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The Justice League is an organization comprised of the world's greatest superheroes. Together, they operate as a team dedicated to fighting crime and injustice, and act as Earth's first line of defense from terrestrial, extra-terrestrial and inter-dimensional threats.
History
Formation
New 52 Origin
The Justice League was formed early after the appearance of superheroes when the villain Darkseid attempted an invasion of Earth.
As Parademons swarmed the planet, newly introduced allies Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Superman teamed up to reduce the damage. Wonder Woman (on a diplomatic tour of Washington D.C.), Aquaman (whose kingdom was also under attack), and Cyborg (created by one of Darkseid's exploded Fatherboxes) also joined in the fight. The group of seven heroes repelled Darkseid and his forces back to Apokolips, and the world was beyond grateful for their cooperation. The heroes decided, in the interest of protecting the Earth, they would form an official team—calling themselves "the Super Seven."
This name would quickly be changed to the widely more recognized name "the Justice League," coined by author David Graves.
Following the cosmic upheavals of the Rebirth period, the history of the League was revised. While Darkseid's invasion may still have taken place, it logically must have happened differently than originally depicted.
Current Origin
The Justice League was formed early after the modern age of superheroes began. While the team's actual first meeting is debated, prime amongst the contenders involved the heroes who would eventually comprise the League, including Wonder Woman, the Flash, and the Martian Manhunter facing off against an unidentified aggressor, resulting in them nearly being turned into trees before eventually emerging victorious.[3]
Early Adventures and later iterations
The Justice League would work together to stop other invading forces, with one of their most prominent takedowns being Starro the Conqueror.[4] With the Martian Manhunter, the League fought the Weapons Master; other early foes of the group included Professor Anthony Ivo and his Amazo android.[5] The young Leaguer Cyborg, feeling out of place among his older teammates, would leave to join his peers in the Teen Titans,[6] while the Green Arrow, among the League's first non-founding members, formed many close relationships within the team, including with his future partner the Black Canary.[7] The League was magically controlled by the fingers of Felix Faust,[8] teamed up with their predecessors the Justice Society of America,[3] encountered the alien warlord Queen Bee, who forced the League to do her bidding,[9] and fought Doctor Destiny, a supervillain armed with the Dreamstone, with Hawkman, another new member.[10] The team grew significantly in its "Satellite" incarnation, taking on the Atom, Elongated Man, Red Tornado, Zatanna, and Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond/Martin Stein).[3] This iteration of the League fought against Libra, an ally of Darkseid,[11] the returned Doctor Destiny,[12] and the Titans' foes the Church of Blood.[13]
The Justice League worked with Doctors Bruce Gordon and Mona Bennett to construct and defend "Solar City," a clean-energy installation meant to promote alternatives to fossil fuels. The League provided Gordon with the personal effects of the villain Doctor Light, including unbeknownst to them, a Golden Diamond which allowed the demon Eclipso to escape the Black Diamond in which he was imprisoned aboard the Justice League Satellite. The next day, the League gathered there to watch a total solar eclipse, which Eclipso took advantage of to strike against them, possessing the Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Atom and turning them against their teammates. While the rest of the League fought off their friends, the Red Tornado, immune to Eclipso's control, confronted him, but was defeated and fled the satellite to seek help from the Justice Society. At the same time, Bruce Gordon, also under Eclipso's control, fired on the Justice League Satellite with a light cannon.[14]
For a time, the Justice League was reconfigured into a team based in Detroit,[15] and succeeded by a new incarnation, the Justice League International.[16] The original League later reformed with Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Connor Hawke—the current Flash, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow—and other new members such as Aztek,[17] Plastic Man,[16] and Tomorrow Woman—the last in reality a creation of Professor Ivo meant to infiltrate and destroy the League.[18] This JLA exposed the false heroes of the Hyperclan as malevolent White Martians,[19] was defeated due to Batman's distrust of his teammates,[16] and was replaced by a roster of stand-in Leaguers: Nightwing, the original Green Arrow, the Atom, Hawkgirl, Jason Blood, Faith, and Major Disaster.[7] Hawkgirl would join the main lineup of yet another iteration of the League that also included Black Lightning, Vixen, and the Red Arrow,[19] former sidekick of the Green Arrow.[20] Eventually, long-time JSA affiliate Jade would also become a member.[21] They would also use many different headquarters over time, such as Mount Justice's Secret Sanctuary near Happy Harbor,[22] the Justice League Satellite in orbit,[16] the Hall of Justice in Washington DC,[23] and at least one previous iteration of the Watchtower based on the moon[24] before finally ending up operating out of the the orbital Watchtower satellite.[25]
