Batman Total Justice

''Batman Total Justice'' is a line of toys produced by Kenner based on Batman and other, connected, DC Comics characters.

History

In 1996, Kenner started production on a new line of 5" scale DC Comics character figures. This line, like ''Legends of Batman'' and ''Legends of the Dark Knight'', featured all new sculpts of popular DC Comics characters. To appeal to buyers, Kenner produced the line under the high selling ''Batman'' title, calling the line ''Batman: Total Justice''. This line featured Batman, Robin, and The Huntress, but also included other DC Comics characters including Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash and others.

This was the first line of DC Comics character figures released by Kenner since the ''Super Powers Collection'' line of figures ended 10 years earlier. Kenner stopped production after only 18 figures were released: 14 regular figures, one chase variant, and three exclusives. A fourth series of figures was planned to include Blue Beetle, Dr. Polaris, Fractal Armor Green Lantern and Fractal Armor The Flash.

Also, it has been speculated that the fifth assortment - which likely got no further than the earliest of planning stages - was to include Martian Manhunter, Supergirl, a Fractal Armor Robin, and Prometheus as its villain.

Storyline from the packages

Total Justice

On a distant planet, an evil being known as Darkseid prepares for his invasion and destruction of Earth. Batman learns of this diabolical plan and recruits the world's mightiest superheroes in an all-out assault on Darkseid's forces.

DC Super Heroes

In his mountain fortress, Despero plans his conquest of Earth. Batman creates light-refracting armor to help the heroes avoid Despero's high-tech security devices.

Other media

In 1996, DC Comics produced a three-issue tie-in mini-series featuring the heroes from the first series (Batman, Robin, Aquaman, Flash and Green Lantern) plus Blue Beetle, Gypsy, Darkseid, and a Parademon ("Mike," who might be the same Parademon from ''Villains United'').

In 1997, Landoll's released a series of seven Coloring & Activity books featuring an ongoing story and character designs for unreleased toy characters, as well as two children's books, ''And Justice for All'' and ''Justice on Apokalips'', that followed the same basic story of Darkseid, with Despero's help, trying to find the pieces of an "Ultimate Weapon" that had been scattered around Earth.

In 1998, Kid Rhino released the ''Total Justice: The Ultimate Weapon'' " audio adventure" on CD and cassette.

Toys

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Series 1

* Aquaman (with "gold armor" variant)
* Batman
* Darkseid
* The Flash (Wally West)
* Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
* Robin (Tim Drake)

Series 2

* Despero
* Fractal Armor Batman
* Hawkman (Hawk-God version)
* Superman (w/long hair)

Series 3

* Black Lightning
* Green Arrow (Connor Hawke)
* Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
* Parallax (Hal Jordan)

Exclusives

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* Batman
* Superman

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* Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne, Professor Zoom)

DC Super-Heroes

Looking to reuse the steel tooling used to make the toys, the Hasbro toy company (owners of Kenner) repainted six of the ''Total Justice'' figures and released them exclusively at the Warner Bros. Studio Store in 1998. They later released a mix of unused ''Total Justice'' molds and new sculpts in a series of two-packs at mass retail.

exclusives

* Aquaman
* Batman
* Despero
* Green Arrow
* Hawkman
* Robin

multipacks

* Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) & Fractal Armor The Flash w/ the Atom (Ray Palmer)
* Fractal Armor Green Lantern vs Doctor Polaris
*Superman vs. Metallo
*Superboy vs. King Shark

JLA

In 1998, Hasbro produced the same figures included in the ''Total Justice'' line, but this time released them as a shared exclusive between KB Toys and Diamond Comic Distributors under the name ''JLA'' (a tie-in with the popular comic title). Several of the unproduced ''Total Justice'' figures were released under the ''JLA'' name, but no new Batman-related characters were included. Each figure in the ''JLA'' line included a stand with the ''JLA'' logo and a mini comic cover. Starting with Series 3, the line started to include characters from the ''Young Justice'' comic book.

Series 1

* Batman
* Green Lantern
* Green Arrow (in darker green)
* Huntress
* The Flash (in darker red and gold)
* Superman Blue
* Superman Red

Series 2

* Aquaman
* Dark Knight Batman
* Martian Manhunter
* Steel
* Superman (w/ short hair)
* Zauriel

Series 3

* Caped Crusader Batman
* Impulse
* Plastic Man
* Robin (with comic-accurate yellow underside cape)
* Superboy

Series 4

* Atom (Ray Palmer)
* Batman
* Cyber Armor Batman
* Cyber Armor Superman
* Red Tornado
* Wonder Woman

Diamond Exclusive Box Sets

* Box Set #1: Superman Blue, Green Lantern, Huntress, Hologram Batman and Hologram Flash
* Box Set #2: Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Hologram Superman and Hologram Green Lantern
* Box Set #3: Martian Manhunter, Superman, Zauriel, Lex Luthor and The Joker
* Box Set #4: Superboy, Robin, Impulse, Hologram Martian Manhunter and Hologram Aquaman

Unmade characters

Some characters appeared in Landoll's ''Total Justice'' coloring books with Fractaltech armor, but they were never made in the toyline:

* Martian Manhunter
* Oracle
* Steel (John Henry Irons)
* Superboy (Kon-El)
* Supergirl (Matrix)
* Wonder Woman

All of those characters received figures once the line was rebranded into ''JLA'' except Supergirl and Oracle.

Further reading

* Zenker, Gary (2013). Ultimate DC Comics Action Figures and Collectibles Checklist. White Lightning Publishing.

References

External links

Total Justice comic miniseries

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