Legacies

See it's a Justice League episode-- original run not the sequel-- where Green Lantern, Hawk Girl, and a third hero are transported into what reads as a fifties comic book and it is.

It was Green Lantern's favorite comic series.

An alternate world where the comic had existed, and continued to exist unchanged, even when according to the papers--

'PEACE TALKS DISSOLVE, WAR DECLARED.'

And the superheroes are mourned as tombstones. That too.

A child had been horrifically mutated into a psychic. A too big head, burnt looking skin, and one eye a bulbous mass compared to the other as an unbalanced slit.

He was ugly and repulsive.

He was also so sad.

Chernobyl was the first thought I'd had. To what incident the TV show had been alluding to. A world where Chernobyl or even WW2 had even worse consequences.

'Our world was already destroyed, we did that. But now we have a chance to rebuild.'

Turns out they'd meant to reference the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.