20 Recent Movie Plot Twists NOBODY Saw Coming

20. Clark's Parents Wanted Him To Conquer Earth - Superman

James Gunn's Superman isn't a film that many expected to have a genuinely jolting plot twist, and yet here we are.

At the start of the film, we see Superman (David Corenswet) being soothed with a message from his Kryptonian birth parents Jor-El (Bradley Cooper) and Lara Lor-Van (Angela Sarafyan).

However, said message was damaged during transit to Earth, and later on Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) has the missing passage of the message restored, where Clark's parents implore him to conquer Earth and take many wives to rebuild the Kryptonian race.

At first, many might assume that Luthor has doctored the remains of the message to help turn public opinion against Superman, but in a ballsy move Gunn makes pains to point out that there are no shenanigans afoot and the message is 100% legit.

It's certainly a reveal that left many Superfans upset, though it also did a fantastic job of bolstering one of the film's central themes, that Clark became a beacon of hope because of how he was nurtured by his Earth parents, the Kents.