Their Glorious Leader has a plan to deal with the impending Death From Above and in the meantime there’s one billion dollars of Luthor money on the table for anyone willing to bring Superman to “justice.” Will Our Heroes save the world, clear Clark’s good name, and expose the president’s for the Supervillain he is? Does night follow day? Sad, really…but the American people need not get their panties bunched up. Radiation from that Kryptonite meteor must be affecting the poor man’s mind. Our Heroes arrive back at Casa de Bat just in time to watch President Luthor announce to the world that Metallo is dead (despite him being very-much alive when Our Heroes bugged out and called it even) and Superman is the primary suspect. Only the quick intervention of Batman (Kevin Conry, reprising his etc.) saves Clark from the predictable results of his own stupidity. Because to not do so would be Stupid with a big, red, capital-S.īut, of course, this is Luthor we’re talking about, so his dockside meeting with the Man of Steel goes less than amicably, leading to a fistfight with Kryptonite-powered cyborg cum Secret Service Agent, Metallo (John C. (So much for all those telescopes we’ve supposedly got, specifically designed for hunting such Earth-shattering Kabooms.) In the film’s first and last attempt at moral ambiguity, Luthor yields to the advice of his (VP? Chief of Staff? Condy Rice-alike?) Amanda Waller (CCH “Mo’at from Avatar” Pounder, reprising her role from etc.) and agrees to call Superman in on this. Meanwhile, President Luthor’s enjoying the latest news from NASA: a meteor “the size of small country” made of solid Kryptonite is about a week away from annihilating all life on Earth. According to Power Girl (Allison “Chloe from Smallville” Mack), President Luthor’s “made everything boring again…there are no wars or anything.” (ugh, that line…) and shouldn’t Supes finally admit Lex isn’t all that bad in the universe of all bad presidents? (No.) Sharing an inaugural stage with five unfortunately-naive metahumans, Luthor vows to bring others “into the service of our government.” President Luthor flat-out warns that, if certain tactfully-unmentioned superhumans don’t respect his new Au- thor-it- ty, “they will find that they are not as far above the law as they think.” Dum-dum-duuuun.īy half-past the credit sequence, Superman (Tim Daly, reprising his role from Superman: The Animated Series) is enduring lectures from Luthor’s team of patriotic Uncle Toms. It’s half-past The Future and, thanks to a massive economic crisis, the complete inadequacy of existing alternatives, and surely (though this is not mentioned) the grand-scale fraud everyone knows actually determines the outcome of most American elections, Lex Luthor (Clancy Brown, reprising his role from various, previous animated series) becomes President of the United States. In the meantime, at least we’ve got Public Enemies.Īlright, that’s far, far from all I can say, but you get the idea. I’ve waited three years for a cartoon that dares to look into the actual nuts and bolts of superheroing during the Luthor Administration. Or can you…? Here again, the Justice League TV series captured my heart by daring to actually ask this question several times to continually ass-kicking effect, only chickening out when it looked like their show might be canceled, necessitating the Climactic Battle restore the status quo. Because you can’t throw D.C.’s most insanely-powerful superheroes at just any-old idiotic inhabitant of the White House. Comics, that “end” must engulf the entire world in some form of world-engulfing peril, preferably one stolen from the plot of a popular summer sci-fi/action movie. Finally, I said to no one in particular, given that at the time I had no friends, someone in comics understands the f-ed up mess we’re in.īut all good things must come to an end, and since this is D.C. So, as you’d expect, I experienced quite the nerdgasam back in the year 2000 when (through a convoluted story line tonight’s film rightly jettisons without the slightest nod) Lex Luthor became President of the D.C. As you’ve no doubt guessed by now, my personal political views fall somewhere to the left of Mikhail Bakunin.
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