DC’s new animated movie ‘Justice League: Warworld (2023)’ is the new addition to their Tomorrowverse franchise. Consisting of iconic superhero characters Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, along with supervillains like Two-Face and Mongul, the film is filled with thrilling visuals and a fusion of different genres.
This article is intended to talk about the film in more detail. So, without further ado, let’s deep dive into the detailed discussion of the film. As a cautionary disclaimer, I would like the readers to note that this article is going to be filled with spoilers. You have been warned.
Justice League: Warworld (2023) Plot Summary and Movie Synopsis:
ACT I
In the first act of the movie, we come to witness the tale of Diana Prince. One day, in a vast desert, a tough cowgirl reaches a town captured by some bandits.
After entering a saloon in the town, she gets involved in a brawl with some thugs. But as a bandit tries to shoot her from behind, the bandit leader, Two-Face, shoots his hand and ends the brawl. Then he invites Diana (though in this segment, she is not mentioned by this name. She is only mentioned by Angel later in the story; but for convenience, I will use the name Diana) to his chamber and tells her about the people, who are hiding in a dilapidated house far away out of fear of them. He also tells her that the town’s people are owners of lands stuffed with gold, and they are hiding a lot of gold with them.
He lures Diana to help him kill the people of the town. But as soon as he proposes this, a horse cart with three people is stopped by the bandits, and the elderly man and woman are killed by them. They are about to kill the little girl with them, but Diana steps into it and saves the little girl, and takes her to the dilapidated house where the other people of the town are living.
As soon as she reaches there, she realizes that their supplies are limited, and to survive, they need to get out of there. With another young man with the people, she makes a plan to get out of the house and regain the power of the town.
She attacks Two-Face at night and gathers information that a train filled with explosives is going to pass the town. So, she immediately goes to the tracks and bends the tracks towards the town’s direction. A large explosion occurs, and the town gets almost destroyed. All the bandits either leave or get killed.
At that point, the young man helping and showing a lot of admiration towards Diana tells her to stay with the people. But he is killed by Two-Face from behind. In a fit of rage, Diana beats him and leaves him half-dead.
ACT II
In the second act of the film, we come to a strange world where a violent mercenary is fighting with an army of a warlord. He is wearing a bat mask and can be recognized as Batman from an alternate universe. But soon, he is defeated and gets imprisoned.
After ending the war, the mercenary is brought to the warlord to face his ultimate judgment. At that moment, the mercenary does a bargain with the warlord that he will take him to his employer, the wizard, and in return, the warlord will release him with a hefty amount of gold.
The warlord agrees, and they take off on a journey towards the wizard’s castle. On their journey, they come to face innumerable turbulences – from different beast attacks to dangerous illusions of the wizard.
But ultimately, after losing a significant number of fellow warriors, they reach the main chamber of the castle of the wizard. And after a fierce fight with the wizard, they defeat him, but he swears to return again.
Until now, the mercenary could not recall his name and where he came from. Another mysterious woman, who is captured by the wizard in his chamber is also experiencing the same. But after the fight with the wizard, the mercenary and the woman (who resembles Wonder Woman from an alternate universe for her lasso of truth) recall that this is not their world, and they have to escape from it to return to their real worlds. As soon as they realize this, a portal opens, and they enter that.
ACT III
In this act, we come to the period of perhaps the 60s, where a young agent, Clarke Kent, joins Agent Faraday to investigate the case of landing a UFO on the small town of Grovers Mil. Some suspicious activity also is seen in the area, with several footprints going towards the snow.
So, to investigate the case, they interrogate some witnesses with the help of highway patrol officer, Bruce Wayne, in a diner. There they find a mysterious woman named Diana Prince. As Agent Kent, Officer Wayne, and Diana Prince gather in the diner, the three hear strange voices and get some strange visions. As soon as Agent Kent reveals this thing to everyone present in the diner, the witnesses try to convince Agent Kent that Diana is an alien creature who takes the disguise of a human. Kent has reservations about this matter. But when a truck driver insists on this thing more offensively, Kent and him get into a fight.
There it is revealed that all the people posing as witnesses are aliens. Soon, more aliens land there, and Kent, Bruce, and Diana narrowly flee from the spot. In an abandoned house, they find the UFO. They enter it and find a green creature captured there.
Soon some other creatures arrive, and they start to torture the bounded green creature. The three defeat the creatures and free the green creature. After his release, he reveals that he is J’onn J’onzz, the green Martian, who, along with Clarke Kent, Bruce Wayne, and Diana Prince, is captured by Mongul in the Warworld, the largest and most destructive war device in the entire universe.
The Warworld uses telepathic powers to enslave people, and by their hatred and fears, it gets all the negative emotions to create alternate worlds where one can be trapped for eternity. J’onn J’onzz, at last, finds a way to get away from it – througg a backdoor called the Zeta Chamber.
Justice League: Warworld (2023) Movie Ending, Explained:
Where is the Key of Warworld?
Meanwhile, another creature comes and shoots all four of them. But it does not kill them. They become unconscious of its effect. As soon as they regain their consciousness, Kent, Wayne, and Prince find their superhero costumes and locate the Zeta Chamber. But they are loyal to his friend J’onn. So, they go to save him.
The creature attacks Bruce, Diana, and Clarke and takes J’onn to Mongul. Mongul tortures J’onn to find out where the key to Warworld is hidden. But J’onn denies giving the information to him. Mongul replies by saying that he does not need the key. As long as he can take control of the whole weapon he can take this to any planet and destroy it.
But J’onn has some other plans on this matter. First, he hypnotizes one of the White Martians working for Mongul, and then he plants the idea of betraying Mongul within his henchman’s head.
At that exact moment, Diana (Wonder Woman), Clarke (Superman), and Bruce (Batman) reach there, and a fierce fight breaks out. As the whole of Warworld’s soldiers are pitted against them, J’onn goes to the control system with his hypnotized White Martian. He reveals that Mars was going through an eternal civil war between the White Martians and the Green Martians. Knowing that they will never get peace from their rivalry, the key of the Warworld is split into two halves. The first half is joined with the DNA of the Green Martians, and the other half is joined with the DNA of the White Martians.
So, to destroy the Warworld once and for all, J’onn and his hypnotized White Martian merge into one and set it for self-destruction. It is unclear what will happen with our heroes in the end, but we can say the answers will be coming in the next Tomorrowverse movie, as the last scene depicts a portal opening and a creature coming out of it, asking our superheroes to go with her.
