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Injustice: Gods Among Us is a fighting game released in 2013 starring the characters of DC Comics. It was developed by NetherRealm Studios, the devs behind Mortal Kombat 9. It is also a series of comics/graphic novels.

In an alternate universe, The Joker tricks Superman into killing his pregnant wife, Lois Lane, and destroying Metropolis with a nuclear bomb. As a result, The Man of Steel finally snaps, brutally murdering the Joker in retaliation and becoming a tyrannical dictator who rules over the Earth with an iron fist. Almost everyone on Earth backs his view of complete (and lethal) crackdown on crime, everyone except Batman and a few select others who form an underground militia called "The Insurgency". After a brutal five-year war that claims countless lives, costumed and civilian alike, the Insurgency makes a final, desperate attempt at overthrowing Superman's One-Earth Regime by summoning the Justice League from "Prime Earth", a universe in which the Joker's evil plan failed, to their own world.

The story mode has 12 chapters:

  • Prime Earth!Batman
  • Prime Earth!Green Lantern
  • Prime Earth!Aquaman
  • Prime Earth!Joker
  • Prime Earth!Green Arrow
  • Prime Earth!Cyborg
  • Insurgency!Deathstroke
  • Insurgency!Batman (that's right, you get to play as two versions of Batman)
  • Insurgency!Lex Luthor
  • Regime!Flash
  • Prime Earth!Wonder Woman
  • Prime Earth!Superman

An 'Ultimate Edition' was also released, giving us all of the available costumes in addition to General Zod, Batgirl, Zatanna, Martian Manhunter, Lobo and Scorpion.

It has a sequel, Injustice 2, which deals with Batman and La Résistance dealing with the fallout of the One-Earth Regime's fall, with the arrival of both the Secret Society of Supervillains (led by Gorilla Grodd) AND Brainiac (who's the actual leader of the Society)...

Injustice: Gods Among Us has the following tropes:[]

  • 0% Approval Rating: By Year Five, the Regime is in this position due to its severe authoritarian nature. Some of the Regime's own higher-ranking members (such as the Flash) begin to question its methods, while others (Hal Jordan in particular) begin to dislike Superman personally because of how disrespectfully he treats them.
  • Adaptational Heroism: In this world, Lex Luthor never became evil, but is a truly good man who helps the world and Superman's best friend. He's also the inside man aiding Batman and the Insurgency.
    • Insurgency!Harley Quinn and Insurgency!Deathstroke also qualify.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Almost every member of the Regime fits this, being much more ruthless than their mainstream counterparts, but Wonder Woman takes the cake. She makes even her Flashpoint version look like a saint in comparison.
  • Alternate Continuity: There are two in the game; "Prime Earth" and "Injustice Earth".
    • Even Prime Earth is an alternate continuity from the comics, though, seemingly taking on aspects from the New 52, the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity before that, and a few nods to the DCAU.
  • Alternate Timeline: The game's story involves the heroes and villains from a "normal" timeline being pulled into a dystopian timeline in which things went horribly, horribly wrong as a result of one or two major events occurring differently.
  • Alternate Universe: Even before the destruction of Metropolis, this is a DC Universe where Lex Luthor was never a criminal, Superman considered him his best friend and Brainiac is explicitly responsible for the destruction of Krypton. The Injustice Superman was nowhere near as battle-tested as his mainstream counterpart, which may help to explain how he fell so far so fast.
  • Anti-Hero: Insurgency!Deathstroke is this.
  • Applied Phlebotinum: Just how can Badass Normals like Batman and Green Arrow survive fighting against meta-humans like Superman and Wonder Woman? By consuming a small little pill based on Kryptonian nanotech that instantly increases body tissue and bone density by a percentage of several thousands. It's also a case of Gameplay and Story Integration, as this is mentioned in Story Mode.
  • Armor-Piercing Question:
    • Superman gives one to Batman in Year One #10 regarding his handling of Joker Immunity.
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Superman: "And every time you let that madman live, how many more did you condemn?"

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    • Batman asks Flash one in Year One #13 after Superman and Wonder Woman take down a protesting superhuman named Galaxor.
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Batman: "How do you think he felt when his heroes broke him?"

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    • Ganthet is unable to answer when Superman asks him this question in Year Two #5:
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Superman: "You said you have watched civilizations rise and fall... Were you watching Krypton in its final moments? Did you choose, in your infinite wisdom, to not use your power that day?"

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  • Audience Surrogate: The Injustice Earth is so different that the characters from Prime Earth come off as this.
  • Badass Normal: Non-superpowered heroes and villains like Batman, Catwoman, Nightwing, Joker and Harley Quinn go toe-to-toe with superhumans like Superman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Bane and Solomon Grundy. This is justified in-universe: In the story mode, Lex Luthor and Superman have created a Kryptonian nanotech drug that gives regular humans thousands of times their normal durability and strength. This is stolen by Batman and his Insurgency, evening the playing field.
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Prime Earth!Joker: (after absorbing a chestful of bullets) "I should be dead now! Thanks, happy pill!"

