DC Comics Imagine

DC Comics Imagine is an American comic book limited series published by DC Comics. It takes a look at an alternate DC universe if certain key events had been different.

History
The series was inspired by the Marvel Comics series "What If?" which focused on various alternate versions of the Marvel Universe had various different things had happened, such as Aunt May dying instead of Uncle Ben and Spider-Man joining the Fantastic Four. However, these each take place in an individual parallel world, whereas the alternate DC universe is a single entity.

Wrath of Steel
Based on the Superman comics, these take a look at a world where Superman wasn't the wholesome do-gooder the classic portrayal depicts.
 * Clark Kent/Superman - Born as Kal-El on the alien world of Krypton to Kara and Zod, this child spent only his earliest years on Krypton. Kara's father Jor-El had always believed that he had been the father, unaware that the criminal General Zod had raped Lara and impregnated her with Kal-El. When Krypton was destroyed by Zod, Jor-El placed his 'son' in an escape pod and launched him off planet to save him. Kal-El crashed on Earth, where his pod landed on the land owned by farmer Johnathan Kent and his wife Martha. Martha chose to adopt Ka-El, much against Johnathan's wishes, and overtime, he grew very abusive of his adopted son. After years of abuse, Kal-El, now named Clark, accidentally discovered his otherworldly abilites and began to secretly master them. Finally, there came the last straw when Clark was training himself in the barn, and a drunken Johnathan stormed into the house, where he viciously beat his wife. Clark snapped and used his powers to kill his adoptive father, although afterwards Martha died of her injuries. Enraged, Clark exiled himself and was guided by visions to the Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic Circle. Here, Jor-El appeared to him and revealed Clark's origin, and told him that he could help the world. Clark, highly unstable, instead stole a Kryptonian suit of armour and headed back to civilization, planning to conquer Earth. While resting in a small fishing village, Clark watched a news report about the election of the new mayor of Metropolis; Lex Luthor. In the report, Clark caught a glimpse of Lois Lane, one of the mayor's aides, and was smitten with her. He decided to head to Metropolis in order to have her. Once there, he publicly interrupted Lex's rally and expressed his love to Lois, who rejected him. Enraged, he then kidnapped her and flew her to the top of the Daily Planet building, threatening to drop her off unless the city surrendered to him. Lex then revealed a secret he had been keeping for a long time; he had been developing a robotic suit in his home workshop. Using quick thinking, he took the suit and used it to combat Clark, who had dubbed himself "Superman." After a brutal fight, Lex prevailed and Superman fled the city. Some time later, he returned to extract revenge and kill Lex. Lex, however, had been working to save his own son Lionel from a car accident by making him a cyborg. He placed a radioactive isotope in his son's chest and then returned to his office, which is were Superman attacked him. Suddenly, Lionel awoke and upon learning of his father's death, attacked Superman and a battle ensued. Lionel was forced to use the isotope in his chest to create a small nuclear blast, destroying both himself and Superman.
 * Lois Lane/Wonder Woman - When Lionel Luthor battled Superman, Lois witnessed the fight and was subsequently struck by fallout from the climactic explosion. This granted her superpowers similar to Superman's, but she chose to use them for good instead of evil. When her co-worker, Lex's former secretary Mercy Graves deduced what had happened, she became highly unstabled, as she had already been jealous of Lois. Mercy tried to use one of Lex's prototypes suits, but it was unstable and exploded during the fight, crippling Mercy. Shocked by what she had done, she became Lois' partner. It was also Lois who ultimately had to face Batman when he went out of control and arrived in Metropolis to eliminate all criminals. In their final battle, she stole a sword from the hands of a statue and used it to impale Batman.
 * Mercy Graves/Oracle - Always jealous of Lois, she stole one of Lex's failed robotic suits and tried to use it to destroy Lois. During the battle, the suit became badly damaged and exploded, leaving her crippled. Horrified by her own actions, Mercy vowed to redeem herself by becoming Oracle, the wheelchair bound assistant of Wonder Woman. Mercy ultimately met her fate at the hands of her own creation; Brainiac, a Kryptonian supercomputer, whic transformed the computer system into a massive body and killed Mercy.
 * Brainiac - A Kryptonian supercomputer which escaped the destruction of the planet by uploading itself to a nearby satellite. Years later, the satellite had drifted near to Earth and began to burn upon entering the atmosphere, causing it to crash. Brainiac uploaded itself to Mercy's own supercomputer and at first appeared to ben allie, pretending to assist Mercy and Wonder Woman. Brainiac then transformed the computer into it's temporary new body, killing Mercy is the process. Lois was able to pick Brainiac up, fly him into Earth's atmosphere, and launch him into the sun.
 * General Zod - The true father of Kal-El. He was a ruthless general on Krypton, but committed many war crimes during a civil conflict. Although they won the war, the Kryptonian high council learned of Zod's crimes and had him imprisoned in the Phantom Zone. Unbeknownst to Jor-El, one of these crimes had been the rape of his wife, Lara, which impregnated her with Kal-El. Zod later escaped from the Phantom Zone and led an army of other escaped criminal in an all out assault on Krypton, which eventually led to it's destruction. In the planet's final moments, Zod watched Kal-El being launched into space and then attacked Jor-El. During the brutal fight, Zod revealed that he was Kal-El's father. With a cry of rage, Jor-El lashed out and knocked Zod into a fault line, sending him to his doom.