Line #67 ComicBook/JusticeLeague3000


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4	''Justice League 3000'' is an ongoing Creator/DCComics series that launched in December 2013 as part of the Comicbook/{{New 52}}. The series is written by Keith Giffen and J.M. [=DeMatteis=], the writing team behind the original ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational''.
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6	[[TheFuture Set in the year 3000]], the series features new incarnations of Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, Franchise/GreenLantern and Franchise/TheFlash. This new League, flawed clones of the originals, have been brought to the future by Cadmus in an attempt to restore an era of peace shattered years ago by an enemy known as "The Five".
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8	Relaunched post-''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' as ''Justice League 3001'' the book was sadly cancelled in 2016, ending with an abrupt cliffhanger. [[FullyAbsorbedFinale Fortunately it was thankfully resolved by the same creative team]] in ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' (Volume 9) #12-13.
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11	!!''Justice League 3000'' features the following tropes:
12	* TheAce: In ''3001 #2'' Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (the real Kara Zor-El, not a clone) shows up and takes a less than a minute to defeat Starro who has been confounding the whole league at this point. Teri, who immediately before had been complaining that the 'historical' Supergirl [[FutureImperfect was fictional]] practically melts in hero worship.
13	* AffirmativeActionLegacy: [[spoiler: Teri succeeds Barry Allen as the Flash. Tina Sung becomes Batman. Indeed, by the end, the entire League is female. Teri, Tina, Wonder Woman, a genderbent Guy Gardner, and the original Supergirl, Fire and Ice.]]
14	* AlternateTimeline: This isn't the post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' 31st century, but instead a future of the ''Formerly Known as the Justice League'' and ''I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League'' miniseries. In this timeline, Ted Kord was cryogenically frozen along with Booster Gold, and Fire went back to save Ice from Hell.
15	* AntiHero: The Wonder Twins are willing to manipulate the new League's minds to force them get along.
16	* BackFromTheDead: The original Justice League is dead, but they live on as clones.
17	** [[spoiler: Flash gets resurrected from his remains the issue after his death in #4. Both he and Teri get killed in #7, and Teri gets brought back with his DNA in the mix in #8.]]
18	* BadFuture: Peace in the galaxy is broken after The Five toppled governments and slaughtered billions, and the Green Lanterns are wiped out, having become the most hated group in the universe.
19	* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Terry turns out to have been the leader and creator of the Five all along in issue 7.]]
20	* BloodKnight: Wonder Woman loves to fight and would rather talk with her fists than her mouth.
21	* BodyHorror: When the League battles Locus, she [[spoiler:eviscerates the Flash with a thought]].
22	* BrainBleach: Subverted by Wonder Woman when Superman mentions his memories of their former relationship - she simply notes her relief that her memories of the relationship remain a blank.
23	* TheBusCameBack: A particularly surprising and popular example as [[spoiler: they had apparently been wiped from creation. Post-Crisis Ted Kord and Booster Gold return in #11.]]
24	** Pre-Crisis [[spoiler: Supergirl]] reappears after the time skip.
25	* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: Green Lantern's body is now suffused with the Green Light, at the price of it killing him as he uses his powers.]]
26	* CameBackWrong: The heart of the series. The League are clones of the originals, but they lack chunks of their memories and their personalities don't quite match up, not to mention that Superman lacks his heat vision and flight and Flash lacks his protective aura.
27	--> '''Teri''': ...Okay, we've got a Superman [[{{Jerkass}} without the Kents' guiding hands]], Batman without the motivating trauma of his parents' deaths, a Wonder Woman [[BloodKnight too close to pure Amazon for comfort]], a Flash whose [[PowerIncontinence powers might just burn him alive]], and the [[LastOfHisKind sole remaining Green Lantern]] -- the most despised organization in the universe.
28	** Lois Lane seems to have returned as a villain.
29	* TheCape: Green Lantern holds the personality closest to a classic hero's, and indeed his cloak is his most defining physical feature.
30	* CharacterDevelopment: In issue #3, Superman starts to show signs of a conscience. Considering how much of an arrogant jerk he is, that's saying a lot.
