JUSTICE LEAGUE: DOOM (TV)
Summary
An animated superhero motion picture featuring the Justice League of America as the newly-formed Legion of Doom uses plans stolen from Batman to attempt to murder them. The film starts as the Justice League foil a diamond robbery by the Royal Flush Gang, along with some last-minute help from Cyborg. Batman called in Cyborg to investigate an extradimensional device used by the Royal Flush Gang to infiltrate the diamond vault. The rest of the League convinces Batman to recover from his injuries while Cyborg investigates the origin of the extradimensional device. Batman returns to the Batcave, but unbeknownst to him Mirror Master has snuck in and uses a device to download information from the Batcomputer. He, along with the supervillains Bane, Star Sapphire, Metallo, Ma'alefa'ak, and Cheetah, all meet in a secret headquarters in the middle of a swamp. Their host is none other than the immortal Vandal Savage, who paid them each $10 million to accept his invitation. He offers them each an additional $100 million to participate in his latest plan: to kill the Justice League. The assembled villains accept his proposal, and Savage dubs them the "Legion of Doom." Bruce Wayne discovers that someone has unearthed his parents' caskets from their graves and is enraged. At the graveyard he is ambushed by Bane, who claims responsibility for the unearthing. Meanwhile, the co-workers of John Jones (Martian Manhunter's human identity) throw him a surprise birthday party. A mysterious blonde woman at the restaurant buys him a drink and they start a conversation; John notes that the lady seems "familiar;" he discovers the woman is actually Ma'alefa'ak in disguise. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman fights with Cheetah on a docked boat. Elsewhere, Barry Allen is investigating a possible homicide when he hears that the Mirror Master has hijacked a train; he changes into the Flash and rushes to the rescue. Green Lantern is called in by the FBI to take out a hostile local militia and recover hostages from their base within a salt mine. He ventures into the mine and incapacitates several of the militia men. The Flash reaches the train and fights with Mirror Master, who eludes him using holograms. Meanwhile, Bane defeats Bruce Wayne, claiming that he will "break the man" behind Batman. Mirror Master lures the Flash into a trap which forces a bomb to be bolted onto his wrist. The bomb will detonate if the Flash decelerates from super-speed, and so he begins running to prevent the detonation. Ma'alefa'ak reveals that he laced J'onn's drink with a substance poisonous to Martians. It forces him to revert to his true form and causes him to sweat magnesium from his pores. Ma'alefa'ak lights him on fire, burning painfully without dying and with no way to put it out. Meanwhile, Lois Lane calls Clark Kent: a recently laid-off Daily Planet reporter is preparing to jump from the top of the Daily Planet building. Clark changes into Superman to try to save him. Green Lantern manages to save the hostages in the salt mine. Cheetah scratches Wonder Woman, infecting her with some sort of drug which causes her to hallucinate; every person she lays eyes on looks and sounds like Cheetah. Superman tries to talk the ex-Daily Planet reporter out of jumping, but he holds a gun to his head. Green Lantern ventures into the salt mine to rescue one last hostage and briefly hallucinates that a bulldozer is some sort of monster. He finds one last militia man holding a woman hostage, who promptly kills both himself and the hostage in an explosion. Green Lantern is distraught over his failure to save the hostage, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Carol Ferris, a.k.a. Star Sapphire, even sharing her first name. Star Sapphire appears to prey on Green Lantern's guilt over his failure and his treatment of her in the past. Overwhelmed by fear of misusing his powers and by self-doubt, he relinquishes his ring and changes back into Hal Jordan. Superman seems to talk the ex-employee out of killing himself and attempts to take his gun away from him. However, the ex-employee is actually Metallo, who uses the gun to shoot Superman in the chest with a kryptonite bullet. He taunts Superman as he topples off the top of the Daily Planet building to the street below. Bruce Wayne awakens buried alive inside a casket alongside his father's body as a voice message from Bane taunts him. He attempts to escape the casket using his car keys. Meanwhile, at the Hall of Doom, the Legion of Doom celebrates their victory over the Justice League. Ma'alefa'ak inquires about Vandal Savage's plans now that the League has been disposed of. Vandal Savage reveals that he was a caveman 80,000 years ago who was mutated by a meteorite, gaining heightened intelligence and immortality. Five thousand years later, a cataclysm nearly wiped out humanity and Savage took over, helping to repopulate the planet and ruling as a tyrant. Disgusted with the current state of humanity, he hopes to