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Warning ! Spoilers in advance forBatman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 24!When it comes to the stability of the DC Universe , Batmanknows that everything in the world reckon onSuperman . InBatman / Superman : World ’s Finest , the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel jeopardize to thedark domain presented inKingdom Comeand were horrified at the sights they discovered .
Batman and Superman cope with the darkness they encountered in this twisted macrocosm and it nearly broke Superman ’s trust . But his closest brother reminds the Man of Steel of one unequivocal truth that ensures the DC Universe remains as stable as ever .
Boy Thunder and Superman’s Greatest Failure
Batman / Superman : World ’s Finestintroduced a character that changed everything that fans knew about the Man of Tomorrow . The title revealed that in Clark ’s earlier days , he had asidekick identify Boy Thunder , aka David Sikela , the sole subsister of a dead universe . Superman have the boy in and advised him as best he could . Unfortunately , David had deep - seat anger issues and he tended to apply his electric powers raspingly on villains , something thatperturbed the DC Universe ’s heroes , even Superman .
thing only catch worse when Boy Thunder was kidnap by the Joker and the Key . David was excruciate by the Clown Prince of Crime and most killed the Joker in revenge . However , shortly after being rescued , David vanished from the DC Universe and was accidentally transported to another world in the multiverse : Earth-22 , the set forKingdom Come . The first soul to discover Superman ’s wayward sidekick was Gog , who take the untested zep under his annexe andbegan using Boy Thunder as part of Gog ’s programme for the world .
It was n’t until afterwards that Flash discovered David ’s location , causing Batman and Superman to venture into the multiverse to bring David household . However , Superman was horrify when he accidentally understand a glimpse ofKingdom Come’sdeadly future , something that was only aggravate when he met Earth-22 ’s Superman . Clark was also tempestuous when he fancy what became of Boy Thunder , who had become the vehement antihero Thunderman . With how red Thunderman and Earth-22 ’s Superman were , the Prime Superman was dumbfounded at how terrible this world was .
Batman Confirms That Every World Needs a Superman
InBatman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 24by Mark Waid and Dan Mora , thing have gone from bad to worse as Earth-22 is overrun by Darkseid . The greatest bomber attempt to fight back , but none are a match for the Lord of Apokolips . Darkseid makes a beeline for Gog , intent on plucking the Antilife Equation from the Old God ’s organic structure . With the balance of the poor boy falling one by one , David , now going by Magog , challenges Darkseid to keep him from gaining Gog ’s magnate .
Unfortunately , Magog is n’t strong enough to stop Darkseid , but he does have enough power to all atomize Gog . While Magog is successful and makes Darkseid depart , Magog is masticate out by his fellow grinder for killing Gog . Magog leaves , but the fight continues as Superman blames his Earth-22 twin for David ’s behavior . But before Superman spills the bean plant on Earth-22 ’s appal future , the Spectre arrives to take Bruce and Clark to their own creation . ButSuperman refuses to leave until he knows what becomes of David .
Spectre register Clark Earth-22 ’s hereafter and reveals how Superman ’s decision to leave Earth ’s circumstances up to the next generation of Cuban sandwich like Magog ultimately result to the warfare Clark saw . Superman is speechless until Batman shakes some sentiency into his supporter . Batman remind Superman that the only mistake Earth-22 ’s Clark ever made was thinking that Superman was n’t needed . As Clark and Bruce see an older Magog grieve over his actions inKingdom Come , Batman clearly state that every worldneedsa Superman .
Superman is the Key to the DC Universe’s Stability
Batman ’s statement is absolutely correct . InKingdom Come , Superman thought he was redundant and that his path of heroism did n’t belong in a world that only wanted violent antiheroes . But this only served to make Earth-22 a much worse place . Without Superman , it paved the way for the American Midwest to be destroy and later led to the nuking that killed a hefty portion of the humans ’s metahumans . As bad as this globe was , it was n’t the only DC Universe that went incredibly sideways without a Superman .
InJustice League : The Nail , Martha and Jonathan Kent never find Superman as a sister , depriving the DCU of its most inspiring shape and accidentally creating a man filled with anti - metahuman paranoia . InFlashpoint , Superman was abducted and keep set apart as part of a government experiment and the rest of the world went to absolute Hades without him . And these were just world where the Man of Tomorrow was absent . Even worse are theworlds where Superman was corrupted or come from grace .
Injusticeis arguably the greatest example of how dire the DC Universe can get when Superman ’s optimistic outlook is crush out . Even though he was physically around , Clark was broken after the Joker killed Lois Lane and destroyed Metropolis . With the Man of Steel devoid of his faith in humanity , he ran a tyrannical campaign that insure him brutalize criminals and plunge a warfare against the citizenry he once called his friends , fosteringone of the forged Earths in the DC multiverse .
Superman Embodies the Heroic Spirit of the DC Universe
The thought of Superman going rapscallion is always an unsettling thought . But what ’s even worse is the idea that not having him at all arrange the DC Universe on a itinerary to ruin . Both paladin and civilians alive look up to the Big Blue Boy Scout for Leslie Townes Hope and are inspired by the example he sets . Without him to result the way , the world has no honest - to - goodness hero to model itself after and chaos necessarily follows .
Batman is correct : The humankind needs Superman . Not just because he ’s the substantial or the most powerful , but because Clark is a never - ending beginning of inspiration to the DC Universe who reminds everyone about the grandness of truth and DoJ . When he ’s not around , it ’s only a matter of prison term before the reality goes out of whack without its linchpin to lead the way . If it were n’t forSuperman , evenBatmanknows the DC Universe would have doubtless fall twelvemonth ago .
Batman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 24is available now from DC Comics .
Batman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 24(2024 )
