10 INSANE Times Superman Beat Batman

10. Superman: Red Son

Superman: Red Son imagined a world where the baby Kal-El landed on a Ukrainian farming collective instead of Kansas and became a hero of Mother Russia and its eventual leader. His influence spread until only Chile and the fractured United States remained free from his control. The brilliant American scientist Lex Luthor opposed him.

In the “Ascendant” part of the three-issue miniseries, Batman was the head of an anarchist terrorist network in Russia who saw all the prosperity and abundance that Superman had forced on his country as oppression. He joined forces with Luthor and the head of the KGB to stage a coup. Capturing Wonder Woman as bait and tying her with her own Lasso, the Soviet Bat lured Comrade Superman to an abandoned base outside Siberia and engaged a battery of red sun lights that robbed Kal of his powers. Batman began beating him mercilessly, with Superman only getting a hit with a 2 x 4 in when he caught Comrade Dark Knight monologuing. Batman knocked Superman down and threw him into a bunker.

Knowing she could hear him, Superman told Diana that she was his only hope even though he knew it would hurt. Wonder Woman broke the magic Lasso and destroyed the red sun generator. Superman burst out of the bunker and confronted Batman.

The Caped Crusader flipped a switch that exploded the bomb in his chest, preferring to die a martyr than to live as yet another Superman “robot”. Sadly, something also “broke” in Wonder Woman as a result of destroying the Magic Lasso, as it turned her hair white and altered her mind.