History WesternAnimation / JusticeLeagueDark

* BigBad: Destiny, an EmotionEater wizard from Arthurian times with [[AGodAmI a god complex], the master of the Dreamstone, and personal foe of Jason Blood].

* ScienceWizard: [[spoiler: This is actually reversed with Dr. Destiny, who started out as a man of science before being corrupted by his study of dark alchemical magic.]]

* BigBad: Destiny, an EmotionEater wizard from Arthurian times with [[AGodAmI a god complex], the master of the Dreamstone, and personal foe of Jason Blood].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Destiny is defeated and the world is saved, but at the cost of Jason's life and Swamp Thing's only chance at becoming human again. Also, many people died, and some lost loved ones or had their lives ruined.]]

* BigBad: Destiny, an EmotionEater wizard from Arthurian times, the master of the Dreamstone, and personal foe of Jason Blood with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].

* {{BFS}}: After regaining her powers from Felix Faust's Spell, Zatanna immediately loses control of her powers and materializes a '''Titanic'''-sized Sword (seriously, the only reason it could float in place is because the room it is in is ''that'' spacious) that looks disturbingly similar to the [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Dragon Slayer.]]

* BatmanGambit: Not Batman, oddly enough. [[spoiler: Ritchie suckers John into bringing him into the House of Mystery knowing that he would order Orchid "to help him any and every way [she's] able."]] A later one is during the final fight [[spoiler: Constantine tricks Destiny, who is inside an impenetrable magic shield bubble immune to magic or spiritual attack. Grabbing him, Destiny draws him inside. Turns out Constantine had allowed Deadman to enter him to get the ghost inside, giving Boston an opening to possess Destiny and leave him vulnerable to attack.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Batman is skeptical of magic being the cause of the random acts of violence, despite a literal demon having invaded the Earth in the last film in this continuity. He's aware that Shazam, Arthur's trident and Wonder Woman's lasso are all magical, too. In fairness, it’s not that he doesn’t believe in magic, he just thinks the rest of the Justice League is jumping to conclusions.

* MoralityPet: Zatanna serves as one to Constantine, being the only one that can bring out his slightly nicer and more moral side.

* TheProblemWithFightingDeath: The Shrouds will wait as long as it takes to drag a damned soul to Hell, and there's really nothing one can do to avoid that fate; they can only postpone it. [[spoiler:In his desperation to avoid it, Ritchie tried to reform the Dreamstone to gain immortality, but ultimately fell victim to possession by Destiny and was left to the Shrouds as soon as Destiny lost.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with regards to Destiny when comparing his modern incarnation with his past self from Arthurian times. His stone and abilities are no different from the past but there were way less people around in those days and they were more sparsely spread out across the land. The reason he's so much stronger in modern times is that there are a lot more people around to terrorize and feed off nightmares from. Since the amount of potential fuel sources are much greater, Destiny's powers have grown to reflect that.

* AbusiveParent: The man who almost shot his family and killed his neighbors had a miserable childhood with an abusive dad.

''Justice League Dark'' is a 2017 animated film and part of the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'' line. This movie is based on the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' series from the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' and set in the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse. Befitting this, Creator/JasonOMara again reprises his role from those movies as Batman. Other voice actors include Creator/MattRyan reprising his ''Series/{{Constantine}}'' role as its title character John Constantine, Creator/CamillaLuddington (''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'') as Zatanna, Nicholas Turturro (''Series/NYPDBlue'') as Deadman, and Creator/RayChase (''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'') as Jason Blood and his other half Etrigan, Roger Cross (''Series/TwentyFour'') as Swamp Thing and John Stewart, Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey (''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'') as Black Orchid, Enrico Colantoni (''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'') as Felix Faust, and Creator/AlfredMolina (''Film/SpiderMan2'') as Destiny.

* AdaptationalBadass: Constantine has a ''serious'' upgrade in his magical abilities for this movie, having more in common with DoctorStrange than the regular Constantine, whose abilities mostly revolve around rituals and mind manipulation, with very few combat spells.

* MsFanservice: Zatanna and Black Orchid are both very sexy women, the latter despite being [[BaldWomen bald]] and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation purple]].

