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Justice League: Origins of Doom by Jerry Whitworth The DC Universe animated film Justice League: Doom bears a rather significant distinction: it is the final work in the field of animation for writer Dwayne McDuffie. A visionary that was instrumental in the creation of Milestone Media and story editor for Justice League Unlimited (among many other accolades), McDuffie was a no-nonsense visionary, a brilliant mind in the fields of character development, plot, and script, and a kind and forthright human being. McDuffie died February 2011 due to complications from heart surgery. The film was his third such piece in the series of original animated features from DC Comics having previously written the adaptation of All-Star Superman and Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. Justice League: Doom is identified as a loose adaptation of Mark Waid’s JLA: Tower of Babel (2000), a story in which Ra’s al Ghul abducts the corpses of Bruce Wayne’s parents under threat of resurrecting them in one of the famed Lazarus Pits. Further, Ghul’s daughter Talia absconds with protocols Batman developed to incapacitate the Justice League should they for some reason go rogue. Ghul’s organization employs these measures and defeats the heroic group in hopes he could finally achieve his goal of wiping out humanity. Justice League: Doom deviates at least in that Vandal Savage will lead the charge against the Justice League. While employing...