What If...Kevin Smith's Superman Movie Got Made

4. Superman "Dies"

Superman Is Dead Superman Returns.
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When Brainiac blocks out the Sun and sends out Doomsday to fight Superman, Supes loses his powers and actually falls prey to the attack, essentially dying - if not in a fashion as dramatic as above.

In the script, Doomsday ends up dying as well, but the key, of course, is that Superman is gone, leaving Brainiac and Lex Luthor to rule as they see fit, while Metropolis' denizens are left powerless.

While the world temporarily laments Superman, this isn't the downtrodden arc we've seen in some of the comic iterations of Superman; there's no Lois crying over his coffin, and he comes back with a vengeance...

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