replicate that cataclysm by killing half of the earth's population and establishing a new world order for the remaining half by offering comfort and stability. He wants the other members of the Legion of Doom to serve as his "warlords" to help him rule the planet, and they seem to agree. Bruce Wayne finally frees himself from the casket and returns to the Batcave. Cyborg attempts to help Wonder Woman, who is fighting police officers due to her hallucination. She mistakes Cyborg for the real Cheetah and attacks. He tries to explain that she was infected with nanites that are causing the hallucination; since Wonder Woman never backs down from a fight they are designed to keep her going until she eventually suffers a heart attack or is simply killed in the fighting. After a struggle, Cyborg disables the nanites and frees Wonder Woman from the hallucination. Alfred informs Batman that Superman has been shot and he takes off in the Batwing while contacting Wonder Woman and Cyborg. Batman appears to know exactly what needs to be done to stop each of the maladies affecting the League: he directs the Flash to deposit the bomb in an iceberg, where it explodes harmlessly; he has Wonder Woman inject J'onn with aluminum oxide to negate the magnesium in his system; he visits Hal Jordan in the mine and reveals that the whole scenario was an elaborate trap involving androids and the Scarecrow's fear gas; and he helps Cyborg and J'onn operate on Superman to remove the kryptonite bullet. The Justice League and Cyborg meet in the Watchtower and they remark on how all the weapons used against them seemed perfectly tailored to their physiology and psychology. Batman reveals that he is the one responsible for devising the various plans, shocking the other members of the League. Some of the League views this as a violation of their trust, but Batman explains that he created these contingency plans in the event that a member of the League turned evil or succumbed to mind control. He further explains that his plans were meant to immobilize or incapacitate, not to kill, and whoever stole his plans modified them to become more lethal. He reveals that he figured out that Mirror Master was the one who stole his plans and the League realizes that whoever Mirror Master was working for also gave the extradimensional device to the Royal Flush Gang. Batman tracks a signal from his stolen files to the Hall of Doom, located in Louisiana. Vandal Savage explains his plan to the Legion of Doom: he will launch a magnetic missile at the sun, which will cause a solar flare to strike the earth, killing at least half the population and rendering all electrical technology useless. The Justice League and Cyborg arrive to stop them and a battle ensues. During the fight, Cyborg tries to abort the missile launch, but Savage prevents him from doing so. As the League defeat the members of the Legion, the missile launches. Superman flies after it to try to stop it, but the missile launches smaller cluster missiles, one of which manages to hit the sun. Green Lantern uses his ring to form a massive shield to halt the advance of the solar flare, giving the Justice League time to determine how to stop it. Cyborg figures out that Vandal Savage intended to use a version of the intangibility device he gave to the Royal Flush Gang to protect himself from the flare's effects. In fact, the Hall of Doom is a giant version of the device, and Cyborg believes it can be used to protect the entire planet. The League wastes no time: Superman lifts the Hall of Doom into low orbit and the rest of the League uses energy from the Watchtower to power the device. As Green Lantern's shield collapses, the League renders the entire planet intangible and the solar flare passes harmlessly, thus saving the world. The League holds a meeting to take care of matters: Superman reveals that Vandal Savage was convicted of crimes against humanity by the World Court and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. He also formally welcomes Cyborg, the newest member of the Justice League. The final matter at hand is a vote to decide whether Batman should be allowed to stay in the League after his breach of trust. In his defense Batman says that he does not regret devising his contingency plans and believes that the Justice League could be the greatest threat to the world if they ever went out of control, necessitating a failsafe. He leaves of his own volition when it becomes apparent to him that the other members of the League do not share his viewpoint. Before he leaves, Superman speaks to Batman and discovers that the plan Vandal Savage devised to dispose of him was not one of his own. However, Batman points out that he considers the League itself to be the countermeasure to himself. Satisfied with this answer, Superman gives Batman a piece of kryptonite to use if he ever goes rogue; he notes that Batman is the only person he feels he can entrust it to. The film ends as Batman teleports back to earth, sharing a silent farewell with Superman.
