Superman (2025 film)

I was sent here to serve humanity and to help the world be a better place. That is why I do what I do. I cherish it more than anything.

Superman is a 2025 American superhero film about Superman as he must prove to the world that he is their protector after billionaire Lex Luthor conducts a plan to turn public opinion against him. It is the first installment in the DC Universe and a second rebooted Superman film.

Directed and written by James Gunn, based on the DC Comics character of Superman.
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Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman

I try to make the best choices I can. I screw up all the time, but that is being human. And that's my greatest strength.
  • Krypto... take me home. Home!
  • I think I'm doing a good job.
  • [Lois: What do you know about these biological parents of yours?] Just that they sent me here to serve humanity and to help the world to be a better place. [Lois: They said that?] They did. They sent a message along with me. That message is why I do what I do. I cherish it more than anything.
  • What you're looking at is the most powerful being on planet Earth.
  • Hey, buddy! Eyes up here.
  • [Lois: He's just a dog.] Yeah, and he's not even a very good one, but he's out there alone and he's probably scared. I love you, Lois. I should've told you that a long time ago.
  • [to Luthor] Brain beats brawn. [to Ultraman] Sorry, chum.
  • Krypto! Get the toy.
  • [Lex: You piece of shit alien!] That is where you've always been wrong about me, Lex! I'm as human as anyone! I love! I-I get scared! I wake up every morning and despite not knowing what to do, I put one foot in front of the other and I try to make the best choices I can! I screw up all the time! But that is being human! And that's my greatest strength! And someday I hope, for sake of the world, you understand that it's yours too!
  • Darn it, I can be such a jerk sometimes...

Lois Lane

You think everything and everyone is beautiful.
  • I didn't actually make it through your writing, Clark. Knowledge is worth many sacrifices. That isn't one of them.
  • I'm not the one being interviewed, Superman.
  • [to Clark] Whoa, you can time your imaginary interviews with yourself? That's a thing you can do?
  • You have a dog?
  • I party like a rockstar, choir boy.
  • Your hot ex is a genius.

Lex Luthor

  • You pride won't be making our choices today, Angela, thank you.
  • I can't stand the Metahumans, but he's so much worse. Super... "man". He's not a man. He's an it. A thing with a cocky grin and a stupid outfit that's somehow become the focal point of the entire world's conversation. Nothing's felt right since he showed up.
  • [Anchor: What about all the kind acts Superman has performed over the years? Saving countless lives...] No, he's grooming us. Lulling us into complacency so he can dominate without resistance, forging a path for his superpowered descendants to rule the Earth. I will not accept that. Will you? [Anchor: Mr. Luthor...] I'm... I'm scared. I will admit that, I am scared. Because who knows how large his secret harem is already?
  • I hoped to get the knowledge to help destroy him. Little did I know, his own parents would be providing it.
  • I'm not killing you so the Boravian military conflict can proceed; I created the Boravian military conflict so I'd have an excuse to kill you!
  • No, no, they chose him! Let them die! We'll close it from the bunker before it gets to a city I care about.

Michael Holt / Mister Terrific

  • [Lois: You put nanobot GPS trackers in your friend's bloodstream?] Oh, I do that to everybody.
  • Hot damn. That's a flying dog.
  • Them. Superman, a mean dog in a cape, a weird baby, and a squiggle man.
  • This is why you don't create a damn pocket universe!
  • I don't need your help! I'm goddamn Mister Terrific!

Guy Gardner / Green Lantern

  • Make a move, Big Blue.
  • [Lois: That haircut should be against your vows.] That what? That what should be what? I'll have you know, 348 chicks say otherwise!
  • Sorry, kid; Superman couldn't make it. So you got an upgrade.