New 52
The Villain's Journey
Main article: Justice League: The Villain's Journey
Though often a core member of the League, the Martian Manhunter eventually left under mysterious circumstances after confusion and mystery regarding his origins resulted in a brawl between him and his teammates. Years later, the Justice League was still an active force of justice, with its roster consistent with many of its founders. The hero Green Arrow tried to audition for the team, but the League rejected his application because of their recent failure with the Manhunter.[25]
The writer who gave the Justice League their name years earlier David Graves, having since gained superpowers and a resentment for heroes since the team's formation, became the super-villain Graves. Graves sought to bring down the League and, in order to get information on them, hunted down and tortured their enemies and loved ones.[4]
With enough information and a plan in place, Graves attacked the League's headquarters—an orbiting satellite called the Watchtower.[26] As part of his plan, Graves broadcasted the League members fighting and bickering among themselves as they struggled to take him on, ruining the public's trust in the super group.[27] Though the League managed to finally defeat Graves at Mount Sumeru, the damage to their reputation had been done. In order to save the group some face, Green Lantern resigned, taking much but not all of the blame with him.
In an altered version of history, after this, members Superman and Wonder Woman began a romantic relationship.[28] However, this was eventually erased from the timeline.
Throne of Atlantis
Main article: Throne of Atlantis
A portion of the Justice League was forced into action when Aquaman's half brother Ocean Master declared war on the surface world by attempting to drown Gotham City and Metropolis. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman attempted to reduce the damage and deescalate the situation.
Orm, having initiated the war by falsely believing that the surface world had attacked Atlantis first unprovoked, as commanded his army onto dry land to invade. Orm also sentenced the members of the Justice League to imprisonment in the Trench.
Aquaman was forced to rescue his teammates from the Trench while Cyborg and a collection of some of Earth's other heroes fended off the invaders. When Aquaman returned with the rest of the League, he forced Ocean Master's surrender and reclaimed his throne as king of Atlantis to stop the war. The League discovered that the whole conflict—including the false flag attack on Atlantis—had actually been orchestrated by Aquaman's mentor Vulko to have Arthur return to his kingdom.
During the conflict, the Justice League would deputize a group of heroes as "Reserve Members," not granting them full membership but an officially designated alliance. These heroes were: Element Woman, Green Arrow, Black Lightning, Shazam, Hawkman, Vixen, Zatanna, Goldrush, Black Canary and Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond/Jason Rusch).[29]
Trinity War
Main article: Trinity War
As the Justice League accrued more and more political power with every victory, Amanda Waller organized her own anti-Justice League team to work for the government in the event they were ever needed to bring down the real deal. This team would be confusingly named the Justice League of America. While the Justice League was recruiting new reserve members, Waller had Atomica join their ranks as a spy for her own JLA.
When Justice League member Shazam broke a no-fly rule over the country of Kahndaq to respectfully scatter his enemy Black Adam's ashes, Waller used the political opportunity to send her Justice League of America in to flex their strength against the League.
The confrontation escalated and eventually led to violence between the heroes, and, in the skirmish, Superman seemed to kill JLA member Doctor Light, only worsening the tension.
While this conflict was going on, the mysterious woman Pandora floated between heroes, asking for them to open her box and hopefully contain the evil within the world. This important decision with Pandora only compounded with the already high anxiety between the two teams, and, to make matters worse, the Justice League Dark inserted themselves into the discussion too. The three Justice Leagues couldn't seem to all get on the same page and went to war with one another, pitting hero against hero about what to do with Pandora's Box.
However, at the end of the conflict, all the heroes realized they had been duped by the Outsider of Earth 3, who used the box as a portal to bring the Crime Syndicate to Earth to conquer it.
Forever Evil
Main article: Forever Evil
After the Crime Syndicate, an evil alter-reality version of the Justice League, invaded Earth, they quickly defeated their heroic counterparts and trapped them within the Firestorm Matrix to rule the world unabated. The only members of the Justice League to escape their imprisonment were Batman and Cyborg, the latter of which had all of his cybernetic parts ripped from him by a sentient AI system.
