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DrakeyC


Writer, reviewer, creator of Filly Fantasy VI, occasional PMV maker, and uploader of mildly amusing image macros to Derpibooru. https://www.patreon.com/drakeyc

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Apr
6th
2022

Movie Brainstorm · 11:48pm Apr 6th, 2022

A Superman origin film, "Kent".

Movie prologue opens on Jor-El taking his wife and son to visit a spaceport where they're preparing to launch an advanced spacecraft that he's going to crew. He's taking this time to record a goodbye message for his son, since this mission may take years if not decades, and he may not see his family for a long time. An unknown disaster begins to destroy Krypton (leave it ambiguous for a sequel to explore; imply that it may be Brainiac), and the two hurriedly decide to board the spacecraft to escape the planet. Life support systems for the craft have been damaged and the only sealed place left is a storage compartment that's too small for them. With no options for themselves, they place their baby in the container with the disc of Jor-El's recording, and they set the craft to autopilot. Cue opening titles.

As a teenager, Clark is socially awkward with Lana Lang as one of his few friends. When he hits puberty his powers begin to act up and he's suspended from school for fighting when he punches a bully across the cafeteria. At home he overhears his parents talking about him and realizes they're keeping something from him. He goes downstairs and they take him to a shed on their farm where a piece of debris from the spacecraft is hidden, and they tell him they found him in this when it crashed on their farm. Clark is distraught and runs away from home, and ends up on a bus just riding. With nowhere to go he eventually goes home and reconciles with his parents, and they agree to help him through this. Cue montage of Clark learning about his powers and how to control them. After a couple weeks he says he wants to go back to school, and when confronted with the bully again he restrains himself from physically confronting him, since he realizes how strong he is now.

When the bus drops him off near the Kent farm and he walks the rest of the way home, Clark witnesses a car accident; in one of the cars, the driver is bruised but fine, but in the other car, the driver is pinned by the steering wheel and a woman in the passenger seat is unconscious. Using his X-ray vision Clark sees the car's engine is on fire, and using his super-strength and heat vision appropriately he frees the two and gets them to safety before the car explodes. At the hospital Clark is introduced to the other driver, a young reporter for the Daily Planet named Perry, and the couple he saved, Jules and Arlene Luthor. Clark meets their son Lex when he comes to see them and Lex acts friendly towards him but in an awkward way (A sequel film would reveal that Lex sabotaged their brakes for the insurance money and is silently pissed that Clark saved them). Clark is hailed as a local hero for saving the day and a story about him is run in the school paper, bolstering his popularity.

Didn't grow things out from there, but two points of note. One, the recording disc that came with Clark, they can't play it, but Clark finds out the bulk of the wreckage of the spacecraft was recovered by the US government. There'd be a subplot about him sneaking into a military base to see the ship, and on board he's able to play the disc and sees Jor-El's message. Naturally, it's about Jor-El talking (in the context of the Phantom Zone mission) about how he may not see his son for a long time, and there's a chance he'll never return at all, but he's sure he'll grow up to be a good person and an example to his fellow man.

Second point, Clark would be struggling with a school assignment to keep a journal about yourself, but all he has on the first page is the prompt the teacher gave him "My name is Clark Kent, and I am-". Clark took the journal with him when he ran away and used it to get a lot of his thoughts out, and later to keep track of his powers, but the first page remains blank. The film would end with Clark looking at the blank page as his teacher sees, and she questions how he hasn't written anything when he's such a gifted writer. He says that he's not used to writing about himself, he's better at telling stories about other people, so the teacher advises to write the journal as if it's about someone else. Clark is left alone, thinks for a moment, and picks up his pencil, finishing the opening line - "My name is Clark Kent, and I am Superboy."

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Comments ( 7 )

Good stuff. Clark's life in Kansas provided the moral foundation that made him into the man he is. The Super has to go on top of that, not in place of it.

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very cool idea

and the couple he saved, Jules and Arlene Luthor

but this is where my attention is really got :O

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Exactly. As a friend put it, "we have a lot of Superman movies, but how many movies do we have about Clark Kent?"

5649134 True. Not all superheroes come from Kansas, but the best ones do.

I’d definitely be for this!

Honestly I just want more fluff and wholesomeness form Superman stuff. Of course that can’t account for a whole story, but still sprinkled throughout plentifully.

Imo, Superman’s best moments are his most personal, down-to-earth encounters. Not leading the JL, not fighting warlords and ripping up entire continents, nor going on yet another dystopian/authoritarian rampage. Not even his friendship with Batman. For me, Superman is at his best when he’s just lending a hand to those in need.

No crises or disasters, but just everyday problems. Whether it’s giving someone’s car a lift to the nearest auto shop or helping a kid find a lost toy, he’s all too happy to help out with anything. Superman’s a friend to all, his flight and speed making pretty much everyone on Earth like a neighbor to him, so he treats them as such. His selfless acts of sheer kindness and random generosity help the world feel like a friendlier place.

Most people can’t relate to some of Superman’s biggest issues: averting disasters or fighting villains, nor dealing with identity crises betwixt his two cultural backgrounds. No ordinary person can handle that. But helping a random person with their car just because? Or giving someone a lift to the hospital? These are things anyone could encounter in their everyday lives, and that anyone can help out with.

These random acts of compassion help everyone around feel less like strangers and more like neighbors and friends, people you can trust to have your back. That’s what Superman and what he does means to me.

Smallville did something like this and it was pretty good, even if the show's refusal to call him Superman got increasingly more rediculous as the show went on.

I'd watch that.

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