Others

  • Opening Crawl: 3 CENTURIES AGO, the first superpowered beings, known as METAHUMANS, appeared on Earth, ushering in a new era of GODS AND MONSTERS.
    3 DECADES AGO, an extraterrestrial baby was sent in a spacecraft to Earth, and adopted by Kansas farmers.
    3 YEARS AGO, the baby, now grown, announced himself as SUPERMAN, the most powerful metahuman of all.
    3 WEEKS AGO, Superman stopped the country of BORAVIA from invading JARHANPUR, sparking controversy around the world.
    3 HOURS AGO, a metahuman called the HAMMER OF BORAVIA attacked Superman in the city of METROPOLIS.
    3 MINUTES AGO, Superman lost a battle for the first time.
  • Malik: You've saved us so many times; now it's our turn.
  • Peacemaker / Chris Smith: He thinks he's better than everybody else! It's his declarations against killing people unless it's absolutely necessary. Really, dude? Yeah, it kinda sounds like you're trying to make the guys who are a little more edgier than you look like jerks, you know what I mean? A lot of these guys -- these, uh, heroes in the magazines -- they're obsessed with me. 'Cause I'm more jacked than they are.
  • Metapmorpho: Man. You are so weird.
  • Pa Kent: Parents aren’t for telling their children who they’re supposed to be. We are here to give y’all tools to help you make fools of yourselves all on your own. Your choices, Clark. Your actions. That’s what makes you who you are. Let me tell you something, son, I couldn’t be… more proud of you.
  • Maxwell Lord: The one thing that liberals and conservatives can finally agree on is that Lex Luthor sucks.
  • Kara Zor-El: [to Superman, regarding Krypto] Thanks for watching him, bitch!

Dialogue

Lois: Superman, did you consult with the President before entering Boravian airspace?
Clark: [deep, heavy sigh] No.
Lois: The Secretary of Defense?
Clark: No.
Lois: Or any U.S. official before you took matters into your own hands and decided unilaterally how to handle this extremely delicate situation--?
Clark: Ghurkos and his goons were going to kill people!
Lois: Yes, but the results of you seemingly acting as a representative of the United States will cause more problems around the world! More than a war that lasted between twelve and twenty-four hours!
Clark: [overlapping] I wasn't representing anybody except for me and-- and-- myself and, and, and good! I don't know, doing good!
Lois: It was just replacing one tyrannical regime with another!
Clark: Is that really how you feel?
Lois: I'm not the one being interviewed, Superman, but I--I'd question it! Yeah! I would question myself in the same situation and hold off a beat, consider the consequences!
Clark: PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE!
Jor-El: [in Kryptonian] We love you more than heaven, our son. We love you more than land. Our beloved home is soon to be gone forever.
Lara-El: But hope vitalizes our hearts, and that hope is you Kal-El. We have searched the universe for a home where you can do the most good, and live out Krypton's truth.
Jor-El: That place is Earth.
Superman: I don't get it, what's bad about that?
Jor-El: The people there are simple and profoundly confused. Weak of mind and spirit and body. Lord over the planet as the Last Son of Krypton.
Lara-El: Dispatch of anyone unable or unwilling to serve you, Kal-El. Take as many wives as you can so your genes and Krypton's might and legacy will live on in this new frontier.
Jor-El: Do us proud, our beloved son. Rule without mercy.
Superman: WHERE'S THE DOG?!
Lex: I have no clue what you're talking about.
Superman: ...He's just a dog.
Lex: I don't know what dog you're talking about. [mumbling into his coffee cup] Ugly dog in a cape?
Superman: What did you say?
Lex: Hm? I didn't say anything.
Lois Lane: My point is, I question everything and everyone. You trust everyone and think everyone you've ever met is, like, beautiful.
Superman: Maybe that's the real punk rock.
Superman: Luthor. Your obsession with me is getting a little creepy.
Lex: Don't worrry; tall, dark, and Martian isn't my type.
Superman: Kryptonian.
Lex: Meh, same diff.
Lois: Oh, my God! Why does he always trust everyone?!
Guy Gardner: He doesn't! Just us, because we are also of the cloth!
Lois: "Of the cloth"?
[Guy gestures to his own super-suit.]
Lois: You have a flying saucer, but you couldn't get a faster garage door?
Mr. Terrific: I haven't worked on that yet.
Metamorpho: I can't make a sun.
Superman: I know!
Metamorpho: I can only make something kind of like a sun.
Lois: [about Eve Teschmacher] This girl is obsessed with you?
Jimmy Olsen: Uh-huh.
Lois: ...How do you do it, Jimmy?
Superman: Just give me a minute, I'll get Krypto and we'll go--
Mr. Terrific: You brought that dog, man?!
Superman: Yeah, I, uh, I didn't want him killing my parents' cows.
Superman: You're driven by envy, Luthor -- you couldn't be more obvious!
Lex Luthor: No shit. I'm not dim. I'm aware envy consumes my every waking moment. 13L. I know when they mention Galileo or Einstein or one of these other twits in the same breath as me, I feel a tide of vomit burn the back of my throat! But at least Galileo did something. He wasn't some dopey Venusian catapulted onto this planet just to have the world fawn over him! Because his strength illuminates how weak we all really are! So, my envy is a calling! It is the sole hope for humanity, because it is what has driven me to annihilating you!
Raptor: Kill him!
Superman: Good luck with that.
Robot #4: Maybe one day, you'll give me a name.
Superman: Four is a name.
Robot #4: So's "Gary".

