Justice League Dark: Apokolips War – How to watch DC’s ‘New 52’ movies in order

From 2013 through to 2020, Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment worked together to produce a series of connected animated movies featuring characters such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Teen Titans. Inspired by the DC Comics era of comics known as the New 52, the films were all set in the same universe and slowly built their way towards the epic team-up tale, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.

In this post I am presenting the best viewing order to watch the films that lead up to Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. Below you will find a list of every film you should watch, including additional suggestions to enhance the experience.

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The best order to watch DC’s Apokolips War films

The road to Apokolips War tentatively begins in 2013 with the film, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. In this film, Barry Allen (aka the Flash), wakes up in an alternate reality and he must work out a way to reset the universe.

While Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is largely a Flash-orientated picture, and not necessarily key to Apokolips War, the post-credit scene introduces Parademons, which in turn teases the arrival of Darkseid – the chief villain of Apokolips War – and it acts as a primer for what is to come.

From this point on, the series runs through Justice League: War (2014), Son of Batman (2014), Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015), Batman vs. Robin (2015), Batman: Bad Blood (2016), Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016), Justice League Dark (2017), Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017) and Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018). Not all of the films are connected, but they are all part of the same universe.

The next film is Constantine: City of Demons – an entry which I have included, but others might overlook. Constantine: City of Demons was created as a spin-off of Justice League Dark and is therefore part of the same universe as all of the other entries on this list.

The reason this film might get overlooked is because Constantine: City of Demons originated as a webseries, not as a movie, and was initially released on The CW’s online streaming platform, CW Seed. However, it was later released as a movie on DVD and Blu-ray and can be slotted into this universe if you wish.

Following on from Constantine: City of Demons, the story continues with The Death of Superman (2018), Reign of the Supermen (2019), Batman: Hush (2019) and Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019). Once you have reached this stage, you are now ready to watch Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020).

Please note: The animated shorts Nightwing and Robin and Constantine: The House of Mystery can also be slotted into this universe.

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Justice League New 52 / Apokolips War order

Here is the best order to watch the Apokolips War movies:

• Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
• Justice League: War (2014)
• Son of Batman (2014)
• Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015) + Nightwing and Robin animated short
• Batman vs. Robin (2015)
• Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
• Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
• Justice League Dark (2017)
• Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
• Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
• Constantine: City of Demons (2018)
• The Death of Superman (2018)
• Reign of the Supermen (2019)
• Batman: Hush (2019)
• Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
• Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) + Constantine: The House of Mystery animated short

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