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  • Bald of Awesome/Bald of Evil: Lex Luthor, depending on which universe he is seen in.
  • Beard of Evil: Regime!Aquaman wears one to distinguish him from his clean-shaven Prime Earth counterpart.
  • Berserk Button:
    • In Year One #11, Superman sends Bruce into a rage by calling him a "bad father".
    • Bizarro flies into a murderous rage when Weather Wizard calls him "Fake Superman".
    • The existence of resistance movements in general irritates High Chancellor Superman, but a resistance movement glorifying Joker drives him mad enough to massacre them all with extreme prejudice.
    • Don't tell High Chancellor Superman that Injustice!Lois would've been horrified by what he's done. He murders Regime!Shazam with a pair of Eye Beams for this.
  • Beware the Superman: The One-Earth Regime is a dystopian tyranny consisting of superpowered beings.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Prime Earth!Superman makes his presence on Injustice Earth known by blowing up a car Regime!Black Adam had thrown at Prime Earth!Aquaman with his heat vision.
  • Bittersweet Ending: For Injustice Earth. The Regime's rampage through Gotham City and Metropolis is put to a stop, and the surviving leaders of the dictatorship are either apprehended or willingly turn themselves in. That being said, many heroes had turned to evil, countless people have died as a result of the conflict, including two morally-decent people (Insurgency!Lex Luthor and Regime!Shazam), and the best chance that this universe had at world peace has been fragmented.
  • Black and White Morality: Sure, High Chancellor Superman and his supporters began as a Well-Intentioned Extremist faction, who had many right points in their actions, but their steady decline into tyranny and growing abandonment of morality in their crimefighting led them to become real villains. However, Insurgency!Batman isn't entirely blameless; he refuses to help Superman cope with his emotional trauma, continues to follow his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule to stupid and hypocritical ends, continually lies and uses more and more unscrupulous means to try and defeat the One-Earth Regime, which always end in disaster.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: Ironically, while the game has a T-Rating and eschews any connections to the Mortal Kombat franchise, it goes for a considerably more graphical depiction of violence than the cartoony Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. While the action is adequate to its superhero universe, battles are accompanied by significant amounts of blood and most combat techniques are very visceral in nature, especially when blades like Wonder Woman's sword or Catwoman's claws are involved. In a way, it makes sense, as it helps hammer home the emotional impact of a DC Universe where everything has gone horribly, tragically wrong for the characters, who now find themselves pitted against former friends and allies, viciously fighting each other against the backdrop of a Crapsack World, with both sides believing that their side is the only hope to make it better.
  • Blue and Orange Morality: In a way reminiscent of "Order Versus Chaos", Ares' perspective cares only about "Less Conflict Versus More Conflict", with "More Conflict" being what he prefers. Interestingly, this puts him on the heroes side - because the One-Earth Regime stands to cow the entire world under their rule and rob him of his power completely.
  • Both Sides Have a Point: Superman and the Regime want to eliminate all conflict and crime everywhere by any means necessary, to prevent another Metropolis. Batman and the Insurgency are against those methods, claiming they make the Regime a band of tyrants at best and a gang of murderers at worst.
  • Boom! Headshot!: Ch'p is killed by a bolt of Yellow Lantern energy piercing his brain.
  • Break Them by Talking: Injustice!Joker delivers one of these to Superman in the beginning of the game - comparable to the kind of speeches he's been known to give Batman to goad him into killing him, or the speech the alternate Luthor gave to kick off the Justice Lord Universe in Justice League. Sadly, there's a moment where it looks like it might not work and Superman might not fall after all, but then Joker keeps talking and getting worse by the second. It ends with Superman punching Joker's heart out of his chest.
  • Canon Foreigner: Galaxor, who debuts in Year One and has no main continuity counterpart.
  • Co-Dragons: Regime!Wonder Woman and Yellow Lantern split The Dragon role between them for High Councilor Superman, but with an interesting variation: Both double as a Dragon with an Agenda, each with their own ideals and plans separate from Superman's.
    • Yellow Lantern is the more morally ambiguous of the two. While serving as a loyal enforcer commanding the other Regime members with the same desire to end the Insurgency, he's shown to be an Anti-Villain legitimately regretting his actions. He believes that he's truly fighting for justice, and is always trying to "do the right thing" no matter what - which he ultimately does in the end by relinquishing his Yellow Power Ring to Prime Earth!Superman.
    • Regime!Wonder Woman is by far the more devious one. While serving as his enforcer by leading an entire Amazon Brigade to serve the Regime, she's also a Manipulative Bastard with every intention to replace Injustice!Lois in Superman's life and become a legitimate Battle Couple with Superman. This ultimately doesn't pan out however, as her Good Counterpart defeats her and turns the Amazons against the Regime.
  • Cool Versus Awesome: It's a fighting game set in The DCU and starring both flagship characters and fan favorites. The trope is inevitable.
  • The Corrupter: Regime!Sinestro, even more so than Injustice!Joker. Injustice!Joker managed to turn Superman (and by proxy, most of the Justice League) into a Knight Templar, but Sinestro's influence turned Superman and Hal Jordan into raving maniacs, with terrible results for everyone else.
  • Curb Stomp Battle:
    • Insurgency!Catwoman vs. Regime!Damian in Year Two.
    • Regime!Solomon Grundy vs. Regime!Hawkgirl in Year Five #11.
    • Insurgency!Batwoman vs. half a dozen Mooks in Year Five #16.
    • Superman vs. well, everyone, really - and it goes for both the Prime Earth and Injustice Earth versions. High Chancellor Superman curbstomps everyone who opposes him throughout most of the story proper, and when his Good Counterpart is summoned to the Injustice universe, he returns the favor. Big time. So much so that, after watching the treatment Regime!Sinestro gets, Yellow Lantern just hands over his ring without a fight.
  • Darker and Edgier: The comic is this compared to the game, as it is bloodier and features far more "on-screen" deaths.
  • Darth Vader Clone: High Chancellor Superman only lacks the facial scarring and black armor, but otherwise he's very much an Anakin Skywalker Expy, having once been The Paragon who is turned to the dark side as a result of the death of his wife, becomes a Knight Templar obsessed with order, amasses his own squadron of storm-troopers and eventually comes to blows with his best friends.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Seen more so in Clashes than in Story Mode, but expect some snark from everyone, particularly Batman, Flash, Nightwing and (god help us) Green Arrow.
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Killer Frost: "Do you ever shut up?"
Green Arrow: "Every other Tuesday!"

