Stories by @justincasts
144 stories
The Black Panther
Characters features in a 4 film sequence (featuring the T'Challa-Storm wedding and conflicts with Namor and Doctor Doom).
Batman 7: The Darkest Knight
Comes before the final JL films. Batman is wounded and recovering from his experience in the Mobius Chair. Weary of his superhero role and desiring a fuller life, Bruce proposes to Selina, and they plan a wedding. It gets interrupted by a rift in the universe caused by Owlman who refuses to allow Bruce a life of happiness. The rift means Bruce and the Bat Family must contend with the evil Batman Who Laughs, the malicious Dark Knights, and a malevolent cosmic being responsible for setting into motion the entirety of Bruce's trauma and superhero career. This threat is an all hands on deck crisis. In the end, to save the world, he will be forced choose between his fidelity to Batman, and his heart as Bruce.
Trinity of Sin
A Series. Follows the ageless Pandora as she tries to make amends and break her ancient curse, while learning the truth about her history and seeks a path towards death and absolution. She teams up with Question and Phantom Stranger, similarly condemned souls, to travel the land and help various characters redeem their sins. Meanwhile, Pandora tries to escape the wandering eye of a mysterious and powerful cosmic force.
Justice League X, part 2: Totality
With Darkseid and Grail defeated, and the Anti-Monitor returned to Mobius, the Monitor arrives to warn the heroes of the encroaching evil, Perpetua, who has awakened from her imprisonment. With only the core members remaining, the JL and Monitor seeks out help from the World Forger, and must restore Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor to their full power in order to stop this omnipotent evil from destroying all of reality. The Spectre offers one of the heroes the opportunity to make the sacrifice worth every lifetime.
Justice League X, Pt 1: Darkseid War
Darkseid returns to claim the anti-life equation from the Anti-Monitor. All out war ensues.
Wonder Woman VII: Sins of the Mother
Diana learns the hidden truth of the night of her birth, when an Amazonian named Myrina gave birth to Darkseid's daughter named Grail. The Oracle prophesied that Grail would facilitate the war between Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor that would tear apart the fabric of the universe. Myrina killed her Amazonian sisters to protect Grail and escape, becoming the first Amazonians (long before Diana) to leave Themiscyra. In the present, Myrina appears back on the island with Grail. The former threatens to kill Nubia whole Grail threatens Steve Trevor, forcing Diana to choose to save just one. She chooses Nubia, misjudging her own speed and watches in agony as Grail kills Steve. Diana fights and kills Myrina in a rage, which then leads to Grail killing Hippolyta. Then the two women fight but Diana is outclassed and is defeated by the rogue, who goes on to claim herself as the new champion of the Amazons. She uses her position to contact the Anti-Monitor while Diana is teleported away.
The Lost Son
Film that focuses on oddball escape artist Scott Free (Mister Miracle), who is the son given up by Highfather to be raised on Apokolips by Darkseid, who himself gives up his son Orion to be raised by Highfather on New Genesis. But he does not know any of this. He has grown up believing he is Darkseid's son, until Orion encounters him and tells him the truth and that he is a vessel for Darkseid's greatest treasure, and is needed by his uncle to stop a coup being staged by his sons Kalibak and Grayven. Scott must escape from his uncle's planet if he is to save himself, and the universe as a whole. But, there's a catch, he's fallen in love with one of Darkseid's champions. It'll be a tall order to get her on his side. But he will need all the help he can get if he hopes to get away in time and join his real father and family who will no doubt be glad to see him...right? Because they're the good guys, right?
Justice League 9: The Syndicate
With the multiverse becoming increasingly unstable, evil variants of the Justice League slip through the rip in reality to invade our Earth. They work with a conspirator to systematically take out each of the JL team members, leaving the playing field open for conquest. Calling themselves the Crime Syndicate, they announce their intentions to overthrow governments and forcibly take control of this world. And who will stop them?
