The Actor who Cried Alpha-Wolf

The Actor who Cried Alpha-Wolf is the fifth episode of Justice League: Knights of Rao.

Featured Characters

 * Knights of Rao
 * Alpha Wolf / Millo Chaves (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (joins team)
 * Blue Lantern / Collin Hill
 * Emerald / Dionne Stewart
 * Galaxor / Mitchell Davies (cameo)
 * Indigo Lantern / Amber Lang
 * Long Shadow (cameo)
 * Sun Rose / Esperanza Del Rey (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (joins team)
 * Toymaster / Hiro Hamada
 * Terra / Tara Markov


 * Justice League
 * Batman / Bruce Wayne
 * Black Canary / Dinah Lance
 * Flash / Barry Allen
 * Geo-Force / Brion Markov

Supporting Characters

 * Steve Trevor (first appearance)
 * El Diablo / Chato Santana (first appearance)

Villains

 * Vandal Savage (as a hologram)
 * Kobra (first appearance)
 * Bane (first appearance)
 * Alberto Murieta (single appearance)
 * Armando Murieta (single appearance)
 * Project Cadmus
 * Unnamed Super Soldier (single appearance)

Other Characters

 * Superman / Clark Kent / Kal-El (hologram only)

Summary
Terra and Toymaster look after Milo Chaves, a young Mexican actor who was turned into a werewolf-like creature by a mysterious cursed artifact, while they gather proofs that Project Cadmus agency is corrupt. Meanwhile, Batman and Flash team up with El Diablo and Steve Trevor to defeat the agents of the Kobra organization, who are planning to create the perfect army of super-soldier using Bane's formulas and Cadmus technology.

Plot
A theater show is being held in a small town of Mexico. The show is about a hero (played by narcissistic arrogant actor Armando Monteiro) battling against a villain (played by unhappy and poorly paid actor Millo Chaves) for his love interest (played by the more selfless and kind-hearted actress Esperanza Del Rey). However, when the actors are being presented, Millo is nowhere to be found; three of Monteiro's acquaintances had pranked him and entrapped him in a cave nearby. The three eventually go to the cave and free Millo. But again, Millo is missing and the three are suddenly scared away by a pack of wolves which chase them all over the town. Scene shifts to the top of a building, where Millo, who had been turned into a werewolf-like creature, is shown howling for the Moon.

In a small flashback set three hours ago, Millo was sitting in the cave sorrowfully remembering news about the death of his family by the hands of Vandal Savage at the same moment Ronnie Raymond was killed. Among all of his unhappy memories, including most of his fellow actors who bullied him for his role in the show, he thought about his only happy one: Esperanza, who was the only person on Mexico who ever loved him. Just then, Millo spotted a small Wolf-based totem in the end of the cave. Right after he touched it, Millo fell victim of a curse: he was now a half-human half-wolf metahuman. Using his newly discovered powers, he managed to escape the cave in his own. In present day, Batman and Flash are battling Bane and his terroristic crew in Central City. Right after defeating the villain, Batman and Flash discover that Bane had been brainwashed by his rival organisation Kobra, who had stolen both Bane's formulas and Project Cadmus technology and are holding their plans on Mexico.

Meanwhile, Millo is working hard to hide his new look from the town's citizens until they all notice him and, unable to recognise him as the most hated actor in the country's theater and reffering to him as a "Chupacabra", cheer on him as a celebrity. Esperanza is the only one who recognises Millo, but she still loves him and the two happily embrace. Terra and her team appear next to him and offer to train him as a hero, on which he accepts and adopts the name "Alpha-Wolf". The Justice League (Batman, Flash, Black Canary and Geo-Force) encounter Steve Trevor and redeemed gang leader Chato Santana a.k.a. El Diablo, who agree to help them deal with Kobra, who are planning to dominate Mexico with an army of Super Soldiers created with Bane's formulas. Alberto Murieta, the greedy director of the theather show, propperly seeing Alpha-Wolf as a menancing celebrity rival, secretly uses one of Kobra's formulas he stole from one of the mercenaries and injects it on one of the actors chosen to be Millo's replacement. But his plan backfires when the injected actor goes berserk and starts wreaking havoc in the town, alerting both hero teams and Kobra.

Kobra agents attempt to hasten their leader's plans and evacuate their base, but are intercepted and taken into a fight by the Justice League, Trevor and Diablo while Flash speeds up to find out what is happening. Back in the town, Terra and her teammates escort the citizens to safety while Millo fights the beast. Esperanza sorrowfully admits regret for having never done better for Millo and tearfully wishes she could. Sensing her love for him, a Star Sapphire ring appears and attaches to Esperanza, who eventually joins Millo fight against the mutated actor and the two together defeat him while Terra and her teammates depower him. The Kobra agents are defeated by the Justice League, although one of the agents escapes. Murieta attempts to runaway from authorities who had learned of his involvement with the chaos. But he is stopped and caught by the Flash. Millo is cleared out of accusations on him as a villain as Murieta is taken to prison. Deciding that being superheroes is much better than being simple actors, Millo and Esperanza (dubbing herself Sun Rose) decide to join Terra's team as Terra is contacted by Superman, who voices his impressions with his prodigy's work. As the other Leaguers discuss about Kobra's real plans, which turn out to have been another scheme by Savage, Batman and Flash check on the destroyed theater and Batman silently admits his awareness of the existance of Terra's teammates and wonders to himself: "Does Geo-Force know that?".

Voice Cast

 * Kevin Conroy as Batman / Bruce Wayne
 * Ashley Johnson as Terra / Tara Markov
 * Yuri Lowenthal as Alpha-Wolf / Millo Chaves
 * Jessica DiCicco as Sun-Rose / Esperanza Del Rey
 * Jason Marsden as Geo-Force / Brion Markov
 * Wally Wingert as The Flash / Barry Allen
 * Vanessa Marshall as Black Canary
 * Roger Craig Smith as Steve Trevor
 * Eric Bauza as Toymaster / Hiro Okamura
 * Colleen Villard as Blue Lantern / Collin Hill, Indigo Lantern / Amber Lang
 * Kimberly Brooks as The Emerald / Dionne Stewart
 * Chris Cox as El Diablo / Chato Santana
 * George Newsbern as Superman / Clark Kent / Kal-El
 * Robin Atkin Downes as Kobra Leader, Armando Monteiro
 * Fred Tatasciore as Bane
 * Dwight Schultz as Alberto Murieta
 * Phil Morris as Vandal Savage
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Kobra Agents, Mutated Actor