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  • Deus Exit Machina:
    • Enforced. Almost all of the Insurgency's super-powered members are killed off before the end of Year One in order to make their struggle more difficult.
    • Prime Earth!Superman is busy fighting Prime Earth!Doomsday in space when Insurgency!Batman pulls the other heroes into his universe, keeping him out of the way for most of the story. Insurgency!Batman is also reluctant to bring him there. When he does eventually get transported to Injustice Earth, he takes on and defeats Regime!Black Adam, Regime!Sinestro (effortlessly), Yellow Lantern (without a fight), Regime!Aquaman, Regime!Doomsday and his Evil Counterpart in rapid succession.
  • Do with Him as You Will: Shortly after Superman kills the Joker, Wonder Woman flies to an African refugee camp, where she interrupts the rape of a woman by a soldier who was supposed to keep the peace. Wonder Woman disarms the soldiers, and tells the women that they have nothing to fear from them. One of the women then states that as soon as she flies away, the men will keep doing what they always do, to which Wonder Woman tells the women to pick up the guns and do what they have to do. As she flies away, gunshots ring out from the camp below.
  • Doomed by Canon: Telling which characters are going to die becomes rather easy; if they're in the comic but not in the game, they're almost certainly toast.
  • Downer Beginning: The situation on Injustice Earth is kicked off by the Joker managing to destroy Metropolis with a nuclear bomb. The Story Mode begins with a shot of said city in ruins along with the horrified reactions of Commissioner Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department, whilst Batman angrily interrogates a laughing Joker over where he got the nuke from. Suddenly, Superman breaks in and, in spite of Batman's pleas, brutally murders the Joker in revenge for his wife and unborn son, whom he killed unknowingly due to the effects of the Kryptonite-laced Fear Toxin that the Joker used against him - and things go downhill from that point on...
  • Dramatic Irony: High Chancellor Super claims that he's nothing like Darkseid in Year Four #22 after seeing him vaporize someone who tried to tell them their fighting was doing more harm than good. Now, remember what he did to Regime!Shazam?
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Quite a few.
    • Dick Grayson gets hit in the head by Damian Wayne's tonfa and falls onto a piece of rubble, breaking his neck.
    • Kyle Rayner gets captured during his very first appearance and gets torn limb-from-limb by the Sinestro Corps.
    • Klarion dies instantly from getting zapped by Sinestro while his back was turned.
    • Jason Blood and Harvey Bullock get vaporized by a sudden burst of magical energy.
    • Huntress gets her neck broken by Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth.
    • Sinestro is responsible for yet another one: Kilowog, who gets killed by a blast of Yellow Lantern energy before he's able to put his Green Power Ring back on.
    • Trickster dies after Bizarro accidentally drops him while they're flying.
  • Dwindling Party: Each year features the death of at least one Insurgent. Beginning in Year Four, the remaining Insurgents start to lampshade this.
  • Dying Moment of Awesome: Just because you're Doomed by Canon doesn't mean you can't go out like a badass.
    • Captain Atom spends his last couple of minutes after his suit is ruptured by Wonder Woman calling Wonder Woman an idiot before grabbing Superman and flying him out to space in an attempt to blow him up with his suit. To top things off, the resulting explosion leaves Wonder Woman in a coma for almost a year.
    • After Renee Montoya overdoses on super-pills, her final minutes before succumbing to a heart attack consist of going toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel himself in an attempt to kill him, including using the Washington Monument like a baseball bat to knock him through the sky.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: For Prime Earth. High Chancellor Superman's plan to invade Prime Earth is thwarted before it even begins, the Joker's super strength pills are implied to wear off shortly after the ending and Everybody Lives.
  • Enemy Mine: Harley Quinn and Insurgency!Batman have teamed up to stop the Regime.
    • Same with Insurgency!Ares and Prime Earth!Wonder Woman.
  • Environmental Symbolism: Just before the Justice League is transported to the Injustice Earth, we see a golden statue of Prime Earth!Superman lifting up a globe in a lush green park under a blue sky. When Prime Earth!Batman and Prime Earth!Joker arrive in Injustice!Metropolis, they land near a silver statue of High Chancellor Superman standing atop the globe in a cold, grey city district under a dusk-toned sky.
  • Evil Costume Switch: Characters on the side of the One-Earth Regime tend to have more ominous secondary costumes than their defaults. For example, Shazam's alternate swaps his white cloak for a collared black one, and his lightning bolt insignia no longer has magical lightning coursing through it.
    • Green Lantern changes over to Yellow Lantern, which is the first thing that Prime Earth!Hal points out when he first meets his counterpart.
  • Evil Counterpart: Yellow Lantern to Green Lantern and High Chancellor Superman to Prime Earth!Superman
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a brutal, despotic psychopath, High Chancellor Superman is still torn up over Injustice!Lois' death.
  • Eye Scream:
  • Face Heel Turn: Injustice!Superman, followed by most of his universe's Justice League.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Exaggerated in Year Five #16: Batwoman and Harley Quinn somehow don't hear Superman busting in through a glass roof, despite leaving the room only seconds earlier.
  • Family-Unfriendly Death: High Chancellor Superman murdering Regime!Shazam with a pair of Eye Beams through his skull. Even worse, Shazam's alter ego is a 12-year-old boy, which means Superman just murdered a child in cold blood.
  • Five-Bad Band: The One-Earth Regime.
  • For Want of a Nail: Subverted, there's more than one difference that led to the Injustice Earth becoming a dictatorship. They include Lex Luthor not being a villain, Wonder Woman being more aggressive and the Joker being a very Sore Loser.
  • Foregone Conclusion: As the comic series is a prequel, several things are guaranteed: The Insurgency will not win by the end, Batman, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Lex Luthor, Bane, Killer Frost, Solomon Grundy and Doomsday will live, Catwoman will abandon the Insurgency, and all of the high-ranking Regime members will survive.
    • Free-Floor Fighting: Hitting an opponent with a wall-bounce attack (Back + H) will send them hurtling into another stage of the area if they're standing in the right spot.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: When beating the standard fighting game mode, High Chancellor Superman is knocked into the Phantom Zone after the fight. As his life flashes before his eyes, one can see Lois and Jon Kent Jr.'s gravestones.
