Funny / Injustice 2

Given the context, it kind of is.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

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The Comic

• In the first issue, Harley offers Batman a pink cupcake, and says there were two. She challenges him to guess what happened to the other cupcake.
  Batman: You ate one.
  Harley: Truly, you are the world's greatest detective.
• Issue #2: The Helmet of Fate holds untold power. And several sucker arrows at the back, courtesy of Connor Lance-Queen, to poor Kent Nelson's exasperation.
  Doctor Fate: Dinah Lance. Oliver. Please ask your son to stop shooting me in the head.
  Oliver: (seeing a half-dozen arrows on the back of the helmet) Hmm. Good grouping.
• Fate says that Dinah "was meant to die." Cue a Canary Cry slamming him outside the cabin and a special arrow cutting through his hand. He then explains he only meant Dinah was meant to die but he saved her.
  Dinah: Well why didn't you just open with that?
  Oliver: Seriously, you'd have one less hole in you if you just tried speaking like a normal person.
• Calendar Man begs Evil!Batman not to kill him... because it's his birthday.
• "The most secure location on the planet" is Batman-speak for "there's a really well-wrapped Christmas present under the tree". So says Harley Quinn. Killer Croc asks out of curiosity what Batman would get for Christmas:
  Harley: Sadness. In black.
• Dinah's proposal to Alt!Oliver Queen is a Heartwarming Moment, but there's still some chuckles to be had. The awkwardness leads Ollie to ask Batman to do "that thing where people turn around and he just disappears". So Batman does exactly that. "Seriously, how the hell does he do that?"
  • This leads Connor to ask what's going on. "Your dad and I are getting married." His response?
  Connor: (Beat) Ew.
• In issue #6, Green Arrow explains to Harley that he's not their universe's Ollie, so he has no idea about their relationship in this one. Harley states that in this universe, she had an affair with him. Cue a mass Big "WHAT?!" from Ollie, Dinah and Batgirl. Harley chuckles and reveals she was just kidding. She adds that she did hang out with Ollie (platonically) in The Quiver. Cue another puzzled Ollie; when Harley explains she and the other Ollie renamed the Arrow Cave "the Quiver", Ollie looks nonplussed for a moment, then smiles and admits that it was a better name for his lair.
• In issue #8:
  • Connor tells Bats that his dad told him that Batman was the best in the world at moping.
  • Damian snarking I'm Standing Right Here when Bruce muses about how angry Damian is. Bruce retorts that glaring at Alfred isn't helping.
• In issue #13:
  Ted:^note AKA Wildcat of the Justice Society of America I know this is supposed to be a secret, but Batman gave me the head's up that you were getting married. So I... I missed the first one. Me an' the Justice Society were fighting a lava monster in another dimension.
  Dinah: Yeah, those interdimensional lava monsters have no appreciation for important life events.
  • Ted admits he's not up for "feelings stuff" so asks if there's time to spar. Cue Dinah walking down the aisle with hair askew, one eye black and dress torn. Oliver just takes it in stride.
  • This exchange:
    Jefferson: Do you understand your role, Connor?
    Connor: I'm the ring bearer, Mr. Pierce.
    Oliver: Yes, and what do you do?
    Connor: I bear the ring.
    Oliver: You wait outside, and when the music starts playing, what do you do?
    Connor: I take the ring...
    Oliver: Yes.
    Connor: ... AND I THROW IT INTO THE FIERY PIT OF MOUNT DOOM!
    Oliver: (to Bruce, as Jefferson guffaws) Did you put him up to that?
    Bruce: Maybe.
• In issue #16
  • Luke McDunnagh, the son of Plastic Man, tries to hide from Batman. He fails miserably, despite his flawless Voluntary Shapeshifting, thanks to Batman being, well, Batman.
    Batman: You're the armchair against the wall.
    Luke: (transforms back to normal) No. No. No. AGHH!
    (Luke escapes around a corner while Batman slowly follows him.)
    Batman: You're the trash can.
    Luke: (sprouts legs and runs away)AGHH!
    Batman: You're the rug.
    Luke: (showing his mouth) GAH!
    Batman: The three empty pizza boxes on top of the stack.
    Luke: (revealing his head) How the hell are you doing that? I'm trying to play hide-and-seek with Batman. What did I think would happen?
• In Issue 42, Orca walks into a room full of supervillains and announces she's pregnant to the father: Killer Croc. Deadshot does a Spit Take, and Captain Boomerang and Man-Bat look horrified/confused.
  • Later on, Deadshot begins to ask the father several questions about the baby. The father’s reaction is to smash Floyd into the wall.
  • Next issue, the expecting parents kiss. Which would’ve been sweet, if not for Deadshot and Captain Boomerang’s reactions.
    Deadshot: That is so messed up.
• In Issue #51, we get this:

