Best dc top-rated animated movies in 2021

Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United (2013)

Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes Unified sees Hulk and Iron Man taking on a living being made of pure energy called Zzzax by adding a modern animation technique called “2-D wrap”.

In order to create the ultimate power base, two Hydra physicists drain the Gamma energy from Hulk and Abomination, somewhat modifying Zzzax’s origin from the comics. Of course, this experiment backfires, forcing the Iron Man and Hulk duo to contend with the new sensitive and incredibly powerful Zzzax.

Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United tells a fascinating story and is full of clever satire and the kind of light-hearted moments that new MCU fans have come to expect from Marvel.

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)

In the 2014 movie, Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, anime fans will find a lot to like. This film, a follow-up to the Marvel Anime Series, features the titular heroes Black Widow and Punisher teaming up to stop the evil group known as Leviathan from having a sinister plot.

The grim, gritty mood offers a fitting backdrop for the action required to make The Punisher perform on film, although there is a strange, temporary, change in the movie’s mood about halfway through, as audiences are introduced to Amadeus Cho. Eventually, the Avengers squad makes an appearance, but this thrilling story centers on Widow and Punisher, containing lots of dramatic battle scenes and surprising plot twists.

Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United (2014)

Iron Man and Hulk finished with a preview with Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes Unified for the follow-up film that came only a couple of months later.

Each of the titular characters believes they have the right solution to problem-solving, and each turns to try to prove their tactics to be better, but with a far more light-hearted approach than the discrepancies in the MCU.

Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)

Not exactly a Batman tale, but in the continuity of the Arkham Asylum video games, it takes place. Actually, Assault on Arkham is a Suicide Squad movie and a far better one than the live-action version that we got a couple of years ago. Suicide Squad is essential’ The Dirty Dozen of DC villains,’ for those not in the field.

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

You just can’t enjoy life if you can’t enjoy Batman battling Jack the Ripper. This adaptation of Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola’s graphic novel posits Batman (Bruce Greenwood) appearing in Gotham City in the 19th century, where a newly immigrated serial killer is slaughtering prostitutes by the bushel. 

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2011)

In a very dim parallel history, The Flash (Justin Chambers) discovers itself. Aquaman and his Atlanteans have sunk continental Europe, Wonder Woman and her Amazons have invaded Britain, there is no Superman, and Bruce Wayne is dead: his father Thomas took Batman’s mantle while the Joker is his girlfriend, made mad by the loss of her son.

Wonder Woman (2009)

After pilot Steve, Trevor crashed and found a race of wise warrior women on the mystical island of Themiscyra, their princess Diana won the right to accompany him back to the world of man. Yet Ares (Alfred Molina), the wicked God of war, has plans of his own, and they include plunging the earth into conflict. Although the live-action movie deserved credit for cracking the so-called “curse” superheroine, this epic showed that the tale had chopped all along.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012/2013)

This big two-parter is not up to its source material’s genre-bending conventions, but that’s because the comic by Frank Miller is one of the best of all time. But instead, it’s only very nice. A new surge of violent crime takes the superhero (Peter Weller) out of retirement for years after the Batman died, but the universe is now a much darker place.

The mission of Superman (Mark Valley) is to pull him down, and then the scene for the final Batman story is set. Over the years the issue with the Dark Knight Returns is that it has been stripped for pieces, greatly affecting countless different takes on the story of Batman. But the original is unquestionably powerful, and much of its mystical grandeur is captured by this take on it.

All-Star Superman (2011)

The late Dwayne McDuffie adapts writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely’s first-rate limited series, bringing us a Superman story that tells us why he’s the Best Superhero of the Universe. Superman (Jamie Denton) is dead after his cells are supercharged by solar radiation. When he takes stock of his life, as imagined by Morrison, we practically get a tour of the “universe” of Superman, filled with strange and crazy flights of imagination, mind-blowing sci-fi ideas, high aspirations, and warm humanity.

The pure-hearted Superman is frequently cheaply claimed to be both dull and impossible to write well this new masterpiece proves that at least the first part is a fib.

Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)

Yes, the 2011 Green Lantern live-action movie starring Ryan Reynolds was well, awful, made all the more mindful that this note-perfect animated origin story presaged it. Test pilot Hal Jordan (Christopher Meloni) is recruited to the ranks of the leading intergalactic space cops in time to compete in a genuinely epic, universe-spanning sci-fi with traitor Sinestro (Victor Garber) that reveals all the variety and ingenuity the live version lacks.