Thanks to a team of rogue supervillains calling themselves the In justice League, the Crime Syndicate was defeated, and the League was freed.
Lex Luthor's Justice League
As compensation for their heroism in the crisis (and a little extortion), former villains Lex Luthor and Captain Cold were invited to join the League as official members. They accepted, and Luthor immediately went over all their heads and made the political decision to invite Shazam to join as a full time member as well.
After the League ran into conflict with the Doom Patrol for who would be able to recruit the new Power Ring, the League won out, and Jessica Cruz was added to the League roster as well, with the promise that they would teach her to control her new powers.[30]
The League experienced a crisis when a failed assassination attempt on Luthor's life at LexCorp accidentally released an experimental pathogen onto Metropolis. Though the virus was meant to suppress superpowers in violent crimes, it removed all but the most invulnerable's powers in the city and gave superpowers to otherwise powerless people. Expediting the pandemonium, people who received powers, mostly civilians, would die from the virus in a matter of time.
The Justice League attempted to contain the damage of the Amazo Virus, but their members continued to drop out due to infection. They were forced to fight patient zero of the virus, but, after Luthor synthesized a cure using Superman's resistant Kryptonian blood, he was able to administer it to the rest of the city and end the pandemic.[31]
New Direction
The Justice League went on a brief hiatus as all its members coincidentally went in drastic new directions in their lives—Batman died, was resurrected, and was replaced by Jim Gordon, Superman lost a majority of his powers and was slowly dying, Aquaman was kicked out of his kingdom and had become an outlaw, etc.
However, when a giant skeleton was discovered in the Himalayas, the Justice League reconvened to investigate. Without their ace detective Batman, the heroes recruited Gordon—who believed he was out of his league working with... the League, to help them with his detective skills. The team included Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, Batman (Jim Gordon), The Flash and Shazam.
The Justice League found the answer to the giant skeletons in the mountains—actual giants. The heroes tried to fight them off, but when Gordon noticed they were emotional creatures trying to protect each other, he sang them a lullaby to calm them down and end the conflict.[32]
The Leaguers would go back to focusing on their own lives, rarely meeting up while until their stories, predictably, eventually went back to the status quo.
Rao
The Justice League, back to their normal selves, reformed as the core seven founding members when they encountered the Kryptonian god-figure Rao, having arrived on Earth with his disciples. Rao went around the Earth performing miracles, including terraforming Africa. Though Rao intended his acts to be charitable, governments across the world worried at being deemed unnecessary by the god.
The Justice League split up to handle different aspects of Rao and his followers' alterations, with Green Lantern Hal Jordan and the Flash going back into time to Krypton to investigate more against the mysterious man. The heroes realize Rao's malicious intentions, hoping to terraform the entire Earth and use Kryptonian DNA to populate the plan with a new race of ultra Kryptonians to worship him.
Though Rao's plan makes a lot of progress, affecting a huge number of the population, the Justice League fight back and attempt to undo his damage. Rao died in the ensuing fight, and the conflict was over.
Darkseid War
Main article: Justice League: The Darkseid War
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Rebirth
Main article: DC Rebirth
After the apparent death of Superman, the Justice League regrouped, adding the two Green Lanterns Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz to their roster.
In New 52 Continuity, Superman died and then was replaced by his New Earth counterpart on the league. However, as a result of Superman Reborn, their histories were merged, and they became one person. As such, Superman did not truly 'die' in this incident, though the events seemingly still occurred.
The new team's first mission together was a worldwide threat: alien parasites were invading major cities and abducting people while cosmic entities called the Kindred spoke of the end of the world. The Justice League tried to reduce the damage across the world but realized that the alien invaders were trying to save lives from the impending apocalypse rather than start it themselves. As the immediate conflict drew to a close, the Justice League were forced to prepare for the alleged end of the world.[33]
Jessica Cruz temporarily left the team after a fear entity infected them all and made them play into their deepest anxieties. Though Jessica used her Lantern ring to overpower and destroy the entity, she felt, after the fact, that she wasn't ready to be a part of such an impressive team.[34]
The Justice League also had to deal with a computer virus that hacked into Cyborg and forced their orbital Watchtower to collapse to Earth, as well as hacked the Batcave and Simon Baz's Lantern ring. The virus was created by good-intentioned hacktivist James Palmer, whose technology was accidentally co-opted by his children, not realizing they had been using it to destroy the League. The situation had gotten so dire as to have accidentally put a huge bounty on the League's heads, sending a swarm of villains to their location to collect, but the heroes defeated them and got the computer virus under control.[35]
Justice League vs. The Suicide Squad
Jessica Cruz rejoined the Justice League, and Batman informed the team of the existence of Amanda Waller's covert super-villain labor team the Suicide Squad. The Justice League was disgusted by what they learned and interfered in one of the Squad's missions, wanting to disband the outfit. Though the League managed to overpower most of the Squad, Waller activated the aces up her sleeve and used the Enchantress and Killer Frost to ultimately defeat the heroes.
