"She Wore Red Velvet" is the fifty-second and last episode of Justice League Action.
Summary[]
When Booster Gold is assailed by a super-woman from the future, the Justice League requires him to take time-related corrective action so they are not destroyed along with him.
Featuring[]
| CHARACTERS | VOICED BY |
|---|---|
| Heroes | |
| Booster Gold ("M. J.") | Diedrich Bader |
| Batman | Kevin Conroy |
| Wonder Woman | Rachel Kimsey |
| Green Arrow | Chris Diamantopoulos |
| Villains | |
| Red Velvet (Margot) | Dania Ramirez |
Story[]
Booster Gold is at a book signing event at Gotham Books for his autobiography, but the fans only complain that Batman is not there. This is interrupted by a woman in a red superheroine's costume, who announces herself as 'Red Velvet', but Booster does not recognise her. Using a red 'power ring' she targets him with a ray blast, and Booster shields himself with a protective bubble. As she continues to shoot at him, she says she wants his attention but then disappears, leaving Booster standing in the smouldering ruins of the book shop.
Later, in the Watchtower, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Arrow are questioning Booster about the mystery woman when Red Velvet suddenly appears from a time travel portal. She addresses Booster, asking him if he has received her present before blasting him again. Just before she vanishes, Booster realises she must be the Margot that he knows. As the superheroes consider what gift she is likely to have sent, the volcano on which the Watchtower rests causes it to shudder. Booster says that Red Velvet could have caused this by going back in time, but the four League members have to run for the Justice One hangar when the Watchtower begins to crumble away. Managing to scramble into Justice One as it falls, they accelerate and clear the volcano just before it erupts, destroying the Watchtower.
In flight, the superheroes demand that Booster tells them who Margot is. He now relates how, in the Metropolis of the year 2462, he met and decided to marry Margot Montgomery, a wealthy heiress. However, realising he was not good enough for her, he abandoned her at the altar, and using a borrowed 'time suit', travelled back to the twenty-first century intending to make his fortune first before returning to marry her. Batman assumes that the unmarried Margot must have come back for revenge. Outside, Red Velvet calls to Booster and, when he replies badly, shoots down Justice One. As the craft plummets to its doom, Batman urges Booster to take action, and so the latter opens a time portal and steps through with Batman following.
Arriving at the wedding ceremony in the future, Booster greets Margot and introduces Batman as a celebrity guest. As the ceremony proceeds, Batman realises that the ring that Booster produces is the same as that used by Red Velvet, and that Booster must have married Margot after all. At this point, Red Velvet also appears, declaring that Booster was a worthless husband, before continuing to shoot at him. Batman disables her with an electric shock, and she is caught by Booster. However, Margot has been listening and walks out, throwing the ring away. At the same time, the ring on Red Velvet's finger disappears and she fades out of existence in Booster's arms. Broken, he is left calling out Margot's name.
Later, in the Watchtower in the corrected timeline, Wonder Woman and Green Arrow cannot remember the recent events. When Batman tries to console Booster for his loss, the latter suddenly perks up and asks for the number of Giganta (not seen in the series).
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Cultural References[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the opening lyric of Blue Velvet, a 1950 love ballad popularized by Bobby Vinton's 1963 cover of the song.
- The Batman fanboy compliments Red Velvet's costume and in a fourth-wall leaning reference, asks if she is an "Elseworlds Harley Quinn". Elseworlds was a comic book line which took DC characters and placed them in different settings of alternate universes and timelines. The series laid the groundwork for DC's 52 parallel Earths in its modern multiverse. This seems to imply that comic book series exists as a publication in the Justice League Action universe.
- Booster Gold jokingly refers to the Batman fanboy as "Bat-Mite" when he asks who he should make his autograph out to when signing the fan's copy of his latest book. Bat-Mite was a character from the Silver Age Batman comics, a being from the 5th Dimension and was Batman's biggest fan. Bat-Mite often tried to help Batman, usually with disastrous results.
- One of the disappointed fans thought Booster Gold was Animal Man. This is a callback to a running gag in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Greatest Story Never Told", where people mistook Booster Gold for Green Lantern.
- Animal Man is a DC comics superhero character with powers similar to Vixen, in that he can tap into the abilities of animals. Animal Man has blond hair like Booster and a similar goggle lens face mask with blue and yellow colors as part of his costume, so it is easy to see why the fan was confused.
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