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Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

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As the surface of Krypton cracks and destabilizes, Jor-El loads his son into a rocket, telling him he hopes he will one day have a child of his own. Meanwhile, a quake shatters a nearby aquarium holding [[Starro (Battle of t

Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons is a 2022 animated superhero movie under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line. It centers around Robin and Superboy's battle against Starro.

Synopsis for "Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons"

As the surface of Krypton cracks and destabilizes, Jor-El loads his son into a rocket, telling him he hopes he will one day have a child of his own. Meanwhile, a quake shatters a nearby aquarium holding a starfish-like creature, which attaches itself to the side of the spacecraft just as it takes off. After clearing the rubble of exploding Krypton, the ship makes a faster-than-light jump to Earth, the creature coming loose halfway through.

We then see a montage of still images illustrating Superman's famous backstory: the crash landing on Earth, his adoption by the Kents, outracing trains as a child, the death of his adoptive parents, his move to and heroic career in Metropolis, his partnership with Batman, his marriage to Lois Lane, and the birth of his son, Jon.

Almost eleven years later, Jon is in middle school and has been assigned to write a report on his parents' job, which he finds painfully boring. Lois is in a rush to leave the house, but explains her journalistic process to him as she gathers her things. After she leaves, in direct defiance of her orders, Jon searches the house for any birthday presents his parents may have hidden for later. He finds Clark's Superman suit under his parents' bed, but dismisses it as cosplay, and is interrupted by the arrival of his father himself before he can open a box he found in the closet.

Jon helps Clark with farm chores for the rest of the day, then at night they sit on a pile of hay and watch a meteor shower. Jon is unhappy with how often his dad is away on work trips, but Clark tells him that his job is important, while reassuring him that he (Jon) is still more important and he'll be around for Jon's birthday tomorrow. As they talk, Jon notices a particularly large meteor, which Clark's superior senses identify as the Watchtower, somehow knocked out of orbit. Clark tells his son that he just remembered an errand he has to run and disappears.

As Superman, he returns the Watchtower to orbit, performs some emergency repairs, learns from Green Arrow that it was hit by some sort of space debris, and then flies off the deal with a tsunami. Green Arrow hears some ominous sounds aboard the Watchtower and goes to investigate. An unseen assailant jumps him before he can react.

At Jon's baseball game the next day, Lois is there but Clark is absent. Jon quickly strikes out, earning jeers from nearby bully Melvin, and tells his mother that he just wants to go home instead of going out to celebrate his birthday. Clark returns to the farm to find him sulking in his room. He is unreceptive to Clark's apologies through the door, and when Clark tries to come into his room, he jumps out the window and runs off into the fields. As he does, his heat vision activates for the first time, destroying a grain silo.

Distraught, Jon turns around and goes to hide in the barn. Clark finds him there, and assuages Jon's worries that he's a "freak" by revealing that he is himself Superman. This immediately lifts the boy's spirits, but Lois finds the situation concerning and wants a better grasp of exactly what powers Jon has so they can plan accordingly. Clark carries Jon on his back to Gotham City so Batman can help him investigate.

As they arrive, Batman is engaged in a rooftop battle with the Penguin. After capturing the villain, Batman greets Clark and takes the them to the Batcave, which Jon is awed by. Damian is waiting there and is immediately hostile to Jon, but complies when his father orders him to take the other boy to the Meta Analyzer. As they go, Clark and Bruce discuss how Damian is adjusting to life with his father.

Batman's tests are inconclusive, but he speculates that stressful situations might unlock further powers. Hearing this, Damian pushes Jon into a nearby tunnel shaft. Superman catches him before he lands, and Batman reprimands him for this and for throwing a batarang at Jon immediately afterward to test for invulnerability. After sending the boys to another room, Batman and Superman discuss how they haven't heard anything from Green Arrow since Superman was there last night.

With Jon eavesdropping, Damian takes a video call from Wonder Girl, who tells him that the Titans have been called to investigate the situation on the Watchtower, but they have voted not to accept him as a member, since he's too selfish and bad at being a teammate. Damian claims he never wanted to be a member and only spent time with them to please his father, but is obviously hurt. Jonathan approaches him to talk about it, but is distracted by the arrival of Bat-Cow.

Clark takes Jon home and puts him to bed, while he and Lois discuss strange things they've heard about recently. He then accompanies Batman to the Watchtower, where he quickly notices something is wrong. However, before they can escape, they are approached by Martian Manhunter; a starfish-like creatures jumps out of his mouth toward the pair.

