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The Flash 4: Fastest Man Alive

In the wake of Wally's big sacrifice to stop Daniel West and Godspeed, all of Central City and the Flash Family is in mourning. Barry goes into isolation and tries desperately to go back in time to change the events and bring Wally back. He figures that if he can come back, then so can Wally. But it doesn't work. Then, a villain who has been hiding all along shows up, telling Barry that he's not strong or fast enough and not worthy of the Flash title. He says he's from the distant future and once looked up to Barry but was let down, and knew he could be a better Flash. He calls himself Reverse Flash, and says the other ones (Daniel and Hunter) were flawed copies of him. He claims to be the perfection of speed, and is here to rid Barry of the Speed Force and of his precious family forever. Will Barry be able to stop this new threat? Will he be able to bring back Wally in time to save everyone and put an end to Eobard Thawne?

The Flash 3: Godspeed

A friend-turned-enemy from Barry's past returns, newly empowered by the effects of Vandal Savage, having since evolved himself with new powers as the dangerous and tragic villain Godspeed. He kills Jay Garrick and absorbs all his powers before going on a killing spree, targeting other speedsters and anyone else in his way. Meanwhile, Wally faces his own trauma in the form of a threat from his past, revealing years of abuse close to home that manifest in the most personal and most dangerous enemy he has ever faced. It's not just a race to save the world this time, but to save himself and those he loves.

The Flash 2: Maximum Velocity

In a world still reeling from the destruction caused by the Justice League's fight with Amazo five years ago, the immortal supervillain Vandal Savage begins distributing a drug to humans around the country that enables them to have their own superspeed powers so as to render superheroes useless. In the wake of Barry Allen's death, Wally West takes on Savage and tries to stop him before he can turn the entire world into speedsters and against superheroes. Does Wally it takes to step into Barry's shoes and become the new Flash?

The Justice League

(the first JL film) In this prequel movie that happens 10 years before the "present", Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary, and Martin Manhunter meet for the first time, and must iron out their differences in order to try and stop a radical scientist formerly of LexCorp and his powerful rogue android called Amazo.

Superboy: Legacies

Jon Kent and Conner Kent are on parallel journeys to embrace the fullness of their identities, negotiate their relationships with their parents, and lean forward into their destinies. Jon struggles with the discomfort of nurture, the principles of his upbringing, and carrying the masculine legacy of Superman on his shoulders. Conner struggles with the pull of nature, that is, his genetic link to and traits of both Clark Kent and Lex Luthor. Along the way, they will find community and grow in their understanding of sexuality, masculinity, and the need for healthy love and community. They will learn how to reconcile with, or reject, the legacies of those who have come before them, who try to exert influence over them. While they walk different paths, they maintain a brotherly bond that will be tested and stretched to its limit. Will they forge a new way forward, to exist in and navigate the world, or will their tension tear it apart? Each episode focuses on either Jon or Conner's story, though they will eventually intersect.

The Justice League 6: Infinity, Part 2

Ted Kord, feeling the need to get back in the crime fighting game after reconnecting with his younger self, discovers that Maxwell Lord, whom he thought was an ally - but was always skeptical - has taken control of the Brother Eye system. A mysterious man claiming to be the son of Lex Luthor gives him access. Lord asks Kord to join him, and when he doesn't, Lord shoots him in the head and kills him. Lord uses the system to spy on superhumans and for personal profit but he eventually loses control of it. The Brother Eye system becomes sentient and builds itself a body and an army of OMACs, each one as powerful as Amazo. It takes up Lord's protocol to hunt and eliminate all superhumans. Disillusioned, the JL jumps into action once more. Superman goes after the Brother Eye android, Batman tries to take down the OMACs, Lex Luthor confronts his "son", and Wonder Woman makes a dire choice concerning Maxwell Lord that will change moral and ethics in the DC landscape forever.

Blue & Gold

In the future, Booster Gold passes on the mantle to his daughter, Mina Ali, who travels back in the past to stop the supervillain Maxwell Lord from unleashing hell on earth. Masir, her father, tells her to find Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, for assistance. But she gets knocked off course and lands on Jaime Reyes, who is beginning his journey as Blue Beetle. She realizes she has not gone back far enough in history. Jaime introduces her to a grumpy old Ted Kord who is useless against any threat. She and Jaime battle the dangerous villain Supernova, who relentlessly chases them through time. But together, they travel the timeline to find the younger Kord, who is lost in time, who they believe is the only one who can stop Lord. But, as it turns out, the key to saving all time has been within Mina herself all along. (This film takes place between Infinite Crisis pts 1 and 2, kind of like Ant-Man and the Wasp and Capt. Marvel.)