  Bruce Wayne: My security system at Wayne Manor has been affected. It has several fail-safes. This shouldn't happen.

  Michael Carter: Um... have you tried turning it on and off again?

  Bruce: It's a little more complicated than that.

  (Bruce speaks into his receiver)

  Bruce: Have you tried turning it on and off again?

• Issue 63: Well, a Green Lantern's power is limited only to the imagination...so if you want to conjure an enormous penis and smack the enemy with it...sure, why not?

  Green Lantern Lobo: Beware my power ...GREEN LANTERN'S @#$%!

  • Guy Gardner, naturally, thinks it's hilarious.
    Hal: They gave Lobo a ring?
    Guy: Yep.
    Hal: And he just hit Atrocitus with a giant...?
    Guy: Yep! And sure, it was obscene and depraved, but it was effective! If he keeps fighting, they're gonna need another Green Lantern to fly alongside him to just construct big "censored" signs.
  • The funniest part? Hal is so distracted, Sinestro has to snap his fingers at him: "Hal! FOCUS."

Intro Quotes and Clashes

• Has its own page.

Story

• When Green Arrow and Black Canary are planning their fight with Bane:
  Black Canary: One of us needs to distract him while the other snips his tubes.
  Green Arrow: Ouch.
  Black Canary: His Venom tubes, Ollie.
• Unsurprisingly, Green Arrow is full of these. If he faces off against Catwoman in Gorilla City:
  Catwoman: You have no idea what you're doing!
  Green Arrow: Sure, I do! I'm in Gorilla City, fighting against a cat suit lady. This is one for the bucket list.
• If Green Arrow faces against Bane, he fires an arrow that Bane catches and snaps in half. Without blinking, Ollie snarks "That was my favorite arrow"
• Later, if Black Canary faces off against Gorilla Grodd:
  Grodd: Soon, you will kneel before me!
  Black Canary: Kneel before Grodd? That doesn't sound right.
• After their first look at Supergirl, Blue Beetle exclaims, in Spanish, that she's out of their league. Firestorm's response?
  Firestorm: She is not out of our league! What happened to your confidence?!
  Blue Beetle: Kryptonians happened.
• Firestorm's assurance that he finished the fight by burying Wonder Woman under 10 feet of steel, leading to the latter bursting free in three seconds.
• In the cutscene before starting ch 7 when Superman and Batman are the only two in the room after their groups plan on how to evacuate the cities before attacking Brainiac, Superman removes the tarp covering the top of the table showing that they were using the old Justice League table. What's Batman's response to being called out on this?
  Batman (As casual as he can get): Hm. Forgot that was there.
• Poison Ivy blatantly implying that Cyborg's lost something... important below the waist.
• If you pick Catwoman to fight the brainwashed Harley, Cyborg gets tossed around by Ivy off-screen.
  Cyborg: (to Selina) Your girlfriend's a real man-eater!
• When Harley falls unconscious after being hit by Ivy's pheromones, Catwoman's concerned while Cyborg just shrugs indifferently.
• When Captain Cold and Reverse-Flash attack Wonder Woman, Reverse-Flash punches her up a bit before striking a cocky pose beside Captain Cold, who then fires a freeze blast. Wonder Woman easily deflects the attack with her bracers, ricocheting and freezing Reverse-Flash, still in the cocky pose.
  Captain Cold: (smiling) Nice rope-a-dope.
• When Brainiac hands the heroes a stinging defeat and seemingly kills Superman, he beams down a message noting their infighting. Hal quips "Did you call in just to gloat?"
• Just a few seconds after Batman and Superman reminiscence over happier days, Superman kills the moment by sucker-punching Batman.
• While Superman is trying to control Brainiac's ship, the Coluan notices this upon regaining consciousness and proceeds to wail on Batman. His Villainous Breakdown sounds more like a collector getting upset at someone for messing with, well, their collection than anything else.
  Brainiac: My ship! You will not destroy my collection!
• Cyborg is tasked by Batman to take Catwoman and Harley Quinn to Arkham Asylum to reach a secret passage to the Batcave known as the Underground, much to his astonishment.
  Cyborg: (to Selina) I'm taking you two to Arkham Asylum?
  Harley Quinn: (blows bubblegum) ...Promise it won't be awkward or nothin'. (flashes an inappropriate grin)
  • Supergirl is also seen awkwardly smiling at Harley Quinn's response in the background.
    • You can see her suppress a grin when Harley tells Cyborg, "You try ta teleport in, instead of boom, you go splat!"
• When Grid is created: "I am your vast memory and intellect, liberated from the weakness of flesh and emotion'. After Grid is defeated by Cyborg: "I want to feel emotions".

