With two games and hundreds of comic issues, the alternate universe of Injustice has given us many casualties.
Here are the victims.
Injustice: Gods Among UsandInjustice 2are old news by this point.
But Im getting ahead of myself.
The digital issues would eventually be released as print issues and later turned into trades.
Theres even a He-Man crossover comic on the way.
Thats kind of nuts.
Sometimes comics based on trademarked properties get screwed over by sequels.
For instance, there were comic follow-ups toAliensthat were completely negated by the events ofAlien 3.
Considering the vast amount of deaths in theInjusticecomic, surely the sequel would screw with the timeline.
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Shockingly, thats not the case.
It goes to show some high-quality communication between the writers and developer NetherRealm Studios.
The characters you meet inInjustice 2have survived the vicious comic book series and are ready to enter the ring.
But what of those who didnt make it out of that alternate universe alive?
There are many heroes and villains who have fallen to get to make way for Supermans Regime.
Here are the victims of Superman and Batmans great war.
In theInjusticeuniverse, there were more differences than the big Superman/Joker catalyst.
After all, Lex Luthor was Supermans best friend.
In this universe, Diana discovers Steve Trevor on her island, as expected.
The situation plays out an awful lot like theWonder Womanmovie, except for two major differences.
One, its World War II instead of World War I.
JIMMY OLSEN
Year One #1
The comic series opens with pure optimism.
Superman finds out that Lois is pregnant.
He calls Batman over and asks him to be the godfather.
Batman even musters up a smile.
Then things immediately go to Hell.
Lois and Jimmy are given an anonymous tip about a corrupt senator doing corrupt things at the docks.
Jimmys there to take photos, but its all a setup.
The Joker steps out and shoots him through the camera.
He then takes Lois hostage.
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SCARECROW
Year One #2
The search for Lois becomes immediate and frantic.
Flash discovers the dead body of the Scarecrow at STAR Labs.
With the sack removed from his head, its apparent that hes been killed by Joker gas.
Even though Batman identifies him as Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow shows up again inYear Five.
Now hes inInjustice 2.
We never do get any real explanation for that.
LOIS LANE
Year One #3
And heres the lynchpin of this universe.
Supermans search leads to a submarine.
He finds Joker and Harley there, but he also finds Doomsday out of nowhere.
Quick to act, Superman grabs Doomsday and sends him into space.
What Superman is slow to realize is that hes been poisoned.
The Joker mixed kryptonite with Scarecrows fear gas and made Superman hallucinate Doomsday.
Superman has, in fact, killed Lois Lane and their unborn child.
Tom Taylor had no choice but to write this sequence because the game made it specific.
He jokingly refers to introducing her via her robot body being thawed out as unfridging.
Unfortunately, the speedster tries to save others and is wiped out by the blast.
Although shes never identified, she mostly resembles Jesse Quick.
Kid Flash is taken out immediately due to running into the blasts direction.
Superboy attempts to shield Beast Boy at the last second, but fails to save his life.
She receives a panicked and scrambled call from her uncle, explaining that something terrible has happened.
Although he succeeds on that front, the building begins to collapse and the falling wreckage crushes him.
Years later, Natasha would be able to uncover the hidden files and take up the Steel mantle.
JOKER
Year One #4/Story Mode
The Joker is immediately apprehended.
Batman visits him in prison to demand to know why he did all this.
Batmans all, Youll never break Superman because hes freaking Superman!
but then Superman breaks through the wall and angrily impales Joker with his arm.
Jokers last breath is his last laugh.
Batman is sure to point out that Damian murdered the original Nightwing, Dick Grayson.
That puts Taylor in a tough spot because you have to sort of balance the act.
Batman and Nightwing go to prevent this, but Robin sells them out to Superman.
A gigantic brawl breaks out between Supermans team, the Gotham heroes, and a bunch of Arkham inmates.
Nightwing doesnt see it coming because hes busy fighting deranged murderers and gets nailed upside the head.
It knocks him out, he lands neck-first onto a piece of rubble and hes dead in a snap.
Under Darkseids permission, he and a bunch of Parademons invade Earth during a big Superman press conference.
When Kalibak sees the anger in Supermans eyes, he realizes that maybe he made a big mistake.
Superman fries a bunch of Parademons and beats Kalibak enough to make him surrender.
Kalibak strikes against him, but gets put down.
The powerless vigilantes like Huntress, Batwoman, Green Arrow, and so on.
He wants to bring him in alive, but then Wonder Woman arrives and chops open his neck.
Annoyed, Captain Atom points out that hes about to explode, taking the North Pole with him.
The whole first volume leads up to this moment.
Driven by grief and frustration, Supermans tried to do what he feels is right.
The government betrays him.
Wonder Woman is gravely injured.
Green Arrow shoots an arrow at Superman and it deflects.
