Justice League: Battle for the Multiverse

Justice League: Battle for the Multiverse is a American animated science fantasy superhero film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Home Video. The film serves as an alternate plot for Justice League Dark: Apokolips War and an alternate installment for the DC Animated Movie Universe. In the film (which is set after Reign of the Supermen, Batman: Hush and Wonder Woman: Bloodlines), the Justice League team up with the Teen Titans and several alternate versions of themselves when the Multiverse is threatened by the world collector Brainiac, whereas an alternate version of Terra arrives in their dimension seeking to reassemble a cosmic relic which will restore the existing dimensions in their right place.
== Plot ==
At the Watchtower, the Justice League formulate a plan to defeat the New God Darkseid, and end his plans for universal conquest following his two previous failed attempts on Earthevents of Justice League: War and Reign of the Superman. Just as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman arrive with Green Lanterns Hal Jordan, Arisia Rrab and Kilowog on Apokolips to spy on Darkseid, they witness the arrival of an superpowered young female individual, identified through Cyborg’s monitors as an alternate version of Terra from another dimension. Having solved the Anti-Life Equation in her universe, Terra effortlessly gains control over Apokolips’s elements and Darkseid’s army of "Paradooms"; genetic hybrids of Parademons and the monster Doomsdayintroduced in The Death of Superman, and turns them all against Darkseid himself, severely crippling him and enabling Terra to strip him off an unknown cosmic gemstone which was being used as the source of Darkseid’s Omega Force, and she links it into the “Tablet of Earth Prime”, a cosmic relic which keeps all 52 dimensions stable. Right before she departs through a Motherbox Boom Tube she owns, Terra notices the heroes and delivers them a message from her master before sending them back to the Watchtower and using the last bits of the Anti-Life Equation to overload Apokolips's core and obliterate the planet, destroying most of the Paradoomsthe surviving Paradooms and Parademons return in Justice League Dark: Mortal Kombat and leaving a severely crippled and weakened Darkseid to float in space and helplessly at the brink of death. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Green Lanterns read the message of Terra’s master, who advises them to be ready for the other threat which comes by, while Cyborg detects numerous dimensional anomalies spreading across Earth.
Back on Earth, Lois Lane (followed by Floyd Lawton / Deadshotpardoned since Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay and his daughter Zoe) infiltrates Cale Pharmaceuticals to find evidences of Veronica Cale’s crimes (including her involvement with Wonder Woman’s rogues gallery, the Villains Inc.events of Wonder Woman: Bloodlines and the murder of Julia Kapatelis), until they find Cale, the Villains Inc. members Cheetah and Giganta, Suicide Squad members Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang and King Shark and the Joker beaten and bruised by Terra and four of her followers -consisting of Black Owl, Alpha-Wolf, Static Shock and Omega Knight-, who obtain another gemstone (which Cale used as the power source of Doctor Cyber) for the Tablet of Earth Prime and upload the files and evidences of Cale’s crimes to Lois’s devices. Just as they leave the building with the evidences and with Cale on their custody, Lois and the Lawtons witness a large alien ship obliterating the Cale Pharmaceuticals building and abducting the bruised villains. Through the files from Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, they discover the ship belongs to Brainiac, a Coluan cyborg seeking to collect cities from different planets and brainwash its most powerful inhabitants as his spawns, and they set out to alert the Justice League and the Teen Titans about him.
Over the course, the Leaguers and Titans encounter several of their counterparts from parallel dimensions; Green Lantern and Batgirl encounter alternate versions of Bruce Wayne / Batman (from “the universe of Arkham Asylum”identified offscreen as the Batman: Arkham video game series), Kara Zor-El / Supergirl from Earth-38also known as the Arrowverse and Flashpoint Cyborg after a clash with Brainiac’s Reach spawns and Green Lantern’s cowardly Earth-3 counterpart Power Ring. Damian Wayne / Robin and Raven battle brainwashed Sinestro Corps troopers and Aquaman's Earth-3 counterpart Sea King with help from Thomas Wayne / Batman, Red Lantern Guy Gardner and the Soviet Superman. Searching for Terra’s whereabouts, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman clash with their evil counterparts from Earth-3 (Ultraman, Owlman and Superwoman) until they are aided by Terra’s master, revealed to be none other than Superman’s counterpart (who is the grandmaster and leader of the Blue Lantern Corps in his reality).
The alternate Superman reveals that Brainiac had tried to increase his full power by stealing the Tablet of Earth Prime as part of his plan to renew the Multiverse into his own image, until Terra secured it first and begun searching for its gemstones, the “Six Hearts of Earth Prime”, which she intends to reassemble with the Tablet to keep the Multiverse stable. He also informs the League that their dimension is falling apart due to most of the Hearts being on the hands of corrupted souls like Darkseid and Cale. Overhearing more from Lois and Deadshot, the League and the Titans begin making preparations for the incoming battle while some search for Terra. Batman, Nightwing, Raven, Beast Boy, and Flash reach and find Terra in a League of Shadows outpost, where they find her having destroyed Ra’s al Ghul’s temple and obtained another Heart of Earth Prime. Right before she sets out for the next Heart’s location, Terra discovers the group and reveals to them some of her origins, which are not the same of her deceased counterpart’sevents of Teen Titans: The Judas Contract from the heroes’ native dimension, before they defeat Flash’s Earth-3 counterpart Johnny Quick and Flashpoint Aquaman, who are revealed to be under Brainiac’s control along with other supervillains.
