pegusus123456 posted...
There's an episode of Young Justice where
aliens attack and most of the adult heroes in the League are killed (this makes it pretty obvious to the viewer that it is a dream from the beginning). It's up to the team to stand up and fight back, but things just keep getting worse and worse no matter how hard they try. Almost all of them ultimately end up sacrificing their lives to kill the mothership only for another mothership to immediately show up.
It turns out the entire thing was a training exercise created with Martian Manhunter's telepathy. The team all knew that going in, but what they didn't know was that it was a lesson in failure, designed to escalate no matter what they did. The problems started when Artemis was "killed" near the start. Miss Martian's subconscious saw her friend die and wrested control away from J'onn, making them all forget it was a simulation and putting them in very real danger because the illusion was so convincing that their minds would just put them into a coma when they died.
What makes it work is that this isn't just a one-off, the events of the "dream" cause real, actual psychological harm to the team members and they even have therapy sessions about it in a later episode.
And shares the same supervising producer of the show that TC mentioned. Wonder how something like either could be done for
The Spectacular Spider-Man
.