  • From Bad to Worse: Oh boy, Year One. Metropolis is left in ruins due to a nuclear weapon that Joker detonated, killing millions (including Lois Lane and her unborn child). Superman responds to this by becoming an Unscrupulous Hero and killing the Joker in cold blood. After this, he decides that he has the ultimate moral authority in the world and dismantles a dictatorship in a less-than-legal manner, demanding a ceasefire in the process. When the U.N. rightfully calls him out on this, he apologizes and reveals his secret identity, unintentionally endangering a number of people. He then forges an alliance with Wonder Woman just after her Start of Darkness (wounding Ares). He then ruins his relationship with Batman with a Motive Rant about how people can only be ruled through fear, and how killing an evil person is necessary to save thousands. Aquaman breaks the ceasefire by attacking whalers, causing much of the Justice League to attack him and fracturing the team when Superman orders them to throw Atlantis into the Sahara Desert. Meanwhile, Damian Wayne kills Dick Grayson. After this, the One-Earth Regime forms, with Superman and Wonder Woman taking the helm.
  • Godzilla Threshold:
    • In Year Three #17, the Spectre (who's actually Mr. Mxyzptlk) pulls Superman and the rest of his group into the Tower of Fate where the Insurgency is hiding, forcing John Constantine to summon Trigon.
    • Insurgency!Batman considers Prime Earth!Superman to be Prime Earth's Godzilla, and doesn't think the threshold has been reached. Prime Earth!Batman disagrees.
  • Gone Horribly Right:
    • Played with. While Joker got exactly what he wanted, to corrupt a paragon like Superman, and getting what he wanted did cost him his life; in his final moments, he shows absolutely no signs of remotely caring about the whole "costing his life" part. His final words are simply a burst of maniacal laughter as Superman punches his heart right out of his chest.
    • In Year 2, when the remnants of the Justice League confront the Regime and the Sinestro Corps, Superman, who was given a Yellow Power Ring by Sinestro, uses his heat vision to shoot Black Canary through the stomach. She then tells him that his actions are being broadcast across the world so that everyone can see what he's become. Batman tells her to kill the feed immediately, because after seeing how bad Superman has become, the world has come to fear him and the Regime - and as the Yellow Ring feeds on fear, it becomes more powerful...
  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: Batman (good angel) and Wonder Woman (bad angel) are this to Superman. Wonder Woman wins out in the end.
  • Gory Discretion Shot:
    • The aftermath of Superman beating Green Arrow to death with his bare hands thankfully isn't shown.
    • Kyle Rayner getting ripped apart by the Sinestro Corps is silhouetted by the sun, obscured by light bloom, and further blocked by Sinestro's head.
  • Guest Fighter: Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. This marks the second time, following Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, that the ninja has done battle with the DC Universe.
  • Hate Sink: Injustice!Joker gets saddled with this posthumously, and everyone is actively happy to be rid of him, as he was the one responsible for causing Superman's Start of Darkness. Even Harley has come to despise him for this reason.
  • Heel Face Turn: Regime!Flash. Harley Quinn and Deathstroke in the backstory of Injustice Earth, though Deathstroke shows himself to be more of a Wild Card and Harley goes back-and-forth along the good/evil line before settling on good near the end.
  • Heel Face Door Slam: Regime!Shazam starts to question the actions of the side he chose, but makes the mistake of thinking the other members of the Regime still have enough good in them to agree. High Chancellor Superman ultimately kills him after he accidentally presses one of Superman's Berserk Buttons during his Villainous Breakdown.
  • Heroic BSOD: Insurgency!Batman has a severe one after the Kryptonite weapon plan fails and Insurgency!Lex Luthor is murdered by High Chancellor Superman, deciding that the fight is hopeless and attempting to send the Prime Earth!Justice League back to their own universe. Prime Earth!Batman snaps him out of it.
  • Heroic Sacrifice:
    • Jesse Chambers gets vaporized by the nuclear blast that destroys Metropolis while attempting to save others.
    • Having beaten down Superman, Captain Atom is about to finish him off when Wonder Woman arrives and slashes his containment suit open with her sword. Knowing he'll not only die but destroy the entire North Pole if he stays on Earth, he pulls a Taking You with Me on Superman, hauling him far into the atmosphere. He saves the rest of the Insurgency and critically injures Wonder Woman (who chased him), but fails to kill Superman.
    • Green Arrow deliberately fires an arrow containing a super-pill at Superman, knowing he'll dodge it and be distracted enough that the other Insurgents will have time to retrieve the pill, ultimately allowing Batman to replicate it. The distraction costs him his life, as Superman beats him to death with his bare hands.
    • Artemis shoves Hippolyta out of the way of a blast from Hera, saving her but getting incinerated in the process.
    • Alfred Pennyworth stays quiet rather than reveal vital information about Insurgency!Batman to Victor Zsasz, causing the latter to brutally murder him.
  • Hoist Hero Over Head: Superman does this to Batman at the end of Year One, before taking a page out of Bane's book and snapping his spine in half like a matchstick.
  • Humans Are Flawed: How the Regime views humanity, especially High Chancellor Superman and Regime!Wonder Woman, with the former even calling them disobedient children that need to be punished during his Villainous Breakdown. Naturally, both of their Good Counterparts are disgusted by such a thought.
  • Hurl It Into the Sun:
    • How Superman kills Ganthet and Mogo in Year Two #24.
    • Superman does it again in Year Five, this time to Parasite.
  • Idiot Ball: Superman revealing his identity to the public. Sure, everyone in Metropolis is dead, but his Smallville friends and family are still around. Predictably, Ma and Pa Kent immediately get abducted by Mirror Master and his band of government-sponsored mercenaries. To make things worse, he does it literally the day after his wife and unborn child got killed because a villain knew too much about him.
  • Ignore the Fanservice: High Chancellor Superman is not all that impressed by Regime!Wonder Woman showing up in a Stripperiffic dress, as Superman still has lingering feelings for Lois. In fact, his entire mental focus is entirely elsewhere, with Diana's presence only barely being acknowledged.
  • Ignored Epiphany: Regime members will occasionally have moments of doubt and self-reflection, but will quickly suppress them and proceed to descend further into villainy.
  • I Have No Son: Insurgency!Batman's feelings regarding Regime!Damian Wayne, after Damian killed Dick Grayson.
