#SundayRundown Vandal Savage did monologue in the finale of the last season that the Light's main goal was to promote mankind's "glorious evolution" and to have Earth "take its rightful place at the centre of the cosmos". The Light's plan has always been total control of the entire universe. And just like how Savage was able to tank Black Canary's powers and block Red Tornado's powers with his bare hands in that finale, he and Klarion were able to easily defeat Black Canary again and all the other Justice Leaguers guarding the Warworld in this finale.
Vandal Savage and Chaos Lord Klarion the Witch Boy, those two alone could take on and defeat EVERY SINGLE ONE of the heroes at once. And as Savage stated, the only reason they didn't in the Season 1 finale is that Klarion would've ended up losing control and killing all of them, and the Light still needs the Justice League alive. As Savage himself said, the reason why the Justice League has been the biggest bother to his plans in 50,000 years isn't that he can't take them out (because he _can_ take them out), but rather what they represent and have inspired: an age of heroes that has caused mankind to stagnate its own "glorious evolution" in favour of leaving everything to these heroes who would protect them from everything. That was why he was completely unperturbed when the Summit fight began to turn in the heroes' favour, he was never in any danger.
In order to overturn that and ensure that Earth takes its place as the dominant force in the universe, Vandal and his group, the Light, need to make use of the very perpetrators of this societal state, the Justice League, rather than kill them. That was why Vandal chose to drop the defeated Justice Leaguers straight back to the Watchtower when he took the Warworld, instead of just outright killing them.
The Greater-Scope Villain
2023-12-21 22:55:22 +0000 UTC