What if DC Had A Perfect Cinematic Universe

0:00Unlike Marvel, DC hasn't really had the

0:02best time at the movies in the last

0:0320-ish years attempting but never really

0:06succeeding at getting a cinematic

0:07universe off the ground. In the past I

0:09made a video looking at what the DCEU

0:11would look like if it was structured

0:12like the Infinity Saga thus making it

0:14way way better. However, even that

0:17wasn't perfect. For one, it was mostly

0:18based off of the DCEU which had a lot

0:20more issues than just its structure. But

0:23also it's modeled after a saga, the

0:24Infinity Saga, which isn't actually

0:26built for a complete comic book

0:28universe. What we got out of that was

0:30that really only had like one Flash

0:31movie, no Green Lantern movies, no Teen

0:33Titans, Green Arrow kind of just placed

0:36in at the end not getting a movie and

0:37generally more limited than I'd like the

0:39DC universe to be. So in this video and

0:41in two follow-ups, I'll be detailing

0:43what could have been the absolute

0:45perfect DC cinematic universe [music] at

0:47least from my perspective. Make sure to

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0:52the year and let's begin. The reason

0:54this will be broken up into multiple

0:56parts is because there's a lot more

0:57specifics I need to delve into than the

0:59normal universe restructuring video. The

1:01movies titles and stories are going to

1:03be either completely original or mixes

1:05of a few different projects. The

1:07castings will be from all across DC

1:09live-action media keeping in mind the

1:11ages of the actors in the year we will

1:13be in at that point. Basically, nothing

1:15about anything in this world will be

1:16consistent with any real world

1:18franchise. So explaining everything will

1:19take a little bit longer. This DC

1:22universe which I will call the DC movie

1:24universe or the DCMU begins in 2008. But

1:27even before that, things will be

1:29different. Everything released in the

1:3120th century was released in this world

1:33but as the turn of the century came

1:34about, things went a bit differently.

1:36Nothing live-action that was released by

1:38DC in the 21st century including both

1:40movies and TV shows exist in this world

1:43unless I specifically point out that it

1:45does. There's no Dark Knight trilogy, no

1:47Arrowverse, no DCEU, no Elseworlds, just

1:50one universe that every live-action

1:51project takes place in. Also, if there

1:53is ever a movie that has a similar plot

1:55to an animated movie, then that animated

1:57movie also did not exist just so that

1:59that live-action movie doesn't come off

2:01as derivative but every other animated

2:03project will exist. Instead of phases,

2:05there will be chapters. Chapter one of

2:07the first saga which won't be getting a

2:08name yet will begin in 2008 with three

2:11back-to-back releases featuring the

2:13first three Justice League founders to

2:15get live-action movies, Superman,

2:16Batman, and Green Lantern. I know it

2:18would have made sense for it to be the

2:19Trinity Superman, Batman, and Wonder

2:21Woman but the actress who's going to be

2:23playing Wonder Woman in this universe

2:24would have been too young in 2008. And

2:26also Green Lantern did get a movie

2:28before Wonder Woman. So I think this is

2:29fine. The first of these will be a movie

2:31called The Batman. A movie that is sort

2:33of a combination of all the live-action

2:35Batman franchises of the 21st century.

2:37As you can already tell, it has the

2:38title of The Batman and also the costume

2:40of The Dark Knight. But it goes beyond

2:42that. There are a few options for who

2:43can play Batman even in 2008. Robert

2:46Pattinson was definitely too young at

2:48the time and none of the TV actors are

2:49good fits either because of age, not

2:51fitting the role at all, or simply not

2:52proving themselves to have star power.

2:54This leaves the only two options as

2:56Christian Bale and Ben Affleck. Both

2:58really great actors with their

2:59strengths. But honestly, I don't think

3:00Bale would ever sign on to an entire

3:02cinematic universe. And Affleck fits the

3:05more fantastical type of Batman we need

3:07for a DC universe. Also, him starting at

3:0935 rather than 43 gives him far more

3:11time as a bit of a younger Batman. As

3:14for the rest of the cast, Anne Hathaway

3:15plays Catwoman, Jeremy Irons plays

3:17Alfred, Gary Oldman plays James Gordon,

3:19and Morgan Freeman plays Lucius Fox.

3:21[music] Like the real The Batman, this

3:23movie will skip Batman's origin and

3:25place us in year two as Batman

3:27transitions from more realistic mobsters

3:29to theatrical supervillains. While the

3:31story is very similar to that of The

3:33Dark Knight including Harvey Dent played

3:35by Aaron Eckhart becoming Two-Face due

3:37to the actions of The Joker who would be

3:39played by Heath Ledger but will appear

3:41again in this universe and then he will

3:43be recast. [music] There are many other

3:45big differences as well. I prefer for it

3:46to be directed by Matt Reeves instead of

3:48Christopher Nolan so it's not too

3:49realistic. Gotham looks like how it does

3:52in The Batman. Batman does not become a

3:53public enemy in the end. And also Rachel

3:55Dawes just doesn't exist. She's replaced

3:57partially by Harvey's wife Gilda Dent.

4:00But also as Batman's love interest she's

4:01replaced by Catwoman. Two-Face does

4:04still die here because I think his story

4:06peaks in his origin anyway. Batman will

4:08wear the Dark Knight suit to start off

4:09but it will change over time. Affleck

4:11plays him but characterization-wise he's

4:14very different. His Bruce is more like

4:16Bale's and this Batman absolutely does

4:18not kill and never will. Superman: Man

4:21of Steel will also be a bit of a mix

4:23between a few different Superman

4:24franchises. There are quite a few

4:26options for who could play Superman.

4:28Tyler Hoechlin would have been a bit too

4:29young at the time and David Conradt

4:31would have been way too young. But Henry

4:33Cavill, Brandon Routh, and even Tom

4:35Welling are all options. Honestly

4:37though, there is a clear choice here for

4:38me and that's Brandon Routh who unlike

4:40Cavill who would have fit better as

4:41Batman, just has that Superman aura to

4:44him. The rest of the cast actually comes

4:46mostly from Smallville including Erica

4:48Durance as Lois Lane, Michael Ironside

4:50as Sam Lane, Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy

4:52Olsen, John Schneider as Jonathan Kent,

4:54and Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent. And

4:56a few from the DCEU like Laurence

4:58Fishburne as Perry White, Russell Crowe

5:00as Jor-El, and Ayelet Zurer as Lara

5:03Lor-Van. Aside from Routh, the only

5:05other thing I take from Superman Returns

5:07is the costume which will also change

5:09over time. This Superman will be

5:11characterized the same as Tyler

5:12Hoechlin's meaning Clark Kent is who he

5:14really is while Superman is somehow both

5:16a friendly face and at times an imposing

5:18figure. Lois also falls in love with

5:20Clark rather than Superman because I

5:22just prefer that so much more. As for

5:25the story, it will be very similar to

5:27Man of Steel although with a completely

5:30including being an origin story flashing

5:32back here and there to when Clark was a

5:33kid and was Zod being the villain. But

5:35obviously this is not Man of Steel. It's

5:37not directed by Zack Snyder. He will

5:39have no part in this universe but rather

5:41Joe Johnston. Everyone is characterized

5:43better. Clark and Lois have chemistry.

5:45The movie is more vibrant. Clark goes to

5:47work at the Daily Planet right at the

5:48beginning. The fights between Superman

5:50and Zod cause minimal damage and

5:52Superman does not kill Zod. Instead he

5:54banishes him to the Phantom Zone. As for

5:56Green Lantern, we literally do not have

5:59any other options. Only one actor has

6:01ever played Hal Jordan in live-action,

6:03Ryan Reynolds. We could go for Kyle

6:05Chandler who will play Hal in the DCU.

6:07But he was 43 in 2008, too old for a

6:10version of Hal who was just starting

6:12off. Honestly though, I think if the

6:14movie was better written and didn't look

6:16so gross, Ryan Reynolds would have been

6:18considered good casting. So we'll be

6:19taking Green Lantern back three years

6:21and somehow making it a lot better than

6:23it is. The rest of the cast is the same

6:25as the movie as well. I don't see any

6:27reason to change any of them. Green

6:28Lantern will be directed by Joseph

6:30Kosinski and will be an origin story

6:32based on Green Lantern: Secret Origin

6:34which also came out in 2008. Geoff Johns

6:36simply would have written it for a movie

6:38rather than a comic and it wouldn't be

6:39quite as obviously setting up Blackest

6:41Night. Hal's father dies in a plane

6:43crash when he's a kid. He grows up and

6:45is forbidden to become a pilot by his

6:47mother but he joins the Air Force at 18.

6:49His mother refuses to talk to him

6:51because of it and then dies of cancer

6:52before they can reconcile. Hal gets

6:54dishonorably discharged after hitting a

6:56superior officer but gets hired at

6:58Ferris Air as a test pilot. He and Carol

7:00Ferris become romantically involved

7:01right before Abin Sur comes crashing to

7:03Earth and then gives his ring to Hal. It

7:06turns out Abin Sur was attacked by

7:07someone named Atrocitus who hates the

7:09Guardians for the destruction of his

7:10sector by their first attempt at

7:12peacekeepers, The Manhunters. So there's

7:14a lot of lore being explored here at

7:15this point through the perspective of

7:17Hal Jordan who's being taught all of it.

7:20Atrocitus follows Abin Sur's trail and

7:21attacks Hal but he's saved by the Green

7:24Lantern of the neighboring sector 2813,

7:26Tomar-Re. Tomar-Re and Hal defeat

7:28Atrocitus. Tomar-Re takes him prisoner

7:30and brings both he and Hal to Oa.

7:32Atrocitus purposefully left behind and

7:34hid a powerful weapon called the Cosmic

7:37Divining Rod. Hal then arrives on Oa, is

7:39explained everything he needs to know

7:41about the Corps, and he's trained by

7:42Kilowog and Sinestro. Back on Earth, the

7:44Cosmic Rod is found by William Hand

7:47played by Iwan Rheon, a psychopath

7:49obsessed with death who is able to

7:50unleash the Rod's full power which

7:52Atrocitus wasn't and uses it to unleash

7:54his greatest fantasies going on a

7:56killing spree that starts with his

7:58family. Meanwhile, Hal proves to be a

8:00quick study and a natural. He finishes

8:02his training and soon enough is sent

8:03back to Earth to operate as the Green

8:05Lantern of sector 2814 but is also

8:07joined by Sinestro for a day or two as a

8:09sort of supervision. Hal reunites with

8:11Carol who thought he had died so there's

8:13some trauma there. Sinestro does freak

8:15people out but this part of the movie

8:17takes place after Superman so people do

8:19know about aliens now. Hal and Sinestro

8:21team up against Black Hand who proves to

8:23be powerful enough to face them both.

8:25Hal proves himself by defeating Black

8:26Hand ending in William's death and

8:28Sinestro leaving sector 2814 in the

8:30capable hands of Hal Jordan. A

8:32post-credit scene shows Sinestro

8:34returning to his world revealed to be

8:35completely under his rule. 2009 sees the

8:38release of Aquaman which will be a

8:40one-off and just about the exact same as

8:42the real Aquaman including James Wan

8:44directing except Jason Momoa and by

8:47extension Arthur Curry are nine years

8:49younger and the Justice League do not

8:50exist. Mera is played by Elena Satine

8:52who played her on Smallville just so we

8:54could avoid any controversy. The rest of

8:56the cast is the same. There are a few

8:58characters in this movie who at this

8:59point time did not exist yet in the

9:01comics like Stephen Shin and Nereus. So

9:03they would just be cut out but I think

9:05that's perfectly fine. Ocean Master is

9:07the villain and Black Manta is the

9:09secondary main villain but there won't

9:10be another Aquaman movie. However, Black

9:12Manta will definitely return. 2010 is

9:15the year of the Trinity starting off

9:17with a shared sequel between The Batman

9:19and Superman: Man of Steel called Batman

9:21and Superman: World's Finest which would

9:23be directed by Brad Bird. Since the

9:25events of those two movies which was two

9:27years ago, Clark and Lois have gotten

9:28very serious and Clark is preparing to

9:31propose. He's also gotten a brighter

9:32suit and become good friends with Jimmy

9:34Olsen. The movie actually starts off

9:36with him revealing his identity to

9:37Jimmy. On the other hand, since those

9:39events, the government specifically Sam

9:41Lane and Amanda Waller have grown afraid

9:43of aliens and has contracted a few

9:45companies to build anti-Superman

9:47weapons. Chief among them is LexCorp.

9:50Lex Luthor is played by Michael

9:52Rosenbaum and builds a line of

9:53supersuits that are meant to combat

9:55Superman. Secretly however, Lex has used

9:57the bulk of the resources to clone

9:59Superman, successfully doing so. Around

10:02the same time, many mysterious murders

10:04crop up in Metropolis that seem

10:06impossible. Some witnesses claim that

10:08they were done by Superman, which is

10:10something that gets the attention of the

10:11owner of another one of those companies

10:13approached for that contract, but

10:15ultimately they denied it, which is

10:16Bruce Wayne. In the two years since The

10:18Batman, Batman has upgraded his suit and

10:21has faced off against a few iconic

10:23villains off-screen like Mad Hatter, Mr.