Through Flashpoint Aquaman’s memories, Raven discovers that Brainiac is holding the crippled Darkseid prisoner in his mothership and using what remains from his Omega Force to empower his technology and brainwash the metahumans in doing his bidding. While Batman and the rest of the group search for answers about other dimensionally displaced heroes and villains, Raven goes with Terra search for the next Heart, which is located in Green Lantern home-planet of Oa, where the Guardians of the Universe Ganthet and Sayd inform them that the Heart is guarded on the planet's forbidden chamber where Sinestro first obtained the source of his Yellow Lanterns’ powers, which can only be accessed by defeating images of their own fears. Terra and Raven do so by overcoming their respective fears of becoming Deathstroke's apprentice and witnessing Trigon's returnTrigon is imprisoned in the pocket dimension of Raven’s ruby since Justice League vs. Teen Titans, earning the Heart.
The Justice League and the Titans manage to gather their counterparts and prepare for the battle against Brainiac’s forces. Lex Luthor attempts to discreetly report to Brainiac of the heroes’ plans, but Superman (having predicted his deception after being informed by his counterpart that most of Luthor’s counterparts cannot be trusted) foils him, and Luthor is defeated by his own counterpart from the Soviet Superman’s dimension and stripped off his memories of the League's classified files. They also discover that Luthor has one of the Hearts of Earth Prime, and deliver it to Terra. Informed by Cyborg and Green Lantern A.I. Aya that the last Heart is in the core of Brainiac's mothership, Superman and his counterparts decide to lure Brainiac into an alternate post-apocalyptic version of Oa, while other heroes keep Brainiac’s forces occupied in a alternate reality where Metropolis was destroyed and rendered a wastelandevents of the Injustice video game franchise.
The Justice League, the Titans and the displaced heroes, aided by the armies of Themyscira and Atlantis, mount a defense against Brainiac’s army (consisting of Cyberdemons; roboticized versions of Darkseid’s Parademons, and Reach spawns), and the villains Brainiac captured and brainwashed. Batman, Cyborg, Supergirl, and the Supermen confront Brainiac himself in the alternate Oa, where the Coluan fuses himself with the still mutilated Darkseid’s body, and battle him, distracting him while Terra and Raven infiltrate the mothership. After freeing the shrunken cities of Brainiac’s collection and teleporting them into the Fortress of Solitude, they reach the Heart and remove it from the core of the ship. Brainiac, however, discovers what they are doing and begins to chase them, but Terra slows him down by using the Earthly elements of the planet, allowing Raven to use her dark magic to transfer Trigon’s essence from the ruby she imprisoned him in to Brainiac’s spark, where Darkseid and Trigon begin fighting each other in an Astral Plane for control.
The fight between the two overlords begins to overload Brainiac’s circuits, allowing Cyborg and Aya into teleporting the team back to their Earth while Brainiac explodes, killing Darkseid and Trigon in the process. The Cyberdemons and Reach Spawns are disintegrated and the brainwashed villains are freed from Brainiac’s mind control and knocked unconscious. With the battle over, Terra links the last Heart with the Tablet, successfully completing it as the Tablet returns to the center of Earth Prime in its own. The Multiverse begins returning to normal, and the displaced heroes bid farewell to the Leaguers and Titans before being teleported back to their own dimensions along with the displaced villains.
The heroes return to their usual activities while starting new errands; Wonder Woman and Aquaman form a new peace union between their nations (which Flash is hopeful to have a better outcome than in the Flashpoint realityevents of Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox). Superman, Starfire, Martian Manhunter and the Green Lantern Corps work together in picking new planets and star systems for the shrunken cities, with Cyborg monitoring them. Back in her reality, Terra watches a sunset with Blue Lantern Superman sitting next to her.
* the following scenes mark continuity to Wonder Woman: Tales of SisterhoodIn three respective mid-credit scenes, Superman continues working with Starfire, Martian Manhunter and the Green Lanterns in finding new planets for the shrunken cities until he spots an Kryptonian escape pod (just like the one which brought him to Earth long ago) floating in space and, to his surprise and satisfaction, discovers his cousin Kara Zor-El inside it. Zoe Lawton (overseeing footage of Black Owl, whom she learned to be her own counterpart from Terra's reality) finds out she has some of her father’s abilities to hit the right target, and mutters: "Maybe someday" while staring at a mask she made for herself. Jessica Cruz, a young Green Lantern fan and mechanical genius in S.T.A.R. Labs under John Henry Irons’s tutelage, is working on an A.I. based on Aya before she is chosen to wield a Green Lantern power ring which was searching for her.
