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[[File:youngjusticepromotional1_2367.jpg|frame|[[Intro Dump|The original team from left to right]]: [[The Archer|Artemis]], [[Badass Normal|Robin]], [[Insufferable Genius|Kid Flash]], [[Badass|Superboy]], [[Naive Newcomer|Miss Martian]], [[Team Dad|Aqualad]].]]

 

{{quote|"''Don't'' call them sidekicks."|'''Tagline'''}}

The second season is set [[Time Skip|five years later]] with an [[Heroes Unlimited|expanded Team]] of old and new members. The now-adult Robin, now known as [[Nightwing]], is still on the Team as leader and mentor to the junior members -- [[Legacy Character|the new Robin]], [[Wonder Girl]], Beast Boy, Lagoon Boy, [[Blue Beetle]] and others. Superboy and Miss Martian also remain as mentors, while other members have left the team, some to join the League itself.

 

 

Despite sharing the title, it is not an direct adaptation of the [[Young Justice (comics)|comic book series of the same name]] created by [[Peter David]], and the storyline with The Light is original to the show. However, it does draw material from ''Young Justice'', ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' and other DC Comics series, and David is one of the scriptwriters.

The series is set in a "young [[The DCU|DC Universe]]", Earth-16 of the DC [[Multiverse]], during an era informally dubbed by the [[Powers That Be]] as the New Age of Heroes. While the series follows an episodic format, there are [[Myth Arc|multiple subplots and overall story arcs weaved throughout the episodes]]. Though the Team's missions are the main focus, their personal lives at home and school are explored as well. The series makes use of many, ''many'' characters from the wider DC Universe as the supporting cast, including characters which had never previously been animated.

 

 

 

Has a [[Young Justice (animation)/Recap|Recap page]] and, [[The Wiki Rule|in the grand tradition of the internet]], the show [http://youngjustice.wikia.com has its own Wiki].

 

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Josh Keaton playing a webslinger in episode 23, referencing his roles in [[The Spectacular Spider-Man|various]] [[Marvel vs. Capcom 3|Spider]]-[[Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions|Man]] [[Spider-Man Edge of Time|productions.]]

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: So far, Mister Twister, Sportsmaster, and Count Vertigo have been given revamps that have turned them into real badasses as opposed to their lame comic book counterparts.

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: [[Word of God]] has claimed that the purpose of the series is to distill the best portions of the DCU as a whole.

* [[Adult Fear]]: "Misplaced" explores the terrors of parents being separated from their children to children being endangered by the sudden disappearance of their parents. In the final act, {{spoiler|Zatara is faced with a parent's ultimate fear - losing one's child to events beyond your control. Zatanna is similarly left to deal with losing her father by the episode's end, but in this case because of her own hasty decision.}}

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Largely averted, but there are a few cases where this is played straight.

** In "Happy New Year", [[Lobo]] shows up speaking solely in [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Interlac]], which not even the audience can understand. However, he soon activates a belt device that [[Universal Translator|translates most of his speech into English]].

** [[Adam Strange]] took weeks to even discover a means of communication when he was accidentally transported to the planet Rann. Miss Martian helps bridge the language gap during her visit with a psychic link. {{spoiler|The team discovers she has been rendered unconscious when they can no longer understand each other.}}

* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]:

** When she deduces that she is on Earth [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|after her memory has been erased]], M'gann is extremely happy to finally be here, but is slightly disappointed that it is nothing like TV. We later learn that M'gann's human appearance and mannerisms are based off of a short-lived sitcom called ''Hello Megan!''

** Serafin, one of the Forever People who lives on distant New Genesis, is said to be a big fan of Westerns. Thus, he wields a pair of [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolvers]] that fire [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]].

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The other villains in Belle Reve prison constantly bully The Riddler, and will not let him eat lunch with them. He gets the last laugh when {{spoiler|he is the only one to actually escape in the breakout attempt.}}

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The tie-in comic gives us background information on characters, explaining how certain team members came to become the proteges' of their respective mentors, and additional information on missions.