Other

• The voice Jeffrey Combs uses for Brainiac makes it sound like either Weyoun Took a Level in Badass or Ratchet underwent a Face–Heel Turn.
• Some of the names for different, randomly-generated pieces of gear can be a riot and a half due to the sheer awkwardness of the adjectives and nouns. For an example, The Joker can end up with a set of greaves called "Destructive Screaming Murder Pants."
• The Metropolis transition from the Ace o' Clubs bar to Memorial Station. After being punched through a wall, the opponent rolls into the path of a speeding van. The funny part is that, regardless of who is being is hit - a well-trained human, a nigh-invulnerable Kryptonian, a psychic gorilla, or anything else - they get launched into the air at a 50-degree angle, hard and fast enough to smash through part of a building before leaving a big dent in the Station proper. And the van keeps going, too!
  • The Ace o' Clubs is pretty funny in and of itself, when you think of it. There could be metahumans, supercriminals, aliens, intelligent apes and physical gods duking it out on the bar floor, and the bartender is still serving two loyal customers who just don't seem to care all that much, even when it's happening during the midst of an Alien Invasion. Given that they live in Metropolis, one can sympathize.
  • The drunkard in the middle of the bar can be picked up and thrown at your opponent as a stage interaction.
  • Aquaman's Super Move being used in the Ace o' Clubs, with the bartender and the patrons completely nonchalant that the whole place has suddenly filled with seawater and there are marine creatures swimming around.
• The Gotham City transition from the Empire Theater's front door to its prop room has a bit of a blink-and-you-miss it moment when the opponent flies through a cinema screen displaying dancing anthropomorphic snacks.
• Superman's super is funny for the last bit: the Facepalm of Doom. For a brief moment (or if you pause at the right time), there's a deliciously awkward scene of the opponent flailed out into a stop with a nonchalant Superman's hand in their face. It's a pose that strips away any sense of menace or intimidation from the opponent, if only for a second.
• Supergirl's outro is absolutely hilarious for just one reason: When she leaves the stage by flying upward, she gives the smuggest smile she can muster. ^note That's only in the open beta, the final game changed the perspective and toned down the smile
  • Supergirl's "sweep" is blowing hard on a combatant's feet, tripping them up. This is especially hilarious if it's the knockout blow, making it seem like a casual Finger Poke of Doom.
• The Flash's super is the craziest one so far. After hitting the opponent with a dash that has them spinning, he grabs and takes the opponent back through time to smash the Sphinx's nose with them (when it was getting built) and then back again to smack a T-Rex in the face with them, and then back to the present to smack the opponent with him/herself (from earlier when the super started) while still spinning. The Flash's past self then grabs the opponent's past self and zips away with them to presumably do all this "again".
• In the player select screen, when the chosen fighters exchange blows, it then slows down for the player to choose a stage. But with Flash (and as a result, Reverse-Flash), he goes into Bullet Time mode and laughs at his opponent at (from his and the player's perspective) normal speed.
• Brainiac's ship has the power to shoot you when you're inside Brainiac's ship.
• While we know that Dex-Starr's also a Red Lantern, there's just something amusing about the special ability of the demonic-looking Atrocitus being that he summons a flying cat.
• Upon realizing that all of Scarecrow's battles are actually Fear Gas hallucinations, one realizes that while we're seeing a Humanoid Abomination and his opponent trading blows, in reality, what's actually happening is a weedy doctor in a burlap mask is hitting his opponent over the head with a small sickle and the gas canister.
• This GameStop trailer for Darkseid. Deadshot, Poison Ivy, and Bane all go to battle Darkseid...only for it to sink in just who they're challenging. They all find an excuse to get the hell out of there.
  Deadshot: I'm gonna need a bigger gun.
  Poison Ivy: Uh, I gotta water my begonias.
