Justice League – New 52 | Comics

It took an invasion of the extraterrestrial Parademons from the planet Apokolips on Earth on behalf of their master Darkseid to unite the World's greatest super-heroes to come together and form an uneasy alliance to defend Earth, which they successfully did in the end and effectively put a stop to the invasion. As the battle was a success, they banded together to work as a team to protect mankind and serve justice, thus forming the Justice League.

The initial roster of the team consists of Aquaman, Batman, Victor Stone as Cyborg, Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, Superman, Barry Allen as The Flash and Wonder Woman. Other members like Aquaman's wife Queen Mera, Atom, Deadman, Element Woman, Firestorm, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Lady Luck also joined occasionally as additional members in the League. The Justice League exists alongside two other superhero teams, Justice League Dark and Justice League International, both of whom operate separately with their own mission.

When there is a world-ending crisis, the League is there to respond to it immediately. The members of the League are individually operational to their own heroic duty or vigilantism in the base of their operations. Apart from taking on major super-villains like Amazo, Felix Faust or even the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3, they engage to other threats like Court of the Owls from Gotham and solo villains of the fellow team members when needed.

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Origin
Green Lantern ran into Batman as they both were investigating missing person case and encountered a Parademon from Apokolips. Retrieving a Father Box from the creature, they two heads to Metropolis thinking Superman may know something about it but in the confusion of their confrontation, it turned into a fight where both Hal Jordan and Batman was saved for the timely intervention of Flash. Sorting out their own differences, the four of them plan ahead to approach the situation and their Father Box opened a Boom Tube.

An assault of Parademons on S.T.A.R. Labs left high school athlete Victor Stone in a dying state who became Cyborg after his father attempts to save his life with nanites and Father Box technology. Soon, the Amazon Princess Wonder Woman and an undersea monarch Aquaman joined the fight and turned the tide of the entire battle. Finally, the dreaded Dark-God of Apokolips; Darkseid arrives on Earth looking for the Anti-Life Equation and the heroes fight with their lives to halt his advances.

The Villain's Journey
In the causality of "Apokolips War", David Graves lost his family and later becomes the author of the book "Justice League: Gods among Men". When he is diagnosed with cancer, he decides that he should get revenge on the Justice League and kidnaps Steve Trevor to get to them. By either torturing or interrogating, Grave learns about them from all of their enemies. As the League members were in on their satellite headquarters, he attacked them in their turf and defeated them all.

Using the ghosts of their loved ones, Graves easily outmatched heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman. They eventually see through Grave's deception and manages to defeat them with their combined effort. At the end of the conflict, Superman and Wonder Woman relate to the fact that how alone they really are in this world and how much they are alike. With that they share a passionate kiss and become the "Power Couple" of the world.

Trinity War
Believing Superman to be the purest of hearts, Pandora approaches him to help her open Pandora's Box but it seemingly corrupts him. In an attempt to stop Shazam from entering the borders of Kahndaq, Superman gets into a brawl with him. When he apparently kills Dr. Light, he surrenders himself to the custody of A.R.G.U.S. Wonder Woman seeks help from Justice League Dark to uncover the secrets of the box. While everyone was busy fighting everyone else, The Outsider takes chance of it and puts his mysterious plan in action.

Forever Evil
Turns out that The Outsider was actually the Alfred Pennyworth of Earth 3, who was working with the Secret Society of Super-Villains to make passage into the Prime Earth for the Crime Syndicate, so that they can take over this world. With Justice League trapped inside the Firestorm Matrix, Batman and Catwoman bring the remains of Victor Stone to S.T.A.R. Labs. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor assembles B-Zero, Black Adam, Black Manta, Captain Cold, Deathstroke and Sinestro to form his very own Injustice League to save the day!

Darkseid War
An enigmatic explorer of New Genesis, Metron is a New God who approaches Anti-Monitor on Earth 3 to stop him from going to war with Darkseid. The latter then introduces him to Darkseid's daughter Grail, with whom he will bring the end of New Gods. Sending his Fury Lashina and the assassin Kanto to find the mother of his daughter, Darkseid awaits in his throne room. After a failed attempt of facing him, Mister Miracle barely escapes doom via Mother Box and end up meeting Myrina Black; former Amazon and mother of Darkseid's daughter.

Using Flash as a dimensional portal, Grail stepped foot on Earth and nearly decimated the entire League. Wonder Woman was able to stand up to her for a while but she also fell. Then she summoned Anti-Monitor and Metron arrives to teleport the Justice League away from them. While Lex Luthor and Superman went to Apokolips, Darkseid sent his general Steppenwolf and Kalibak to face the Anti-God. The Dark God finally steps head in against the Anti-God for one final confrontation.

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Following the conclusion of the 'Flashpoint' event in 2011, all DC Comics ongoing titles were cancelled and re-launched from issue #01 for a new fresh start-up point with a new beginning line and DC's continuity was rebooted again into The New 52, like it did after Crisis on Infinite Earths. Justice League of America monthly series was re-launched as the second volume of Justice League, written by Geoff Johns (Flash – Rebirth, Green Lantern – Rebirth) and drawn by Jim Lee (Divine Right, Superman Unchained) and was the first of the new titles released, coming out the same day as the final issue of Flashpoint.

