10 Outrageous Justice League Moments That Won’t Be In The Movie

Darkseid probably won't be beaten in a chess game.

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Ever since Marvel struck movie gold with Avengers, DC have been racing to catch up. Now, they're finally ready to take the next big step to join Earth's Mightiest Heroes with this years Justice League movie.

Whether it will soar to the same level of love that Marvel's films have been enjoying or crash and burn like Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad remains to be seen. However, one thing is for certain, it won't match the same level of lunacy that some of the comics have got up to.

The Justice League has been up and running since the 60's and its adventures have continued pretty constantly throughout the decades, through numerous line-up changes and even whole new iterations of the team. Of course, with so many pages to fill, fresh ideas can be hard to come by.

Luckily, comics are a medium that allow for a virtually limitless number of stories to be told and so, when you're in need of a plot, you can always just chuck out a random alternate universe or a not so subtle dig at the competition.

There are a whole host of great comic storylines that the Justice League movie could take inspiration from. These ten probably aren't going to be among them.

10. Vixen Meets The Brown Bomber

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In Justice League of America Vol. 2 #26, the trickster god Anansi used his powers to rewrite reality. The Justice Leaguer Vixen was immune to it, but she woke up in a new world to find that her teammates were completely different.

Bruce Wayne was now a murderous vigilante named Paladin, Earth's Green Lantern was a man named David Kim and Wonder Woman was the grieving widow of a dead Superman. Black Lightning had the worst luck of them all though.

Black Lightning had been replaced by the Brown Bomber, an obese white guy who could transform into a hulking super-powered black guy (complete with Afro and gold medallion) when he yelled the words "Black Power". He was basically the awkwardly racist uncle of the Captain Marvel Family.

It may seem random, but the Brown Bomber was actually a fun in-joke based on Black Lightning's origins. The original idea for the character (who was even named Black Bomber) was that he was a white racist who could transform into a black superhero.

Thankfully, the editor who had that idea was let go and writer Tony Isabella realised that it wasn't a great idea for DC's first leading African American hero's power to be super-blackface.

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