The Justice League were transported to Belle Reve and kept in containment, almost forced to join the Squad themselves. However, when Maxwell Lord freed the original Suicide Squad from their isolated maximum security cells to help him secure the Heart of Darkness, Waller had her current Squad team up with the League to stop him.
The mission went awry, and Lord successfully activated the Heart of Darkness to become the newest host of Eclipso. He infected a majority of the Justice League under his spell, leaving Batman and the Suicide Squad to fight his forces as he took over the White House. Killer Frost, again, showed the strength of her power and was the lynch pin in finally defeating Lord.
In the aftermath, the Justice League agreed to tolerate the Suicide Squad—which, as it was revealed, was secretly Amanda Waller's plan all along, having manipulated Lord to execute every step of his plan. Batman, believing the world needed a new super group with the strength of both the League and the Squad, formed the newest iteration of the Justice League of America.
Out of Time
The Justice League went on another time travelling adventure, being tasked by a girl named Molly the Keeper to stop a race of time entities called the Timeless. The Justice League were dispersed across the time stream until they realized that Molly had tricked them and instead intended to destroy Earth's heroes. The League came back together and ultimately stopped Molly.[36]
After a few more smaller adventures, Aquaman's fiancé Mera joined the team in his place, as Arthur was indisposed with his own problems.
Soon after, the League was visited by their time-displaced children from 20 years in the future—Cruise Jason and Jenny Allen, the children of Barry Allen and Jessica Cruz, Cube, the son of Cyborg, Hunter Prince, the son of Wonder Woman and Serenity, the daughter of Aquaman and Mera. Their children requested their help in stopping an entity that wrecked their future called the Darkness as well as the Sovereign, Aquaman's evil future self.[37]
The Discovery of the Dark Multiverse
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Justice Lost
The Justice League began to lose public favor when the American government put them on trial to investigate their unregulated autonomy; their case was not strengthened when one of their super fans dressed up like Batman and murdered an investigator.[38] Cyborg stepped up as leader of the League[24] and tried his best to relieve tensions politically, though this was borderline fruitless.
Things only continued to get worse. The Justice League and the Justice League of America teamed up to save a portion of a city after a train collision, but, despite trying to save as many lives as possible by focusing on the district in the most imminent danger, by total coincidence, this made the Justice League appear to prioritize saving only the rich residents. Class-action lawsuits began to spring up in the US over people who felt they were not fairly saved by the Justice League.
Also, the Justice League Watchtower again fell to Earth, landing in Africa and destroying their reputation there. The Justice League was forced to defend their technology from African warlord Red Lion, who wanted to use their tech to wage war on other African nations. Red Lion, not giving up on his powerplay, attempted to extort the US government for a large sum of money for their connection to the Justice League and how poorly they were perceived to be handling the conflict in Africa. The Justice League were forced to pull out of Africa and accept that they were incapable of solving all the world's issues.
