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fantasyinvader · 6 months

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Upon thinking about it, I kinda love what Injustice 2 did with Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn. How Wonder Woman has become the villain, while Harley is a hero and can even end up as a member of the new Justice League.

Now, I'm sure there's going to be people who will take offense to this. After all, Harley was Joker's accomplice in nuking Metropolis and sending Superman down the path of tyranny. I'm not denying that, but then again neither is Harley. I'm getting ahead of myself. During Story Mode, you play as both Harley and Diana in one chapter and in each case the third fight sees the introduction of Scarecrow and his fear gas.

In Harley's case, her four fights are as follows.

Poison Ivy, Harley's ex-girlfriend. Harley has joined Batman, Ivy remains a criminal. Despite their history, it's clear that they are on two different sides now.

Scarecrow, another member of Batman's rogues gallery. He's actually been shown as being nice to Harley in past, being among those in Arkham who hate Joker for what he does to Harley. He was even shown in TAS to stop screaming at the doctors in order to pleasantly great her. But now Harley is no longer under the Joker's thrall, and they're enemies.

A fear gas-induced hallucination of the Joker. This is supposed to represent Harley's deepest fear, her going back to her old ways. Her becoming a villain again and turning her back on those who have given her a second chance.

Swamp Thing, a being that's typically neutral in super-events. After the fight, Harley talks him down and explains what's happening, parting on good terms.

Now compare this to Wonder Woman's list.

Captain Cold, a criminal who is after the ex-regime for executing his sister Golden Glider. The Regime does not give second chances, and Wonder Woman points out that Cold led his sister to a life of crime. Now, the lack of second chances is something called out in the Injustice movie and with Cold it's a bit deeper. He reforms in his ladder ending after beating Braniac, becoming partners with The Flash to stop criminals. Reformation IS possible, but the Regime disables it through it's measures.

Reverse-Flash. He's made because he's stuck in a time paradox, unable to return to his home in the future after the Regime killed one of his ancestors. This begs the question over it's meaning. That ancestor was originally supposed to live, have a child and their bloodline would continue down until Reverse-Flash. Now, multiple people have been erased from history and the implication that they weren't supposed to die.

Scarecrow. The lead-in to the fight sees Diana face her greatest fear, her own culpability. Joker might have broke Superman, but she's the one who always pushed him into more severe measures, the one who always told him he was in the right, encouraging his actions in building the Regime. Supes always said he was doing it all to prevent another tragedy like the nuking of Metropolis, but she supported him when he ordered the destruction of both Metropolis and Gotham to show people what happens when he doesn't get his way.

Compare this to Harley. Most media either depicts Harley as being an innocent psychologist twisted by the Joker, driven insane by a mad love for the Clown Prince of Crime she won't let go, or that she always had this darkness in her and the Joker got her to let it out of her own freewill. Either way, the Joker was a devil on her shoulder.

Wonder Woman was Superman's, putting her on the same level as the Joker. And part of it was her own desire for Superman. Really makes her the Hubert of the Injustice-verse, and that's what's she afraid of.

Cheetah, an ex-friend who blames Diana for being cursed. After the win, Diana opts to kill Cheetah “to free her from her suffering” despite Batman's stipulation they don't kill.

Harley saves Cheetah, pointing out Batman's orders. Wonder Woman asks Harley how much blood is on Harley's hands, to which Harley says buckets full. She doesn't deny it, or deny why she did it. She did it to make a guy like her, throwing it into Diana's face that she's doing the same thing for Superman. Wonder Woman stabs Harley, her ally, which causes Supergirl to realize that the Regime wasn't the good guys and turns on Diana (the first fight of Supergirl's chapter) to save Harley's life.

Harley knows she did bad things, but she's trying to do the right things now. Her ending sees her join the Justice League intent on making the good guy-thing stick, despite how she still gets violent urges to bash in heads, for the sake of her daughter. This is in contrast to her fellow former-Batman-Villain-turned-ally Catwoman, who returns to a life of crime in her ending despite Bruce asking her to marry him. Wonder Woman's ending? She helps restore the Regime and intends to force the Amazons to submit to her after they kicked her out following the first game. Diana, like Superman, refuses to own up to her crimes. She's just going to go right back to what she was doing before. She refuses to reform, because she still thinks she's the hero.

Harley just comments that people think Harley's the crazy one.

So, yeah. Harley was an accomplice to the deaths of (checks notes) millions, but there's a good reason why she's meant to be the good guy here... besides character shilling and Bat-Wank.

