Justice League: Doom

2012 • 76 minutes

About this movie

Featuring the voice talents of Nathan Fillion and Tim Daly, Justice League: Doom is based on Mark Waid's much-heralded JLA: Tower of Babel. When Vandal Savage discovers Batman's contingency plan to defeat the Justice League should any of them go rogue, he steals it and learns the secret weakness of each superhero. Savage then forms his own army of supervillains and begins taking out the Justice League one by one. His ultimate plan is to exterminate the greater part of the human population and start a new civilization. With the priceless knowledge of how to defeat the Justice League, Bane exhumes Batman's parents, exploiting the hero's emotions to distract him long enough to gain the upper hand. Cheetah attacks Wonder Woman, implanting microscopic machines that take control of her visual and auditory senses, forcing her to fight everyone she encounters.

Ratings and reviews

Easily one of the best DC stories brought to animation in my opinion... I'm not sure if this one's "officially" within the continuity of the long running DCAU, but it works as one. I actually see it as a great end/send off to the Justice League of that world... It's a great story that really highlights each hero's character - and the tension between Batman and the rest of the League's superpowered members that's always just under the service.

This was an awesome story line. This shows why batman is one of the most impressive heroes. He lacks super human ability but he is a masterful thinker. He encourages every fan to push themselves to the limit (at least after you stop watching movies and reading comics. The animation was not as impressive as Batman: Under the Red Hood or Superman/Shazam; those two were extreme eye-candy.

I knew where each of the contingency plans were going before they were executed to their fullest, for example, Mirror Master has an old lady as a hostage and the Flash must vibrate her through the plexiglass container that is being drained of oxygen. I guessed it was a hologram and was meant to get a bomb attached to the Flash, and sure enough, I was right. Oh well, Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, and Nathan Fillion give some stellar performances and the animation and story match that quality.