Awesome / My Adventures with Superman

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Season One

Let's Go To Ivo Tower, You Say

• Doubling as a heartwarming moment; when the trio initially arrives at the gala, Clark is hesitant to follow Lois' lead and ask more hard-hitting questions of the rich and powerful guests. When Dr. Ivo insults Lois, however, Clark immediately grows a spine and loudly grills Ivo about his company's criminal dealings. This gets Clark thrown out, but later in the episode Ivo specifically mentions Clark's grilling as one of the things that went wrong that night, showing that Clark clearly got under his skin.
• Superman proves that he has brains as well as brawn. In his fight with Dr. Ivo/Parasite, after getting kicked around in the initial stage of the fight without doing any damage to Ivo, Superman realizes that all he needs to do to win is stop feeding the Parasite suit with kinetic energy and wait for it to run out of gas. Sure enough, the Parasite suit then turns on Ivo in order to fuel itself, nearly killing him. But even then, Superman proves himself the bigger man—rather than just let Ivo die, he removes the Parasite suit to save the man who tried to kill him a minute ago.
  • Of course, he wouldn't have been able to do this if Lois and Jimmy didn't take out the energy grid refueling the Parasite suit. Lois takes down Ivo's assistant Alex with a single punch, and Jimmy demonstrates some smarts of his own as he uses a UV light he brought earlier to locate Alex's fingerprints on the control room console, easily figuring out which button powers the energy grid.

You Will Believe A Man Can Lie

• Slade Wilson/Deathstroke demonstrates just how dangerous of an opponent he can be. Using Powered Armor and dual wielding energy-enhanced katanas, he goes up against Superman and kicks his ass. It's only through Superman's Heroic Resolve that he's finally able to land a hit on Deathstroke, and even then it's a minor inconvenience at best as Deathstroke quickly recovers, merges his katanas into a railgun, and takes aim at Superman. The only reason he doesn't kill Superman right then and there is because the General orders him to back off and let Superman save the civilians endangered by the fight in peace.
  • The way Superman lands a punch on Deathstroke. One of Deathstroke's attacks damages a highway support pillar, causing it to collapse with hundreds of people on it. Superman tries to retreat to save them, but Deathstroke continues to attack Superman without letting up. Superman, refusing to let anyone die, orders Deathstroke to stop... and when he doesn't, he punches him right as he lunges at Superman, sending him flying and buying Superman enough time to hold up the crumbling highway. It's not Superman's own life being at risk that steels him to fight back—it's everyone else's.
    Superman: You need to stop. People... need... help!
  • While telling Deathstroke to retreat instead of attacking Superman further, the General manages to win an argument with Amanda Waller, who is ordering Deathstroke to take the shot.
  • The early stages of the fight deserve mention, as they pit Superman up against the same robots he fought in the pilot. Originally he struggled to take out one of them, but here he's able to juggle two of them alongside Deathstroke, even one-shotting them with his heat vision. While Deathstroke is able to overpower him later, Superman nonetheless shows how far he's come in such a short time.

Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal

• In this episode, Mr. Mxyzptlk gets his chance to shine. While he's powerful in every continuity, he usually uses his powers to play elaborate pranks on Superman that require him to use his mind to defeat the reality-warping imp. Here, while he's still a lying, manipulative son of a bitch, once he gets his iconic bowler hat back and regains full power, he absolutely does not hold back. Mxy immediately unleashes a torrent of duplicates, portals, and magic laser beams on the base and all of its occupants. "God of Chaos" indeed.
  • Lois gets to one-up her alternate selves by actually using some quick thinking to pull Mxy's crown off of his head. Take note that the alternate selves had been much more successful and were wielding kryptonite guns and yet she still did something they couldn't do.
  • Jimmy leaps through a portal and tackles Mr. Mxyzptlk. He keeps a hold of the reality warper until he can be arrested by the Loises.

Zero Day, Part 1

• Task Force X takes on Superman, who has been running himself ragged for three days without rest and is so exhausted he can barely fly straight. After being beaten rather severely, Superman finally snaps, powering up with the glowing S-Shield seen in the pilot. He then beats them all in a manner of seconds, powering through their attacks, flinging them into each other and even defeating Deathstroke who'd previously given him trouble, via aiming for an AOE attack nearby him rather than directly trying to hit the speedy opponent in his close-range element, showing how much Clark is steadily improving his abilities in a fight, even if he'll only go that far as a last resort. If it weren't for Ivo getting in a cheap shot and absorbing his power-up, he'd have won.

