The DC Comics Cinematic Universe
Phase 2: Brainiac
Supeman: Last Daughter
Following the epic confrontation against Starro, Superman, now as the leader of the Justice League, returns to solo heroism by collecting intergalactic waste for S.T.A.R Labs scientist Emil Hamilton. When he returns with the waste, he's informed by DEO agent Alex Danvers of a spacecraft similar to his own having crash-landed near the Fortress of Solitude. Racing off, he unknowingly knocks hapless janitor Rudy Jones into the waste.
Bringing the pod into the Fortress, Superman orders Kelex to scan it for any lifeforms. Kelex finds one in particular inhabiting the pod, that being a young blonde girl named Kara Zor-El. Recognizing the name Zor-El as his uncle, Clark realizes that Kara must be his cousin and decides to teach her how to use her Kryptonian powers for good.
Meanwhile, Rudy recovers and learns that as a result of being shoved into the space waste, he now has the power to absorb the physical & mental properties of anyone he touches, almost like a parasite which is what he decides to call himself. He becomes a criminal and begins stealing the abilities of the strongest men in the world before deciding to attack Superman as revenge.
Clark takes Kara to National City and introduces her to Cat Grant, owner of CatCo and rival to Perry White. She gets a job there, meeting fellow reporters Winn Schott and Linda Park. Eventually, the two Kryptonians learn of Parasite and fight him, but Clark is drained of his powers leaving Kara, now dubbing herself Supergirl in honor of her cousin, to fight Parasite by herself.
Clark on the other hand finds a way back to S.T.A.R Labs and builds himself a new suit of armor as a temporary replacement for his powers known as Eradicator, with help from Professor Hamilton. Returning to National City to assist Supergirl in fighting Parasite, Kara is unaware this new hero is actually her cousin until he gets his powers back and they stop Rudy once and for all. Kara settles into her new life in National City befriending Alex and the cousins part ways.
Post credits scene #1: Hamilton realizes that building the Eradicator armor for Superman put a dent into his research funding before he is visited by Amanda Waller, who offers him more money in exchange for joining her on a secret project. Hamilton is reluctant to do so as it would mean turning his back on Clark but decides to join anyway.
Post credits scene #2: At the DEO headquarters, Alex catches wind of a large skull-like object nearing Earth.
Batman: Master Assassins
Bruce Wayne dons the cowl to strike fear into the hearts of Gotham's criminal underworld as Batman but now that he's a member of the Justice League, multiple villains are out for his head more than ever.
An unknown figure identified as Hush hires members from the League of Assassins Deathstroke the Terminator, Talia al Ghul and David Cain along with master sharpshooter Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot to assassinate him. Batman is mostly alone with Robin by his side against the villains because Nightwing & Batgirl have left Gotham to fight crime in its sister city of Bludhaven. But then he receives some unexpected help in the form of cat burglar Selina Kyle, the Catwoman.
Catwoman offers to help Batman stop the hired guns in exchange for one date. Batman nervously accepts the offer and starts by fighting David Cain. Meanwhile, the Joker & his new right hand girl Harley Quinn break out of Arkham and decide to hunt Batman themselves, turning Gotham into a hunting ground for a most dangerous game: killing the Dark Knight.
Following Cain's defeat, the trio meet his daughter Cassandra who unwillingly tags along on their mission when they next face Deathstroke. Slade Wilson proves to be a match for all four of them until Cassandra takes the bullet for Bruce and takes down the terminator before he flees the scene. Seeing this as an act of goodwill, Bruce makes Cassandra a temporary Batgirl, after which Barbara returns she can go under the name Black Bat.
The Joker and Harley continue on their hunt for Batman before coming across David who decides to join them to get revenge on the Caped Crusader. Meanwhile, the four heroes go up against Deadshot and after a long fight, Batman prepares to arrest him before Floyd tries to convince him not to by bringing up his daughter, but the vigilante decides to arrest him anyway but states that he will keep his daughter safe.
