Secret Origins: A Justice League Movie

**Secret Origins: A Justice League Movie** should be an American superhero-comedy action-adventure direct-to-video film (based on “The Justice League Show”) that will either act as the prequel or be released before the main series, *The Justice League Show*.

## Plot

Two astronauts explore the terrain of Venus. One of them stumbles onto the entrance to an underground cavern, at the end of which is a massive, ornate door. He wedges his pickaxe into the door's lock, and forces it open. The doors open, and something massive rushes out, causing him to retreat back to the shuttle while the other one gets caught by a mysterious but massive tentacle.

Two years later: Batman makes a brief trip to the outskirts of Metropolis, spying on a satellite communications facility operated by Wayne Tech. As he watches, an employee of the facility exchanges amiable good-byes with his co-workers, but as soon as he is alone, he quickly changes into the Faceless Hunter and begins tampering with the equipment. Batman appears, introduces himself with his FBI wallet, and prepares to subdue him, but the Faceless Hunter fights back with amazing speed and strength to keep him at bay. Batman eventually corners him on top of the roof dish, but when he was about to make an immediate arrest, the Faceless Hunter detonates the satellite, and flees into the forest, leaving the falling Batman to be saved by none other than Superman.

As the two heroes share a reserved greeting, Batman explains that this station is the latest in a series that has been sending strange encrypted signals into space. At first Superman offers his help, but he must continue his nightly patrol around Metropolis; he hands him a communicator to use in case he needs help before flying off into the night sky. Batman is skeptical at first, but he reluctantly agrees even though he thinks Superman is kind to everyone, including him.

Later, Superman attends a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (who currently fears of the upcoming alien invasion) where one of the two astronauts from the Venus expedition, Sgt. Franklin John Rock, proposes a bold plan for total nuclear disarmament. He champions Superman as Earth's protector, believing that the Man of Steel is both reliable and more than capable of handling any threat to the Earth. Superman embraces the idea, and while he gives his rousing speech to ensure freedom to all mankind, a cloaked woman observes his announcement. Superman’s idea quickly went global, despite protests from the military and other sources, even Green Lantern remarks what he knows about Superman.

As Superman works to disarm the world's nuclear weapons, Batman continues his investigation. He traces the Faceless Hunter into a warehouse in Metropolis, where he discovers a bag full of sleeping Starro clones. Then a guard dog appears, which turns out that it has a Starro clone on its face, and attacks him. Batman is outmatched, and calls for help.

Superman arrives, and manages to save Batman again, but then both of them watch as a meteor comes down from the sky and crashes into the heart of Metropolis. From the crater, a massive Starro drone appears, and without preamble makes its hostility clear. In response to this arrival, the President of the United States arrives on the Air Force One and attempts to make first contact with it. However, the attempt fails and the drone goes on a destructive rampage, resisting all conventional military force used against it. More meteors crash, giving rise to more vehicles. Superman and Batman throw everything they have at the creatures, but to no avail, so they call in a full retreat immediately.

The world goes into a panic about this new alien invasion. Meanwhile, at the White House, during an emergency meeting, another one of the astronauts from the Venus expedition, in the form of General Sam Lane of the U.S. Army, suggests they summon more Superheroes to stop the invasion. This leads Batman into sadly concluding that this mystery is considered a counterfeit due to the invasion itself, even Superman agrees with him. Suddenly, before the meeting is adjourned, the Secret Service (corrupted into slaves by the Starro clones) invade the White House and attempt to kidnap the president. Superman and Batman try to prevent them from doing so until the cloaked woman appears into the scene to intervene herself. Although her hair was mentioned, the woman begins to seclude the kidnappers by force, only to reveal herself as Wonder Woman when the slaves blow her cover in the process. Wonder Woman then leads Batman and Superman to drive off the rest of the attackers from outside the White House, with unexpected help from Green Lantern and the Flash. After the heroes gather, the General explains about his discovery, and then, the invasion; with their presence on Earth established, the Starro aliens set up enormous factories that project an ionizing field into the atmosphere, creating a massive cloud cover that shrouds the entire planet. The General explains that the invaders are nocturnal, wishing to block out the sun, and the heroes agree that the factories should be investigated before destroying them.

