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| NOTE: This version is only for Owlman within the animated film, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, given the various other incarnations of the character were not voted Pure Evil. Therefore, only his film version's info and crimes should be listed here. |
| “ | It doesn't really matter. Nothing matters. | „ |
| ~ Owlman to Batman. |
| “ | Man is a cancer, and I have chosen to cut out the disease. | „ |
| ~ Owlman declaring his intentions to exterminate all humanity along with the infinite Earths. |
Owlman is the main antagonist of the DC animated film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
He is a member of the Crime Syndicate, along with other supervillains. While the members of the Crime Syndicate were looking to take over the world by means of terrorism, Owlman and Superwoman were planning to destroy all of reality. Owlman is the alternate universe counterpart to Batman.
He was voiced by James Woods.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He was a member of the Crime Syndicate, an organization that has gone after and murdered most of the superheroes in his dimension and used terrorism to try and take control of the world.
- Invented the Quantum Eigenstate Device (QED), a bomb capable of destroying Earth for the Syndicate to use to force the planet's leaders to surrender to their rule.
- After realizing the multiverse existed, he plotted behind his team's back and going to Earth Prime by teleporting the QED there in his attempt to destroy it, which would have destroyed all other Earths in existence.
- His reasoning is that the multiverse exists solely due to people's choices, with each choice creating an alternate reality where they made the opposite decision, thus meaning that free will is just an illusion and that every individual is "less than nothing".
- Owlman was misanthropic. He viewed humanity as a cancer and decided, quote on quote, "to cut out the disease" by attempting to obliterate all reality in existence. While being a misanthrope is fine, he was intending to also use that as an excuse to destroy all life on Earth, making him worse than he is already.
- He also believes that on every Earth where life ended, humankind was always responsible.
- Threatened to kill Superwoman when the latter discovered his plans.
- While fighting Batman for the final time, he expressed the idea of wanting to beat him to death before destroying Earth Prime.
- When Batman tried to reason with him, saying that he must have been a good man once, Owlman simply replied that he was never good, as he himself is a human. This exemplifies that Owlman possessed full moral agency and chose to do the greatest evil he could with what he had because, to him, it was the only meaningful choice.
- It also shows that he admits he is evil and is proud of it, as he views it as giving him meaning.
- After being defeated, he chooses to let the QED detonate, killing himself and destroying the frozen Earth because he believed that it wouldn't matter.
- Even if something tragic did happen to him that made him who he was, it doesn't hold any water because, as Batman said, Owlman broke and gave into his evil ways, whereas Batman didn't, despite his traumatic past.
Trivia[]
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths was originally intended to be part of the DC Animated Universe as Justice Leagues: Worlds Collide as a bridge between Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, but the movie was scrapped due to the lack of staff to produce both the show and the movie concurrently and was reworked years later into a stand-alone film, removing all its connections to the DCAU. Had Worlds Collide been released instead of Crisis on Two Earths, however, it's likely that Owlman would have still qualified as Pure Evil because his omnicidal cataclysm would be far more heinous than any of the things Darkseid and Brainiac, the two most dangerous Pure Evils of that continuity, ever did.
- This is the only version of Owlman that is Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Owlman on the Villains Wiki.
- Owlman on the DC Movies Wiki.
- Owlman on the DC Comics Database.
- Owlman on the Ultimate Evil Wiki.
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