10:25Zsasz, Calendar Man, and Firefly. But so

10:28far, no one is superhuman. Metahumans in

10:30general will only be introduced in just

10:33a bit. Batman's investigation of LexCorp

10:35leads him to Metropolis where he meets

10:36Superman. They fight for like a minute,

10:38but Batman is clearly outmatched and

10:40only is able to stop the fight by

10:42calling Superman Clark. [music] Superman

10:44then uses his x-ray vision to find out

10:45that Batman is Bruce Wayne. Batman

10:47investigated Superman separately and

10:49concluded that he could not have killed

10:51those people. While Lois Lane and Jimmy

10:53Olsen separately also investigate these

10:55murders, unbeknownst to them, Batman and

10:57Superman are doing the same. Along the

10:59way, bouncing off each other's

11:00drastically different personalities and

11:01approaches, by the end, learning to

11:03respect the other and even learn to

11:05apply some of each other's methods to

11:07their own heroics. It turns out that

11:09Lex's plan all along was to frame

11:11Superman, sending the clone he created

11:13to kill an innocent person in front of

11:15witnesses before flying away. Doing so

11:17fast enough that people can't see his

11:19slightly deformed face. At one point,

11:21Superman and Batman are led to a trap by

11:23Lex where they're seen with a lot of

11:25evidence and then framed for the

11:26murders, making them both fugitives of

11:28the law. The government pours even more

11:30money into LexCorp, which was a part of

11:32his plan, and he uses it to complete the

11:34exo-suit drones. Lois and Jimmy

11:36eventually manage to uncover exonerating

11:39evidence, which also shows Lex's guilt,

11:41but until then, Superman and Batman are

11:43on the run from Lex and his army of

11:44drones. While Batman breaks into

11:46LexCorp, Superman approaches Lex, which

11:48is when he reveals that he didn't do any

11:50of this for the money, but rather to

11:51turn public perception against Superman

11:53because he hates him. Batman breaks into

11:56LexCorp to destroy all the exo-suits,

11:57but instead he finds the clone, who

11:59turns out to be mentally handicapped and

12:01deformed. Bizarro attacks Batman, who

12:04just does his best to get away, while

12:05Lex attacks Superman with an army of

12:07exo-suit drones, as well as one suit

12:09that he wears for himself. Before

12:11Bizarro can kill Batman, Batman luckily

12:13manages to find out Bizarro's shtick

12:15that everything is backwards, which he

12:17uses to convince Bizarro that they are

12:19enemies, that Superman is also his

12:21enemy, and that Lex Luthor is his best

12:23friend. So, Bizarro leaves Batman alone

12:25to go after Lex, while Superman and

12:27Batman team up to destroy the drones.

12:29Bizarro is about to kill Lex, but is

12:31stopped by Superman. Turns out Bizarro

12:33has been degrading mentally over time,

12:35but after these few turns of events, he

12:37degrades to a mindless monster who just

12:39fights Superman. [music] Batman knocks

12:41out Lex and disables his suit, so he's

12:43taken out of the equation. Jimmy

12:44captures the Superman versus Bizarro

12:46fight on camera, which causes a bit more

12:48property damage. Batman tells Clark from

12:51afar that Bizarro is his opposite. So,

12:53Superman [music] takes this to mean that

12:55he'd be depowered by the yellow sun. To

12:57combat this, Lex gave him a red sun core

13:00inside of Bizarro's chest. [music]

13:02Superman sees this, pulls this out, and

13:04depowers Bizarro. Bizarro then dies in

13:07Superman's arms as his powers were the

13:09only thing keeping him alive. Lex is

13:11arrested, Superman is exonerated, Clark

13:13proposes to Lois, and she says yes,

13:15[music] and he invites Bruce to the

13:16wedding, but Bruce obviously declines.

13:18Back in the darkness of Gotham City and

13:20in reaction to Clark and Lois getting

13:22engaged, Bruce is kind of hit by a wave

13:24of loneliness and decides to go on a

13:26date with a woman who gave him her

13:27number recently. He calls a woman named

13:29Julie Madison, who excitedly agrees to

13:31the date and even suggests that they go

13:33to this circus that recently came to

13:35town. Next up is Wonder Woman, which I

13:38waited until now to get around to

13:39because before this point, I think Gal

13:41Gadot would have been a bit too young,

13:43and even now is verging on too young as

13:45she's just 25. There are technically

13:47other options from canceled projects,

13:50but Gal Gadot is perfectly fine in the

13:52role. I see no reason to switch her with

13:54someone that we don't even know will be

13:55good. The rest of the cast remains the

13:57same as well. I would also keep Patty

13:59Jenkins as director since she did do a

14:01good job, although she's clearly proved

14:03that she's not fit for the sequel, so

14:05she will be replaced. This movie coming

14:07out in 2010 means that it predates the

14:09New 52 and therefore also predates her

14:12revamped origin that was adapted into

14:14the movie. So, this Diana will be indeed

14:16made out of clay, bestowed to life by

14:18Zeus. Her costume will also have white

14:20stars on the skirt. Everything else

14:22could be the same, not that I loved all

14:24of it, but I mean not every individual

14:26movie in this universe has to be

14:27perfect. So, Ares is the main villain

14:30and I guess played by the same actor,

14:32and Dr. Poison is the secondary main

14:34villain. In the end, following World War

14:36I and Steve's death, Diana returns to

14:38Themyscira with a longing to return to

14:40man's world, while the Wonder Woman

14:43fades into being a legend, one that will

14:45soon be revealed to the world to be very

14:47much real. 2011 begins with the release

14:49of Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, also

14:52directed by Joseph Kosinski. This movie

14:54follows up on everything from the first.

14:56Since the events of Green Lantern, which

14:58was 3 years prior, Hal has spent the

15:00majority of his time in space, which has

15:02caused his relationship with Carol to

15:03[music] become extremely fractured. Hal

15:05joins Sinestro to his home planet to

15:07help dispel an invasion by Despero, but

15:09soon learns that Sinestro has abused his

15:12power, having installed himself as

15:14supreme ruler of his home planet of

15:16Korugar. They defeat Despero together,

15:18but Hal reports Sinestro to the

15:20Guardians, who strip him of his ring and

15:21banish him to a prison planet called

15:23Qward, located in another dimension

15:25known as the antimatter universe. Hal

15:27returns to Earth to repair his

15:29relationship with Carol, but even while

15:30there is called away to stop a different

15:32villain named Sonar. Sinestro is

15:35approached by a mysterious shadowy

15:37figure. Far later, it'll be revealed to

15:39be the Anti-Monitor, but not for a very

15:41long time, who offers to help him get

15:43revenge on Hal Jordan and the Guardians

15:45of the Universe. The figure offers

15:47Sinestro the Weaponers of Qward, who

15:49help him create a yellow lantern ring

15:51powered by fear and to help him escape

15:53the antimatter universe. Meanwhile, the

15:55Guardians choose Sinestro's replacement

15:57for Sinestro's sector in Katma Tui.

16:00[music] Using this ring, Sinestro sets

16:02out to get revenge on Hal, so he goes to

16:04Earth. Hal returns from defeating Sonar

16:06to find Carol captured by Sinestro.

16:09Sinestro and Hal fight, but Hal's

16:10weakness to yellow gets the better of

16:12him and he loses. Sinestro doesn't kill

16:14Hal though. Instead, he kidnaps Carol

16:16Ferris and then uses her as a hostage,

16:19bargaining her life to force Hal to

16:21release Parallax from the Central Power

16:23Battery on Oa. Parallax is revealed to

16:25be the entity of fear imprisoned in the

16:27Central Power Battery, which is what

16:28gave the Green Lanterns a weakness to

16:30yellow, something that is very much

16:31focused on in this movie. Hal unleashes

16:33Parallax, who in turn possesses him.

16:35Parallax attacks the Green Lantern Corps

16:37and even kills Tomar-Re. Sinestro takes

16:39Carol to Korugar, where he reinstalls

16:42his regime, easily defeating the

16:44inexperienced Katma Tui and then

16:45imprisoning her. Sinestro leaves for Oa,

16:48following which the resistance on

16:49Korugar helps Carol and Katma Tui

16:51escape. Sinestro shows up to gloat.

16:54Katma Tui brings Carol to Hal Jordan,

16:56who manages to get [music] through to

16:57him, expelling Parallax from his body.

16:59Now without a host, Parallax is defeated

17:01by the entire Green Lantern Corps, while

17:03Sinestro takes the opportunity to

17:04escape. This time, Parallax is

17:06imprisoned somewhere else, not in the

17:08Central Power Battery. On the way back

17:10to Earth, Hal and Carol talk about their

17:12relationship and are both about to agree

17:14to try to make it work as they are then

17:17intercepted by a woman named Miri Riam,

17:19who has a pink lantern ring. Carol

17:21Ferris is recruited into the Star

17:23Sapphires due to that big act of love

17:26that expelled Parallax. Both Hal and

17:28Carol then acknowledge that this is the

17:30end of their relationship. On the theme

17:32of love though, two Guardians, Ganthet

17:34and Sayd, fell in love with each other

17:36during this movie, which is strictly

17:37forbidden. So, as a consequence, we're

17:39kicked out of the Guardians. They set

17:41out to form their own Corps. Comic

17:43readers will know that that will be the

17:44Blue Lantern Corps. Batman: The Brave

17:46and the Bold follows up on World's

17:47Finest by introducing Dick Grayson, aka

17:50Robin, who is going to be 13 years old

17:52in this movie, debuting very young and

17:54also young enough so that in the future

17:56he could still be a member of the Teen

17:58Titans. As for the actor, there's only

18:01one true candidate, Brenton Thwaites,

18:03but he was 21 in 2011, which is just too

18:05old. Instead, I'll be doing something

18:07that I'm going to have to do for a lot

18:09of the Teen Titans fancasts. Dick will

18:11be played by Asa Butterfield, who would

18:13have been 13 during the filming of this

18:15movie and who was already an active

18:17actor during this time. Taking place

18:19exactly 1 year after The Night at the

18:21Circus, which we see in like a little

18:22bit of a montage, the movie begins with

18:24Batman being called to the GCPD by the

18:26Bat-Signal, but arriving with Robin,

18:28which shocks Gordon. This is Robin's

18:30debut. The case they're given involves a

18:32murder with a riddle attached to it. A

18:34lot of the story will be similar to The

18:36Batman, but slightly less dark and with

18:38a lot of detective scenes being more so

18:39focused on Robin, who tries to prove

18:42himself to his mentor. Actually, for all

18:44intents and purposes, Robin is the main

18:46character of this movie. Along the way,

18:48Batman and Robin also cross paths with

18:49the Penguin, who has taken over the

18:51criminal underworld with a large focus

18:52on the corruption within Gotham City,

18:54all very much like The Batman. However,

18:57a big difference is that the Riddler is

18:58played by Cory Michael Smith, like he

19:00was on Gotham, while also wearing a more

19:02comic-accurate Riddler design. After

19:04deciphering riddles here and there,

19:05which take them place to place and

19:07victim to victim, they soon learn that

19:09the next victim is going to be someone

19:10named Tony Zucco, who Dick learns is the

19:12man who killed his parents. Dick,

19:14however, proves his virtue by saving

19:16Zucco's life anyway. It's also very much

19:17focused on throughout the movie, mostly

19:19from Alfred's perspective, of how much

19:21more accustomed Dick is to this life,

19:23how much more well-adjusted he is

19:25compared to Batman. The ending of

19:27Riddler flooding Gotham also won't

19:28happen. The ending will be a lot more

19:29low-key. This Riddler will have a more

19:31clearly defined ego as he's extremely

19:34proud of his intelligence, much like in

19:35the Arkham games. Riddler reveals he

19:37discovered Batman's identity and

19:39threatens to tell everyone, but Batman

19:40and Robin see this as a bluff since his

19:42ego wouldn't allow himself to turn

19:44something only he was able to figure out

19:45into public knowledge so that everyone

19:47knows. At some point near the end, Robin

19:49manages to outsmart Nigma. Exactly how

19:51isn't it important, but this hits his

19:53ego so hard that it drives him mad

19:56having been outsmarted by a 13-year-old

19:58boy, not Batman, but Robin. His ego is

20:00shattered and he loses it, turning him

20:02into a more classic Riddler right as he

20:04sent to Arkham. The Flash, directed by

20:06Matthew Vaughn, stars Grant Gustin as an

20:08admittedly very young Barry Allen. Grant

20:11will have been just 20 when he films

20:13this movie, but it's not like we have

20:14any other better options. John Wesley

20:16Shipp is far too old and Ezra Miller is

20:17far too terrible. So, this world's Barry

20:19Allen will simply have to be a young

20:21one. The rest of the cast includes

20:23Candice Patton as Iris West, Jesse L.

20:25Martin as Police Captain Darryl Fry, not

20:27Joe West, a character that does not

20:29exist. Patrick Sabongui as Barry's

20:31supervisor David Singh, John Wesley

20:33Shipp as Henry Allen, and Michelle

20:34Harrison as Nora Allen. This movie tells

20:37Barry's origin, adapting the as of that

20:39point very recent comic The Flash:

20:41Rebirth. In fact, that's one of the

20:42reasons, alongside Grant Gustin's age,

20:44that we are only now getting around to

20:46The Flash. That version of Barry's

20:48origin didn't exist until 2009 and they

20:50didn't finish revealing everything until

20:52January 2010. Meaning, for this to work,

20:54they will have to begin writing the

20:55script before that final issue of The

20:57Flash: Rebirth and fast-track

20:59production, all leading to a late 2011

21:02release. And honestly, it's entirely

21:03possible, so why not? For maybe a bit of

21:05simplification, the story could also be

21:07considered a very condensed version of

21:08The Flash season 1, showing a young

21:10Barry witnessing his mother's murder at

21:12the hands of a speedster in yellow. His

21:14father goes to prison for the murder and

21:15Barry dedicates his life to proving his

21:17innocence, so he goes into forensic

21:18science. Thanks to his genius-level

21:20intellect, he managed to graduate high

21:22school at 16 and quickly entered

21:24college, which he recently graduated

21:25from. Now, he's a newly-employed

21:2720-year-old forensic scientist at the

21:29Central City Police Department, where he

21:31works alongside his adopted father,

21:33Police Captain Darryl Fry. More of the

21:35same beats are told from there. The

21:36Central City wing of Star Labs particle

21:38accelerator explodes in a thunderstorm,

21:40creating a lightning bolt that hits

21:42Barry in his lab. This would later be

21:43revealed to have been intentionally done

21:45by the head of Star Labs, a man named

21:46Harrison Wells, who's soon revealed to

21:48be Eobard Thawne. Having killed Nora

21:50because he failed to kill the child

21:52Barry and thus being stuck in the past.