No Justice
After the Source Wall was broken by the Justice League as they tried to harness Element X,[39] the entire Green Lantern Corps tried to seal it back together but ultimately was not able to fix it. The villain Brainiac came to Earth and collected heroes and villains to battle the Omega Titans. The Titans were released from the crack in the wall to devour entire planets: in particular—his home world of Colu. Brainiac created four teams; one to stop each Titan. Entropy, Mystery, Wisdom and Wonder.[40]
Brainiac paired the Justice League up with heroes and villains from other teams in what he analyzed would be the best groupings to defeat each of the four Omega Titans. However, before Brainiac could lead them all in the fight, his head exploded due to Amanda Waller accidentally overloading him with a collection of Earth's strongest psychic users to learn more about his plan. Without a unifying leader, the four branches of the Justice League—Entropy, Mystery, Wisdom and Wonder—touched down on Colu.[40]
The Justice League struggled to understand how to stop the Wisdom Titan from destroying Colu, and decided to follow their nodes to the four Trees and restart the dying three energies to bring balance to Colu. At the Tree of Wonder, Superman and Sinestro discovered ten thousand stolen shrunken worlds. And having broken into the Ultra Penitence Prison; Batman and Deathstroke freed the prisoners held within, creating Entropy, until in the center of the prison they released Brainiac 2.0.[41]
Brainiac 2.0's demand was: change Brainiac's plan. Brainiac 1.0 would have used the heroes to rule Colu by siphoning their power and diverting the Omega Titans to Earth. Instead the heroes continued to rejuvenate the weaker Trees, and Cyborg weakened the Tree of Wisdom.
The weakened Trees were reignited, but it was all too late, as the Wisdom Titan opened his armor, and engulfed the planet.[42] Brainiac 2.0 was livid and left the League stranded to ensure that the Earth met the same fate as Colu.
The Justice League returned to Earth to find that Brainiac I had planted a Cosmic seed there, and the Omega Titans followed. Unsure how to stop them from consuming their world, Cyborg realized the way to defeat them was to supercharge the Tree of Entropy's Cosmic Seed and implant it within the hungry Entropy Titan. Once Green Arrow had fired it into the Titan, his three brothers could not resist the need to feast upon him and Entropy was destroyed; his brothers: satiated; and Earth: saved.[43]
The Totality
The Justice League, once again, updated its roster after the world was saved, adding Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl and John Stewart as members. Without their Watchtower, the League set up their new official base in the recently rebuilt Hall of Justice.
Lex Luthor, having returned to villainy after discovering the cosmic strength of entropy in the galaxy and how, in the future, he would be revered as a martyr for his commitment to doom in the "age of heroes," assembled a new team of all the League's greatest villains to specifically counter them, calling it "the Legion of Doom." The Justice League and Legion clashes over controlling a cosmic force called the Totality, though the League managed to take it for themselves.[44]
The Legion of Doom organized for the Triumvirate of Sea Gods to invade the Earth in an attempt to literally and metaphorically drown it. With Aquaman leading the charge, the Justice League fought to take down the gods and stop them from also turning Earth's citizens into sea monsters. Utilizing this as a diversion, the Legion of Doom assaulted the Hall of Justice, with only Batman as guardian inside, and took back the Totality.[45] Also, Aquaman seemingly sacrificed himself to end the attack of the Triumvirate and Manta, leaving the League without a member. Then, Mera accepted to take his place. [46]
During this event, three of the League's members were away in an intergalactic mission: the Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl and Green Lantern Corps member John Stewart went to Thanagar Prime, so that they could meet The Keep and find more information about both the Totality, Hawkgirl's connection to it and the true role of the Green Martian race. Once there, they discovered the universe was allied against Earth, as humans were about to uncover a secret that could extinguish all reality. They found out that inside the Totality resided Perpetua, mother to a Multiverse who was predecessor to the one they lived in. The Guardians of the Universe hid all the truths leading to her, because if she was going to come back, reality would be doomed.
But the actions of Humans on Earth were going to unleash her, and so Thanagar was preparing to destroy Earth itself. Also, The Keep revealed to J'onn that Humans and Green Martians were once merged by Perpetua to create an army of perfect predatory warriors. To prevent an intergalactic crisis, the rest of the League intervened and got to Thanagar Prime, helping out their comrades and calming the situation down. Starman, now recovered from damage, also tells Kendra that she's ready, after being reconciled with Shayera, to fulfill her role: repairing the Source Wall.[47]
The Sixth Dimension
Trying to find a way to fix the Multiverse, the Justice League was able to trap Mr. Mxyzptlk inside the Black Diamond, with Martian Manhunter holding the Imp's powers off. Soon though, Mxy demonstrated them they could not hold him off, but understood they called him to ask for help. Moving inside the Hall of Justice, the Imp explained them that the Fifth Dimension was part of the Multiverse as well, and it broke just like everything else. Their only option might be to travel into the Sixth Dimension, an higher dimensional plane where beings like Perpetua and her sons were from. The Imp told them the true story of the first Multiverse, and then revealed he charged Superman with Fifth Dimensional energy since he first met him to prepare him for this travel.
