Justice League: A Fairystory

     So I just watched an old episode of Justice League again.  About three years ago I was crazy about this show ....come'on who doesn't like batman? or flash?  I think I liked Justice League cause it combined wit with humor and action.  BUT... nooowww that i'm in inklings and we get to read all these awesome books.  I go back and watch Justice League again and it's like WOAH!!! NO WAY!!! This stuff actually has contains objective truth!
     I was talking with Gabriel the other night about orthodoxy and Chesterton's view on Fairystories.  Chesterton seems to favor Fairystories and the like because they teach objective truths.  For example, Beauty and the Beast.  "a thing must be loved before it is loveable" (Orthodoxy 47).  In teaching this message, this story lets people better understand why it was possible for such inwardly ugly beings called humans to be loveable.  Humans are loveable because God first loved humans.
     What does this have to do with Justice League?  Well Justice League is a fairystory.   In the episode, "For the Man Who has Everything".  (If you want to watch it before I tell spoilers here's the links ;]  Part I       Part II Part III Part IV  it's about 22-30 mins?)  So anyway haha it's superman's birthday in this episode and he gets a visit from batman and Wonderwoman who come bearing gifts.  While walking to meet him, Batman remarks "I mean what do you get the man who has everything?".  Shockingly, Batman and Wonderwoman find Superman in a trance like state with a plant around his chest.  A villian steps in and monologes about it.  This "black mercy" reads the hearts desire and sends the victim into a trance that fulfills it's heartly desires.  False realities that satisfy all heartly desires.  hmmm.... I wonder what that sounds like. Wentworth.  Charles Williams.  When Wentworth got caught up in all his false realities that satisfied his heart's desires he went insane (Descent into Hell 222).  He went into a trance-like state.  Annnywhoo when superman got the black mercy off of him... he screams at the villian "Do you have ANY idea WHAT you did to me?!?"  The villian response "I fashioned a prison that you couldn't leave without sacrificing your heart's desire.  It must have been like tearing off your own arm....Happy Birthday Kar-el [ Superman] I give you oblivion."  In this passage, the villian, Mongol, implies that in reality or oblivion no single person gets what their heart desires.  For Superman to leave an incrediblaly convincing world where everything that he wanted was met, meant that he had to sacrifice his hearts desires.  The difference between Superman and Wentworth was that Superman had the will and the power, with slight assistance from batman, to fight againest and deny false realities.  Wentworth on the other hand could not find it in himself to take away those false realities.  The outcome?  Superman came face to face with reality which was hard but worth it.  For Wentworth? "Presently then the shape went out and he was drawn, steadily, everlastingly, inward and down through the bottomless circles of the void" (Descent 222).  What's the moral of the story?  Don't follow your heart or it's desires?  Go ask Wentworth. ;]   
      So...was superman truely "the man who has everything"?  Thankfully, No.  Cause if he did, Metropolis wouldn't have a selfless hero to protect them.  And Superman would probably end up somewhat like Wentworth, insane.  It's not possible to in this world to truly have everything your heart desires.  Because the heart desires earthly and worldly things.  The heart yearns to put earth before heaven.  Lewis says, "I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell...If we insist on keeping Hell we shall not see Heaven" (The Great Divorce VIII) Why should people watch Justice League?
1. It's a fairystory...one that entertains the audience with stories that contain objective and moral truth.
2. It's full of wit and humor combined with action.
3. It relates to Lord Of the Rings and Till We Have Faces. (A Better World,  Season 2 episode 6 and 7)
4. It relates to sacrifice of Christ.  (Starcrossed Season 2 episode 26)
5. It relates to a bunch of other stuff too. :]

*excuse my spelling mistakes*