As Season 3 of HBO Max and Adult Swim’s My Adventures with Superman rolls on, it’s whimsical, humorous and very much as quirky and anime-inspired as the first two seasons. However, the third chapter, “All’s Fair in Love and W.O.R.M.S.,” adds a bit more romantic drama to the mix. It reminds fans that, while this series is for teenagers, there is a bit of soap opera silliness for longtime Superman loyalists and young adults alike. And a lot comes down to the concept of commitment. Something that is essential as the story gets darker.
It trails back to the first season. Clark Kent (Jack Quaid) understood being devoted and honest. So much so, he revealed his identity to Lois Lane (Alice Lee) and Jimmy Olsen (Ishmel Sahid) at the Daily Planet. He felt this transparency would assuage any concerns that he’d turn against the planet someday. It went a long way to bolstering his intrepid journalistic peers when they had to defend him from the likes of General Sam Lane (Joel de la Fuente), Amanda Waller (Debra Wilson) and the American government’s Task Force X.
The military was afraid of aliens after a failed Kryptonian invasion before Superman’s time. But Clark proved he wasn’t like that faction. Come Season 2, Clark’s resolve was tested even more. Earth felt he and his newly-arrived cousin, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl (Kiana Madeira), were liabilities. Given Kara was being controlled by Brainiac, it was hard to dispute that ordeal. Luckily, Clark broke out of Brainiac’s control, helped Supergirl come to the light and worked with her to defeat Brainiac.
Season 3 found them destroying the core of Brainiac’s essence. But a new threat has risen up in the form of Lex Luthor (Max Mittelman). He’s running LexCorp and using Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (Chris Parnell) as his enforcer after their tenures with the now-defunct Task Force X ended. Alas, an unhinged, unchained Lex is conducted scientific experiments in unabated fashion. He has finally unleashed Hank Henshaw (also voiced by Mittelman) as his ruthless Cyborg Superman.
Lex wants to show the world his literal Man of Steel is better, which led to Hank shutting down the violent Winslow Schott / Toyman (Michael Yurchak) at a comic-con to send a message. Lex wants the public’s approval and he’ll do anything to get it. Episode 3 finds Team Kent dealing with the aftermath of seeing Hank for the first time, juggling personal and professional chaos once more.
My Adventures with Superman Gives Lois Commitment Issues… Again
In the past, Lois was scared of becoming an official couple with Clark. It stems from her parents not having a sturdy marriage. Sam was totally focused on work. He neglected Lois’ mother, Eun-Byeol, as they moved from station to station. This instability turned tragic when the mother fell ill and passed away. Since then, Lois has struggled with the idea of marriage. She loathed her father, too, but has forgiven him. However, despite giving Sam a second chance, Lois isn’t sure marriage is for her.
She was spooked earlier this season when Clark said he wanted them to get their own farm home and raise kids. Now, he even has a model farm he got at the convention. Lois, though, wants to be distracted. She thinks they need to move things along slowly and live for the moment. Clark, thankfully, shows compassion and empathy. He gives Lois time and space as she focuses on playing matchmaker for Kara.
My Adventures with Superman Throws Supergirl and Jimmy Olsen Into Love Chaos
Jimmy and Kara had a crush on each other since they first met. But Season 3 found Jimmy making an odd decision. He urged Kara to see the world and test the waters in finding a soulmate. He felt she needed to explore, even if it wasn’t with him. Jimmy’s jealous side has been rearing its ugly head, though.
This episode finds him signing up for a reality series that revolves around W.O.R.M.S. (the World Organization for Romantic Matchmaking Science). This is a drastic change for the group from being the World Organization for Research in Mad Science in DC lore. Lex used these mad scientists in his sinister takeover schemes. Here, there is a bit more endearment and sentiment. The company is run by the non-speaking Tazzala and Zazzala (Chandler Lovelle), queer women who want others to find true love.
They’re no longer alien villains from the source material who can control bees and who have designs for universal domination. While they’re broken up due to poor communication, Zazzala hopes Jimmy can have a perfect date with a red-headed woman named Gigi (Vella Lovell).
Gigi is into Jimmy but she’s fascinated more from a scientific perspective. She wants to know how interstellar travel and Kryptonite affected his physiology. She then transforms Jimmy into a werewolf. She has weird, scientific kinks. Jimmy is oblivious to the fact he’s dealing with a deranged date in this speed dating session.
As for Kara, Lois signs Kara up for a dating app. Granted, making a profile is hard as Kara doesn’t have hobbies from her short time on Earth. But Lois knows she can find someone for this beautiful warrior, all to make Jimmy jealous and have him come crawling back to Kara. A bit extreme, eh? It’s as if no one understands mature conversation.