The Justice League 5: Infinity

The Justice League combats the ultra-powerful A.I. Brother Eye system while struggling to fend off the apocalypse. It picks up right where the post-credits scene of "Batwoman & Nightwing 4" leaves off, with Supergirl (called in by Batman as a last ditch effort to save the world) confronts Brother Eye system, and Batman for creating it in the first place. The superhero community turns on Batman, with only a few standing by his side. Bruce Wayne retreats into the solitude of his Manor and drinks himself nearly to death. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure claiming to be Lex Luthor's son appears, with a vendetta against superheroes and takes control of Brother Eye, directing it to destroy the JL headquarters. Then, "Alexander Luthor", who claims he is from the same dimension as Power Girl and has been laying low, says he wants to perfect his dying world by using Brother Eye to steal all the energy from this one, mainly from superheroes, to transfer to his. He goes overboard and begins to drain the world of its life force. With JL members falling left and right and the world itself under siege from Brother Eye's satellite de-powering system, it will take everything from a our heroes and a guilt-ridden Batman to even stand a chance.

Batwoman & Nightwing 4: Dark Future

Years ago, a distrustful Bruce Wayne created an omniscient artificial intelligence program to monitor the Justice League called Brother Eye. He shut down the system once he began to trust his colleagues and developed meaningful relationships with others as a new found family. Many years into the future, after a cataclysmic event that killed many of Earth's heroes, a much older, lonelier, and cynical Bruce reboots Brother Eye as Earth's new heroic precognitive monitor. But it manipulates the Bat Cave tech to kill Bruce Wayne before initiating a hostile global takeover with the sole goal of eliminating all discord from the word. This includes superheroes. A young Terry McGinnis, Bruce's mentee, manages to fend off Brother Eye and transport it and himself to the past, where Batwoman and Nightwing, along with friends, will have to stop him before it unleashes hell on this Earth with the devastating Chemo weapon. What will they sacrifice to save not just the present, but the future? This is inspired by the Marvel Ultron/Vision stories and the X-Men Nimrod/Bastion stories.

Batwoman & Nightwing 3: Dark Shadows

Batwoman and Nightwing confront the tragic and menacing Nocturna, who sets off to turn the entire eastern seaboard into the living dead. Natalia Knight cannot stop herself from consuming blood and turns to killing humans to satiate her hunger, though she initially hates killing. She also commands acute abilities to influence emotions of those around her. Rejected from the world, she feels isolated and insecure. She learns of her gift to spread her illness to others, and decides to turn everyone into vampiric beings. Will she be able to stop herself, or will Batwoman and Nightwing, feeling more downtrodden than ever, be able to stop her? Will they also succumb to the seduction of the vampire?

Batwoman & Nightwing 2: Dark Masks

Batwoman and Nightwing team up to investigate and take down the crime boss Black Mask and confront the criminal enterprise Intergang, which has implications for the wider DC universe. Alice struggles on her own journey to redemption and reconnection with Kate. Dick takes on a headstrong mentee to pushes him to his absolute limits. Dick will confront the murderer of his family. Kate will make dire choices. Their commitments to their ethics and morals will be pushed to the limit. Meanwhile, when Starfire comes to visit, Barbara gives Dick an ultimatum. Kate and Sophie deepen their relationship.

Batwoman & Nightwing: Dark Nights

Having left Gotham after a nasty disagreement with her cousin Bruce Wayne, Kate Kane finds herself in the gritty Bludhaven looking for her own adventures in crime fighting. She reconnects with her adoptive family, gets a new bat suit, and links up with a reluctant Nightwing. Dick Grayson has left Gotham looking for his own identity outside of Batman, his adoptive father. Bludhaven has become his new home, his crime fighting territory. He sees it as his job to protect it, alone. Together, they form an alliance to combat the criminal organization, MEDUSA, that has spawned villains that even Gotham would shiver at, including those that make Kate and Dick confront their pasts, embrace their identities, and question their futures as crime fighters.

The Flash: First Steps

Barry Allen is the fastest man alive, and is beloved by all. He loves being a hero, and has a strong group around him. He can do anything, it seems. Until his new wife Iris announces her pregnancy. Then a young Wally West comes into his life and he is challenged to be a mentor, which he is totally unprepared for. This movie is a straight up comedy, but with some heart-wrenching moments. He can break the seed barrier and the fourth wall! With the team at S.T.A.R. Labs in Central City, he discovers new mysteries in the Speed Force, which opens up an entirely new world of possibilities (and dangers) to him. He also fights the Rogues, a rag-tag group of street-level thieves who are more than the sum of their parts, having watched The Flash for many years and think they can outsmart him. Unlike most antagonists who fall victim to a life of crime, this group has chosen to be villains, to try and one-up The Flash, knowing full well they can't stop him. But why? They fail every time but ultimately teach Barry something about sacrifice, about being a hero, a mentor, and a dad, along the way.