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The ongoing title debuted in a high note with provided great artwork by Jim Lee and it was way too extra-ordinary! After the first 12 issues, Jim Lee is succeeded by fellow artists Doug Mahnke (Batman – The Man Who Laughs, Black Adam – The Dark Age), Francis Manapul (Legion of Superheroes, Witchblade), Ivan Reis (Infinite Crisis, Sinestro Corps War) and Jason Fabok (Detective Comics – Emperor Penguin, Detective Comics – Gothtopia), who continued their work on notable storylines later like Throne of Atlantis, The Grid, Trinity War, Forever Evil, Forever Heroes, Injustice League and Darkseid War. Also the "Justice League – Origin" story arc was adapted into a direct-to-video format animated superhero film titled Justice League: War in 2014.
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Darkseid – New 52 | Comics

There was a time when immortal Old Gods existed; who craved for prayers of mere mortals yet had no care for them. Uxas was a mud grubber, who opposed this idea and eventually made them go on a war against each other by planting hate among them. When the Old Gods were dying, Uxas stole their power and become Darkseid.

His brother Izaya, too, was bestowed with same power by a dying Old God as a gift for his obedience, becoming a New God, Highfather. Izaya plead to Darkseid for restoring peace but the latter destroyed the world and Apokolips was born. His firstborn Kalibak became a brute warrior, Orion is traded by Highfather's son Mister Miracle from New Genesis and his daughter Grail was secretly raised by her mother, an Amazon named Myrina Black.

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As Darkseid build an empire under his strict rules, Kaiyo, The Chaos Bringer defied him and ran, leading him to chase her to worlds after worlds. When he witnessed the superior might of Kal-El from Earth 2, an overzealous Darkseid laid waste to it (World's End). When he stepped on Prime Earth, he led an invading army only to be opposed by Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, The Flash, Green Lantern, Superman and Wonder Woman; members of Justice League and sent back to Apokopils.

When his long-lost daughter Grail brings a powerful ancient being named Mobius AKA Anti-Monitor on Earth, he sent his general Steppenwolf and son Kalibak to confront them. Darkseid then showed up in a battle against Anti-Monitor in a losing battle and paid with his life.

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A fictional antagonistic character that was originally created by comic-book creator Jack Kirby (Captain America, Fourth World) for the New Earth continuity and later, in the aftermath of "Flashpoint", Darkseid was re-invented for The New 52. Writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, Brightest Day) and artist Jim Lee (Batman – Hush, Superman – For Tomorrow) brought him to DC Comics' rebooted timeline of Prime Earth, in issue #3 of second monthly ongoing volume of Justice League (Justice League – Origin).

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Darkseid's debuting storyline on The New 52 was later adapted into a direct-to-video titled Justice League – War (2014) from from DC Universe Animated Original Movie line. Though, this version of the character was a bit over powerful than his original counterpart, he met his end during "Darkseid War".
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The Joker – New 52 | Comics

Always a homicidal maniac and an agent of chaos, The Joker is the most dangerous villain with a mysterious past that ever walked on Gotham. No one truly knows what made him into this murderous monster but his transformation was a result of sinking into a vat of chemicals at Ace Chemical, which left him with chalk white skin, green hair and a double glasgow grin on his face. Even Batman's superior detective skills failed to discover his identity over years and the lunatic himself never cleared anything about it.

As he prefers to have a multiple origin story for self to keep it interesting, sometime he claims that he was in care of an abusive aunt, who used to wash his skin with bleach which explains his skin color and it even affected his brain in some way to damage. However, given his twisted nature, it is very much possible that he just made that up. Whatever the reason was for him to become a maniacal clown, the Caped Crusader learns that his DNA trace is non-existent in any records when he managed to take a sample of his blood for ID.

Red Hood Gang
Long before he officially debuted as the Clown Prince of Crime, he used to terrorize Gotham City with his Red Hood Gang on anonymous thugs as their mysterious leader "Red Hood One". He used to blackmail civilians from middle and upper classes in a cult of faceless goons to do his bidding. Focusing only on senseless violence throughout the city to bring it to its knees, this gang drew attention from Bruce Wayne, who was thought dead for a time being and is recently resurfaced to wage war against all sorts of crime.

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These two has crossed paths when the maniac decided to kill a group of hostages and the vigilante intervened to rescue them. Next time the cross paths when Red Hood Gang raided a blimp to steal high-tech weaponry stolen from Wayne Enterprises. Later, with tip from Edward Nygma, he intended to kill Bruce by invading into his home after catching him off guard in a small explosion. He and his entire gang savagely beat him up with all they had, shot him twice and then left him for dead after setting his home ablaze in fire.

Despite being heavily wounded, Bruce survived only to return back as Batman to foil his master-plan to take over entire Gotham. As Red Hood One and his gang members were grouping at Ace Chemical Processing Plant, they are flashed out in front of the world. Then all of his goons are systematically taken down with superior tactics by The Dark Knight and forced their leader into fleeing from scene. During his attempt of escaping in a helicopter, they fell through the roof and although his enemy offered to save him, Red Hood One dropped into a massive vat of chemical down below.

