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The movie felt like Brightburn and the eerie feeling of helplessness in the face of such a powerful ruler was absolutely amazing.

The sense of dread became real for the first time and actually palpable, as Superman began taking revenge on the world, completely losing his ideals and his touch with humanity. This is where the movie becomes really, really dark and dwells into territory explored earlier in the Apokolips War animated movie, which is certainly one of the best DC animated movies ever made. The best part of the movie is the culmination of Superman’s break after he accidentally kills his father, Jonathan Kent. RELATED: 20 Best DC Animated Movies of All Time (RANKED).Now, this was expected – even if you didn’t know the plot of the video game – since it was quite obvious that Superman had lost it after Lois’ death, but even if you didn’t get that yourself, Batman and some other characters made sure you were aware of it in several scenes a couple of them might have been redundant and repetitive, but that wasn’t really a major issue with the film. Sure, his plan worked – wars ended in Afghanistan, the military government in Myanmar fled, North Korea was completely without nuclear weapons, and even the United States were completely neutralized – but what was the cost? The United Nations applauded his peace initiative, but as it turned out, and it quite often does when such great power is at play, what began as a pacifist crusade turned into a rule of fear. All of this, of course, happens because Superman lost it and wanted to impose world peace, no matter the price. Superman kills the Joker and becomes a tyrant, other heroes die under different circumstances and the Justice League we know is decimated and divided into Teams Batman and Superman.

The film starts off very strongly, showing you moments and scenes that you just wouldn’t expect from the characters we all know so well. Sadly, the Injustice movie fits more into the former category than the latter. This has happened with the recent adaptations of Hush and Superman: Red Son, where the animated movies followed mostly the same premise, but with some surprises, which, in our honest opinion, didn’t work well with these two movies on the other hand, when they released the two-part adaptation of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, which was a direct adaptation, they released a masterpiece. It’s not that DC is afraid to use such a dark plot – firstly, Injustice has a sort of happy ending, and secondly, DC has dwelled into the even darker territory before – it’s just that they rarely adapt the source material from cover to cover. Now, the Injustice movie follows the same initial premise, but it doesn’t develop the story in the same way we won’t of course, be going into too much detail to avoid spoilers, but you have to know that if you’re expecting a direct adaptation of the video game’s storyline, you’ll be disappointed the movie actually takes a lot more from the Injustice comic book than the game itself, but even in that aspect, it is not a direct adaptation. They seemingly do, but Superman survives, which is used as a setup for Injustice 2. Superman claimed to have established world peace, but what he, in fact, established was a tyrannical rule that motivated the Injustice heroes to summon their actual, good counterparts from an alternative Earth to stop Superman. Losing his mind and his moral compass, Superman kills the Joker and enslaves the whole planet, establishing the so-called Regime. The game had the Joker manipulate and trick Superman into killing Lois Lane and millions of other people when a bomb detonated in Metropolis.

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Injustice is an adaptation, but of a famous video game series that is set on the Injustice: Earth One. Most of these were standalone adaptations of famous comic book storylines, while some were original works that just didn’t fit in. The whole animated world has, so far, had two larger animated universes (the DCAU and the DC Animated Movie Universe), with a lot of other movies that aren’t actually related to any major fictional universe. The DC Universe Animated Original Movies are usually very good.

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