It ends up finding its way into Jonathans shoulder.
Although Ollie dies, he does at least fire an arrow with a super pill tacked onto it.
It reaches Batman and the others, but Black Canary knows he isnt coming back.
The AI ghost of Jor-El apologizes to the Kents for unleashing this upon their world.
The two end up together and return forInjustice 2.
Well never know), hes ambushed by the Sinestro Corps.
He also has Kyles limbs torn off because thats scarier, I guess.
This includes preventing the synapses in Supermans brain from working, meaning Superman is completely paralyzed.
Sinestro convinces Luthor to let him free and he saves Superman by blasting a hole through Chps head.
With Superman back in action, the Green Lanterns have no choice but to surrender.
DESPERO
Year Two #15
This ones morbidly hilarious.
Sinestro then uses his ring to force Desperos hands around Sinestros throat.
Naturally, they dont question it and think about how much Sinestros changed.
Although on his last legs, Gordon is able to stop Cyborg from tracking down Oracles whereabouts.
He tears out the metal from Cyborgs face, knocking him out of commission.
Superman, on the other hand, has the Sinestro Corps at his disposal.
There are many casualties on both sides.
John Stewart is in the middle of it all.
Hes on Supermans side, but hes also a Green Lantern.
He doesnt want anyone to fight.
John dies in Hals arms, making Hal a little too emotional to think clearly.
Since Guy is the big mouthpiece in the whole Lets go get some Green Lanterns to beat up Superman!
concept, Hal freaks the hell out and it doesnt help that Sinestros egging him on.
Guy is overwhelmed and begs Hal to get a hold of himself.
The death of a random Sinestro Corps member causes the loose ring to find a replacement in Superman.
Yeah, thatll do it.
Dr. Occult finds and assaults Raven, but she is quick to burn him to death with Hellfire.
Rose is separated from the charred body.
John Constantine who had been stalking the mystics appears and helps take Raven down.
With Occult dead, Rose cant survive.
She fulfills her final mission by using magic powder to keep Wonder Womans coma going, but collapses.
Her final words are a failed attempt to tell Batman not to trust Constantine.
Immediately after, Constantine appears and robs her body of magic trinkets.
All of a sudden, theres some kind of horrible force trying to get in through the door.
Bullock attempts to close it, but cant.
Jason Blood steps in to do the same and begins to summon Etrigan to take his place.
Before he can, the Spectres energies blast the door back, killing both men in one go.
RAGMAN
Year Three #8
Constantine briefly captures Superman with the help of Ragman.
As Constantine points out, Supermans literally killed a planet, so that might take some time.
Speaking of taking time, the absorbing process takes too long due to Supermans strength.
Hes able to get help from Shazam, who defeats Ragman.
Spectre pulls out his giant sword and cuts through Deadman, wounding his soul.
Deadman goes to his boss Rama Kushna, who cannot save him.
Deadman chooses someone to take his place.
It doesnt take long for Phantom Stranger to realize that somethings up with Spectre on a physical level.
Spectre strikes against him, strangling Stranger while shoving him through the entirety of Saturn.
Stranger sees the force within thats making Spectre act like this and widens his eyes in horror.
By the way, if youre wondering, the Spectre is Mr. Mxyzptlk.
Hence all the smiling and Joker-like gestures.
Showing that you either go big or go home, Constantine summons Trigon to distract Superman and friends.
As he tells Harley, he was conjured by Klarion in the first place.
With Klarion gone, Chimp will soon cease to exist.
Harley, who has become attached to the little guy, hugs him until he vanishes.
Man, this storys been kind of rough on Harley.
Everyone she cares for dies on her.
Once again, Supermans side fights Batmans side, only with Trigon fighting Mr. Mxyzptlk in the background.
Huntress and Batwoman both powered up with super pills team up on Superman until Wonder Woman steps in.
What do you expect?
Instead, this kill ends up being a bizarre editorial mystery, best explained with the next entry.
When it became a big thing, DC doubled down by claiming that they dont hate GAY marriage.
They just hate ALL marriage!
Which is stupid for other reasons, but whatever.
It was rather nice and shouldnt have been a big enough deal to affect anything in the story.
Brian Buccellato took over duringYear Threeand, as mentioned, killed off Huntress.
Huntress death has huge ramifications in regards to Montoya, who goes completely off the deep end.
She starts drinking heavily.
In other words, shes acting distraught in a way youd expect from someone who lost their spouse.
Regardless, its suspect as hell.
This leads to a battle between the gods and Supermans regime.
Shazam shows up and finally brings the demigod down.
Hercules awaits his death, but Shazam refuses to commit murder.
Instead, Superman zooms down from space and does Hercules in win one swift blow.
In the end of this volume, both sides of theInjusticeconflict join forces to fight the gods.
