Carl Lumbly credited as playing...
J'onn J'onzz • Martian Manhunter
- The Flash: After she hands out the medals, how about you and me take a private tour of paradise?
- [gets a confused look from the Amazon]
- The Flash: She wants me.
- J'onn J'onzz: [sarcastically] Indeed.
- J'onn J'onzz: Is there nothing we can do for them?
- The Flash: I still have this snake-headed doohickey.
- J'onn J'onzz: But only Faust knew the spells. Without him...
- [as the sun rises, it heats the artifact, and Flash drops it]
- The Flash: Yow!
- Wonder Woman: [in a flash of light, the stone spell begins to break] Look.
- The Flash: But how?
- Batman: Faust's enchantment could only last as long as he willed it.
- Wonder Woman: So now that he's gone, the spell is broken. It's a miracle.
- Queen Hippolyta: Athena be praised.
- Wonder Woman: Long ago, in ancient times, my mother Hippolyta fell in love with a god, Lord Hades. When war broke out between the Olympian gods and their ancient foes, the Titans, Hades struck a treasonous bargain with the enemy. He would deliver Mount Olympus into the Titans' hands. In return, he would be given dominion over all humanity. Hades tricked my mother into opening the gates of Olympus to the invading Titans. There was a battle of which the muses still sing. The gods fought back and eventually prevailed. As punishment for his treachery, Zeus cast Hades into the Pit of Tartarus, where he would rule over the dead for all eternity. And for her unwitting role in Hades' plot, my mother was charged with guarding the gateway to the underworld. To make sure the gate could never be unlocked, its only key was broken up and scattered across the globe. Mother told me she kept one of the pieces in the temple as a daily reminder of her eternal shame.
- J'onn J'onzz: Then these relics we've been gathering are parts of the key?
- The Flash: But why would Faust want it?
- Batman: Only one reason.
- [assembling the pieces]
- Batman: He intends to use it.