Headscratchers / Justice League Unlimited S 2 E 3 The Doomsday Sanction

• Apologies if this has been asked, but, what was Batman complaining about at the end? The Phantom Zone is the only place they could possibly hold Doomsday. What would Bruce rather they do? Prison? They can't hold a clown. Give him to the Government? Yeah, give Cadmus back their super weapon, I'm sure that will work out great. There was nowhere else they could hold possibly send him, and he can't come back and threaten anyone else, so what's his problem?
  • Batman's problem with it has to do with a couple of things. The biggest being that a small group of people basically made a life or death decision. With this being fresh off the back of the Justice Lords, Batman has a genuine (and legitimate) fear that if the Justice League for whatever reason decide to take over the world, there is nobody who could stop them. As powerful as Doomsday is, when you remember Mongol and Darkseid are part of the DC universe, he's not so much an unstoppable monster as he is extremely powerful. This fear is a large part of the story of Justice League: Doom or Tower of Babel if you prefer the comic. Also the Phantom Zone doesn't really have a much better record of keeping prisoners than deep space or for that matter Hell in the DC verse. Had the JLA held a formal trial of sorts, even consulted the entire league instead of making a decision amongst the core seven Batman would likely have reacted differently.
  • It actually wasn't even the core seven. There was only seating for six, and Shayera wasn't there. Confirming the suspicions, this shows a level of secrets within secrets.
• Given that Superman was pushed to try what his Justice Lord counterpart did (lobotomising Doomsday), why does he feel confident enough to joke about it when Bruce accuses him of going too far? One would think that kind of attitude is exactly where the alternate League/Lords started prior to their Luthor becoming President, and their Flash being killed. Under the circumstances it seems highly irresponsible and short-sighted.
  • Superman was glad to be alive, and glad nobody else died. But that flippancy could be seen (by the Question, if not by Batman) that the two Supermen were slowly becoming more similar. That alone would explain how furious Bruce got about it.
  • Joking about something doesn't necessarily reflect confidence — Supes might have been trying to deflect his own worries with a bit of gallows humor.