Finally, they corner Hush along with Talia al Ghul atop the Statue of Justice where he unmasks himself as Bruce's childhood friend Tommy Elliot. They are also encountered by the team-up between Joker, Harley & David and a big final battle ensues. During the conflict, Hush reveals a missile that he plots to fire on Gotham creating an earthquake and turning it into a "no man's land" ruled by him. Robin hacks into the missile blowing it up before launch and killing Hush & Cain while Joker, Harley and Talia escape. With a new sidekick with him, Batman continues to fight injustice in Gotham.
Post credits scene #1: Talia returns to the League of Assassins' secret base to report Slade's failure and Cain's death. Her master and father Ra's al Ghul claims they were destined to fail against Batman anyway as he refers to his new plan, a so-called son of Batman that he calls Damien.
Post credits scene #2: Slade returns to his lair where he muses over where to strike next until his butler Wintergreen brings up Jump City.
Post credits scene #3: Deadshot is locked up in Arkham Asylum where he's visited by Amanda Waller who wants to recruit him for a little squad she's assembling.
Nightwing & Batgirl
While Bruce was fighting for his life in Gotham against the League of Assassins, his two companions Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon take a trip to Bludhaven to track down the crime lord Black Mask who is in hiding within the city. They face his bodyguard Blockbuster in an intense fight and are badly injured before being recovered by a group of vigilantes known as the Outsiders, consisting of the young kunoichi Katana, Metamorpho the Element Man and schoolteacher Black Lightning who were on the hunt for Black Mask as well. The Outsiders decide to team up with Nightwing and Batgirl to take down Sionis for good.
After learning of this team up, Black Mask sends another of his minions after them, this time being Clayface. In the aftermath of the battle, Jefferson sends Clayface back to Arkham but Barbara is seriously injured from the tussle and is taken back to Gotham to be taken care of by Dr. Leslie Thompkins, leaving Dick and the Outsiders all by themselves.
Even without Batgirl by their side, she's still helping them out in spirit as they decide to finally fight Black Mask himself. He unleashes an army of robot sentries made out of leftover scrap metal from the Manhunter invasion along with a mechanized suit made from the same material. Eventually the heroes win the day and Nightwing parts ways with the Outsiders.
Post credits scene #1: Barbara decides to take a break from being Batgirl for a while during her recovery and inspired by the Outsiders, forms her own team of heroines known as the Birds of Prey.
Post credits scene #2: Meanwhile, Dick decides to leave Batman's side and begin fighting crime on his own in Jump City, California.
Birds of Prey
After sustaining serious injuries from the fight between her, Nightwing, the Outsiders and Clayface, Barbara Gordon decides to take a break from being Batgirl while recovering, adopting the name Oracle and assembling a team of heroines called the Birds of Prey consisting of herself, Black Canary, Huntress and Cassandra Cain now calling herself Black Bat. On their first mission together against a covert organization known as the Secret Six consisting of the Clock King, Bane, Cluemaster, Knockout, Plastique and Captain Boomerang, they meet fellow vigilante Batwoman.
Although they butt heads a bit, the Birds are able to get along with Kate Kane in their efforts to stop the Six who plot to raid Ace Chemicals for a special toxin that they believe will create acid rain when unleashed into the clouds. Racing to the plant, they accidentally tip Knockout over the edge, presumably killing her and taking on the rest of the Secret Six. After a long and hard battle, the Birds come out on top and bring them to prison.
Post credits scene #1: Knockout is revealed to be alive as she contacts a mysterious figure she refers to as Desaad, telling him that it's almost time.
Post credits scene #2: Cluemaster is thrown into prison when he is visited by his daughter Stephanie, who disowns him and vows to become someone who could "spoil" crime.
Wonder Woman: The Cheetah's Claw
It has been months since Wonder Woman joined the newly-formed Justice League to take on Starro the Conqueror. While Diana continues to balance superhero work with living a normal life working at the famous Lourve, a new supervillain makes her debut, the Cheetah.