Superman entered the portal to the Sixth Dimension, and instants later came back, older and changed: revealing them he found the solution to defeat Perpetua in the Sixth Dimension, Clark invited all his comrades to join him, and so they all moved there.[48] Once inside, they found an utopian paradise, where Justice won and everything was perfect. Soon though, thanks to Shayne, son of J'onn and Kendra in this impossible future, the League found out the real Superman was imprisoned, and the World Forger was the one talking to them instead.[49] The Forger knew that with Perpetua returning, the Multiverse would be doomed and probably judged unworthy by the Source, so he created an alternative Multiverse right there, in the Sixth Dimension, to overwrite the current one.
In this Multiverse, everyone who refused Justice was killed or locked up in prison. It was a perfect Multiverse, maybe worthy of being saved by the Source. Superman was locked up, because in all the alternate paths the Forger explored, it was him who stopped Alpheus from realizing his plan, while Batman was the one to approve it. And the Dark Knight did so, while the other members of the League where jailed in a maxi-prison. As the Forger told Batman that Mxyzptlk was following his directions, undoing reality in their Multiverse right now, the other Leaguers were helped by the surviving members of the Legion of Doom to escape, and tried to fight both the Forger and Batman to stop the overwriting of reality.[50]
Then, Batman double-crossed the Forger, giving Superman a chance to come back, empowered by thousands of suns. Thanks to his power, Superman was able to knock out the Forger and shatter his utopia. The League then convinced the Forger to try another route: the one of joining them actively in the fight against his mother, Perpetua.[51]
The Justice / Doom War
Back from the Sixth Dimension, the League found out Luthor and his Legion used the attack of Mxyzptlk to erase reality as propaganda, so that Luthor could convince most of the planet to side with Doom. The campaign to turn the Multiverse into a follower of Doom was started, and was the final key to complete the awakening of Perpetua. The League had to counter the actions of the Legion, so the World Forger suggested to find and recruit both his brothers, the Monitor and Anti-Monitor. Both of them joined him in the past, to lock away Perpetua in the Source Wall. For their love of the Multiverse, the Forger thought they could do the same.[51]
On Nil, the League found the Monitor who, without success, was trying to contact once again the Source for help. He accepted to join forces with the League,[52] who also tried to find the Anti-Monitor on Qward: once there, they found a message of Mobius, who told to not follow him or search for him.[53] Coming back with only one of the brothers, Starman had a plan of his own: create two portals, one for the future and one for the past, to find ang bring to the present two shards of the Totality which fell into Hypertime. With them, together with Starman's own piece inside his Cosmic Rod, the League would create a Justice Totality to rival the one in possession of the Legion. Meanwhile, J'onn J'onzz was tricked by Lex Luthor, who trapped him and absorbed him into his own body, becoming the Apex Predator.
As the Forger and the Monitor stabilized the two portals, Flash and John Stewart went to the past, while Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman went to the future. As soon as they entered the portals though, a mysterious masked man got into the Hall and entered the portal to the past, telling them they were going to lose. After this man entered, both portals collapsed.[54] Starman, sure that he would be able to bring everyone back once they got the shards, decided to leave together with the Forger and the Monitor, travelling to the edge of the Multiverse, where they thought the Anti-Monitor might be. Both Hawkgirl and Shayne came with them, as the power of the Raptor stored in Kendra's wings was key to the success of Starman's plan.
Meanwhile, John and Barry met the Justice Society of America in the past: the group gave them a hand, fighting together against Sinestro, Grodd and Cheetah in Pearl Harbor, as the Totality shard was stored inside one of the ships part of the fleet stationed there.[55] After getting back the piece of the Totality, Aquaman appeared, revealing himself to be the intruder who entered the portals back in the Hall. Telling them he was working with the Anti-Monitor, Arthur suggested to use the Conch of Arion to launch the Totality shard to the present. In the future, at the same time, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, together with Kamandi, battled against Brainiac One Million, but were able to defeat him and collect their shard.