The New Titans

Proteges of some of the most notable heroes in the DC Universe struggle to embrace the value of friendship and community while battling some of Earth's most dangerous threats. They explore love and loss, belonging, and rejection, and just can't seem to get it right. Bruce Wayne hires his friend and trusted physician, Dr. Leslie Tompkins, to restart the Titans and guide the group to becoming a formidable team. The show features periodic guest appearances from JL members and others from the broader DC universe. S1: Conner Kent arrives. The team is established. S2: Lena Luthor tries to exert control over Conner. Blackfire arrives to challenge Starfire. S3: a Tamaranian cult leader joins with the Church of Blood to summon Brother Blood and Trigon. Raven sacrifices herself. S4: Deathstroke sends Tara, Rose, and Jericho to infiltrate the disgruntled team. Nightwing returns to settle a debt. Vixen assists Logan, who makes a sacrifice to save the team. S5: the team is enlisted by Waller to contain Starro. Cyborg is exposed as a Trojan horse. S6: tension boils between Jason Todd and Tim Drake. Evil variants of Bruce Wayne arrive from the Dark Dimension to wreak havoc on reality.

Superman 2: Truth and Justice

Superman, back in Smallville after the Justice League struggle, must combat a foe like none other who tests him physically and pushes the psychological limits of his values and ethics. The antagonists, Manchester Black and the Elite, seem like heroes until they deal out justice with execution. And they seem unstoppable. They are exposing a deep rift in society that wants to see heroes stop dangerous villains once and for all. This flies in the face of everything Superman stands for. At the same time, his allies in the US government fall for the corruption and elect Lex Luthor as President, further legitimizing the fringe and emboldening enraged and xenophobic radicals. The Man of Steel can stop bullets and evil space invaders. But will Superman be able to stand up to this new threat from within when he can't just punch his way out?

Supergirl: Rise

The first film in the Supergirl series. It's been two years since the Man of Steel was last seen on or anywhere near Earth. Kara Danvers has searched near and far, even flying to the farthest reaches of outer space to locate her last remaining kin. She worries that he abandoned her. Encouraged by Lois Lane and her adopted family to settle in and make a life for herself, she becomes a writer and freelance journalist in National City. She finds friends and romance but can't find the same interest in saving humans like her cousin did. She discovers a message and gift left to her by her parents at the Fortress of Solitude that changes her trajectory forever, just in time for a new kind of apocalyptic threat from beyond the stars to wreak havoc on the planet. Superman is not coming to save the day. It's time for Supergirl to rise, take up the legacy of her family, and be the beacon of hope her new home needs.

Supergirl 3: Warworld

After defeating He'l, Supergirl has eliminated her last hope of finding her lost home. But just as she settles in to accept her place in her newfound home, among friends and family in National City, Kara is abducted and transported as a prisoner to Warworld, the mega ship of the evil conqueror Mongul. There, she has to participate in gladiator style death matches and fight for her physical and mental survival against an array of challenges. She will learn secrets about Krypton and about her family that will test and shake her to the core. Will she make it back home to stop a new force of destruction brewing right underneath the surface?

Wonder Woman: The Golden Age

The film opens with the Amazonian conquest of the god Ares, led by Diana Princess of Themyscria, who becomes the new Wonder Woman, Protector of The Amazons. But instead of staying, she gets curious about Man's World after meeting Steve Trevor, the eventual love of her life. She is exiled with him. Years later, she takes a position as an art curator in Metropolis where she befriends the young archaeologist Barbara Minerva, who looks up to Diana. Barbara's jealousy gets the best of her and, with a magical amulet found in a dig, she intentionally sells her soul to become the menacing Cheetah, giving Diana her first arch-nemesis. Meanwhile, back in Themiscyra, an evil sorceress is broken free from her centuries-long imprisonment in the ancient magical Lasso of Truth. Diana must fight to save both Man's World from the destructive Cheetah, and save Barbara from herself, while also struggling to free her home land from the chaos of Circe. Can she be everything to everyone and live up to the storied legacy of the Wonder Woman? Her choices may mean sacrificing the love of her life.

Wonder Woman II: Truth and Lies

In the first sequel to the Wonder Woman film, Diana finds herself in Man's World in the present day. Rather than the godly forces of the mythological realm, she must battle modern forces that are hellbent on enslaving the world. Diana is, however, set on making the world a better place through her art and charity. A charismatic cult leader, a powerful corrupt billionaire scientist, and an android capable of taking down Superman are all standing in the way. Wonder Woman will have to battle against new forms of physical and psychological warfare in order to save humanity from itself.

Wonder Woman III: Paradise Lost

In this prequel film, Wonder Woman and crew are sent to kill the ancient monster, Medusa, hidden in the caves of Themyscria. But when they arrive, they discover more than they bargained for, including a grove of secrets that will rattle the very foundations of their so-called Promised Land. Diana has to determine who to trust and discern which promises are built on lies.