#JLA Doom

[dailydccomics]

Doom Patrol vs JLA by Clay Mann and Marissa Louise

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Art Edit Credit to Roberto Coltro

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[augustheart]

frustrating to me when mark waid writes the doom patrol badly because i know what he’s capable of

[nitpickrider]

batman is essentially always in a room with loaded guns pointing blindly in every direction with the safety off. wouldn't you be scared? what if you truly believed you were the only person who could unload those guns if one of them started firing wildly? you'd be surly too i bet

Here's the rub, my friend. Batman's whole Babylon files schtick only works if you engage with him at the level of "something is going to universally compromise the entire superhero community EXCEPT FOR ME, and somehow these people I've known for years, the smartest, toughest, bravest people I've ever met will somehow not see me coming if they go evil." Like he believes that the entire League is going to turn evil one day and he, because he's god's gift to crime fighting, will be totally immune to stepping over the line. You know how long it would take an evil Superman to kill Bruce? As long as it would take him to float over the Batcave and point his heat vision directly on top of wherever Bruce is standing. If he truly, TRULY believed that the ENTIRE League was going to go bad at the same time, his only action would be taking them out proactivley because once they actually do go bad there is NOTHING he can do to functionally stop them. But even the IDEA of it speaks to a fundamental arrogance and lack of self reflection. Bruce isn't the only Superhero without powers. Bruce isn't the only hero who does the majority of his work as an urban vigilante. In fact the fact that he's been on the Justice League at all creates the same amount of higher level disconnect from "normal" concerns that he accuses his fellow Leaguers of. And I repeat, his own scrambling has proven his premise wrong at least twice, probably more than twice. The Babylon crisis showed that his plans were a huge liability that could disable the League basically dependent only on whether or not a villain can access the Batcomputer and his creation of Brother Eye showed that his own paranoia is a far bigger threat to the heroes around him than those heroes have ever been or could ever have been to him. Any solution to the idea of a Leaguer going bad would have to be, should be, MUST be communal. Because there is nothing that Batman can come up with to take down Superman that won't be less effective than just pitching Captain Marvel at the problem. If Batman HONESTLY believes he could take on the entire community single handedly? He's an idiot. If he HONESTLY believes that that is his right and responsibility? He's a danger to everyone around him.

[splooosh]

Perez

JLA/Avengers

[mzminola]

I do think “teenager intentionally kicks off very volatile contingency plan which goes worse than expected due to not having all the information, gets a lot of civilians killed, then dies horribly” is a depressing, unsatisfying story arc. Like, War Games just plain sucks.

So if DC wanted to throw Gotham into yet another city-wide disaster, and wanted it to be this particular kind of disaster, how could they have done it more satisfyingly?

Well, I think... have it be kicked off by a character that’s actually been involved in the Gotham mafias / organized crime. There’s multiple options here.

1. Play up Jason & Bruce being two sides of the same coin. Bruce has been working on these plans a long time, long enough that Jason knew about it (and consulted on it!) during his Robin days. Jason works on his own version, in which Red Hood would take the place of Matches Malone, but outside interference (such as Batman jumping in at the wrong moment) makes everything go sideways and oh fuck.

2. Helena Bertinelli. She’s not kicking off some contingency plan, she just straight up is luring all the heads of the Gotham crime families to one place to kill them, but the end result is the same. I need to read more of her comics to figure out how well this actually works. Heck, you actually could still involve Steph in this one; they teamed up in the aftermath of the Quake, there’s precedent.

3. Two-Face or one of the other Rogues that’s more crime-boss than supervillain. You could even have it be inspired by Bruce; he visits Harvey regularly when he’s locked up. Get them talking about their youth, Harvey’s former passion for the justice system, grand plans for “cleaning up” Gotham that felt really good to black-and-white teenage thinking, but don’t hold up to life’s actual complexities.

Or, you know, let Bruce decide Now Is The Time, kick off his own plan, but something outside his control stops him from making it to the meeting as Matches Malone, and Batman is the one who just completely fucked over the city.

DC wouldn’t ever let Bruce both fuck up on that scale and acknowledge it as a fuck up in main continuity though, so this one would sadly be stuck as an Elseworld.

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[wajjs]

Write a DC comics story with me!

General settings: main universe, team story. Now:

[cigamfossertsim]

youre telling me that they took a comic title that evokes a story abt the hubris of man and the competition between man and god and the gatekeeping of knowledge and how it backfires for man in the end and for the animated movie they changed it to “doom???????”

[cgbcomics]

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the Silver Age rises Golden Age #4

[jessilynallendilla]

Just watched Justice League Doom

every one goes on about Batman's contingency plans (and Superman's move the earth somewhere else plan)

but how come no one talks about how the immortal super genius war lord Vandal Savage not only knew Batman's identity and knew him so well that he would have contingency plans but lacked the foresight that Batman would know how to counteract each contingency and not be sure to take him out first

side not: Bruce sounded so vulnerable asking where his parents bodies were

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"That Really Happened?!" DC Comics Tournament Entry #1

Justice League Doom Patrol Inflation Art

[ID: Two page comic spread of many different Doom Patrol and Justice League characters inflated and round, connected to a human heard with energy around its arteries. At the bottom of the pages the arteries branch out to headshots of each character. Narration reads, "...We're all gonna have ta blow up. And as for carbon-copy Cliff Steele, fan fiction Robotman, if this is how he goes out? Then he's happy to do it with ya." \END ID]

What Happened?

Milk Wars is a lot. Cave Carson is attacked by killer funko pops in an extra dimensional office building. ElastiGirl gets crucified and reboots the universe. Batman becomes a priest.

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