Zero Day, Part 2

• The final fight with Parasite:
  • Parasite has turned into a monstrous, borderline-inhuman Kaiju and has Superman on the ropes. But when all hope seems lost, Lois and Jimmy rally Metropolis to his aid by exploiting Flamebird's recent surge in popularity to reach out to as many people as they can.
    Lois: People have told you to fear Superman because he's different from us... but we humans are capable of causing hurt and pain, too. Because of greed. (the screen cuts to Parasite) Because we want to punish those who don't look or act like us. (the screen cuts to Alex) Because of fear. (the screen cuts to the General) But we're also capable of greatness. It's what we choose to do that matters. Superman has made his choice. It's our turn, Metropolis... Superman has saved this city over and over again. It's time for us to save Superman.
  • This is followed by Jimmy coming up with a clever plan to starve Parasite of power, convincing his viewers to shut down their electricity. As Metropolis enters a city-wide blackout, Parasite begins to shrink, lacking the power he needs to maintain himself.
  • Finally, Superman unlocks his X-Ray vision and is able to pinpoint exactly where Ivo is within the gigantic armor. While Parasite rails against Superman for making him into a monster, Clark coldly shoots back that Ivo made himself into a monster before blasting through the Parasite armor and ripping Ivo out in a single strike.
    Ivo: What does that make an alien freak like you?!
    Superman: Don't you read the paper? I'm Superman.
    • Superman has spent the entire season unsure of who he is and doubting himself along the way. He's just found out that he may be a weapon designed to conquer Earth and is easily at his lowest point. The more people realize he isn't human, the more they begin to lash out against him. But with Metropolis supporting him in his Darkest Hour, he finds the strength to continue on. The question of who he is has lasted the entire season, and finally, he has his answer—he's Superman.
  • Amanda Waller aka "The Wall" aka DC Comics' premiere Chessmaster shows her chops by barely lifting a finger and even uses her team the Suicide Squad to do it. Having noticed Livewire's developing natural electrical abilities (which only occurred for a split second, implying that Waller is constantly observing their prisoners to preempt any escape attempts they make) she turns off the cameras, allowing her and the rest to escape and for events to lead to Ivo aka Parasite becoming a Kaiju monster that nearly destroys Metropolis. The end of the episode has Waller reveal that in light of events and the General's failure to contain and eliminate Superman, he's been relieved of duty with Amanda now in complete control of Task Force X.

Hearts of the Fathers

• Lois, Clark, and Jimmy's coverage of the Superman vs Parasite battle was good enough for Perry to promote the three of them from interns to reporters!
• When exposure to Kryptonite sets off the Krypton ship left on Earth and provokes another Zero Day portal, Sam Lane decides "Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! ," and tells the Kents and his daughter about the alien invasion, then draws his weapon and tells them to get clear while he tackles the threat single-handedly.
• Superman's still sick from his accidental exposure to the Kryptonite, but resolves to take the green rock up to the mothership that's arriving through an open portal in an effort to stop the invasion. Never mind that he's outmatched by the Brainiac drones — assuming that the Kryptonite doesn't kill him first — he's going to do it anyway, because he's the only one who can. And he delivers:
  • Grabbing the ship that brought him to Earth, and power-lifting it into the air to ram it into the approaching flagship.
  • Fighting through said ship and unleashing all his powers in a solo run against the Brainiac drones.
  • Jor-El's holographic A.I. establishes where Clark got his heroism from — a little thing like being a Virtual Ghost doesn't stop him from shorting out the drones that he flies through, and he and Clark fight their way to the bridge...
  • Weakened by the Kryptonite, on the verge of collapse...Superman grabs the radioactive crystal, clutches it tightly, and hurls it into the ship's mainframe to corrupt it to the point of self-destructing, shutting the portal and Portal Cutting the flagship that was trying to fly through it, which explodes on the other side.
  • Jor-El's hologram performing a Heroic Sacrifice to eject Superman from the ship, proving that for all his son's misgivings about him, he did love his son.
• When Sam Lane draws his reverse-engineered Krypton weapon on a weakened Superman, Lois steps between him and his target, calls him out on trying to kill the man who just stopped the invasion, and vowing that her father's going to have to kill her too if he pulls that trigger.
  • And, much like Jor-El, General Lane shows where his own priorities lie by contacting Task Force X and telling them that there's no sign of Nemesis Omega. He may not trust Superman, but he's willing to risk the ire of Amanda Waller for the sake of his daughter.
• At the family dinner, Jimmy casually reveals that thanks to selling the Flamebird blog, he's worth $5.6 million now.
• The final scene reveals none other than Brainiac. And he's serving as The Dragon to an unknown Kryptonian in power armor, who seems intent on taking Earth for his people. And his response to Brainiac noting that Earth will likely resist?
  Kryptonian Warrior: Let them rebel. It does not matter. In the end, they will kneel.

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