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It's no secret that DC's movies have been kind of
divisive in terms of quality
But the good news is that their animated movies have actually been good like
Really good so much so that we wanted to talk about the very best ones
And also because we think DC could use some positivity after Justice League and to say sorry
I'm nervous nature screwattack's top 10 animated DC movies
Number 10, I'll bet you thought this whole top 10 would be nothing but Batman and Superman didn't you well you would be?
more, or less basically correct tonight
Beforehand but that doesn't mean that the old flash can't have his moment in the spotlight first in Justice League the flashpoint paradox Barry Allen
Accidentally finds himself in an alternate universe where everything is wrong
So he's got to find the way to get back to his own world while also fixing the one that he finds himself
Trapped in it's kind of like Back to the Future only superhero work
Besides who wouldn't want to see a world where Thomas Wayne became Batman and Martha Wayne becomes the Joker
Answer not Barry Allen because he like never got his powers in this universe and of course
I mention two things and it also makes the flashpoint paradox easy top 10 material number nine
superhero origin stories are literally everywhere
but how often do you wonder about how a hero's journey might end and
What if that hero or freaking Superman despite how bonkers?
You'd think a story like this will play out all-star Superman is not a race against the clock like you'd expect
Instead it spends a surprising amount of time just showing how Supes would spend his final living dates
But don't let the title fool you though
All-star Superman is almost as much about Lex Luthor as it is Clark Kents and by the end of the film
Let's just say that Lex finally understands his lifelong nemesis in the way
He never had before not to mention that it's got one of Lex Luthor's manliest moments ever
You know what?
To Superman Allstars Superman is the kind of movie that downplays the super and
Emphasizes the man behind the most famous comic book hero ever made
number eight
Hi, I know. I just told you guys you're gonna see a lot of Batman on this list
But really you're about to see a lot of Batman. I think there's no better Batman movie to start with in Lego Batman
Hey, hey, it's DC. And it's animated it counts unlike most films on this list the Lego Batman
Movie is as tongue-in-cheek as they come and is pretty much nothing, but jokes, but they're funny jokes that hit home for die-hard DC
Fans you know all those ridiculous villains that show up for two seconds in the beginning yet. They're all real even
Condiment King, but that's just the start the entire Lego Batman
movie is packed with
Self-referential humor that makes it a lot of fun for fans and casuals to watch
Plus who would have guessed that Will Arnett can make such a great Batman don't call me Padre
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obviously Batman Beyond is a really sweet take on the world of The Dark Knight and in Batman Beyond return to Joker we get a
Seven-course meal of everything that makes it so great excellent characters spectacular animation it
Be just straight killed a guy on screen and a movie for kids didn't pay
But we all remember return of the Joker for an even more chilling scene one of the most haunting moments in any
superhero movie to date
it's that flashback when Batman finds his old Protege brainwashed by the Joker this was such a
Disturbing moment that only got darker when the former Robin ended the Joker once and for all
Hmm, but you know it bugs me even more about this movie if a cartoon character watches another cartoon
what does that mean like are you trying to tell me that Bugs Bunny isn't like an
Actor in the same mode as Batman. How does it work? I need answers ScrewAttack fans?
number 6
Because come on you got to have at least one origin story on this list right
A lot of Frank Miller's Batman year one is gonna feel super familiar if you've seen Batman Begins
But that doesn't take away from it makes the direct animated
Adaptations so wonderful I could go on and on about the superb animation and stuff, but Bryan Cranston is Gordon
This is a correct choice plus year one also gave us that underrated Batman line from this moment on
None of you are safe
Yeah, I kind of like that part better book or they write cognate so that Batman peed his pants in that scene no
I'm not kidding, and thank you Kevin Smith. Also. What is Catwoman a prostitute here
number five
the live-action Wonder Woman movie was pretty great
And I'm not just saying that because DC set the bar of expectations, so low at their other films
I'm saying that that's what happens when your script is copy and pasted from the 2009 Wonder Woman film, okay, okay?
