While the newSuperman , Jon Kent , is currently struggling to work his ownJustice Leagueduring DC’sDark Crisisevent , Batman found a piddling bit more achiever in forming his own some year back . In 2002’sObsidian Agestoryline spark ( by Almighty Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke ) , the original members of the Justice League were searching for Aquaman , who happen himself missing late in the contents of fourth dimension itself once transported to ancient times . Their search found the JLA sent back in metre themselves .

If not for Batman ’s contingency programme being activated , the innovative earthly concern would have been without a Justice League . Thankfully , he had such a plan in place that goes into upshot a month after the original team ’s disappearance . In his plan , drone pipe were send across the Earth pluck out the idealistic champion worthy of coming together to forman all - young Justice League .   Included in this channel - up were   Nightwing , Faith , Green Arrow , Hawkgirl , Jason Blood , and Major Disaster .

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Comic book art: Batman faces the four Robins: Nightwing Dick Grayson, Red Hood Jason Todd, Red Robin Tim Drake, and Robin Damian Wayne.

For those unfamiliar with that last name , Major Disaster is a metahuman who has the major power to create lifelike disasters . On paper , this may be an unexpended choice for someone to join the Justice League , especially when he take like the icy opposite of a quintessential member like Superman . Major Disaster ’s entire existence is free-base on causing disaster while Superman be to finish disasters . However , while both are altogether unlike , one stay on   just as useful to the Justice League and helpful in protecting the planet as the other .

Major Disaster creates disasters , yes , but he does so constructively in a way that can astonishingly calm a chaotic situation rather than escalate it . He shows off not only why he was select to join the squad but why he ’s courting theJustice League well in Superman ’s placeas its new powerhouse .

By replace Superman with someone like Major Disaster , the arc establish a surprisingly touching   deduction and messaging . That message is that regardless of what someone ’s powers are to be , a good deal can be accomplished if they share the foreign mission to protect the planet .   It does n’t really weigh what you do — it ’s about finding a way to use what you could do to aid others .   Regardless of whether someone has the world power to stop large tragedy likeSupermanor literally cause them as Major Disaster does , they are phallus of theJustice Leagueand , thus , are open of saving lives the good way that they , severally , know how .

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