At the edge of the Multiverse, the League found the Anti-Monitor, who accepted to become part of the alliance of Justice. Combining himself with his brothers, they became the Ultra-Monitor, and started fighting against Perpetua. As Starman, connecting with his past and future versions, was able to reunite all the shard of the Totality, bringing everyone back, Hawkgirl had to use her power to seal Perpetua away again. But Kendra, with too much bloodlust for Luthor because of what he did to J'onn, failed to capitalize, distracted by Lex, and condemned the League to a defeat, and Starman to his death.[56][57][58] Getting back to the Hall of Justice and witnessing the betrayal of the Anti-Monitor, who sided with Perpetua, the League reunited all its members to get ready for the final confrontation against Luthor.[59]
As the forces of Doom arrived in front of the Hall, all the heroes fought, and even Martian Manhunter came back thanks to the sacrifice of his son, Shayne. But it wasn't enough: even after a plea to the whole Multiverse, the living beings of every planet still sided mostly with Doom, allowing Perpetua and Luthor to win. As Perpetua stroke down all the core members of the League, they were secretly transported to the Moon by the Quintessence, who gave them a chance to gather the Anti-Crisis energy to try and attack Perpetua.[60][61][62] But the mission failed, and once back to Earth, they found their planet turned into the Metalverse, an apocalyptic world ruled by Perpetua's new right hand, the Batman who Laughs.[63]
Return of the Dark Multiverse
Main article: Dark Nights: Death Metal
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Infinite Frontier
Main article: Infinite Frontier
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Dark Crisis
Main article: Dark Crisis
Many of the Leaguers were suddenly taken to the Hall of Heroes by the Justice League Incarnate, who revealed that they needed their help to defeat Pariah and the Great Darkness. The Great Darkness then attacked the Hall, and Doctor Multiverse teleported the heroes to Multiverse-2 where they found Pariah working to help the Great Darkness enter the Multiverse. Pariah summoned the Dark Army, a team of villains enslaved by the Darkness, to attack the Leagues. As they fought the Army, they discovered that the villains were not their usual selves, instead fighting purely by brute strength.[64]
During the fight, Black Adam attacked Darkseid, freeing him from the Great Darkness. Darkseid tried to explain to the Leaguers how to defeat the Darkness, but was taken back by it before he could complete his revelation. Green Arrow shot an explosive arrow into Pariah's chamber, destroying it and causing the Dark Army to vanish, but not before Doomsday seemingly killed the Arrow. The Trinity then tried to attack Pariah, but were annihilated by him with a wave of energy. The rest of the League soon met the same fate, with the exception of Black Canary and Black Adam, the latter of whom tried to attack Pariah, surviving only by calling down the lightning of Shazam, striking them both, and transporting Adam back to Earth 0. There, he told the heroes that the Justice League was dead.[64]
After the revelation of their deaths, a funeral was held for the Justice League. Multiple super-villains around the world started exploiting the gap left by the League to strike, including Deathstroke's Secret Society. Superman (Jon Kent) decided to reform the Justice League, recruiting members and presenting his new team to Black Adam: Supergirl, Doctor Light, Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), Frost, Frankenstein, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Aquaman (Jackson Hyde), Robin (Damian Wayne) and Harley Quinn. Adam criticized the line-up, pointing out its flaws,[65] but led this new version of the League in fighting Deathstroke's forces around the world, though it would soon disband over disagreements with his leadership.[66] Meanwhile, Hal Jordan and Barry Allen traveled into Pariah's multiverse, looking to rescue the presumed-dead members of the League, who were in reality trapped in idealistic worlds and fueling a machine of Pariah's that would bring back the Infinite Multiverse.[67] While trapped in his utopic world, Superman became lucid, realizing that if he and the League focused on each other, their mental connections across worlds would free them together. The League appeared in Pariah's Base of Operations,[68] and returned to Earth 0 via Hal Jordan's Green Lantern Ring and Barry Allen's connection to the multiverse's vibrations, uniting with Earth's heroes to fight the Dark Army.[69]
With the defeat of the Dark Army, the League felt that they needed time to rethink what their team should be, officially disbanding and passing the torch to Nightwing. Tasked with leading the superhero community into the future,[70] he starting by reforming the Titans.[71]
A world without a Justice League
After the disbanding of the League, each of its members left to live their own lives,[72] with the Titans acted as the Earth's premier superhero team while receiving assistance from the world's other heroes, among them the former members of the League. As a consequence of the Titans' greatest crisis in this capacity, Amanda Waller and her Bureau of Sovereignty gained political power, occupying the Hall of Justice and rebranding it as the Hall of Order.[73] This, and many other events afflicting the superhero community were all part of a plan by Waller and the Council of Light to have absolute power over the world—culminating in the release of seven Amazo androids in the likenesses of the Justice League, who drained and took on the powers of heroes the world over.[74]
All-In
