JLU Cadmus Storyline

[Gojirob]

As of 'The Doomsday Sanction', I felt that Batman might turn against the League, however briefly. Was this just me seeing it, a red herring, or does anyone know if this was an abandoned subplot? There was no commentary available for that ep. If it was abandoned, I wonder if Batman's relatively weak argument wasn't part of it. His points about the League were spot-on, but to use Doomsday's banishment as a pillar was IMHO, not. If there ever was a poster boy for 'we have no choice', DD was it and a half.

 

[Christopher]

I don't think he was "against" the League, I think he was serving as their gadfly, warning them against going too far. Technically, Batman was never a full-fledged member of the League, just a part-timer (at least according to Batman Beyond, though you'd never know it from his near-constant presence in JL/U). So he was something of an outsider in theory, able to step back and question their approach. I don't think any subplot was abandoned; I think that scene fits into the whole season's arc of the JLU beginning to question its own methods and whether it was going too far. Batman did the questioning here, Captain Marvel in "Clash," the Question (appropriately) after that. (Though my Netflixing of JLU is only up to "Clash" and I don't recall the details of what follows well enough to comment effectively.)

 

[Gojirob]

I know and agree with all that. It just seemed to me for that moment like he was actually going to leave entirely and try to bring them down. Also, to me, while some arguments against the JLU were very valid, others fell flat. Batman's in this instance weakened the broader point he was aiming at, and Hamilton's refutation of Superman's anger overlooked the fact that, fear and protective motives aside, he had still betrayed Kara, a patient in his care. Then again, arguing fine details is Batman's point, not Superman's.