History Videogame / InjusticeGodsAmongUs

* KnightTemplar: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l27-3NJqpiA story trailer]] shows that the Regime versions of {{Superman}} and WonderWoman become this.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After the Joker drove him to pull a FaceHeelTurn, Regime Superman and his allies adopt a hard-line policy on crime and take a jaded view on traditional superheroics, but it also made them ignorant to realize that it has [[HeWhoFightsMonsters warped them]] into the villains they once opposed. The Flash eventually [[HeelRealization realized]] just how corrupt Superman has become and defects to Batman's side after [[spoiler:witnessing the fallen Man of Steel [[WouldHurtAChild kill Shazam]] in cold blood]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: a subversion [[spoiler: in Harley's ending she marries the Joker. At their wedding he [[PieInTheFace shoves her face in the wedding cake]], and she gets mad enough to give him a SlashedThroat. And, while slitting someone's throat over a harmless prank would normally be pretty harsh, it's strongly implied that after enduring his DomesticAbuse for years she just finally couldn't take anymore.]]

* DispropotionateRetribution: a subversion [[spoiler: in Harley's ending she marries the Joker. At their wedding he [[PieInTheFace shoves her face in the wedding cake]], and she gets mad enough to give him a SlashedThroat. And, while slitting someone's throat over a harmless prank would normally be pretty harsh, it's strongly implied that after enduring his DomesticAbuse for years she just finally couldn't take anymore.]]

* CanonForeigner: The ''[[ComicBook/SupermanRedSon Red Son]]'' Solomon Grundy skin was created just for the game. The Archives even give a backstory for his character, along with traits he possesses. Red Son Grundy is the same as Regular Grundy, but lacks the limited intelligence to act on his own.

* RealityEnsues: A meta example. On the cover of the original release Batman is charging at Superman with a hunk of kryptonite. On the complete edition cover Batman is getting his armour burnt off by Superman's heat vision.

** Character dialogue will change to accompany a personal nemesis, whether it be through clashes or through normal gameplay (Superman will tell Lex Luthor to stop fighting in non-clash related attacks, and the aforementioned Batgirl, for example).
** You can download Green Arrow's alternate appearance from the series ''Series/{{Arrow}}.'' Netherrealm Studios saw fit to have him voiced by actor Stephan Amell.

* BrutalBonusLevel: In the mobile version, the later matches in Survivor Mode. The difficulty gradually increases to astronomical levels, but the rewards are evenly distributed so there is no advantage to beating the super-hard levels. Legends say there are 21 levels in total (there used to be only 16; players have previously beaten it on previous patches, it is unknown whether anyone has even actually beaten it in its current form). A relatively new player may struggle to get pass match 7 (which disables the use of special 2), and even experienced players tend to struggle past match 10 as heal suppression ramps up and may be stopped dead by match 13 which disables special 1 (you pretty much have to spam special 1 constantly and prevent the opponent from attacking at all). Even skilled veterans may need dozens of attempts to get pass match 15, since by this time your characters are practically {{One-Hit Point Wonder}}s, but would be stopped dead by Random Tag in match 16.

* BrutalBonusLevel: In the mobile version, the later matches in Survivor Mode. The difficulty gradually increases to astronomical levels, but the rewards are evenly distributed so there is no advantage to beating the super-hard levels. Legends say there are 21 levels in total (there used to be only 16; players have previously beaten it on previous patches, it is unknown whether anyone has even actually beaten it in its current form). A relatively new player may struggle to get pass match 7 (which disables the use of special 2), and even experienced players tend to struggle past match 10 as heal suppression ramps up and may be stopped dead by match 13 which disables special 1 (you pretty much have to spam special 1 constantly and prevent the opponent from attacking at all). Even skilled veterans may need dozens of attempts to get pass match 15, since by this time your characters are practically {{OneHitPointWonder}}s, but would be stopped dead by Random Tag in match 16.

* ''GreenLantern Characters'': [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps Kilowog, Jessica Cruz]] (playable in mobile), [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Atrocitus]]

** Regime!Shazam wears a [[InTheHood hooded]] BlackCloak and shoots [[ShockAndAwe lighting out of his hands.]] [[Franchise/StarWars Sound familiar?]]
** The transition on Insurgency from Luthor's Lab to the Command Center is very similar to the factory sequence in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
** When the Joker douses his defeated opponent in gasoline and then [[KillItWithFire sets them alight]], the camera switches to the victim's perspective, much like in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' when [[spoiler:General Shepherd does this to Roach and Ghost]].

