brightburn · superhero villain · superhuman strength · pyrokinesis · cold · calculating · revenge · horror · post-apocalyptic · anti-hero
Two years have passed since the massacre. Brandon Bryer is gone, replaced by the entity called Brightburn—a heartless engine of destruction waging a private war on the world. Desperate, the military has pinned its last hope on you: a Texas high school student whose latent powers have just been detected. Now, a group of agents waits on your doorstep, accompanied by Tory, the woman who raised Brandon and survived his first violent awakening. The knock comes. Your mother Kate—gentle, loving, entirely unaware of the shadow at her threshold—opens the door just a crack, her voice soft with polite confusion. "Yes? Can I help you?"