* [[Almost Kiss]]:

** Between {{spoiler|Superboy and Miss Martian}} in "Downtime", of the "It's still too soon for a Relationship Upgrade" variety and again in "Bereft".

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The series takes place early during the Second Age of Heroes on Earth-16 of the DC Multiverse.

* [[Always Save the Girl]]: When attacked on his crosscountry run to bring a new heart to a young girl in need of a transplant, Kid Flash decides to stop fighting Vandal Savage in order to finish delivering the heart. Unfortunately, the fifteen minutes it took him to realize that his fight was delaying his delivery was ''too'' long, as the young girl died ''twelve'' minutes before his arrival. {{spoiler|At least, that was the story told to Kid Flash by the henchman who wanted to steal the heart to keep it from getting to the girl at all}}.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: T.O. Morrow turns off Red Tornado's motor functions, powers ''and'' voice, leaving him a motionless shell that nonetheless can see, hear and think about everything Morrow is doing.

* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: Almost word-for-word.

* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Becomes a plotpoint in-universe in "Failsafe" {{spoiler|at least until Artemis's "death"}}. In "Disordered", {{spoiler|Conner}} feels intense guilt because he ''didn't'' angst one bit during "Failsafe".

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Red Volcano attempts a Class 1.

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Superboy explicitly states that, [[Super Strength|with his powers]], he is always in control of a fight and ''always'' has the advantage. [[Weak but Skilled|Black Canary]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|teaches him the error of his ways]].

* [[Arrow Catch]]: {{spoiler|The Flash, under mind-control, does this with Artemis' arrows. She compensates by aiming an explosive arrow at the floor.}}

* [[Art Shift]]: During Topo's story in "Downtime."

* [[Artistic License Geology]]: Yellowstone is indeed a super-volcano capable of [[Shown Their Work|depopulating North America and generally threatening humanity]]. However, the series presents it as a single, slightly-larger-than-average volcano. The Yellowstone caldera, in reality, encompasses all of Yellowstone and is the size of the state of Connecticut.

* [[Artificial Human]]/[[Robot Girl]]:

** This universe's version of [[Battle Butler|Mercy Graves.]] She even has a very powerful [[Arm Cannon]].

** In "Happy New Year," the first episode after the [[Time Skip]], Lagoon Boy is sparring with Nightwing and, upon his defeat, explains (to Nightwing) Nightwing's history as Robin in order to make sure that viewers understand he changed costumed identities during the skip.

** In "Alienated," M'gann speaks this exact phrase before explaining the mystery of of the "missing 16 hours" six members of the League lost while under Vandal Savage's mind control just before the [[Time Skip]].

* [[Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!]]: A massive group of aliens is attacking our heroes! Wait, what's that? [[Oh Crap|Blue Beetle's with them?]] ''Retreat!'' Evacuate the base! Alien women and children first! Activate the [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]!

* [[Attack Drone]]: The Air Force of Bialya fields a large force of unmaned drones, allowing Miss Martian multiple opportunities for some nice casualty-free explosions.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Kid Flash can not help but admire Miss Martian's [[Rule 63]] impersonation of him.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Episode "Terrors" offers us two interesting subversions:

'''The Riddler:''' ''No one can say the Riddler goes where he's not wanted.'' }}

* [[Bad Future]]: "Bloodlines". {{spoiler|The world is devastated forty years into the future, with Mount Justice a blasted crater. Impulse traveled back in time to avert it, but at the end of the episode the wasteland remains.}}

* [[Bash Brothers]]: Toyed with. Sportsmaster and Cheshire have amazing combat synergy with one another, but do ''not'' like each other one bit.

* [[Batman Cold Open]]: A staple of the show. Many episodes, including the pilot, open with the Team just completing a mission before meeting up with members of the Justice League.