  Bane: I forgot, it's leg day.
• Supergirl's Supermove is completely awesome... but against the likes of the Joker or Harley Quinn? It becomes hilarious.
• There's something funny about the fact that Poison Ivy's super move, which involves attacking her opponent with a giant man-eating plant, is named "FEED ME".
• Captain Cold's ladder mode ending.
  Going after the Regime was one thing, but destroy the planet for Brainiac? You really thought I'd go through with it, Grodd? Really?! F*** YOU!
  • Even the subtitles have fun with it. "[BLEEP] you!"
• Darkseid's Badass Back part of his Super Move — i.e., a God of Evil equivalent of making a basketball shot without looking.
  • Darkseid in general is a surprisingly funny character, largely because of how little effort he's putting into the fight. His fighting style consists primarily of pimp slaps.
• You remember how in Gods Among Us, Solomon Grundy had a combo called Wants Pants Too? Brainiac has some Decent Pants for gear.
• On the subject of Gear, Harley will pantomime firing her guns whenever you give her a new pair at the customization menu.
• One of Red Hood's attacks is so awesome that it's hilarious. It involves getting ready to shoot the opponent, only to realize he's out of ammo. So Red Hood chucks his gun at their head, the force of which ejects the empty magazine, catches the gun, reloads it, then shoots them. All in the span of about 4 or 5 seconds.
• Most of Scarecrow's lines are Hilariousin Hindsight when you consider who voices him.
  • Even more Actor Allusion comes in the form of a Multiverse planet with him as the boss:
  Scarecrow bargained with Trigon for the power to kill his victims in their nightmares. Knock out Scarecrow to break Trigon’s spell.
• After depleting Supergirl's first health bar, The Flash sometimes quips "Who's up for a crossover?"
• One of Red Hood's quotes after taking out his opponent's first health bar is him making a reference to A Death in the Family in the most vindictive way possible:
  Red Hood: Should I kill you? Let's take a vote!
  • On the topic of funny 2nd round quotes, Superman unintentionally gets one. If you fight Batman and get him down to his last bar, Superman gets into his iconic pose. His quote? "I'm not going back to prison".
• While most characters have two 2nd round animations, Raiden has a third one he uses less frequently, and is a Call-Back to Mortal Kombat II
  KIDD THUNDER!!!
• Everything said by Bizarro is completely confusing and hilarious at the same time.
• One of Joker's gear abilities allows him to open up his normally pretty brutal Super with the same animation he used when he started his Injustice 1 Super. This means replacing the exploding canister of Joker gas with a Pie in the Face. It even stays on the opponent's face at the start of the super!
• The ever-growing "WTF Clash Quotes" series of short videos, where a Youtuber by the name of SMGxPrincess edits various clash quotes together, resulting in some rather... interesting, but nonetheless hilarious exchanges.
  Green Arrow: You really need to get laid.
  Sub-Zero: Of that, I am painfully aware.
• One of Joker's random mid-fight quotes against Gorilla Grodd has him say "Eat that, Banana Boy!"
  • Also, one of his mid-fight quotes against Bane has him ask "¿Donde está la biblioteca?"^note Where is the library? completely out of the blue.
• The description for "The Scream Queen" multiverse is deeply amusing, not just for the Shout-Out, but for its mission statement essentially being "Captain Cold is confused, kick his ass for it!"
  "Captain Cold of Earth 1013 is under the illusion that you and he served together on some "legendary time-traveling task force." He has the wrong Canary. Knock some sense into him."
• In Gorilla City, apparently it's possible for both of you to get hit into the elephant simultaneously
• The Fighter Pack 3 trailer is a gut buster in and of itself, purely because of the sheer boldness of having Atom and Enchantress's face-off be interrupted not by Spawn, not by Rorschach, but the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  • Also, please take a moment to consider that as of this game, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have technically crossed over with Mortal Kombat. Which gets even funnier when you remember that they actually started out as dark, violent characters.
