With Injustice 2 right around the corner, we here at Suggestive Gaming thought it would
be a good idea to quickly go over the story of the first game.
Mind you, we won’t be covering the many prequel comic books, so be sure to check those
out for the complete backstory.
So without further ado, this is what you need to know about Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Our story begins in a flashback where we see a destroyed Metropolis.
In the Gotham City police station, the Joker is being interrogated by Batman, who is pressuring
him to find out where he got the nuke that devastated the city.
Superman breaks down a wall and enters and grabs the Joker, revealing that the clown
had drugged him and forced him to kill Lois Lane and his unborn son, which set off the
nuke.
Batman tries to intervene, but the Man of Steel lets his anger take the best of him,
and he kills the Joker.
Five years later, Superman has become a tyrant, ruling the world under his established One
Earth Regime.
Batman, however, has established an insurgency against the One Earth Regime, and a war is
raging between the two factions.
His insurgency discover a parallel universe where the Joker’s plan to destroy Metropolis
has failed, and they teleport that world’s Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern,
and Aquaman.
However, that world’s Batman and Joker are also transported inadvertently, but are quickly
separated from each other after an encounter with the regime’s military forces.
Aquaman discovers that this version of Atlantis has vowed servitude to Superman, and eventually
defeats the alternate Flash and Shazam.
He is then sent by Ares to join the other heroes, who have found the alternate Batman
in Gotham City.
This Batman and the alternate Lex Luthor, who is not villainous in this universe, explain
their plot to take down the tyrant Superman.
This includes a nanotech pill derived from Kryptonian DNA which can convert regular humans
into super-powered ones, as well as a kryptonite-based weapon stored in the Batcave that must be
unlocked using the Justice League’s DNA.
They also reveal that the insurgency had to bring the heroes from the other universe to
unlock the weapon, because Superman had killed the alternate Green Arrow and forced the other
three Justice League members into submission.
Meanwhile, the alternate Batman pursues the Joker through Gotham, but the alternate Green
Lantern (called the Yellow Lantern here) and Hawkgirl mistake him for their universe’s
Batman and arrest him.
The Joker then meets with the alternate Harley Quinn, who has formed an underground association
called the “Joker Clan” in remembrance of the Joker whom Superman killed.
The insurgents then sneak into Wayne Manor and fight their way through the regime to
the Batcave to retrieve the Kryptonite weapon.
In the main universe, Superman tries to rescue the heroes from the alternate universe with
the help of the Flash and Cyborg.
Their teleporter only sends Cyborg, who joins up with the insurgency.
There, he works with Deathstroke to infiltrate the Hall of Justice to take control of the
Watchtower’s teleporter.
The rest of the insurgents attempt to break into Stryker’s Island prison to rescue the
alternate Batman.
The alternate Superman attempts to destroy the Watchtower, but Deathstroke overcharges
its core and sets off an explosion.
Luthor then arrives and attempts to use the kryptonite-weapon to kill Superman, but Shazam
stops him, and Superman is able to kill Luthor.
Now aware of humanity’s plan to kill him, Superman then sets off to destroy Gotham and
Metropolis.
Shazam disagrees, so Superman murders him out of anger, causing the Flash to finally
defect to the insurgency.
Seeing no other option to defeat the alternate Superman, the insurgency decide to recruit
the main universe Superman to finish the fight.
Ares then teleports Wonder Woman to Themyscira where she recruits the Amazons before Superman
can force them to invade Metropolis.
Elsewhere, the two Batmen teleport the main universe Superman to the alternate universe
before the Army of Atlantis advances on Metropolis.
Wonder Woman arrives with the Amazons who begin to battle with Atlantis.
Superman takes off and defeats several alternate heroes and villains before meeting his counterpart
in the Fortress of Solitude, where he eventually bests him, ending his tyrannical reign.
Afterwards, the One Earth Regime is dismantled, and all of the generals and accomplices are
arrested.
Harley Quinn realizes that the Joker doesn’t care about her and has him sent back to his
own universe.
Green Lantern hands over his counterpart, the Yellow Lantern, and his leader Sinestro,
to the Guardians of the Universe to stand trial.
The alternate Superman is placed in a prison of red sun radiation, which leaves him powerless.
The main Batman and Superman reflect on the alternate Superman’s situation, which Batman
hopes never happens to his friend.
As the two walk away, the alternate Superman’s eyes glow red, showing that he might not be
as subdued as our heroes would hope.
This is the last shot we see of Injustice: Gods Among Us, and we are left to wonder what
will await us in Injustice 2.
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