** Bane [[VideoGame/StreetFighter smashes up the Batmobile with his bare fists]] in one of his S.T.A.R. Labs missions.
** Ares' Supermove has his foe being [[RainOfArrows peppered with an entire army's worth of arrows]] on a barren landscape, similar to ''Film/ThreeHundred''.
** The FlyingCar in Metropolis looks [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture very familiar…]].
** Wonder Woman [[VideoGame/GodOfWar goes Kratos on the Olympian Gods]] in her Classic Battles ending after they preemptively attack meta-humans in reaction to Regime Superman's despotism.
** In his Classic Battles loss cinematic, Regime Superman is [[CapeSnag done in by his cape]] among other things. No doubt that [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Edna Mode]] is laughing…
** Black Adam's Supermove ends with an [[Franchise/StreetFighter M. Bison]]-esque [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown double-footed stomp to the back]].
** During story mode, Regime!Flash catches the arrow that Green Arrow shot at him, only for it to explode in his face, similar to a scene in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Oliver is also fond of this trick on ''Arrow'', using it on [[spoiler:Malcolm Merlyn. Merlyn borrows this move to take out a Mirakuru-enhanced criminal late in the second season.]] Makes sense if you think about it: DLC includes the show's look and actor as a alternate outfit.

* PoliceState: The Regime-bonus points for being supposedly just a universal police force before it became a OneWorldOrder.

* OhCrap: In Superman's chapter, the good versions of Superman and Wonder Woman are talking when [[spoiler:Doomsday appears and smashes him through several skyscrapers.]]

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: There is a reason why [[BadassNormal gadget types]] can survive such moves like Superman's into-space-and-back punches. See AppliedPhlebotinum above.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Sci-Fi Writers Have]] SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: Long story short, there is no way we should be able to see the water splashing during the Flash's Supermove as he runs across it.[[note]]The clip lasts ten seconds and consists of the Flash encircling the Earth, which has a circumference of 40,075 kilometres. That distance across that time frame would be 14,427,000 kilometres per hour. However, the opponent barely moves between when the Flash begins running and when he returns, so he was moving even ''faster'' than that.[[/note]]

* {{Superdickery}} / NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers and previews kept it hidden that the story was about alternate universe Superman gone bad, making it look like there was only one.

** Creator/GeorgeNewbern as Superman. Aside from being a RoleReprisal from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', which featured the Justice Lords[[note]]An alternate universe version of the League who had taken a zero tolerance policy on crime following the Flash's death[[/note]], and ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'', which deconstructed the idea of Superman undertaking a zero tolerance policy on crime; he's also known for playing [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]], another FallenHero who was once considered the greatest to have lived.

** Creator/FredTatasciore as Solomon Grundy. Aside from being a RoleReprisal from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', he's also known for playing the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, another [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green]] [[TheDreaded monster]] with [[TheBrute enormous strength]], [[HulkSpeak broken speech]], and [[DumbMuscle limited intelligence]].

* RealSongThemeTune: The ending credits theme is "Angel" by Music/DepecheMode.

