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Ask: The Justice League

By

Cameron Domino Carpenter



INT. DAY. COMIC CONVENTION

The JUSTICE LEAGUE (Superman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Batman,The Green Lantern, The Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter) areall seated at a long table facing an audience. As the sceneprogresses, we never see the audience themselves. An

announcer dressed in an awful, obvious self-made SAMUS ARANsuit comes up to the stage with a microphone.

ANNOUNCERSo, here’s the moment we’ve allbeen waiting for--

RANDOM FAN FROM CROWDYour suit sucks!

ANNOUNCER(without missing a beat anddeadpan)

--so does your mom--we’ve got theJustice League here with us todaywilling to answer any questions youguys might have. Super cool. Yay.Alright. Turning it over to youguys.

The ANNOUNCER walks off stage. It’s silent for about threeseconds. Then, SUPERMAN leans into his microphone in frontof him and says:

SUPERMANAnybody...anybody got any

questions?

RANDOM FANWho would win in a fight between--

SUPERMANSomeone get him out of here.

The FLASH disappears for a moment, then reappears.

SUPERMANNext question.

NERDY FANI have a question for The GreenArrow!

GREEN ARROWYes, sir. Fire away.

(CONTINUED)



CONTINUED: 2.

NERDY FANOh, sorry! This question wassupposed to be for the GreenLantern. Sorry ’bout that.

GREEN ARROW

...yeah, happens all the time.

GREEN LANTERNYeah, go ahead, man.

NERDY FANDoes it suck having to share thefirst half of your title withsomeone who’s nowhere nearly asfamous or cool as you are?

GREEN ARROWYou’re kidding me.

GREEN LANTERNYes.

GREEN ARROWHal!

GREEN LANTERNReally? You’re going to just yellout ’Hal’ in front of everyone?

The room gets dead quiet. GREEN LANTERN tries to recover.

GREEN LANTERN(doing an awful job coveringup the mistake)

I mean...we can’t lie to thesepeople about our secret identity.If you’re going to expose me,expose me properly, with the rightname. My name isn’t Hal...it’sKyle...Ray...ner...Kyle Rayner.That’s who I am and I love my notdead family, so...yeah, don’t, likelie to people about who I am.

He laughs awkwardly and out of place.

PERVERTED FANWonder Woman, take off your top!

FLASH disappears again for a moment, then reappears.

(CONTINUED)



CONTINUED: 3.

AWKWARD FANWhat’s the Martian Manhunter’ssecret identity!

MARTIAN MANHUNTER(bored and annoyed)

Hank.

LOUD SQUEAKY FANI think you’re my dad!

DIFFERENT FANI have a question for the Flash!

FLASHShoot, buddy!

DIFFERENT FANHow many of the Justice League

members have you seen naked?

FLASHAll of them.

All the members of the League slowly turn to look at FLASHin surprise, anger, or disgust.

FLASH(trying to recover)

...except Hank?

The FLASH disappears. He doesn’t reappear.

OBNOXIUS FANI have a question for Batman!

BATMANI’m not taking any questions.

OBNOXIUS FANWhy not?

BATMANBad day.

OBNOXIUS FANWasn’t that a question?

BATMAN slowly gets out of his seat and walks off the stage.We never see what happens offscreen, but we hear thefollowing:

(CONTINUED)



CONTINUED: 4.

OBNOXIUS FANAHH! NO! PLEASE! I CAN’T LOSE THATPLUS IT’S ATTACHED! I’MBEGGI---AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

We hear a moment of silence and BATMAN climbs back up the

stage and takes his seat.

BATMANI’m having a better day. I’llaccept one question.

SUPERMAN(cutting in)

Hey, anybody have a question forme?

WACKO FANPunch a hole in the moon!

SUPERMANI’m not going to do that.

WACKO FANCrunch up six people into a littleball!

SUPERMANI’m not going to do that.

WACKO FANWhistle so loud on a frequency that

every dog in the world’s ears startbleeding!

SUPERMANI’m going to remove you from theconvention, sir.

WACKO FANREMOVE ME WITH POWER--

SUPERMAN disappears and the WACKO FAN becomes silent fromthe crowd. SUPERMAN returns.

SUPERMANAny last questions? Yes, you sir,in the back?

SERIOUS FANUh, yes, sir. Last week, my bosswas killed in a robbery that tookplace in his home. And I’m just

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)



CONTINUED: 5.

SERIOUS FAN (cont’d)wondering if there’s a reason whythis happened. Not that I’m blamingyou guys, but do you think it’spossible that you weren’t there tosave him because it was his time to

go?

FLASH reappears.

FLASHWoah. Heavy.

SUPERMANWell, to begin I want to say that Ithink I stand for everyone when Isay that we’re deeply sorry foryour loss. In response to yourquestion, life as we all know it is

a very fragile thing. And theaction of taking a life is wrong,in any and every respect. As peoplewith our powers and training, wehave a responsibility to take careof any and all life, including thelives of our enemies. When life istaken from someone, and no one isthere to stop it, it creates aninbalance within the world. A holethat can never be fixed orrepaired.

GREEN LANTERNIt cuts off a tie to reality andultimatly disfigures everythingelse in the known world. Becausethat death spreads across thedecisions and actions of otherpeople like a ripple effect.

BATMANIt wasn’t his ’time to go.’

MARTIAN MANHUNTERBut make no mistake, just becausehe died at the inopportune time, itdoesn’t make his death unworthy ofanything, it is simply a matterthat his life was unfulfilled. Thatis what causes the chaos in theworld that follows.

(CONTINUED)



CONTINUED: 6.

WONDER WOMANWe aren’t making excuses for notbeing there. We simply want toexplain the balance of life and thehorror of murder.

GREEN ARROWWe do not fully understand theconsequences of our actions untileither right before or right afterthey take place. With death, ourforesight grows even smaller, as weare unable to account for the chaosthat will fill the space of hisunfulfilled life.

FLASHTo put it simply, his unwanted lossof life will be replaced with a

nothingness in which any and allthings can be born. What is born inthat place, whether misery or joy,is dependent upon the decisions andlives of those closest to him.

SERIOUS FANSo, you’re saying I shouldn’t havekilled him.

FLASH disappears and we CUT TO BLACK.

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