I'm going to do a bit on Batman and Superman tomorrow, with some talk linking evil Superman to Edelgard. Since Injustice Superman pretty much sums up the concept of hadou in a piece of Western Media, while typical Supes is more oudou.

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childrenofthegames-blog · 1 year

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The Flash vs Reverse Flash - Injustice 2

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dragon-snoots-a-boopin · 1 month

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In a back to back sense, I also recently played Injustice 2. As always, please remember that everything here is my own opinion based on my experience playing the game. Disagreeing and discussion is welcome, just be kind about it.

As with the first game, the story is very well written and very well told and, again, is the entire reason that I wanted to play the game. I am not going to go into spoilers here but it does continue pretty much where the first game leaves off. Worth it to play and experience the story if you ask me. With that, Injustice 2 is a definite graphics upgrade from the first and definitely looks a lot more cinematic over the first game.

A minor thing that does bug me is the two voice actor changes in The Flash and Green Lantern but, Green Lantern is the most noticeable and bugged me the most. GL in this game is voiced by Steve Blum and, as much as I love that VA (Transformers Prime Starscream), his voice just doesn't fit GL if you ask me.

Speaking again on difficulty here and I don't know what happened in the four years between games but I found this game a lot more difficult than the first, even on the same difficulty. I played both games story mode on very easy and there were some fight in this game I had to do multiple times before getting through them. I know this will be a slight story spoiler and I'm sorry but I have to say that the two times I had to fight Brainiac was not easy, even on very easy. As Superman, I didn't beat him until the third attempt and as Batman, I didn't beat him until the second attempt and that is super frustrating.

Injustice 2 has about 33 characters that are new and not in the first game. Those are:

Supergirl

Reverse Flash

Jay Garrick's The Flash

Poison Ivy

Starfire

Black Lightning

Atrocitus

Gorilla Grodd

Blue Beetle

Deadshot

Black Canary

Swamp Thing

Cheetah

Vixen

Scarecrow

Doctor Fate

Firestorm

Captain Cold

Mr. Freeze

Enchantress

Hellboy

Atom

Darkseid

Red Hood

Power Girl

Sub-Zero

Grid

All Four Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I am going to be honest, some of these do not make a lot of sense to me. Injustice is a DC Comics thing. Now, like with the first game, I understand the addition of MK characters like Raiden and Sub-Zero. But, what I don't understand is the inclusion of Hellboy and the Ninja Turtles here. There are 14 characters that are only in the first Injustice that don't appear in this game so why not include some of them? Instead of Hellboy, why not add Raven and then you could have almost all of the Teen Titans in the game? Instead of the Ninja Turtles, why not grab Scorpion, Batgirl, Zatanna & Doomsday?

Okay, to explain my next point, I have to tell you that unlike in the first game, Injustice 2 uses Motherboxes of varying rarity as means to get gear for your characters. Yes, gone are the days where I can just select a character, press Y and select an alternate costume for them. For Injustice 2 character have head, leg, arm and something unique to each character, like for Robin, is his sword. You also have two ability slots, an augment slot and the shader slot. So, in keeping with my example, if I want Cyborg to look different, I have to play modes that reward me with Motherboxes to open and hope that I get gear for Cyborg and that's not something I am a fan of because it's not guaranteed. Yes, there are augments that will increase the rate of reward geared towards your equipped character but, it doesn't increase the rate all that much. Either way, I much prefer the more simple way that the first game deals with alternate costumes for characters.

Something I don't get is why some characters are like hidden away under the shader slot for other characters. What do I mean? This:

Reverse Flash is a shader for The Flash.

Jay Garrick's The Flash is a shader for The Flash

Vixen is a shader for Cheetah

Mr. Freeze is a shader for Captain Cold

Power Girl is a shader for Supergirl

Jon Stewart's Green Lantern is a shader for Green Lantern

Black Lightning is a shader for Raiden

Bizzaro is a shader for Superman

Grid is a shader for Cyborg

This really doesn't make all that much sense to me. The only ones that I think this would make sense is in the case of Green Lantern, Jay Garrick's The Flash, Bizzaro and Grid. Otherwise, Reverse Flash, Vixen, Mr. Freeze, Power Girl and Black Lightning should be their own characters on the roaster and not as shaders for other characters.

