My Adventures with Superman Season 3 episode 7 ending explained: Does Clark get his powers back and who are the alternate versions of Lois, Kara and Lex in The Ex Games?

My Adventures with Superman has quietly become one of the most consistent and emotionally honest Superman stories on screen. The Adult Swim and Max series, developed by Jake Wyatt, Brendan Clogher and Josie Campbell, follows a young Clark Kent learning how to be both a journalist and a hero while building a found family with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and later Kara Zor-El.


Season 3, which launched in mid-June 2026, has pushed the characters into heavier territory inspired by the classic Reign of the Supermen comics. Jack Quaid returns as Clark, Alice Lee as Lois, Ishmel Sahid as Jimmy and Kiana Madeira as Kara. Supporting players include Max Mittelman as Lex Luthor and Darren Criss as Superboy.

Episode 7, titled “The Ex Games,” aired on July 26, 2026 and picks up directly from the portal cliffhanger of the previous instalment. What follows is part absurd interdimensional game show, part character pressure cooker, and part setup for the season’s remaining episodes. The hour mixes loud physical challenges with quieter, more uncomfortable conversations that force each member of the core group to stare at versions of themselves they would rather not meet.

The episode wastes almost no time. Lois, Clark, Jimmy and Kara are still processing the aftermath of the gala and Clark’s continuing powerlessness when the portals open beneath their feet. They land in a bright, artificial arena wearing beach outfits that immediately signal this is not a standard battle. Mr Mxyzptlk appears with his partner Glitzy, also known as Gsptlsnz in the comics. The pair announce they are getting divorced and that Fifth Dimension beings settle these matters through a contest of champions rather than courts. Mxyzptlk claims our four as his team. Glitzy fields her own squad of variants.


The opposing roster is carefully chosen. General Lois is a military, hard-edged version who has already lost her Clark. Scion Kara still carries the ruthless conditioning Brainiac once forced on her counterpart. Flamebird Jimmy wears advanced powered armour and has channelled grief into technology. A more thoughtful Lex Luthor rounds out the group, having stepped into a leadership role after his world’s Superman died during an invasion by forces called the Hunger Dogs. The prize hanging over everything is the Cosmic Anvil, a relic capable of reshaping entire universes. The losers risk being left behind permanently.

Mxyzptlk quickly realises his Superman is currently useless. Clark has been without powers since he burned through his solar reserves stopping Cyborg Superman. The imp bargains with an unseen cosmic judge so that Scion Kara also loses her flight ability, evening the physical field in a way that visibly annoys Glitzy.

The first challenges are pure spectacle. A collapsing stone bridge forces leaps across gaps while sections drop away. Both teams collect keys. The contests feel like a chaotic mix of reality competition shows and classic Superman cartoon set pieces, complete with Hell Hippos later in the catacombs. Yet every physical trial is really a delivery system for the character work that follows.


The second major challenge sends the women up a sinking mountain that eventually drops into a trench containing a fire-breathing manticore. This is where the episode gets properly uncomfortable. General Lois and our Lois end up isolated together. The alternate version is blunt to the point of cruelty. In her world Clark lost his powers and later died. The loss stripped away whatever softness she still carried. She talks about becoming a predator rather than prey and needles our Lois about the fire she seems to have lost since Clark became human. She even predicts some of Lois’s current insecurities with unsettling accuracy.

The conversation is not a long speech. It is short, practical and designed to land. Lois does not have a clean answer. Season 3 has already been asking whether she can picture a future with a Clark who might never fly again. General Lois simply shows her one possible outcome of that fear.

Kara’s meeting with Scion Kara is even sharper. Our Kara still tries to help when her counterpart slips. Scion Kara throws her into the pit without hesitation and later gloats about being the superior version. She presses the idea that the darkness was always present and that pretending otherwise is self-deception. Kara has spent the season trying to define herself beyond Brainiac’s programming and the Scion role she was raised for. Meeting a version that never escaped it forces her to confront how thin the line still feels. The exchange is one of the episode’s strongest character beats because it does not resolve neatly. Kara is left rattled rather than triumphant.


