Superman Returns Henry Cavill as Superman. For the previous five years, Superman has mysteriously abandoned his adopted home of Earth while on a journey into outer space to investigate what astronomers believed to be an intact Krypton. In his absence, journalist and past love Lois Lane wrote a scathing article "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman", winning her the Pulitzer Prize. Lois is engaged to Richard White, the nephew of "Daily Planet" editor-in-chief Perry White, and with whom she shares a young asthmatic son, Jason. Notorious criminal mastermind Lex Luthor secured an early release from prison due to Superman not appearing as
Superman: Doomed planet while Superman creates a new plan: use the Phantom Zone projector to seal both Earth and Brainiac's mothership in the Phantom Zone to give the heroes enough time to defeat Brainiac. Discovering the heroes' strategy, Brainiac destroys the Justice League satellite, disabling the Phantom Zone projector, and attempts to crash his mothership into the planet. Superman and Martian Manhunter push the mothership away from the planet, but Mongul and Non escape from the Phantom Zone and prepare to attack Earth. Although Mongul and Non have escaped from their Phantom Zone, Brainiac's invasion makes them quickly go back. Meanwhile, Superman