Source: dc.wikia.com
6. “What’s the last thing you remember?”
And now we hit THE BIG THING. The thing you know this story for, if you know this story at all.
In this scene, the Leaguers catch Doctor Light and mindwipe him, also forcibly changing his personality. This is an unforgivable action that taints those early stories irrevocably for me.
The League’s altering of Light’s personality, and essentially mentally handicapping him by accident, is kinda horrifying. It’s like one of those “what if the Justice League were morally bankrupt jerkfaces†imaginary stories. And if it sounds like that, it’s only because it TOTALLY IS FROM ONE OF THOSE IMAGINARY STORIES.
The Justice Lords two-parter of the Justice League cartoon used villain lobotomization as the moral no man’s land to show the evil nature of the team. Oh, and there’s also the fact that the whole “what if the Justice League started altering the minds of villains†thing is blatantly stolen from Squadron Supreme. And in both of those stories, mind alteration was seen as a morally reprehensible action, from which there was no coming back.
But not Identity Crisis, no. That one don’t care about no mind-wiping.
