History WesternAnimation / Injustice2021

* BloodierAndGorier: Just like the comic, the film is more violent than the games. In fact, it has an R-rating solely because of the bloody violence (such as the scene were Superman kills The Joker being shown in all of its bloody ''inglory'' instead of [[GoryDiscretionShot pushing it off-screen]]).

* BloodierAndGorier: Just like the comic, the film is more violent than the games. In fact, it has an R-rating solely because of the bloody violence (such as the scene were Superman kills The Joker being shown in all of its bloody ''glory'' instead of [[GoryDiscretionShot pushing it off-screen]]).

* AdaptationalBadass: Going hand-in-hand with the AdaptationalWimp examples below, Superman is depicted with much better showings than his comic/game counterpart. He immediately dispatches Captain Atom at the Fortress of Solitude, whereas in the comic Captain Atom nearly subdues him and is only stopped by Wonder Woman's intervention, and [[spoiler he defeats his alternate universe counterpart instead of the reverse, like in the game.]] It helps that the scenes in which Superman was a victim of TheWorfEffect were not adapted either.

* AdaptationalBadass: Going hand-in-hand with the AdaptationalWimp examples below, Superman is depicted with much better showings than his comic/game counterpart. He immediately dispatches Captain Atom at the Fortress of Solitude, whereas in the comic Captain Atom nearly subdues him and is only stopped by Wonder Woman's intervention, and [[spoiler: he defeats his alternate universe counterpart instead of the reverse, like in the game.]] It helps that the scenes in which Superman was a victim of TheWorfEffect were not adapted either.

** [[spoiler: The alternate Superman loses to the ''Injustice'' Superman, unlike in the game where he takes out Black Adam, Sinestro ([[CutsceneBoss sort of]]), Aquaman, Doomsday and ''then'' his Regime counterpart, since here ''Injustice'' Supes knows his counterpart will hold back and uses that to his advantage.]]

* TheCameo:
** Among the patrons at The World's End bar are, The Turtle, Killer Frost, the Axel Walker Trickster, Giganta, the Owen Mercer Captain Boomerang, Catman, Plastique, Captain Cold, Pied Piper, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Reverse Flash, Enchantress (only seen from behind) and the New God, Mantis of all people

* LighterAndSofter: While still containing some brutal and violent scenes, the overall story is much lighter compared to the game and comic.[[spoiler: Whereas originally, Superman's descent into totalitarianism resulted in five years of dystopian rule by his Regime, in the movie he gives up and surrenders upon meeting a pregnant Lois Lane from another universe, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes just how low he has fallen.]]]]

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Unlike his video game and comic counterpart, [[spoiler: in the animated version, after the fight against an alternative Superman isn't enough to stop him, he's "defeated" by an alternative version of Lois Lane, who is still pregnant and lost "her Superman" in a fight against Brainiac. She asks him [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how many people he would keep killing in the name of peace]], causing him to have an HeelRealization and to surrender on his own accord.]]

** "You had an unfathomable loss. Please don't do something you'll regret for the rest of your life." Is Green Lantern talking about Superman or [[ComicBook/ZeroHour himself]]?[[note]]His "unfathomable loss" was his hometown [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Coast City destroyed by Cyborg-Superman]][[/note]]

* Bowdlerise: Even though the film shows [[BloodierAndGorier more blood and gore]] than the video game, it shows less of it than the comic: except [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice when Superman kills the joker]], [[BloodlessCarnage little or sometimes no blood is shown when a character is shot, stabbed or otherwise violently sent to the afterlife]], and the blood is usually [[FreezeFrameBonus only shown for a few split seconds]].

* ExploitedImmunity: In a moment that did not occur in the comic or game, [[spoiler:during the fortress battle, Ra's al Ghul gives Superman a dose of radioactive gas that is harmless to him, but kills the Atom in his brain.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: Just like the comic, the film is more violent than the games. In fact, it has an R-rating solely because of the bloody violence.

* GutturalGrowler: Unlike the games, where Creator/RichardEpcar gave the Joker the usual CreepyHighPitchedVoice, Creator/KevinPollak instead gives the Joker this.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The Arkham inmates, released by Harley, attempt to overpower the Justice League members sent to relocate them. Superman, eventually becoming fed up, punches a hole through Solomon Grundy's stomach and sends everyone flying with a GroundPunch, before ordering all the inmates back into their cells. They immediately comply, unwilling to further test him.

Unlike the RoleReprise-heavy casts of the video games, the movie features a mostly original AllStarCast, including Creator/JustinHartley as Franchise/{{Superman}}; Creator/AnsonMount as Franchise/{{Batman}}; Creator/JanetVarney as Franchise/WonderWoman; Creator/LauraBailey as Lois Lane and Rama Kushna; Creator/ZachCallison as Damian Wayne and Jimmy Olsen; Brian T. Delaney as Franchise/GreenLantern, Creator/BrandonMichealHall as Cyborg; Creator/EdwinHodge as ComicBook/MisterTerrific and Killer Croc; Creator/OliverHudson as ComicBook/PlasticMan; Creator/GillianJacobs as Harley Quinn, Creator/YuriLowenthal as Mirror Master, Franchise/TheFlash, and Franchise/{{Shazam}}; Creator/DerekPhillips as ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} and Franchise/{{Aquaman}}; Creator/KevinPollak as the Joker and Jonathan Kent; Creator/AnikaNoniRose as ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}; Creator/ReidScott as Franchise/GreenArrow and Victor Zsasz; Creator/FaranTahir as Ra’s al Ghul; and Creator/FredTatasciore as ComicBook/CaptainAtom.

* IncompatibleOrientation[=/=]MistakenForGay: When Mister Terrific takes off his prison shirt (and revealed a very muscular chest), Plastic Man says he's "flattered, but very married", but Mister Terrific did this to use his "tattoo" (actually a very well-hidden t-sphere device) to break out of Superman's prison.

* IncompatibleOrientation: When Mister Terrific takes off his prison shirt (and revealed a very muscular chest), Plastic Man says he's "flattered, but very married", but Mister Terrific did this to use his "tattoo" (actually a very well-hidden t-sphere device) to break out of Superman's prison.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Despite growing increasingly ruthless and totalitarian, Superman forcing his will on many warlords and dictators is this since many of them are ruthless and brutal people themselves. Not even the President of the United States whom Superman later shakes down and intimidates is an innocent lamb either since he signed off on Mirror Master and multiple armed soldiers going to Jonathan Kent's farm to beat and imprison Superman's father. After all that, he still has the gall to assume Superman is a boyscout who wouldn't really lay hands on him.