* RoleReprisal:
** Returning from the Franchise/{{DCAU}}: Creator/KevinConroy (Batman), Creator/GeorgeNewbern (Superman), Creator/SusanEisenberg (Wonder Woman), Creator/AdamBaldwin (Green Lantern Hal Jordan), Creator/PhilLaMarr (Green Lantern John Stewart), Creator/CarlLumbly (Martian Manhunter), Creator/JenniferHale (Killer Frost)
** Returning from the VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries in addition to Batman himself: Creator/TaraStrong (Harley Quinn), Creator/GreyDeLisle (Catwoman), Creator/FredTatasciore (Solomon Grundy; Bane), Creator/KimberlyBrooks (Barbara Gordon, albeit as Batgirl), and technically Creator/TroyBaker (Nightwing, as his grunts for Tim in ''Arkham City'' were reused for that game's Nightwing DLC)
** Returning from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Creator/KharyPayton (Cyborg), Creator/TaraStrong (Raven)
** Returning from ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'': Creator/RichardEpcar (The Joker), Creator/PatrickSeitz (Scorpion)
** Returning from ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Creator/PhilLaMarr (Aquaman), Creator/MarkRolston (Lex Luthor), Creator/AlanTudyk (Green Arrow), Creator/DavidSobolov (Lobo), Creator/LaceyChabert (Zatanna)
** Returning from ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'': Creator/TroyBaker (Sinestro)
** Returning from ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Stephen Amell (Green Arrow), with his likeness/costume from the series as an alternate outfit.
** The Brazilian dub had most of the cast reprising their respective roles from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. For characters like Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/GreenLantern, who had movies released a few years before the game, their movie dubbers reprise their roles. Some of which include:
*** Creator/GuilhermeBriggs returning as Superman from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
*** Luiz Feier Motta returning as Aquaman from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' dub.
*** Júlio Chaves coming back as ComicBook/GreenArrow, also from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' dub.
*** Manolo Rey voicing Nightwing, having previously done Dick Grayson's Robin in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.
*** Eduardo Borgeth and Mariana Torres reprising their roles as Cyborg and Raven from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.
*** Ettore Zuim returning as Batman from ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga''.
*** Philippe Maia returning as Green Lantern from the live-action movie ''Film/GreenLantern''.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Sure, Superman and his supporters began as WellIntentionedExtremist faction, who have many right points in their actions, but [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope their steadily decline to tyranny]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and growing abandonment of morality in their crimefighting]] led them to become real villains. However, [[DesignatedHero Injustice!Batman]] isn't actually blameless: he refuses to help Superman cope with his emotional trauma, continues to follow his ThouShaltNotKill rule to stupid and hypocritical end, lies and uses more and more unscrupulous means to defeat Regime, which always ends in disaster, nearly ending in his despair.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Aside from the combatants themselves, players can find themselves getting smacked around by a few members of the Characters/BatmanRoguesGallery in one stage transition at Arkham Asylum, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtHpLes2kK0 as poor Harley Quinn finds out]]. Toss someone into the elevator in the Batcave stage and watch as your character mercilessly pounds their face in all the way up (though FridgeLogic kicks in when you wonder if they've got them so cornered, why can't they just finish the fight right there).

* BrainwashedAndCrazy[=/=]ColdBloodedTorture: Various character bios reveal that villains who joined the Regime were "re-educated" in the Phantom Zone to make them loyal. Due to his nature, Doomsday required a mind-control collar to allow him to serve the Regime.

''Injustice: Gods Among Us'' is a April 2013 Creator/DCComics FightingGame developed by Creator/NetherrealmStudios, the company behind the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 Mortal Kombat reboot]] in 2011. The game features a cast of DC Universe heroes and villains fighting each other in the aftermath of an incident that claimed millions of lives.

* BadassNormal: Non-superpowered heroes and villains like Batman, Catwoman, Nightwing, Joker, and Harley Quinn go toe to toe with superhumans like Superman and Solomon Grundy. This is justified in-universe: In the story mode, Regime Superman creates a Kryptonian nano tech drug that gives [[EmpoweredBadassNormal regular humans thousands of times their normal durability]]. This is stolen by Batman and his Insurgency, evening the playing field.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Sure, Superman and his supporters began as WellIntentionedExtremist faction, who have many right points in their actions, but [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope their steadily decline to tyranny]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and growing abandonment of morality in their crimefighting]] led them to become real villains. However, [[DesignatedHero Injustice!Batman]] isn't actually blameless: he refuses to help Superman cope with his emotional trauma, continues to follow his ThouShaltNotKill rule to stupid and hypocritical end, lies and uses more and more unscupulous means to defeat Regime, which always ends in disaster, nearly ending in his despair.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy[=/=]ColdBloodedTorture: Various character bios reveal that villains who joined the Regime were "reeducated" in the Phantom Zone to make them loyal. Due to his nature, Doomsday required a mind-control collar to allow him to serve the Regime.

** On the Gotham streets part of the Gotham City level there's the strip club the Sin Kitty advertising Live Nudes. You can even see the silhouette of a naked woman dancing through the window.

