I love this universe.
Look I'm a sucker for a good Batman vs Superman trope. Something about the juvenile pleasure of smacking action figures together makes my neurons fire and I love spending time in this universe.
As a long time fan of these characters the thing that stands out to me is that for any of this to work someone's gotta get character assassinated and the real victims here are Supes and Wonder Woman. But this take on them works. It works because we see our real, actual heroes and we know this is an anomaly, an elseworld, an alternate dimension where the rules are different.
Let the action figure slapping commence.
I think the other thing that sticks out to me is how sincere the story can get. Lex Luthor sitting at his desk, staring at a picture of himself, Clark and Lois and wondering how it all went so wrong. Harley getting dosed with fear toxin and seeing the return of the Joker, but also her standing up to this nightmare vision. No clown with a cheap grin and an even cheaper suit will ever put her in the corner again. That moment when Wonder Woman finds Wonder Girl buried in the wreckage and Cassie wants nothing to do with her, and that intense close up on her eyes as she swears she didn't know.
And literally everything involving Alfred, our wonderful father.
I need an Injustice 3. I need another 80 issues in between the games and I need to know how Killer Croc and Orca are doing after their touching gross wedding, I love that, I love that so much.
There's a lot I could say and there's more I will eventually say, I plan to ruin the lives of everyone I know by yapping on about the silly fighting game, but this is the last word I'll write about it here;
Of the infinite possibilities, all the paths we took and did not, all the things that could have been and never were... I am glad to be alive just in time to enjoy the hell out of Injustice: Gods Among Us.
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