10 Insane Alternate Versions Of Superman You Won't Believe Exist

7. Bruce Wayne: Superman

If you're yelling at your scream that that picture is clearly Batman, not Superman, then firstly: use your indoor voice, and secondly: you're very perceptive, maybe you should be writing this article? In Superman: Speeding Bullets, the orphaned Kal-El is adopted by Thomas and Martha Wayne, who give him the name Bruce instead of Clark. Despite this fork in the road of classic DC continuity, the Wayne parents still fall foul to a mugger whose guns them down, only this time he then gets incinerated by young Bruce's heat vision. He feels vindicated that he wiped out his parents' murderer, but ashamed that his powers waited until they were beyond help to manifest, so he keeps them under wraps. That is until he grows up and finds it impossible to ignore the crime-ridden streets of Gotham City any longer, taking up the cowl and calling himself Batman! Except he's technically Superman. Just in a Batman costume. Speeding Bullets is pretty much just Clark Kent playing dress up, with some other weird twists like Lex Luthor falling into a vat of acid and getting some Joker-style facial scarring and insanity for his troubles. At the end of the story Lois Lane convinces Bruce that the Batman costume is a little dark, and it's only by adopting a friendlier, more colourful alter ego that he might drag Gotham out of its perennial darkness. So he becomes Superman after all, but that doesn't stop what came before from being totes insane.