21:54A lot of elements that are the exact

21:55same as The Flash season 1. Others are

21:57definitely different. Barry's coma lasts

22:00just 1 month and he tests his powers by

22:01himself, being quickly forced into

22:03action to save Central City from a group

22:05of criminals who got powers themselves,

22:07the Rogues. Meanwhile, cub reporter Iris

22:09West investigates Star Labs on the hunch

22:12they sabotaged the accelerator on

22:14purpose. Iris and Barry do not have a

22:16past together. During the movie, Barry

22:17visits his father in prison, gets his

22:19ass kicked by the Rogues, although they

22:20don't kill him because of their code, is

22:22reminded of the man in yellow when he

22:23sees his own reflection running past a

22:25lake, which prompts him to investigate

22:26Star Labs himself, [music] meeting Iris

22:29along the way. Together, they question

22:30Wells. Then, as Flash and Iris leave

22:32Star Labs, they're attacked by another

22:34speedster dressed in yellow, who

22:36absolutely destroys Barry and then

22:38leaves. Iris then finds the beaten Flash

22:40and takes him to her house to help him

22:41recover. There, she finds out his

22:43identity and actually also kiss for the

22:45first time. Flash then has a rematch

22:46with the Rogues, now with full

22:47determination and a much better

22:49understanding of his abilities and more

22:50experience. Barry then learns how to

22:52phase, using this ability to defeat

22:54them, pushing his speed limit in the

22:55process, which prompts Thawne to show up

22:57again. He beats Barry up yet again,

22:59while also taunting him and revealing to

23:01him his identity. Then, Thawne leaves.

23:03Barry, talking to Iris, comes to realize

23:05there was another person that night, the

23:07man who saved his life, a speedster

23:09wearing red. Initially assuming it was a

23:11different Flash and he was

23:13subconsciously inspired by him. This all

23:15leads to a final showdown, where Thawne

23:17shows up yet again and drags Barry to

23:18some random park. Then explaining to

23:20Barry that this is where Barry took his

23:22spotlight, where he exposed him to the

23:23world. Thawne unmasks himself to reveal

23:26Harrison Wells, explaining he killed

23:27Barry's mother as a way to get rid of

23:29The Flash after failing to kill the

23:30young Barry, which then did cause The

23:32Flash of the future to disappear. It's

23:34here that Barry learns about the time

23:36travel of it all. After all this time,

23:38Barry is now fast enough and has

23:39generated enough speed force that Thawne

23:42could finally kill him and return

23:43[music] to his time. They fight and

23:45Barry is still outmatched until finally

23:47their fight pushes Barry into the Speed

23:48Force, leaving Thawne behind. Seconds

23:51Barry returns in a new costume and much

23:54more power and defeats Thawne, revealing

23:56to Thawne that he just returned from the

23:5725th century. We see in a montage that

24:00Barry was stuck there. He met The Flash

24:02of that time, learned he was faking

24:03crimes to be a hero and exposed him

24:05before finding out that he is Eobard

24:07Thawne. Barry then manages to time

24:09travel back to the present. Meaning,

24:11everything Thawne has done for the past

24:13decade was all to lead up to causing his

24:15own demise and that Barry disappeared in

24:17the past on purpose. After all this,

24:19Central City builds a prison for the

24:21metahumans called Iron Heights, where

24:22Thawne and the Rogues are held. Then, as

24:25thanks to their hero, Central City

24:26announces construction on a Flash

24:28Museum. That brings us to the final year

24:30of chapter 1, 2012, which starts with

24:33the movie the chapter was leading up to,

24:35Justice League, directed also by Brad

24:37Bird like World's Finest was and

24:38bringing together all the heroes of

24:40chapter 1, while also introducing the

24:41Martian Manhunter, adapting the original

24:44Justice League founding members lineup.

24:46J'onn J'onzz is played by David Harewood

24:48and his origin connects directly to the

24:49reason for the Justice League coming

24:51together. Like it was in the animated

24:52series, Mars is invaded by an army of

24:55robots led by Brainiac. Because the

24:57robots and the Martians have no mind to

24:59read, they were caught completely

25:00unawares. Brainiac wipes out the Green

25:02Martians and shrinks their biggest city

25:04to add to his collection. J'onn J'onzz,

25:06however, survives and manages to sneak

25:08aboard Brainiac's ship without being

25:09noticed as Brainiac sets his sights on a

25:12new target, Earth. This version of

25:14Brainiac is played by Blake Ritson like

25:16he was on Krypton and is an organic

25:18being from Colu who became obsessed with

25:21gaining knowledge. Soon, Hal Jordan

25:23becomes aware of the attack on Mars, but

25:25does arrive too late. Hal attacks

25:27Brainiac just outside of Mars's

25:29atmosphere, but is entirely overwhelmed.

25:31He's joined by the Martian Manhunter,

25:33but that still isn't enough. Hal decides

25:35to retreat back to Earth, taking J'onn

25:37with him. Brainiac is a little bit

25:38slower. He'll take a lot longer to get

25:40there. First, he asks for backup from

25:42the Corps, but none are available.

25:44Instead, he decides to recruit the

25:46heroes of Earth. While Brainiac sends

25:48drones to some of Earth's biggest

25:49cities, on Themyscira, Diana gets a

25:51vision of Man's World, seeing that she

25:53is needed in a coming crisis. She leaves

25:56Paradise once again. In Central City,

25:58Flash easily defeats Captain Boomerang

26:00before meeting Iris, who he has been

26:01dating for a year, who introduces him to

26:03her nephew Wally, played by the at the

26:05time 15-year-old KJ Apa. In Metropolis,

26:08Clark and Lois are planning their

26:09wedding when a Brainiac drone lands in

26:11the city center. Superman goes to

26:13investigate, but is attacked by the

26:15drones. Back in Gotham, Batman and Robin

26:17defeat Killer Croc when a drone lands

26:19there as well. Unlike Superman, Batman

26:21and Robin are completely overwhelmed.

26:23That is, until Green Lantern and Martian

26:25Manhunter show up to recruit him,

26:26starting with Batman because of the

26:28legends surrounding him. Hal is shocked

26:30to find out that Batman is powerless.

26:32[music] Hal, J'onn, Batman, and Robin

26:34destroy the robots and then investigate

26:36the drone. Flash sees Superman's fight

26:38on the news and shows up to help,

26:39helping Superman to destroy all the

26:41robots and then also investigate the

26:43drone. A drone also comes from Atlantis

26:45as well, also technically one of Earth's

26:47biggest cities. The robots are not quite

26:49equipped for underwater combat, though,

26:51Aquaman and a few other Atlanteans

26:53easily defeat them before learning of

26:55all the other drones. Aquaman then heads

26:57to the surface. While investigating the

26:59drones, Superman, Green Lantern, and

27:00Batman are all infected with nanotech

27:03that infects their minds, taking control

27:04of them and turning them against the

27:06other heroes. Superman chases The Flash,

27:08Hal and J'onn fight, while Robin tries

27:10his hardest to fend off Batman. The

27:13young and inexperienced Flash is not

27:15able to defend himself, but is instead

27:17saved by Wonder Woman. Together, Flash

27:19and Wonder Woman are very able to stand

27:21up to Superman. Batman, however, manages

27:24to break through the programming as he

27:25was just about to kill Robin. While

27:27Hal's immense willpower is what saves

27:29him, Superman, however, was infected

27:31with double the nanobots, so he can't

27:33quite fight it off. When the heroes who

27:35are in Gotham find out about the fight

27:37between Flash and Wonder Woman and

27:38Superman in Metropolis, they decide to

27:40go join. While Robin stays behind in

27:42Gotham, J'onn joins the fight while

27:44Batman takes Hal to Lois, bringing her

27:46to Superman to get him to break through

27:47the programming, which fully works. The

27:50heroes then compare notes. Superman, as

27:52it turns out, recognizes Brainiac,

27:54having learned from his AI father that

27:55while Krypton's destruction was

27:57inevitable, it was sped up by someone

27:58named Brainiac who shrunk and bottled

28:00the city of Kandor, which caused the

28:02already unstable planet Krypton to

28:04explode. Purposefully so, as Brainiac

28:06wants to collect all knowledge and make

28:08it so that no new knowledge can be

28:10created on each planet. With Brainiac on

28:12his way, the heroes decide to join

28:14forces to stop him. They are soon joined

28:16by Aquaman. The heroes decide the best

28:18course of action is a preemptive attack

28:20on Brainiac's ship. The Justice League,

28:22as I'll refer to them from now on, fly

28:24up to meet Brainiac halfway and

28:26infiltrate his ship. This turns out to

28:28have been Brainiac's plan all along as

28:30the League are led into a trap. Brainiac

28:32let J'onn live and he let J'onn aboard

28:34his ship and then also implanted the

28:36idea in his mind to bring Earth's heroes

28:38to his ship because he knew a full-on

28:40attack on Earth had an unacceptable 15%

28:42chance to end in his defeat because of

28:44Earth's many heroes. As the League are

28:46trapped, Brainiac's ship finally makes

28:48it to Earth and he unleashes a full

28:50force invasion, targeting Metropolis as

28:53the city he plans to shrink. Brainiac

28:55failed to account for the magic of

28:56Aquaman's trident, which he uses to

28:58break them out of their trap. The League

29:00head to Metropolis to save the day,

29:02while Batman remains on the ship to look

29:04for something. Batman finds the bottled

29:06city of Kandor and races to get it to

29:08Brainiac. Superman takes Brainiac on

29:10one-on-one. Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and

29:12J'onn J'onzz fight off an army of

29:14drones, while Hal and Barry try to

29:15destroy the machine Brainiac put around

29:17Metropolis to shrink it. But

29:19unfortunately, they all fail. Metropolis

29:21gets shrunk down with most of the heroes

29:23inside it, which also angers Superman to

29:25the point where he pushes his fight with

29:27Brainiac too far away from Batman to

29:29help and Brainiac wins the fight,

29:31stabbing Superman with a kryptonite

29:33dagger. He flaunts Superman's dead body

29:35in front of the people of Earth.

29:37Brainiac has won. He got Metropolis and

29:39now sets out to destroy the rest of

29:41Earth, easily hacking through Earth's

29:42defenses and unleashing all of Earth's

29:44nukes back on Earth. As all hope seems

29:46lost, The Flash does something he was

29:49not able to do since the events of his

29:51movie, time travel. This time doing it a

29:53bit differently, rewinding time rather

29:55than going back in time. Barry rewinds

29:57time to the moment the Justice League

29:59came to Earth, changing things up a bit.

30:01He takes temporary command, telling the

30:03League they don't need to defeat

30:04Brainiac, just distract him, but they're

30:06going to need Superman to destroy the

30:08shrinking machine. This time, Superman

30:10and Flash go to destroy the machine.

30:12Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter

30:13fight Brainiac, while Wonder Woman and

30:15Aquaman fight the drones. Superman and

30:17Flash do destroy the machine and join in

30:19on the fight against the drones as well.

30:21Brainiac does overwhelm Hal and J'onn,

30:24but then Batman shows up, releasing an

30:25army of tiny Kryptonians from Kandor on

30:28Brainiac, who infect him like a disease,

30:30destroying him from the inside. The

30:32Kandorians, however, are weakened by the

30:34Kryptonite Brainiac was carrying, so

30:36they return to Kandor, now never able to

30:39leave again, or they will die.

30:40Unfortunately, Brainiac reroutes his

30:42consciousness into a clone of himself on

30:44a ship, leading into a little bit of a

30:46more simple fight. Brainiac and a mostly

30:49destroyed army of his drones facing off

30:51against the seven members of the Justice

30:53League, complete with a team-up shot.

30:55The drones are all destroyed. Brainiac

30:57is defeated and captured rather than

30:58destroyed to prevent another rerouting.

31:00Superman takes the city of Kandor and

31:02all other shrunken cities to the

31:04Fortress of Solitude and promises to

31:06somehow find a way to enlarge them. The

31:08Justice League officially form and

31:10renovate Brainiac's ship a bit, changing

31:12the shape a bit, ridding it of any

31:13Brainiac memorabilia, and turning it

31:15into a base of operations they call the

31:17Watchtower for the newly founded Justice

31:20League. Superman and Lois get married.

31:21Diana decides to remain in Man's World,

31:23living in Washington, D.C., and working

31:25as the official ambassador to

31:27Themyscira. Martian Manhunter finally

31:29finds the time to grieve. Hal Jordan

31:31tells the Guardians about all the

31:32threats Earth has faced lately,

31:33convincing them that he could use some

31:35backup, and the Guardians agree,

31:37explaining that they're going to send a

31:39second Lantern ring to someone in Sector

31:412814. Flash returns to Central City to

31:44find out that Wally is in the hospital,

31:45having been hit by a bolt of lightning

31:47during the invasion. In the next Flash

31:49movie, it's going to be revealed that

31:51Barry rewinding time caused a bit of a

31:53disturbance in the Speed Force that

31:54unleashed a bit of Speed Force energy

31:56that was attracted to Iris West due to

31:59it being created by Barry, but Wally got

32:01in the way and got hit instead. The

32:03chapter is not over quite yet. The final

32:05movie, acting as a sort of epilogue to

32:07the chapter, is Green Arrow, starring

32:09Stephen Amell. Green Arrow focuses

32:11entirely on Oliver's origin, setting

32:13itself apart from the other movies in

32:14this chapter by taking place entirely on

32:16an island. Taking [music] main

32:18inspiration from Green Arrow: Year One,

32:20spoiled trust fund billionaire Oliver

32:22Queen's ship capsizes and he washes

32:24ashore a deserted island alongside his

32:26father. His father, however, soon dies.

32:29Oliver struggles to survive, slowly but

32:31surely breaking to the point of killing

32:33small animals to eat. He eventually

32:35decides to make a bow and arrow to use

32:37his archery skills he developed as a kid

32:39to hunt. Finally venturing out of the

32:41little spot in his island he was stuck

32:43in, he soon finds out that the island is

32:45not quite as deserted as he thought.

32:46There's an entire drug operation on this

32:48island led by a woman named China White.

