"It'll Take a Miracle" is the forty-third episode of Justice League Action.
Summary[]
Darkseid holds Big Barda hostage, and Batman agrees to deliver Mister Miracle in exchange in order to discover Darkseid's true motives.
Featuring[]
| CHARACTERS | VOICED BY |
|---|---|
| Heroes | |
| Batman | Kevin Conroy |
| Mister Miracle (Scott) | Roger Craig Smith |
| Big Barda | Laura Post |
| Villains | |
| Darkseid | Jonathan Adams |
| Granny Goodness | Cloris Leachman |
| Lashina | - |
| Bernadeth | - |
Story[]
At a stage show in a casino, Mister Miracle performs his magic act. Providing his own narration, he is lowered into a water tank full of electric eels. Afterwards, he demands applause but is only met with clapping from the lone member of the audience and dejectedly walks from the stage. Backstage, a deep voice calls to him - it is Batman - but Mister Miracle tries to ignore him. Batman insists that he accompany him to Apokolips and when the superhero makes various attempts to detain him (lassoing with a rope, headlock), Miracle shows his skill as an escapologist and breaks free. He then uses a small sphere to produce a distracting laser lights show with music and vanishes.
Making his way to another venue where he is the supporting act for Zatanna, Miracle is again accosted backstage by Batman but still breaks free. Then, another voice calls out - it is Granny Goodness (from Apokolips) with two menacing companions, the Female Furies. Batman, knowing she has come for Mister Miracle, insists he will handle him, but Granny disagrees and a fight ensues. This lasts some time and spills over onto the stage but eventually Miracle's abilities as illusionist and escapologist overcome the opposition. Then, the audience of a packed house breaks into applause and Miracle receives the adulation he craves.
As the antagonists recover, Miracle again uses the sphere and escapes to a dressing room under cover of a smokescreen. Batman still insists that Mister Miracle go to Apokolips because Darkseid holds there his girlfriend, Big Barda, as a hostage. Miracle reveals that he holds the part of the 'Anti-Life Equation' in his sphere that Darkseid needs to complete his 'Life Void machine' which will reduce beings across the universe to mindless shells under his control.
On Apokolips, Darkseid knows that Batman has Miracle and opens a 'Boom Tube' to bring them there. Arriving, they see Barda chained above the throne with Granny Goodness nearby. It transpires that Miracle is Darkseid's adopted son and has fled into exile with part of the Anti-Life Equation. As Miracle shows Darkseid the sphere, by sleight of hand he takes the latter's 'Mother Box' and opens a Boom Tube that sucks Darkseid away. Barda is released and Batman insists on destroying the Life Void machine, but this only allows Granny and her two cohorts to attempt to get the sphere. There follows a long battle with the sphere changing hands several times, but the three superheroes come out on top. Then Darkseid suddenly returns with a crash, which knocks the sphere up in the air and he catches it. With parademons and the Furies closing in, Mister Miracle opens a Boom Tube, and the three superheroes escape back to Earth.
Darkseid lets them go as he is impatient to use the sphere to complete the Life Void machine and subject the universe. However, the result is just a show of laser lights and music. In the Watchtower, Batman holds up the real sphere, showing he can do 'sleight of hand' too.
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Notes[]
- Scott Free, being a New God, has no need for money and usually donates the revenue from his daredevil stunt showings to charity. His looking to split profits for which with Batman was out of character.