Superman: On Even Terms – Fan Script
By: Jason MacKenzie
Superman: On Even Terms
//Updated November 11, 2023 – updates at bottom of page in sequential order.//
**********Update: Superman while disembodied trapped in the chemicals of the planet “becomes more human”, he realizes he shouldn’t have told people when younger that Kryptonite kills him stays disembodied while reliving his mistakes in the Earth’s chemicals…making him more human like.
Later, everyone has forgotten about Kryptonite when characters like Batman are older and now everyone thinks that it’s Batman’s bullets for his gun that hurts Superman…which is actually cooled Kryptonite bullets that only harm Superman temporarily.
However, this has led to Superman losing ground to Batman in Gotham with a weapon that hurts him (cooled Kryptonite bullets), other characters with experiences with people dying around them when they were young were later (like Spider-Man in my Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends fan script) just from trauma from war and combat,
Batman’s real childhood in this fan script was normal and Bruce Wayne only thinks they died from a gang hit because he was insane from a war before he became Batman and didn’t remember, with Super-Man disembodied other characters experience effects reliving their past and remembering things along with Superman who is trapped in the chemicals thinking about his past.******
Military scientists discover a strange grey metallic material that hurts Superman like knives stabbing him, they learn that this material is Kryptonite a strange element from another planet like the uranium core of Krypton that subdues Supermans power.
Now they must decide how to handle the situation with Superman…on even terms.
Scene 1 – Superman explodes and dies over the skies of Metropolis.
Batman: “They got him! They shot Superman!”
Crowd astonished, after Superman has exploded in the opening sequence after being shot by a cooled kryptonite military shell.
A still quiet has developed in a new world without Superman, as villains secretly divide up their new territories.
Superman: “What happened, I just exploded…ahh ahhh…I must be trapped in the chemicals of the planets atmosphere.”
Superman: “ahh, ahh…I must get out of here.”
Superman now exploded and trapped in the chemicals of the planet experiences some kind of death like vision in his head as his life flashes before him…now he must put himself back together and return to the solid part of the planet.
Superman then begins the journey to reconstruct himself while trapped inside the chemicals of the Earth where he relives stories of his past and faces his inner consciousness.
Then he becomes a stronger Superman who has become more adapted to the Earth but now faces cooled Kryptonie bullets invented by Bruce Wayne who has now begun using his handgun to protect himself from Superman which ignites a war between the two as Batman and Superman’s enemies arm themselves with Bruce Waynes Krytonite bullets.
Superman (disembodied in the chemicals of the planet): “Why did I tell them it was Kryptonite?”
Superman: “If I could only go back and fix it…..ahhhhh”.
Meanwhile…
Bruce Wayne unconvinced on the final demise of Superman creates an unofficial agreement with crime figures and villains to help him create his cooled Kryponite bullets by allowing other scientists to help him in the research lab.
Bruce Wayne: “We need to find out what happened to Superman’s body, he could be back.”
Bullet Customer: “How will you hide these cooled bullets from Superman if he returns?”
Bruce Wayne: “The bullets come in a Radioactive Kryptonite Case and the gun itself is live Kryptonite inside steel, he won’t be able to detect the gun without coming in contact with the Kryptonite.
This new “alliance” ignites a war between Gotham and Metropolis in Superman’s absence as Bruce Wayne rises to new power in a world without Superman.
Superman (disembodied in the chemicals of the planet): “I can feel myself getting younger inside the planet’s chemicals.”
Superman (disembodied): “How much time has gone by? Maybe someday they will forget about my weakness when I am old….maybe I should hide when I return until they forget, then to live a normal life….ahhhhh, my head…..maybe someday”.
Superman continue to deal with the struggles of his unresolved issues of the past while rejuvinating the chemicals of the planet realizing he will always be young on Earth as other’s age.”
Superman (disembodied): “So many people have come and gone it has been so long, I have forgotten them.”
He continues to relive stories of his past trying to deal with the issues to live into the future on Earth…planning his escape from his weakness.
Superman (disembodied): “Someday they will forget and I will be young again in the future on Earth.”
Superman: “Ahhh, the explosion from Krypton…..the blast propelled me to the Earth, fighting it making me stonger…ahhh, now I am trapped in the chemicals of the Earth.”
