Warning! Spoilers ahead for Suicide Squad: Dream Team #4!One of Superman’s oldest and most tragic nemeses has met his end right on the cusp of becoming a hero. In his determination to be just like the Man of Steel, Bizarro fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up taking orders from Amanda Waller. But the backward clone finally sees the light, right before his own light is snuffed out.

In Suicide Squad: Dream Team #4 by Nicole Maines and Eddy Barrows, Dreamer has been captured by her fellow Task Force X members and is being hauled back to Amanda Waller’s base on Gamorra. Dreamer’s pleas for assistance mostly fall on deaf ears, save for Bizarro, whom Nia manages to reach.

Bizarro frees Dreamer from her restraints and helps dispatch the Suicide Squad. After escaping the Squad’s clutches, Dreamer leaps from a plan and Bizarro catches her to bring his newfound friend to safety. Unfortunately, Bizarro is shot in the head by Deadshot just as he embraces being a hero.

Bizarro Bites the Dust Right After Seeing the Light

Superman’s polar opposite Bizarro has always been the oddest member of the Man of Tomorrow’s rogues’ gallery. But while he’s destructive and often a nuisance there’s a part of him that wants to do good. Amanda Waller decided to exploit that desire when she created her latest incarnation of the Suicide Squad. While most of Waller’s team were working against their wills, Bizarro willingly went along with the plans, thinking that Amanda was actually putting him on the path to heroism. Even as he helped seize Gamorra from its people, Bizarro genuinely thought he was helping save the world.

This version of Bizarro isn’t the first to die (one just passed in the recent “I, Bizarro” arc of Action Comics). But what’s tragic about this scenario is that this Bizarro was close to turning things around and becoming a proper hero. Because of his broken, Bizarro logic, the failed Superman clone has a hard time understanding how to do the right thing. But Dreamer actually helped him break through here and almost made a hero out of him. It’s a gloomy moment, but one that shows it is indeed possible for Superman’s copycat to come to the good side.

Bizarro Can Be the Hero He Wants to Be

It likely won’t be long until fans see a Bizarro again and when they do, there’s a good chance he could find the light just like this one did. Bizarro yearns to be a hero just like Superman, he just needs a positive influence like Dreamer (and to stay away from Amanda Waller at all costs). If one Bizarro can come around and understand the true difference between good and evil, then another certainly can as well. Hopefully, the next time Superman confronts his mirror opposite, Bizarro will have found his inner hero again.

Suicide Squad: Dream Team #4 is available now from DC Comics.