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[[File:the-justice-society__6930.jpg|frame|Ain't no school like the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|old school.]]]]
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Once upon a time, comics had no such thing as continuity. Yes, read that sentence again. All those comics on the stands? They didn't intersect with one another. They were being read by [[The Great Depression|Depression-era]] kids, who weren't going to write to the editor and complain about how the current issue of the [[Flash]] was at odds with a story written three years before. '''There were no message boards.'''
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And then something wonderful happened.
The comic book ''All-Star Comics'', in 1940, was introduced as a standard anthology title featuring characters from other anthologies. However in the third issue (Winter, 1940), writer Gardner Fox introduced the Justice Society of America, teaming up the characters. Because it was mostly for less-used characters, any character who got his own series would have minimal appearances, so [[Flash]] and [[Green Lantern]] left when they got solo comics, [[Superman]] and [[Batman]] rarely appeared, and [[Wonder Woman]] was the JSA's [[Stay in
Over a decade later, superheroes were on the rise again and [[The Flash]] (the [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] Flash, a totally different guy than the one in [[World War II]]) discovered another world inhabited by the older [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] characters. Continuity had been invented by this point, so the explanation was, "All those JSA stories took place on [[Alternate Universe|Earth-2]], which has its own version of Superman, and everything from, uh, [[The Interregnum|circa-1955]] on is from Earth-1, which has the [[Justice League of America]]. Superman versus aliens? That was Earth-1. Superman versus [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]]? Earth-2." Thus, every summer, the JLA and the JSA would [[Crossover|team up]], in some of the few multi-part storylines of [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]]. These were often titled "Crisis on Earth-Something", and involved the two teams responding to multidimensional disasters.
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The JSA's own series was briefly revived in the [[The Seventies|1970s]], with ''All-Star Comics'' returning with issue #58 (February 1976). Earth-2 was treated as having existed in real time, and all the characters had aged. New characters [[Huntress]] and [[Power Girl]] were introduced as younger superheroes, related to the early group. The series lasted to #74, and included the origin of the Justice Society (told in a special, not in the series itself). The comic was then canceled in the [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|"DC Implosion"]] of 1978, and its six remaining stories were published in ''Adventure Comics''; the last issue was #466 (December 1979).
The next JSA-associated series was ''[[All-Star Squadron]]'', which started in 1981 and took place during the [[The Forties|1940s]] in the JSA's prime. It included all of DC's characters from that time period, focusing less on the Justice Society proper, and was followed by the post-Crisis ''Young All-Stars''. Meanwhile, "modern" Earth-Two stories featuring the children and friends of the JSA, called ''[[Infinity, Inc.]]'', came into being, and lasted till the early [[The Nineties|1990s]].
The [[Crisis
The [[Crisis Crossover]] ''Zero Hour'' [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|brutally killed off]] members Doctor Fate, Doctor Mid-Nite, Hourman, and the Atom (an act meant to both [[Executive Meddling|get rid of "embarrassing" older heroes and create some epic deaths for the big story]]), and wrote out Carter and Shiera Hall, the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl by merging them with the Silver Age Hawkman, Katar Hol. The second revival, simply entitled "JSA", brought the team back together with numerous new members, [[Back
The JSA, therefore, has basically become a team of veterans and mentors for other heroes, as well as the starting point for many heroes in training. This gives the team excellent dynamics: young vs. old, cynical vs. idealist, etc. While its heroes are not as popular as those who form the Justice League, they are respected and admired by all proper heroes in [[The DCU]] as [[Ur Example|pioneers of the principles they stand for]]. After adding [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] in the form of other [[Legacy Hero|Legacy Heroes]], Johns finalized his decade-long run on the book.
Following his departure, the writing chores were taken over by ''[[
James Robinson wrote several issues during a crossover with the Justice League, and then Mark Guggenheim became the regular writer. Fan reaction to his take on the characters was mixed, to say the least. His run ended when the [[New 52]] relaunch took place and the title was cancelled.
