Superman flies from the Daily Planet to the Eiffel tower in Paris where Lois is reporting on a terrorist hostile situation.

Real Life Equivalent: - Flight from New York to Paris
- Taxi to the Eiffel Tower

Superman carries the hydrogen bomb located in the Eiffel tower, flying it up to space past the moon where it explodes.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galatic Flight

Superman then flies back to Metropolis where he bumps into Lois.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galatic Flight

Clark Kent confesses his love to Lois Lane, he then flies her to the Fortress of Solitude to show and tell her everything there is to know about where he's from.

Real Life Equivalent:- Taxi to the Airport
- Private Jet from Niagra to Grise Fiord
- Dog Sled to the Fortress

Superman then flies to the jungle after asking Lois what she would like. He picks two flowers before arriving back and sacrificing his powers in order to be with her.

Real Life Equivalent: - Dog Sled to the airport
- Private Jet from Thule to Manaus

After managing to reinstate his once lost super human powers, Superman flies to the Daily Planet in Metropolis where he looks to save Lois from General Zod, Ursa and Non.

Real Life Equivalent: - Dog Sled to the airport
- Private Jet from Thule to New York

After flying away from General Zod in Metropolis he meets him again at the Fortress of Solitude where Lex Luthor has directed him.

Real Life Equivalent: - Private Jet from New York to Thule
- Dog Sled to the Fortress

Lex Luthor has been released from prison, conned a rich widow into a sham wedding to get his hands on her money, and stolen Kryptonian crystals from the Fortress of Solitude. Luthor returns to Metropolis and experiments with a tiny fragment in a pool which grows to immense size. The growing crystal causes a blackout, affecting the take off of a space shuttle-like vehicle tethered to a Boeing 777, which Lois Lane is aboard, covering the story. Clark flies into action as Superman and stops the plane from crashing into a baseball field.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galactic Flight

The world rejoices in Superman's return, but Lois is more concerned with the blackout. Clark meets her fiancé Richard White, nephew of Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White, and their son Jason. Superman is hurt when he overhears a conversation between Lois and Richard in which she says she never loved Superman.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galactic Flight

Trying to distance himself from his emotions over Lois, Superman returns to fighting crime, not just in Metropolis, but all over the world. Lois sees him on the TV news rescuing people in Paris.

Real Life Equivalent: - Flight from New York to Paris

Learning about Lex Luthor's misbehaviour and the story about the shrapnel which caused the blackout. Superman decided to fly to the Fortress of Solitude only to find out that this is where Lex Luthor stole the shaprnel from and this is what is causing all this trouble.

Real Life Equivalent: - Private Jet from New York to Eureka
- Dog Sled to the Fortress

Lex Luthor has kidnapped Lois and her new husband on his yacht and is taking them away. Superman goes to rescue them.

Real Life Equivalent: - Boat trip

After being stabbed by Lex Luthor with Kryptonite and saved by Lois. Superman regains consciousness, flies to space to gather more energy from the Sun, and goes deep into the ocean to lift the landmass into the atmosphere.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galactic Flight
- Deep Sea Travel Tour

Superman then managed to throw the landmass into space, but weakened by the kryptonite, crash lands back to Metropolis.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galactic Flight

Clark Kent is working as a fisherman on a boat next to Alaska. After seeing an oil rig burning with people inside, he flies to their rescue. The structure collapses on him when everyone has been rescued and he flies back to land.

Real Life Equivalent: - Ferry Boat

Clark is now working in a highway bar where he overhears some men talking about the military looking for an alien ship under the ice of Ellesmere IslandAfter finding his old spaceship next to the US military base. Superman uses the little thing his dad gave him to power the ship and flies it to a place a little bit more north.

Real Life Equivalent: - Helicopter Flight

Jor-El shows Clark a dark blue and red suit bearing the shielded "S". Jor-El explains that it is the emblem of the House of El and a symbol of hope. Jor-El also explains that the Earth's sun has made Clark stronger, and has been helping him manifest powers for some time. Jor-El tells Clark that the suit will symbolize his mission: to help the people of Earth and act as their guardian. Stepping outside the ship, Clark begins to push his powers: first taking flying leaps, before eventually being able to fly at great speeds, breaking the sound barrier and flying great distances around the world.

Real Life Equivalent: - Various International Flights
- Virgin Galactic Flight

The military has received word of General Zod's ship broadcasting a message demanding that the people of Earth hand over Superman within 24 hours or there will be consequences.

Back in Smallville, Clark goes to a local church, and confesses to the pastor there that he is the one the aliens want. Though he admits he is conflicted: he doesn't trust that Zod will leave Earth in peace.

Clark then appears before the Army in his Kryptonian suit, willing to surrender on condition that he can meet with Lois and that she be freed.

Real Life Equivalent: - Train from Smallville to Chicago
- Flight from Chicago to Los Angeles
- Train from Los Angeles to Lancaster

Superman flies around the world to try and stop the World Engine in the middle of the Indian ocean. However, he is assailed by a Kryptonian defense mechanism within the machine that attempts to fend him off with long tentacles.

Real Life Equivalent: - Virgin Galactic Flight
- Flight from Los Angeles to Maldives

The situation over Metropolis grows more desperate as none of the planes sent by the Air Force are able to get close to the Black Zero. Zod's ship and the World Engine have created a gravitational vacuum that keeps the transport unable to properly launch Clark's pod. Realizing there's no way he can fight off the tentacles, Clark goes deep under the World Engine and punches his way through it, causing the connection to sever and the machine to explode. With the gravitational disruption gone, Hardy flies the transport closer to Zod's ship but it is intercepted by Faora, who attempts to stop them.

As well, Zod has arrived in Metropolis with the ship. As he attempts to destroy the Air Force plane, Clark swoops in and crashes into the ship's control panel. Zod yells for Clark to once again let him complete his plan to revive Krypton. "Krypton had its chance," yells Clark, who then uses his heat-vision to tear apart the ship, causing it to crash and the gestation chamber to fracture.

Real Life Equivalent: - Flight from the Maldives to New York

Swanwick and Black Ops Mercenary (Christina Wren) find Superman downing an Air Force drone. Superman claims that he knows they had sent it to find his home on Earth but he wants the search to stop. He vows that he will continue to fight for what is right and the security of Earth. The General questions Superman's commitment to which Clark replies that he's from Kansas and can be trusted. As he flies away, the General's adjutant smiles, clearly won over by how handsome and forthright he appears to be.

Real Life Equivalent: - Flight from New York to Los Angeles
- Train from Los Angeles to Big Pine