32:51Oliver then meets a man named Scimitar,

32:53who reveals that the drugs made on this

32:55island are meant to fund a coup in his

32:56homeland of Vlatava and is led by a man

32:58named Count Werner Zytle, or Count

33:00Vertigo. Scimitar teaches Oliver how to

33:02fight, while Oliver further practices

33:04his bow and arrow skills, proving to be

33:06an absolute natural. They do this with

33:08the goal of taking down the drug

33:09operation, except Oliver's real goal is

33:12to steal a boat or a plane and simply

33:14escape the island. Even after tells him

33:17that Vertigo plans to kill all of the

33:19slaves working on the drug operation

33:21after they no longer need them. Oliver

33:23and Scimitar infiltrate the drug

33:24operation, destroying some of it and

33:25coming to combat with China White and

33:27also Count Vertigo, who proves to be too

33:29formidable a threat, as he has

33:32vertigo-inducing powers. They take both

33:34of them hostage, but kill Scimitar in

33:36front of Oliver, while Oliver they don't

33:37kill because they recognize as Oliver

33:40Queen, who they take captive with the

33:41goal of leveraging his life for more

33:43money to fund the coup. They've taken an

33:45unusual direction to keeping him

33:46captive, getting him addicted to the

33:48heroin they make. While China and

33:50Vertigo continue to plan out their next

33:52move, Oliver proves to be far more

33:54strong-willed than they expected, going

33:56through torturous withdrawal to break

33:58through the addiction. He puts together

34:00what he can to create a camouflage suit,

34:02creates a new bow and arrow, and tries

34:03again. This time taking a more stealthy

34:05approach to things. He kills every

34:08henchman, defeats China White in a

34:10fight, and finally makes his way to

34:11Count Vertigo. Vertigo uses his power

34:13against Oliver, but Oliver proves to

34:15have developed a resistance after having

34:17kicked his addiction. Vertigo offers

34:19Oliver a way off the island if he leaves

34:21them alone, but Oliver decides to put

34:22the lives of the others on the island

34:24ahead of his own and kills Vertigo. A

34:26few months later, a fishing boat

34:28floating near the island sees a big

34:30fire. Everyone is rescued, Oliver

34:31returns to Star City and reunites with

34:34his mother, and decides to do in his

34:36city exactly what he did on the island,

34:38save innocents from the powerful men

34:40exploiting them. Oliver becomes the

34:42Green Arrow, starting his career and

34:44this is his first night out, by stopping

34:46a mugging by a kid played by the at the

34:48time 15-year-old Jake Austin Walker.

34:51This kid is Roy Harper, and that is the

34:54end of part one. Stay tuned for part

34:56two. This video, I'll be covering

34:58chapter two, spanning the years 2013 to

35:012015 and containing nine movies of its

35:04own. The first movie of 2013 and the

35:06beginning of chapter two is Swamp Thing,

35:08directed by James Mangold. It's a

35:10standalone film launching a

35:12of R-rated Vertigo-based DC movies that

35:14eventually will culminate in Justice

35:16League Dark. The film exists in its own

35:17universe, separate from the Justice

35:19League, and serves as a reimagining of

35:21the 2019 Swamp Thing TV series with a

35:24more polished and cinematic approach.

35:26Andy Bean plays Alec Holland, while

35:28Swamp Thing is created using Derek

35:30Mears's voice and motion capture.

35:32Crystal Reed stars as Abby Arcane, and

35:35Henderson Wade plays her husband, Matt

35:37Cable. The story centers on Abby Arcane

35:39as she investigates a deadly swamp-born

35:41virus in Marais, Louisiana. Her work

35:43leads her to encounter Swamp Thing, a

35:45monstrous but sentient who believes that

35:47he is Alec Holland, a scientist who

35:50nearly died in the swamp. Alec was

35:51conducting experiments involving plant

35:53regeneration in the swamp, but an

35:55accident caused him to drown. However,

35:57he was saved by a mystical force

35:58connected to what is known as the Green.

36:00Alec's consciousness was then

36:01transferred to the swamp, creating Swamp

36:04Thing. At some point in the movie, Swamp

36:05Thing discovers Alec's dead body,

36:07realizing that he is not Alec reborn,

36:08but a new entity created from Alec's

36:10essence. This shakes him to his core,

36:13but at the same time, he slowly bonds

36:15with Abby Arcane, who is then revealed

36:17to have been sent to the swamp by her

36:18father, Anton Arcane, who is played by

36:21Charles Dance and is the avatar of the

36:23Black, the force of death and the

36:25opposite of the Green, which is the

36:26force of life. None of this was known to

36:28Abby, though. She was sent to the swamp

36:29by Anton to weaken and distract Swamp

36:32Thing, paving the way for the Black to

36:33take over. Then, as Abby and Swamp Thing

36:35grow closer and even fall in love, she

36:37becomes aware of Anton's true intentions

36:40and sides with Swamp Thing. The

36:42climactic battle pits Swamp Thing

36:43against Anton, who uses his power to

36:45unleash devastation. Anton kills Matt

36:48Cable, Abby's husband, as a warning of

36:50what the Black is capable of. However,

36:52Anton is not defeated in the end.

36:54Instead, he just retreats, leaving the

36:56eternal struggle between life and death

36:58unresolved. Swamp Thing reflects on the

37:00inevitability of death's victory,

37:02stating his mission is not to defeat the

37:04Black, but to ensure life continues as

37:06long as possible. With her husband now

37:08dead, her father the avatar of the

37:09death, and having fallen in love with

37:11Swamp Thing, Abby decides to remain in

37:13the swamp. In a post-credit scene, John

37:14Constantine is seen, played by Matt

37:16Ryan, in a dingy apartment pouring

37:18whiskey and lighting a cigarette as he

37:20watches the news report about strange

37:22occurrences in Marais. This teases

37:24Constantine as the next chapter in the

37:26Vertigo universe, where Swamp Thing will

37:28also make an appearance. As I said,

37:30Swamp Thing would take place on another

37:31world. However, that wouldn't be

37:32revealed until a bit later in the saga.

37:34The saga will now start jumping

37:36headfirst into the multiverse, however,

37:38with the second Flash movie titled The

37:40Flash of Two Worlds. Now would be a good

37:42time to say that the first three

37:43chapters of the DC Movie Universe will

37:45come together to form the Crisis

37:47Chronicles, which I changed from saga

37:49because, I don't know, I like it better.

37:51I want it to be different from the MCU,

37:52and it's alliteration. The Flash of Two

37:55Worlds is directed by Matthew Vaughn,

37:57like its predecessor, and set a year

37:58after the events of Justice League. Like

38:00I mentioned in the previous video, this

38:02movie would reveal that Wally's

38:03transformation wasn't entirely

38:05accidental. Barry's time reversal during

38:07Brainiac's invasion caused a disturbance

38:09in the Speed Force that created a

38:10lightning bolt initially meant for Iris

38:12West, but Wally intercepted it. It'll

38:14later be revealed that other things were

38:16caused by this disturbance as well.

38:18Wally, now Kid Flash, is a natural

38:20superhero, but noticeably slower than

38:22Barry. The story opens with Barry trying

38:23to bond with Wally, who has moved in

38:25with his aunt to escape his abusive

38:27home. Their relationship as Flash and

38:29Kid Flash is strong, but their personal

38:31relationship isn't really. As Barry

38:33prepares to then reveal his identity to

38:35Wally, Central City is attacked by

38:37Doctor Alchemy. The Flashes confront

38:39him, and during the battle, the Speed

38:40Force energy from Barry and Wally reacts

38:42with Alchemy's stone, which will later

38:44be revealed to be known as the

38:45Philosopher's Stone, causing Barry to

38:47vibrate uncontrollably and then vanish.

38:50Barry finds himself in an alternate

38:52version of his city, which in this world

38:54is called Keystone City, and later is

38:57revealed that he made his way to

38:58Earth-Two, a retrofuturistic world with

39:00its own Flash, Jay Garrick, played by

39:02John Wesley Shipp, looking very similar

39:04to Barry's father. Jay is a 90-year-old

39:07veteran with 70 years of superhero

39:09experience, having been a member of the

39:11Justice Society of America during World

39:12War II, a team who all cameo in this

39:15movie, but are kept in the shadows so as

39:17to not to need to cast them just yet.

39:19Barry and Jay put their minds together

39:21to study the multiverse and find a way

39:22for Barry to return to Earth-One.

39:24However, they are being watched by Jay's

39:26longtime arch-enemy, Clifford DeVoe, aka

39:28The Thinker, played by Neil Sandilands.

39:30A montage shows Jay and DeVoe's

39:32decades-long rivalry. DeVoe, driven mad

39:34by a cloning process that kept him

39:36young, learns of the multiverse and

39:37devises a plan to trap the Flashes while

39:40opening a portal to Earth-One. He seeks

39:42the Philosopher Stone held by Earth 1's

39:44Dr. Alchemy, believing it holds the key

39:46to ultimate power. The Stone is revealed

39:48to have originated on Earth 2, used by

39:51Earth 2's Dr. Alchemy, known as Curtis

39:53Engstrom, and is a Speed Force

39:54construct. The Thinker tried to steal it

39:56from Dr. Alchemy in the past, but never

39:58succeeded. And just like Wally getting

40:00powers, the Stone is revealed to have

40:02been brought to Earth 1 due to Barry's

40:04Speed Force disturbance. While all of

40:06this is happening, Wally is the main

40:07character of his own side storyline.

40:09While he struggles to take on Dr.

40:11Alchemy and maintain order in Central

40:13City, which falls into chaos as other

40:15rogues take advantage of the Flash's

40:17absence. After struggling for a while

40:19and with encouragement from his aunt

40:21Iris, Wally steps up and defeats Dr.

40:23Alchemy, but the victory is short-lived

40:25as it's just then that the Thinker steps

40:27through a portal and arrives, taking the

40:29Stone and using its power to drain the

40:31abilities of all metahumans in the near

40:33area. Now godlike, Devoe sets out to

40:36conquer Earth 1. Wally's Speed Force

40:38connection saves him from losing his

40:40powers because the Philosopher Stone is

40:42also connected to the Speed Force, but

40:44he is still overwhelmed by Devoe's

40:45power. On Earth 2, the Shade, played by

40:48Jonathan Cake, who initially helped

40:49Devoe to capture the Flash, has a change

40:52of heart and frees Barry and Jay.

40:54Luckily, however, while they were

40:55captured, the two Flashes realize how

40:57they can get Barry back to Earth 1 by

40:58vibrating at Earth 1's natural

41:00frequency, which they both do, arriving

41:02just in time to save Wally from being

41:04killed by the Thinker. The final battle

41:06pits Barry, Wally, and Jay against the

41:09Thinker in an epic showdown. Wally, Jay,

41:11and Barry each have their little moments

41:13and the battle ends with the destruction

41:14of the Philosopher Stone and then

41:16Devoe's death. The metahumans do,

41:18however, remain powerless and mostly

41:20retire. However, Captain Cold and

41:22Heatwave salvage parts of Devoe's chair

41:25to create weapons for future use. Jay

41:27returns to Earth 2, but a link has now

41:29been established between the universes,

41:31allowing speedsters to travel freely.

41:33Barry reveals his identity to Wally,

41:35strengthening their bond, and reunites

41:37with Iris. In a post-credit scene, the

41:39multiverse ripple effects reach Earth 3

41:42where Johnny Quick, played by Ezra

41:44Miller, receives a vision of his world's

41:46destruction. Bringing 2013 to an end is

41:49a movie known as The Trinity, which

41:51serves as a shared sequel to the Batman,

41:53Superman, Wonder Woman, The World's

41:54Finest, and kind of the Justice League

41:56franchises, bringing back Superman, the

41:58Man of Steel's director Joe Johnston to

42:00direct. The movie begins in Gotham,

42:02where Batman has upgraded to his Batman

42:04v Superman suit and has taken on a

42:06second sidekick, Batgirl, a determined

42:0815-year-old played by Abigail Cohen, who

42:10forced her way into the Bat Family.

42:12Robin is also 15 years old, and he and

42:14Batgirl share a flurry competitive

42:16dynamic. After defeating the Scarecrow,

42:19the Bat Family investigates a mysterious

42:21crash in the Gotham River, discovering a

42:23pod bearing Superman's symbol. The pod

42:25opens to reveal a young blonde woman

42:27played by Melissa Benoist, who we will

42:28later learn is Kara Zor-El, Superman's

42:31cousin. She attacks the Bat trio, but

42:32Batman evens the playing field by

42:34whipping out kryptonite. Then Superman

42:36arrives, calms Kara using Kryptonian

42:38speech, and takes her to the Fortress of

42:40Solitude, where Batman insists on

42:42accompanying them to investigate.

42:44Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is summoned to

42:45the Watchtower by the Martian Manhunter,

42:47told that her mother requested a

42:48meeting. Instead, when she gets to the

42:51meeting location, she's ambushed by the

42:53Female Furies Bernadeth, Lashina, Mad

42:55Harriet, Stompa, and Fury. It's close,

42:58but Diana is ultimately defeated and

43:00taken to Apokolips. Fury is played by

43:02Naomi Scott and it will be revealed to

43:04be a different important DC character

43:06later on. As Clark introduces Kara to

43:08his family and shows her Earth's beauty,

43:10Batman, remaining in the Fortress of

43:12Solitude with help from Jor-El,

43:13discovers that Kara's pod emits energy

43:16from what Jor-El knows as Apokolips.

43:18Jor-El warns of Darkseid, played by Ray

43:21Porter, and in the New Gods. Just as Jon

43:24contacts Batman to reveal Diana's

43:25capture, Batman warns Clark, who is back

43:27in Smallville, which exposes Kara, who

43:29then attacks Superman with a red sun

43:31blaster, incapacitating him and taking

43:34him to Apokolips. Later, it'll be

43:35revealed that she was supposed to do

43:36that the second she got there, but was

43:38too much intrigued by Earth and the fact

43:40that her cousin lived there. On route to

43:42Apokolips, Kara reveals to Clark that

43:44her ship got stuck in stasis and that

43:46she was rescued by Darkseid, becoming

43:48his loyal enforcer and now is the leader

43:50of the Female Furies. Kara reveals

43:52Darkseid's interest in Superman and

43:54Wonder Woman, who he perceives as

43:56Earth's strongest warriors, which is why

43:58he kidnapped both of them. After

44:00Superman was attacked and kidnapped,

44:02Batman decided to follow in a Kryptonian

44:04ship from the Fortress of Solitude,

44:06watching from the shadows as Superman

44:08and Diana are subjected to a device

44:10designed to simulate the Anti-Life

44:12Equation on a micro scale, basically

44:13meant to strip them of their free will.

