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dc - What happened in Justice League Unlimited final episode?


In the final episode of Justice League Unlimited (Destroyer), some mysterious guy* appears out of nowhere during the fight between Darkseid and the team of Batman, Superman, and Lex Luthor. Luthor sees him and demands help. This guy takes Luthor to someplace and tells him that what he is about to experience is something only a twelfth level intellect can survive. Luthor says he is overqualified and jumps in and is shown screaming.


Back on earth, Darkseid is about to finish Superman, and Luthor appears out of nowhere and offers Darkseid some mysterious object and says, "I have got all you ever wanted." Darkseid walks to him, touches the object, and then both disappear into thin air with a big energy wave emission. All the attackers from Apokalips return to their world, and boom, the world is saved.


My questions are:



  • Who was this mysterious guy who appeared out of nowhere during the battle?

  • Where did he take Lex Luthor to?

  • What did Luthor experience there?

  • How did Luthor survive the experience, whatever it was?

  • Why did he choose Luthor of all people?


  • What did Luthor offer to Darkseid?



* Actually he makes his first appearance in the penultimate episode of Justice League Unlimited where he tells Luthor that he is a scientist and what Luthor is about to do threatens the past and the present.



Answer



That fellow is Metron. He's a New God, part of Jack Kirby's Fourth World. The chair he sits in is a device that lets him travel through space and time. He's a seeker of knowledge who studies and monitors the universe. His appearance was an indicator of the severe importance of the events in the final episodes.


The place Metron took Luthor was the Source Wall, which lies at the edge of the universe. Beyond it lies The Source, which is the source of everything. Essentially The Source is unknowable, and those who try to reach it almost always end up imprisoned in the Source Wall, which is where the statues that make up the wall come from. Metron took Luthor there to get the one thing that Darkseid wants above all else, The Anti-Life Equation. He seeks this as it would allow him complete dominion over all life in the universe.


Breaching the wall and returning is sort of a rare, transcendental experience. I'm a comic book reader as well as fan of JLU and I was unaware of the books where someone has managed it. So to me, Luthor managing to do so showed how capable he is. The warning Metron gives about a Twelfth Level Intellect was a way to say super intelligent evolved being. Braniac for example is a Twelfth Level Intellect.


As for why Luthor was chosen by Metron, I think it was two-fold. Firstly, Luthor was responsible for the problem at hand. He was the one who tried to awaken Braniac, in spite of Metron's warning. Secondly, Luthor was capable of surviving a breach of the Source Wall and returning.


Dwayne McDuffie, one of the show runners for Justice League Unlimited, posted that Lex and Darkseid ended up in the Source Wall after they vanished.



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