** The entire pilot is one by {{spoiler|Dubbilex, in order to free Superboy, the Genomorphs, and Cadmus from control of The Light.}}

** In "Targets", {{spoiler|[[Lex Luthor]] and Ra's Al Ghul}} pull one off to get {{spoiler|this universe's versions of North and South Rhelesia united under Lexcorp's -- and by extension the Light's -- "guidance".}}

* [[Battle Couple]]:

** {{spoiler|Superboy and Miss Martian}} after "Terrors".

** In "Bloodlines," {{spoiler|Roy and Jade. And they brought their infant daughter along}}.

* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: M'gann and Psimon have a pitched battle within her mind at the end of "Bereft" and then again in "Image". {{spoiler|[[Mind Rape|The second one leaves him in a coma for five years]]}}. When they meet for a third battle, Icicle, Jr. points out that Psimon does not have a good track record against her.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Kid Flash and Artemis, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Robin in "Bereft", which saw the entire team suffer amnesia. With their memories gone, the duo spend the first half of the episode flirting with one another. The moment they get their memories back, it returns to [[Like an Old Married Couple|bickering]]. It seems to die down once both realize Conner and M'gann are dating.

* [[Betty and Veronica]]:

** Kid Flash serves as a Betty and Superboy a Veronica for Miss Martian. M'gann chooses Superboy in "Terrors".

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: M'gann is usually a very sweet and heroic character. But if you try to force her to confront her [[Dark Secret]]; you might just find {{spoiler|yourself in a coma}}, like what happened to {{spoiler|Psimon in "Image"}}.

* [[Biological Mashup]]: Intergang uses an Apokoliptian device to merge four dead Appellaxian host bodies (large, [[Golem]]-like creatures formerly animated by energy beings) into one living one.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:

** "Failsafe" {{spoiler|ends with the League alive and the Team rescued from their comas, but M'gann is emotionally traumatized and weeping over what she put the Team through by accident, and the others are heavily shaken by what they've experienced}}.

** "Misplaced" ends with {{spoiler|the kids and adults of the world reuniting happily with each other after being separate from each other by magic, but Zatanna loses her father, Zatara, who becomes Doctor Fate because he does not want his daughter to be possessed by Nabu.}}

** Artemis trying to explain to Robin why she's in Gotham, when he clearly knows who she is.

** The Team's taunts when captured in various deathtraps:

'''Superboy:''' And you can't drown me! I'm a Kryptonian! We don't breathe air! }}

* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]:

** With the addition of Zatanna in "Humanity", the Team gained a female set of Artemis (Blonde), Zatanna (Brunette) and Miss Martian (Redhead).

** Season two gives a new set with Wonder Girl (Blonde), Bumblebee (Brunette) and Batgirl (Redhead).

* [[Blush Sticker]]: Miss Martian gets these after a compliment from Superboy. Or after he takes his shirt off.

** Blockbuster's transformation involves his ''skin ripping off''. When Kid Flash tries the "got your nose" trick, he does it ''literally.''

** Episode 4, "Drop Zone," takes it up a notch with the Blockbuster/Venom compound by having exposed ''muscle tissue''. This is revisited in "Alpha Male", only with animals exposed to the compound this time and looking about as horrific as before.

* [[Book Ends]]: The episode "Insecurity" has opening and closing scenes taking place at night, in a bedroom, between a father and daughter, with the dads even calling their daughters by the term of endearment, "baby girl". {{spoiler|While Mr. Jones was likely sincere in his affection towards his daughter, Sportsmaster's use of the term was straight up psychological manipulation; attempting to regress Artemis back to when he could dominate her will.}}

* [[Bookcase Passage]]: Played very straight in "Homefront". Lampshaded no less:

'''Robin:''' You should see the Batcave... }}

* [[Bound and Gagged]]:

** The Guardian and Superboy suffered from this in the first episode.

** In the final episode of Season One, {{spoiler|it happens to the entire Justice League}}.

** "Failsafe" is an entire episode dedicated to breaking {{spoiler|Miss Martian}} and, in the next episode, revealed that it had broken {{spoiler|Robin}} as well.

** {{spoiler|Zatanna}} in "Misplaced".

** In "Usual Suspects", Batman asks the Team if "this sounds familiar" as he dresses them down for hacking League systems and ignoring protocol, ending in the successful capture of several villains and revealing a hidden plot against the League. This, of course, is exactly what happened in the pilot.

