A failing clown becomes a superhero 

SYNOPSIS:

CLOWNMAN

Larry Hills is a failing entertainment clown and forced to care for his niece Genda has fallen on hard times he drives home depressed in full clown makeup when a meteor hits near his car, and he approaches it to investigate and beams shoot out of it affecting him before it shatters.

Larry returns home and collapses asleep but awakens to find his makeup and costume removed, later when he goes to the bank it is robbed by a group of criminals and then he turns into a clown automatically by instinct and his clown gimmicks are superpowered and he ends up foiling the criminals and escapes and the papers deem him Clownman, and realizes the meteor gave him superpowers.

Meanwhile industrialist Daryl Payne who while is publicly a pillar of the community, is secretly an arms dealer, plans a major arms shipment and test new weapons on a neighborhood, disguised as an attack from the Middle East. Larry trying to figure out what to do attempts to live normally and avoid drawing in attention while police officers John Morley and Will Handson are assigned to find him and bring him in. When danger appears Larry turns into Clownman and saves the day, and flees when police officers show up, then Genda is walking home when she sees Payne’s men planting the bombs and is kidnapped but is able to send a message to Larry who investigates and realizes she is in danger.

Finally mastering his transformation into Clownman he fights off the criminals, and faces Payne who takes Genda hostage, as Clownman confronts him, and defeats him and leaves for Morley and Handson to arrest exposing his true colors and stopping the bombs. Genda finds out about her uncle’s powers as Clownman is hailed as a hero, and the police officers decide to lay off, meanwhile Larry gains a new job and accepts his powers and his new life as the superhero Clownman.