31	** Wonder Woman later develops empathy and restraint, although she rarely and unwillingly exercises them.
32	* CloneAngst: The Flash questions if he and Green Lantern were really best friends, or if they're just programmed to think that. Batman and Green Lantern both note that they remember him being "sunnier". [[spoiler: It turns out they're not really clones at all.]]
33	* CombatPragmatist: The League resorts to this increasingly with their diminished abilities and teamwork. Green Lantern, in particular, realizes that this is the only possible way to fight Locus, attacking her from behind and keeping her disorientated so that she cannot focus her powers.
34	* CreditsGag: Used to varying degrees on each issue.
35	* DarkActionGirl: Locus qualifies as this.
36	* DarkerAndEdgier: Wonder Woman lives for fighting. Superman is sexually promiscuous, belittles Batman, enjoys being worshipped and thinks nothing of killing his foes. They do get a little better after the team's origins are revealed, but not by much.
37	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Superman's head is blown off by a Scullion droid mid-sentence. In the next issue Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are also killed by Scullions.]]
38	* DysfunctionJunction: The core of the series.
39	* EarthAllAlong: The League realize that the backwater prison planet, Takron-Galtos, is actually Earth when they come across the Empire State Building.
40	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Terry proves this when he [[NeckSnap murders]] [[CainAndAbel Teri]] and then subsequently [[ExplosiveLeash also]] [[YourHeadAsplode kills]] the current Flash in Issue 7, also stating he formed the Five to begin with.]]
41	* EvilCostumeSwitch: Well, not evil, but the League's costumes reflect their darker personalities, particularly with Batman's red costume and Wonder Woman's mace.
42	* ExplosiveLeash: [[spoiler:Every member of the Justice League 3000 project has inhaled "nano mines" that can be detonated on a moment's notice so long as they are in range. Terry kills the then-current Flash this way as a show of force to make sure the rest of the League stays in line. Ariel convinces Terry to neutralize the mines in #11 after the Five have been defeated.]]
43	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Lois]] in issue #9 of ''3001''. After the death of [[spoiler: Superman]] she seemingly loses her main reason for villainy.
44	* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Averted. The Wonder Twins decide to do their best to make a light in their BadFuture, using ancient Justice League DNA.
45	* ForScience: Teri's motivation. Terry is slightly more idealistic. [[spoiler:Teri abandons this in favor of true heroism when she becomes the Flash, and Terry proves his idealism was all a ruse.]]
46	* GenderBender: Guy Gardner comes back as a woman. Subverted in that Guy seems to still identify as a man, effectively making him trans.
47	* TheHeart: Green Lantern, who tries to placate Batman and Superman.
48	* HeelFaceTurn: Firestorm, Lois Lane and [[spoiler: Terry.]] Lois indicates she turned during her original lifetime.
49	* InASingleBound: Superman's main method of getting around, now he's lost his flight.
50	* IBelieveICanFly: Averted for once within a Justice League team. Only Green Lantern can truly fly, as Superman has lost his flight, [[TooDumbToLive regardless of what he thinks]].
51	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Hal is shrunk by Locus and SwallowedWhole so she can take him home with her. He's never returned to normal size and eventually decides to interact with others using a life sized construct of himself whose shirt pocket he rides in.
52	* {{Jerkass}}: Superman and Wonder Woman. The degree of it decreases over time though.
53	* LadykillerInLove: Superman is a boorish HandsomeLech who propositions every attractive woman he meets but when he starts crushing on Teri he turns flustered, ''blushes'' and constantly denies she is his girlfriend in the face of his teamates teasing.
54	* LastOfHisKind: Green Lantern, the last of the Green Lantern Corps.
55	* LeftHanging: The book's abrupt cancellation left a ton of subplots unresolved: Who is Lady Styx and where she came from? Why is she so incredibly powerful? What are her real goals? Why had Lois come to hate Superman so much? Why did past Superman send Supergirl to the far-flung future? Were Lois and Ariel Masters able to escape Lady Styx's death squads? The final issue doesn't even conclude the battle betweeh the League and the Legion of Death, and readers had to read a completely different book -''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' Vol. 9 #12-13, published one year later- to find out whether the League won or lost that battle.