* WeakToMagic: The main premise of ''Justice League Dark'' is that an unknown force is taking control of people causing them to murder indiscriminately under the belief that the people they are murdering are actually demons. The Justice League attempts to intervene after parents start murdering their children, but most members, such as Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern are shown to be vulnerable to magic. The threat to the world is too great if one of these powerhouses were to become magically brainwashed, so Batman assembles a [[TheDarkArts Dark Magic/Occult]] equivalent which includes ''ComicBook/JohnConstantine'', ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'', ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadman}}'', ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'', ''[[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Jason Blood]]'', and ''ComicBook/SwampThing''.

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When innocent civilians commit mysterious crimes, the Justice League investigates and soon discovers the source is mystical in nature. As it is out of their purview, the League is forced to turn to a team of mystics -- John Constantine, [[ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} Zatanna Zatara]], ComicBook/{{Deadman}}, ComicBook/BlackOrchid, [[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Jason Blood]], and ComicBook/SwampThing--to help deal with the crisis at hand. Joined by Batman, they must find out what's going on and try to stop it.

''Justice League Dark'' is a 2017 movie of the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies''. This movie is based on the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' series from the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' and set in the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse. Befitting this, Creator/JasonOMara again reprises his role from those movies as Batman. Other voice actors include Creator/MattRyan reprising his ''Series/{{Constantine}}'' role as its title character John Constantine, Creator/CamillaLuddington (''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'') as Zatanna, Nicholas Turturro (''Series/NYPDBlue'') as Deadman, and Creator/RayChase (''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'') as Jason Blood and his other half Etrigan, Roger Cross (''Series/TwentyFour'') as Swamp Thing and John Stewart, Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey (''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'') as Black Orchid, Enrico Colantoni (''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'') as Felix Faust, and Creator/AlfredMolina (''Film/SpiderMan2'') as Destiny.

* CallBack: Batman manages to slip John Stewart's Green Latern ring off his finger without him noticing, the same way he did to Hal in ''War''.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Batman is skeptical of magic being the cause of the random acts of violence, despite a literal demon having invaded the Earth in the last film in this continuity. He's aware that Shazam, Arthur's trident and Wonder Woman's lasso are all magical, too.

* WeakToMagic: The main premise of ''Justice League Dark'' is that an unknown force is taking control of people causing them to murder indiscriminately under the belief that the people they are murdering are actually demons. The Justice League attempts to intervene after parents start murdering their children, but most members, such as Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern are shown to be vulnerable to magic. The threat to the world is too great if one of these powerhouses were to become magically brainwashed, so Batman assembles a [[TheDarkArts Dark Magic/ Occult]] equivalent which includes ''ComicBook/JohnConstantine'', ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'', ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadman}}'', ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'', ''[[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Jason Blood]]'', and ''ComicBook/SwampThing''.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Ritchie was suckered by a fragment of Destiny's Soul into obtaining the Dreamstone so that Destiny could use Ritchie as a host and return to the physical realm]].

* TookALevelInBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with regards to destiny when comparing his modern incarnation from his past self in Arthurian times. His stone and abilities were no different from the past but the difference is that there were way less people around in those days and more sparsely spread out across the land. The reason he's so much stronger in modern times is that there are lots more people around to terrorize and feed off nightmares from. Since the potential fuel sources is much greater, Destiny's powers have grown to reflect that.

* SkepticismFailure: Batman knows magic exists, but he doesn't believe that attacks are magically motivated since in his experience, the criminally insane don't need an excuse. Then he gets possessed by Deadman and scrawls Constantine's name all over the walls.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Felix Faust makes many sexist complaints (and spells) against Zatanna, though this may be because he [[spoiler:knows that she is the most powerful sorceress of the team]].

* AdaptationalBadass: Constantine has a ''serious'' upgrade in his magic abilities for this movie, having more in common with DoctorStrange than the regular Constantine, who's abilities mostly revolve around rituals and mind manipulation, with very few combat spells.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Destiny is defeated and the world is saved, but at the cost of Jason's life and either Swamp Thing's life as well, or at his only chance at becoming human again (it's kind of ambiguous). Also, many people died, and some lost loved ones or had their lives ruined.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Swamp Thing is killed when Destiny removes his human body from his swamp body and drops the human body to the ground, although this is debatable given that Swamp Thing can move from one body to another. Jason Blood dies when Destiny removes Etrigan from his body which lifts the curse, but because Jason was dying of a stab wound at the time when Merlin put Etrigan in his body, his wound catches up to him]].