My Adventures with Superman Unleashes Giganta
Zazzala is able to inject Jimmy with a serum to turn him back into a human. However, it backfires and messes with his endoskeleton. Jimmy basically becomes “spaghetti.” He tries to phone Clark using his Flamebird watch. He doesn’t want to hurt his online following and Flamebird brand. But Clark doesn’t care about Jimmy’s social media presence — he just wants to finish his model.
Things go from bad to worse after another injection heals Jimmy. Gigi reacts in a terrible manner. She breaks out of her handcuffs and reveals she’s Giganta, aka the Distortionist who has been mutating folks recently. DC fans know her as the giant who often fights with Wonder Woman. In this cartoon, she enlarges herself, grabs Jimmy and scales the Daily Planet like King Kong. Someday, she hopes to make him big, too. For now, she just wants a toy. That’s what Jimmy gets for ignoring his assignments and using reporting time for recreational activities.
Clark sees the drama from his Metropolis apartment, suits up and flies over. Crimefighting doesn’t take time off, despite Clark hoping for some alone time. Clark can’t get to Jimmy so he asks Tazzala and Zazzala to help out. They’re coincidentally back together again. They use their robotic wings to fly up, inject Gigi and revert her to her human form. As with most women in the series, she falls for Superman.
But the Man of Tomorrow lets her down easily because he’s a caring, one-woman guy. Some guys have all the luck, but Jimmy isn’t one of them. He’s just always in the wrong place at the wrong time, which affected his physiology badly.
My Adventures with Superman Gives Cyborg Superman a Fatal Flaw
One of the plot points that takes up Clark’s time in this episode is Hank. The opening sequence had Hank violently beating up a street thief. His ego is pushing him to assert dominance. He was always narcissistic but after almost dying when Brainiac’s drones tried to invade, he has become more extremist. Hank is wearing the LexCorp symbol and thinks it gives him a license to damage or kill. He wants to play judge, jury and executioner.
Hank later on tries to kill Silver Banshee (Cat Taber) and her team of robbers after they lift tech from Lex. Hank sadistically enjoys doling out pain. Superman arrives to retrieve the tech and save the squad. He convinced them in the past to quit the Suicide Squad. Inspired, they helped foil Brainiac’s plans. But it seems the heroic life isn’t paying, literally.
Superman, though, wants to let Hank know they need to be careful when dispensing justice. As the scuffle continues, the crowd panics. Suddenly, Hank is remotely shut down and trapped by Slade and Lex. They don’t like how their PR campaign to slander Superman is being botched. Hank is making Superman look good. Superman even gets Silver Banshee and crew to turn themselves in.
Lex summons Hank back to base where mayhem ensues. Cyborg Superman is petulant and corrupted by power. He pummels Deathstroke a bit, quite easily at that. But before he can rush Lex, the mastermind uses a killswitch to immobilze Hank. Lex lets him know he can place Hank offline. It’s a murderous threat that proves Lex is the puppet master in command. It hints at turmoil to come and Hank possibly going rogue if he can break out of Lex’s contingency measures.
Lex wins this round and shows Hank the bigger apex predator. To Lex, Hank will always be a pet on a string and not an alpha leading the pack. Hank won’t like being this tool of destruction. He wants agency and to be his own instrument of virtue. Silver Banshee using her sonic screams to blow his skin off and expose his metal face could further taint his image and get Hank to hate citizens for thinking he’s a monster.
My Adventures with Superman Turns Supergirl Into a Teacher
Kara has been a student, learning about Earth. But when she and Lois go on a mall run, Kara becomes more than just someone Lois wants to doll up. They eat snacks, listen to Black Canary’s music in a record store, and have a musical rendition where Kara begs Lois to embrace love, hope and faith in Clark.
Lois thinks he is her soulmate but the trauma of old lingers. Lois is scared of the future. This endeavor is daunting and frightening. Lois eventually has a chat with Clark at the apartment. Clark can see why she’s clinging to their current state and lets her know he’ll move at her pace. Brunch will do at the moment.
Kara does well as a mentor. But she and Jimmy still bicker about him being scared to make a move of his own. Instead, he’s obsessed with his audience and frivolous activities like taking hush money from W.O.R.M.S. in the form of a sponsorship. Jimmy just wants to earn cash after losing so much helping save Clark. Well, he’s now going to be an influencer and brand ambassador as Kara seeks out other dates. Jimmy’s bad experience at W.O.R.M.S. won’t stop him from being for sale.
My Adventures with Superman Teases Krypto
Krypto is popular once more. In some DC stories, the dog is Kryptonian and in others, it’s an Earthling that Clark and Supergirl tend to. Coincidentally, the former is an arc the new DC live-action Supergirl (Milly Alcock) is entrenched in. In this cartoon, Clark finds a dog he likes when he helps a boat that caught fire.