A disembodied Superman has created a new feeling in the Earth from Superman….time begins to thicken and slow down.
Bruce Wayne: “I can’t take it…it’s too quiet and sunny….and so peaceful, perhaps like Krypton? Ahhh..why do I keep saying things like that.”
Bruce Wayne: “The time without Superman….it is so slow.”
Bruce Wayne: “The decompression….without Superman….I can’t take it!”
Bruce Wayne: “Alfred….how long have I been doing this?”
Alfred: “A long time Bruce…since you were young.”
Bruce Wayne: “Since before Superman?”
Alfred: “Yes, Bruce…you’re a soldier…from a long time ago…”
Bruce Wayne: “When Alfred?”
Alfred: “I don’t know Bruce, you’re a Soldier from a war a long time ago.”
Bruce Wayne: “I can’t remember, it’s been too long.”
Alfred: “No one you ever knew is alive any more Bruce…hahaha.”
Bruce Wayne: “I don’t know Alfred, I can’t remember…it’s too quiet with Superman not here….it’s getting so long.”
Alfred: “You need rest Bruce, from being Batman.”
Bruce ponders returning to regular life
Joker: “Why is it so quiet?…Ahhhhhhhhh!”
//Gotham learns that the Bruce Wayne “Batman Comic” is becoming public domain.
Alfred gets bent out of shape when Bruce Wayne begins talking about using a gun when he first started.
Bruce Wayne: “So what?”
Alfred: “They banned the gun then Bruce.” // Scratched line, garbage//
Alrfed: “THEN GUN WAS BANNED THEN!” // Test Alfred script line
Alfred: “It was banned anyway!”
Bruce: Wayne “Yeah, but I got what I wanted.”
Bruce Wayne: “Now, I’m Batman.”
Alfred begins to take a more assertive role against the gun in the script.
Bruce Wayne to himself: “Screw him, I’m outta here.”
Bruce Wayne to himself: “Kryptonite bullets, I’m heading back to the front to take a look around….only here this time in Gotham instead of the Western Front in them old comics.”
Later out in his Batman costume…
Bruce Wayne to himself: “Public domain, I can’t believe it.”
Bruce Wayne to himself: “I’m expanding the Bat Cave, clicks his gun, me with a Kryptonite bullet and Super-Man gone I’m taking down Gotham in my war against Super-Man.”
Bruce Wayne out loud to no one: “So long Alfred, looks like Bat-Man just got rich.”
Bruce Wayne – Checks calendar.
Bruce Wayne to himself: “2023…., by 2037 my old stories are public domain.”
Bruce Wayne to himself: “Looks like I got some ground on Super-Man, all of Gotham City with my new Kryptonite bullet set.”
// Updated – Gotham learns that “Batman’s Father With A Gun” was a clone who tried to kill the Joker when they cloned Batman’s Fathers DNA to see who he would have been and he became alternate Batman with a gun, not regular Batman with a gun.
Villains in Gotham now believe that either Batman inherited the costume from his father or he found it after his death and became the new Batman from their clone test and that there was an old original Batman (Bruce Wayne’s Father to the plot) that existed sometime in the past. //
Later…
Gotham police phone ringing…
Police: “It’s Batman…”.
Police: “Yes Batman.”
Batman: “Look…you gotta wrap up that Bat Signal, I can’t be down there full time watching for some signal, find someone else and wrap it up.”
Batman hangs up phone.
Police: “Batman want’s the Bat Signal wrapped up, says he can’t be down here full time….”
//Plot Note: At This point as Batman gains more interest in his gun and old public domain stories he is less interested in the Bat Signal and working with the police.//
Somewhere In Gotham…
Joker stomping feet clenching fists: “It’s too quiet without Superman!”
Superman trapped in the chemicals of the planet: “I must go deeper into the chemicals, ahhh the weight a relief actually…almost like a weight bench bar on my back!”
Out on the “front” in Gotham…
Batman thinking to himself, cocks gun puts it back in his pocket…looks out over Gotham with his Bat Binoculars on his new self appointed post…
Batman: “As soon as Superman comes back, BLAM BLAM BLAM right in the chest with my new gun at point blank range.”
Batman: “BLAM BLAM BLAM, BLAM BLAM BLAM.”
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