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Yesterday night I saw Justice League. I had a blast and really enjoyed myself watching it (Though I'm really hoping an Extended Cut is released in the future). The characters are great and have amazing chemistry with each other, the Danny Elfman score reminds me of classic comicbook movies like 1989 Batman and 2002 Spider-Man, and it is really entertaining.
It also has some great feats, so I feel like they need to be properly listed and discussed. Obvious spoilers ahead.
To make this comprehensible and easy to follow, I will split feats character by character.
Batman:
Oh yeah, there's also him.
Superman:
It also has some great feats, so I feel like they need to be properly listed and discussed. Obvious spoilers ahead.
To make this comprehensible and easy to follow, I will split feats character by character.
Batman:
- Batman has a lot of excellent feats in the movie, that really show he is Superhuman.
- He can go toe to toe with Parademons which have superhuman strength, and has an unnatural agility, using his grappling hook in combat to swing from place to place and perfom dropkicks.
- Speed wise he manages to dodge a blast from Parademon's Plasma Carbine from short range.
- He survives being tossed into a police car at super-speed, flattening the car. He also survives being slapped around by a casual Steppenwolf for a bit.
- Batman also gets an Inteligence boost, as he is capable of building Mech Robots and advanced planes.
- Oddly, she doesn't get any new impressive feats.
- She is still the second strongest member of the Justice League, only behind Superman (More on him later), and the third fastest.
- She has a scene where she stops a terrorist attack, and blocks a ton of automatic fire from close range to save civilians, but she's already scaled from much better feats.
- She has some level of Superhuman Senses, as she detects a hiding Cyborg during a scene (Batman fails to notice him).
- She has knowledge of alien races and whatnot, and gives the backstory information about Steppenwolf's last invasion.
- By the way, the Amazons are also more obviously superhuman in this movie. They can wield giant warhammers, briefly hold a falling ceiling, and their archery skills and agility is far beyond anything real people can do.
- The Flash is the fastest member of the Justice League (Duh), he is so fast that everyone else (Including Wonder Woman and Steppenwolf) moves in slow motion to him.
- He briefly explains the Speed Force and how it allows him to distort space-time in the movie.
- While he doesn't show it in the movie, supplementary material tells that he can vibrate his body and phase through solid objects.
- His best strength feat is running into a Parademon so fast it explodes
- He built his own suit with materials used in Space Shuttles and currents designed to keep the electricity he produces in check.
- Speaking of that, whenever he moves in super-speed Flash releases Speed Force lightning around him, which are apparently meant to be Blue Shifts going by some supplementary material.
- Aquaman has superhuman strength and speed, around the level of Wonder Woman if a bit weaker (They're very much comparable and fair equally against Steppenwolf).
- Aquaman can breathe and dash underwater (Duh).
- He doesn't talk to fish nor shows the ability to control them telepathically, but he apparently can understand the flow of the water or some shit.
- With the Trident of Poseidon, he has limited Water Manipulation.
- And speaking of Hydrokinesis, Mera is in the movie in one scene and her main power is her Water Manipulation, which is essentially waterbending if I had to compare it with anything else.
- She fights with Steppenwolf briefly but I wouldn't put her in the same tier as Aquaman.
- Cyborg's thing is that he doesn't know the limit of his own powers. He was created from one of the Motherboxes (More on them later), and thus he has no idea of the full potential of what he can do.
- He can absorb the information that surrounds him from all sort of Electronic devices, at speeds far faster than the human portion of his brain can process.
- He can hack into any machine, and intercept radio communication.
- He has superhuman strength, can fly, and shoot missiles and lasers from an arm cannon.
- He can regrow parts of his cybernetic body, although it takes time. He has his leg ripped apart by Steppenwolf, but gets better.
- He survives the United Mother Boxes exploding in his face, although I'm not sure if that is durability or because he is made of the same material as them.
- Main villain of the movie, and quite powerful.
- In the distant past, he (And presumably other New Gods) led his armies against Earth's combined forces, and was only defeated by an alliance of Humans, Amazons, and Atlanteans, alongside Green Lanterns and the Greek Gods.
- In this flashback, he survives being blast with lightning from Zeus, and being hit with an axe by Ares.
- During the movie proper, he fights basically every member of the Justice League. Batman is a non-issue to him (As he should be), while Cyborg and Flash can only inconvenience him. Meanwhile Wonder Woman and Aquaman can take him head on, but are somewhat weaker and can't defeat him.
- He can cause large Area damage with his axe, turning the ground around him into a scorched land.
- He can also teleport through a large energy beam in the sky, even across interstellar / interdimensional distances (He retreats to Apokolips at the end of the movie).
- And speaking of Steppenwolf, perhaps we should talk about something else:
- The movie's McGuffins, the Mother Boxes are incredibly powerful artifacts:
- They are weapons of destruction as well as creation, capable of destroying entire worlds and reshaping them to the likeness of Apokolips.
- They can reshape entire planets into other things, too, such as beautiful paradise worlds.
- They can alter the weather.
- The energy contained in one Mother Box is such that even a planet wouldn't be able to take it, and the combined Mother Boxes are said to be "Power itself".
- It is nearly impossible to safely separate the Mother Boxes when they are united, and Cyborg is only able to do it because he is made from the same material as them, and even them he can only separate them for "A nanosecond", requiring someone else to forcibly pull them apart.
- Meanwhile, Zeus in the flashback splits the Three Mother Boxes with a single lightning bolt. Make of that what you will.
Oh yeah, there's also him.
Superman:
- Ohboy.
- Superman in this movie is ridiculous, my God, someone please nerf him.
- Okay, speaking seriously: Superman is by far the strongest character in the entire movie. Steppenwolf doesn't have shit on him.
- Superman is revived through the power of the Mother Box kick-started through an electrical current generated by The Flash in combination with the Kryptonian's Genesis Chamber fluid.
- The experiment is seen as a colossal risk, as even a planet cannot endure the energy contained in a Mother Box, but Batman says that Superman is "Stronger than a Planet", and thus should survive it.
- He does and is reborn, but at first he is at shock from the experience and lacks full awareness of himself. He gets better soon after, though.
- During this brief period when he is mad, he attacks the entire Justice League, and trashes all of them.
- He physically overpowers Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg with ease simultaneously, isn't harmed by Wonder Woman's sword nor Aquaman's trident, and Cyborg's cannons only stagger him.
- Even more insane, he reacts to the Flash's full speed, and even manages to hit him after Flash fails to continually dodge his punches.
- During the end of the movie, he fights Steppenwolf with a smug smile on his face, casually dodging his Axe swings (Which he perceives in slow motion), and beats him with a single punch.
- He also uses the Freeze Breath for the first time in this movie.
- Superman is the one to split apart the three Mother Boxes with his sheer strength, and he tanks their energies being released on his face, although it leaves him hurt and stunned for a moment (No major injuries though, it seems like the equivalent of a heavy concussion).
- Oh, and he does a better job of evacuating civilians at superspeed than the Flash does. And in a Post-Credit scene he and Flash have a race and are shown to be equally matched.
