Stories by @not_another_ted

Superman: Up in the Sky

Rocketed to Earth from the doomed planet Krypton as an infant, Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland as Clark Kent. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend humankind against all manner of threats while championing truth, justice, and a better tomorrow! When a young girl is kidnapped from Metropolis and taken to the farthest reaches of space, Superman vows to bring her back. As he follows the trail of the abducting aliens through the cosmos, each stop across time and space offers new clues as to their final destination...but also a new challenge. Meanwhile, on Earth, a pregnant Lois Lane has to hope that Clark is alright, but wonders if she still has a life outside of Superman, and if, and in that case, Why The World Needs Superman.

Superman 6

Lex Luthor has been plagued by the existence of Superman for over a decade. He's been brought to the brink of insanity and back. But now he's finally going to get his revenge. Our story starts as Lex Luthor has been elected as President of the United States of America. Clark and Lois try to cope with the fact that they're living in an America run by Luthor, but they're interrupted when President Luthor labels Superman as an enemy of the state, offering a $1 billion bounty for him, and permitting anyone and everyone to bring down Superman, even with lethal results, with no legal repercussions. Villains from all over, as well as civilians untrusting of Superman, see this as their chance to bring down the Man of Steel. Superman and Lois have to traverse this battlefield of America to get to Luthor and expose him as the villain he is.

Superman 5

Clark and Lois are engaged to marry. After coming so close to disaster during Brainiac’s attack, they realize they should have done it much sooner. While planning, they are both confronted by a Fifth-Dimensional imp, Mister Mxyzptlk, who challenges the couple to prove how strong their love is, and whether it really does conquer all, and it ends up being Mxyzptlk showing them what their love truly means, after sending Lois to a world where she was the one with powers, and Clark to a world where the two never went on their first date and Lois moved away from Metropolis.

Superman 4

A foreign object enters Earth's atmosphere above Metropolis, and Superman investigates, finding a drone that engages him in combat. Superman easily defeats it, and takes it to the Fortress of Solitude. Supergirl tells him of Brainiac, a conqueror who once removed the entire city of Kandor from the surface of Krypton. Superman follows the drone's signal into space, finding an alien ship bottling a city. He fights Brainiac on the ship as it closes in on Earth, and Kara and Krypto fight a drone battalion. Brainiac is imprisoned, and Kandor is unbottled on Earth. Brainiac turns out to be another drone as its signal reaches the real Brainiac, who soon enters the atmosphere with his skull ship.

Superman 3

An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and Superman takes it upon himself to stop it. Before it can ever enter Earth's atmosphere, Superman uses all his herculean strength to destroy it. The job is done, but the exertion causes him to pass out, and he is easily picked up by an alien slave ship. The ship brings Superman, along with a group of other aliens, to the mobile satellite known as Warworld, ruled by the tyrannical Mongul, where Superman will have to fight for his freedom in gladiatorial combat. However, Superman's presence proves inspiring beyond the confines of Earth as he allies himself with other prisoners and inhabitants of Warworld, and starts a revolt to overthrow Mongul. Meanwhile, on Earth, Lois Lane has to hope that Superman is alright, as she carries on with the investigation into Intergang that Clark and she started before the asteroid, and she proves to the world, and mostly herself, that she can still be an investigative journalist without Superman’s help.

Superman 2

Ever since appearing in Metropolis, Superman has gotten quite a bit of fame, and with that fame, he's also acquired enemies. One such enemy is Lex Luthor of LexCorp. After John Corben, a soldier, and ex of Lois Lane, who joined the military for validation and attention and saw that attention be stolen by Superman, is approached by Lex Luthor with a proposition to turn him into a soldier strong enough to stop Superman, he accepts without hesitation. Luthor funds, and controls, an operation that turns John Corben's body into a metal skeleton. Now Metallo, Corben is instructed to kill Superman, for the good of Metropolis. Meanwhile, Rudy Jones, a family man and worker at a chemical plant owned by LexCorp, is involved in a work accident that causes his body to meld with radioactive materials, transforming him into a purple, parasitic entity that needs constant absorption of life energy to survive. Superman’s presence on Earth has even garnered attention from off-world threats as the intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo enters, searching for Kryptonian prey. Alone, Superman might fall under the insurmountable odds, but Superman is not alone. He’s never been alone.

MCU Spider-Man 6

The rumbling in the criminal underworld reaches its boiling point when Wilson Fisk returns to reclaim his position as the Kingpin of Crime, launching a gang war that will cause immeasurable destruction and fatalities if someone doesn’t stop it. Peter Parker is blissfully unaware of this, of course, until Matt Murdock asks for his and Felicia's help.