In the [[New 52]], Robinson is back writing the team, with the second-wave title simply called Earth-2. The Justice Society again originates and operates in the titular corner of [[The Multiverse]], however, the team is no longer tied to World War 2, with the characters being reintroduced as younger versions from a modern background, and with updated abilities and looks.
See [[Characters Justice Society of America]]
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: This is a bit subjective, but Johns and Goyer were clearly planning a major dust-up between the [[The Men in Black|Department of Extranormal Affairs]] and the JSA. The Black Reign arc probably overtook it. Also, there's the business with the Council, which again was overtaken by Black Reign {{spoiler|when Black Adam slaughtered them off-panel to court the support of Nemesis}}.
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Wildcat and the Golden Age [[Hawkman]] specifically.
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* [[The Atoner]]: Black Adam, a former super-villain. Later [[Heel Face Revolving Door|reverted to form]]. Currently Atom-Smasher, who followed Adam in his descent back into villainy, is filling this role.
* [[Author Filibuster]]: In issue 50 of the current series, Jay Garrick is being interviewed prior to being sworn in as mayor. One of the questions involves the way in which the JSA has abandoned the whole "legacy" concept, where the younger generation is trained by the older generation, despite the fact that this is not something that's really happened yet in the actual storylines. Jay's response of "I see no reason that JSA membership should be restricted to a certain pedigree" could easily be read as author Marc Guggenheim responding to reader complaints. It certainly breaks the fourth wall.
* [[Bad Future]]: Involving [[Those Wacky Nazis]] of course.▼
* [[Badass Normal]]: Since they started out when [[Lego Genetics]] was in the future, and even comic-book science was still in the [[Lightning Can Do Anything]] stages, most of the members had some variant of a [[Charles Atlas Superpower]].
** The original roster was was [[Flash]], [[Green Lantern]], Hourman (I'm Batman [[Super Serum|on drugs]]!), Sandman (I'm Batman with precognition!), Hawkman (I'm Batman with wings!), Atom (I'm Midget Batman!), the Spectre (I'm Dead [[Reality Warper]] Batman!) and Doctor Fate (I'm a Wizard, <s>'arry</s>!).
** Currently, this role is filled by Mister Terrific, the third-smartest man in the world (and therefore smart enough to know that "Working Out = Good"), Hawkman (who graduated to [[Conan the Barbarian]] with wings), and Wildcat, advertised as the man who [[Badass|taught self-defense classes to the JLA]].
▲* [[Bad Future]]: Involving [[Those Wacky Nazis]] of course.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The Thy Kingdom Come storyline had {{spoiler|Doctor Mid-Nite regain his eyesight at the cost of being able to diagnosis medical conditions at a glance, [[Starman]] regained his sanity when [[Insanity Immunity|he needed to be crazy]], [[Power Girl]] learned the hard way that the [[Infinite Crisis]] had [[You Can't Go Home Again|caused her to be replaced with a double on Earth 2]], and Damage's face was fixed and he became increasingly vain.}} Luckily because [[Status Quo Is God]] most of those issues were resolved.
* [[Big Bad]]: [[Evil Overlord|Mordru]] in the first half of the JSA series, and Black Adam in the second.
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: Most of the inner turmoil in the JSA has been caused by the original Atom, Al Pratt's kids. Atom-Smasher was Pratt's godchild, and more recently, Pratt's son Damage (it's a [[It Makes Sense in Context|complicated story]]) betrayed the team by siding with Gog.
* [[Butter Face]]: Way back in the early days of the JSA, Johnny Thunder was thrown back in time and was betrothed to a princess who always wore a veil...
* [[Clothing Damage]]: Power Girl frequently suffers this, being [[Ms. Fanservice]]. Atom Smasher's mask is also unusually fragile, often tearing from a flung bottle or somesuch object.
* [[Comedic Hero]]: Johnny Thunder and the Red Tornado in the original WWII comics. Both are still around and haven't changed much.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: What, you can't see it? The original members ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|pantsed Hitler]]'', for crying out loud. The whole flying, bend-steel-with-their-bare-hands thing is a bonus.