  • Invincible Hero: Things are not looking good for the Insurgency and the Prime Earth!Justice League as the One-Earth Regime begins its final push towards victory... then Prime Earth!Superman arrives on Injustice Earth and single-handedly stops EVERYTHING, including High Chancellor Superman.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: When Superman rants to Batman about how killing the Joker sooner would have prevented the destruction of Metropolis.
  • Killed Off for Real: A lot of people die over the course of the five-year war, and as it takes place in a separate universe from DC's main canon, all deaths are final unless otherwise indicated.
    • In Year One, Jimmy Olsen, Scarecrow, Lois Lane, Jesse Chambers, The Joker, Dick Grayson, Kalibak, Captain Atom, Green Arrow and a majority of Metropolis's citizens are all killed.
    • Year Two sees the deaths of Kyle Rayner, Commissioner Gordon, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Ganthet, Mogo, Despero, Ch'p and a quarter of the Sinestro Corps.
    • In Year Three, Jason Blood, Harvey Bullock, Ragman, Deadman, the Phantom Stranger, Klarion, Detective Chimp, Huntress and Swamp Thing all die.
      • Doctor Fate, Trigon and Mr. Mxyzptlk are all "sent to the void", which, according to John Constantine, is about as dead as something can get.
      • Beast Boy and Kid Flash die in the Year Three Annual but, chronologically, their deaths occurred in Year One.
        • Rose Psychic and Doctor Occult also die in the Annual, though they die just before the start of Year Three.
    • Year Four: Renee Montoya, Hercules, Artemis and Kilowog.
    • Year Five: Parasite, Weather Wizard, Heat Wave, Jason Bard, Trickster, Bizarro, Alfred Pennyworth, King Shark, Hawkman and Victor Zsasz.
      • Galaxor is also revealed to have committed suicide.
    • The Game: Lex Luthor and Shazam.
  • Killer Rabbit: Ch'p, a Green Lantern Corpsman who resembles a small squirrel-like creature, almost manages to kill Superman and arguably comes closer to doing so than anyone else in the entire series. Sadly, he gets headshotted by Sinestro before he can finish the job.
  • Kneel Before Zod:
    • In a nod to the trope namer, High Chancellor Superman's win-pose has him force his opponent to do this.
    • General Zod himself has this as a grab.
  • La Résistance: The Insurgency, a group of heroes loyal to Batman who fought the One-Earth Regime. By the time of the game, most of them have either died, defected to Superman's side or just flat-out given up.
  • Legacy Character: Killer Frost is actually the original Killer Frost's friend, who took up her powers and name after the original was killed.
  • Lighter and Softer: Compared to the absolute darkness present in the prequel comic, the actual game itself is much less dark. That's not to say that it's all a picnic, though - the alternate universe itself is pretty oppressive and unpleasant, and several characters meet particularly gruesome deaths. In fact, the Injustice franchise is more family-friendly than the Mortal Kombat franchise.
  • Loads and Loads of Characters: Counting the Regime, the Insurgency and side roles, the series features upwards of fifty characters with more than one line (counting every on-panel character puts the number well above one hundred). Due to all the deaths, however, there's only a maximum of about thirty introduced characters who are still alive at any one time.
  • Losing Your Head:
    • Harley Quinn rips Lobo's head off with her bare hands in the first Annual. He gets better.
    • Superman tears off Solomon Grundy's head in Year Five to subdue him. He gets better, too.
  • Lotus Eater Machine: In Year Three, Superman is trapped in a magic-based version that begins with him saving Lois from death, Batman killing the Joker to prevent him from coming after Supes again and turning himself in for it, and Supes and Lois getting to raise their daughter (named Lara after her grandmother), who inherits her father's powers, becomes a superhero in her own right and is able to get started on solving the world's problems through a Rousing Speech and some diplomacy.
  • Meaningful Background Event: During the battle on Prime Earth at the beginning, there is a golden statue of Superman holding Earth in his hands. In the Injustice universe, that statue has been replaced with a silver one of him standing on it.
  • Mercy Invincibility: The dual life bars. After the silver one is depleted, absolutely nothing in the rest of the combo, super move or stage transition will roll over into the red until the opponent does his taunt and controllable play resumes.
  • Mirror Match: Several times during the storyline. The Final Boss is one of these, with Prime Earth!Superman fighting his Evil Counterpart, High Chancellor Superman.
  • Misaimed Fandom: In-universe, a group of Superman-worshipping cultists crop up and start killing petty criminals in Gotham City, believing they're doing things Superman would approve of now that his standards for killing his foes are more relaxed. What they evidently missed is that Superman killed people who were far worse than that in the heat of the moment - first the Joker, who was close to evil incarnate and had just wronged him in a deeply cruel and personal way, and then Kalibak and his Parademon army, who were deliberately killing innocent people just because they could, and after Kalibak pointed out that his mercy towards them only encouraged them to come back - or that he did so reluctantly and not as an endorsement of killing low-level crooks. Also, the Joker Clan, who completely misinterpreted everything about the Joker.
  • Mission Control: Regime!Cyborg's primary role is providing operational support and intel to the other Regime members while they're in the field.
  • Moe Greene Special: The Joker shoots and kills Jimmy Olsen through the lens of his camera.
  • Mood Whiplash: Prime Earth!Superman and Prime Earth!Wonder Woman were having a light-hearted conversation after the recently-Heel Face Turned Amazons triumph over the evil Atlanteans... and then Regime!Doomsday smashes Prime Earth!Superman through a skyscraper.
  • Mook Face Turn: Regime!Sinestro can be seen ordering the execution of several troopers who attempted this before Regime!Flash saves them. During High Chancellor Superman's attack on Metropolis, several One-Earth Regime soldiers can be seen turning on their comrades.
  • Morality Chain: Injustice!Joker attacks Superman with Kryptonite-laced Fear Toxin, tricking him into killing Lois and their unborn son and leveling Metropolis with a nuclear bomb. This causes him to go off the deep end and install himself as Earth's God Emperor. Several times, he tries to justify his actions as what Lois would have wanted, but when he expresses his desire to bring Prime Earth!Lois to Injustice Earth to show her how he's "perfected" the world, Prime Earth!Superman (who's also married to Prime Earth!Lois) is having none of it:
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Prime Earth!Superman: "I know what you've lost..."
High Chancellor Superman: "And you judge me?! After I've killed you, I'll bring Lois here. When she sees how I've perfected this world, she'll-"
Prime Earth!Superman: "She'll be horrified and disgusted by what you've done!"

