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Anyway, just adding to what you said OP, I think some variation of the dark judges could work but less overtly fantastical.
In some modern comic telling of the dark judges set in the movie universe if I recall, they instead had some scientists experimenting with a portal, this lets the dark judges enter as energy of kinds, and lets them possess bodies. Sounds wild still but looked much less goofy
If they did make a sequel I’d have just done the America arc where the citizens are demanding elections and democracy but the judges are ordered to infiltrate the protestors and cause riots, suppress the demonstrators etc
