Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One Trailer
The Justice League -Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Cyborg, Green Lantern, and Vixen - find themselves on a strange world called Remnant and transformed into teens. The heroes of Remnant - Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang - find their world mysteriously altered. Time for a team-up before a superpowered Grimm destroys everything.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One goes on sale on April 25, 2023.
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In excitement of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two coming soon, here is the Justice League/RWBY crossover-ness we have so far.
- RWBY/Justice League
- DC/RWBY
- Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen (Parts One and Two)
Now we'll have to wait for the Deluxe Edition of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen that combines both parts into one epic saga with a new epic cover art and their special features!
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Just watched Superheroes and Huntsmen Part One and as a RWBY fan and someone who likes DC heroes in general, I had a great time.
I really loved how they used the fact that everyone knew it was a crossover to their advantage to create a kinda slow boil effect around RWBY details not being quite right. Like a lot of it isn't even subtle (Yang having her prosthetic but being in Volume 1 gear, Grimm glitching immediately, the absence of Blake and Weiss in a pre-fall setting and so on) and yet you're so caught up in the action and in Clark's frantic confusion and the fact that it's a weird ass multiversal cross over that you just sorta rationalise it.
"Of course things are unnatural and weird Clark literally just said that he wasn't supposed to be here and his presence probably fucked up reality somehow. I wonder what time and space shenanigans the JL were involved in to digitise Grimm."
But the weird keeps piling on and by the time you're watching Jaques Schnee be little more than aggrieved and dismissive of Weiss yelling at him at a party, or "volume 1" Weiss having the confidence to do so without fear of retribution you're like "Oh shit is fucked up fucked up, we aren't in Atlas as sure as Clark ain't in Kansas."
From there it's what I can only really call lowstakes Remnant/classic superhero fair. Lots of cool combat, fun, quippy super dialogue, just a touch of personal pain and struggle but hardly enough to register for someone who just finished RWBY volume 9. It was fun.
There were some tiny characterisation things with the RWBY cast that all fell easily within the scope of the fact that they were actively force-fed a false reality and so didn't really strain at suspension of disbelief.
And then there was the DC cast.
I went in expecting to leave wondering why they didn't just use one of their several canon groups of teen heroes, which seems to be a common complaint. After watching it I'm not wondering and I don't think they made some egregious error in judgement using the Justice League.
I might revise my opinion by a great deal if in the next movie the Justice League are still teenagers but honestly I'm curious as hell to see the Huntsmen interact with grown versions of the heroes who haven't had all their insecurities pulled to the forefront, and seeing the Justice League react to the fact that the Huntsmen, while clearly more experienced and steady in their proper ages, are still barely more than children.
I know Doyalist logic for choosing the Justice League probably heavily relates to cold hard cash and someone upstairs incorrectly assuming that it wouldn't be as much of a draw without the Trinity and their current league headliners, and while it's sorta disappointing it's not surprising in the least. I'm choosing to be glad the writers landed on such a cool way to work with the restrictions on rights uses that they were given.
From a Watsonian perspective the idea of forcing them all back to a time where they weren't as good as emotional regulation but keeping them stacked with their big adult emotions to be dealt with in that compromised state while in a facsimile of a world where too much negative emotion makes you bait for murderous monsters is about as solid as most super-villain plans get. It's a plan that would have been even more fucked up and fatal in enacted against teens and turning them to kidlets which circles back into a Doyalist POV in that Of Fucking Course they couldn't have team RWBY fighting alongside prepubescent superheroes. Kids looking after tots is a story for in universe, in fandom, or at least for much more strongly connected multiverses. Sure they could have picked a different plot, but at that point they knew they weren't gonna be able to use teen titans and why not use a cool idea if you have it?
In comparison to my love of RWBY I'm a much more casual comics fan and so while I recognised all the characters in play for half of them I only had broad strokes type knowledge of them learned from fandom and advertising of some of their more popular runs.
To that end the characters I got felt like they hit the broad strokes a casual fan might know and then put them through the same funhouse mirror that teams RWBY and JNR went through being forced into a fake world where nothing was familiar and yet seemed unavoidably real AND needing to readjust to being teens and all the fucked up brain chemistry that comes with that All Over Again. For RWBY and JNR the effect was a little less pronounced due to teenagedom really not being that long ago (and still a reality for Ruby), but of course it showed more obviously in the Justice League members making choices and saying shit their adult counterparts straight up just wouldn't say or do. That was flat out stated in text as the whole point of making them teens again!
I do sorta get why die hard fans of specific characters might feel that those characters weren't done justice but like, that's comics babes. Why would you expect them to do better in an outside of continuity crossover with an anime? Like it's hard enough in any medium to get good properly explored characterisation after a cast has more than like 2 people in their own world nevermind in a massive ensemble multiversal crossover.
As I said before I reserve judgement on hating teeny bopper justice league until I see what state they're in for Part 2. As a stand alone though I think they did fine but that is heavily influenced by the fact that at the end of the day I care more about RWBY than any of the dc characters they included and I was probably quite lucky in that respect.
If I were to register a complaint it would probably be the Weiss and Bruce of it all but it was actually really really easy to just step back and ignore any weak romantic subplot vibes when ultimately it was obvious they were never going to build to anything and when you paused to look at it through the lens of Two Smart Lonely Uber-Rich Kids Who Forged Themselves Into Weapons To Fight For Justice Having Empathy For One Another.
Also it gave us "scientifically minded and highly computer literate Weiss" in what was at least an official story even if it wasn't mainline canon continuity and I love that for her.
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RWBYxJL was fun, obviously more of a RWBY film than a JL film. But I’m not much of a DC buff, so I’m not complaining. Besides it’s RWBY’s first movie, and the JL have plenty of (and better) movies already, and will have a lot more in the future.
The weakest aspects were definitely the JL, but that’s expected given how different these versions are from their iconic versions. And the contrivances & conveniences to get them to fit in the story at all. Still fun characters, and most of the dynamics were enjoyable. I might not enjoy it as much if I was more of a DC fan, but just as someone only mildly into DC/JL, I don’t mind it. Although I did appreciate how Batman spent most of the film acting like an investigator, but I’m sure plenty of people wanted him more center-stage, and out-in-front. The whole superpowers thing, and “feeling useful,” was a bit weird, but I guess that can be chalked up to teenage angst and stuff. I know the framing is “Batman’s a human among gods on Earth, but on Remnant he’s just as strong and super-powered as everyone else.” And I can see how that might work, but Batman’s greatest contribution to the JL has never been his fighting prowess, and it’s not like he hasn’t gained superpowers in some way before.
Jessica & Jaune the standouts for me; especially for a character whom I had zero prior knowledge of, given she’s not one of the primary characters people think of when they hear “Green Lantern.” But it was a good choice for what they wanted to do with the character. Hal, Kyle, Simon or Guy are all too self-assured & macho, for how the story wanted to employ the Power Ring, and would be more likely to butt heads and argue. Which there was already more than enough from the rest of the cast. Also to help even out the girl:guy ratio.
And Jaune is given a good showing, emphasizing his abilities as a support and bringing out the best in those around him. He took more of a emotional/intelligence-based role, helping figure out the truth and piecing things together before everyone else.
Vixen was also good, wish we’d gotten a bit more of her, rather than the Cyborg-Nora-Ren triangle thing.
Also Blake swinging Nora around in the final fight was amazing.
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