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* PowerTattoo: Ultraviolet Power Rings take the form of a tattoo branded on the ring finger. Once John takes back control of himself his turns into a Green Lantern Ring tattoo, with all the same capabilities.
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* CrazyPrepared: Batman, [[CrazyPrepared/{{Batman}} as per usual]].[[spoiler:He has bombs planted underneath the surface of the moon. ''Which he uses to destroy the whole thing when Savage uses it as a Cyclotron to pull the Earth’s crust apart.'']]

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* CrazyPrepared: Batman, [[CrazyPrepared/{{Batman}} as per usual]]. [[spoiler:He has bombs planted underneath the surface of the moon. ''Which he uses to destroy the whole thing when Savage uses it as a Cyclotron to pull the Earth’s crust apart.'']]



* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod the World Forger,]] of all people,]] joins the League at the conclusion of "The Sixth Dimension."

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod the World Forger,]] Forger]], of all people,]] joins the League at the conclusion of "The Sixth Dimension."



* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Multiverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin together in an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Multiverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]

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* ShoutOut: Many, many to WesternAnimation/SuperFriends within the first issue alone.

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Many, many to WesternAnimation/SuperFriends ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' within the first issue alone. alone.
** The moment in issue #25 where Superman [[spoiler: defeats the World Forger while flanked by symbolic images of Jon Lane-Kent and [[NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay the deceased Pa Kent]] is one to the iconic "Father-Son Kamehameha" scene where Gohan destroys Cell once and for all in ''Manga/DragonBallZ''.]] [[https://twitter.com/JorgeJimenezArt/status/1138051832289386496 Jorge Jimenez later confirmed the homage on Twitter]].
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Perpetua, with Lex Luthor as TheDragon.]]


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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod the World Forger,]] of all people,]] joins the League at the conclusion of "The Sixth Dimension."

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* GodIsEvil: The creator of the multiverse, Perpetua, is a selfish being that intended reality to be something predatory to fight for her and avoid the possibility of being judged and punished accordingly.



* HumansAreSpecial: Perpetua's perfect plan involves combining the ComboPlatterPowers of Martians with the Human potential to harness the seven forces.

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* HumansAreSpecial: Perpetua's perfect plan involves combining the ComboPlatterPowers Humans are capable of Martians with the Human potential to harness harnessing the seven forces.forces the cosmic creator herself uses to create realities. Starman is an ultimate example, since his power harnesses the power that expands the multiverse itself.
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** According to the World Forger, being on opposite ends of this scale is why Superman and Batman were both assigned imps.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Thanagar Prime and Shayera Hol]] is as friendly to the Justice League as first shown.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Thanagar Prime and Shayera Hol]] is not as friendly to the Justice League as first shown.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Shayera Hol]] is typically a hero in the DCU and occasionally a member/ally of the Justice League. In this continuity, [[spoiler: she]] rules [[spoiler: Thanagar]] and is willing to go against the Justice League when they come.


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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Thanagar Prime and Shayera Hol]] is as friendly to the Justice League as first shown.
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* TheLeader: The Martian Manhunter takes over as chairman of the Justice League.

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* FiveBadBand: The Legion of Doom
** BigBad: Lex Luthor
** CoDragons: The Joker and Sinestro, [[spoiler: later Brainiac replaces Joker]]
** DarkChick: Cheetah
** EvilGenius: Grodd
** TheBrute: Black Manta
** SixthRanger: [[spoiler: The Batman Who Laughs]]
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Perpetua]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Martian Manhunter
** TheLancer: Green Lantern
** TheChick: Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman
** TheBigGuy: Superman
** TheSmartGuy: Batman and Flash
** TeamPet: Jarro
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* FiveBadBand: The Legion of Doom
** BigBad: Lex Luthor
** CoDragons: The Joker and Sinestro, [[spoiler: later Brainiac replaces Joker]]
** DarkChick: Cheetah
** EvilGenius: Grodd
** TheBrute: Black Manta
** SixthRanger: [[spoiler: The Batman Who Laughs]]
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Perpetua]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Martian Manhunter
** TheLancer: Green Lantern
** TheChick: Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman
** TheBigGuy: Superman
** TheSmartGuy: Batman and Flash
** TeamPet: Jarro
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* GameBreakingInjury: [[spoiler: Batman]] is viciously beaten in a fight to the point of breaking all arms and legs, spreading the next several issues in a high tech body cast and forced [[spoiler: to use a confiscated Luthor warsuit to defend himself when the Legion of Doom comes falling.]]