Justice League 7-8: Dark Crisis pts 1 and 2
JL 6: Dark Crisis -- Mister Miracle, who no one knows, falls to earth with a dire message and seeks refuge. Darkseid's generals have infiltrated earth and begin their attack, laying waste to various sectors. Meanwhile, Darkseid himself locates the Anti-Life equation inside his nephew. The JL assembles to fight off the generals and parademon army. And just when they think they have stopped Darkseid from acquiring the equation, they fail. He arrives and kills Scott, taking it for himself. JL 7: Dark Crisis pt 2 -- One year later, millions are enslaved to Darkseid and the world is a wasteland. Millions more, including some heroes, are dead. Several of the remaining superheroes serve as his slaves, or have voluntarily taken his side. Others are on the run as insurgents. A ragtag group must band together to foil the next phase of Darkseid's plan and save the world from further destruction.
Justice League 4: Conquest
After sensing the advancement towards earth of the evil world collector Brainiac, the Green Lanterns warn the Justice League about the encroaching threat.
Supergirl 4: Legion of Super-Heroes
Brainy enlists the help of Supergirl and Mon-El to expose an intergalactic conspiracy in the 30st Century in hopes of saving the future from the machinations of the Time Trapper and Mordru. There, they gather a group of former heroes and re-activate the famed Legion of Super-Heroes. This new world begins to feel like the home she remembers on Krypton and Kara, who is revered as a savior in this future, starts to fit in easily. Mon-El and Brainy find themselves in a love triangle as Kara ponders whether or not to return to the present. Her decisions will have dire implications for her family, friends, and the trajectory of time itself.
Superman 7: Forever
After much loss over the years, and the battle with Lex, Superman considers retirement. He has been poisoned with Kryptonite and his powers are diminishing by the day. He wants to live out his days with Lois. This film showcases him considering who to pass the mantle to, with characters like Supergirl, Power Girl, Conner Kent, Steel, and Superboy all weighing their own commitments, conflicts, and desires to take up the role.
Superman 6: Man of Tomorrow
After the Doomsday carnage, Lex Luthor is convicted and his entire administration is thrown out of office. Superman's reputation improves. Senator Pete Ross takes over as acting president. The generals turn on Lex and, after Bruce and Barbara dry up his account, his investors leave LexCorp in shambles. Desperate and vengeful, Lex snaps and goes rogue. He activates his own warsuit and kills Eve Tessmacher for standing in his way. Mercy Graves stands by him but begins to have doubts. Desperate, Lex exposes Superman's identity to the world, and sends his cult followers to raze the Kent ranch, killing Martha and seriously wounding Lois. Meanwhile, Lex works with Orm of Atlantis, Bizarro, Bloodsport, and Metallo to poison and kidnap Clark. Lex fights a weakened Superman, brutally beats, and imprisons him deep underwater away from the Sun. Superman is saved and breaks out from his ocean captivity. He immediately runs down Lex who is armed with a Aquaman's trident, stolen by Orm, and in his warsuit, specially designed to battle Superman. They have a knock down drag out fight and Clark almost kills Lex. But he ultimately saves his former friend's life. He turns Lex in to the authorities and returns to grieve his losses.
DC Elseworlds
(in the style of Marvel's What If series.) this animated series follows The Monitor watching over the multiverse as variants of the Prime Earth DC characters play out various familiar scenarios with diverging consequences. He sends out his assistant, the Harbinger, to ensure that events play out as they should but she discovers her stolen memories and a broader conspiracy that implicates The Monitor in her captivity and in various cataclysms of the multiverse. Season 1 culminates with Brainiac as the major threat. Season 2 culminates with Kal-El-Doomsday as the major threat. Season 3 culminates in Darkseid and Highfather as the major threat. Season 4 culminates in the Monitor and Anti-Monitor as the final threats, and the heroes seek help from Brainiac, Doomsday, and Darkseid.
Superman 5: Doomsday
This is the start of the downfall of Lex Luthor's presidency. After Batman releases info about his sinister machinations, Congress impeaches him. This leads to mass protests in the streets with both pro and anti-Lex fighting with military and police in cities across the country. Meanwhile, Superman and the Super Family try to calm the storm. But the pro-Luthor cult gets more violent. Amanda Waller's daughter is caught in the crossfire and dies in Superman's arms on national television, but some outlets make it appear that Superman himself is responsible, while the Daily Planet tries to share the truth, creating more chaos. Waller, grieving and angry, taps into her longstanding hatred of metahumans and bypasses Luthor to launch her top-secret project, "Project Doomsday". It is a comatose being on Zod's warship paired with spores that escaped the Phantom Zone with the Phantom King years prior. Waller recklessly awakens the beast from its coma, and the it immediately targets Superman and the other Kryptonians. It goes on a rampage, killing thousands while battling the Super Family. Waller has the only kill switch, but in a growing rage the monster destroys it and her. The Super Family eventually learns that the Fortress of Solitude itself can trap the monster and send it back to the Phantom Zone. In the epic battle, the heroes fall with Clark as the last left standing. Jimmy Olsen dies protecting Clark, but only after using the footage to restore Superman's public image.