44:15Meanwhile, Kara wrestles with her

44:17experiences on Earth, which she enjoyed

44:19like a lot, and then she is torn between

44:21her bond with Clark and her loyalty to

44:24Darkseid. Batman struggles too, but does

44:26manage to take down a few parademon

44:28guards and frees Diana, but they are

44:30both attacked by Kara before they're

44:31able to free Superman. Diana and Batman

44:33face Kara until Superman, now

44:35mind-controlled, intervenes. [music]

44:37Seeing Superman attack his allies shakes

44:39Diana's faith in Darkseid, prompting her

44:41to help Batman and Diana escape.

44:43Superman then battles Kara long enough

44:45for Batman's contingency plan to kick

44:47in. Batgirl, Robin, Aquaman, and the

44:49Martian Manhunter arrive with a

44:50Kryptonian ship and tech, including an

44:53anti-Superman suit for Batman. As the

44:55heroes regroup, Superman defeats Kara

44:57and delivers her to Darkseid, who

44:59sentences her to death for treason.

45:01Before her execution, however, the team

45:03intervenes. Aquaman, Martian Manhunter,

45:05Batgirl, and Robin all fight a bunch of

45:07parademons. Wonder Woman faces off

45:09against the Furies by herself again,

45:10this time locking in, and Batman fights

45:13Superman. Kara, meanwhile, regains her

45:15strength and escapes from her hold and

45:17joins the fight against Darkseid, who

45:19does easily overpower her and the team.

45:22Batman breaks through Superman's

45:23programming by reminding him of Kara's

45:26impending death, allowing Superman to

45:28recover and attack Darkseid. Wonder

45:30Woman defeats the Female Furies, but

45:32learns of Fury's true identity. She is

45:35Darkseid's daughter with an Amazonian

45:37named Magala. Diana convinces Fury to

45:39embrace her Themysciran heritage and

45:41fight for Earth. After interrogating one

45:43of the Female Furies, Batman locates

45:45Apokolips's Hellspore Armory, activating

45:47it to threaten the planet's destruction.

45:50Unlike in the real world movie

45:51Superman/Batman: Apokolips, Darkseid

45:53does call Batman's bluff, allowing for

45:56the triggering of the Hellspores. While

45:58Darkseid then diverts his forces to

45:59contain the destruction, the heroes

46:01escape, having dealt a huge blow to

46:03Darkseid and Apokolips, setting them

46:05back by years. On the relatively long

46:08journey back to Earth, Kara bonds with

46:10Batgirl and Superman and prepares for

46:13life on Earth. Fury renames herself to

46:15Donna Troy, pledging loyalty to Diana

46:17and the Amazons, and even bonds a bit

46:20with Robin. The film then closes with

46:22Darkseid vowing vengeance. His forces

46:24scattered, but planning to return

46:26stronger than ever. Joseph Kosinski

46:28returns to the Green Lantern franchise,

46:30directing Green Lantern: War of Light,

46:32which begins 2014 with an epic tale of

46:34intergalactic conflict. The film focuses

46:36on an experienced Hal Jordan, been a

46:39Green Lantern for 6 years now, as well

46:41as John Stewart, who was recruited

46:43shortly after the events of Justice

46:44League and now has a little bit under 2

46:46years of experience. However, he is a

46:48bit older than Hal, so they have a bit

46:50of a unique dynamic where they are

46:51actually more so equals. The story picks

46:54up after Emerald Knights, revealing that

46:55Atrocitus escaped during Parallax's

46:57attack on Oa and has since formed the

46:59Red Lantern Corps, recruiting fearsome

47:01allies like Dex-Starr, a cat from Earth,

47:03as well as a few others. The Red Lantern

47:05Corps aren't really an entire corps,

47:07they're more so a squad than anything.

47:09Meanwhile, Ganthet and Sayd, cast out of

47:11the Guardians, establish the Blue

47:12Lantern Corps, which is also more of a

47:14squad with members like Saint Walker,

47:16Brother Warth, and a few others, whose

47:18powers are mostly defensive, but can

47:20amplify Green Lanterns in their

47:22vicinity. Alongside the Reds and Blues,

47:24you have the Star Sapphires, introduced

47:26earlier, and the expanding Sinestro

47:28Corps, which is now the same size as the

47:30Green Lantern Corps, all set the stage

47:32for the War of Light, mostly based off

47:34of the Sinestro Corps War storyline, the

47:37film's central conflict. Back on Earth,

47:39Hal Jordan and John Stewart defeat Dr.

47:41Polaris before being summoned to Oa to

47:42address the growing threat of the

47:44Sinestro Corps. Sinestro has been

47:46working with the Weaponers of Qward and

47:48the shadowy figure from the last movie,

47:49revealed in this movie to be named

47:51Mobius and shown fully, wearing his

47:54armor and voiced by a placeholder actor

47:56for now. They create dozens of yellow

47:58rings, recruiting killers from across

48:00the galaxy. And then, as political

48:02intrigue unfolds, Hal Jordan and Katma

48:05Tui attempt to rally allies in the

48:08coming war. They fail to secure the full

48:10support of the Star Sapphires, gaining

48:11only Carol Ferris, while Sinestro allies

48:14with Atrocitus. Along the way, John and

48:16Katma fall in love. All of this comes

48:19together to build to a massive space

48:20battle between the Greens and Blues

48:22against the Yellows and Reds. The Green

48:24Lantern Corps struggles due to their

48:25no-kill rule, forcing the Guardians to

48:27rewrite the Book of Oa to authorize

48:29lethal force. This plays into Sinestro

48:32and Atrocitus's plans, albeit for

48:35completely different reasons. Atrocitus

48:37seeks to fulfill the Blackest Night

48:39prophecy, while Sinestro believes the

48:41Corps needs this evolution. Their

48:43conflicting goals lead to a falling out

48:45and a brutal duel, ending with Sinestro

48:47killing Atrocitus. Driven by his hatred

48:49for Sinestro, Hal Jordan attacks him in

48:51a fierce one-on-one battle that is

48:53evenly matched until the Blue Lantern

48:55Saint Walker shows up to amplify Hal's

48:57powers, only to immediately be killed by

48:59Sinestro. Instead of flying off to find

49:02some new recruit, Saint's blue ring

49:03flies onto Hal, making him the first

49:05person to wield two rings at the same

49:07time, one green and one blue. With this

49:10amplified powers, Hal defeats Sinestro,

49:12but cannot kill him due to the blue

49:14ring's influence as that ring does still

49:16have the no authorized killing rule.

49:19Instead, Sinestro is sentenced to death

49:21on Oa, which is executed in dramatic

49:23fashion. But his yellow ring then flies

49:26off to find a new host in his daughter

49:28Soranik Natu, whom he had secretly

49:30prepared to lead his Corps. Along the

49:32way, the battle costs the lives of major

49:34Green Lanterns, including Ch'p, Salaak,

49:36Chaselon, and Kilowog Tui, intensifying

49:39John's hatred for Atrocitus as in the

49:41movie they form a bit of a rivalry

49:43before Atrocitus is then killed by

49:45Sinestro. In the aftermath of the War of

49:47Light, Atrocitus got exactly what he

49:48wanted, setting the stage for the

49:50Blackest Night. Cutting to Earth, the

49:51grave of William Hand is shown and his

49:54hand emerges from the ground. An end

49:56credit scene reveals the Guardians

49:57preparation for the Blackest Night as

49:59they authorize a third Lantern per

50:01sector with the new ring flying off to

50:03recruit a mysterious new member on

50:05Earth. Shazam follows in Swamp Thing's

50:08footsteps, set in the alternate universe

50:10of Earth 5 and while it retains the

50:12basic plot of the real world movie, it

50:14is also very, very different. The lead

50:16role of Shazam is recast because I think

50:19it wasn't really a great casting with

50:21Tyler Hoechlin who later proved his

50:22superhero chops as the relatively

50:24similar feeling character Superman.

50:27Billy Batson, played by a younger Asher

50:29Angel, is 12 instead of 15, making him

50:31more of an actual child rather than a

50:33teenager. Mark Strong is replaced by Jon

50:35Cryer as the main villain Doctor Savanna

50:38to avoid actor overlap within the DCMU.

50:40The story would be set in Fawcett City

50:43rather than Philadelphia because I like

50:44it when DC is fictional and Billy's

50:47foster family is a lot smaller including

50:49just Mary who is 15 and Freddy who is

50:5211. Both of the actors who played them

50:54in the real world movie will play them

50:55here as well which works because they

50:56were both active in 2014 as actors.

50:58Their superhero forms are also more

51:00consistent with the comics. Billy is

51:02Captain Marvel, Mary is Mary Marvel, and

51:04Freddy is Captain Marvel Junior. And the

51:06only one of them who transforms into a

51:08different person is Billy. The movie

51:10would boast a much needed higher budget

51:12and lead into brighter, more comic book

51:14inspired aesthetics creating an

51:15otherworldly feel. The tone is whimsical

51:18and vibrant staying true to Shazam's

51:20roots while allowing for greater

51:22immersion into the fantastical world of

51:24Earth 5 which I think totally should be

51:26similar to the Raimi Spider-Man movies

51:28which is why I actually think Sam Raimi

51:30would be the perfect person to direct

51:31this. The story and focus on Billy's

51:33mother, however, remains the same. Most

51:36things are kind of different. The second

51:38Green Arrow movie is also directed by

51:40Guy Ritchie and is called Green Arrow

51:42and Black Canary. Shifting focus to Star

51:44City as the first took place entirely on

51:46the island and beginning with Dinah

51:47Lance's origin. Orphaned as a teenager

51:49in Gotham City, Dinah is taken in by the

51:52League of Assassins and trained by

51:53Malcolm Merlyn becoming one of their

51:55most skilled operatives. As an adult,

51:57she's played by Katie Lotz. She is sent

51:59on a mission to Central City in 2011.

52:01During the mission, the particle

52:03accelerator explodes striking her while

52:05she screams granting her powerful sonic

52:07abilities. The League of Assassins

52:09obviously views this as an opportunity

52:11for a strong weapon but Dinah sees her

52:13powers as an opportunity to escape

52:15alongside Merlyn. But once she finds out

52:18his plans for Star City, she sets out to

52:20stop him. In Star City, Dinah becomes a

52:22vigilante known as the Black Canary

52:24specifically targeting Merlyn Global.

52:26Dinah intercepts an arms deal between

52:28Merlyn Global and Brick, a crime boss in

52:30Star City, which is where she meets

52:32Green Arrow and Arsenal. Arsenal being

52:34Roy Harper who was introduced at the end

52:36of the last movie was then taken in by

52:38Oliver and trained and debuted around a

52:40year ago. They stop the arms deal, take

52:42down Brick, and then go their separate

52:44ways but there is quick, obvious mutual

52:46attraction between Green Arrow and Black

52:48Canary. Meanwhile, since having returned

52:49to the island, Oliver has been trained

52:51by his mother to become the CEO of Queen

52:53Consolidated which goes through during

52:55this movie and that's where he meets

52:57Malcolm Merlyn. Dinah, meanwhile, hacks

53:00Merlyn's servers but then is ambushed by

53:01Green Arrow who tracked her. After a

53:03fight, they are attacked by somebody

53:05known as the Dark Archer who overwhelms

53:07them. But as it turns out, Arsenal was

53:09shadowing Oliver and managed to create a

53:11distraction to allow them to escape.

53:13Dinah escaping with a hard drive that

53:15she allows Oliver to look at as well as

53:17they go back to Oliver's base of

53:19operations known as the Arrowcave.

53:21[music] The hard drive reveals Merlyn's

53:22plot which is to destroy the Glades with

53:25an earthquake device but also it

53:27implicates Oliver's parents. Oliver

53:29confronts his mother who in that moment

53:30learns that he is the Green Arrow and

53:32she says that she only goes through with

53:34Merlyn's plans because of the threats

53:36that she knows that he would go through

53:38with because then she reveals to him

53:40that Merlyn sabotaged the Queen's Gambit

53:42causing it to sink causing Robert's

53:44death and Oliver being stranded on the

53:46island. Merlyn overhearing through a bug

53:48accelerates [music]

53:49his plan. With this now being personal

53:50for all three members of the newly

53:52formed Team Arrow for Roy because he's

53:54from the Glades, they go after him at

53:56Unidac Industries where he's going to

53:58take the earthquake device from but are

53:59ambushed by a few people who were hired

54:01by Merlyn and although they are

54:03victorious, Merlyn gets away with the

54:05device. Having grown a bit of courage,

54:06Moira Queen tries to warn the people of

54:08the Glades during a press conference but

54:09before she could get anything out, she

54:11is killed by an arrow by Malcolm Merlyn.

54:14At the funeral, Merlyn has the gall to

54:16show up. Oliver confronts him but is

54:18overpowered and Merlyn tells him that

54:20it's all going down that night. Later

54:22on, Oliver realizes where the device

54:24might be in the Glades as he remembers a

54:26friend of his named Tommy Merlyn who

54:29died when he was a kid and whose mother

54:31died as well. Team [music] Arrow finds

54:33Merlyn in an abandoned subway line right

54:35under the point where Tommy and his

54:36mother were killed and a fight breaks

54:38out. The battle is intense. Dinah is

54:40unable to use her sonic scream as it

54:42risks setting off the device prematurely

54:43so Merlyn is then able to fight all

54:46three on his own. This isn't a fight he

54:48was ever going to win but he doesn't

54:49really need to. He just has to delay

54:50them long enough for the earthquake

54:52device to go off which he successfully

54:54does. The ground begins to quake,

54:56buildings start to collapse a bit, and

54:58chaos spreads throughout the Glades.