Barbara Ann Minerva was originally a British archaeologist working for the businessman Sebastian Ballesteros who was assigned to search for an ancient tomb belonging to a tribe that worshiped the Goddess of the Hunt. She was made a sacrifice to the god and cut with a dagger that transformed her into a human/cheetah hybrid that killed the entire tribe and vowed revenge on Ballesteros for letting her become this.
After attacking Sebastian and his girlfriend Priscilla Rich at a high-society party, Diana reunited with her love Steve Trevor to track Barbara down. They eventually find her working for an evil organization known as Villainy Inc. which consisted of Doctor Poison, Giganta, Silver Swan, Minister Blizzard and their leader, eggheaded billionaire Chang Tzu.
Villainy Inc. continues to elude Diana & Trevor until they eventually catch Blizzard assaulting Ballesteros. Finally confronting Chang, he reveals that he has had an interest in the Amazons since Circe's invasion and used intel gathered for him on them to create his own Amazon, Troia. The two fight and eventually Diana breaks Troia's programming, granting her free will from Tzu. Troia kills Chang and declares Villainy Inc. shut down before the remaining villains, now led by Cheetah, apprehend her.
After tailing them across the world, the two groups face off at the Coliseum in Rome in gladiator-style combat. Diana once again frees Troia and defeats them all. With a new companion alongside her, now calling her Donna Troy, Wonder Woman continues to fight evil in Man's World.
Post credits scene: Chang Tzu is revealed to be alive and has installed his mind into an egg-shaped supercomputer that flees to exact revenge.
Aquaman: Brotherhood
As the new king of the seven seas, it is Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman's duty to protect it from evil. One such evil is the mysterious new villain Ocean Master, who uses a trident to manipulate the weather and create natural disasters. Aquaman, along with Mera and Garth, set out to Somalia to stop him. After a long and hard battle, the Master's helmet breaks, revealing himself to be Arthur's long lost brother Orm.
Orm explains that he was tired of living under his brother's shadow and turned to piracy after being exiled from Atlantis. Arthur tries to apologize for it but Orm lashes it and goes into hiding. Weeks later, he returns with a Somalian crew by his side ready to take revenge. After learning the origins of the trident, the three Atlanteans plan an attack.
Encountering Orm at Happy Harbor, Arthur tries again to convince his brother to turn over a new life but is refused once again. During a long and hard battle, the trident is destroyed rendering Ocean Master helpless as the trio imprison him in Belle Reve and save the day.
Post credits scene #1: Aquaman returns to Atlantis by seahorse, unknowingly being watched by a young dark-skinned man on a surfboard.
Post credits scene #2: A portal appears deep underwater and out comes six beasts.
The Flash: Deep Freeze
Now balancing school life with being a superhero training under Jay Garrick and a member of the Justice League, Wally West tries to adjust to his newfound fame before learning of an old enemy of his father known as Captain Cold has broken out of prison. At the same time his sister Jesse awakens speedster powers of her own, now calling herself Miss Quick.
After defeating Cold, Jesse is called her brother's sidekick by the news which makes her pretty mad. As a result, the two race each other across the city before being caught by Leonard's sister Lisa, aka the Golden Glider. Continuing to argue, they're rescued by Jay Garrick who tells them of how he had similar conflicts with some old friends of his back in the day. Inspired to make amends, the siblings race off to chase Glider.
Confronting her in front of the Flash Museum, they learn she has also broken her brother out of prison. The final battle begins with both sibling pairs working together until Wally and Jesse come out on top and defeat the Snarts. And so, Jesse becomes a new defender of Central City alongside her brother.
Post credits scene #1: Jay hangs out in a bar where he is visited by an old friend of his who volunteers to train the West siblings, that old friend being Max Mercury.
Post credits scene #2: Leonard and Lisa argue in prison before they are interrupted by an old friend of theirs, Mick Rory aka Heatwave.
