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John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called Goodman "among our very finest actors." Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, acting in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took on leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). Goodman also had supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Storytelling (2001), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), The Hangover Part III (2013), and Atomic Blonde (2017). He has voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), The Jungle Book 2 (2003), and Bee Movie (2007). On television, Goodman gained recognition by playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018) and The Conners (2018–present). Goodman had regular roles in the HBO drama series Treme (2010–2011), the legal drama series Damages (2011), the political comedy series Alpha House (2013–2014), and the HBO comedy series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). He has been a frequent host of Saturday Night Live (1989–2013) and has guest starred in The West Wing (2003–2004), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006), and Community (2011–2012). Goodman started his career at The Public Theatre, acting in numerous productions, including Henry IV, Part 1 (1981), The Skin of Our Teeth (1998), and The Seagull (2001). He made his Broadway debut in Big River (1985), for which Goodman received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical nomination. He returned to Broadway in revivals of the Samuel Becket play Waiting for Godot (2009) and the newspaper comedy The Front Page (2016). Goodman debuted his West End in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2015).
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Superman intercepts a falling blimp over Metropolis Trust Bank as Batman disables explosives inside—revealing the Joker behind it. The clown escapes, but the disaster is prevented through perfect aerial-ground coordination. Mayor Lex Luthor publicly praises Superman, positioning himself as Metropolis’s strategic protector. Batman tells Superman he's been picking up an extra-terrestrial disturbance in the atmosphere. Superman could sense it already. A skull-shaped alien vessel arrives: Brainiac. He announces Earth will be archived. Cities vanish in bottled stasis fields. Superman and Supergirl confront him and is nearly digitized before Batman and Batgirl disrupt Brainiac’s signal grid. Catwoman steals a drone core that lets Batman trace the mothership. Martha and Pa Kent ground Clark emotionally, reminding him Earth is more than territory — it’s people. Luthor provides alien tech access codes. Batman distrusts him but uses the data. The heroes board Brainiac’s ship: Superman battles androids while Batman and Batgirl free cities. Brainiac calculates Superman as the prime specimen and tries to bottle him; Batman overloads the collector using Catwoman’s stolen core. Superman resists, shattering the stasis engine. Brainiac is defeated and contained in a null-field prison built by Luthor and WayneTech. The cities are restored. Luthor takes public credit, Batman vanishes, and Superman thanks him anyway. On a rooftop, the two heroes agree that someone that powerful, isn't gone for good.
