“Why don’t you just put the whole WORLD in a BOTTLE, Superman?”
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The movie I think you are talking about is Brightburn. It deals with if Superman himself was an evil person.
No, there's an animated dc film of this storyline iirc
Ironically Brightburn is more like Irredeemable by Mark Waid than Superman, although Irredeemable is itself a Superman Elseworlds story.
Red Son is the "What if?" where Kal'el lands in rural Russia rather than Kansas but still deals with an adult Superman in an AU Earth.
Brightburn is a "What if?" where a similarly powered alien child lands in the US but is treated with fear and suspicion, however the character is only 12/13 or so in human years, so it's more about the differences in raising the alien child than how and where he tries to influence the world.
What's funny about that movie is that it fails to even commit to the "evil" thing.
Homie is literally just a normal if awkward kid until his ship starts spamming him with schizo messages until he goes mad and realizes he has the power to just "deal with" all the people he thinks are out to get him, in proper kid logic.
Like, I'm not super versed in Superman lore, but I don't think his spaceship was screaming at him "TAKE THE WORLD KILL KILL TAKE THE WORLD" constantly, which is a pretty crucial difference that undermines the comparison.
I mean, they are out to get him, that's part of the problem. The dad tries to shoot him in the back of the head, the mom tries to stab him with space metal.
Both of those are in response to him already killing people and being an obvious issue by the final act of the movie. I doubt mom would have done anything if he hadn't killed dad, and dad only did so because he killed uncle (I think, one of the bodies they found).
But a lot of the prior people are just either dumb kids doing normal kid bullying or normal adults either trying to discipline him or being annoying busybodies. The kind of thing that feels really overwhelmingly bad as a kid and makes you want to "get even" because you don't understand it.
So he uses power he shouldn't have to act on unrestrained kid emotions, and it goes wildly bad. Which is less "omg he is so evil" and more "kids don't react well to having zero limitations."