Green Lantern: Light of Fear
Kyle Rayner now serves as one of Earth's Green Lanterns alongside Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Guy Gardner as they track down Larfleeze, aka Agent Orange across the galaxy until he flees to a dying world to hoard anything its former inhabitants left behind. There, Larfleeze meets the legendary former Green Lantern Thaal Sinestro who dreams of bringing a new order to the universe and they decide to team up against the Lanterns.
Meanwhile on Oa, the group are hard at work on tracking Larfleeze down until they receive info that he has teamed up with Sinestro. Hal, John & Guy explain Sinestro's origin as one of the greatest Green Lanterns to have ever existed before being discharged & banished for abusing his power and indirectly causing the death of fellow Lantern Abin Sur, who gave Hal his ring. When he was banished, Sinestro discovered the entity of fear known as Parallax and became its host, beginning the Sinestro Corps.
Fearing the worst, the Lanterns decide to gather every last Lantern they could find, including the legend himself Alan Scott. Alan is reluctant to take up the ring once more after the death of his partner Abin Sur before he is convinced otherwise when his daughter Jennifer Lynn-Hayden is granted a Lantern Ring of her very own, becoming the first female Green Lantern of Earth.
Now planning to raid Sinestro's hideout on Qward in the Antimatter Universe, Larfleeze throws them off by unleashing more Orange Lanterns from his ring. After defeating him, they finally confront Sinestro. Alan tries to offer him a second chance but is refused and nearly killed. Enraged, Jennifer, now calling herself Jade, lets Sinestro's guard down long enough for Kyle and Hal to defeat him once and for all. Alan is returned to Earth to recuperate while Jade officially joins the Green Lanterns.
Post credits scene #1: Jade is assigned her first mission as a Green Lantern, which is to investigate a skull-shaped spaceship headed for Sector 2814.
Post credits scene #2: In a distant part of the galaxy, Atrocitus of the Red Lantern Corps catches word of Sinestro's crusade and plots to take matters into his own hands.
Martian Manhunter
As the man who brought the Justice League together to fight Starro, J'onn J'onzz has gotten quite a lot of attention from people but he just wants his space, living his life eating Chocos and helping others until he catches the attention of the DEO, who want him to help fight the alien warlord Despero.
Partnered with Agent Cameron Chase, J'onn blasts off into space in search of Despero where he meets the Green Lantern Tomar-Re, who was hunting down Despero himself. Teaming up, the trio comb the entire galaxy for him until they encounter him brainwashing the star system of Vega all except for one person: M'gann M'orzz, another Martian like J'onn.
Battling Despero, he tells his story of how he was an outcast on his home planet of Kalanor for his unique third eye and gained the ability to control minds through discovering the Flame of Py'tar and reveals he has decided to conquer Earth. J'onn tries to convince him otherwise but they reach a compromise, J'onn and his crew can return to Earth but they only have a day to prepare until he arrives.
Racing back to Earth, John decides to spend these last moments before Despero invades by introducing M'gann to his new home planet and train her before time eventually runs out. Despero, now with his new army behind him, prepares to subjugate Earth to his whims before J'onn stops him, challenging him to a literal battle of minds. When it looks like Manhunter is about to lose, M'gann reveals herself as a White Martian and saves him at the last moment, taking down Despero and leaving him for Tomar-Re to arrest. J'onn is shocked to learn this but decides to accept her before she leaves him to see the world.
Post credits scene: John watches TV and eats Chocos before he receives a message from Bruce Wayne saying "Batcave" along with a picture of a large skull-like object nearing Earth. Seeing no time to waste, John transforms into his Martian form and disappears.
The Justice Society
Before the Justice League would come into fruition, there was the Justice Society of America of the 1960s. The team consisted of Alan Scott the first human Green Lantern, Jay Garrick the first Flash, deceased cop Jim Corrigan aka the Spectre, prophetic detective Sandman, scientist Hour-Man, physicist Al Pratt aka Atom, Wildcat, Mister Terrific and Doctor Mid-Nite.
In the present day while Jay spends time with Wally West, he suddenly reunites with Alan who was also having a day out with his daughter Jennifer Lynn-Hayden. The two are elated to see each other again after so many years and tell their respective companions the story of the Justice Society.