MCU Spider-Man 5

Spider-Man has been criticized by certain members of the public for a long time because of his destructive fights with criminals, costing the city millions in property damage, but it skyrockets when a fight against the Shocker ends with a lab getting destroyed, and although J. Jonah Jameson has softened up since his deal with Tombstone went bad, as well as gotten even more involved with bringing down the underground criminal operations, he still doesn’t support Spider-Man’s methods. Peter Parker, meanwhile, is dealing with the fact that his new friend Harry’s father is his universe’s Norman Osborn. The man who killed his Aunt May. And when the Hobgoblin shows up, Peter is absolutely sure that he will have to take Norman down. Norman, of course, is not the Hobgoblin, and Peter will have to face the fact that his Norman might be a good person. But Peter hasn’t been able to see clearly lately. He’s been more angry than usual. More suspicious. More tired. More violent. Ever since he crashed that lab and got his new suit. Eventually, he has to battle the symbiotic alien for his body, and for his life.

Justice League

We join the bigger world of superheroism as we find ourselves with a series of individuals who have been regularly teaming up to fight crime for some time now, but they're not a team. Not yet. They barely even know each other. They team up simply because it's easier. Less of an actual team-up, and more just fighting the same criminals at the same time. Then several super-powered individuals (The Crime Syndicate), eerily seemingly alike several of our heroes, are transported to Earth from another universe, and as each one of them are confronted by Earth's heroes, battles ensue. After the "Crime Syndicate" members get away, the heroes group and recollect themselves. As they struggle to stop the "Crime Syndicate's" havoc on Earth, they realize that they have to fight together, actually together, to stop the threat. They need to cooperate; they need to trust each other. And they eventually do. The heroes eventually learn that the transported meta-humans' Earth was invaded by an evil entity who killed all the other heroes of their world, which made the "Crime Syndicate" decide to travel to another Earth, and claim that one as their own, inadvertently becoming the very thing they were trying to escape, and our heroes help the Syndicate reclaim their Earth from the evil entity Amazo. The heroes return to their Earth a team, hailed by the public. Before the credits roll, we see the officially formed Justice League ready to defend the Earth from the intergalactic conqueror, Starro.

Superman

Follows Clark Kent at an early stage in his Superman career. He's been using his powers to help and save people on a small scale for more than half a decade, but he only recently put on the red and blue suit, and was named "Superman" by Lois Lane at the Daily Planet, where Clark starts working as a reporter. Superman is a bright spot in a world of real problems, stopping tornadoes, putting out forest fires, and saving kittens from trees. We already knew Superman was powerful, that he could defeat powerful beings, but now we find out that, more than that, he is a friend. It's a love story. A story of the city and people of Metropolis, the people of tomorrow, a cynical people who don't know if they can trust someone as powerful as the Man of Steel, falling in love with the Superman and choosing to trust him, just as Superman is falling in love with them, and Lois, with all of the obstacles that usually get in the way, such as a radicals who believe superheroes are too powerful to be unsupervised, mass destruction caused by battles costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, other super-powered individuals some view as more effective, and the forces of people such as Lex Luthor.

MCU Spider-Man 4

Peter Parker tries to start a new life in a world that doesn’t remember him. He just barely makes rent through freelance photography, and other odd jobs. But he also volunteers at F.E.A.S.T., as his one last connection to his Aunt May. There, he meets Martin Li, a close friend of May's, who admires Peter helping out, and sort of tries to take him under his wing. He makes instant connections with university classmates Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn, but finds himself pushing away from really bonding with them. He can’t put them in danger. Meanwhile, Spider-Man connects and bonds with another masked individual, Black Cat, who regularly leads Spider-Man into danger, as opposed to the other way around. He starts wondering if Spider-Man, and the world, even need Peter Parker. But Spider-Man’s life isn’t without its problems. Apart from Cat leading him into fights with gangs and super-weaponized triads, he’s also being hunted by an escaped Mac Gargan, now calling himself “the Scorpion.” Peter Parker also finds himself in a spot of bother when Martin Li turns out to have a similar identity crisis. And he needs Peter’s help.

Spider-Man: Evils Past

A grad school—adult Peter Parker strenuously, but successfully, tries to split his time between his duties as Peter, his duties as Spider-Man, and his relationship with Mary Jane Watson. One September night, New York City police finds the body of Debra Whitman, secretary at Empire State University, and Peter's ex-girlfriend, hanging from the George Washington Bridge. Soon, more bodies show up, all ex-girlfriends of Spider-Man. Meanwhile, a person dressed in a Goblin costume starts attacking and tormenting Spider-Man, awaking memories of the Green Goblin, and Gwen Stacy. But he also attacks Peter Parker, making Peter fear for everyone he loves. The Hobgoblin's use of Peter's past against him, and constant attacks on his personal life, delves Peter deeper and deeper into a pit of hatred of this new character. The police eventually suspects that Spider-Man is the culprit of the serial killings, and Peter finds himself at wit's end. Who is the Hobgoblin? Why is he murdering people from Peter's past? Are the two even connected?

Web of Spider-Man

Follows a mature Peter Parker, at the start of his middle-age, happy with the life he shares with his wife and daughter, as Peter and MJ decide that it's time for Spider-Man to start drawing back, and retiring, so that he can spend more time with his family. Despite this, Spider-Man finds himself in a fight for his life as several of his past enemies start resurfacing, one after another, to exact revenge. Meanwhile, a figure patiently waits in the shadow. ————— [If you have any legitimate casting suggestions, put them in a comment. This is my world, I'm in control].