Zero Year
Seeing his enemy drowning into that vat, the vigilante believed him to be dead but he in fact had transformed both mentally and physically into something more twisted only to start wrecking havoc and taunting Batman again. He joined the Gotham City Police Department to keep an eye on him and even managed to lure the hero into a trap to end his reign of vigilantism forever. While his men cornered The Bat by open firing on him, Bruce barely survived the barrage of bullets with help from his future ally Jim Gordon.

The War of Jokes and Riddles
When he made a comeback after a while looking like a clown with chalk white skin, green hair and an extended grin, Batman was on second year of his crime-fighting. However, he was unable to laugh which he thought was because of him not being able to defeat his foe. So, he started a killing spree of comedians. At the very same time, Edward Nygma broke out of prison to offer The Joker for a team-up against their common enemy only to get shot by the maniac. This action has sparked a huge conflict between two parties that lasted for weeks and every known super-villain in Gotham took sides.

Despite his best efforts to stop the war, The Dark Knight witnessed much civilian causality that enraged him. So, he decided to side with Riddler and using Kite-Man as a way to reach The Joker, he finally confronted the killer clown. When Nygma revealed that he orchestrated the entire conflict among both parties in an attempt to make Joker laugh and hearing this, Batman loses control, trying to stab him with a knife. Surprisingly, the knife was stopped in the nick of time by none other than the pale man as he starts to laugh again.

In Arkham Asylum, he made a reputation of an infamous criminal that every other inmate feared and respected. During his stay there, he eventually seduced his psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel into fall for him and she became his girlfriend after being transformed by falling into chemical vats, becoming Harley Quinn just as he did once. With passing years, he became more violent and to hurt his enemy, he once shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon. Then he managed to capture the second Robin, Jason Todd through trickery and blew him up after repeatedly beating the boy to death with a crowbar.

Faces of Death
Gotham has seen many shades of the clown but he never really had any pattern in years. The Joker suddenly starts killing off his accomplice and allies, leading Batman on a chase for him. He finds the madman stabbing his latest victim and then throws a bag full of explosives before escaping. Then GCPD was led to a trap by him and blew off to hell. As he tries to run, The Dark Knight gives chase and sent him to Arkham after stopping him. There, he asked the serial killer, Dollmaker to carve his face off and pinned it to the wall.

Death of the Family
After this event, no one saw him or heard for him, leading people to believe that he is finally dead. One year later, he suddenly showed up at GCPD headquarters and goes on a killing spree of the cops present by snapping their necks while telling them jokes after killing off the lights. Batman showed up only moments later to find a terrified Jim Gordon in the midst of his dead colleagues and the murderer was gone by then with his peeled off face. The Joker has returned once again in Gotham to torment Batman and his allies.

The Bat-Family has come together to help their mentor but they were targeted by the maniac as well. He raids the Suicide Squad to pick up Harley from Deadshot's funeral and sends her dressed as Red Hood in to Ace Chemicals, where he lured his enemy in while he sneaks into Wayne Manor and kidnaps Alfred Pennyworth. For a grand celebration he planned for his nemesis, he needs a butler and then he poisoned Jim Gordon though some old photos. Joker even managed to enlist Penguin, Riddler and Two-Face in his cause.

Nightwing was injured when he was trying to foil his plan of poisoning a reservoir, Batman and Robin went through some traps, he personally went to pick up Batgirl by threatening to hurt her mother and then gases Red Hood before abducting him. Catwoman too is confronted by the pale man but he got bored with her too soon. In a final climax, Joker brings the Caped Crusader in Batcave after having him go through trials in Arkham. The vigilante eventually broke free to confront the Clown Prince claiming he finally figured out who he really was before but jumped off the cliff not wanting to hear that.

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As the legendary enemy of The Dark Knight, The Joker was originally a concept work by Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1940 for DC Comics, which is most popular for New Earth continuity. When "Flashpoint" crossover-event introduced a newly rebooted timeline, Joker is born anew on the pages of second ongoing volume of Detective Comics by writer/artist Tony Daniel (Adrenalynn – Weapon of War, Superman/Wonder Woman). Later popular Batman storyteller duo of writer Scott Snyder (Flashpoint – Project Superman, Superman Unchained) and artist Greg Capullo (Angela, Haunt) worked on this character in Gotham to develop his redefined legacy.

Worse Than A Joke

Aspects like the idea of him being an immortal, his antagonizing attitude towards one of Suicide Squad member Deadshot because of his girlfriend Harley Quinn flirting with him, menacing the Teen Titans, disguise as a mere civilian and the sheer unwillingness to know Batman's secret identity were interesting. His infamous act in "The Killing Joke" and "A Death in The Family" also took place in The New 52, only with a different result. The Joker's most recent live-action portrayal in the 2016's superhero movie Suicide Squad by actor Jared Leto resembled a lot after his Prime Earth counterpart.
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