* [[Cool Ship]]: Following the return of their [[Informed Ability|ace pilot]] Atom Smasher, the All-Stars have recently gained one in the form of the appropriately named Star Eagle.
* [[Cosmic Horror]]: Johnny Sorrow and the King of Tears (which would make a great name for a rock duo, but I digress).
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: While it's still early in his run, so things may change, Guggenheim's first issue has all the hallmarks of this, with plenty of violence, destruction, and the normally polite and in-control Jay Garrick referring to the villain as a "bastard".
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Sandy Hawkins/Sandman gets this, after the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] Sandman spent years as the star of [[Sandman Mystery Theatre]].▼
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Johnny Thunder's genie, the Thunderbolt, as well as Power Girl on occasion.
▲* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Sandy Hawkins/Sandman gets this, after the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] Sandman spent years as the star of [[Sandman Mystery Theatre]].
* [[Depending
** Quite common for some other members of the team. Power Girl's costume is explained in-universe as having multiple variations after years of varying Boob-Window-sizes, and Stargirl is often shown looking more or less young and busty.
* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]: Even though the Justice Society came first and the [[Justice League of America]] was just a [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] update of the Justice Society, because the Justice League was more popular, it was decided that the Justice Society needed to find a new core concept to differentiate it from the Justice League. Several different ideas were tried such as being an [[Alternate Universe]] equivalent to the Justice League, being a group of middle-aged superheroes, being a group of senior citizen superheroes, until finally, they found a concept that worked sales-wise: a multigenerational family of superheroes training the next generation.
** This concept behind the team has been explicitly abandoned by Marc Guggenheim.
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** In ''[[The Golden Age]]'', America's mystery men, including the JSA, return home after [[World War Two]] and find themselves obsolete, unable to go back to catching bank robbers after spending years fighting [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. Unfortunately for everyone, though, the Nazi menace isn't quite finished...
** In ''The Liberty Files'', the Golden Age superheroes are reinvented as super-spies who fight arms dealers, Nazis, and aliens in the '30s through the '50s.
* [[Energy Being]]: Although he was unaware of this at first, Alan Scott's body is now composed entirely of the green energy he's channeled through his ring for 70 years.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: The Wizard's first appearance. He'd been out of touch for years learning his magical powers. When he returned to civilization, he learned of the JSA. He could not conceive of intelligent super-powered people using their powers for good for altruistic reasons, and assumed the heroes were actually [[Villain
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: The Wizard (one of the JSA's longest-running villains), and others.
* [[Face Heel Turn]] and [[Heel Face Turn]]: Atom Smasher does ''both'' over the course of the series, quitting the team for glad-handling super-villains and going easy on them (he'd murdered a villain to save his mother's life), then asking to rejoin them after realizing the life of a killer wasn't for him.
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* [[The Fool]]: Johnny Thunder.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: Roulette's arena.
* [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]: In the '80s, it was [[Retcon|retconned]] that the JSA was founded at FDR's behest. Today, his fictional great-grandson "Lance" Reid, who has the power to blast beams of energy out of his hand, is actually a member. His powers, however, seem to derive {{spoiler|from Gog}}, and not from any inherited presidential ability. (Which is a mite disappointing!)
** FDR also had the distinction of directly founding the JSA's sister team (as revealed in an 80s [[Retcon]] and the 80s series of the same name), the [[All-Star Squadron]], a team composed of most active US-based superheroes during the war.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Cyclone, possibly the only example in DC comics. Generally just a hyperactive, over-talkative motor-mouth who ends up with her mouth finally covered by another character at least twice.▼
** Superego: Green Lantern--[[The Cape (trope)]], functionally immortal.▼
* [[Girls Night Out Episode]]▼
** Ego: Flash--[[Cool Old Guy]], has been the "uncle" to younger heroes for something like a generation.▼
** Id: Wildcat or Hawkman--both [[Badass Normal]], one a [[Boisterous Bruiser]] and the other a [[Blood Knight]], both prone to charging in.▼
* [[The Gambler]]: Roulette
▲* [[Genki Girl]]: Cyclone, possibly the only example in DC comics. Generally just a hyperactive, over-talkative motor-mouth who ends up with her mouth finally covered by another character at least twice.
