Trivia / Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

• Awesome, Dear Boy: The directors Matt Peters and Christina Sotta took turns directing different things, but both especially wanted to direct certain scenes that appealed to them: with Peters it was scenes with Superman since he was a fan of the character, and with Sotta it was the scenes with Damain and Raven since she had worked on them in previous films.
• Creator Backlash: Co-director Christina Sotta mentions that she likes Nightwing, and didn't like his fate here, where he was killed by a Paradoom, revived with the Lazarus Pit and made irreversibly insane.
• Directed by Cast Member: The Latin American dub was directed by Ismael Larumbe, who also voiced Lex Luthor.
• Dueling Dubs: The movie was first released in Brazil with a Miami dub. Combine going for a cheap and oft-underwhelming market ^note Apart from a noticeably lower quality of acting, Miami downright ignores that dubbers are supposed to be voice actors and get anyone on the street who speaks Portuguese to help with the voices with dropping the cast that had been voicing the DC characters for very long (some as far as the Justice League cartoon, if not earlier) and the outcry was enough for Warner to accept that they needed to redub the movie actually in Brazil with the already estabilished actors.
• Executive Meddling: James Tucker confirmed that the film being the Grand Finale was in fact this in an interview on DC Daily.
• Flip-Flop of God: Humorously, in the commentary both the screenwriter Ernie Altbacker and co-director Christina Sotta revealed that they had different ideas for why Constantine had such a big fancy chair in his hideout in Big Ben. Altbacker believed that he took it when Black Orchid kicked him out of the House of Mystery, comparing it to a divorce and that's all he was able to keep, while Sotta thought he might have stolen it from Buckingham Palace.
• The Other Darrin:
  • While uncredited, John DiMaggio replaces Jon Bernthal as Trigon.
  • Due to the Latin American dub being recorded in Mexico rather than Venezuela (as it had always been the case for DC Animation dubs), the entire cast in this movie has different voice actors than in all the previous ones.
• Role Reprise:
  • King Shark is voiced by John DiMaggio, who he first voiced in Batman: Assault on Arkham.
  • The Latin American dub features the following cases:
    • Armando Guerrero voices Superman, after doing so in the Arrowverse.
    • Batman is voiced by Idzi Dutkiewicz, who is his usual voice actor in videogames (most notably the Batman: Arkham Series).
    • Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza voices Trigon, as he did in LEGO DC Super-Villains.
    • Arturo Mercado Jr. reprises his role as John Stewart from LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.
    • Valentina Souza had already previously voiced Zatanna in DC Super Hero Girls.
    • In an odd case, while Sarah Souza had never voiced Wonder Woman before, she had been the voice actor for her Evil Counterpart, Superwoman, in LEGO DC Super-Villains. This had no bearing in taking the Wonder Woman role, however, as the dub director didn't know of this; he just thought she was fitting.
• Throw It In!: The commentary reveals that the insults between Captain Boomerang and Constantine was originally shorter until Liam McIntyre suggested that in real life he would say much more, and Matt Ryan agreed when he was told about this which is why the writers decided to include it. According to Christina Sotta, Boomerang's line with the word "fucknuckle" was added because McIntyre said it at one point when they weren't recording and everyone wanted to find a way to include it in the film since they found it funny.
• Torch the Franchise and Run: Due to DC Animation wanting to move away from this universe, the ending makes sure that no future movie revisits this universe as the heroes are decimated, Earth is left near-inhospitable and John Constantine orders Flash to go back in time and prevent the entire tragedy from happening, leading to another Cosmic Retcon that erases this universe from existence.
• Uncredited Role: John DiMaggio isn't credited as Trigon.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Mairghread Scott said how Etrigan was not in the original script for the movie. Also, Clark would've had a special lapel that would've summoned Swamp Thing during an emergency.
  • James Tucker said that while most of the Justice League would've still been brainwashed, at one point, they suggested that it would happen through little devices planted on them. Christina Sotta then said how that, to show the stakes, it had to be seen as irreversible, and this was dropped.
  • Christina Sotta was originally going to name the film Futures End, which she drew some inspiration from, but DC didn't want to confuse fans into thinking it was a strict adaptation of that.
  • Screenwriter Ernie Altbacker wanted more time for a Nightwing and Starfire moment but the cast was already huge and there were too many relationships going on in the film.
  • Damian and Raven were originally going to kiss in the infirmary, but they decided to save it for the ending.
  • The commentary revealed that much like with Raven and Trigon, the original script showed that when Trigon possessed Superman it would have shown that Clark's mental state would resemble Smallville the same way Raven's resembles Azarath. There was also some sort of plan to have Constantine enter Swamp-Thing's mind.
  • Aquaman was supposed to be killed by a cyborg converted Mera in Atlantis, but due to a lack of time it was cut and he was instead killed in the montage alongside the Justice League.
  • One early version of the script would have had the Flashpoint Thomas Wayne appear in the third act of the film and would have involved Constantine entering the Flash's memories of the Flashpoint timeline to do so, but James Tucker admitted in the commentary that would have been too much.
  • Due to some Executive Meddling the creators couldn't use their original ending and had to plan a new one, but when they were allowed to go back to the original they included scenes they liked from the alternate ending.
• Word of God:
  • In the Blu-Ray special features where they discuss Darkseid, James Tucker explains that the Flash creating the original Flashpoint is what allowed Darkseid to enter the reality of the DCAMU in the first place, explaining what Constantine meant by Darkseid only being around because of the Flash.
  • While the film doesn't give a clear explanation for how Darkseid acquired Superman's DNA to create Doomsday and the Paradooms, the commentary confirms that it was from when Superman was captured by Parademons and almost converted back in Justice League: War.
  • One of the director / animator of the movie gave a whole backstory of the Signature Scene of King Shark / Constantine relationship, where they meet up and hooked up during a work trip, and Constantine ghosted King Shark for being "too clingy" when things starting to get serious.
• Working Title: The movie was originally called Justice League Dark: Last Man Standing .