  • Their intro is just as funny. After the brothers drop in, Michelangelo claims dibs on "the magic lady". When Leonardo tells him that they fight as a team, Raphael shakes his head and rolls his eyes while Donatello gives him this "Really, Mikey?" look.
• Due to his main powers, much of Atom's gameplay is as hysterical as it is inventive:
  • For his crouching animation, all he does is maintain his normal standing position as his model shrinks a few inches. This continues even when "crouch"-blocking.
  • His character trait lets him shrink to the size of a glowing dot, able to completely avoid most damage. His introduction trailer gets in on this, with Joker whiffing his attacks as Atom continues to beat him up, even raising his arms as if to say "Are you serious!?"
  • His throw has him shrink, jump inside his enemy's head through their ear, and seemingly force them to punch themselves in the face, knocking them out before he jumps back out.
  • The titles of moves in most other characters' move lists are generally simple, but descriptive or cool-sounding, but most of Atom's moves are goofy science puns, with gems like "Take a Cell-Fie", "Ion You", "Micro Aggression", "Up and Atom", and "Mass-Sive Slam".
  • If Atom knocks off his opponent's first health bar while shrunk using his character power, he will taunt the opponent by bouncing up and down with a comically high-pitched laugh.
• One of The Atom's mid-fight comments may be, "That's for stepping on me earlier!"
• A confused Bizarro may ask if The Atom is "part-man, part-ant." Ryan is amused.
• The victory animation for the Turtles has them brandishing an entire box of pizza out of nowhere and taking an indulgent whiff before grabbing a slice and throwing it at the camera, where it splatters against the screen. It slides off to reveal them in the midst of a bite, raising the crust skyward with the most satisfied grin on their face. There's a definite Narm Charm if they start making yummy "Mmmm mmm mmm" noises.
  • And their defeat animation has the Turtle popping their legs, arms and head into their shell.
  • What's even funnier is that during the livestream with the developers of the game, they admitted to actually using Mocap on a real pizza and throwing it at the camera before a developer ate it.
  • Another defeat animation involves the Turtle suffering a Konami arcade-style knockout, complete with on-and-off flashing, dizzy stars over their head, and appropriate sound effects.
• One of the knockdown victory animations may have one of the other three Turtles joined by Mikey where they briefly dance together to the Techno Turtle beat.
• Batman may make his Attack Its Weak Point comment mid-match when fighting a turtle, making it sound like he's figuring out a way to get around their shells.
• The TMNT's Ladder Mode ending details how they got to the Injustice universe, but aside from the fact they're all constantly interrupting each other, it reveals Harley laced some pizza they ate with nanites that boosted their strength and durability to Kryptonian levels and allowed them to kick the asses of Krang and Shredder when they got back! Even better is the other three all groaning in reaction to Mikey’s bad joke.
• Enchantress can be Black Comedy gold, partly due to her psychotic overprotectiveness of June, and partly due to giving exactly zero fucks about anyone she fights.
  June: We're both going to regret this.
  Darkseid: I am your new god, woman.
  Enchantress: Nobody talks to June that way but me!

  June: I know a thing or two about magic.
  Black Adam: A mere mortal challenges me?
  Enchantress: Enchantress challenges you, you sniveling worm!
• Sometimes, the intro quotes combined with random in-fight dialogue can lead to hilarity. Such as:
  Supergirl: They say you helped the Joker.
  Harley: But I’m not the same person I was back then!
  Supergirl: I wasn't born yesterday.
  Supergirl: (opens with combo, knocks Harley on her ass) Now, apologize!^note Guess Kara just wanted Harley to say she's sorry for the entire Injustice universe being partly her fault.
  Doctor Fate: (to Atrocitus) Vengeance quickens chaos...
  Doctor Fate: Vengeance of Horus!
• A Multiverse mission to obtain Poison Ivy gear has mission names "Thistle Hurt" and "Lettuce Play."

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