Green & Red: Vol 7
An anthology series following characters tied to the Green and the Red as they navigate their identities and deal with threats to the realms they are called to protect. Vol 7 picks up in the wake of the Rot and of Arcane's destruction. People are depressed and frightened. Buddy continues to wrestle with the Red, trying to pull out of his role but the Red pull him back in and deepens its hold, making him more and more psychotic and aggressive. He develops a hatred for the way humans interact with animals and begins a cult following. He meets Annie Cassidy, a true believers who also has ties to the Red, and has an affair with her. As she and Buddy become close, Ellen grows distant. Buddy and Annie stage a mass riot of animals in Washington DC, for which he is arrested. But he becomes an icon for many, expanding the cult which sees Maxine as it's savior. As Annie grows more radical and threatens his family, Buddy looks for ways to sever his ties with the Red, even if it means destroying it entirely. Vixen, Beast Boy, Swamp Thing, and Dolphin (representative of the Blue/Clear) assist.
Green & Red: Vols. 5-6
An anthology series following characters tied to the Green and the Red as they navigate their identities and deal with threats to the realms they are called to protect. Vols 5-6 follow Swamp Thing. Vol 5 picks up on a different vantage point of the same story in Vol 3, with Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue. It showcase Alec Holland's death and transition into Swamp Thing, as well as his lost memories, relationships, and evolving understanding of The Green. Vol 6 shows Alec working with John Constantine to bring back his daughter from hell. But they inadvertently bring back Anton Arcane, who takes the opportunity to threaten his wife Abigail and continue his campaign to corrupt the entire world with rot and decay. Vixen, Ivy, and Animal Man assist in trying to defeat the powerful and ruthless Arcane for good.
Green & Red: Vol 4
An anthology series following characters tied to the Green and the Red as they navigate their identities and deal with threats to the realms they are called to protect. Vol 4 follows Vixen as she struggles against a powerful mischievous entity claiming to speak for the Red and vying for control over her Totem and entire being as a way to enter the world. Meanwhile, she discovers and comes to blows with the army of hunters who murdered her family, now enhanced and under mind-control by the menacing Grodd, who also seeks to steal and possess Mari's Totem and access to the Red by any means necessary. She will have to make hard decisions that leave her vulnerable if she is to defeat her foes. But, when the hunters begin scorching the earth, Vixen receives help from an unlike ally in Poison Ivy.
Green & Red: Vol 3
An anthology series following characters tied to the Green and the Red as they navigate their identities and deal with threats to the realms they are called to protect. Vol 3 digs into the origin of Poison Ivy and her tense relationship with the Green. It spends time with Pamela as a graduate student working with Dr. Jason Woodrue, who shapes her eco-activist views and causes her to become Poison Ivy. It follows her attempts to chase down Woodrue and her antagonism of the Green after it rejects her as it's potential avatar. She comes into conflict with Swamp Thing and the Green itself on her obsessive hunt for vengeance against Woodrue.
Green & Red: Vol 2
An anthology series following characters tied to the Green and the Red as they navigate their identities and deal with threats to the realms they are called to protect. Vol 2 follows Buddy Baker, Animal Man, who uncovers the truth about his role as protector of the Red. In truth, hai daughter Maxine was meant to be the avatar all along. Animal Man and Bronze Tiger investigates a series of animal killings that lead him to the deranged Anton Arcane, who is obsessed not just with corrupting wildlife with rot but with kidnapping and using Maxine to unleash rot into the Red. In the end, Buddy will defeat and kill Anton, sending his soul to hell. His choice will haunt him and drive him to consider retiring, which places him in conflict with the forces of the Red itself.