Superman

In this Elseworlds tale, young Kal-El's rocket lands on a Ukrainian collective farm instead of a Kansas one, and he grows up to become the Soviet Union's ultimate weapon — a state-sponsored hero fighting not for "truth, justice, and the American way" but for Stalin and world revolution. When the USSR reveals its superpowered champion in 1953, the Cold War arms race pivots overnight from nuclear weapons to metahumans, and the CIA turns to scientist Lex Luthor to find a way to stop him.

As Superman's influence grows into a bloodless global utopia under Soviet rule, Luthor's decades-long crusade to defeat him escalates into a battle over what kind of future humanity deserves — and ends in a twist that loops the hero's origin back on itself. Superman: Red Son remains one of the most celebrated Superman stories ever told, nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.