Taglines

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Cast

 Comics     TBD  (1941) · TBD  (1942) · TBD  (1943) · TBD  (1946) · TBD  (1947) · TBD  (1948) · TBD  (1948) · TBD  (1949) · TBD  (1950)
 Serials     Adventures of Captain Marvel  (1941) · Spy Smasher  (1942) · Batman  (1943) · Hop Harrigan  (1946) · The Vigilante  (1947) · Superman  (1948) · Congo Bill  (1948) · Batman and Robin  (1949) · Atom Man vs. Superman  (1950) · Blackhawk  (1952)
 Single films    Steel  (1997) · Catwoman  (2004) · Constantine  (2005) · Watchmen  (2009) · Jonah Hex  (2010) · Green Lantern  (2011) · Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice  (2016) · Justice League  (2017) · Birds of Prey  (2020) · Zack Snyder's Justice League  (2021) · Black Adam  (2022) · The Flash  (2023) · Blue Beetle  (2023)
 Film franchises     Aquaman      Aquaman  (2018) · The Lost Kingdom  (2023)
  Batman      Batman  (1966) · Batman  (1989) · Batman Returns  (1992) · Batman Forever  (1995) Batman & Robin  (1997) · Batman Begins  (2005) · The Dark Knight (2008) · The Dark Knight Rises  (2012) · The Batman  (2022)
  Joker      Joker  (2019) · Joker: Folie à Deux  (2024)
  Shazam      Shazam!  (2019) · Shazam! Fury of the Gods  (2023)
  Suicide Squad     Suicide Squad  (2016) · The Suicide Squad  (2021)
  Supergirl      Supergirl  (1984) ·
  Superman      Superman  (1978) · Superman II  (1980) · Superman III  (1983) · Superman IV: The Quest for Peace  (1987) · Superman Returns  (2006) · Man of Steel  (2013) ·  (2025)
  Swamp Thing     Swamp Thing  (1982) · The Return of Swamp Thing  (1989)
 Wonder Woman     Wonder Woman  (2017) · Wonder Woman 1984  (2020) ·
  Feature films     Stand-alone films     Gen¹³  (1998) · Superman: Brainiac Attacks  (2006) · JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time  (2014) · DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon  (2017) · Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons: The Movie  (2020) · Space Jam: A New Legacy  (2021) · DC League of Super-Pets  (2022) · Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!  (2023) 
 DC Animated Universe      (1993) · Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero  (1998) · Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker  (2000) · Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman  (2003) · Batman and Harley Quinn  (2017) · Justice League vs. the Fatal Five  (2019) 
 DCU Animated Original Movies   Stand-alone feature films   Superman: Doomsday  (2007) · Justice League: The New Frontier  (2008) · Wonder Woman  (2009) · Green Lantern: First Flight  (2009) · Batman: Under the Red Hood  (2010) · All-Star Superman  (2011) · Green Lantern: Emerald Knights  (2011) · Superman vs. The Elite  (2012) · Superman: Unbound  (2013) · Justice League: Gods and Monsters  (2015) · Batman: The Killing Joke  (2016) · Batman: Gotham by Gaslight  (2018) · Superman: Red Son  (2021) · Batman: Soul of the Dragon  (2021) · Injustice  (2021) · Catwoman: Hunted  (2022) · Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons  (2022) · Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham  (2023) · Watchmen  (2024) 
 Superman/Batman    Superman/Batman: Public Enemies  (2009) · Superman/Batman: Apocalypse  (2010) 
 JLA    Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths  (2010) · Justice League: Doom  (2012) 
 Millerverse    Batman: Year One (2011) · Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012-13)
 Other Universes    *Batman: Gotham Knight (Dark Knight Trilogy) · Batman: Assault on Arkham (Arkhamverse) · Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen (RWBY)