The next day at school, Jon has an altercation with Melvin, revealing that he now has super strength (but not invulnerability). Meanwhile in the Batcave, Damian broods about his exclusion from the Titans, and his father sneaks up behind him, carrying a Starro parasite. Damian destroys the parasite, but is no match for the mind-controlled Batman. Batman drops Damian into the same shaft Damian previously pushed Jon into and leaves him for dead, but Damian survives. When Batman leaves, he learns from the Batcomputer that all heroes in the world have been marked as taken over or killed except for Jon Kent, so he goes off to find Jon.

The two meet at Jon's school and are approached by Lois. Damian warns that she has been taken over, and upon discovering that she is a much more permissive parent than usual, Jon agrees. They flee in the Batplane, but Lois clings to its exterior. Jon uses his heat vision on the parasite on her face, causing it to retreat into her mouth and knocking her off the plane into a nearby lake. When she crawls out of, she coughs up the now-dead parasite.

The boys head to the Fortress of Solitude, where they encounter Krypto and Jon's flight activates. The hologram of Jor-El recognizes Jon as his grandson and encourages him to peruse the archive of Kryptonian knowledge and culture in the Fortress, but Damian insists on discussing Starro instead. Jor-El tells them about the creature's nature and history, in particular that it is a hive mind controlled by a central "queen", but is unable to tell them where the queen is. However, given what they know, Damian is able to identify the Watchtower as its most probable location. The two climb into the ship which brought Clark to Earth as a baby; Jon discovers his father's blanket and repurposes it as a cape.

The ship easily makes it into the Watchtower thanks to its stealth capabilities, but the boys are quickly ambushed by the puppeteered Justice League and captured. Meanwhile on Earth, Lois heads to the White House to ask President Lex Luthor to warn the world about the alien threat. Luthor agrees in exchange for her endorsement in the next election.

Starro tells Jon and Damian that they should be thankful it is uniting humanity and saving the environment, but they are unimpressed. It decrees that they should be executed rather than absorbed into the hive mind. Green Arrow takes a shot at Damian, but Jon throws his own body in the way, revealing that he now has both super speed and invulnerability. Luthor makes the warning Lois requested, but urges people to allow themselves to be taken over, as he has been. Lois burns the parasite off his face with hairspray and a cigarette lighter, then turns to the camera to tell Jon (wherever he may be) that Starro is vulnerable to heat.

Jon and Damian battle the Justice League and Titans; after seeing his mother's message, Jon starts using his heat vision on the parasites, which incapacitates but doesn't remove them. They decide they need to take down the central brain, but find themselves face-to-Starro with their fathers. When they are unsuccessful fighting their own fathers, Damian instead gets Jon to hold Batman down while Damian retrieves the kryptonite from his utility belt, then they try fight each other's fathers. Between the kryptonite and Jon's superhuman strength, they are eventually victorious, but Starro tells them it is too late: it has already controlled a large enough fraction of humanity to dominate the world.

When Jon's heat vision proves too weak to burn through the big Starro's tentacles, the two load their unconscious fathers and the other heroes into automated spaceships bound for Earth, then resolve to deorbit the Watchtower with themselves inside to kill Starro. They succeed in knocking it out of orbit, but it grabs Damian. However, with its tentacles occupied, Jon is able to blast it directly in the eye, weakening it enough to free most people on Earth, including Batman and Superman. As the boys stoically await their impending deaths, Superman flies up to rescue them, just before the Watchtower hits the ground.

The two adult heroes express pride in their sons actions, but Starro turns out to have survived the landing, forcing the four to fight it once again. However, Superman easily knocks it back into space, ending its threat to Earth.

Later, Wonder Girl calls Damian to tell him that the Titans have reconsidered his membership, but he declines, instead heading to Smallville to watch Jon play baseball (with Clark, Lois, and Bruce also in attendance). After the game, the boys discuss their future on the top of a water tower. As a "birthday present," Damian pushes Jon off the tower, revealing that his flight is still inconsistent.

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  • Jor-El (First appearance) (Hologram)
  • Justice League (First appearance)
    • Beast Boy (Gar Logan) (First appearance)
    • Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) (First appearance)
    • Kid Flash (Bart Allen) (First appearance)
    • Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) (First appearance)
    • Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark) (First appearance)
  • Krypto (First appearance)
  • The Flash (Barry Allen) (Mentioned only)

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