56	* LegacyCharacter: The series focuses on the successors of the original Justice League.
57	* LegendFadesToMyth: The tales of the original Justice League have since become fairy tales with multiple interpretations. They think Superman's origin was either an alien landing on Earth, or a farm boy finding a magic cape.
58	* LetsGetDangerous: The League constantly bicker and are outclassed by the Five every time they fight. But with proper leadership and knowledge they wipe the floor with the Five on Camelot Nine.
59	* LoopholeAbuse: Starro conquers Wodin, noting that enslavement is legal if the correct documents are signed with Moonshadow 6's bureaucracy.
60	* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Played ''ruthlessly'' straight in issues 6 and 7 of ''3001'' where [[spoiler: Superman, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan and Batman are all killed off by the scullions while Blue Beetle and Booster Gold are missing presumed dead. Conversely none of the five existing female members of the League are killed and Batman is replaced by his own female descendant by the end of the issue. The ''only'' male member of the League confirmed alive by the end of #7 is Guy Gardener (who is biologically female but self identifies as male) - and in later issues even he finds the original mind of the body he was resurrected in fighting him for control.]]
61	* MissionControl: Terry & Teri, the Wonder Twins.
62	* MoralityPet: Teri is this for both Wonder Woman and Superman after [[spoiler:she is revived as the new Flash]]. Wonder Woman is apparently deeply irritated by Teri but saves her live and calls her friend (only to immediately deny it after). Superman meanwhile takes Teri under his wing to train her as a hero and obviously develops feelings for her, panicking whenever she is in danger.
63	* MythologyGag:
64	** Batman's costume resembles that of a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Batman from a different future]]. Speaking of WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond, one of the characters is named Terry...and his and Bruce's roles are reversed.
65	** Terry and Teri are nicknamed "The ComicBook/WonderTwins".
66	** Hal having a cloak alludes to his being a host of The Spectre.
67	* TheNeedsOfTheMany: [[spoiler: The revelation in #4 that the killing of a person is needed to resurrect each Leaguer]] raises this as an issue.
68	* NoodleIncident: The great conflict that led to the deaths of the entire Justice League at the lead of Lois Lane, who became a criminal mastermind in revenge for something Superman did to her that she refuses to elaborate on when asked.
69	* OnlySaneMan: ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is the only Leaguer who is the real deal instead of a defective replica of the original member. She's a mature, sensible -and snarky- woman and her teammates are a Superman who is an egotistical ass, a crazier-than-usual Batman, a blood-thirsthy, booze-guzzling straw feminist Wonder Woman, a deranged Guy Gardner, an annoyingly hyperactive Flash...
70	* OutOfFocus: Everyone in the Injustice League 3000 except Lois Lane have little development after their introduction. Bane and Sinestro only have a single appearance afterwards, Mirror Master only appears in a flashback (having decided to bail on the whole thing) and Zeus is forgotten entirely. Bane lampshades this, saying it's been so long since he was contacted he just assumed they disbanded.
71	* PastLifeMemories: The League's are incomplete, causing a large shift in their personalities without their nurture tailoring their nature. They know who each other are, but have no memory of being friends or a successful team. Superman lacks his memories of being raised as Clark Kent, and Batman his parents' deaths.
72	* PsychoRangers: The BigBad clones his own Injustice League with each designed to counteract the Justice League after being enhanced. They comprise Zeus, Mirror Master, Bane, Sinestro and Lois Lane.
73	* RealityWarper: Locus. She's so powerful, the Wonder Twins order the League to retreat from the planet that she is on. They don't and a CurbStompBattle ensues in her favor.
74	%%* ReallyGetsAround: Wonder Woman is much more forward now, propositioning Batman and Green Lantern. [[LovableSexManiac The only person]] she won't have a go at is Superman.
