The Injustice Movie is GOOD Actually

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I enjoy the Injustice Comic but I am so tired of people bringing it up and acting like every single Superman has the potential to become Injustice Superman (this view can be disproven just by reading “Kingdom Come”)

I love how so many people completely misunderstood the point of the Killing Joke. Do they not realize that Joker was wrong? People bring up Killing Joke to prove that Superman becoming evil isn't out of character, not realizing that Joker was actually wrong. Like, he didn't break Gordon. Ordinary people don't crack, Joker did.

The problem I have with people and stories that say one more bad day is all it takes for any hero to become a villain is that they forget that it’s wrong. Like the point of the killing joke, the story that everyone points to as prove, is that the Joker is wrong Batman and Gordon both prove him wrong at the end.

Admittedly Injustice was my first time seeing the “evil Superman” concept so I thought it was a novel idea at the time, but I’ve grown to appreciate that Superman is just a good dude.

I think all of this comes from a fundamental misunderstanding people have when it comes to The Killing Joke. In that story Joker claims that everyone is "one bad day" away from becoming a monster but the story itself is meant to show that his belief is wrong. Too many people seem to take Joker at his word that people's spirits can be so easily broken and that's why stories like Injustice become so popular.

Yeah is a shame Kingdom Come doesn't get as much attention as Injustice. It is literally the better Injustice

They actually do explain why Wonder Woman is so bloodthirsty and ruthless in the Injustice universe. Admittedly, it doesn't come until the Injustice 2 annual in 2017, but there is an explanation: Basically, in the Injustice universe Diana met Steve Trevor during WWII. He crashed on Themyscira and convinced Diana to join him and the Allies in the war and Diana joins him and fights the nazis and they fall in love (kinda like in the movie only with WWII instead of WWI). But then one night, Steve gets caught trying to steal the lasso of truth and accidentally kills a guard. Diana then uses the lasso on him to ask why he tried to steal it and he reveals he's actually a Nazi spy and while he loves Diana, he loves his homeland more. Diana becomes devastated by this and admits that while she loves him, he killed an Amazon and fights for a side that has committed unspeakable acts on innocent people and she cannot forgive that. She declares that as an amazon it's her sacred duty to defend the world and that she will defend it from Steve before killing him. After this she becomes much more cold and ruthless in her mission to protect the world, which eventually leads her to joining Superman and his regime. Now, should this explanation have come way sooner? Yes. Do Diana and Steve still feel out of character with this origin? Yes. But it's at least SOMETHING to explain why she is how she is in the Injustice universe.

All I can say is thank god for Superman and Lois and My Adventures with Superman for bringing back the more heroic and optimistic Superman.

Good stuff! I didn't hate the animated movie, but hearing you lay out the actual theoretical reasoning for the changes it made from the game/comic makes it all that much better to me. I hope the folks who made that movie see this video, for all the time they no doubt spent working everything out.

The reason why Wonder Woman is so psychotic in Injustice is because her origin is significantly different, with Steve Trevor being evil. Shame the game didn't establish that, though.

2:23 invincible has a lot more to it than just “evil Superman” because it fully embraces the stories and classic tropes of comics, just not pulling its punches in terms of how dark and bloody being an all-powerful superhuman could be.

They say power corrupts. "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely". However, Superman as a character directly opposes that notion. What Superman represents is not that power corrupts, no. Power does not corrupt. Power *reveals*. Those with power are revealed to show who they truly are, whether they truly are "men" (like all the superheroes with "man" in their name) or a monster. And its a fine line between conveying that monstrosity as just humanity in pain or true psychopathy.

I always felt like what separated Injustice Superman from the other evil/dark versions is that it was that Lois's death was by his own hands. Not directly from a villain or a disaster or whatever, even though he was seeing a warped reality caused by the Joker, it was still him that killed her. And that was what truely set him off to become a villain, unlike other version like Kingdom Come and what not. Just something I've always kinda taken from the story is all

Injustice also had a negative impact on Batman. He wasn't evil, but it just showed Boon and WB's favoritism to make him the lone survivor and moral consciousness of the JLA, and the second game felt like it was written by a Batman fan who believes he can beat anyone, prep time or not.

The biggest problem with the Injustice movie is that it's too short. I don't know why WB is so insistent that all their animated movies be less than 90 minutes and give them a such a miniscule budget.

I always hated that even though there was multiple points in the game where the evil versions interacted with their normal selves and they outright say they would never do what they did regardless of the jokers actions, people still act like the main characters would do this, its like the collective fanbase of injustice just decided to ingore major aspects of the story to suit their nihilistic garth ennis narrative that all superheroes suck, this story has a few issues yes but the fans around it made it so much worse by acting like this what should be normal instead of an elseworld

I maintain that Injustice is a good story, it's just that a portion of the fandom missed the entire godamn point of it

The Sentry and Red Son aren't really evil tho. The Sentry is about a hero confronting his dark past and is more based around duality, plus in the end of the original story he ultimately makes a heroic sacrifice, and Red Son is more so a misguided Kal who eventually becomes the hero we all know him as.

The reason you don't like the story of Injustice and the majority of people online, it influenced a lot of people who NEVER read comics to think DC characters are like this, but the game shows how the OG characters are supposed to be like. It's the typical big companies seeing the surface level of why a project does well and running it into the ground. Also at 24:16 you use the art that's supposed to be Prime Earth Superman and not the dictator one.