Organized as the Justice League, the heroes board the Air Force One and take off, and then split into three groups to destroy each factory later on. Superman is sent back to Metropolis to destroy the first factory; Flash and Green Lantern are sent to Central City to destroy the second factory; and Batman and Wonder Woman are sent to Gotham City to destroy the third factory. During the mission, Batman discovers and reveals that the aliens are vulnerable to the sun's rays, which is why they are creating the cloud cover. Soon, they manage to steal the ion crystals that power each factory. It was a success, but they lose contact with General Lane, who was apparently killed. While most of the team regroups in the fourth factory that contains others, Green Lantern and Flash find the President and General Lane in a holding cell. The General warns them they do not have much time, as Starro the Conqueror — the leader of the Invaders — will be arriving soon. Green Lantern and Flash then regroups with the rest of the team to tell them who they found, so the team combines their superpowers (by their battle cry “Justice League, ADVANCE!”) for the first time, and rush into the scene to create a diversion in order to rescue the both president and the general. However, as they were just about to free them, the clones ambush them, and the team is captured by the Faceless Hunter.

As the five heroes, along with the president and general, are held captive, they are shocked to see the Faceless Hunter, who introduces himself as Chun Yull, and explains that long ago, Starro goes from planet to planet and exerts its mind control powers as well as using psychic clones to take over the minds of individuals. Then, a unified army that included the Olympian Gods, Amazons, Atlanteans, mankind, and the Green Lantern Corps halted Starro’s objective, casting him out into another dimension, called the milky way galaxy, buried alive on Venus, where he stays there for the rest of his days until awakened by the General. The Faceless Hunter also explains that the aliens learned as much as possible about Earth's defenses, and tricked the humans into disarming their most powerful weapons.

With no more effective obstacles to their invasion left, the aliens signal a mothership orbiting the Earth, and receive their leader, Starro the Conqueror. Starro thanks the General for freeing him, and orders for the president to be disintegrated. Starro calls on the president to surrender, saying that he has finally lost, but the general tells Starro he has yet to play his trump card, in the form of Brainiac 5, who makes his surprise entrance, surprising everyone. The General explains that Brainiac 5 is programed by the government to protect and serve, like other superheroes do. Brainiac 5 has used the time to sabotage the ion crystals (which the Justice League dropped when they were captured), reversing the field's polarity. The clouds part, and the sun shines through the opening in the factory's roof.

Exposed to the sun, Starro’s clones begin to burn and die. Brainiac 5 explains that the aliens have no resistance to ultraviolet radiation, as he helps to free the Justice League. Superman, having regained his powers thanks to the sun's yellow light shining through again, frees himself via his heat vision, then helps frees the rest of the team. Afterwards, they all engage in combat with the aliens, while smashing large holes in the roof to kill off the remaining clones. Starro, now with its skin blistering grapples with the president, hastily retreats back into his mothership, leaving the Faceless Hunter to be captured by the freed Secret Service. However, Wonder Woman lassoes the shuttle, which the rest of the team then downs with their combined superpowers, and then sends it falling into the factory, destroying it, causing Starro to die by shattering into fractals that rain down on Metropolis. The other heroes quickly evacuate the captured humans (who are finally cured when the clones on their faces disintegrate into nothingness) before the factory explodes.

With the world saved, as the Justice League is honored back at Washington DC, Brainiac 5 suggests to the General that he should also join the Justice League to help defend Earth (since he cooperated with them during the fall of Starro), and the General agrees. While the rest of the world celebrates the repulse of the invasion, Batman learns that he cannot protect and serve alone, and Superman, who is now appointed leader of the Justice League, asks if he can be his executive officer, reassuring him that he doesn't have to go solo anymore; Batman smiles and agrees, calling Superman a wonderful human being.

In the post-credits scene, Lex Luthor stumbles upon one of the fractals buried underground. He is surprised to make this discovery, only to be called by Darkseid, who wants all villains, including Luthor, to report to the Hall of Doom for an emergency assembly. Though Luthor was telling Darkseid that he found something incredible, Darkseid cuts him off, saying that this is serious; Luthor reluctantly agrees to go to the Hall of Doom to attend his latest assembly, dropping the fractal for now and hoping to come back for the fractal later, thus leading to the main series.

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