Details
- NETWORK: N/A
- DATE: 2012
- RUNNING TIME: 1:16:44
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 107241
- GENRE: Animation
- SUBJECT HEADING: Animation
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Sam Register … Executive Producer
- Bruce Timm … Executive Producer
- Lauren Montgomery … Producer, Director
- Alan Burnett … Co-Producer
- Michael Macasero … Associate Producer
- Andrea Romano … Voice Direction
- Suenaga Kouichi … Animation Director
- Noguchi Hiroaki … Animation Director
- Takasu Miyako … Animation Director
- Takata Yoichi … Animation Director
- Michihata Yoshinobu … Animation
- Nishi Mayuko … Animation
- Shirai Yumiko … Animation
- Osabe Shuta … Animation
- Tomobe Natsumi … Animation
- Tatara Risa … Animation
- Ono Asahi … Animation
- Saito Miyuki … Animation
- Miura Atsuya … Animation
- Watanabe Sumio … Animation
- Takayama Tomoya … Animation
- Hattori Ichiro … Animation
- Aobachi Yoshinobu … Animation
- Urata Yukihiro … Animation
- Ishii Tetsuya … Animation
- Oda Taeko … Animation
- Usuta Yoshio … Animation
- Awai Shigeki … Animation
- Morishita Shogo … Animation
- Hosoyama Masaki … Animation
- Takahashi Noboru … Animation
- Takahashi Chiharu … Animation
- Hatano Yoshiaki … Animation
- Mizuno Yoshiaki … Animation
- Hachizaki Kenji … Animation
- Hattori Shinkiro … Animation
- Washida Toshiya … Animation
- Sato Michio … Animation
- Matsumoto Masayo … Animation
- Kado Tomoaki … Animation
- Yamashina Wakana … Animation
- Kusunose Toshifumi … Animation
- Tanaka Hironori … Animation
- Nii Hirotaka … Animation
- Yamano Masaaki … Animation
- Furumata Taichi … Animation
- Hashimoto Masanori … Animation
- Hasegawa Fumika … Animation
- National Television, LLC … Main Title Animation
- Dwayne McDuffie … Writer
- Christopher Drake … Music by
- Kevin Conroy … Voice, Batman
- Tim Daly … Voice, Superman
- Susan Eisenberg … Voice, Wonder Woman
- Nathan Fillion … Voice, Green Lantern
- Carl Lumbly … Voice, Martain Manhunter, Ma'alefa'ak
- Michael Rosenbaum … Voice, Flash
- Bumper Robinson … Voice, Cyborg
- Claudia Black … Voice, Cheetah
- Carlos Alazraqui … Voice, Bane
- Paul Blackthorne … Voice, Metallo
- Olivia d'Abo … Voice, Star Sapphire
- Alexis Denisof … Voice, Mirror Master
- Phil Morris … Voice, Vandal Savage
- Dee Bradley Baker … Voice, Officer in Charge
- Grey DeLisle … Voice , Lois Lane, Queen
- Robin Atkin Downes … Voice, Alfred
- Brian George … Voice, Mayor
- Danny Jacobs … Voice, Agent Porter
- David Kaufman … Voice, Jimmy Olsen
- Juliet Landau … Voice, Ten
- Jim Meskimen … Voice, King
- Andrea Romano … Voice, Batcomputer
- Bruce Timm … Voice, Ace