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You know, I never liked that name (John). It's so ordinary especially for someone who has such big things in store. You know, a DESTINY. Oh, Destiny. I like it. Doctor Destiny. What do you think?
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~ Dee's conversation to Penny before driving her to insanity.
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You know, I could let you go. You're a distraction now, and it's the others I have the real problem with. We're like insects to them. They step on us, ruin our lives, and they don't even realize it. But you're different.
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~ Doctor Destiny to Batman on his view.
Doctor Destiny, actually an inmate named John Dee, is the main antagonist of the Justice League episode "Only A Dream" and a cameo antagonist throughout Season 3 of Justice League Unlimited.
A former employee of Lex Corp, John was incarcerated at Stryker's island, where an experiment gave him psychic powers that allowed him to enter and manipulate people's dreams. After escaping and using his powers to torture and kill his ex-wife as revenge for leaving him, he set his sights on destroying the Justice League to gain the admiration of all the supervillains who fought the Justice League.
John Dee was a LexCorp worker who was arrested by the Justice League after being found with smuggled weapons at a warehouse. Soon after he was sent to Stryker's island where he got along with the Warden and other personnel there, but deep inside he had other devious plans. All he longed for was the admiration from the other villains (including Lex Luthor and Joker), the Justice League fought, imagining himself as Doctor Destiny. With the Materioptikon, which was an Experimental ESP machine, for a short period of time he could experience these dreams, although he wanted more power with the device that addicted him.
In his personal life, he had a wife named Penny who broke up with him, and this made him finally snap. Exposing himself to all that energy during a prison break, this allowed him to become enhanced with psychic abilities and knew this was the time to get his goals going. Firstly, he went to his ex-wife when she was with her new boyfriend. Motivated by spite, he came to Penny in her dreams and tormented her. While she told him to go away, he wouldn't, and she tried to wake up her boyfriend. When nothing worked, he shed his skin revealing his dream persona. This was enough to drive her insane, and she began screaming in pain and agony, unable to wake again, all while Doctor Destiny relished in her fate. Furthermore, after being in a coma for hours, she died with nothing being able to be done.
Moving on to his next plan, he decided to invade the dreams of the League. He first attacked the Flash who was just running away from monster children when they were watching a movie. When he was running, Flash noticed that time stopped. Destiny arrived and told him that he was the fastest man alive, but he would need to spend the rest of his existence frozen in time, with nobody to talk to and no way of waking up. The telephone in Wally's mind wouldn't budge and soon disappeared (which was his alarm).
Then he came into Superman's mind where he was having a dinner date with Lois Lane. They were chatting but then his heat vision went out of control and burned the menu. Then it proceeded to instantly burn Lois to death and Superman lay waste to Metropolis. With Green Lantern, he became a monster and outcast to people who he knew and was corrupted by Destiny to give himself up and become a submissive slave. Lastly, he buried Hawkgirl alive while disguised as Martian Manhunter at first. With all these dreams being invaded, Martian Manhunter needed to rescue his friends.
With Green Lantern about to be coursed into going inside a giant green lantern, Martian Manhunter told him that he isn't a monster, and irritated, Destiny attacked him to prove dominance. This was to no avail as Green Lantern gained his consciousness back and escaped his nightmare. Next was Superman, who had just crushed his friend Jimmy to death and was being driven to insanity, viewing himself as a destructive being. Although Martian Manhunter made him face his nightmare and he ultimately triumphed. There was a battle in Flash's dream and he soon made time move again, much to Destiny's dismay and rage. Ultimately, Hawkgirl too was saved and they foiled Doctor Destiny's main plot.
In the real world though, he had to be beat, and that was Batman's job to put a stop of the Doctor's plans once and for all. He then tracked down John into a warehouse in a mirror maze put by Destiny. Batman then overpowered John by Humming the song 'Frère Janques'. Enraged Doctor Destiny then lunged at Batman and tried to inject him with a syringe filled with sedative. Instead, Batman then got the upper hand and knocked Destiny into the crates, and John accidentally injected himself with the drug. He was then seen in a prison bed in a catatonic state where all he could do was hum Frère Janques all over again while having to face his own nightmares.