75	* RedEyesTakeWarning:
76	** Batman's new costume.
77	** Superman's eyes tend to glow red when he gets angry. Which, given his new personality, happens a lot.
78	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Notably averted by the Flash, who doesn't have the aura protecting him from friction as he runs at super speed and requires forcefields to replicate the effect.
79	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The League are not clones at all. The Wonder Twins instead overwrote the memories and DNA of five people with the original Justice League's DNA using nanotechnology, essentially killing these five subjects.]]
80	* SixthRanger: Firestorm joins the team in #4.
81	* TheSlowPath: A few immortal characters have lived out the millennium since the present day. Etrigan the Demon and Ice are the only known examples so far.
82	* SmugSuper: Superman.
83	* TheSociopath: In issue #3, armed forces make Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman surrender by threatening to gun down the innocents around them, aware that their weapons can't harm the League. Batman quickly gives in, but Wonder Woman couldn't care less.
84	* StealthSequel: To [[spoiler: ''Formerly Known as the Justice League'' and ''I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League''.]]
85	* SwissArmySuperpower: Green Lantern's cloak mimics the abilities of the traditional Green Lantern ring. He complains that the ring was better. [[spoiler: Subverted when Teri reveals that the cloak merely channels the power now infused into Hal's body.]]
86	* TeamMom: Ariel Masters, somewhat literally.
87	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Batman and Superman ''hate'' each other to the point that [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike Batman plants an explosive on Superman's face purely because he refuses to be saved by him]].
88	* TimeSkip: After 15 issues the comic skips ahead to 3001. [[spoiler: Lois has implanted her mind in Ariel's body, L-Ron has been rebuilt, Firestorm is reforming Cadmus and has resurrected Barry and Guy Gardner (the latter in a female body), Superman and Teri are dating, and Hal is nowhere to be seen.]]
89	* TookALevelInDumbass: After being brought back to life [[spoiler: and becoming the new Flash]] Teri's IQ has dropped dramatically from being a TeenGenius to what she claims is "higher than average". This has been noticed in universe, including by Teri herself and the theory is it is [[BlessedWithSuck linked to her new powers]] either because her brain can't handle change properly or because of complications from [[spoiler: Barry's D.N.A.]]
90	* TookALevelInJerkass: Superman's an arrogant tool and Wonder Woman's a BloodKnight.
91	* TookALevelInKindness: Other characters note that Superman is becoming more humble, and the Wonder Twins are amazed when Wonder Woman shows compassion for the first time since they attempted to create her [[spoiler: for the people sacrificed to recreate the League.]]
92	* TheUnfettered: The new Superman revels in the fact that without the beliefs he gained as Clark Kent holding him back, he can unleash his 'true' self.
93	* VillainousCrush: Locus just got out of a relationship and has the hots for Green Lantern.
94	* WeHaveReserves: [[spoiler:When the Flash is killed by Locus, the Wonder Twins are horrified, but Terry suggests they generate another Flash.]]
95	* WhamEpisode: Issue #7, just... Issue #7: [[spoiler:Terry turns out to be both the leader and the founder of the five. He kills Teri in front of the League and [[YourHeadASplode blows up Barry's head with nano-mines]], killing him once again. He's also been releasing nano-mines into the air at Cadmus, meaning that he can kill the entire League with the push of a button. And finally, Coeval convinces Terry that there's no reason to take chances by keeping the Cadmus employees alive. Terry agrees and lets Coeval detonate the nano-mines inside every single Cadmus employees' head at once.]]
96	** Issue #7 of ''3001'' is perhaps even more of a turning point: [[spoiler:Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are killed by Scullions and Batman makes a HeroicSacrifice. With Superman's death in the previous issue, Diana is now the ''only'' member of the original team still alive.]]
97	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Ice seems weary of life and burying her comrades.
98	* WomanScorned: Locus did not take Green Lantern's "rejection" well.
99	* YouAreInCommandNow: In ''Justice League 3001'', Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} becomes TheLeader of team after Franchise/{{Superman}} and Batman get killed in BigBad's first attack.
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