During the battle, Hera decides shes finally going to take out Wonder Womans mother, Queen Hippolyta.
Artemis shoves her queen out of the way and takes the blast herself.
Hera shows no regret for the kill and promptly gets taken down by Harley, Batwoman, and others.
Plas sneaks around and gets help from inmate Kilowog, who starts a riot by headbutting Bane.
Plas reveals that hes smuggled all the Green Lantern rings and throws them all out to their users.
Supermans too busy trading blows with him, while Yellow Lantern and Cyborg arent having any luck fighting Parasite.
Superman gets some unlikely help from Bane, who…puts…Doomsday…in a full-nelson…?
Man, I dont get how that works either, but lets go with it.
This frees Superman up to go bail out his buddies by grabbing Parasite and flinging him into the sun.
The two plotlines clash when Bizarro goes after the Rogues, because thats what Superman would do.
Things get messy when Weather Wizard offhandedly calls Bizarro Fake Superman.
Bizarro, not really understanding who or what he is, grabs Trickster and flies away to get answers.
They venture to talk Bard into altering the group and maybe connecting them to Batmans Insurgency.
As Harley and Batwoman ride off, Superman arrives, having heard about the Joker Underground.
He and Bizarro are family.
They only have each other, and theyre going to have a great future working together.
As Bizarro flies with Trickster in his arms, Trickster tells him that theyll be best friends forever.
Thats the most blatant death flag youll ever see, which is what makes this scene so goddamn funny.
A beat later, Bizarro sneezes.
This time he remembers to put his hands over his face.
It just takes him a moment to realize that he dropped Trickster onto the side of a mountain.
Luthor gets Bizarro to enter the Fortress of Solitude, where he has Doomsday waiting.
By this point, Doomsday has been mind-controlled to do the Regimes bidding as the ultimate weapon.
He exists to either be Bruces awesome paternal figure or to sass Superman.
ByYear Five, he remains at Stately Wayne Manor, occasionally Skyping with Batman.
Zsasz kills Alfred in a knife fight, leaving Damian to discover the body.
Superman figures that Alfreds death will draw Batman out of hiding in the name of revenge.
Luckily, Alfreds death is only temporary.
Iris is disgusted by Flashs actions and the others refuse to trust him.
Iris makes her own stand by surrendering to the Regime.
Hawkman earns it by offering Mongul thirty seconds of battle.
The Justice League pops in to disarm Hawkman, but the weakened Superman tells them to back off.
Despite being ill from kryptonite poisoning, Superman offers to fight Hawkman one-on-one.
Hawkman never stood a chance.
He demands to know which of Zsaszs many scars represents Alfred.
Damian finally finishes his work and we discover that Sinestro allowed this to transpire.
For the first time, Hal Jordan starts to have second thoughts.
Batman and Lex Luthor need some schematics on a Mother Box.
Deathstroke takes the contract because hes bored out of his mind in a Superman-ruled society.
After taking out dozens of drones, he gets a real main event fight out of Metamorpho.
Deathstroke fires a couple metal balls at Metamorphos head, but he turns gaseous and they fly through.
While Batman is off dealing with Superman, the two bat ladies are dealing with faulty technology.
He fires his heat vision at a screaming Batwoman and…thats all we see.
After the fact, everyone involved is teleported to a different setting.
Its not explicitly blood, but…yeah.
So much like Metamorpho, shes probably dead, but it isnt 100% certain.
They meet up with Lex Luthor, their man on the inside.
As Ive brought up earlier,InjusticeLex is a good man who has grown horrified at Supermans actions.
At the end of Act II, Lex enacts a plan that should stop Superman once and for all.
Lex defeats Shazam in battle and blows up the Watchtower, which has Superman inside.
Lex calls out Superman and aims his arm-mounted kryptonite gun.
Superman tears Lex from the battle armor and is furious that his own best friend betrayed him.
Lex spends his final moments telling him that his peace is a joke.
Superman has snapped, falling farther than ever.
He wants to raze Metropolis and Gotham to the ground to prove a point.
Superman blows ice over Shazams mouth to keep him from using his magic lightning.
He then stares at him with his heat vision until two holes burn through Shazams hood and he collapses.
After all, she knows what its like to be a flunky.
Gary gets killed by the mainstream universes Joker duringGround Zerovia stabbing.
The others go on to shed their Joker threads and instead base their appearances on Harley.
They become Harleys Horde in honor of their boss and help fight the Regime.
Unfortunately, Harley doesnt keep in touch too much after the adventure.
Before they make it to her secret headquarters, Deadshot snipes them all dead from a nearby rooftop.
Basically, an after-the-fact explanation for why these guys arent involved in theInjustice 2prequel storyline.
Her crew hunts down and captures Harley Quinn before putting a bomb in her skull.
As predicted, Batman shows up.
Well, not THE Batman.ABatman.
