The death of Superman

I don’t know about you guys, but I’d love to get a death of Superman story introduced into DCUO.

We already have the Superman memorial statue in game and when you interact with the terminal in front of it, booster gold says it “memorializes Superman sacrificing his live to save Metropolis from Doomsday”. I’d love to get some type of content based off this.

It could be through an iconic anomaly(or anomalies) or someone(brainiac or future lex) could have gone back in time to make sure Superman stays dead.

I don’t really care how it’s done, I’d just really love to play this content and also I’d love for a Doomsday inspired gear set.

I think the idea has a lot of merit, but my guess is that DC might not green light it

But superman already goes down all the time in the content we run.

They should give us statues the amount of times we have to pick him up

Could be good. I’m sure that idea has been thrown around a lot. It would be cool to have the black Superman suit and mullet.

It's a bit of a dark storyline for the game and I don't know how they would explain Superman's presence in the Watchtower and other content if this was done whilst dead in a new DLC.

Love the idea though. Perhaps something with Superman being taken out of action and Steel, Superboy, Cyborg Superman and Eradicator having to step in.

I had wondered if maybe we’ll get a time travel adventure for Superman’s Anniversary / Action Comics 1000. It could send us to some big moments in the life of Superman such as the epic battle with Doomsday. A possible way to include us in that would be to make us one of the many heroes caught in Doomsday’s path during his march to Metropolis. Ultimately we would fail to stop Doomsday just as members of the Justice League failed; but it could be presented that we weakened Doomsday enough for Superman to be able to stop the monster through his sacrifice.

As for the catalyst of the adventure through time, I would look to the Legion of Super Heroes (who are possibly recruiting us to help stop a separate villain who is attempting to change history - the Time Trapper being an obvious choice).

And then the villains would have to help bring superman back to life. Because that's what villains...wait. Never mind.

Lol. Actually both heroees and villains could fight against the eradicator, superboy and cyborg. Would be kind of out of line with the rest of the storyline though, and it's tiring to go back in time every 5 seconds, lol.

Sweet! A villain attempting to change history! We definitely haven't seen that before in DCUO! And certainly not in the past year! And certainly not like 5 times in the past year, lol.

Actually, I love the Legion of Super Heroes, so I definitely support the idea. But would rather they send for us to help out in the future instead of them coming to our present.

I would love to see that too, but I always think in terms of the obvious limitations the dev team has. They didn’t even have the resources to create the full, core Crime Syndicate team in a single DLC (Power Ring, an integral member, left out). Their cut off for new character models seems to be six (if you include fat Gordon); and their cut off for new enviornments seems to be two or three (Earth 3 Gotham and Panopticon - was the building interior in the alert new?). If you look at the last few DLCs, it’s the same output.

Time travel allows them to reuse resources already in the game (they even have the time bubble already) while only creating a few new character models (probably Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy plus a villain or two). For one new environment they could create a raid for the 30th century inside the Superman museum (which would give the opportunity for all sorts of fun base decorations). Wishful thinking would be an open world in 30th century Metropolis, but I would expect just a cut off section of present day Metro with maybe the Daily Planet unbottled.

Could be a cool DLC and just out of curiosity why do you think DC would not approve it? It started as a comic book... was turned into an Animated movie.. Its how Batman Vs Superman , the not so great (except for the Intro to Wonder Woman part, movie ended and we do HAVE the statue of SUPER MAN in Centennial Park in Metropolis which was constructed and dedicated to honor the big guy when he died, BRIEFLY, saving everyone from Doomsday. They approves the statue so why not a DLC showing how it came to be constructed in the first place?

Biggest issue I see is since the statue is already there technically the game starts after Superman has already battled Doomsday. We'd need to maybe get Rip Hunter to do a little time traveling with us to go back in time to help deal with the aftermath? Not sure how the comic book version went exactly but in the animated movie Lex Luthor closed Superman from some spilled blood and then THAT superman went rogue and had to be dealt with. Lex was in the process of building an army of clones he could control Maybe we could help defeat a bunch of those????? Oh yeah and take down Lex at the same time!

I want a New open world pvp area where acquired vehicles can be optionally used in combat, and bases in that area that can be raided/ defended if your online for rewards. Id like to see base defense systems that can help you defend from attack, ect. That would light a new fire in the old home turf base dueling aspect.

Maybe you can even build your own vehicle and upgrade it for combat and with different abilities through the base system in place.

Id also love to finally go INTO space for new PVE content. All these cosmic characters and aliens, and we still dont have a mission in an asteroid belt or in space? Man, space has so many things we could be doing just in open world right outside Earth's atmosphere.

Well, the Watchtower is in space. So are the league halls. And lots of the lantern DLC locations too. Blackest Day, Blackest Night, Zamaron...

I said INTO space. Used capitals letters on that one. I want to be able to move in space...meteors, sattelites, fight some flying f#&%ing aliens and space ships...IN SPACE. Alien incursions, some space mercs, celestial story arcs, maybe a green lantern outpost. So many things they can run with.

Theres even the whole fall out the watchtower into space bug they can use as their starting platform. ; )

i would love to do it the same way

Not a bad idea, but I'd leave Doomsday out of it.

We just had content with him in Kandor's Control Tower.

If we're going to off Superman in a future DLC let Toyman do it...





They could even introduce The MAIN MAN with such a DLC lol

As someone who plays primarily as a villain, I want this to be a single player where I just beat the holy hell out of him for 20 minutes until I get to kill him.

Hmm. And how would superheroes that don't use flight get around?

And everyone would get to yell “I’m gonna Iron Man this sh**!”

If it leads to Superboy iconic gear I'm down

Power armors, light or heavy tech suits, hell, even Legion rings or belts. Gives flight but can still allow ones own movement abilities to be used.

Be a great way to lead into intergalactic story arcs too. Cameos by the JLA to and from watchtower, Maybe heroes or enemies from another galaxy, or an invasion as open world content.

We'd only be limited by imagination here. So much DC content to draw from. LEGION storyline would be very cool. Characters like Mongul, Darkstars, Adam Strange, Lobo, or Hundreds of diverse alien races to choose as allies or enemies from past comic storylines- thousands maybe.