Doctor Destiny later seemingly recovered from his spar from the League, as he became a member of the Legion of Doom under Gorilla Grodd. He later joined Lex Luthor's faction when the legion split and survived the fight, but was killed in the blast when Darkseid blew up the spaceship.
Quotes[]
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Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your conscience. Oh - I forgot. You don't have one.
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~ John Dee enters the mind of Penny.
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And now that I'm a doctor... I think I'll perform some surgery.
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~ John Dee becomes Doctor Destiny and begins torture Penny in her dream.
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Doctor Destiny: You went too fast. And you're never going to be able to slow down again. Flash: Now I get it. It's a dream. Same one I've been having since I got my speed. And here's where the Swedish bikini team comes in to keep me company. Anyway, all I gotta do to make this go away is... Doctor Destiny: Wake up? The fastest man alive, always leaving people like me in your dust. Well, now you're stuck in high gear. And you're going to be all alone. Forever. [a phone starts ringing] Flash: That'll be for me. It's the alarm next to my bed, and as soon as I get it, I'm out of here. See next time I have too many jalapenos. [tries to pick up the phone but in wont move] That never happened before. Doctor Destiny: That's because theres not going to be a wake-up call this time. [then leaves]
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~ Doctor Destiny traps Flash in his worst nightmare.
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Doctor Destiny: You're not one of them anymore. John Stewart: What are you talking about? This is my home. Doctor Destiny: Be it ever so humble. There's no place like... home. John Stewart: You did this. [then transform himself into Green Lantern] Doctor Destiny: Wasn't me. You're the one who's changed. [Green Lantern then begins to disintegrate]
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~ Doctor Destiny traps Green Lantern in his worst nightmare.
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You can't help him.
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~ Doctor Destiny tries to prevent J'onn J'onzz from rescuring Superman from his worst nightmare.
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Doctor Destiny: Where else can you go now? You're the lantern, and the lantern is you. Go in its your... destiny. [Green Lantern is about to enter a giant ring and then J'onn J'onzz stops him] J'onn J'onzz: You are not an extension of this. You're its master. The Guardians chose you because they had fight in you: not in the ring, but in John Stewart. [Doctor Destiny then attacks J'onn J'onzz] Doctor Destiny: You're good, but I'm better. J'onn J'onzz: That's why I brought a friend. [then Superman comes and hit Doctor Destiny in the face]
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~ Doctor Destiny fights J'onn J'onzz and Superman inside Green Lanterns nightmare.
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Doctor Destiny: Adrenaline rush wearing off? Good. The doctor will see you now. Batman: Sorry. I'm gonna have to cancel that appointment.
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~ Doctor Destiny tries to make Batman go to sleep.
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Do you have any idea how stupid you look? You're never getting out of here. Never. You're stuck here...
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~ Doctor Destiny tries to prevent Flash from escaping his worst nightmare.
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Doctor Destiny: Coming here was the mistake of your life. You see, the closer I am to someone, the stronger I get. I'll be able to go into your brain, even if you're wide awake. Batman: My brain is not a nice place to be. [Batman then begins humming] Doctor Destiny: What's that stupid song going through your brain? Batman: It's what's keeping you out, Johnny.
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~ Doctor Destiny tries to enter the mind of Batman.
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This is far from over.
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~ Doctor Destiny gets defeated by the Justice League inside the nightmare of Flash.
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Doctor Destiny: You don't have any special powers. Batman: Oh, I have one, Johnny. I never give up.
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~ Doctor Destiny and Batman about to fight each other.
Trivia[]
Doctor Destiny is one of the four Pure Evil villains that debut in Justice League instead of from another show, along with the Imperium, Lord Orm and Mongul.
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