There is no middle ground in the ongoing warfare between movies stars Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard – and no end to the continuing toxicity of their relationship and divorce, now more than two years in the past.

On Monday, Depp submitted a new, detailed declaration to a Virginia courthouse, once again calling Heard's domestic violence allegations against him "fabricated," and "categorically" false. Now the actor says he's got the goods, from photos of his injuries he says she inflicted to claims Heard defecated in his bed as part of a "sick prank."

Wait, what about the joint declaration of mutual love and respect they issued at the conclusion of their divorce settlement in Los Angeles in August 2016? "Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love," they cooed in the statement.

Well, forget that. This year has brought both back to whacking each other in civil court with blood-curdling allegations of domestic abuse and defamation, rage and lies, drugs and drink.

It all started again in March when Depp filed a civil lawsuit against Heard seeking $50 million and accusing her of defaming him by setting herself up as a "domestic abuse" victim in an opinion column she published in the Washington Post in December.

Heard, 32, shot back by filing more than 300 pages of documents, expanding on the abuse allegations she lodged against Depp during their divorce donnybrook in the summer of 2016.

In the documents, Heard claimed Depp, 55, regularly beat her up before she married him in 2015 and continued during their 18-month marriage.

She attached multiple pages of photos of herself with bruises on her face, scars on her arms and hair allegedly torn from her head, plus pictures of wrecked rooms – broken glass and overturned furniture – that she says Depp inflicted on their home. She included screenshots of dozens of text messages describing these incidents at the time, and excerpts of her divorce deposition describing shocking abuse.

Heard's California lawyer, Eric George, in a statement to USA TODAY, said what she had submitted constituted "irrefutable evidence" of the alleged monstrous behavior of Depp, whom she refers to as "the monster" in the documents.

But Monday Depp went a step further, saying that "while mixing prescription amphetamines and non-prescription drugs with alcohol" Heard "hit, punched, and kicked me. She also repeatedly and frequently threw objects into my body and head, including heavy bottles, soda cans, burning candles, television remote controls, and paint thinner cans, which severely injured me."

As evidence, he submits a photo of his black and puffy eyes and scratches. The actor also details an alleged attack by Heard one month after their marriage in Australia during his described efforts to get Heard to sign a post-nuptial agreement. Depp says the conversation resulted in the severing of his fingertip from a shattered glass bottle thrown by his then-wife.

Monday's declaration is “packed with new evidence," Depp's Washington lawyer, Adam Waldman, told USA TODAY in a statement, saying the sworn statement "utterly destroys each of Amber Heard’s abuse hoaxes and shows she is a serial abuser of men and women who uses fraud to get what she wants.”

The actor's lawsuit has already called Heard's allegations against him "false" and part of "an elaborate hoax" to get positive publicity to advance her career, citing multiple surveillance videos, eyewitness statements, audio tapes, photos, police depositions and testimony from other women who claim that Heard abused them with "horrific acts of violence and other abuse."

“Ms. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse; she is a perpetrator,” the suit states, describing Depp's financial losses because of Heard's claims, including being dropped from his role as Capt. Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.

For Depp, Heard's perfidy comes down to what she claimed he did to her at their downtown Los Angeles penthouse in May 2016, which she used to obtain a temporary restraining order against him. She said he beat her face with a cellphone and destroyed a room with a large bottle of red wine.

But the two Los Angeles police officers, who arrived at the scene after a neighbor called them, told reporters they saw no evidence of a crime and later said the same thing in a deposition.

Depp's lawyer previously stated that the cops found "everything in pristine condition," and that surveillance videos and eyewitnesses, including the building’s security, have shown the same. In his most recent filing, Depp alleges Heard appeared at the courthouse days later with "painted on bruises" to obtain a temporary restraining order.

On Monday, Heard's lawyer shot back, calling Depp's latest filing "desperate."

"The increasingly desperate attempts by Mr. Depp and his enablers to revive his career by initiating baseless litigation against so many people once close to him – his former lawyers, former managers, and his former spouse – are not fooling anyone," said George in a statement to USA TODAY.

He continued: "In light of the important work done by the #TimesUp movement highlighting the tactics abusers use to continue to traumatize survivors, neither the creative community nor the public will be gaslit by Mr. Depp’s baseless blame-the-victim conspiracy theories.”

So the gloves are off and the two former lovebirds are prepared to annihilate the other in court if this lawsuit gets that far.

But it may not get far in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington: Heard's lawyers want the lawsuit moved to California where most of the alleged abuse (by either) took place, although documents in the case describe incidents that took place in Australia, Japan and the Bahamas.

Depp filed in Virginia, his team says, because that's where the Washington Post is printed.

So far, the lawsuit has not been to a judge or set a hearing date.