▲* [[Girls' Night Out Episode]]
* [[Handwraps of Awesome]]: Hawkgirl, except in her case they go halfway up her arms to hide the cuts on her wrists.
* [[Heroes Unlimited]]: ''[[All-Star Squadron]]'' was basically this for the team, set in the 1940s.
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** And Mister America, after his entire family was murdered. He beats up the killer, stakes out the [[The Chessmaster|mastermind]], loses (hard), and then runs from the [[Hollywood New England|Boston dockyards]] to [[Big Applesauce|Battery Park]] with an arrow in his lungs, jumps through a skylight and lands back first on the JSA's round table. His final words? "[[Determinator|I can't let justice die.]]"
* [[Holier Than Thou]] and [[Hollywood Atheist]]: ''Both'' averted with Doctor Mid-Nite, a devout Catholic, and Mister Terrific, a staunch atheist, who are both heroically upstanding ''and'' BFFs. Score one for tolerance!
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Johnny Thunder, a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] [[The Fool|doofus]] who had a genie that ''had'' to make his statements come true after he said "cei-u"--and he often prefaced his suggestions to others with "say, you...!" [[Hilarity Ensues]].▼
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Stargirl promises this to Atom Smasher during an interview with a reporter, as he goes away to prison for his war crimes. "No matter how long it takes".
▲* [[Idiot Hero]]: Johnny Thunder, a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] [[The Fool|doofus]] who had a genie that ''had'' to make his statements come true after he said "cei-u"--and he often prefaced his suggestions to others with "say, you...!" [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Jerkass]]: Hawkman turned to this after a while, being grouchy and yelling at the younger members, then demanding leadership of the team during "Black Reign". Magog completely took this role later, suddenly developing an asshole streak a mile wide. He's an order-barking, gruff, grim, "killing the bad guys is OK" type who disrespects the entire team in his own inner monologues.
* [[Joker Jury]]: ''All Star Comics'' #37.
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* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: When your team is composed of [[Retired Badass|90-year-old superheroes]], backed up by the teen heroes too lippy for the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], you're going to use this trope a lot.
** An example: In the first issue of the current series, we are introduced to Mister America, a legacy hero whose gear consists of nothing but a [[Domino Mask]], a cape, and a silly little whip (and clothing!). A Golden Age villain tries to destroy his legacy by killing his family. When he finds out, he strangles the assassin with the silly little whip... which suddenly no longer looks silly.
** An even better example: The JSA got side-swiped by an evil wizard, who [[Powers
*** OK, and [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]] helped some too.
*** And don't forget that two of the team's strongest members (Black Adam and Atom Smasher) had just undergone [[Face Heel Turn|Face Heel Turns]] and left the moment before the wizard arrived.
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** This go more and more derided by fans, who were practically ''begging'' the new writing team to drop the roster by several characters by the time Johns left the book. Of course, the new writers promised to not only keep most of the team around, but ''add'' one new character each.
*** The team split with ''JSA All-Stars'' sought to avert this, but each team still had one new character on it, with a standard plus-size team roster still fighting for space. Once ''All-Stars'' was cancelled, the cast of that series (minus Damage, who was killed during ''[[Blackest Night]]'', and [[Power Girl]], who left to join the new [[Justice League International|JLI]]) rejoined the JSA proper.
* [[Locking MacGyver in
* [[Mama Bear]]: Power Girl starts to become this to Stargirl sometimes, once absolutely ''snapping'' at Captain Marvel for butting-in on their conversation about Atom Smasher's potential defection, coldly telling him "Whatever it is, Big Red. I think you better save it."
* [[More Hero Than Thou]]: The Hourmen fought over who got to die to produce a [[Stable Time Loop]].
