History SupermanStaysOutOfGotham / DCExtendedUniverse

* ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'': Arthur/Aquaman needs to get Orm out of his prison without the jailbreak being connected to Atlantis. For some reason, outsourcing the job to a non-Atlantean superhero never occurs to anyone. Then he again does not call in the Justice League when Black Manta and his forces start dangerously raising the temperature of the environment or when it's time to go stop Manta once and for all in Necrus.

* ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'': Aquaman again does not call in the Justice League when Black Manta and his forces start dangerously raising the temperature of the environment and attacking Atlantis.

* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}''

* ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' introduces the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who, according to supplementary material, were formed many years before Superman's public debut in ''Man of Steel''. While the team itself disbanded some time ago, the surviving members like Comicbook/{{Hawkman}} and Comicbook/DoctorFate were never seen or even mentioned in prior movies. The Justice League doesn't show up to help Black Adam or the Justice Society defend Kahndaq from Intergang and Sabbac. [[spoiler:Superman appears in TheStinger to help Amanda Waller prove to Black Adam that there are people strong enough to keep him in check if he misbehaves.]] Though, the Justice Society being called in when Waller's has her ''[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 own]]'' [[Film/TheSuicideSquad team]] makes sense considering [[spoiler:most of the members making up those teams are either dead, freed, or in Peacemaker's case, already assigned on a mission]].

** ''Film/{{TheFlash2023}}'' reveals that Barry was present in Metropolis, but as he had only just gotten his powers, he was only able to save a single child.

* ''Film/Shazam2019'': The Justice League doesn't show up when Dr. Sivana and demons representing the SevenDeadlySins invade Fawcett City and kill a bunch of people, forcing Billy Batson and his family to save the day. Superman shows up in the ending where Billy contacted him and convinced him to make a public appearance at his school.
* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Curiously, Batman and the Joker don't get involved in any of the events on their own turf, whether it be Harley Quinn blowing up a factory, a $500K bounty being issued for Cassandra Cain, Huntress's targeted killings across the city, Black Mask approaching hand's grasp of financial control over Gotham, and an army of gangs being sent after the titular Birds (the real life reason being that Creator/BenAffleck had been on an extended hiatus from playing DCEU Batman and Warner Bros has been distancing themselves from Creator/JaredLeto as DCEU Joker).

* ''Film/BlackAdam2022'' introduces the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who, according to supplementary material, were formed many years before Superman's public debut in ''Man of Steel''. While the team itself disbanded some time ago, the surviving members like Comicbook/{{Hawkman}} and Comicbook/DoctorFate were never seen or even mentioned in prior movies. The Justice League doesn't show up to help Black Adam or the Justice Society defend Kahndaq from Intergang and Sabbac. [[spoiler:Superman appears in TheStinger to help Amanda Waller prove to Black Adam that there are people strong enough to keep him in check if he misbehaves.]] Though, the Justice Society being called in when Waller's has her ''[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 own]]'' [[Film/TheSuicideSquad team]] makes sense considering [[spoiler:most of the members making up those teams are either dead, freed, or in Peacemaker's case, already assigned on a mission]].

* The opening scene of ''Film/TheFlash'' features Batman and Flash teaming up, with [[spoiler:Superman's absence justified due to him dealing with a volcanic eruption in Guatemala. Wonder Woman, however, does appear to help out. Justified later on in the film, as the altered timeline Barry accidentally creates means that most of the Justice League don't exist, with Aquaman never having been born, Cyborg still being a civilian football player, and Superman having been killed by General Zod as a baby. It's because of the Justice League's absence that Flash ultimately teams up with Supergirl, the older Creator/MichaelKeaton version of Batman, and his own teenage self in order to stop Zod from destroying the planet]].

--->'''Peacemaker:''' You're late, you fucking dickheads!

* ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': The Justice League doesn't show up when the Daughters of Atlas invade Fawcett City with a bunch of monsters and kill a bunch people, again forcing the Shazam family to save the day. [[spoiler:It is revealed that Billy sent a message to Wonder Woman, but she only shows up after the battle is over, then uses her powers to bring Billy back to life and restore the powers of those who lost them.]]

* ''Film/ManOfSteel'' retroactively runs into this problem when later films reveal that most of the other members of the Justice League would have been on Earth and active as superheroes during Zod's invasion. With Batman it's justified, as without any of his tech that allowed him to go toe-to-toe with Superman in the sequel, he likely couldn't have done much anyway. No word on why Wonder Woman, Aquaman, or the Flash couldn't help out, though. Aquaman does have a subtle exception as TheGhost: he summons a pod of whales to help Kal-El ashore after the latter rescued rig workers from an exploding oil platform, but isn't seen doing this by the audience.

* ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'': Arthur Curry/Aquaman never thinks to warn the Justice League in case Orm would invade the surface (they wouldn't be as effective as Aquaman underwater, to be fair). No member of the Justice League is ever shown responding to the tsunamis and massive dumpings of warships and trash Orm sends as a warning to the surface or at least asking Aquaman what's going on.

-->'''Peacemaker:''' You're late, you fucking dickheads!

* ''Film/BlackAdam2022'' introduces the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who, according to supplementary material, were formed many years before Superman's public debut in ''Man of Steel''. While the team itself disbanded some time ago, the surviving members like Comicbook/{{Hawkman}} and Comicbook/DoctorFate were never seen or even mentioned in prior movies. The Justice League doesn't show up to help Black Adam or the Justice Society defend Kahndaq from Intergang and Sabbac. [[spoiler:Superman appears in TheStinger to help Amanda Waller prove to Black Adam that there are people strong enough to keep him in check if he misbehaves.]] Though, the Justice Society being called in when Waller's has her ''[[Film/SuicideSquad own]]'' [[Film/TheSuicideSquad team]] makes sense considering [[spoiler:most of the members making up those teams are either dead, freed, or in Peacemaker's case, already assigned on a mission]].

* ''Film/BlackAdam2022'' introduces the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who, according to supplementary material, were formed many years before Superman's public debut in ''Man of Steel''. While the team itself disbanded some time ago, the surviving members like Comicbook/{{Hawkman}} and Comicbook/DoctorFate were never seen or even mentioned in prior movies. The Justice League doesn't show up to help Black Adam or the Justice Society defend Kahndaq from Intergang and Sabbac. [[spoiler:Superman appears in TheStinger to help Amanda Waller prove to Black Adam that there are people strong enough to keep him in check if he misbehaves.]]

* ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'': Neither Batman, the Flash, nor Wonder Woman showed up in Midway City when Enchantress and her brother began building a world-ending super-weapon smack dab in the middle of it. Even when a squad of villains Batman and the Flash locked up are let loose in the city with the Joker not far behind, there's not a superhero in sight. It's somewhat justified for Wonder Woman here, as [[Film/WonderWoman2017 her film]] shows her working at the Louvre museum in Paris, she returned to Europe soon after Clark's funeral. Given the time it takes to cross the Atlantic in a plane (since she doesn't seem to have an invisible jet in this setting) and the unlikeliness of booking a seat on a plane one day or less before it leaves, the Midway City crisis would have been over by the time she gets there.

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Curiously, Batman and the Joker don't get involved in any of the events on their own turf, whether it be Harley Quinn blowing up a factory, a $500K bounty being issued for Cassandra Cain, Huntress's targeted killings across the city, Black Mask approaching hand's grasp of financial control over Gotham, and an army of gangs being sent after the titular Birds. (The real life reason being that Creator/BenAffleck had been on an extended hiatus from playing DCEU Batman and Warner Bros has been distancing themselves from Creator/JaredLeto as DCEU Joker).

* During the finale of ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', Starro, a gigantic {{Kaiju}}, goes on a rampage through Corto Maltese and has to be taken down by the surviving members of Task Force X. The possibility of the Justice League or any other superheroes intervening is never once raised, though in this case it's justified since the mission was supposed to be covert, meaning by the time the outside world got wind of what was going on, the conflict was already over (and the fact that one of the Task Force X members, Bloodsport, had put Superman in the ICU with a Kryptonite bullet).

** The plot of the first season involves Comicbook/AmandaWaller assembling a team of ARGUS operatives to take down an outright AlienInvasion, but the titular Peacemaker is the only Comicbook/SuicideSquad member she bothers sending with them. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this is entirely intentional on her part. As the mission involves killing multiple high profile targets that have been replaced by the aliens (politicians, celebrities, ect.), Waller's intention was to have Peacemaker act as the FallGuy after the threat was neutralized. Since he already has a reputation for being a mentally unstable loner, the authorities and public are quick to believe that he acted on his own without any assistance from the government.]]

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Curiously, Batman and the Joker don't get involved in any of the events on their own turf, whether it be Harley Quinn blowing up a factory, a $500K bounty being issued for Cassandra Cain, Huntress's targeted killings across the city, Black Mask approaching hand's grasp of financial control over Gotham, and an army of gangs being sent after the titular Birds. (The real life reason being that Creator/BenAffleck had retired from playing DCEU Batman and Warner Bros has been distancing themselves from Creator/JaredLeto as DCEU Joker.)

* ''Film/BlackAdam'' introduces the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who, according to supplementary material, were formed many years before Superman's public debut in ''Man of Steel''. While the team itself disbanded some time ago, the surviving members like Comicbook/{{Hawkman}} and Comicbook/DoctorFate were never seen or even mentioned in prior movies.