It was hosting a drive to encourage dog adoption. Clark even almost called the dog “Krypto.” He fully intends to adopt the animal, let Lois fall for the pooch and coax her into family life. He jokes that “Bark Kent” could be another option. But from the look of the dog, rest assured, it’s Krypto. This is one case where Clark being cunning and deceitful can be given a hall pass.
My Adventures with Superman Sends Superboy Back in Time
In many DC books and cartoons, Superman, Superboy and Supergirl spent time across different periods with the Legion of Super-Heroes. Otto Binder and Al Plastino created this temporal team in the comics. Binder has already been homaged in this show for all the work he did on several Superman characters. He co-created Bizarro, Supergirl and Krypto, and even created the watch Jimmy uses to call Clark.
With all these characters in the show, it’s easy to see this cartoon tinkering with more of Binder’s work and the Legion’s purpose. They tried to keep the timeline stable. This arc is being remixed when the final act of the episode jumps to the future. There, a bald, scarred Lex is helping a resistance stave off the robot apocalypse. The machines are modeled after the Martian-like drone he made to hunt a Superman clone, Bizarro, in Season 3.
This time-jump is like the Terminator franchise. The robots kill Jimmy and Steel before going after Lex. Shockingly, Lex has an altruistic mission. He slaps a time-travel gauntlet on the wrist of Superboy (Darren Criss) and sends him back in time before being turned to ash, too. It looks like My Adventures with Superman is indeed taking some direction from Marvel, with the gauntlet, ashing and overall timeline arc nodding to Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The credits say this Superboy is indeed Jon Kent. But future episodes could hide twists.
It remains to be seen if this is actually the Conner Kent / Kon-El clone Lex made in the comics to control. Or if it’s really the son of Clark and Lois from the future. He does look like a young Kal, after all. This mythical figure could retool Jon taking up the mantle of Superman in the comics or him needing training on Earth, per Superman & Lois. This piques the interest of those who also want to learn why Lex’s armada of machines betrayed him and why he turned good.
The episode concludes with Superboy being sent back to figure out how the stop the end of days. Hopefully, he doesn’t break the timeline or cause perilous butterfly effects that could change the future for the worse.
My Adventures with Superman Still Has Some Plot Holes
These plot holes revolve, firstly, around Supergirl being her super-self in public with Lois. Kara is dressed like a civilian but is seen flying while Lois walks next to her. It’s cute hearing them discuss how to get back at Jimmy.
But anyone with a brain can see this, pinpoint Kara as Supergirl, and realize the people around her (Lois and Clark) are hiding the true identity of Superman. Once they see the mild-mannered Clark that Lois is dating, it’ll be obvious Clark is Kal. It makes you wonder if the Daily Planet is good at investigating their own, too.
Secondly, Jimmy phoning Clark in battle against Hank and asking for Superman’s help versus Gigi is very off-putting. Any passerby could see this and realize Jimmy (aka Superman’s well-known best friend) is talking to Clark and Superman at the same time. Even Hank and Lex can discern this evidence. If adversaries reconcile Kara being part of Clark’s civilian unit, it’ll be clear that they are the remnants of the House of El. Jimmy shouldn’t be painting a target on all their backs like that.
Ultimately, Kara and Jimmy are carelessly leaving major breadcrumbs. They’re endangering Lois and Clark at a time the military is still skeptical. Sam quit Task Force X but wants to use his new role in Washington to encourage Superman to be a G-Man. He can’t afford to lose Superman as an ally against the powerful alien threats out there. With Lex and Slade having other experiments in the lab, Team Kent must be cautious at attracting eyes to the Smallville farm and to loved friends and colleagues.
There will be tension, commotion and contention to come, especially in Clark and Kara’s personal lives. They all better get their heads in the game because trouble is brewing. Plus, there’s a massive mystery to be solved with Jon’s mission.
My Adventures With Superman Season 3 Premiere Dates And Episode Guide:
My Adventures With Superman Season 3 will officially premiere Saturday, June 13 at midnight ET/PT on Adult Swim (technically Sunday at Midnight, but whatever), and later that day on HBO Max — meaning Sundays, likely at 3am ET. The season will be 10 episodes long, with one episode dropping per week until the finale.
Here’s the full list of episodes in My Adventures With Superman Season 3, with premiere dates (and as a note, we’ve included the Adult Swim premiere date; once again, it technically debuts Sunday on Adult Swim at night, and debuts on HBO Max on Sunday morning).
- Saturday, June 13, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 1
- Saturday, June 20, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 2
- Saturday, June 27, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 3
- Saturday, July 4, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 4
- Saturday, July 11, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 5
- Saturday, July 18, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 6
- Saturday, July 25, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 7
- Saturday, August 1, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 8
- Saturday, August 8, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 9
- Saturday, August 15, 2026: My Adventures With Superman Season 3, Episode 10 *Season Finale*
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