55:00With time running out, Dinah pushes

55:02herself to her physical and emotional

55:04limit unleashing easily the most

55:06powerful scream that she's ever

55:07attempted which easily destroys the

55:08earthquake device but leaving herself

55:10temporarily weakened. Seizing the

55:12moment, Merlyn tries to attack her but

55:15Oliver confronts him one-on-one and

55:17though battered and emotionally raw,

55:18Oliver manages to stab Merlyn through

55:20the heart with an arrow ending the Dark

55:22Archer's threat. The trio narrowly

55:24escapes the collapsing subway tunnel

55:26leaving Merlyn buried in the rubble. As

55:28the dust settles, the team emerges to

55:30find the Glades in ruins with survivors

55:32struggling amidst the destruction. Roy

55:34then finds the body of a close friend of

55:36his, Sin, [music] who died in the chaos.

55:39Dinah, now fully committed to the fight

55:40for Star City, decides to stay and

55:42partners with Oliver both as heroes and

55:45also romantically. In the post-credit

55:46scene, Green Arrow and Black Canary are

55:48approached by Hal Jordan who offers them

55:50membership to the Justice League. That

55:53brings us to the final year of the

55:54chapter 2015 starting with the second

55:56R-rated Vertigo movie Constantine. This

55:58one directed by Guillermo del Toro.

56:00Constantine stars Matt Ryan and follows

56:02a similar story to the real world movie

56:04of Constantine: City of Demons. Set in

56:06LA, Constantine helps his old friend

56:08Chas Chandler, played by Charles

56:09Halford, to save his daughter Trish from

56:11a demon. Flashbacks reveal Constantine's

56:13origin. As a young man, he and Chas were

56:15in a band led by Alex Lo, who attempted

56:17a dark spell using his daughter Astra.

56:19Constantine summoned a demon named

56:21Nergal to save Astra but Nergal dragged

56:24her to hell instead. In the present,

56:26Constantine and Chas discovered that it

56:27was Nergal who stole Trish's soul. They

56:29enlist Nightmare Nurse, played by Ruth

56:30Connell, to heal Trish as well as Swamp

56:33Thing to confront Nergal. In order to

56:35gain Swamp Thing's help, Constantine

56:36promises him a conversation with the now

56:38deceased Alec Holland. However, Swamp

56:41Thing's involvement proves to not really

56:42matter much as while there is a physical

56:44battle with Nergal, the climax proves to

56:46be deeply personal and the physical

56:49battle never really meant anything. Chas

56:51sacrifices all the love in his life to

56:52save Trish erasing his connections with

56:54everyone including his own memories just

56:56like the real world Constantine: City of

56:58Demons movie. The movie ends with the

56:59revelation that Constantine's secret

57:01attempt to rescue Astra sabotaged their

57:03chance for an easier solution leaving

57:06Astra still in hell and Chas Chandler

57:08completely without the memory of his

57:09daughter and vice versa. An end credit

57:11scene shows Astra being rescued in hell

57:13by a mysterious yellow demon who calls

57:15himself Etrigan. Since the second Batman

57:18movie back in 2011, I've been setting up

57:20this movie Teen Titans. Directed by Jon

57:22Watts, the movie focuses on the Justice

57:24League sidekicks Robin, Kid Flash, Donna

57:26Troy, and Arsenal who despite their

57:28different backgrounds unite to form a

57:30cohesive superhero team. While Robin,

57:32who is 16 years old, has already forged

57:33relationships with both Donna and Wally

57:36which happened off screen, the remainder

57:37of the team meets for the first time at

57:39the Hall of Justice under the brief

57:41guidance of Martian Manhunter which is

57:43more of a tourist site just like it was

57:44in Young Justice while the actual HQ is

57:46the Watchtower. Simultaneously, the

57:4816-year-old Victor Stone, portrayed by

57:50Jovan Wade, confronts his father Silas

57:52over missing his football game only to

57:54find Garfield Logan, a 15-year-old green

57:56boy played by Ryan Potter, is being held

57:58captive as a part of Silas's secretive

58:00experiments. This conversation leads to

58:01an accident in which Victor

58:03inadvertently triggers an explosion

58:04disfiguring himself which also allows

58:06Garfield to escape doing so by

58:08transforming into a bird and flying

58:09away. This incident catches the Justice

58:12League system's attention but with the

58:14actual Justice League preoccupied, the

58:15young heroes disobey direct orders

58:17taking it upon themselves to intervene

58:19traveling to the spot where this

58:21occurred, Detroit. As the future Teen

58:22Titans arrive, Silas then reveals to

58:24them that he was working under duress

58:25and he was threatened by an organization

58:27known as HIVE who are intent to exploit

58:29Beast Boy's unique abilities to build a

58:31superpowered army. With Garfield now

58:33missing, the organization is sure to

58:35carry out its threats. Dick takes the

58:37lead telling Wally to scout the city for

58:39the Beast Boy while the others remain

58:40behind to protect Silas ensuring he has

58:42time to repair Victor using advanced

58:44Promethium technology. Wally finds Beast

58:46Boy but the two are ambushed by HIVE

58:48agents Ravager and Jinx resulting in

58:50Garfield's recapture while Wally is

58:51simply knocked out, not kidnapped or

58:53even killed so as not to incur the

58:55attention of the Justice League.

58:56Meanwhile, Shimmer, Mammoth, and Gizmo

58:59launch an assault on Star Labs. Despite

59:01being overwhelmed, buys enough time for

59:02Silas to complete Victor's

59:04transformation into an as of now simply

59:06alive but powerless cyborg before both

59:09he and Garfield are taken to HIVE HQ.

59:12Luckily, Wally was thinking on his feet

59:13and placed a tracker on Ravager, a

59:15tracker that was given to him by his

59:16mentor Barry Allen. The Titans regroup

59:18and track him finding him in his home

59:20and civilian identity. They manage to

59:22easily defeat Ravager who reveals HIVE's

59:24HQ before succumbing to a fatal heart

59:26attack due to the overuse of his

59:28unstable powers leaving Robin and Wally

59:30deeply shaken by their own involvement.

59:32Not so much Donna or Roy though.

59:34Pressing onwards the team infiltrates

59:35Hive HQ in New York City where Victor

59:37now equipped with Hive controlled

59:39cybernetics and weaponry bonds with

59:41Garfield in captivity who learns of

59:43Hive's leader Queen Bee and her [music]

59:44deranged plan to weaponize his powers to

59:47create an army of sentient bees. The

59:49team arrives to rescue Gar and Victor

59:51and do just that as a battle breaks out

59:53between the two groups with Victor

59:55assuming control over his cybernetics.

59:57The Titans are winning and things seem

59:58to be going a little bit too well as the

1:00:00lights turn off and a mysterious figure

1:00:02massacres every single Hive agent

1:00:04including all of the supervillains

1:00:05leaving the Titans to find themselves

1:00:07amidst carnage they could neither

1:00:08predict nor prevent. However, with the

1:00:10immediate threat neutralized the heroes

1:00:12establish their headquarters in New York

1:00:13City dubbing it Titans Tower and dubbing

1:00:15themselves the Teen Titans. Most of the

1:00:18team moves in full-time though Robin and

1:00:20Kid Flash divide their time between the

1:00:21tower and their respective cities. As

1:00:23relationships develop Roy develops a

1:00:25crush on Donna, Victor and Garfield

1:00:27become best friends as [music] do Dick

1:00:28and Wally though Robin relationship

1:00:31remains contentious due to the

1:00:32leadership tensions. Individually Victor

1:00:34struggles to feel human and struggles

1:00:36with his relationship with his father.

1:00:38Beast Boy suffers from PTSD following

1:00:39his parents' death at the hands of Hive

1:00:41revealed to have been right before the

1:00:42events of this movie as well as the

1:00:44massacre but both use humor to mask

1:00:46their pain. Roy struggles to feel a part

1:00:48of the team. Robin doesn't reveal his

1:00:50identity to the rest and the team has a

1:00:51fragile structure as its leader isn't

1:00:54always present. Meanwhile it's revealed

1:00:55that the man who massacred the members

1:00:56of Hive was Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke

1:00:59a physically enhanced retired and father

1:01:02of Ravager who was Grant Wilson who was

1:01:04aware of his involvement with Hive and

1:01:06then blamed Hive for Grant Wilson's

1:01:08death and so got his revenge. Meanwhile

1:01:10Slade's ex-wife Adeline Kane

1:01:12investigates Grant Wilson's death and

1:01:14provides Slade with evidence implicating

1:01:16the Teen Titans. This revelation fuels

1:01:18Slade's vendetta leading him to recruit

1:01:20two other children Rose played by

1:01:22Chelsea Zhang and Joe played by Lucas

1:01:24Till [music] to aid him in dismantling

1:01:26the team. Using psychological tactics,

1:01:28traps and manipulation as Joe's body

1:01:30possession powers Deathstroke exploits

1:01:32the team's underlying fragility

1:01:34eventually capturing every single member

1:01:36of the Titans aside from one in order to

1:01:38lure Robin the remaining member into a

1:01:40one-on-one confrontation threatening to

1:01:42kill his teammates if he brings

1:01:44reinforcements. In a pivotal moment

1:01:46Robin comes to the realization that he

1:01:47can no longer split his time so he seeks

1:01:49closure in Gotham by officially stepping

1:01:51out of Batman's shadow committing fully

1:01:53to the Teen Titans. He [music] confronts

1:01:55Slade revealing his identity to the team

1:01:56in a show of trust which inspires Joe to

1:01:58turn against his father. Jericho who is

1:02:01Joe Wilson faces off against Rose while

1:02:02Robin battles Deathstroke in a brutal

1:02:04fight. He is ultimately outmatched

1:02:06physically but does prevail through

1:02:07strategic cunning freeing his teammates

1:02:09in the process. Slade in a desperate

1:02:12move and having gone a bit mad kills his

1:02:14own son Joe to absorb his powers [music]

1:02:16making himself a greater threat and

1:02:17inadvertently pushing Rose to join the

1:02:19Titans. The final battle sees the team

1:02:21working together to defeat Deathstroke

1:02:23with Joe's consciousness briefly

1:02:25inhabiting Rose's mind to release the

1:02:27stolen powers. His ultimate sacrifice

1:02:29leaves Slade broken having killed his

1:02:31own son in pursuit of revenge for his

1:02:33other son's death. Slade is sent to

1:02:35prison. Rose decides to forge her own

1:02:37path rather than join the Titans [music]

1:02:39and that Donna turns down Roy's advances

1:02:41prompting his departure as he struggles

1:02:43to find his place. Wally follows Dick's

1:02:45lead to become a full-time Titan

1:02:47abandoning Central City solidifying the

1:02:49team's core membership of Robin, Kid

1:02:51Flash, Wonder Girl, Beast Boy and Cyborg

1:02:54almost the New Teen [music] Titans.

1:02:56Speaking of the two missing members are

1:02:58teased in individual end credit scenes.

1:03:00One introduces an alien princess played

1:03:02by Anya Taylor-Joy escaping captivity on

1:03:04a spaceship. The other features a

1:03:06demonic figure being told of his

1:03:08daughter being found in the land of

1:03:10Azeroth. Finally for this chapter is

1:03:12Justice League Doom which will be the

1:03:14third and final movie in this universe

1:03:15directed by Brad Bird and shares its

1:03:17name with and has a similar story to the

1:03:19real world animated movie that in this

1:03:20world will not exist. The Justice League

1:03:23is at its peak. The lineup is expansive

1:03:25including Superman, Batman, Wonder

1:03:26Woman, Flash, Hal Jordan now the Blue

1:03:28and Green Lantern, Aquaman, Martian

1:03:30Manhunter and the heroes recruited

1:03:32during chapter two Green Arrow, Black

1:03:34Canary, Supergirl and John Stewart.

1:03:36[music] To combat the League with a

1:03:37motive that will be explained later Lex

1:03:39Luthor rallies a formidable Legion of

1:03:41Doom consisting of returning villains

1:03:42Black Manta, Captain Cold and Heatwave

1:03:44joined by a few newcomers including Tom

1:03:46Hardy as Bane, a mysterious figure with

1:03:48a vendetta against Batman, Alan Tudyk

1:03:50voicing Clayface an old enemy of

1:03:51Batman's, Sophie Boutella as the Cheetah

1:03:54an old friend of Diana's who was cursed

1:03:55to become a cheetah which surprises

1:03:57Diana, Jeremy Davies as Doctor Destiny

1:03:59an insane man with the power to enter

1:04:01and manipulate dreams who was first

1:04:02defeated off-screen by Green Lantern,

1:04:05Phil LaMarr as Ma'alefa'ak J'onn

1:04:06J'onzz's brother who he thought dead

1:04:08alongside the rest of the Martians,

1:04:10Idris Elba as Bloodsport who has not yet

1:04:12met Superman is just hired by Lex Luthor

1:04:14as well as Max Mittelman voicing Atomic

1:04:16Skull who is indeed an old enemy of

1:04:18Superman's. Finally are Danielle

1:04:20Panabaker as Killer Frost and Dylan Neal

1:04:22as Anthony Ivo hired by Luthor to create

1:04:24Amazo. Unbeknownst to the League Batman

1:04:26has put together contingency plans in

1:04:27case they all go rogue. Only maybe

1:04:29Superman knows about it or at least he

1:04:31only thinks he knows about it because of

1:04:32the kryptonite that Batman had in

1:04:34Trinity. Unfortunately these plans are

1:04:36all stolen by Luthor and the Legion of

1:04:38Doom who plans to use them to destroy

1:04:40the League. Luthor coordinates a full-on

1:04:43assault deploying each member of the

1:04:44Legion to exploit Batman's plans.

1:04:46Superman is shot with a kryptonite

1:04:48bullet by Bloodsport. Meanwhile

1:04:49Supergirl faces off against Killer Frost

1:04:51and Atomic Skull who exploits her red

1:04:53sun vulnerability. She's weakened and

1:04:55captured. Flash is tricked by the Rogues

1:04:57into wearing a device that will detonate

1:04:59if he stops running. However, he did he

1:05:00vibrates to another universe while

1:05:02leaving the device behind. While on this

1:05:04other universe he meets a hero named

1:05:05Blue Beetle before then returning. Then

1:05:08while vibrating back Barry receives a

1:05:09vision of a coming crisis showing Earths

1:05:12across the multiverse being destroyed.