Still on the topic of characters and also about the fact that Injustice 2 also has a very bad grind to it that the first game did not have. See, in the first game, you just had your profile level that would increase with each fight won. For Injustice 2, not only do you have you profile level, but each individual character has their own level and can be leveled up to 30. When I looked this up, I found that you'd have to do over 100 fights per character to get them fully leveled up. Given that Injustice 2 has around 38 characters, that's anywhere between 3800 & 4000 fights that one would have to do to get every character fully leveled up. That is just insane and I really don't think that anyone would do that. Pretty sure most people would only fully level their favorite character they main so but, either way, the grind is pretty bad.

A really minor thing is that the first game actually has more stages than this one. Injustice: Gods Among Us has 15 stages where Injustice 2 has 12 stages so, that's a little disappointing. Something I wonder is like, if they're going to include character from MK and other characters like Hellboy and the TMNT, why not make some unique stages for those characters? Would have been a cool idea.

I managed to get exactly what I wanted from this game and that is a really good and well told continuation of the story from the first game. Yes, this game is a lot more difficult, it has loot boxes and the grind is bad but the game is graphically way better and it has more characters. Injustice 2 is a good and enjoyable game that, like the first one, I recommend getting this game only when it's on sale for like $5.

#the dragons speaks #video games #DC #DC Comics #dcu #dc universe #justice league #injustice gods among us #injustice 2 #netherrealm studios #fighting games

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kenaigamesgallantly · 3 months

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CURRENT WIP PROJECTS!

Ruben 'Ruvik' Victoriano Scene Pack (final DLC is being recorded)

Thief (2014) Garrett voice lines & scene pack

Donna & Angie Beneviento scene pack (Karl Heisenberg's will be next)

Albert Wesker RE0 scene pack

MK9 Scene packs (Kabal, Reptile, Raiden, Kung Lao, Scorpion, Noob Saibot, and Baraka)

Reverse Flash, Captain Cold, and Scarecrow scene packs (Injustice 2)

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cookiebargaming · 2 years

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The Flash VS Reverse Flash in 3 Mins Injustice 2

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kyberphilosopher · 3 years

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Reverse Flash

A backwards version of your favorite speedster comes searching for Barry, only to find you instead.

Word Count: 2403 Warnings: Crude Humor. Not proof read yet because I’m too tired.

As per my latest fics, the gender of the reader is not specified.

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Barry was always nice to you.

Well, Barry was nice to everyone. I mean, his parents named him Barry. He was set up for a life of cheekiness before he was even born. But Barry was nice to you even after ‘the incident’. Barry was nice to you when everyone else stopped. On top of that, Barry was being nicer to you than usual lately.

Probably because he and Iris were having a rough spot.

That was the only annoying thing. Barry liked you, and he was interested in you, but you were still second place. He was just using you. He wouldn’t marry you, or feel a deep longing for you. He’d just take you on ice skating rink dates in the winter and give you the best Valentine’s day of your life every year. Which is everyone’s dream, you guess, but it wouldn’t have been genuine, no matter what Barry managed to convince himself.

Barry’s little support team seemed to be on the same page as you (which was a first), which both added to and subdued your aggravation. All of them were in agreement of the simple fact: you were no good for Barry. Mr. Flash was the only one who didn’t seem to get the memo.

In the very beginning, things weren’t like how they were now. Team Flash or whatever the name was considered you good colleague, and they trusted you because Allen trusted you. You had been friends with Barry longer than anyone else there. And of course you were smart, and you handled annoying journalists and incriminating footage like it was nothing. But then you’d suggested using lethal force to subdue one of the Flash’s biggest problems. That’s when the air changed. That’s when people decided you should not now, not ever go on a date with him. It would throw off the whole rhythm of the team, probably Barry’s morals and possible the timeline. Lucky you.

Though flat out rejecting Barry might make it worse. You had been irritable lately. Maybe a little more sarcastic than normal. What if you snap, and then the team snaps too? And sweet little Barry is too kind to tell you off? God, you knew you were the worst, but the thought alone seemed like more than just ‘the worst’. It was like a tornado of stinky shit just barreling toward you, somehow simultaneously faster than the speed of light and slower than a turtle filled with rocks for organs.

And it was all definitely Barry Allen’s fault.

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So, that’s why you’re here now. Stuck with watching Headquarters while all the speedsters go out and... speed. Who knows. You’re out of the loop with the whole... speed demon thing. You’re pretty sure they have a group chat without you. Fuckin’ nerds.

Your legs are stretched out to the desk in front of you. They cross over each other at the ankles, to the left of the big computer monitor that’s supposed to display the heartbeats of the team but is instead displaying something from cartoon network. A near empty bag of Chinese food sits at your side, it’s contents littered across the table.