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* GameBreakingInjury: [[spoiler: Batman]] is viciously beaten in a fight to the point of breaking all arms and legs, spreading the next several issues in a high tech body cast and forced [[spoiler: to use a confiscated Luthor warsuit to defend himself when the Legion of Doom comes falling.calling.]]
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* GameBreakingInjury: [[spoiler: Batman]] is viciously beaten in a fight to the point of breaking all arms and legs, spreading the next several issues in a high tech body cast and forced [[spoiler: to use a confiscated Luthor warsuit to defend himself when the Legion of Doom comes falling.]]


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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Batman breaks both of his arms and legs in the first arc fighting Luthor]] and spends the next couple arcs recuperating from it.
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* BeYourself: Luthor’s motivation is that humanity should just embrace its dark inner impulses and stop trying to be something it isn’t.


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* TheEmpire: [[spoiler: The future where humanity follows Lex’s example sees Earth conquer the universe.]]


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** The series starts off with nine members but eventually whittles it down to seven.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: The World Forger’s philosophy in regards to the fight between Justice and Doom. This motivates him to [[spoiler: trap Superman in a pocket dimension that will eventually kill him because Clark’s optimism that they can win without moral compromise jeopardizes the multiverse’s chance for survival. He manages to seemingly sway Batman to his way of thinking as well.]]
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* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: The Future Justice League in “The Sixth Dimension” at first seem to be purely altruistic heroes overseeing a utopia but soon reveal to have engaged in morally gray actions to ensure “Justice” triumphed over “Doom” on their world. Many on the primary League openly question just how “just” this world is.]]


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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The World Forger’s reasoning behind [[spoiler: pre-emptively imprisoning/destroying anyone who would choose Doom.]]
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* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: What the fight between “Justice” and “Doom” ultimately means: will the multiverse as a whole rise above its base instincts (Justice) or revel in it (Doom)?
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Lex is trying to bring this about with the Justice League trying to stop him.
* EnemyMine: The present day League teams with [[spoiler: the future versions of the Legion of Doom to escape the future Justice League.]]


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** Seemingly, [[spoiler: Batman allies with the World Forger and the future Justice League when they tell him it’s the only way Justice can win over Doom.]]


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* FutureMeScaresMe: Played with in the “Sixth Dimension” arc. The League go into the future to find [[spoiler: a utopian world where Justice completely won over Doom and now everyone is happy. However, the League discovers their future selves pre emptively threw everyone who would choose Doom over Justice into a planet-sized gulag in order to win.]]

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* KnightTemplar: The World Forger's plan to redeem the multiverse [[spoiler: is to imprison and eventually destroy all villains aligned with Doom while he creates a perfect world entirely aligned to Justice and pass it off as being that way all along to cheat the evaluation of higher powers]].

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* KnightTemplar: The World Forger's plan to redeem the multiverse [[spoiler: is to imprison and eventually destroy all villains aligned with Doom while he creates a new perfect world multiverse entirely aligned to Justice and pass it off as being that way all along to cheat the evaluation of higher powers]].powers]]. Near literally when they recruit Batman to their cause.



* SupervillainLair / VolcanoLair: The Hall of Doom.

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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: All over the place; between the heroes and villains presented as Justice vs Doom and later between the heroes themselves in regards to redemptive hope and condemning resignation.
* SupervillainLair / VolcanoLair: : The Hall of Doom.Doom, located in a [[VolancoLair scenic volcano]].

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* HumansAreSpecial: Perpetua's perfect plan involves combining the ComboPlatterPowers of Martians with the Human potential to harness the seven forces.



* UltimateLifeform: Perpetua's plan involved fusing the entire human and martian races to engineer a species with immense natural power and the ability to harness the seven forces as weapons in her defense against being judged.

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* UltimateLifeform: Perpetua's plan involved fusing is to fuse the entire human and martian races to engineer a species with immense natural power and the ability to harness the seven forces as weapons in her defense against being judged.