Meanwhile the men are dropped into catacombs hunting puzzle pieces to build an exit door. Clark ends up working alongside the alternate Lex. This Lex carries genuine regret. He admits past mistakes that contributed to the loss of his world’s Superman and speaks about trying to atone while fighting the Hunger Dogs invasion. Clark, still feeling like a liability, listens and chooses cooperation even when it costs him. Jimmy spends time with Flamebird Jimmy, who poured his grief into armour after losing his best friend.

The conversation pushes Jimmy to face how he has handled his own feelings for Kara, the delays, the fear of not measuring up, and the habit of running from hard emotional truths. None of these meetings feel like neat therapy sessions. They are messy, pointed and consistent with how the show has always preferred character pressure over tidy speeches.

The later challenges shift from pure physical tests to something more psychological. A maze forces the contestants to confront visions of possible futures. When they hesitate or doubt, they begin to freeze in place, a visual representation of hearts growing cold. This is the moment Kara articulates the idea that becomes the episode’s quiet thesis. There is no single true path already written. The future is something they shape day by day. That realisation helps the group keep moving when the alternatives are paralysis or surrender.


By this point both teams are tied on keys. The final reveal arrives with the kind of smug theatricality Mxyzptlk does best. The divorce was never real. Mxyzptlk and Glitzy are still very much together. The entire contest was an elaborate date-night role-play designed to unlock the Cosmic Anvil, which Fifth Dimension beings cannot use themselves. They needed champions to collect the keys for them.

Once the truth is out, both teams are offered a final temptation. Win the last game and the Anvil can rewrite their worlds. Clark could have his powers restored in an instant. The variants could bring their Superman back to life. General Lois makes it clear she would rather have Clark the person than Superman the symbol. The emotional leverage is real and the show lets it sit for a moment.

Clark is the one who talks everyone down. He points out that Mxyzptlk’s promises always come with hidden costs. The alternate Lex, once he learns Clark’s identity, refuses to continue out of respect for the Superman he lost. The others eventually stand with them. Mxyzptlk throws a childish fit. An hourglass mechanism built into the arena runs out of sand. Without a declared winner the Anvil remains locked. The group is returned to the exact moment and place they left. Clark does not suddenly regain flight or heat vision. What he does regain is a clearer sense that he can still matter and still lead even while human.


Clark does not get his powers back in “The Ex Games.” The episode treats his powerlessness as an ongoing condition rather than a temporary inconvenience waiting for the right solar recharge or plot device. He has been without them since the Cyborg Superman battle several episodes earlier, and this instalment forces him to prove he can still make hard choices and still hold the group together when the easy fix is offered on a platter. The refusal of the Anvil is the clearest statement the show has made so far about what kind of hero it wants Clark to be.

The alternate versions serve specific narrative jobs. General Lois is the hardened survivor who chose practicality and emotional distance after losing her Clark. She functions as a warning about what Lois fears becoming if hope is stripped away. Scion Kara is the version that never broke free of Brainiac’s influence, still convinced that strength and ruthlessness are the only reliable tools. She exists to test whether our Kara has truly moved past that programming or is only performing the difference.

Flamebird Jimmy shows a version of Jimmy who channelled grief into technology and armour rather than facing the emotional wreckage. The more reflective Lex is perhaps the most surprising. He carries real remorse, admits mistakes, and has tried to lead a resistance after his world’s Superman died. Together they form a dark mirror of the core group’s current fears about the future, identity and loss.


The final moments undercut any sense of lasting safety. Back in Metropolis, Clark and Lois try to talk through what happened. The conversation is tentative but warmer than recent exchanges. Then a beam of light drops two figures into the street. One is Jon Kent, Superboy, looking older, harder and marked by a visible scar across his face. Beside him stands a young girl who has not been named on screen yet but carries a clear family resemblance. The future is still broken, and it has arrived again with company. Whatever Jon has witnessed this time is worse than the previous dystopian timeline, and the season still has three episodes left to deal with the consequences.

Episode 8 is titled “It’s Reigning (Super)Men” and is scheduled for August 2, 2026. The focus will almost certainly shift back toward the larger season threads involving multiple Superman-like figures, the unresolved future timelines, and whatever new threat or alliance the scarred Superboy and his companion represent. Clark’s lack of powers remains a live problem rather than a resolved one. The personal growth from the Fifth Dimension contest will matter, but the external pressure is clearly escalating again.

My Adventures with Superman Season 3 is available to stream on Max following its Adult Swim premiere. New episodes continue weekly through the season finale in mid-August.