Jack Ryder (last in ???; next in ???)
Synopsis:
A group of meta-humans calling themselves the Elite suddenly appear on the world scene
and Superman doesn't like it. They are able to stop some heavy-duty terrorists, but not without
killing them, and not without huge, and unnecessary, loss of civilian life. However, many
people think that the Elite are the way forwards, the only way to deal with increasingly more
dangerous evil-doers. Superman, however, resolutely refuses to kill.
Eventually, the Elite challenge him to a battle, which he requests be held on Jupiter's
moon Io so that no-one else can be injured in the fight. Broadcast to television screens
all over Earth, it initially looks like Superman is defeated in a matter of seconds,
but then Manchester Black, leader of the Elite, sees his team-mates fall apart around him,
killed by Superman, who claims he realised this was the only way. Black also discovers
himself without any powers; Superman reveals now that the rest of the Elite are alive and
well and the Black himself has been hit with a form of localised concussion. The Elite
may well be back, and Superman will face them again, and defeat them again, but he
will not kill to do so.
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