1:05:14Hal Jordan and John Stewart are attacked

1:05:16by Doctor Destiny who manipulates their

1:05:18dreams to purposely give them PTSD and

1:05:20survivor's guilt from the Sinestro War.

1:05:22This disables their will rendering their

1:05:24Green Lantern rings ineffective.

1:05:25However, this has no effect on Hal's

1:05:27hope so his Blue Lantern ring still

1:05:28works perfectly and he uses it to escape

1:05:30with John. Near Atlantis Aquaman is

1:05:32poisoned by Black Manta with a

1:05:34neurotoxin that makes him fear water.

1:05:36He's then kidnapped but secretly tracked

1:05:38by Mera. Martian Manhunter is ambushed

1:05:40by Ma'alefa'ak his long-lost brother.

1:05:42Using psychic powers Ma'alefa'ak traps

1:05:44J'onn into an illusion of being

1:05:45eternally ablaze rendering him immobile

1:05:48which he was able to do because he was

1:05:49caught off guard by his brother being

1:05:51alive. Batman faces Bane who shatters

1:05:54his back after a brutal fight. Bane then

1:05:56satisfied with his victory departs the

1:05:58Legion of Doom. Green Arrow and Black

1:06:00Canary face Clayface who captures Canary

1:06:02while leaving Green Arrow helpless.

1:06:03Batman did not have a plan for Arrow as

1:06:05he just thought he didn't really need

1:06:07one. Wonder Woman is lured into a

1:06:09hallucination by Cheetah forcing her

1:06:10into endless combat and though it

1:06:12initially incapacitates her Diana's

1:06:14sheer willpower helps her resist long

1:06:16enough to recover partially. She never

1:06:19really gets exhausted. The captured

1:06:21heroes Supergirl, Aquaman, Black Canary

1:06:23and the Martian Manhunter are taken to

1:06:24Anthony Ivo who copies their abilities

1:06:26into his android Amazo. Oliver, Hal,

1:06:29J'onn and Mera all separately track down

1:06:30the Legion's base of operations while

1:06:32the Flash performs critical rescues

1:06:34removing the kryptonite bullet from

1:06:35Superman with his phasing [music]

1:06:36ability, building a suit designed by

1:06:38Batman to help Batman to fight and

1:06:40delivering Wonder Woman to Themyscira

1:06:41for healing. This series of events

1:06:43leaves Barry exhausted which proves to

1:06:45have been Lex's plan. Lex takes

1:06:47advantage of this and alongside the

1:06:48Rogues defeats and captures Flash to

1:06:50copy his abilities as well into Amazo.

1:06:52The Legion are about to kill the heroes

1:06:54but are stopped by Arrow, Mera as well

1:06:57as the Lanterns who came up with a bit

1:06:58of a strategy as well their will still

1:07:00doesn't really work very well. Hal's

1:07:02blue ring is able to power up J'onn's

1:07:04green ring into about half power so

1:07:06while they are a lot less powerful than

1:07:08usual they are still useful. Oliver

1:07:10frees Barry who then frees the others

1:07:12and a fight breaks out. And just then

1:07:14the Trinity arrives. Superman battles

1:07:16Lex in his armored suit. J'onn faces off

1:07:18against his brother. Diana overcomes the

1:07:20Cheetah. Batman takes down Clayface.

1:07:22Green Arrow defeats Bloodsport. Black

1:07:24Canary defeats Killer Frost. Flash

1:07:25defeats both Cold and Heatwave. Aquaman

1:07:27takes down Manta while Mera defeats

1:07:29Atomic Skull. Hal and J'onn team up

1:07:31against Doctor Destiny and it seems like

1:07:33the Justice League is doing really well

1:07:35until the real threat emerges as Amazo

1:07:37awakens. Supergirl takes him on by

1:07:39herself before being joined by each hero

1:07:41after they defeat their respective

1:07:43enemies. Amazo with the powers of the

1:07:45Justice League proves unstoppable. He

1:07:46battles all the heroes simultaneously.

1:07:48His naivety about his purpose driving

1:07:50him into conflict just like the DCAU

1:07:52version. Lex attempts to control Amazo

1:07:54but the android grows self-aware. Green

1:07:57Arrow threatens Ivo who tells him that

1:07:59Amazo copied weaknesses as well. Oliver

1:08:01gets kryptonite from Batman, fashions an

1:08:03arrow and shoots Amazo. [music] However,

1:08:05this proves completely ineffective due

1:08:07to Amazo's other powers. He just phases

1:08:09through it. Amazo goes to kill Oliver

1:08:11but uses his Martian mind reading to

1:08:13find out that he was betrayed by his

1:08:15creator. Amazo turns on Ivo and kills

1:08:18him before Amazo is then overwhelmed by

1:08:20reading everyone's thoughts and is taken

1:08:22aback by the thoughts of the remaining

1:08:24Legion members so he turns on them.

1:08:26Amazo then kills Ma'alefa'ak first. He

1:08:28was J'onn's enemy but also his brother

1:08:30and the only other remaining Martian as

1:08:32far as J'onn knows. So Ma'alefa'ak's

1:08:34death pushes J'onn to do something that

1:08:35Martians are mostly forbidden from

1:08:37doing. He attacks Amazo with a powerful

1:08:39psychic assault that erases his mind

1:08:41leaving the android an empty husk

1:08:43without any powers. Throughout this

1:08:44movie we would see Lex's motivation

1:08:46being explored. We'd learn earlier that

1:08:48he was contacted by an alien being

1:08:49called Othoona and forced him to

1:08:51destroying the Justice League so that

1:08:52Othoona could take over the world

1:08:54uncontested promising Luthor that he

1:08:56could be his second-in-command. Lex of

1:08:58course turns on Othoona creating a plan

1:09:00of his own to destroy both the League

1:09:02and create an android capable of

1:09:03fighting off Othoona. I'm saying it now

1:09:05at the end but it wouldn't be a third

1:09:07act reveal. We'd see it playing out

1:09:08throughout the movie. Now that Amazo was

1:09:10destroyed Luthor has failed in that

1:09:12endeavor and Othoona sees the

1:09:14opportunity of the exhausted League and

1:09:16defeated Legion of Doom as an

1:09:17opportunity to attack. Joined by Lex the

1:09:20League face off against a big red

1:09:22tornado monster to save the world in

1:09:24which both Hal and J'onn fully regain

1:09:26their powers. The powerless heroes

1:09:28Batman and Green Arrow do prove

1:09:29pointless in this fight and instead turn

1:09:31their attention to the Android,

1:09:33rebooting him and easing him into things

1:09:35this time. When the Android asks who he

1:09:37is, they come up with the name John

1:09:38Smith off the dome, inspired by the

1:09:41powerless heroes fight. The Android

1:09:42agrees to help them, so they then fly

1:09:44him up to Oa using a bat ship. The

1:09:46Android copies Oa's power for himself.

1:09:49Process that. Since the reboot proved

1:09:51too taxing and so it disables his

1:09:54ability to copy powers going forward. It

1:09:56also turns him red. Joined by the

1:09:57Android with the power of Oa, the

1:09:59Justice League destroy him, saving the

1:10:00day and adding a new member to their

1:10:02ranks. The rebooted version of Amazo has

1:10:04a completely different perspective on

1:10:05things, is inspired to become a hero,

1:10:08redesigns himself based off of a few

1:10:09other heroes and calls himself Red

1:10:11Tornado. The League has a new powerful

1:10:13member but loses several others. Martian

1:10:15Manhunter leaves to search for other

1:10:16surviving Martians on Mars. Aquaman

1:10:18retires to spend his full time on

1:10:20Atlantis. The Flash decides to study the

1:10:22multiverse and the remaining members

1:10:23hold a vote for Batman after the

1:10:25revelation of his contingency plans. But

1:10:27before he could hear the result, he

1:10:29quits anyway. Not just that, with a

1:10:30broken back, Batman quits vigilantism

1:10:32entirely and instead searches for a

1:10:35replacement. The League now consists of

1:10:37Superman, Wonder Woman, Hal Jordan, John

1:10:39Stewart, Supergirl, Green Arrow, Black

1:10:41Canary and Red Tornado, but searches for

1:10:43new recruits and come with the likes of

1:10:44Adam, Metamorpho, Elongated Man and the

1:10:47third human recruit to the Green Lantern

1:10:48Corps who is now in training, Guy

1:10:50Gardner, who are all teased to be

1:10:52joining the Justice League soon, but we

1:10:54don't see actors for them yet. But with

1:10:56Flash's warning of a coming crisis, they

1:10:58were going to need to expand their

1:10:59ranks. Speaking of, the end credit scene

1:11:01reveals that Oa was actually sent by a

1:11:03being called The Monitor, played by

1:11:05LaMonica Garrett, as a test for the

1:11:07heroes of Earth-1. The Monitor is seen

1:11:09with a blonde woman who comic readers

1:11:11would recognize as Harbinger. Starting

1:11:14with this chapter, the DC would also

1:11:15start airing different TV shows that are

1:11:17loosely connected to the DCU as they all

1:11:20take place on different universes, but

1:11:22eventually will cross over a bit, maybe

1:11:24with a cameo here and there. To what

1:11:26this is all leading up to, these TV

1:11:27shows include Doom Patrol, which is

1:11:29basically just the real life show just

1:11:31without Cyborg. It would start airing in

1:11:332013 and have four seasons airing until

1:11:362018. But it would later be revealed

1:11:38that Doom Patrol takes place on

1:11:39Earth-13, which is the Vertigo Universe.

1:11:42The Vertigo Universe would get a second

1:11:43TV show known as The Sandman, which

1:11:45would be just like the real life Sandman

1:11:47movie except for Lucifer being played by

1:11:49Tom Ellis who played Lucifer in the

1:11:51Lucifer TV show and it connecting a bit

1:11:53to Swamp Thing as the actor who played

1:11:55Matt Cable there would then show up here

1:11:57as the Raven. John Constantine would

1:12:00also now be involved. The Sandman would

1:12:01start airing in 2015 and continue going

1:12:03until whenever they finish the graphic

1:12:05novel. It's just that from a certain

1:12:06point, it would start taking place in

1:12:08the post-crisis world we'll get to.

1:12:10There would then be a few different

1:12:11shows that take place in its own

1:12:13contained universe known as Earth-14,

1:12:15which would then have a role in the

1:12:17crisis to come. Those shows are a Black

1:12:19Lightning show which could be similar

1:12:20but maybe a bit better than the real

1:12:22life live action show. Black Lightning

1:12:23would start airing in 20 14 and have

1:12:26four seasons airing until 2019. A

1:12:28Firestorm show starring Robbie Amell and

1:12:30Victor Garber and just like Black

1:12:32Lightning would start airing in 2014 and

1:12:34go until 2019 with four seasons. There

1:12:36would then be a Vixen TV show starring

1:12:39Maisie Richardson-Sellers that starts

1:12:40airing in 2016 and has three seasons, as

1:12:43well as a Hawk and Dove show starring

1:12:45Alan Ritchson and Minka Kelly and would

1:12:48have two seasons as it starts airing in

1:12:502016 but ends in 2018. Finally, Booster

1:12:52Gold starring Eric Martsolf, which would

1:12:54seem like it takes place in the future

1:12:56of Earth-1 but it's later revealed that

1:12:57every possible future is its own

1:12:59separate universe and this takes place

1:13:01on Earth-24. And so that's it for

1:13:03chapter two as well as a bit of chapter

1:13:04three if you count the later seasons of

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1:13:13the final chapter of the Crisis

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1:14:38The first movie in this chapter is

1:14:39Justice Society of America, directed by

1:14:41Steven Spielberg and acting as a

1:14:43spin-off to The Flash of Two Worlds. Set

1:14:46on Earth-2, the film expands on the

1:14:48history of this world. Jay Garrick, who

1:14:50was active during World War II, was once

1:14:52a member of the now-defunct Justice

1:14:54Society of America, who appeared briefly

1:14:57in the shadows in their previous

1:14:59appearance, but now in the first few

1:15:00minutes of this movie are shown fully.

1:15:02The original JSA lineup included Wesley

1:15:05Dodds aka Sandman, who is now retired

1:15:07and doesn't appear with an actor since

1:15:09he's fully covered up. Henry Heywood aka

1:15:11Commander Steel, played by Matthew

1:15:13McConaughey, who is now deceased. Ted

1:15:15Grant aka Wildcat, played by Brian

1:15:17Staff, who is now retired. Al Pratt aka

1:15:20The Atom, actor list in his prime played

1:15:22by Henry Winkler in the present and now

1:15:24retired. Rex Tyler aka Hourman, played

1:15:27by Lou Ferrigno Jr. and now deceased.

1:15:29There's obviously Jay Garrick aka The

1:15:31Flash, played by a de-aged John Wesley

1:15:33Shipp, who retired in the '50s but

1:15:35re-emerged in the '90s. A big reveal is

1:15:37that this version of the JSA had its own

1:15:39version of Wonder Woman, played by a

1:15:41de-aged Lynda Carter then and now in the

1:15:43present day played by the regular Lynda

1:15:45Carter. Not just that, but this movie

1:15:47also retconned a few old TV shows and

1:15:49the movies to take place on [music]

1:15:50Earth-2. The first of which is the '70s

1:15:53Wonder Woman show. Then there's Kent

1:15:54Nelson aka Doctor Fate, who's actor list

1:15:57in the past by Pierce Brosnan in the

1:15:59present, still alive because when in the

1:16:01Tower of Fate he does not age. Then

1:16:03there's Alan Scott aka Green Lantern,

1:16:05who in the past is played by a de-aged

1:16:07Cary Elwes and in the present is just a

1:16:09regular Cary Elwes. Slowed aging due to

1:16:11magic. Then there's Hawkman and

1:16:12Hawkgirl, specifically the Thanagarians

1:16:15Katar Hol and Shayera Hol, played by

1:16:17Falk Hentschel and Ciara Renee, who both

1:16:19died of old age in around the 1980s and

1:16:22then were reincarnated as completely

1:16:24different-looking people. Doctor

1:16:26Midnight or Charles McNider is played by

1:16:28Alex Collins and is seen killed in

1:16:30action, as are Terry Sloane aka Mister

1:16:33Terrific, played by Dan Payne, and

1:16:35Johnny Thunder, played by Ethan Embry.