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  • Mythology Gag:
    • In Year One #36, Superman breaks Batman's spinal column Bane-style.
    • In Year Two, the playing card Harley wears as a pendant has the Joker's face from Batman: The Animated Series on it.
    • When Green Arrow has Harley in the Arrow Cave, he mentions Joker's old fake hand gag.
    • In the Year Four Annual, Cyborg claims Plastic Man won't break into the League's prison because he couldn't "survive the pressures of the deepest part of the ocean". In Justice League: Obsidian Age, Plastic Man did just that... for thousands of years, no less.
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: When Guy Gardner attempts to persuade Superman to stop working with Sinestro, he mentions that most of the Sinestro Corps is made up of scary-looking monsters, eventually lampshading this trope by specifically pointing out Arkillo, who "literally has the word 'kill' in his name."
  • Nanomachines: Used in the Injustice Universe to give the Badass Normal heroes and villains super strength and durability comparable to that of a Kryptonian.
  • Neck Snap:
    • Dick Grayson dies when his neck gets broken by a piece of rubble after he gets knocked unconscious by Damian Wayne.
    • Sinestro performs one on Despero.
    • Wonder Woman kills Huntress this way. With the Lasso of Truth, no less.
    • How High Chancellor Superman kills Insurgency!Lex Luthor.
  • Never Trust a Trailer: Suffice to say that the trailers can be very misleading as to how the plot and characters develop. The whole "alternate universe" aspect of the plot isn't even hinted at in the trailers, for instance. Wonder Woman's line in particular: "Man's aggression cannot be tempered, only quelled! We are here to save mankind!". It's actually spoken by two different versions of Wonder Woman: Regime!Wonder Woman for the first part, and Prime Earth!Wonder Woman for the second.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • Batman chews out the president of the United States for his government pulling an I Have Your Wife gambit on Superman, pointing out that they have not only strengthened Superman's resolve, but given him a platform to rally his fellow Justice Leaguers — namely, that he tried to do the right thing and make a difference in the world and was thanked for it by having his parents abducted.
    • At the end of Year Two, Superman accepts a Sinestro Corps power ring and blows a hole through Black Canary. That's bad, but Dinah made sure Superman's actions were broadcast worldwide. That's good, right? Not when the collective fear of billions of people elevates Superman's power to god-like levels, allowing him to hurl both Ganthet and Mogo into the sun.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Every single fight in the game.
    • How Superman kills Green Arrow.
    • Wonder Woman gives one to Sinestro after finding out that Superman has joined the Sinestro Corps.
    • A few issues later, Wonder Woman gets one herself after killing Huntress, courtesy of Batwoman.
    • Wonder Woman gets yet another one in Year Four from Hercules.
    • In Year Five, Batman gives one to Victor Zsasz after he murders Alfred. Superman arrives on the scene, and Batman gives him one as well after a brief fight.[1]
    • Superman kills Hawkman this way - and while he's sick from Kryptonite exposure, to boot.
  • Nominal Hero: Ares only aids the Insurgency because the One-Earth Regime's authoritarianism has left him nearly powerless, while Deathstroke and Harley Quinn do the same out of thirst for revenge. However, Harley Quinn does get better and becomes much more selfless as the game goes on.
  • No One Should Survive That: There is a reason why gadget types can survive such moves like Superman's into-space-and-back punches. See Applied Phlebotinum above.
  • No Sell: Most characters who activate their super move need to make contact before it engages. This gives opponents a chance to attack first and cancel out the entire move.
    • Averted with Solomon Grundy's super move, which cannot be canceled at all. He gains super armor, and the only way to avoid his attack is to completely stay away from him until the super armor wears off.
  • Not What I Signed on For: Said almost word for word by Regime!Flash, after High Chancellor Superman murders Regime!Shazam before declaring that he'll burn both Gotham City and Metropolis to the ground.
  • Off-Model: The Year One series uses several different artists with different styles and varying quality. This can be a bit jarring in some of the lower quality art.
  • Offhand Backhand: A variation. In the first chapter, Prime Earth!Batman does an Offhand Punch Catch when Prime Earth!Joker tries to strike him after they both wind up in the Injustice Universe.
  • Oh Crap:
  • One-Liner, Name. One-Liner.: When Prime Earth!Shazam takes out Prime Earth!Black Adam with a magic lightning bolt.
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Green Arrow: "Thunder of the gods, Flash. Thunder of the gods."

