One of Justice League. The event DC One Million shows how the team has grown to protect the entire universe and make their resemblance to a mythological pantheon that much more obvious.
For decades, the Justice League has been the home of some of the most powerful heroes in the DC Universe. The of the team aren't just heroes in the conventional sense, they're the ones who have gone above and beyond and used their power to fight threatens that defy comprehension. The Justice League has fought universal threats like the Anti-Monitor to godlike terrors such as Darkseid. They've developed a reputation for their amazing heroism and the world at large seems inspired by their actions. Even various peeks into the future of the DC Universe shows the impact the team leaves behind after their glory years.
But nothing speaks to the just how influential the League is more than their doppelgängers from centuries in the future. In DC One Million #1 by Grant Morrison and Val Semeiks, the team comes face-to-face with Justice Legion Alpha, the 853rd century version of the Justice League of America. The Justice Legion introduces themselves to their counterparts and the League instantly sees how quickly the two incarnations differ. Unlike the League which is largely contained to monitoring the activities of Earth, the Legion has expanded throughout the universe, with the Alpha section's living on various colonized versions of the solar system's planets. The Legion's Flash hails from Mercury while Starman's base is on Uranus. Wonder Woman is taken by the concept of Venus being populated by Amazons while Steel mentions that Neptune's underwater cities are guarded by the Legion's Aquaman.
What The Justice League's Future Means For The Team
They’ve been called godlike before, but the future Justice League makes that descriptor quite literal. In the same way that the Roman gods each have their own planet, each Justice League member guards one that is closely associated with their particular power set, theme, or similarity to an already existing god (Mercury was the swiftest god in the Roman pantheon, after all). The Legion makes it that much more obvious that the Justice League are more than just a superhero team: they're a collective of modern mythological figures.
Morrison’s run on JLA essentially operated off the idea that the League was a group of gods and that the superhero team was like any other pantheon. Giving the team their own planets that have deep, spiritual connections to other existing gods reaffirms what Morrison was going for and helps show why the team deserve their godlike descriptor. After all, why shouldn’t Aquaman look over Neptune or Wonder Woman base out of Venus? These planets fit naturally to their assigned DC heroes and give the Justice League the divine validation they deserve.