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* [[The Night That Never Ends]]: Obsidian and Ian Karkull attempted to do this to the Earth in one arc.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Happens a ''lot'' considering there's so many members of the team. Dr. Fate and Jakeem Thunder would be gone for arcs at a time in the previous run, and the current one features about 20-odd characters, about 10 of whom get to say something once an issue, and even fewer who get major parts. This led to some bizarre situations where characters were ''introduced'' and then put Out of Focus, not saying or doing anything for another few issues!
** With the team split, Atom Smasher disappeared for over six months real-time, and Jakeem has been mentioned as not being on either team.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Jay Garrick tends to be this around Stargirl--he confronts the "is sixteen, but in an adult's body" Captain Marvel about his relationship with her, and suggests that a firefighter talking her up in another issue consider the age difference. The whole elder trio later forces Atom Smasher to let Stargirl down once and for all. Courtney does not appreciate any of these moments.
** Justified in-story: Jay's only (adopted) child died very young, and so he sees all of the young heroes on the team as his children, with Courtney as the youngest.
* [[Passing the Torch]]: Hourman
* [[The Power of Love]]: What Johnny Sorrow was using Stargirl and Atom Smasher's love for- a magic spell to free him from the King of Tears.
* [[Put
▲* [[Power Trio]]
** The team was [[Put
▲** Superego: Green Lantern--[[The Cape]], functionally immortal.
*** The team was [[Put
▲** Ego: Flash--[[Cool Old Guy]], has been the "uncle" to younger heroes for something like a generation.
▲** Id: Wildcat or Hawkman--both [[Badass Normal]], one a [[Boisterous Bruiser]] and the other a [[Blood Knight]], both prone to charging in.
▲* [[Put On a Bus]]: Doctor Fate in the previous run would vanish constantly searching for his wife, both to reduce the ponderous roster and to bring a major powerhouse out of the fight. Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Amazing Man, Magog and others have all done the same over time. Amazing Man has now finally been fully put there to clear out the roster a bit.
▲** The team was [[Put On a Bus]] following the [[Crisis On Infinite Earths]], when they decided to disband after the merging of the Earths but were called to alter the outcome of the Norse gods' Ragnarok in order to prevent Adolf Hitler from retroactively destroying the universe in 1945, which caused the team to remain trapped in a never-ending fight cycle [[The Bus Came Back|until several years later]] in ''Armageddon: Inferno''.
▲*** The team was [[Put On a Bus]] again when the DC universe rebooted in August 2011, before reappearing in Earth-2 as part of the second wave of new titles. Of course the new JSA seen in that title starts from the beginning and portrays the founders as young men and women, meaning most of the younger legacy heroes (especially those who joined recently) are likely out of luck.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Atom Smasher, to make good for all the people he'd killed and the dark path his life had taken, offers his own life to the Spectre so that he'll leave a city full of people alone. He dies of a heart attack, but is brought back thanks to magic lightning by his older-brother-figure, Black Adam.
* [[Retcon]]: the team's various changes inflicted on it after [[Crisis
** There was an instance where Jakeem Thunder, trapped in the spirit world, wished for help and his genie summoned the ghosts of dead JSA members. Amongst them was the Earth-Two Batman, who was a member of the original JSA. It has been established that the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] JSA was still formed in the original Earth-Two. Not to mention [[Infinite Crisis|Golden Age Wonder Woman and Kal-L]]...▼
*** The JSA has now been completely removed from the history of DC's main Earth, with it being established that Superman was the first superhero to appear.▼
* [[Retired Badass]]: All of them.
** Special honors must go to retired non-powered superheroine Abigail "Ma" "The Red Tornado" Hunkel, who despite being in her '80s and considerably overweight, ably fights off supervillains with a ''frying pan''.
▲* [[Retcon]]: the team's various changes inflicted on it after [[Crisis On Infinite Earths]] forced the removal of the Earth-2 Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman from the roster retroactively, among other changes.