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  • One World Order: By the time the Prime Earth Justice League are teleported to the Injustice Universe, the One-Earth Regime has already taken over the world, with the exception of Atlantis. In Aquaman's chapter, the underwater empire agrees to surrender to Superman, leaving Batman as the last remaining opposition to his dictatorship.
  • Outrun the Fireball: Subverted with Jesse Chambers, who tries to save others from the nuclear blast that destroys Metropolis, but ends up getting incinerated.
  • Papa Wolf: The entirety of Year Three was John Constantine's Xanatos Gambit to protect Rose. He didn't care one whit about Superman's Regime or Batman's Insurgency. He just wanted to get rid of Trigon so that his daughter would be safe from him.
  • Percussive Therapy:
    • After Dick Grayson's death, Batman punches up a training dummy for hours until he tears holes in the knuckles of his suit.
    • Midway through Year Five, Harley Quinn gets it in her head that the best way to sort out her emotional issues is to go "smoosh" Shazam for a while with her mallet.
  • Phlebotinum Overdose:
    • Commissioner Gordon's use of the strength pill accelerates the progress of his terminal lung cancer, ultimately killing him in Year Two.
    • Early in Year Four, Renee Montoya overdoses on Kryptonian strength pills, hoping she can defeat Superman this way and avenge Huntress. After a brief fight, she ends up dropping dead from a heart attack due to the massive strain the pills took on her body.
  • Police Brutality: In Year Two, the men Superman stationed in Gotham did this to Harvey Bullock, an actual police officer.
  • Police State: The Regime. Bonus points for being supposedly just a universal police force before it became a One World Order.
  • Poor Communication Kills: In the story mode, Cyborg overhears Lex Luthor and Deathstroke planning to take down Superman, and attacks them. Except Cyborg didn't know that it was about taking down High Chancellor Superman. Or that there was a Regime at all. Whoops.
  • Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh: Regime!Sinestro decides to smash Prime Earth!Superman into the ground with a giant energy mace. Superman just Flash Steps behind him and easily slips his power ring off of his finger.
  • Precision F-Strike: Superman, of all people, to John Constantine after he manages to trap him with Ragman and he narrowly escaped.
  • Pregnant Badass: Black Canary, as revealed at Green Arrow's funeral.
  • Press X to Not Die: The Story Mode features a few quick time events along the way, for things like Batman having to dodge arrows from a Raven-possessed Green Arrow or Wonder Woman using her bracelets to deflect bullets fired from Bane's machine gun. Failing parts of these challenges results in your character starting the subsequent fight with some of their health depleted.
  • Protagonist Journey to Villain: Documents the rise of the One-Earth Regime, including:
    • How Superman's motives for what he does warp all out of shape and his methods get increasingly extreme and brutal.
    • How Hal Jordan winds up becoming disillusioned with the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps and what exactly happened to make him trust Sinestro again and ultimately join his corps.
    • How Damian Wayne ends up joining Superman, and the cause for the breakdown in his and Batman's relationship.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: High Chancellor Superman has definite shades of this. His decision to destroy both Metropolis and Gotham City comes off more as a temper tantrum over the fact that they don't like him very much than any sort of tactical move. When he encounters his Good Counterpart, Prime Earth!Superman can barely get a word in, since High Chancellor Superman keeps interrupting him to complain about his backstory.
  • Real Song Theme Tune: The end credits theme is "Angel" by Depeche Mode.
  • Right Makes Might: In Story Mode, every time a Prime Earth hero faces their One-Earth Regime Counterpart, they will briefly argue over whether their proper role is protecting people or subjugating them before coming to blows. Every time, the heroic versions end up winning.
  • Reality Ensues:
    • Unlike, say, the DC Animated Universe, which is very Badass Normal-friendly, the actual power discrepancy between those who have powers and those who don't is played realistically for dramatic effect. The Insurgency have to fall back on stolen super pills just to stay in the game, with Batman outright stating they won't be able to stop Superman without them. And since the Regime heroes comprise most of those with powers, when the Insurgency does get a score or temporary victory, they only do so with cheap shots, surprise attacks and/or calling in help from more powerful figures. Indeed, during the Apokoliptian invasion, the most Batman's crew can do is hold the parademons off until Superman stops holding back and just zaps them.
      • And even then, the pills are merely strength/durability enhancers. That alone simply doesn't match up against Superman's Combo-Platter Powers or Wonder Woman's weapons and Lasso of Truth.
    • Commissioner Gordon reveals he has always known Barbara was Batgirl and who the people she spent time with were. He's been in the business of investigating crime long enough that there was no way he couldn't figure it out.
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Barbara: "How?"
Gordon: "How? I'm a detective!"

