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Watch the Opening Cinematic for 'Injustice: Gods Among Us'

Feast your eyes on the opening video for the upcoming DC fighting game!

The wait is almost over, friends. Next Tuesday, Injustice Gods Among Us will be yours to own (in North America, that is... shortly after everywhere else). You'll finally be able to break Batman's back as Bane or obliterate your foes as Superman. In case the wait is still killing you, Gamestop has released the fighter's opening cinematic. If you've been reading the digital comic (we're automatically best friends if you are), then you know the terrible event that sets Superman on a new path. If you don't want spoilers, back out now.

Here's how it went down in the comic up until this video. The Joker and Harley Quinn abducted a pregnant Lois Lane (Clark's of course the father). Superman shows up to save the day, but suddenly he sees Doomsday. Eager to get him out of the picture, he grapples the fiend and flies him into orbit. Except it wasn't Doomsday... it was actually Lois. Joker mixed fear gas and kryptonite to mess with the Man of Steel... and the end result is Clark killing his lover and unborn child with his own hands. As if that's not terrible enough, there was a monitor on Lois' heart. The second it stopped beating, a nuke detonated in Metropolis and killed millions. Joker's now in custody and... well, you'll see how Superman reacts.

If you've been following along in the comics, then you'll of course notice the conversation and course of events in the scene are completely different. However, the bloody outcome remains the same. Yeesh.

And just in case you missed it, Ares & Killer Frost have been confirmed. Click here to check out their gameplay.

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@mbecks14 said:

Meh. I just can't get into this. I hate evil/crossed-the-line Superman. It's been done and it really makes me dislike the character. Can Superman not be portrayed as a decent, good-guy hero anymore? I just do not like the DCU so gritty. I would've preferred a DC fighting game with a Super Smash Bros vibe rather than a Mortal Kombat vibe. Also, Joker's voice is awful.

On the plus side, it does make me want a big budget animated Justice League movie even more than I did before.

I'm sorry, you like any version of superman? Absolute power, corrupts absolutely. So it is realistic.

But that's like saying Batman will end up in Arkham because he's a guy dressing up like a bat and traumatised by the death of his parents. You know, it's realistic...

But we'll never see that (as canon) because mental insanity would be out of character for Batman.

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@mbecks14 said:

Meh. I just can't get into this. I hate evil/crossed-the-line Superman. It's been done and it really makes me dislike the character. Can Superman not be portrayed as a decent, good-guy hero anymore? I just do not like the DCU so gritty. I would've preferred a DC fighting game with a Super Smash Bros vibe rather than a Mortal Kombat vibe. Also, Joker's voice is awful.

On the plus side, it does make me want a big budget animated Justice League movie even more than I did before.

I'm sorry, you like any version of superman? Absolute power, corrupts absolutely. So it is realistic.

But that's like saying Batman will end up in Arkham because he's a guy dressing up like a bat and traumatised by the death of his parents. You know, it's realistic...

But we'll never see that (as canon) because mental insanity would be out of character for Batman.

This to the NTH degree!