7.4
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
Justin Hartley
Clark Kent / Superman / Kal-El (voice)
Anson Mount
Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
Laura Bailey
Lois Lane / Rama Kushna (voice)
Janet Varney
Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (voice)
Zach Callison
Damian Wayne / Robin / Jimmy Olsen (voice)
Anika Noni Rose
Selina Kyle / Catwoman (voice)
Brian T. Delaney
Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (voice)
Brandon Micheal Hall
Victor Stone / Cyborg (voice)
Andrew Morgado
Mirror Master Soldier (voice)
Edwin Hodge
Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific / Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice)
Oliver Hudson
Patrick 'Eel' O'Brian / Plastic Man (voice)
Gillian Jacobs
Harley Quinn (voice)
Yuri Lowenthal
Barry Allen / The Flash / Shazam / Mirror Master / Atom (voice)
Derek Phillips
Dick Grayson / Nightwing / Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Kevin Pollak
Joker / Jonathan Kent (voice)
Reid Scott
Oliver Queen / Green Arrow / Victor Zsasz (voice)
Faran Tahir
Ra's al Ghul (vocie)
Fred Tatasciore
Nathaniel Adam / Captain Atom (voice)
Director
Matt Peters
Comic Book, Story
Tom Taylor
Story, Writer
Ernie Altbacker
August 25, 2022
6
Before Injustice even breaks the 15-minute mark, the Joker has killed Jimmy Olsen and Flash and nuked Metropolis to Kingdom Come, and Superman has inadvertently killed Lois Lane and his and her unborn son, as well as literally punched a hole through the Joker – this time very advertently. I doubt anyone would really miss Jimmy and Flash, and I'm not crazy about Lois either – but still, way to come out guns blazing right out of the gate.
In addition to wearing a weird-looking cape, Superman grows a five-o'clock shadow. Since this facial hair only appears in one brief scene, I must conclude that it's there specifically and exclusively to signal Superman's newly loosened morality.
Superman decides that he "won’t be held back by ideals that don’t protect the innocent," and he and Wonder Woman essentially hijack the planet and, among other things, bully Israel and Palestina into signing a treaty ("Peace by punching," Green Arrow calls it).
This causes a schism in the Justice League, with Batman, Catwoman, Plastic Man, Nightwing, Green Arrow, and Harley Quinn opposing Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Robin, and Ra's al Ghul, with whom Superman has allied himself to further solidify his heel turn.
Injustice is silly and brutal at the same time, and a lot of fun to watch as well as listen to thanks to its traditional, hand-drawn animation and clever script; cleverness that comes across not only in the droll dialogue but also in a delicious climactic twist that makes it clear that the only thing Superman has to fear is Superman itself (n the process explaining the weird cape).
Like All-Star Superman, Injustice accomplishes the rare feat of making the Man of Steel interesting. He remains an omnipotent, immortal god, but the film actually acknowledges his goodhood ("your will be done," as Wonder Woman aptly puts it).
By compromising his typically seamless moral fiber, the movie makes Kal-El more unpredictable and, in turn, less boring than usual (Injustice's take-no-prisoners approach loses quite a bit of its impact when we consider that "There are infinite Earths" with infinite Jimmy Olsens, so that what happens in one of them makes little or no difference; this bit of Fridge Logic, however, should not affect your enjoyment of Injustice while the movie is playing).