The Judas Contract Abridged

## Description

*The Judas Contract Abridged* was planned to be the eighth film in the DC Abridged Universe. Due to the decision to move towards a series finale and cancel all other projects, the planned film was scrapped. However, the script was finished and can be read here on the official DC Abridged Universe Patreon.

## Plot

Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke, masquerades as a therapist to gather information on the weaknesses of the Teen Titans, a team of young superheroes consisting of Beast Boy, Starfire, Blue Beetle, Raven, Robin, and occasionally Nightwing. The Titans' newest member, Terra, is secretly a mole planted by Deathstroke to help him take down the young heroes. One night, she tries to seduce the much older villain, but he quickly shuts it down. She later thanks him for this, as she is still only a teenage girl.

In Gotham City, Nightwing (dressed as Batman while Bruce Wayne is out of town) takes down the new Black Mask with the help of Robin. Later, they join the other Titans in raiding a compound home to H.I.V.E., a cultist terrorist organization the team has fought many times. The leader of the cult is Brother Blood, who is constantly trying to take over his home country of Markovia. After completing the mission, Nightwing proposes to Starfire, his long-time girlfriend. She happily accepts.

Brother Blood is angry to learn of the Teen Titans meddling in his affairs. He's been using H.I.V.E.'s resources to build a machine that can suck the life force from different people and give it to one person. The goal of the terrorist organization is to better humanity through the genetic tampering of human evolution. It's revealed that Deathstroke is working for the cult leader and they are both trying to take down the Titans.

Terra suffers from nightmares of her troubled past. She is the bastard daughter of the King of Markovia and was banished to a peasant village at birth. When her metahuman powers manifested, they tried to kill her. These bad dreams cause her to accidentally use her geokinetic abilities and plunge Titans Tower into an earthquake. Raven is able to use her emotion-based abilities to help stop her. Not trusting his new teammate, Robin follows her and discovers Deathstroke, an old foe of his. The villain manages to capture the Boy Wonder. Slade then rounds up the rest of the Titans so that Brother Blood can take their collective life force his own, completing the H.I.V.E. mission. He seemingly kills Nightwing rather than capturing him, though the hero secretly survives.

Beast Boy, who had romantically pursued Terra since she joined, is heartbroken by his teammate's betrayal. She reveals that it was Deathstroke who had saved her from the Markovian peasants and taken her in. Brother Blood tells Slade that he must give up Terra for his failure to capture Nightwing, which he does, double-crossing his pupil. Nightwing arrives and disables the cultist's machine, but not before he evolves off the Titans' powers. Together, the Titans manage to defeat the villain. Furious at her mentor's betrayal, Terra activates the full scope of her powers to kill Deathstroke. She gives a tearful goodbye to Beast Boy and thanks him for being her friend, then brings the roof down on her and Slade as the other heroes escape. The Titans pay their respects to Terra, with Beast Boy noting that she will always be a Titan.

In a post-credits scene, Nightwing and Starfire are married by Alfred Pennyworth.

## Characters

In order of appearance:

* Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
* Garfield Logan/Beast Boy
* Koriand'r/Starfire
* Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle
* Rachel Roth/Raven
* Dick Grayson/Nightwing
* Damian Wayne/Robin
* Tara Markov/Terra
* Roman Sionis Jr./Black Mask
* Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood
* King Viktor Markov
* Queen Ilona DeLamb-Markov
* May Bennet/Mother Mayhem
* Traci Thirteen
* Alfred Pennyworth

Additionally, Joseph Wilson/Jericho appears in a non-speaking capacity. Diana/Wonder Woman, Joker, Roman Sionis/Black Mask, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Queen Bee, Clark Kent/Superman, Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance-Queen, Katar Hol/Hawkman, Shayera Thal/Hakwoman, Arthur Curry/Aquaman, and Mera are also mentioned.

## Trivia

* The heroes talking to a therapist (Slade) at "The Sanctuary" is all a reference to the comic book event *Heroes in Crisis*, which Raven points out.
* The names of Blood's servants, Viserys and Daenerys, are obvious references to *A Song of Ice and Fire* and its popular television adaptation, *Game of Thrones*.
* Blood notes that one of his workers looks like Sigourney Weaver's character Ripley in *Alien.*
* Terra's "I threw a rock at 'im" is a reference to Killer Croc's infamous line from the *Batman: The Animated Series* episode "Almost Got 'Im".
* Dick references *Lethal Weapon*.