Superwho? (2021) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

While rushing to the hospital after learning his father collapsed, Cédric is still wearing his Badman costume and driving the Badmobile. A malfunctioning prop explosive in the trunk detonates, causing him to crash the vehicle through a nearby bank. When he wakes up, his memory is gone, and seeing the superhero props still inside the car convinces him that the role of Badman is his real identity, kicking off the entire identity confusion in Superwho?.

Foreshadowing: The script sets the trap early by having Cédric drive to the hospital in full costume, ensuring the props would be with him at the moment of the crash.

• cedric
• amnesia
• badman
• crash
• prop explosion
• bank
• identity

Still believing he is Badman, Cédric watches a prop recording on his watch that shows Le Clown holding Badman's wife and child hostage. When he breaks into Alain Belmont's mansion and sees the man's family celebrating a birthday, he misreads the scene as Le Clown's hideout and assumes the child is the hostage he needs to rescue. Believing he is following the movie's plot in real life, he takes the boy and flees to a barn.

Foreshadowing: The prop watch scene shown earlier at the family's home primes Cédric to interpret any child he finds as a captive in need of rescue.

• cedric
• kidnap
• belmont
• son
• hostage
• badman
• le clown

Fresh out of his amnesia-fueled belief that he is Badman, Cédric mistakes the two officers for ordinary criminals or villains. Because he is fully committed to his new superhero identity, he reacts with the aggressive instincts his on-screen training drilled into him, attacking the officers before fleeing the scene. The beat is played for slapstick, with Cédric acting on a delusion rather than any real threat.

Foreshadowing: His immediate post-crash behavior at the lake foreshadows how deeply the Badman role will override his normal judgment.

• cedric
• police
• lake
• attack
• amnesia
• badman identity

Le Schizo is a criminal leader of a separate gang who is attempting a bank heist that Cédric stumbles into while riding with reporter Laure Laville. Le Schizo is not part of the Badman movie at all. He becomes a real threat after Cédric foils part of his robbery, and he later tracks Cédric down at the studio to confront him about the failed heist, where Cédric finally subdues him for the police.

• le schizo
• bank heist
• gang
• criminal
• confrontation
• studio

Police chief Michel Dugimont finds his own son hiding in a barn while still wearing the Badman costume, and not knowing his identity at first, he strikes him to subdue him. Once he recognizes Cédric, he shifts from cop to father, helping his confused son slip away from the scene rather than arresting him. His choice prioritizes family over procedure, which sets up the later studio rescue.

• michel
• cedric
• father
• police chief
• barn
• escape
• recognition

Just as Cédric's memories start returning at the studio, Le Schizo confronts him about the foiled bank robbery. Cédric uses a prop grappling hook from the Badman set to disarm Le Schizo, knocking the gun into the adjacent studio. After a brief fight, Cédric subdues Le Schizo and leaves him tied up for Michel and the police to collect, finally turning his movie training into a real victory.

Foreshadowing: His earlier instinctive takedown of Le Schizo's henchman during the bank heist previewed the skills he would use in the final showdown.

• cedric
• le schizo
• studio
• grappling hook
• fight
• defeat

Laure Laville is the news reporter who gives Cédric a ride while he is still convinced he is Badman. The film only reveals their history the day after the studio showdown, when Cédric visits her and discovers she is actually his ex-girlfriend. Their reconnection during the chaos of his amnesia, followed by that reveal, turns their odd road-trip dynamic into a romantic reconciliation by the premiere.

Foreshadowing: Laure's willingness to pick up a stranger in a superhero suit hints at a pre-existing familiarity between them.

• cedric
• laure
• reporter
• ex-girlfriend
• relationship
• reunion

Cédric was already a struggling actor whose biggest credit was a commercial for small-sized condoms. He gets his big break only because the original star of the Badman film dies in an accident while celebrating the movie's announcement. With the production suddenly needing a replacement, Cédric is offered the lead role and undergoes months of training before stepping onto set opposite Alain Belmont.

• cedric
• casting
• badman
• original actor
• accident
• struggling actor

While staying with the family that takes him in, Cédric comes across a prop watch that plays a recorded scene of Le Clown holding Badman's wife and child hostage. Because he already believes he is Badman, he treats this recorded movie clip as a real threat against his supposed family. The scene is what drives him to chase Le Clown's supposed hideout in Vaucresson, making it a key trigger for the rest of the plot.

Foreshadowing: The watch scene plants the idea of a hostage that Cédric will later 'rescue' by kidnapping Belmont's son.

• prop watch
• le clown
• hostage
• family
• badman
• vaucresson

The premiere serves as the film's happy ending wrap-up. Cédric publicly acknowledges his father Michel's retirement from active police duty, reconciles with his ex-girlfriend Laure, and the screening itself shows the climactic scene of Badman defeating Le Clown and rescuing his family. A quick news gag about Tom Cruise being accidentally shot during a Mission: Impossible sequel plays in the background, leaning into the film's celebrity parody tone.

• world premiere
• badman
• michel
• retirement
• laure
• ending
• tom cruise

After Michel lets him escape, Cédric's sister Éléonore and his friends Adam and Seb take him back to the Badman studio. Being surrounded by the props, costumes, and sets he trained on is what gradually triggers his real memories to return, just in time for Le Schizo to arrive and force him into the final fight.

• cedric
• memory
• eleonore
• adam
• seb
• sister
• friends
• studio