youtube.com/watch?v=WCJpuXZPnos

If there's one thing everyone agrees Superman is good at, it's selling cars.

UPDATE 2025: It seems that the South Korean-market Hyundai commercial has been removed from the Internet. The video I had linked to is now "private" video on YouTube, and I currently cannot find any other copies via Google search. (And they said the Internet was forever. Bah!)

So in place of the video, here's a description of the commercial written by Jason Torchinsky for Jalopnik.com published June 4, 2015:

This is a Korean-market ad (they call the Azera the Grandeur in the home market) but it appears to be set in an American city. There's the usual blockbuster-grade disaster happening, with explosions and crumbling buildings and smoke and chaos.

There's a blonde woman running, wearing professional attire and completely disregarding any "NO RUNNING" signage. Shit's getting real all around her, with explosions and fire and the whole parking deck she's in coming down.

Desperate, she screams a plaintive "HELP ME!"

Seemingly in answer to her plea, a wall bursts (outwardly, somehow? I think?) and our old pal Batman comes running in, ready to take care of business. Then, holy crap, there's Superman — or at least Superman from a videogame, or maybe an action figure granted life by some arcane incantation.

And finally, here comes the Flash, running, ironically, in slow motion, and joining the other two unitard enthusiasts, forming a very formidable triumvirate of superheroism.

And then they all get run over by Hyundais.

Seriously, that's what it looks like. Three guys running, cloud of smoke and steam, then three cars blasting through exactly where they were. Sure looks like they got run over. Especially since they're gone. No longer in the ad. That's it for them.

Did they save that woman? It doesn't look like it, really, since those three Hyundais came blasting through before they even got to her.

And just where the hell were those Hyundais going in such a hurry, anyway? Based on what we see next, they're going the fuck out of destructiontown. Like, way out — that landscape is open and barren, like halfway down the 40 to the Pacific. What's more, they're not stopping, either — the commercial ends with them driving on as night falls, putting as much distance between them and whatever's trashing that city.

https://www.jalopnik.com/hyundai-commercial-with-batman-superman-and-the-flash-1709158707/

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