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    • Batman tries to use the Greek Gods to get Superman and co. to back off, but they're past his ability to control, don't share his ideology in any way and only got involved because of Zeus' ego being hurt by the fact that nobody worships him anymore. An Enemy Mine situation only works if you can maintain the advantage or have at least some fondness for each other, and without either, Batman still ends up losing.
    • A meta example. On the cover of the original release, Insurgency!Batman is charging at High Chancellor Superman with a chunk of kryptonite in his hand. On the 'Ultimate Edition' cover, Insurgency!Batman is getting his armor burnt off by High Chancellor Superman's heat vision.
  • Recruiting the Criminal: Year Five shows both Superman and Batman doing this, providing an explanation for how Bane, Killer Frost and Doomsday end up serving the Regime.
  • Role Reprisal:
  • Rule of Cool: The entire game runs on this. For example, how is Batman able to do a flying kick that knocks Bane backwards a few hundred feet through several walls? It's cool.
  • Saved by Canon: Any Regime members present in the game are all but certain to survive the prequel comic, and the writers don't hesitate to take advantage of that fact. Wonder Woman in particular has taken a tremendous amount of punishment as of Year Four's end.
  • Screw Destiny: At the very end of Year Two, Doctor Fate says "F**k fate" and saves Black Canary from dying before taking her and her newborn son to an alternate universe where Green Arrow is still alive.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
    • Frustrated with the Insurgency's lack of progress in defeating the Regime, disturbed by how many of their number have been killed trying to do so, and profoundly shaken from recently being tortured, Catwoman abandons the group early in Year Five.
    • Regime!Flash does this, joining the Insurgency after High Chancellor Superman murders Regime!Shazam.
  • Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Velocity: Long story short, there is no way we should be able to see the water splashing during the Flash's Super Move as he runs across it.[2]
  • Secret Secret Keeper: Commissioner Gordon knew who the members of the Bat-Family were from the very moment Barbara became Batgirl.
  • Seen It All: Upon being transported to the Injustice universe, the Prime Earth!Justice League immediately realizes from experience that they're in a Bad Future, an altered present or alternate version of Earth and start making plans to sort out which is which before they do anything too important. Upon meeting the evil versions of themselves or their friends, they all make a pretty good guess at what went wrong too from experience, while for their part, the Regime versions catch on to what's going on after a second after meeting their alternate versions as well.
  • Sequel Hook: After High Chancellor Superman is locked up by Prime Earth!Superman and Insurgency!Batman in a room filled with red sun lamps, his eyes start glowing red...
  • Shock and Awe: Shazam and Black Adam.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Shows Damage: Minor injuries and costume damage result from the brutal conflicts in each match.
  • Slashed Throat: How Wonder Woman mortally wounds Captain Atom.
  • Slowly Slipping Into Evil: The comic does a good job taking a step-by-step approach to emphasize Superman's increasing comfort with violence and extreme methods. Superman genuinely does believe and tries to be heroic, but without Lois and his estrangement from Bruce, his conscience and kindness gets hardened. He slowly loses his grip on his humanity and his reactions towards evil actions and crime become more and more extreme and disproportionate. He never consciously enacts evil actions but always in reaction, where his only method is extreme.
  • Something Completely Different: Year Five #37 and #38 form a single story that takes place on Prime Earth, just a few hours before the events depicted in the game.
  • Spiritual Successor: Of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
  • Start of Darkness. The prequel tie-in comic shows the events that led to High Chancellor Superman's Face Heel Turn.
  • Stuffed Into the Fridge:
    • Lois Lane, her unborn son, Jimmy Olsen and the entire population of Metropolis are killed off to justify Superman's fall from grace.
    • Dick Grayson as well, to give grief to both Batman and Oracle.
    • Huntress and Renee Montoya are this for Batwoman.
  • Superdickery: The trailers and previews hid the fact that the story was about an alternate universe Superman who had gone bad, making it look like there was only one.
  • Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Triumphantly averted by Prime Earth!Superman in Chapter 12 of the game's Story Mode.
  • Supporting Protagonist: The Batmen of both universes. For most of the story, they lead the fight against the One-Earth Regime, but are fully aware that they are outmatched by a large margin. The real hero is Superman, who is brought over to the Injustice universe during the final chapter to fight his Evil Counterpart directly.
  • Sympathetic Murderer: Poor High Chancellor Superman lost so much at the Joker's hands that he brutally murdered him in a fit of rage. Despite what he has become, this deed and the context for it are always played for maximum pathos.
  • Take That: The game can be considered an Alternate Company Equivalent of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. While none is present in the game, the box-art has been seen as one to said series by some fans, with Superman and Batman fighting over a dead Green Arrow's body. Said corpse looks pale and metallic, and while Green Arrow did die before the events of the game, that was Insurgency!Green Arrow with the box-art depicting Prime Earth!Green Arrow, which is significant as he wears his hood over his head, giving the body more than a passing resemblance to Doctor Doom, one of the most commonly-played characters in MvC3.
  • Taking You with Me: Attempted by Captain Atom, who drags Superman into orbit after Wonder Woman breaches his containment suit. He fails to kill Supes or Wondy, but the latter is left critically injured and put out of action for almost a year.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Particularly noticeable between Prime Earth!Cyborg and Insurgency!Deathstroke, though the latter claims his attempts to kill the Teen Titans were Just Business.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: When Prime Earth!Batman first ends up in the Injustice universe and escapes from a battalion of Gas Mask Mooks, he mutters to himself that he feels like he's in a living nightmare.
  • Those Two Guys: Regime!Flash and Regime!Shazam give off vibes of this early in the story. In fact, it's Regime!Shazam's cold-blooded murder at the hands of High Chancellor Superman that prompts Regime!Flash to pull a Heel Face Turn.
  • Trailers Always Spoil: Whilst a great effort was made to conceal that the story wasn't a straight-up war between Superman's One-Earth Regime and Batman's Insurgency, the Harley Quinn character trailer gave away the twist of Prime Earth!Joker winding up in the Injustice universe whilst the Green Lantern trailer outright revealed that the Prime Earth!Justice were pulled from their universe to help the Insurgency fight the Regime.
  • The Unmasking: Superman reveals Batman's Secret Identity via Twitter in Year One #28.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Characters appearing in the background in various stages do not react at all to the carnage raging around them. The few that do tend to get involved act as either interactables or stage transitions. Otherwise, they don't seem to bat an eye as the structures or objects immediately next to them get destroyed.
  • Use Your Head:
    • Alfred smashes Superman's face in with a rather vicious one after taking one of the strength pills.
    • In their Trial by Combat, Superman himself does it to Wonder Woman and breaks her nose.
    • Regime!Doomsday headbutts a building hard enough to make at least four of them fall over like a row of dominoes.
  • Villain Team-Up: The story in the game starts with the Prime Earth!Justice League and Teen Titans taking on Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom, which itself is just a distraction for the Joker and his attempted nuking of Metropolis.
  • Villainous Breakdown:
    • High Chancellor Superman noticeably becomes more aggressive when he finds out that Insurgency!Batman has a kryptonite weapon.
    • He really starts to lose it after Prime Earth!Batman is rescued from Stryker's Island by the Justice League, the Watchtower is destroyed by Insurgency!Deathstroke and Insurgency!Lex Luthor betrays him. He kills Luthor by breaking his neck on live television and his super-hearing picks up the public's fear and disgust at the act. The next scene has him rather dementedly declaring he will burn both Metropolis and Gotham City to the ground before going over to Prime Earth and completely obliterating it, in a sharp contrast to his calmer demeanor throughout most of the story.
  • Vocal Evolution:
    • While Tara Strong reprises her role of Raven, her voice sounds drastically different than in the Teen Titans cartoon, having been heavily modulated to sound more demonic.
    • Richard Epcar's portrayal of the Joker in this game sounds more like a Mark Hamill impression compared to how he sounded in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (higher-pitched and screechy).
  • War Is Hell: The comic doesn't shy away from showing the toll that the One-Earth Regime takes in its attempt to create world peace. Heroes who were once friends are pitted against each other, millions of innocent people die in the crossfire, and quite a few costumed characters are killed in brutal and often senseless ways.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: As soon as he's retrieved the equipment Insurgency!Luthor needs to repair the Kryptonite laser, Insurgency!Deathstroke vanishes from the story and is never seen or mentioned again. He doesn't even make a cameo in the epilogue. His Arcade ending, should it be canon, suggests that he's gone into hiding and recruited former members of the Regime to form a league of bounty hunters, who are being hired to aid in the struggles for power as new governments are established around the globe.
  • What If: The game's backstory can be summarized as "What if the Joker tried to give Superman one bad day... and it worked?"
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Prime Earth!Superman pulls a damn good one on High Chancellor Superman when the former finally confronts the latter in the end.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: An alternate universe with Knight Templar versions of DC superheroes deciding to create a new world order, who then get confronted by their main universe counterparts? It wouldn't be a stretch to say the game's plot is an Adaptation Expansion of the "A Better World" two-part episode from Justice League.
  • Wolverine Publicity: 5 of the first 11 characters revealed were Batman characters. Though honestly, it's par for the course these days.
  • Women Are Wiser: Prime Earth!Wonder Woman, in a speech to her Evil Counterpart and the Injustice!Amazons, tells them that they are supposed to counsel men and lead them away from anger instead of encouraging it.
  • World of Badass: Just look at the roster. If that's not enough, every playable character can both hurt Superman and survive his unrestrained might.
  • Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Averted. The Insurgency will have nothing to do with those who claim to admire Joker. When Batwoman arrives to talk some sense into the Joker Clan, she tears into them for trying to warp a homicidal madman's legacy into that of a reasonable anti-establishment figure.
  1. The video game reveals that he used a red solar grenade combined with a strength-pill.
  2. The clip lasts ten seconds and consists of the Flash encircling the Earth, which has a circumference of 40,075 kilometers. That distance across that time frame would be 14,427,000 kilometers per hour. However, the opponent barely moves between when the Flash begins running and when he returns, so he was moving even faster than that.
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