The silhouettes show two headshots.
ItsArkham Knightall over again.
Those four all suffer from immediate head explosions.
To Fake Batmans disgust, Calendar Mans bomb is faulty and he survives.
Said prison also has Damian pinned down, until his mother Talia comes to save him.
Turpin shows up during the family reunion and Damian tells him to just walk away.
Instead, Turpin tries to call for Batman.
Without remorse, Athanasia shoots him dead and they move on.
Once Batman is gone, Booster Gold appears, albeit slightly drunk and nervous.
He makes it clear that Teds time is up and there is nothing either can do about it.
Booster tried to stop it himself and spent several years imprisoned in some kind of time jail.
Katana chops his hand off and hes captured.
Their secret lair is also a sanctuary for certain endangered species.
Batman puts together a team to infiltrate the sanctuary to rescue some kidnapped children of heroes.
The act kills one endangered animal with a falling shard of glass, which sets off Vixen.
Then a big brawl kicks into gear with Ras helpless to stop it.
Blue Beetle takes on Diablo and blasts him a little too hard.
Diablo cant control his flames and explodes to the point of wiping out all the animals.
Batman is NOT happy with Beetle, to say the least.
Superboy, Wonder Girl, Red Robin, and Starfire attacked Superman early on in his madness.
Superman won by puncturing Superboys heart in such a way that it was fatal, but not immediately.
Tim dies in Batmans arms.
ZOD
Injustice 2 #39
So.
I could never use it on Clark.
Not after…what it made him do.
But you… You killed one of my boys.
Youshouldbe afraid of me.
BECAUSE IM GOING TO **** YOU UP.
Batman lays into him for a bit while Zod imagines being beaten up by a judgmental Superman.
Amazo flies off with Zods head in hand while Batman is left in wonder.
It isnt all death and dread, at least.
Using Zods headless body, Batman gets Dr.
Midnight to perform heart surgery and give Superboy a replacement.
They find Professor Ivo and demand he stop his unbeatable robot.
Jason explains the rough truth that his family had already been killed in a failed escape attempt.
Horrified, Ivo agrees to help exploit a bug in Amazos system that will slow him down.
Athanasia gets wind of what is going on and threatens to shoot Ivo if he complies with the rebels.
Ivo remarks that he has nothing left to live for and presses enter to finish his hacking.
Athanasia shoots him dead in response.
Supergirl grabs Amazo and brings him to the moon.
She pours on intense heat-vision followed by intense ice-breath to weaken him before punching his head into scrap.
She asks Blue Beetle to keep her actions a secret and allows him to take credit.
Jason and Vixen get out of there and Damian gets captured.
Tom Taylor really should have personally told him that that was going to happen.
TOMAR-RE
Injustice 2 #53
Ah, Tomar-Re.
The most plug-and-play throwaway Lantern there ever was.
This includes the Guardian Sayd, making a bad situation much worse.
Soranik figures that her mother chose suicide over a life with Sinestro and Sinestro responds with silence.
When the Red Lanterns attack, Soranik is taken over by Starro.
Sinestro insists on getting a green ring and is granted one due to how desperate the situation is.
He shows his worth by saving Hals life and inspiring him to unite the Corps against their foes.
He also tears the starfish off Soraniks face…at the cost of taking an impaling through the torso.
VEON
Dont know who Veon is?
Dont worry about it.
Throwaway Red Lantern, basically.
Here, he blasts Starfire, which leads to Superboy and Wonder Girl giving chase.
Veon ignores his Teen Titan foes and instead picks a fight with Brainiacs crew.
He immediately pays for it with a fist through the side of the head.
He ignores it and presses on.
Jaime is set to sacrifice himself, but Booster wont allow it.
He gives Jaime his oxygen mask and has Skeets send him away.
Presumably, they would somehow forget about all this.
Either way, Ted gets to return the favor by being there for Booster in his final moments.
Late into the story, he takes on fellow kings Aquaman and Black Adam.
While the player gets to choose which one beats him down, the aftermath is always the same.
Aquaman jams his trident right into Grodds gut.
Grodd weakly warns them about Brainiacs power and merely receives another trident stab for his troubles.
DOCTOR FATE
Dr.
Fate doesnt have much to do with story mode forInjustice 2.
There, with Superman and Batman teaming up and searching through Brainiacs ship, Dr.
Fate appeares before them and warns them that their war has brought chaos across the universe.
The Lords of Order are in support of Brainiac, as hell bring order across reality.
After losing a fight to Superman or Batman, Fates helmet falls off.
Superman crushes it, cutting off Kent Nelsons connection to the Lords of Order.
The wire retracts into the wall and Fates body melts into it.
So with all that carnage going on, what can we take away from this?
Simply, put: theres nothing stopping NetherRealm Studios from bringing in Larfleeze.