▲** There was an instance where Jakeem Thunder, trapped in the spirit world, wished for help and his genie summoned the ghosts of dead JSA members. Amongst them was the Earth-Two Batman, who was a member of the original JSA. It has been established that the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] JSA was still formed in the original Earth-Two. Not to mention [[Infinite Crisis|Golden Age Wonder Woman and Kal-L]]...
▲*** The JSA has now been completely removed from the history of DC's main Earth, with it being established that Superman was the first superhero to appear.
* [[Retool]]: The series went from a pretty standard superhero series with a "Golden Age heroes and legacy characters" theme into a massive line-up of ''dozens'' of legacy characters, with the ''entire'' point now being to teach the new generation, rather than that being a side goal.
* [[Rogues Gallery]]: The Injustice Society of the World, as well as a few other recurring foes like Roulette.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: Everything that Roxy says or does seems to be based on what would be funniest and/or most socially inappropriate at the time.
* [[Screwed
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: It once took the JSA an entire issue of ''All-Star Comics'' to realise that evil Professor Elba and kindly Professor Able were one and the same. Not exactly their finest moment.
* [[Shout-Out]]: When the JSA All-Stars were looking for a team name, Judomaster suggested ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Anime)|Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman]]'', to which one of her teammates even mention ''G-Force'' (Americanized version of the anime).▼
** In the first storyline for ''JSA'', the team goes up against Mordru and begin shifting into different realities. One of them is a anthropomorphic animal world home to the "Justice Critters". Starman in this world is a fox, making him "[[Star Fox (Video Game)|Star Fox]]".▼
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Stargirl & Billy Batson (thanks to different editors) and Stargirl & Atom Smasher (thanks to a plot twist that toyed with Stargirl's emotions, and later a [[Romantic False Lead]] in Anna Fortune).
▲* [[Shout-Out]]: When the JSA All-Stars were looking for a team name, Judomaster suggested ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
▲** In the first storyline for ''JSA'', the team goes up against Mordru and begin shifting into different realities. One of them is a anthropomorphic animal world home to the "Justice Critters". Starman in this world is a fox, making him "[[Star Fox (
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Hourman and Liberty Belle.
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: In the first issue of ''JSA All-Stars'', Johnny Sorrow seemed to have this for Stargirl. Eventually, it turned out to be B.S., and he was using her for a magic spell.
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* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Mocked like all hell. When writer Bill Willingham took over the JSA title, there was a great amount of concern among fans about how this would affect Todd (as Willingham is a Republican). Some fans even feared that Willingham would "cure" Todd's sexuality. In Justice Society of America (Vol. 3)#40, Willingham attempted to address this concern in a humorous way by having the newly restored Obsidian announce that his homosexuality has been cured, only for him to quickly renounce this claim, telling the readers, while breaking the fourth wall for a brief moment, that he was only joking and that he was still gay.
* [[Super Family Team]]: Various with the many founding members' families.
* [[Super Human Trafficking]]: By Roulette.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: The original Red Tornado, Abigail "Ma" Hunkel, was a hefty housewife with a mean uppercut who dressed up as a male superhero to clean up her neighborhood and keep her kids safe. She's still around as the JSA's museum curator, though she doesn't do the crossdressing bit any longer (except when she [[Mall Santa|plays Santa]]).
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: Mr. America.
* [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]]: It sure is a good thing that Dr. Mid-Nite, a licensed physician, is on the team, because they seem to be the only team in comics that regularly has somebody suffer a near-fatal injury in every event. Averted with the [[Retool]] with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] later.
* [[True Companions]]: Due to blood ties, legacies, life-long friendships, and the various generation gaps, the JSA is one big family.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Atom Smasher and Stargirl appeared to be [[Like Brother and Sister]] at first, with him playing the older hero she looked up to. Other stories have shown them as married in the future, and she showed tremendous amounts of grief towards his betrayal and temporary death. Recent comics flat-out state that they're in love with each other, but the elders forced them to call it off. Then they announced their love, but need time apart after a mess with Johnny Sorrow. Just call them "Colossus and Kitty, Version 2.0".
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