 DC Animated Movie Universes    Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox  (2013) · Justice League: War  (2014) · Son of Batman  (2014) · Justice League: Throne of Atlantis  (2015) · Batman vs. Robin  (2015) · Batman: Bad Blood  (2016) · Justice League vs. Teen Titans  (2016) · Justice League Dark  (2017) · Teen Titans: The Judas Contract  (2017) · Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay  (2018) · The Death of Superman  (2018) · Constantine: City of Demons – The Movie  (2018-19) · Reign of the Supermen  (2019) · Batman: Hush  (2019) · Wonder Woman: Bloodlines  (2019) · Justice League Dark: Apokolips War  (2020) · Superman: Man of Tomorrow  (2020) · Justice Society: World War II  (2021) · Batman: The Long Halloween  (2021) · Green Lantern: Beware My Power  (2022) · Legion of Super-Heroes  (2023) · Justice League: Warworld  (2023) · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths  (2024) 
 DC Showcase    The Spectre  (2010) · Jonah Hex  (2010) · Green Arrow  (2010) · Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam  (2010) · Catwoman  (2011) · Sgt. Rock  (2019) · Death  (2019) · The Phantom Stranger  (2020) · Adam Strange  (2020) · Batman: Death in the Family  (2020) 
 Batman   1960s TV series    Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders  (2016) · Batman vs. Two-Face  (2017) 
 Batman Unlimited    Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts  (2015) · Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem  (2015) · Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants  (2016) 
 Batman Ninja    Batman Ninja  (2018) · Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League  (2025) 
 Stand alone    The Batman vs. Dracula  (2005) · Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold  (2018) · Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  (2019) · Merry Little Batman  (2023) · Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires  (2025) 
 Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!    Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo  (2006) · Teen Titans Go! To the Movies  (2018) · Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans  (2019) · Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam  (2021) · Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse  (2022) 
 DC Super Hero Girls    DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High  (2016) · DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year  (2016) · DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games  (2017) · DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis  (2018) · Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse  (2022) 
 Lego DC Comics films   Lego DC Comics Super Heroes    Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite  (2013) · Batman Be-Leaguered  (2014) · Justice League vs. Bizarro League  (2015) · Justice League – Attack of the Legion of Doom  (2015) · Justice League – Cosmic Clash  (2016) · Justice League – Gotham City Breakout  (2016) · The Flash  (2018) · Aquaman – Rage of Atlantis  (2018) · Batman: Family Matters  (2019) · Shazam!: Magic and Monsters  (2020) 
 Lego DC Super Hero Girls    Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain  (2017) · Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High  (2018) 
 The Lego Movie franchise    The Lego Movie  (2014) · The Lego Batman Movie  (2017) · The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part  (2019) 
 Video Games     Batman: Vengeance  (2001) · Superman: Shadow of Apokolips  (2002) · Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu  (2003) · Batman Begins  (2005) · Teen Titans  (2006) · Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters  (2011) · Injustice: Gods Among Us  (2013) · Injustice 2  (2017)
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