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| narrator = James Marsters | starring = | music = Robert Kral | studio = | distributor = Warner Home Video | released = | runtime = 78 minutes | language = English | budget = | gross = $9,590,693 | country = }} ''Superman: Doomsday'' is a 2007 American direct-to-video animated superhero film, adapted from the popular DC Comics storyline ''The Death of Superman'', focusing on the supposed death of the superhero Superman. The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for action violence and is the first in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line released by Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Animation. It was followed by ''Justice League: The New Frontier''. ==Plot== The film opens with a narration by Lex Luthor (James Marsters), highlighted by images of Superman doing heroic deeds. Lex describes Superman as a god on Earth, but insists that "there comes a time when even gods must die." Lois Lane (Anne Heche) and Superman (Adam Baldwin) are romantically involved, but Lois is unsatisfied with the arrangements of their relationship. Superman insists that they keep it a secret from the public by limiting their encounters to the Fortress of Solitude, and he has not yet confided in her that he is actually Clark Kent, although she already suspects. Workers from LexCorp unearth a spaceship while digging for one of Lex's projects, inadvertently releasing a genetically-engineered super-soldier known as Doomsday. The creature is highly homicidal and aggressive towards any lifeform or object that moves, as he was found by those that created him, to be unable to distinguish friend from foe, making him capable attack anything in sight without remorse or hesitation of any kind. Doomsday kills the entire digging crew and begins a bloody rampage towards Metropolis. He kills a deer, a dog, the dog's owner, and a truck driver (it is implied that other people fell victim to his homicidal fury, as well.) Superman meets the monster there and the two engage in a devastating cross-city battle. Superman ultimately kills Doomsday, but succumbs to his own injuries and dies in Lois' arms. The world collectively mourns their fallen hero, and Metropolis honors him with a memorial. Lex, having previously ordered his personal assistant Mercy Graves to cover up LexCorp's involvement in releasing Doomsday, shoots her through the head and kills her to ensure that no one but he knows the truth. Superman's friends cope with his death in various ways: Jimmy Olsen takes a job at a seedy tabloid newspaper called the ''National Voyeur'', Perry White becomes an alcoholic, and Lois, who realized that Clark was Superman, visits Martha Kent for counsel. Martha appears to be a widow, although this is not stated. In Superman's absence, Metropolis is overwhelmed by emboldened criminals. At one point, Toyman uses a giant mechanical spider to hold a bus full of students hostage. Lois, still grieving, decides to get the children out on her own. As she does, Toyman tries to kill her and a little girl by throwing the bus over a building. As it happens, Superman apparently digs out of his grave, saves Lois, and apprehends Toyman. However, he does not seem quite the same, missing Lois' apartment as he flies her home, and acting surprised when she kisses him. She dismisses it as shock from his supposed death. When she receives a call from Martha wondering why Clark has not called home, Lois becomes suspicious. The resurrected Superman is revealed to be a clone created by Lex from a blood sample retrieved after Superman's battle with Doomsday. As such, the clone's knowledge is merely what Lex has programmed into him. Lex is keeping the real Superman's body preserved in a tube for his personal amusement, unaware that Superman is still barely alive. He also periodically tortures the clone Superman in a special lead-lined red-sunlight room with kryptonite gauntlets, usually beating him unconscious. (to show the clone who is boss, and out of pathological frustration of not killing the real Superman). A robot from the Fortress of Solitude recovers the body after detecting frequencies that indicated that he was still alive, although these were too small and random to trace at first, and begins restoring Superman to health, a fact Luthor discovers when his surveillance monitors register a signal disruption of several seconds. During the disruption, Superman's body was removed, much to Lex's surprise and anger. Meanwhile, the Superman clone's attitude darkens when he hears about Toyman killing a four-year-old girl. In retaliation, as Toyman is being escorted into the police station, Superman lifts him up and drops him from a high distance where he dies upon landing on a police car. The city is stunned at this action and Lois suspects he is not Superman. The clone begins threatening the populace into abiding by the law, convinced that terror will prevent crime. The police can do nothing to stop him. These actions further convince Lois and especially Martha that this is not the real Superman. Upon returning to Lex, the clone is berated for his behavior. Lex orders him to find the real Superman's corpse and threatens to kill him if he goes out of line again. Instead, the clone deduces the mechanism behind Lex's threat: a lead-shielded kryptonite pellet in his brain. He removes it at a local barber shop by boring into his brain with his heat vision reflected off a mirror and extracting it with a pair of scissors, then sets off to deal with Lex. At the same time, Lois discovers the true nature of the clone after tranquilizing Lex after pretending to be seduced by him and searching his files with Jimmy's help. She and Jimmy discover that Lex is cloning an army of Supermen (Luthor's cloning technology had undoubtedly improved since the earlier attempt resulted in the creation of Bizarro). After Lex awakens and almost shoots them both, the original clone arrives. He saves Lois and Jimmy and destroys the cloning facility, killing all the yet-to-be-awakened clones. Unable to kill the clone, Lex tries to hide in the special room, hoping to lure him in and kill him with his Kryptonite gauntlet, only to have the clone instead lock him inside and toss the entire room to the street. This latest presumed murder triggers military action. The military attempt to kill the Superman clone, but they fail as the entire force is effortlessly destroyed by the clone's heat vision. At the Fortress of Solitude, the robot has revived Superman and has him undergo intensive rehabilitative exercises under concentrated solar energy to bring his power level back to max. Hearing the news, the real Superman resolves to help, even though his powers are not yet fully restored. To improve his odds he dons a black sunlight-absorbing "Solar Suit" and brings a kryptonite gun (built by Lex Luthor) his robot retrieved from his archives. The two engage in a massive battle, with Superman's kryptonite gun failing to hit the much faster clone. Jimmy and Lois grab the kryptonite gun to help Superman, though still unsure if he is the real deal or not. The fight culminates at Superman's memorial, where Lois manages to hit the clone with a kryptonite blast. The clone destroys the gun, leaving only the kryptonite canister. As the two Supermen continue their battle, the canister sticks to the clone's chest with mud, and Superman vaporizes it with his heat vision. The clone, overcome by the kryptonite vapor, falls under the memorial stone he was holding. Before dying, he tells Superman to protect the people. Lois is sure of the real Superman once he kisses her, and the crowd is similarly happy that Superman is back. At Lois' apartment, Superman sees that she misspelled "resurrection" in her article. He mentions winning a spelling bee at Smallville Elementary, revealing himself to be Clark Kent. Lois is caught off guard, but the two share a smile and she happily embraces him. At LexCorp, a critically injured but alive Lex narrates the ending saying how history has proven that gods can die, but they can also return from the dead. He smiles to himself musing that there may still be a way for him to destroy Superman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Superman: Doomsday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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