Adapté du comics éponyme, Superman : Red Son nous emmène au sein d'un univers parallèle dans lequel le super-héros grandit en U.R.S.S et finit par devenir le symbole du régime communiste grâce à ses super-pouvoirs. Avec l'aide de Wonder Woman, il fera notamment face à Lex Luthor et Batman qui incarnent quant à eux le bloc américain..
Motion comics adaptation of the Superman: Red Son comic book that place Superman and his nefarious villains in the Soviet Union..
In Red Son, Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas, an implied reason being a small time difference (a handful of hours) from the original timeline, meaning Earth's rotation placed the Ukraine in the ship's path instead of Kansas. Instead of fighting for "...truth, justice, and the American Way", Superman is described in Soviet radio broadcasts "...as the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact." His "secret identity" (i.e. the name his adoptive parents gave him) is a state secret..
