Before Injustice came along with its more brutal take on an evil Justice League, the DC Animated Universe did the same on its long running and critically acclaimed Justice League cartoon.
Appearing in the episode 'A Better World', the story followed an alternate world where Lex Luthor became President of the United States. He publicly executes the Flash, which leads Superman to murder Lex in the Oval Office, thus heralding the start of a new brutal League.
The rest of the team willingly abide and, as fashionable as they may look, they're still bad to the bone. It takes the main DCAU Justice League to take them down, but the interesting distinction between the Lords and Superman's regime is that all the League form a united front. There isn't any division; they're so blinded by dogma that they all decide to enact a new, more authoritarian approach to crimefighting.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
