#Justice League vs. The Fatal Five

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Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)

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Character Profile: Emerald Empress (I)

First Appearance: Adventure Comics #352 (1967)

Background

Born beneath a silver sun on the tropical world of Venegar, a young woman found an ancient relic within a hidden cavern. This object, known as the Emerald Eye of Ekron, promised knowledge and power to the woman, who accepted it eagerly. This woman's name was Sarya, but after using the power of the Eye to take over her planet's government and people, she renamed herself the Emerald Empress.

Venegar's people eventually rebelled against her, and with the support of the United Planets, the deposed Empress was taken away and imprisoned on the planet Takron-Galtos, where she would have remained, were it not for a galactic emergency. When people of exceptional power were recruited to help take down the creature known as the Sun-Eater, Sarya was set free to assist. Afterward, she formed an alliance with four other powered individuals, forming the terrorist group known as the Fatal Five, waging war against the United Planets and their willing lapdogs, the Legion of Super-Heroes.

After the group disbanded due to the death of their leader, Sarya allied herself with another terrorist group, the Dark Circle, and took over the United Planets' artificial planetoid, Weber's World. There, she was once again defeated by the Legion, and was eventually forced to join a new version of the Fatal Five, fueled by new emnity for the Legion, and the desire for more power. All the while, her sanity began to slip away, and the power from the Eye (and the being behind it) began to subsume her personality and sense of identity, causing her to refer to herself as "Eye" from that point forwards.

The Empress went on one final rampage, destroying cities and severely injuring Legionnaires in her wake, more powerful than every before. At this point, the Eye was mostly in control, and Sarya's personality had fractured away from that of the Empress. Finally, after this rampage was concluded, Sarya appealed to Legionnaire Sensor Girl (AKA Projectra of Orando), asking for help from a "fellow royal" to free her from the influence of the Eye. Hidden from its presence via Projectra's illusory abilities, Sarya was finally freed, but at the cost of her life force. Withering away and dying in Projectra's arms, Sarya was finally dead. The Eye, on the other hand, moved on to new subjects and victims craving its power.

Other Incarnations

DC Rebirth: Sarya has appeared in the current comics line, prior to her death, and from a separate universe than the current canon. While her appearance is never fully explained, this is the original Emerald Empress, who is in the present seeking revenge against a time-travelling Saturn Girl, and then against Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) for slights not yet realized. To this end, she forms a new Fatal Five in the modern day DC Universe, but is defeated by the Kryptonians present in the time period. She also served on the Suicide Squad during this time, captured while searching for Saturn Girl.

DC Animated Universe: Sarya appeared with the Fatal Five in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Far From Home", in which she and the rest of the Five involved Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow in their war with the Legion of Super-Heroes. Another version of Sarya appeared in this universe in the film Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, where she had been sent to the past and imprisoned in Green Lantern Sciencells, keeping her away from the Eye, and away from the rest of the Fatal Five. She was eventually broken out and wreaked havoc on the Green Lanterns, before joining with the Five and facing off against the Justice League and Legionnaire Star Boy.

Legion of Super-Heroes: Sarya is the leader of the Fatal Five, as well as its most single-handedly powerful member. Waging war against the United Planets and the Legion, she and the Five are later recruited to fight against the Sun-Eater on the behest of their mortal enemies. Three years later, she is released from prison by Imperiex's actions, alongside many other Legion enemies, only to see her Eye destroyed by Matter-Eater Lad, who was driven temporarily mad by the energies within. After this point, this version of Sarya is stripped of her power, and never seen again.

Thanks for reading!

Check out my currently ongoing Legion of Super-Heroes essay series ( Part One | Two | Three | Four ) on a proposed television series if you're interested!

[cyclone-rachel]

give Brainiac 5 his hair back 2k24

[mrawkweird]

The Wonder Woman that made a whole generation start riding and dying for Themyscira. I was lost in the sauce never to be found again.