As you chew, you look around the room. Several suits in display cases curve against the wall in a half circle, illuminated by blue light. Some are burgundy, some are silver, and some are golden. And you could smash every single one of them right now.

But you won’t, and you don’t. Not to say it isn’t tempting- it is. You still don’t touch the suits.

God, what’s been wrong with you recently? Barry was your friend, and yet you’d been so annoyed with him. His flirting had only made it worse. Wally wasn’t any better. He got even more annoying once thinking about how childish, yet powerful he was. All the Kid Flash’s were just temporary brats that never stayed, whether you liked them or not. And Iris wasn’t a fan of you. That was fine, because you weren’t exactly a friend of Iris’s either. So the most important part of your life that literally depended on superhuman existence and stopping crime was teetering because of pure social discomfort. Typical.

You’re watching the screen that serves as the closest light in the room as you shovel the next bite of rice between your lips. Neon colors make the shadows across your face feel alive and electric. It makes the glow in your eyes more prominent, encouraged by the childish nature of the media. You’ve just finished a snarky personal comment and given yourself another bite of rice when he appears to you.

He looks like Barry. The only difference is that he’s the complete opposite.

Instead of scarlet, his speed suit is yellow with red and dark grey accents. They remind you of blood lightning at the seams. Even under his half mask, he seems so familiar but so much more defined than your friend. As he exits the slice of colorful air and thunder, the heels of his shoes skidding across the floor, the red glow in his eyes settles into a calmer thrum.

And you’re still frozen in place, eyes wide as you still yourself mid chew.

The yellow speedster settles his orbs on you. They’re intelligent, and in the reflection of the little light in the room you can see they’re not red, but blue. And you? You’re just a deer in the headlights.

“Aw, you’re not Barry,” he groans in disappointment, standing straighter as his arms cross over his chest.

You finally continue your chewing, keeping your wide eyes on the intruder. Then you swallow it down. In your chest, your heart thump, thump, thumps with something. Fear? Not quite. Anxiety? Almost. It’s something else. Something more... intuitive. And the way this man looks at you makes you think that he can hear it, even from where he stands. That he knows.

“Uh... no?”

The man responds not a millisecond after you’ve gotten the words out. “Where is he? Where’s Barry Allen?”

Woof. His voice is throaty and laced with sarcasm, even though he’s clearly deathly serious. But the vibrations send a funny spasm straight to that little place between your legs, making the nerves in your spine dance with alertness. Arousal. Barry was never able to do that, let alone with just the sound of his voice.

“Doing something?” you decide. “I don’t know.”

The golden man cocks his head to the side, almost smirks, and takes a step forward. “Hey, I know you.” His arms uncross. One raises and bends to point at you. “You’re Barry’s tech support. I remember reading about you in his museum.”

Your brows furrow. Hurriedly, you clear the take-out box from your lap and begin wiping your mouth with the back of your hand. You drop your legs from their position on the desk to their normal position on the floor, knees bent. “Uh... I beg your pardon?”

“Yeah... Y/N L/N. Now I see it.” The man leans back on his heels and looks around the room. The red glow in his orbs burn away completely so it’s just him. “Ah, so this must be before you defected, huh? Interesting.”

“Pardon?!” you call again. Now you’re sitting forward, disbelief across your face.

Golden speedster smiles. It looks evilly distorted, even though it’s just a normal smile. It curves his face sarcastically. His hands fly upwards as if in surrender. “Don’t shoot the messenger, Y/N. You know actually, you’re kind of a villain in my time. This is nice for me.”

“Great, I’ll tell Barry when I see him,” you bite.

“Thank you, sweetheart. Now how about you tell me where Barry is before I erase you from existence.”

“I don’t know,” you repeat as the quick bolt of fear fizzles from your system. Your eyes trail down to his chest for just a quick second, but it’s quick enough to observe yet another difference between your familiar scarlet speedster and him. The circle surrounding the lightning bolt on his chest is facing the opposite direction, red, and that circle is filled with black. It’s as if he were the complete opposite of Barry. A reverse Barry.

“Yeah you do. Come on.”

You blink once, still in your roll-y chair.

You’re not sure what to do here. On one hand, this guy radiates pure evil. You should really alert Barry or one of the other members of Team Flash. But for one reason or another you’ve made no attempt to. You’ve got no clue who this dude is other than the fact that he seems more inclined to rip the fabric of time apart than anyone else. There’s no doubt in your mind he really will erase you from existence if you make one wrong move. But what’s the wrong move?

