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At the Justice League Watchtower’s meeting room, the air in the room had urgency. No one knew how to handle Arkham’s latest patient who was a little too knowledgeable about the identities of the world’s greatest meta humans. This is the first time a criminal was allowed inside the Watchtower’s meeting room, but not without supervision, and what better supervisor than the man of steel himself? Wonder Woman couldn’t take it, as it’s been a moment since John let the squad know what’s going on. He was reading the mind of the prisoner, trying to discover on how the lunatic knew their names.

“We need to take him to the Phantom Zone.” Wonder Woman said. This wasn’t the first time it was said, but the Flash was quick to defend.

“I still don’t think it’s right.”

“It’s still odd that he has our names.” Supes said.

“We can’t let him out of here.” Wonder Woman said.

“Plenty of people know our identities,” Batman jumped in, “why would we lock someone in for knowing it.”

“Because it’s people that we trust that know.”

“I for one won’t care if mine come out. Trust me, plenty of our enemies know our identities. Even the Joker knows mine.”

“You don’t understand, Bats.” The Flash said, “I have a family. I need to keep my identity safe. Otherwise people will get hurt.”

“I have Lois, Bruce. We saw what happened in the other world when Lois died. I can’t allow that to happen.”

“Where’s Green Lantern in all of this?”

“He’s out.”

“I propose that we put this to a vote.”

The League votes, everyone except Bruce Wayne in favor.

“Looks like we’ve come to an agreement. Sorry Bruce.” The Flash said. As if the Martian Manhunter heard the vote, he joins in.

“Ah. Welcome back Jo-”

“Oh. No. I’m not John. This is the lunatic that you just voted to go into the Phantom Zone.” He fades through the Watchtower, leaving his old body lifeless.

“I’m on him.” Superman said before dashing and leaping out of the bay of the watchtower. Everyone looks at Batman for what to do.

“Glad that I made those contingency plans now?”

I'm confused, is the Flash voting to send him tot he phantom zone or not? Is Martian a traitor? Why the phantom zone for a person who knows a few names, even though they're not correctly matched?

Great questions. I wanted to have the whole crew vote to send the lunatic to the phantom zone. The phantom zone would be a safe place for the Lunatic to reside in while they find an alternative plan. Everyone wants to protect their identities, even if the names are not connected. An individual like Lex Luther can deduce which names are the correct ones, starting with Clark Kent then Bruce Wayne and so on. As for the Martian Manhunter, he was reading the mind of the lunatic. Somehow the lunatic's powers hint towards psychic abilities of the mind, and he was able to swap consciousness with Martian Manhunter. Now imagine an individual hellbent on revealing the names of the greatest superheroes with phasing and mind reading powers.

EU yeah?

Serious question; would they actually put him in phantom zone? AFAIK they forgive people for more?

Or am I missing something?

Safe? You know what the Phantom zone is and who's in there, right? Also, I feel like it needs to be explained in the story, rather than in a separate comment. Good explanation, though.

Can you enlighten me more? I remember only little about the phantom zone, and eager to hear your take about it.

After doing some research you might be correct about it being safe for him, as people who go in can't age or die, but I still feel like a conventional cell would be less intense and more fitting for a person who, as far as the league knows at this point, is only a crazy stalker. On another unrelated note, some of the league members don't have or have a need for a secret identity, such as wonder woman, who doesn't need to protect her friends because they have superpowers anyways.

I doubt it, seems werid for the league to do that, of anything MM can just erase their memory from knowing league members name or Zatana can cast a spell on them to make them forget.