It was 1985 when the Justice Society had received word of a villain dating back to the dawn of human history named Vandal Savage. Originally a simple primitive caveman known as Vandar Adg, a special meteorite granted him immortality and he influenced the likes of Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte & Otto van Bismarck, ruled civilizations as Julius Caeser, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn & Vlad the Impaler and even was the true identity of Jack the Ripper.
The Society decides to send out Alan to spy on Savage but the conqueror catches him and places him in suspended animation to send a message. The JSA race to save their friend but in the process, Hour-Man loses his Miraclo-Pills and killed by Vandal. The Justice Society hold a funeral for their fallen friend before being visited by one Johnny Thunder, a young man granted a genie known as Thunderbolt who tells them that Savage is plotting to resurrect history's greatest predators to conquer the world.
Seeing no time to waste, the Society now joined by Johnny race to the Smithsonian to confront Vandal Savage for one last battle. Savage unleashes a Tyrannosaurus rex to attack Wildcat but Mister Terrific jumps into the dinosaur's path, saving Ted at the cost of his own life. A great final showdown ensues, taking the life of Al Pratt in the process before the Justice Society defeat Savage and he goes into hiding. Heartbroken by the loss of their comrades, the team disbands but not before Sandman receives a vision of a new team of heroes that will carry on their legacy.
Post credits scene #1: Returning to present day, Wildcat is shown training in his gym before he's interrupted by a young woman carrying a golden staff offering to train with him, introducing herself as Courtney Whitmore.
Post credits scene #2: Vandal Savage continues to hide from the law as he enacts his next plan.
Justice League: Kingdom Come
It's now been many years since the formation of the Justice League, making a name for themselves as the Earth's greatest heroes continuing to fight crime across the world. But a new threat from outside of Earth is now coming for them, an android known as Brainiac.
Brainiac sends out a drone to analyze each member of the League before he moves on to collecting each of their home cities, starting with Metropolis. The heroes and their allies race to the Fortress of Solitude in search of answers when a transmission from Superman's father Jor-El explains Brainiac's origins. He was once Vril-Dox, a Coluan scientist who was exiled from his homeworld for his inhumane experiments before he was discovered by the Science Council and taken in as one of their own. Eventually they discovered that he was experimenting on shrinking civilizations & preserving them. Vril was exiled once more and later escaped by placing his consciousness into a supercomputer & launched it into space mere moments before Krypton's destruction.
The heroes are granted a device that could create a portal into the interdimensional prison known as the Phantom Zone and seal Brainiac away. They decide to form into two groups, one consisting of Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Supergirl, the Outsiders, Black Bat & Miss Quick to free all the cities stolen by Brainiac and another of Superman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Nightwing, Miss Martian, Wonder Girl and Garth personally fight Brainiac.
While taking back the cities, one in particular catches Supergirl's eye, that city being Krypton's capital of Kandor. Just then, Brainiac ambushes the group and takes them all hostage, Supergirl in particular for being one of the last remaining Kryptonians. Hearing his comrades' cry for help, Clark's group races to their rescue and the final showdown with Brainiac begins.
Brainiac tries to make Superman a part of his collection for being the last son of Krypton and attempts to destroy Earth to further provoke him. Eventually, Supergirl finds a way to shut down his ship, take back all the cities including Kandor and they all send him to the Phantom Zone, ending his madness once and for all. And so with Earth restored to normal, the Justice League are celebrated once more as heroes.
Post credits scene #1: A while later, Superman places Kandor in the Fortress of Solitude and promises Kara they will find a way to return it to its normal size.
Post credits scene #2: Meanwhile in a distant part of the cosmos, Desaad of the New Gods observes the Earth from afar before reporting to his master about the presence of metahumans. That master being none other than Darkseid. He decides to give six of his minions in Atlantis reinforcements and orders his uncle Steppenwolf to prepare the invasion as he steps onto a balcony to look over his slaves.