1:16:37Following Johnny's death, the

1:16:38Thunderbolt, who only appears briefly

1:16:40voiced by Seth Green, goes dormant in

1:16:42the purple pen. The movie begins with a

1:16:44montage showing Earth-2's history all

1:16:46the way up to the present day and

1:16:47starting in World War II, showing the

1:16:49JSA coming together, fighting some sort

1:16:51of threat and then after World War II

1:16:53ends, they're forced to disband and they

1:16:55all retire. Diana even returns to

1:16:58Themyscira. Diana then returns to Man's

1:17:00World in the 1970s and her TV show plays

1:17:02out. And then Superman. The Christopher

1:17:05Reeve Superman movies and Supergirl both

1:17:07take place on Earth-2. Superman, now

1:17:09played by Tom Welling, and Kara, now

1:17:11played by Laura Vandervoort, both age

1:17:13slower. Clark married Lois but had no

1:17:15kids and wears makeup to appear older

1:17:17while Kara just doesn't bother and she

1:17:20is Power Girl. The Michael Keaton Batman

1:17:23movies are also revealed to belong to

1:17:25this world. Since Batman Returns, Bruce

1:17:27faced numerous villains. Alfred passed

1:17:30away and Bruce and Selina got married,

1:17:32having Helena Wayne aka now the Huntress

1:17:34in 1998. Bruce now retired, left Gotham

1:17:38in the capable hands of his daughter,

1:17:39played by Jessica De Gouw, and her

1:17:41sidekick, Tim Drake aka Robin, played by

1:17:44Jay Lycurgo, who only recently debuted.

1:17:47And all of that is just the first 10

1:17:49minutes leading into the present day.

1:17:51[music] In the present day, focus shifts

1:17:53to Carter Hall, played by Aldis Hodge,

1:17:55who is visited by Jim Corrigan aka The

1:17:58Spectre, played by Stephen Lobo, who

1:18:00restores his Hawkman memories and warns

1:18:02him of an impending threat known [music]

1:18:04as Eclipso, urging him to reform the

1:18:06JSA. Eclipso is Spectre's predecessor, a

1:18:09corrupted agent of God. Hawkman recruits

1:18:12a few members of the new generation of

1:18:14heroes, including Huntress and Robin.

1:18:16Michael Holt aka Mister Terrific, played

1:18:18by Eddie Gathegi, who was just inspired

1:18:20by the original and has no other

1:18:21connection to him. Then there's Al

1:18:23Rothstein aka The Atom Smasher, played

1:18:25by Noah Centineo, who is Al Pratt's

1:18:27grandson and inherited his powers. Nate

1:18:29Heywood aka Citizen Steel is played by

1:18:31Nick Zano, who has the exact same story.

1:18:34He is Commander Steel's grandson and

1:18:36also inherited his powers. And then

1:18:38there is Alicia Vikander as Hawkgirl,

1:18:40the Kendra Saunders version, who became

1:18:42Hawkgirl independently and lacks her

1:18:45past life memories for whatever reason.

1:18:47Meanwhile, Nick E. Tarabay plays

1:18:49Eclipso, who corrupts Doctor Fate, The

1:18:51Flash, Green Lantern, Power Girl, Wonder

1:18:53Woman and Batman, forcing Bruce out of

1:18:55retirement. This leads to a sort of

1:18:57superhero civil war on Earth-2 between

1:19:00the older, controlled JSA and the

1:19:02younger generation, who are also joined

1:19:04by Superman, who are not a part of the

1:19:06mind-controlled group because Superman

1:19:07has been mind-controlled too many times

1:19:09and there's more evil Superman to come

1:19:11in this multiverse. Eclipso's control is

1:19:14not total. His victims retain their

1:19:16personalities, which leads to

1:19:17long-buried resentments surfacing in

1:19:19battle. Eventually, however, Eclipso's

1:19:21hold is broken and the JSA completely

1:19:24unites against him. His goal was to

1:19:26merge the real world with the

1:19:28Shadowlands, his banishment realm. The

1:19:30heroes do eventually win, but at a great

1:19:32cost. Destroying Eclipso's stone, which

1:19:34by the way he has a stone, ends the Hawk

1:19:37reincarnation cycle as it's revealed

1:19:39that Eclipso was the one who started it,

1:19:41but also it erases Hawkgirl's chance of

1:19:43her regaining past life memories, which

1:19:45is something that also was caused by

1:19:46Eclipso. Hawkman makes the ultimate

1:19:48sacrifice deciding to cut off that

1:19:50connection, allowing Wonder Woman to

1:19:51land the final blow. However, Eclipso

1:19:53lands a final blow of his own, killing

1:19:56Diana. A huge funeral is held in Diana's

1:19:58honor, who is hailed as the world's

1:20:00greatest hero, and the JSA reform,

1:20:03except without Hawkman, who finds it too

1:20:05painful to be around his love, Hawkgirl,

1:20:07without her remembering him. Bruce also

1:20:09returns to retirement. Then, in a

1:20:11post-credit scene, the Spectre and

1:20:13Doctor Fate discuss how Spectre was

1:20:15forbidden from acting directly. It's

1:20:17implied that this was completely

1:20:19intentional. The JSA had to reform to

1:20:21prepare for an even greater battle

1:20:23ahead. Next up is Blue Beetle, directed

1:20:26by Edgar Wright. The film explores Earth

1:20:284, first seen in a cameo in Justice

1:20:30League Doom. This is a world full of

1:20:32heroes that is hit by an alien invasion

1:20:35by an alien race known as the Reach,

1:20:37except they come as peaceful

1:20:39ambassadors, as [music] far as they

1:20:41claim. Ted Kord, played by Jason

1:20:42Statham, previously cameoed as Blue

1:20:44Beetle. However, the focus now shifts to

1:20:47Jaime Reyes, played by a little bit of a

1:20:49younger Zolo Maridueña, a 14-year-old

1:20:52suddenly chosen by an alien scarab.

1:20:54Leading into Jaime's origin story, a few

1:20:56heroes go missing like Judo Master,

1:20:58played by Nat Lee, Nightshade, played by

1:21:00Malin Åkerman, and Ted Kord. A few

1:21:02months later, Jaime bonds with the

1:21:04scarab, gaining immense power as the

1:21:06next and most powerful Blue Beetle.

1:21:09While dealing with his family, similar

1:21:10to the Blue Beetle film, Jaime is

1:21:12mentored by Peacemaker, played by John

1:21:14Cena, and Captain Atom, played by Scott

1:21:16Eastwood, a few of Ted Kord's old

1:21:18friends. Meanwhile, the Question, played

1:21:20by Penn Badgley, investigates the Reach

1:21:23independently. In a twist, he discovers

1:21:25that Jaime, under the scarab's

1:21:26influence, has unknowingly been aiding

1:21:28the Reach's infiltration. As their

1:21:30control strengthens, Jaime fights

1:21:32against Earth heroes until he himself

1:21:34fully regains control after bonding

1:21:37legitimately with the scarab.

1:21:39Ultimately, Blue Beetle, Peacemaker,

1:21:40Captain Atom, and the Question join

1:21:42forces to rescue Ted Kord, Judo Master,

1:21:44and Nightshade, and together they take

1:21:47the fight to the Reach, culminating in a

1:21:49Blue Beetle versus Black Beetle fight.

1:21:51Along the way, Captain Atom explo- No,

1:21:53I'm kidding. Judo Master dies. After the

1:21:55Reach's defeat, Ted retires to support

1:21:58Jaime. An end credit scene shows the

1:21:59Monitor, fresh from testing Earth 2 in

1:22:02an event that we did not see, declaring

1:22:04that they've passed and now is preparing

1:22:06to test Earth 4, another event that we

1:22:08won't see. It's more so just implied. I

1:22:10like the idea that in this movie, at

1:22:12some point near the end, Ted confides in

1:22:14Jaime that he never liked a single one

1:22:16of the other heroes of this world. He

1:22:17never really got along with any of them,

1:22:19to hint that his best friend is actually

1:22:21worlds away. From Earth 2 to 4 and now

1:22:24back to Earth 5, 2016 closes with a

1:22:27Shazam sequel set on this world, where

1:22:29the Monitor tests this world's heroes,

1:22:31or at least that's how it starts. The

1:22:33film opens with the Marvel family facing

1:22:35their most persistent enemy, Mister

1:22:37Mind, voiced by Greg Ellis, a genius

1:22:39Venusian worm who has been upgraded by

1:22:42his Monster Society of Evil, a group of

1:22:44interdimensional monsters who were given

1:22:47to him by the Monitor as the test. The

1:22:49battle pushes the Marvels to their

1:22:51limit, forcing them to unleash a

1:22:52combined Shazam attack that defeats the

1:22:54villains, but also shakes the Rock of

1:22:56Eternity, freeing its former champion,

1:22:59Hath Adam. 5,000 years ago, Teth Adam, a

1:23:01Khandaqi slave, played by The Rock, was

1:23:03granted the power of Shazam to liberate

1:23:06his people, but abused it to rule as a

1:23:08tyrant. For this, the wizard imprisoned

1:23:10him in the Rock of Eternity. Cut to the

1:23:12present day, now free, Black Adam seeks

1:23:15revenge, effortlessly defeating the

1:23:17weakened Marvel family before realizing

1:23:19that the wizard is dead. With no real

1:23:21opposition, he takes over Khandaq pretty

1:23:23quickly, killing many and declaring

1:23:25himself its ruler. Over several months,

1:23:28the Marvel family debates whether to

1:23:29intervene, finally convinced by Adrianna

1:23:32Tomaz, an Egyptian superhero wielding

1:23:34elemental powers. The Marvels infiltrate

1:23:37Khandaq and fight Adam, but they are

1:23:39booed by the citizens who now revere

1:23:41him. Adam seduces Adrianna to his side,

1:23:44revealing she was always obsessed with

1:23:45him and only just used the Marvels to

1:23:47get close to him. Captain Atom gives a

1:23:49speech on freedom, which falls on deaf

1:23:51ears, but Freddy refuses to back down.

1:23:53He challenges Adam, but is defeated and

1:23:55forcibly depowered and also beaten

1:23:58almost to death. In a destructive final

1:24:00showdown, Billy and Mary battle Adam and

1:24:02Adrianna, and with the champions of

1:24:04Shazam clashing, it causes further

1:24:06disturbance in the already slightly

1:24:08broken Rock of Eternity, which then

1:24:10explodes, unleashing an army similar to

1:24:12the Monster Society of Evil, but a

1:24:14hundred times larger. The champions put

1:24:16their differences aside to try to defeat

1:24:17them, but ultimately, they can't and

1:24:19Billy is forced to bond with the Rock of

1:24:21Eternity and become the new wizard,

1:24:24Shazam. Billy is now stuck in the Rock

1:24:26of Eternity indefinitely. Mary becomes

1:24:28the new de facto Captain Marvel, and

1:24:30then she and Black Adam agree to a

1:24:34Mary and Freddy return to America after

1:24:37having experienced things that Earth 5

1:24:40had never really seen before, as this

1:24:42was a bit of a lighter world. It's

1:24:43gotten darker after the influence of the

1:24:46multiverse. 2017 brings us back to Earth

1:24:481 with the first Batman solo film since

1:24:512011, the first of a two-part finale for

1:24:54the Batman's arc in the Crisis

1:24:56Chronicles. Batman: Cape Crusader,

1:24:58directed by Matt Reeves. Following

1:24:59Justice League Doom, where Bane broke

1:25:01Batman's back, Bruce retired from

1:25:03vigilantism. In his absence, Bane

1:25:06completely took over Gotham's criminal

1:25:08underworld and now has complete rule

1:25:10over it. Bruce, searching for a

1:25:12successor, rejects the now 18-year-old

1:25:14Dick Grayson, believing he lacks the

1:25:16darkness required for Batman and also

1:25:18wanting him to forge his own path. This

1:25:21angers Dick, who leaves Gotham. Instead,

1:25:23Bruce chooses Azrael, played by Brenton

1:25:25Thwaites, a warrior who claims to have

1:25:27escaped the Order of Saint Dumas,

1:25:29although it's quickly revealed that he's

1:25:31secretly still very loyal to them.

1:25:33Months go by and Azrael takes over as

1:25:36Batman, donning a blue and gold armored

1:25:38suit of his own design and enforcing

1:25:40brutal justice. Barbara Gordon, aka

1:25:42Batgirl, a major focus in this movie,

1:25:44tries to curb Azrael's more violent

1:25:47tendencies. Meanwhile, an Arkham

1:25:49breakout orchestrated by Bane unleashes

1:25:51rogues, forcing Batman and Batgirl to

1:25:53battle them while Bruce, still

1:25:55recovering, acts as their man in the

1:25:57chair, aided by Alfred and also Selina

1:25:59Kyle. Bruce and Selina, having

1:26:01reconnected after his injury, grew

1:26:03closer with Selina retiring from crime.

1:26:05This all leads to a final battle between

1:26:07Batman and Bane, ending with Azrael

1:26:10killing Bane and threatening the

1:26:12criminals of Gotham that he'll kill them

1:26:13all as well. With Azrael corrupting the

1:26:15Batman symbol, Bruce realized his

1:26:18mistake, as does Barbara Gordon, who

1:26:20quits being Batgirl for now and becomes

1:26:22Oracle. Unfortunately, Azrael and the

1:26:24Order of Saint Dumas have successfully

1:26:26fully taken control of Wayne Enterprises

1:26:29and the Batcave, everything that Bruce

1:26:31Wayne owns. Bruce has mostly recovered

1:26:33physically, but has lost access to any

1:26:36of his resources and has been kicked out

1:26:37onto the street. Then, in a third-act

1:26:40twist revealed also to Bruce, it's