"Watchtower Tours" is the forty-seventh episode of Justice League Action.
Summary[]
Booster Gold, while on watch duty, offers tours of the Watchtower, but only succeeds in attracting villains that intend harm for the Justice League.
Featuring[]
| CHARACTERS | VOICED BY |
|---|---|
| Heroes | |
| Booster Gold | Diedrich Bader |
| Batman | Kevin Conroy |
| Villains | |
| Toyman | Ken Jeong |
| Granny Goodness | Cloris Leachman |
| Joker | Mark Hamill |
| Others | |
| Jackie | Rachel Kimsey |
Story[]
The normally frivolous Booster Gold enthusiastically reports for watch duty in the Watchtower but Batman cynically observes that he has never done so in the past. Booster restates his sincerity, and Batman relents allowing him to take the six hour watch. Booster is ecstatic.
Later, we see that this is just a cover for another of Booster's money making schemes, as a luxury yacht (with funnel) arrives in dock at the base of the Watchtower. Booster's droid, Skeets, leads ashore four sightseers, and Booster welcomes them to the "Justice League Watchtower celebrity guided tour." One of them is a boy in a hoody called Teddy, another a young woman called Jackie and the other two, one a short man and the other an old woman, look like known super-villains in light disguise. Booster does not recognise any of them and conducts them to see the laundries and boiler rooms, then the hangar containing Justice One and also Wonder Woman's plane - except that it is invisible - and continues the tour to the "kitchen" where he unintentionally triggers a holographic training simulation that threatens the whole party with doom. Booster's suit automatically creates a space-time shift portal that whisks them away to safety on the main floor of the Watchtower.
The security system now scans them all and detects a threat, causing a lockdown and activating a swarm of deadly security drones. Toyman removes his fake moustache, with Booster only now recognising him, and declares his intention of destroying the Justice League's system with his malware via Teddy who is revealed to be a robot. To stop the drones, Booster insists that Toyman end the hacking attempt, but he is not able to, and the other suspected villain, now revealed to be Granny Goodness, offers her 'Mother Box' to remedy the situation. The remaining tourist, Jackie, is shown to be the Joker in disguise, but assures that he is only there for the tour. The security system detects the Mother Box, and the numerous drones open fire on whoever is holding it. With everyone running to escape, the Box is passed about like a hot potato until it reaches Booster who programs it and throws it so that the Teddy robot, the Box and the drones are sucked into a 'Boom Tube' thus ending the threat to the system.
However, security now recognises the three unmasked villains and assumes Booster is their accomplice so that all four come under fire from more drones. After failing to contact Batman by phone, the superhero activates his spacetime jump ability and abandons the villains who are still able to flee to a room and close the doors. As the drones burst through and are about to open fire, Booster reappears along with twelve versions of himself from alternate timelines who now destroy the drones with a joint blast from their suits. As the extra Boosters return to their separate times, the 'real' one suddenly notices the presence of a glowering Batman.
Later, with the three villains in handcuffs, Booster bluffs that his tour scheme had been a cover to catch them all along and an example of his unprecedented ability to handle difficult situations.
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Notes[]
- In the comics, the 'Kitchen' is a combat training room in the orbiting version of the Watchtower.