* RealityEnsues: A meta example. On the cover of the original release Batman is charging at Superman with a hunk of kryptonite. On the complete edition cover Batman is getting his armor burnt off by Superman's heat vision.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Sci-Fi Writers Have]] SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: Long story short, there is no way we should be able to see the water splashing during the Flash's Supermove as he runs across it.[[note]]The clip lasts ten seconds and consists of the Flash encircling the Earth, which has a circumference of 40,075 kilometers. That distance across that time frame would be 14,427,000 kilometers per hour. However, the opponent barely moves between when the Flash begins running and when he returns, so he was moving even ''faster'' than that.[[/note]]

* UseYourHead: Doomsday headbutts a building hard enough to make at least four of them fall over like dominoes.

** Regime Superman really starts to lose it after [[spoiler:Batman is rescued by the prime-dimension heroes, the Watchtower is destroyed by Deathstroke and the alternate Lex Luthor betrays him: he kills Luthor on live television and his super-hearing picks up the public's fear and disgust at the act.]] The next scene has him rather dementedly declaring he will [[spoiler:destroy Metropolis and Gotham before invading the prime dimension and making them all pay]], in a sharp contrast to his calmer demeanor throughout the story and [[spoiler:he heat beams through poor hero worshiping Billy Batson's head]] just for daring to question him. It goes downhill from there.

--> '''Joker''': (''after absorbing a chestfull of bullets'') I should be dead now. Thanks happy pill!!

* BilingualBonus: On the screen of the device Regime Superman uses to control Doomsday, two short lines of symbols read "YONECA WELL" in kryptonian, although the significance, if any, is unknown.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Sure, Superman and his supporters began as WellIntentionedExtremist faction, who have many right points in their actions, but [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope their steadily decline to tyranny]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and growing abandonement of morality in their crimefighting]] led them to become real villains. However, [[DesignatedHero Injustice!Batman]] isn't actually blameless: he refuses to help Superman cope with his emotional trauma, continues to follow his ThouShaltNotKill rule to stupid and hypocritical end, lies and uses more and more unscupulous means to defeat Regime, which always ends in disaster, nearly ending in his despair.

* RealityEnsues: A meta example. On the cover of the original release Batman is charging at Superman with a hunk of kryptonite. On the complete edition cover Batman is getting his armour burnt off by Superman's heat vision.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Sci-Fi Writers Have]] SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: Long story short, there is no way we should be able to see the water splashing during the Flash's Supermove as he runs across it.[[note]]The clip lasts ten seconds and consists of the Flash encircling the Earth, which has a circumference of 40,075 kilometres. That distance across that time frame would be 14,427,000 kilometres per hour. However, the opponent barely moves between when the Flash begins running and when he returns, so he was moving even ''faster'' than that.[[/note]]

* UseYourHead: Doomsday headbutts a building hard enough to make at least four of them fall over like dominos.

** Regime Superman really starts to lose it after [[spoiler:Batman is rescued by the prime-dimension heroes, the Watchtower is destroyed by Deathstroke and the alternate Lex Luthor betrays him: he kills Luthor on live television and his super-hearing picks up the public's fear and disgust at the act.]] The next scene has him rather dementedly declaring he will [[spoiler:destroy Metropolis and Gotham before invading the prime dimension and making them all pay]], in a sharp contrast to his calmer demeanor throughout the story and [[spoiler:he heat beams through poor hero worshipping Billy Batson's head]] just for daring to question him. It goes downhill from there.

** Scarecrow is found in the Joker's Lair (Regime-universe Arkham Asylum). [[DeathByOriginStory He's dead before the first issue of the prequel comic.]]
*** Also, sending certain characters through the Scarecrow transition, including ones who are immune to poisons (Joker) or who the needles shouldn't even scratch (Superman).

** At one point in the story, Wonder Woman fights Wonder Woman while the Amazons crowd around watching. This averts it at first by having Wonder Woman start off in her Sword stance when she usually starts off in her Lasso stance, makes sense as they had a swordfight in the cutscene prior. Then played straight as the Amazon crowd has seemingly dispersed and started going about their ways, at least until the fight ends.

** [[spoiler: Wonder Woman's super move involves her enlisting the help of a pair of Amazons to help her beat down her opponent. In Story Mode, Main Wonder Woman only gains the loyalty of the Regime!Amazons at the end of her chapter.]]