists she is even though Jon is skeptical. Damian tells Jon to test her to confirm his suspicions, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Jon:''' Hi, Mom. Um, when we get home, can I go play video games and ''maybe'' break into that tub of ice cream you try to hide from me in the freezer?\\

* ProperlyParanoid: Although she initially asserts that Lex is obviously not possessed by Starro, she keeps the hair spray can she grabbed the previous morning and a cigarette lighter handy just in case. Once Starro reveals itself, she quickly uses those items as an AerosolFlamethrower.
-->'''Lois:''' I'm an investigative reporter, asshole. I knew you were taken over the minute you took the meeting.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Defied. Lois tells Clark that they cannot send Jon to school if he has X-Ray vision, for obvious reasons.

''Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons'' is a 2022 all-CGI animated movie produced as part of the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies''. It stars Jonathan Samuel Kent, an upbeat boy who discovers his father is Superman, and Damian Wayne, the moody son of Batman, who meet and quickly have to save the Earth from Starro the Conqueror.

The cast includes Creator/JackDylanGrazer as Jon, Creator/JackGriffo as Damian, Creator/TravisWillingham and Creator/LauraBailey as Superman and Lois Lane, and Creator/TroyBaker as Batman.

* BrickJoke: At the beginning of the movie, Damian shoves Jon off a cliff in the Batcave to try and get him to fly. At the end of the movie, Damian shoves Jon off a watertower while dryly remarking, "Still can’t fly."

* ButtMonkey: Jonathan's bully Melvin Masters, is paralyzed by Damian using pressure points twice in the film as a joke.
* TheCameo: Cyborg, Aqualad, Hawkman, Blue Beetle and Speedy appear on the screen of the batcomputer. Meanwhile the Penguin is essentially this to help show how Batman is far more brutal than Superman.

* 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 Damian 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 Damian and later takes him for a traditional father-son outing (i.e. watch Jonathan's baseball game).

* TheGhost: Conner Kent, Ra's al Ghul, his daughter Talia and Alfred are mentioned but don't appear.
* 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. He also wants to make Jon his homework slave and gets into a fight with the boy. But the karma gods, embodied in the form of Damian, aren't mocked, so Melvin gets stunned into near-immobility -- ''twice''.

** Batman claims that he was nicer when he and Superman first met, but are they referring to ''[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest World's Finest]]'', how they met in the comics, or something else?
** During a fight between the two, Jonathan exclaims that he manages to knock Batman out “with one punch”, referencing the famous JLA storyline when Batman knocked out Guy Gardner with a single blow.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Starro declares that the people of Earth should be happy that there is now no crime, no inequality, and no want with everyone under his control. Damian points out that Starro's endgame is to suck the planet dry of resouces before moving on to find another world to parasitize, which Starro makes no attempt to deny.

* OhCrap: Earlier Damian and Jon realize that Lois 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.

* SociopathicHero: As usual, Damian has a very warped view on right and wrong due to growing up with Talia and Ra's 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.

** The brainwashed Justice League and Teen Titans may still have their superpowers, but Starro is clearly unable to use them beyond the basics. 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 slowly proceeding through the storage room they're hiding and peering behind every stack of crates.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Damian and Jonathan grow into this overtime, despite at first hating each other. They'll snipe at each other all day but are still willing to take a bullet for one another. At the end of the film, Damian paralyzes Melvin to silence him at Jon's baseball game while shouting some awkward words of encouragement. Later that same day, Damian gives Jon the equivalent of a birthday punch by shoving him off a building.

** The Teen Titan members are nearly all the same lineup as the early ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' team members.

* AdaptationalOriginConnection: It's implied that the Starro spore that latched onto baby Kal-El's ship at the start of the film was the main Starro controlling the rest by the present, meaning that sending Kal-El to Earth saved Starro from being killed on Krypton.

* 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.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Damian and Jonathan grow into this overtime, despite at first hating each other. They'll snipe at each other all day but are still willing to take abullet for one another. At the end of the film, Damian paralyzes Melvin to silence him at Jon's baseball game while shouting some awkward words of encouragement. Later that same day, Damian gives Jon the equivalent of a birthday punch by shoving him off a building.

* ParentsAsPeople: Clark and Lois clearly love Jon with all their heart, but their busy lives as reporters (as well as Clark's "other job" as Superman) mean that they're frequently absent in Jon's life. Jon is especially hurt when Clark doesn't show up to his baseball game like he promised he would, wondering if Clark values his job over his son.