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Doctor Moon: This doesn't have to continue, I can stop you from seeing the visions at any time. You stole files from our computer. Just tell me what you've learned. Question: Topically applied fluoride doesn't prevent tooth decay. It does render teeth detectable by spy satellite. Doctor Moon: [shocks The Question] Tell me what you know. Question: The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister. Doctor Moon: [shocks The Question] Tell me what you know. Question: There was a magic bullet. It was forged by Illuminati mystics to prevent us from learning the truth. Doctor Moon: Have it your way. This will continue until I break you. Perhaps even afterwards.
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~ Doctor Moon sadistically torturing the Question.
Doctor Moon is a minor antagonist in the DC Animated Universe, serving as a two-shot antagonist in the Cadmus story arc of the Season 2 of Justice League Unlimited, appearing as a minor antagonist in the episode "Question Authority" and as a cameo antagonist in the episode "Flashpoint".
He is a sadistic torturer who joins Project Cadmus to assist Lex Luthor and Amanda Waller in undermining the Justice League, seemingly taking the place of Hugo Strange within the organization. Following his failed assasination attempt on Luthor, the Question is to be interrogated by Moon, a task Moon sadistically takes.
In the episode "Question Authority," Doctor Moon serves as one of the Division Heads of Project Cadmus, seemingly replacing Dr. Hugo Strange for unknown reasons. Moon was in charge of the interrogation and torture of any Cadmus enemies. After Lex Luthor foils the Question's assassination attempt on him, Question is send to be interrogated by Doctor Moon, who straps him to a rack and proceeds to torture him.
For nearly a week, Doctor Moon keeps Question strapped to the rack and electrocutes him without remorse, leading Question to experiment visions about what may happen if Luthor executes the Flash and leads Superman to descent into madness and cause an Armageddon over the world, akin to how his counterpart from the Justice Lords' universe killed his Luthor. In spite of that and that Moon offers to stop the torture if he tells him what he read from the project's computers, the Question prevails and instead shouts random conspiracy theorists.
Concerned and correctly guessing that Cadmus has abducted her love interest, the Huntress contacts Superman, who agrees to help her rescue Question from the Cadmus facilities. Both heroes break into the facilities and face several security soldiers until they find their way into the torture chamber, where Doctor Moon is once more applying shocks to the Question. Fearing for his life, Moon grabs a gun, but drops it when Superman points out that the gun will have no effect on him, though this doesn't prevent Huntress from knocking Moon with a kick, yet Superman stops her from killing Moon so they can escape with Question.
In the episode "Flashpoint," Doctor Moon is briefly seen in a meeting with Amanda Waller, Emil Hamilton and General Wade Eiling, thinking about what to do after the Justice League seemingly fires the Watchtower's binary fusion cannon on the abandoned Cadmus headquarters. Despite this, Moon does nothing, and like Hamilton, witnesses how Eiling subtly incites Wallter into sending Galatea and the Ultimen clones they have. This is the last time Moon is seen in both the season and the show, but it's possible that after the disbandment of Cadmus, Moon was simply reassigned or may have been arrested for the torture he subjected the Question too.
Trivia[]
During production of Justice League Unlimited, rather than Doctor Moon, Hugo Strange was originally intended to appear in "Question Authority" following his cameo as one of the heads of Project Cadmus in "The Doomsday Sanction." Unfortunately, given the Bat-embargo enacted by The Batman, which concurrently showed a different version of the character, the DC Animated Universe was suddenly restricted from using Strange anymore, so Moon was brought up to replace him in the role.
In retrospective, according to the DVD commentary of the Batman: The Animated Series, Volume Four DVD, Glen Murakami and Alan Burnett felt that rather than using a character who had not appeared previously as Moon, they would have brought Farmer Brown from The New Batman Adventures back to fill in Strange's role. Whether Murakami and Burnett really meant it or said so in jest is unclear.
As of now, Doctor Moon's appearance in Justice League Unlimited is the character's most notable depiction in other media than DC comic books. The only media in which Moon has appeared following the DCAU has been in Young Justice, albeit with a different name and ethnicity.
Doctor Moon is actually never identified onscreen in his two appearances. He was identified by Glen Murakami and Alan Burnett in the above mentioned DVD commentary.