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* ArcSymbol: Luthor has doorknob engraved that pairs Justice and Doom using abstract symbols of the Hall of Justice and the Hall of Doom in mirror images to each other. It's empowered when the general universe is metaphorically turned from one to the other.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Near literally; Luthor is in possession of a doorknob engraved with an arcane symbol that's empowered by the imbalance of Doom and Justice in the universe, which he is attempting to [[LiteralMetaphor turn entirely towards Doom]].



* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Luthor and Joker pull this on Superman and Martian Manhunter respectively]]

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* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Luthor and Joker pull this on Superman and Martian Manhunter respectively]]respectively]].
* HeroicBSoD: J'onn has one when he learns that the progenitor of the multiverse is aligned with Doom which makes him distraught that heroes like them are going against the will of their creator in fighting for Justice.
* KnightTemplar: The World Forger's plan to redeem the multiverse [[spoiler: is to imprison and eventually destroy all villains aligned with Doom while he creates a perfect world entirely aligned to Justice and pass it off as being that way all along to cheat the evaluation of higher powers]].


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* RuleOfSeven: A major plot point is the revelation of seven universal forces that can be harnessed for immense power. The Speed Force and Emotional Spectrum are both parts of the seven.


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* UltimateLifeform: Perpetua's plan involved fusing the entire human and martian races to engineer a species with immense natural power and the ability to harness the seven forces as weapons in her defense against being judged.
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* SatanicArchetype: Perpetua is the overseer of a multiverse put in place by a higher power. Fearing the possibility of being executed if her work is deemed wanting at evaluation, she started corrupting it to engineer powerful armies to defend herself against her superiors. Her sons, created to run the finer points of the multiverse, saw this and feared their destruction at judgement as well, but sided against her and sealed her away by creating the Source Wall.
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* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:Perpetua, the being that the Source Wall was created to contain. According to the narration, even [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse her brothers and sisters, responsible for tending other multiverses]], "fear and revile" her.]]

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* ADayInTheLimelight / VillainEpisode: Issues 5, 8, and 13 are focused on Luthor and how he brought the Legion together.


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* ADayInTheLimelight / VillainEpisode: Issues 5, 8, and 13 are focused on Luthor and how he brought the Legion together.
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The Source Wall has been breached following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal.'' The Omega Titans have been driven away by the events of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice.'' New forces, both scientific and supernatural in origin, are sweeping the universe. And worst of all, the Multiverse is dying.

[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] [[FinalCrisis condition amber.]]

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The Source Wall has been breached following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal.'' The Omega Titans have been driven away by the events of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice.'' New forces, and powerful forces both scientific and supernatural in origin, origin are sweeping the universe.cosmos. And worst of all, the Multiverse is dying.

[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] [[FinalCrisis [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis condition amber.]]
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\nThe Source Wall has been breached following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal.'' The Omega Titans have been driven away by the events of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice.'' New forces, both scientific and supernatural in origin, are sweeping the universe. And worst of all, the Multiverse is dying.

[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] [[FinalCrisis condition amber.]]

Written by Creator/ScottSnyder as the flagship installment of the “New Justice” family of DC Comic books, this series focuses on the League’s attempts to investigate and sort out the many changes in the DC Universe brought out hy the events of ''Metal,'' and the attempts of ComicBook/LexLuthor and his LegionOfDoom to harness these changes for their own ends.



* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse Multiverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/Brainiac leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/Brainiac ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/Brainiac leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.

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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/Brainiac leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.]]

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* ADayInTheLimelight / VillainEpisode: Issue 5 is focused on Luthor and how he brought the Legion together.

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* ADayInTheLimelight / VillainEpisode: Issue 5 is Issues 5, 8, and 13 are focused on Luthor and how he brought the Legion together.



* ADayInTheLimelight: Issues 5 and 8 focus on Lex creating the Legion, and hardly involve the League at all.


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* WhamEpisode: Justice League Annual #1. And what a Wham Episode it is. [[spoiler: The League, the Green Lantern Corps, the Thanagarian fleet, and the New Gods all work togethe rin an attempt to fix the Source Wall, only for the Legion to attack, with the help of its new recruit ComicBook/Brainiac leading the charge. The result is nothing less than the Source Wall ''exploding'' causing reverberations across the cosmos, as well as the disappearance of New Genesis and Apokolips. The Mutliverse is now a fragment of an even bigger sea of reality. To make matters worse, Perpetua has been freed from uer imprisonment outside the wall and is now in possession of the Legion.

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