[alex6186]

My WCW aka Woman Crush Wednesday talented actress, singer, writer and an outspoken passionate advocate for immigration reform & immigrant rights Ms Diane Guerrero.

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They share the same artstyle as the DCAU but my guess these three movies share a universe that’s parallel to the DCAU.

And that was the universe destroyed in Crisis On Infinite Earths

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Model patient | Justice League vs the Fatal Five

I love how Kevin Conroy's Batman talks to mentally disabled and ill people as actual PEOPLE.  Even if they do pose a danger.   Also I'd pay for a movie just watching the prison/asylum communities of super villains.  As they try to pick new lives for each other, pick factions and watch out for each other.  Good for you Harvey.

[swan2swan]

LOOK AT BATMAN

[the-iron-fjord]

This fucker is really starting to look like Ben 10

[kraetac]

Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic

[cigamfossertsim]

why did justice league vs the fatal five (2019) act like far from home s2ep10 of jlu never happened???

[doubleddenden]

"Bring it, Skeletor."

Justice League Batman got jokes

Justice League Batman got references

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Character Profile: Mano

First Appearance: Adventure Comics #352 (1967)

Background

The planet Angtu was a polluted, filthy world. Surrounded by space owned by the United Planet, Angtu was mostly ignored by the senators and government officials whose policies still governed the planet due more to coincidental location than political agreement. However, the people of Angtu are adapted to this pollution to a certain degree, and use suits full of polluted and corrosive air. One of these was a mutant and outcast, known as Mano, whose power was greater than anybody realized.

Not much is known about Mano's past, save that he was a mutant with a destructive touch. Specifically, Mano had the ability to tap into the Anti-Matter universe, channeling its power through his right hand. Once he realized this, he saw a way to enact vengeance against those who had scarred and shunned him all his life, becoming more unstable and psychotic over time until enacting his ultimate revenge: destroying the entire planet with a touch. Some people claim that the planet's populace was already dead, as a result of the pollution spread by off-world influences and heightened industry, or by a chemical weapon-fueled war of some kind. Allegedly, Mano was simply an innocent who destroyed the planet out of anger and frustration. But regardless of the true cause, Mano was now alone in the world.

Wearing a protective outfit containing his atmosphere (the last real remnant of his world), Mano left his dead and remote world, and began a rampage of destruction across multiple planets. Eventually, he was apprehended by the Science Police (somehow), and taken to Takron-Galtos. There, he was released from his heavy containment cell to help the Legion and other super-powered individuals defeat the Sun-Eater, then escaped and became a powerful member of the Fatal Five.

Other Incarnations

Mano usually acts as a bit player in his adaptations. In fact, only one of these incarnations ever actually speaks, or has character outside of his destructive touch. Mano from Justice League Unlimited, in the episode "Far From Home", is little more than tool, albeit a dangerous one. Same can be said for the Legion of Super-Heroes version, although it's one of the few that gives him a skull-like head beneath the dome.

Justice League vs. the Fatal Five puts him into a unique role for the character, in that he's the leader of the group while Emerald Empress is imprisoned, as well as her romantic partner. As such, this Mano is devious, dangerous, and determined to free the Emerald Empress by any means necessary. This also ends pretty poorly for them, since that destructive touch of his isn't exactly conducive to affection. Outside of this, though, Mano is more of a force to be reckoned with than a character in his own right.

Thanks for reading!

Check out my currently ongoing Legion of Super-Heroes essay series ( Part One | Two | Three | Four ) on a proposed television series if you're interested!

[but-thats-its-own-story]

Also,

like frick,

RIP Kilowog,

I guess...

Like is he just friggin' dead? Him and that other lantern?

[mrawkweird]

All Batman does is work with stray teenagers and we all know how that particular one turned out.

[casliveblog]

I like how a handful of Justice League movies are very clearly in the same line as the cartoon but like because it’s a movie they can just straight up show more blood and murder and say ass, it’s like watching an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where they just let him say Fuck