The Justice League, the Titans, and the Justice League Dark, team up for their final battle against Darkseid, to end his universal reign of terror once and for all.
When I think about cohesive cinematic universes, it always amazes me that the Marvel Cinematic Universe was able to achieve what the comics had always done so well, providing a shared universe where all of these larger than life characters interact and exist in the same world. I love the MCU and it's the best live action cinematic universe that for the most part understood the marvel comics universe, and for the most part managed to accomplish adapting the characters for mainstream movie audiences and comic fans.
Unfortunately, the DC live action films have been lacking, and although it's been finding it's footing with Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam, and Birds of Prey, Warner Brothers still fail at understanding what makes the DC universe special. And man oh man, the liberties that the DC animated movie universe took to go the distance, from Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox, all the way to the latest film, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. This movie does things that the live action films wish they could do but fail to do.
It is unfortunate that Warner Brothers sits on a treasure trove of a great universe, and yet always struggle to capitalize on these amazing characters, the Snyder movies being an example of that. Despite their live action struggles, there is one thing that Warner Brothers have managed to excel at, which is animation. do animation, they tend to deliver and given that this is the 15th and final animated film of the animated universe, they went all out. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is bonkers.
It definitely pulls influence from Darkseid War, but has elements of Earth 2(new 52), futures end (terrible event, but I always liked the 0 issue), final crisis (mostly due to Darkseid), Flashpoint, and elements of Ultimatum (marvel), and Avengers Endgame. All in all, I liked that they went out with a bang and held no punches, and did not shy away from this specific universe. The new 52 was always the ultimate universe for DC, and for what it's worth, the made it work for this movie. Despite the flaws of these films, the culmination of most characters arcs, especially with Constantine, stuck the landing. I put it up there with Flashpoint as some of their best animated efforts and given that they had the liberty to go crazy, they accomplished that and then some.
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