On the other hand, Team Flash has been a bunch of dickhead’s to you. Barry has been ironically slow to the whole thing. Would it be so bad if you did make a wrong move? Not for you, but for your friends? They’d all die, wouldn’t they? This yellow one would end them, and then what? Would it really be so horrible for you? You can’t imagine mourning much.

“I don’t,” you say again, slowly. “They’re in the city. I don’t know where.”

The man seems to think for a moment, cocking his head back so the light behind the glass cases catches his sharpened features. “Hmm.”

Without even blinking, now he’s in front of you. So close, you can smell him. It’s not terribly strong, it’s just masculine. But it’s also flowery, with a dash of sweat from running. And then there’s something more. Something... metallic?

Both his hands clutch the arms of the chair beside you, trapping you as you lean back reflexively. “Did you know that I killed Barry’s childhood best friend before he was born?” the man says lowly.

On instinct, you prepare yourself to say, ‘Barry doesn’t have a childhood best friend’. Then you realize why.

He continues. “Would you tell me where Barry was if you did know?”

You don’t even think about it. You’re true to your nature. “I don’t know, would I?”

Blip! You wait to burst into a cloud of nothingness. To never have been born or even get to be a ghost. But fifteen seconds later you’re still alive. And from the way Barry talks about being a Flash, fifteen seconds is a long time for someone of that caliber.

The man is back by the cases of suits now. You can see his muscles through his suit. They’re more defined than Barry’s, thank God.

“I think you would. But it’s gonna be hard to do that when you’ve got my fingers vibrating into your skull.”

“What?”

“It’s going to be hard to speak when my fingers are inside you.”

You cup a hand against your ear. “Huh?”

“I said-” The man stops. His eyes narrow, arms crossing over his chest once more. “Oh, I see.” A short, dry- but genuine- laugh falls from his throat. “Very funny. Very, very funny.”

Suddenly, your eyebrows crease together in confusion. You place both palms on the arms of the chair for leverage as you push yourself into a stand, as if stirred by some great, important purpose. “Wait. Did you say you were going to stick your fingers inside me?”

“I knew you and I were the same,” he drawls. He sounds entertained. As if in his eyes, missing Barry and meeting you instead was the best outcome he could’ve hoped for.

“Can’t you just...” Your shoulders slump as you glance around. “Just kill Barry and get on with it?”

“Aw, no. This is far more interesting.”

“Fingers in my skull...?” you whisper, half to yourself. Then you look up to him with a snap. “You are so weird,” you tell Reverse Barry, emphasizing it with a low point. “So weird.”

“Want me to tell your future?”

Again with the voice and the nerves in that special place.

“I gotta say, it’s kind of disturbing,” the man smirks. “You’ll love it.”

“Weird.”

Across the base, just two hallways away, something clicks. It’s a familiar click. It’s the click of the door opening.

Quickly, you glance backwards, then lean down to pause the show on the computer. You hadn’t even realized it was still going. Once that’s done, the man is still standing in front of you. That sinister and yet innocent grin is still dancing across his face, though his steely eyes are totally locked on you.

“What, weirdo? You know where he is now. Aren’t you gonna go get him?”

“You want me to so badly, don’t you?” Reverse Barry whispers. You just give him a look.

“I’ll be back for you.”

“I don’t know what that means.”

And then the speedster is gone. Right on time, too, cause Barry jogs into the room not a second later.

“Y/N?”

“Yeah?” you turn around.

“Did I just... see someone here?” Barry points towards your end of the room in his scarlet suit. Huh. Reverse Barry was taller too.

“What are you on about?” you throw casually. “Nobody’s been here but me since you left.”

“Are you sure?” the Flash keeps pushing. You hate it. Pushing.

“Yes, Barry,” you roll your eyes. “I’m sure. Oh, by the way, Barry. Did you have a childhood best friend?”

Barry frowns. “No, why?”

You smile to yourself as you turn back away from him. The other speedster’s footsteps are coming closer and closer. You can hear them echo off the walls.

“No reason,” you answer with a smirk just as one of them enters the room, probably to give you crap again.

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Fun fact, Reverse Flash is actually my favorite villain in DC comics. Bro is vicious in the comics. I just hate all the live action versions of him we get. Lego DC Villains Reverse Flash and Injustice 2 are the best versions. Injustice 2 is my personal preference. I’d like to do more with this but, who knows. Depends how this is received. #lol

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