Plot
The planet Krypton
faces imminent destruction due to its unstable core, the result of
years of depleting
Krypton's natural resources. The ruling council is
deposed by the planet's military commander General Zod, and his followers during a military coup. Scientist Jor-El and his wife Lara launch their newborn son Kal-El on a spacecraft to Earth after infusing his cells with a genetic codex of the entire Kryptonian race. After Zod murders Jor-El, he and his followers are captured and banished to the Phantom Zone. However, Krypton explodes some time afterwards, freeing them.
Kal-El's ship lands in a small Kansas town. He is raised as the adoptive son of Jonathan and Martha Kent, who name him Clark. Clark's Kryptonian physiology affords him superhuman abilities
on Earth, which initially cause him confusion and ostracism, but he
gradually learns to harness his powers to help others. Jonathan reveals
to a teenage Clark that he is an alien and advises him not to use his
powers publicly, fearing that society will reject him. After Jonathan's
death, an adult Clark spends several years living a nomadic lifestyle,
working different jobs under false identities, while saving people in
secret as well as struggling to cope with the loss of his adoptive
father. He eventually infiltrates a U.S. military investigation of a Kryptonian scout spaceship in the Arctic. Clark enters the alien ship, and it allows him to communicate with the preserved consciousness of Jor-El in the form of a hologram.
Jor-El reveals Clark's origins and the extinction of his race, and
tells Clark that he was sent to Earth to bring hope to mankind. Lois Lane, a journalist from the Daily Planet
who was sent to write a story on the discovery, sneaks inside the ship
while following Clark and is rescued by him when she is injured. Lois's
editor, Perry White, rejects her story of a "superhuman" rescuer, so she traces Clark back to Kansas with the intention of writing an exposé. After hearing his story, she decides not to reveal his secret.
Meanwhile, Zod and his crew seek out other worlds that the Kryptonian
race colonized. However, the colonies did not survive long after
Krypton's destruction. They eventually pick up a Kryptonian distress
signal sent from the ship Clark discovered on Earth. Zod arrives and
demands the humans surrender Kal-El, whom he believes has the codex, or
else Earth will be destroyed. Clark agrees, and the military hands him
and Lois over to Zod's second-in-command, Faora. Zod reveals that he intends to use a terraforming
"world engine" to transform Earth into a new Krypton and use the codex
to repopulate the planet with genetically-engineered Kryptonians. This
transformation will result in the destruction of mankind. After Clark
and Lois escape Zod's ship with Jor-El's help, Clark defeats Faora and
Nam-Ek, convincing the military that he is an ally. Zod deploys the
world engine and initiates the process in Metropolis and over the Indian Ocean.
Clark, now being called "Superman",
destroys the world engine, while the military uses the spacecraft that
brought him to Earth in an aerial strike on Zod's ship over Metropolis,
sending Zod's forces back into the Phantom Zone. Superman destroys the
ship which carries the Genesis Chamber, the pivotal technology to
restore the Kryptonian race with the codex. Only Zod remains, who
engages Superman in a destructive battle across Metropolis. When Zod
attempts to murder cornered civilians in revenge for his defeat,
Superman is forced to kill him. Some time later, Superman continues to
try to earn the U.S. government's trust, though evading their efforts to
uncover his secret identity. To create an alias that gives him access
to dangerous situations without arousing suspicion, Clark takes a job as
a reporter at the Daily Planet.
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