It's not actually that simple, but it seems pretty obvious
How inspirational the animated movie was Wonder Woman's origin story follows similar?
It's your central plot is about Ares manipulating people and Diana even stops bollocks in an alleyway so that Steve Trevor
Doesn't get cash but above all it's a well-written movie, and I don't just mean the funny bits God your daughter's got a nice rack
Shall I kill him now McQueen
Wonder Woman also delivers an important message about men and women understanding each other and that remains
Important to this day even though this movie doesn't exactly handle him with what you might call a subtlety. Hey, it's still a great wife
number four
Major props to so many recent movies dominating the list and all
But there is a classic animated adventure that must be high on this list for those of you
Who've seen Batman mask of the phantasm you know? What's up those of you who haven't I'll keep this big you can
Thank me later when you watch it for yourselves to this day mask of the phantasm has some of the best
Storytelling out of any flick DC has ever done all you really need to know is Bruce Wayne's secret love interest some weird smoke villain
With the hook hand and that ending that trust
I you know what I really can't say any more, so I'm just gonna let the Joker's epic laugh wrap up this entry
Number three
Capes and bright colored costumes just are not cool anymore
Everybody seems to what they're heroes to be edgier darker sexier and willing to cross that line
And I'm not just talking about in real life. I'm talking about the adaptation of one of the all-time greatest Superman stories ever told
the animated
Superman
versus the oldies
So in these four weirdos who call themselves Ely come out of nowhere and start doing a hero thing in their own brutal way
They win the favor of the entire world suddenly Superman's old way of never taking a life. Just doesn't cut it anymore
Everybody knows that the last Son of Krypton is all but invincible
Physically, but this movie is about what happens when the incorruptible Man of Steel has to make the toughest decision of his life
Superman versus the elite has to that most important question of when is it alright to?
Compromise on your morals and once it gets going. It's
Impossible to take your eyes off
number two
If you know even just the most basic things about the Joker
Rachele ghoul and Jason Todd you'll have Batman under the Red Hood mystery solved in the first five minutes
But just like revisiting a favorite movie you watch this animated gem because of how well it tells the story
Batman is the world's greatest everything ever
Except when it comes to interacting with humans and under the Red Hood is all about one of his greatest failures
Coming back the heart
Hey superheroes are fun and all
But we like them even better when they're deconstructed like Bruce Wayne is in this movie
throwing one of the most intimidating takes on the Joker courtesy of bender from Futurama
along as some of the best animation WV has ever put out and you've got one of the greatest DC films period
it's
number one
Okay
Not to contradict a lot of what we just
Said in that Superman verse of the elite entry about you know gritty heroes a minute ago
But we're going full-on grim and depressing for number one
It's not the only animated DC film to ask how a classic heroes story might end but the Dark Knight Returns
Parts 1 and 2 are just as fascinating an answer as you could ever hope for
Or maybe more specifically as weird and answer as you can ever hope for
I mean Batman goes from racing formula 1 cars to fighting a topless
Nazi woman while dressed as a grandma to using a robot suit to fight Superman
While being helped by a one-armed Green Arrow like what, but what we really love about the Dark Knight Returns
Is that between Batman's old age and the new Robins and experience?
There's this constant sense of dread that our heroes are in real danger at all times
Danger that reaches its peak in the final showdown between the bat and the clown in
DC's world of animated adventures, it's
ridiculously steep competition for number 1
But for us the Dark Knight Returns has the very best elements of DC's other fine works all wrapped up into one
Wild adventure it just leaves me with one question. How is Catwoman still a prostitute?
For the secret number 11, you can't go wrong with Justice crisis on two works
And I don't just say that because James Woods voice is an evil art and that universe Batman as strained as that sentence is to
say It's a high-stakes battle between worlds that decides the fate of like everything actually all of existence
Hangs in the balance of this bill as far as ensemble Justice League films. Go. This is one of the absolute best