* In a post-credit scene, Terry McGinnis (a futuristic version of Batman) travels to a 1966 Gotham City, where he has an unexpected encounter with that universe’s Batman and Robin, and flees.
== Voice Cast ==
* Ashley Johnson as Tara Markov / Terra
* Jerry O'Connell as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman, Blue Lantern Superman, DCEU Superman
* Rosario Dawson as Diana / Wonder Woman, Bekka / New God Wonder Woman, DCEU Wonder Woman
* Jason O'Mara as Bruce Wayne / Batman, Arkham Asylum Batman, DCEU Batman
* Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl
* as Raven
* Stuart Allan as Damian Wayne / Robin
* as Victor Stone / Cyborg (all versions)
* as Barry Allen / Flash (all versions)
* Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (all versions)
* Matt Lanter as Arthur Curry / Aquaman
* Peyton List as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl
* Rebecca Romijn as Lois Lane
* as Dick Grayson / Nightwing
* as Garfield Logan / Beast Boy (both main and JL/TT version)
* as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
* Phil LaMarr as Static Shock, John Stewart
* Troy Baker as Kirk Langstrom / Vampire Batman, Mecha Batman
* Diedrich Bader as Son of Zod Superman, DCEU Aquaman
* Kari Wahlgren as Koriand'r / Starfire (both main version and Blue Lantern version from the JLA/TT reality), Zoe Lawton, JJ/TT Zoe Lawton / Black Owl
* Grey Griffin as Aya, Green Lantern Power Rings
* Travis Willingham as Mecha Superman, Kilowog
* Laura Bailey as Mecha Wonder Woman, Arisia Rrab
* Arnold Vosloo as Brainiac
* Tony Todd as Darkseid
* Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor (both main version and Red Son version)
* Steve Blum as Thomas Wayne / Flashpoint Batman, Owlman, Paradoom Captain
* Liam O'Brien as Soviet Superman
* Nolan North as Ultraman, Power-Ring, Flashpoint Aquaman
* Hynden Walch as Flashpoint Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn (both main version and Arkhamverse version), Veronica Cale
* Cree Summer as Superwoman
* John DiMaggio as Trigon, King Shark, Sea King
* Greg Ellis as Captain Boomerang
* Jason Spisak as Johnny Quick, Red Lantern Guy Gardner, Joker (uncredited), Terry McGinnis / Batman (uncredited)
* Adam West as 1966 Batman (archive audio only; uncredited)After Terry McGinnis flees to another dimension, the 1966 Batman quotes: "I just can’t seem to get a break today...". Those lines are taken from Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
== Featured Parallel Universe Characters ==
Justice League: Battle for the Multiverse features a large ensemble cast of heroes and villains drawn from the history of DC Comics' Multiverse.
* Justice League/Teen Titans Animated Universe characters
** Terra
** Superman
** Arisia Rrab
** Starfire
** Beast Boy
** Black Owl
** Alpha-Wolf
** Static Shock
** Omega Knight
* Flashpoint Characters
** Batman (Thomas Wayne)
** Cyborg
** Wonder Woman
** Aquaman
* Superman: Red Son characters
** Superman
** Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
** Lex Luthor
* DCEU (DC Extended Universe) characters
** Superman
** Batman
** Wonder Woman
** Cyborg
** Flash
** Aquaman
* Arrowverse characters
** Supergirl
** Flash
** Atom
* Green Lantern: The Animated Series characters
** Hal Jordan
** Aya
* Arkhamverse characters
** Batman
** Harley Quinn
* Mecha Universe
** Mecha Superman
** Mecha Batman
** Mecha Wonder Woman
** Mecha Flash
** Mecha Green Lantern
* Gods and Monsters universe
** Son of Zod Superman
** Bekka / New God Wonder Woman
** Kirk Langstrom / Batman
* Earth-3 / Crime Syndicate
** Ultraman
** Owlman
** Superwoman
** Johnny Quick
** Power Ring
** Sea King
== Trivia ==
* Along with the theme songs from previous DCAMU films, soundtrack consists of theme songs from the different DC franchises.
** The theme song of CBS/CW’s 2015 Supergirl TV series is heard twice; first during Supergirl’s introduction in the film, and later during the mid-credit scene featuring her counterpart from the main Justice League's dimension.
* Despite not appearing in the film, the Arrowverse version of Green Arrow (prior his death in the Crisis on Infinite Earths arc) is mentioned a few times by Supergirl and Flash. His arrows and bow are also carried along as a reminder of their fallen friend.
* The post-credit scene featuring the Terry McGinnis version of Batman and Adam West's character is similar to the post-credits scene of the Marvel Comics animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
== Sequels ==
* See also: Justice League Dark: Mortal Kombat, Superman: Prime, Dark Knights and Wonder Woman: Tales of Sisterhood
== References ==
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