After defeating Waller and her Amazo army, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman confronted Green Arrow for his role in her plan. While Arrow admitted his plan was not a smart one, especially since the only other one who knew of this was the Martian Manhunter, he pointed out that the team being disbanded, thus taking out their major line of connection between heroes, was what caused everything to happen. To that end, the trio showed off their new plan starting with a new Watchtower.[75]
Over the next 52 days, the Watchtower was built and brand new membership cards, forged from technological, alien and magical means, were designed and handed out to everyone in the heroic metahuman community. This brand-new 'Justice League Unlimited would not just be a superhero team, but an outreach group, aiding in helping metas get used to their powers, especially as many of them had either gained new powers or had them switched in the aftermath of Waller's plans. The main room would host a blank membership card, signifying that anyone would be able to join.[76]
However, the celebrations would come to an end when the card began glowing red and mystic-based metas began talking in reverse before Darkseid, bonded with the Spectre via the Miracle Machine appeared, demanding to know the purpose of his life. During the battle, Zatanna was able to charm Superman so that he could free the Spectre into himself. Defying his fate, Darkseid thanked his foes before he was destroyed. This prompted the League into their first mission: learn more about the new universe that has taken shape.[76]
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- As of the New 52, the team's official name is now just "The Justice League." The Justice League of America was an entirely different, government sponsored team of heroes working under Amanda Waller.
- The League's history during the original New 52 was drastically different; originally, the team only ever consisted of the founding members, with a brief late addition of Martian Manhunter, who later left the team under violent circumstances. After the DC Rebirth era, this history was significantly altered to resemble that of the New Earth's.
See Also
- 715 Appearances of Justice League (Prime Earth)
- 311 Images that include Justice League (Prime Earth)
- Team Gallery: Justice League (Prime Earth)
Recommended Reading
Main article: Justice League Recommended Reading
Links and References
Footnotes
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #55
- ↑ Robin & Batman #2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 FCBD Dark Crisis Special Edition #0
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Justice League (Volume 2) #9
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #23
- ↑ Cyborg (Volume 3) #1
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Green Arrow (Volume 7) #7
- ↑ Batman vs. Robin #2
- ↑ Shazam! (Volume 5) #4
- ↑ Knight Terrors #1
- ↑ Deathstroke Inc. #4
- ↑ Knight Terrors: First Blood #1
- ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #2
- ↑ Batman/Superman: World's Finest #31
- ↑ Cyborg (Volume 3) #2
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Superman: Kal-El Returns Special #1
- ↑ Robin 2021 Annual (Volume 3) #1
- ↑ Green Arrow (Volume 7) #14
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Future State: Justice League #1
- ↑ Green Arrow (Volume 7) #10
- ↑ Infinite Frontier #3
- ↑ Young Justice (Volume 3) #20
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Justice League (Volume 3) #39
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Justice League (Volume 2) #8
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #10
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #11
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #12
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #16
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #30– #34
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #35– #39
- ↑ Detective Comics (Volume 2) #45– #46
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 3) #1– #5
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 3) #6– #7
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 3) #8– #11
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 3) #15– #19
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 3) #26– #31
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 3) #34– #38
- ↑ Dark Nights: Metal #6
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 Justice League: No Justice #1
- ↑ Justice League: No Justice #2
- ↑ Justice League: No Justice #3
- ↑ Justice League: No Justice #4
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #7
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #12
- ↑ Aquaman/Justice League: Drowned Earth #1
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #16
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #19
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #21
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #23
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 Justice League (Volume 4) #25
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #27
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #28
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #30
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #31
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #32
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #33
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #34
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #36
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #37
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #38
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #39
- ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal #1
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 Justice League (Volume 4) #75
- ↑ Dark Crisis #1
- ↑ Dark Crisis #3
- ↑ Dark Crisis #4
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #6
- ↑ Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7
- ↑ Nightwing (Volume 4) #100
- ↑ Green Arrow (Volume 7) #7
- ↑ Titans: Beast World #6
- ↑ Absolute Power #1
- ↑ Absolute Power #4
- ↑ 76.0 76.1 DC All In Special #1