** The second season premiere ends in much the same way as the pilot: three kid superheroes rescue innocents from a secret underground facility, and watch in awe as the entire Justice League, initally silhouetted against the moon, comes to greet them. Both scenes even have the same music.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Amazo announces the name of the superhero whose ability he is about to duplicate.

* [[The Cameo]]:

** "Hello, Megan!"

** "Souvenir!" usually towards the end of the episode, spoken by Kid Flash.

* [[Character Development]]:

** Over the course of the series, Superboy is learning to work with his teammates and accept their own personal strengths and weaknesses. He is particularly learning to appreciate their skills in relation to his own, understanding that having super strength does not automatically make him superior.

** [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Garfield Logan]] received a blood transfusion from from [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Miss Martian]], with a focus on his new eye color at the close of the episode. {{spoiler|By season two, he has gained shapeshifting powers and joined the Team as Beast Boy.}}

* [[Child Soldiers]]:

** When discussing the possibility of adding new members to the Justice League, Batman supports keeping Captain Marvel in the League, despite the reveal that he is actually only ten years old. [[Wonder Woman]] finds his support less than reassuring since he indoctrinated Robin into crimefighting at ''nine''. Batman explains that he did that to Robin [[Turn Out Like His Father|in order to keep Robin from turning out like himself]].

* [[Children Raise You]]: [[Red Tornado]] reveals that while he was chosen as the Team's den mother because he had no secret identity double life to live, he grew to relish the activity as a way of learning how to act more human, since the Justice League are far too controlled and stiff to be a good representation of human interaction.

* [[Compilation Movie]]: ''Independence Day'' was advertised as such.

* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]:

** When the Team makes a detour to rescue a woman and her son from a stampede caused by an invasion force, the woman points out that their interference will likely draw a stronger reprisal. Superboy also injured one of the animals. Nevertheless, she is thankful for the assistance.

** Artemis. Arrowette and Tigress III (Artemis Crock) in one, with the motivations of Stephanie Brown (Spoiler/Robin IV/[[Batgirl]]).

** Queen Bee is based off the 80's [[Justice League International|JLI]] incarnation, but possesses the mind-control powers of the Silver Age original.

** Klarion the Witch Boy is a composite of Klarion the Witch Boy (duh) and a Lord of Chaos known as The Child.

* [[Cool Starship]]:

** Miss Martian owns one, which serves as the Team's main transport.

* [[Covered in Gunge]]: Superboy ends up on the receiving end of this when he's helping Miss Martian cook, and she tosses ingredients at him faster than he can catch.

* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: In "Humanity," the Team reasons that [[Batman]] would have used every rational method possible to find [[Mad Scientist|T.O. Morrow]], so they have to come up with a really ''stupid'' idea. Fortunately, [[Ditzy Genius|Wally]] had one ({{spoiler|interrogating Morrow's rival, Professor Ivo... [[Subverted Trope|which actually is not a crazy plan at all]].}})

* [[Crossover]]: With [[Conan O'Brien]]... sort of. The WB lets Conan use clips from the ''Young Justice'' series, with a character in each sequence edited out and replaced by Conan's alter ego, the Flaming C. (So far, across multiple clips, he's replaced Superman, Batman, Dr. Fate, Superboy, and Aqualad.)

* [[Culture Clash]]:

** As time goes by the team adopts the Martian attitude on casual telepathy to the point where others have to tell ''them'' it is rude to be having a psychic conversation that excludes other people in the same room.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:

** Red Arrow gets one from the tag team of Sportsmaster and Cheshire in "Targets".

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: From "Secrets". Doubles as an [[Oh Crap]] moment.

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Due to being a clone, Superboy will never visibly age. Alanna points out that means Conner will always be good looking, but Superboy still views it as a negative. Also lampshaded by Superboy:

* [[Cute Machines]]: The robo-sphere from "Bereft."

* [[Danger Room Cold Open]]: One episode incorporates one of these as its entire plot. The Team (and therefore the viewer) doesn't know that it's fake due to the emotional distress of their psychic teammate.

** Also, a cybernetic sphere, named Sphere.

** Garfield Logan owns a pet monkey named Monkey, which Conner [[Lampshade Hanging|refers to as a good name]], before mentioning [[Running Gag|his hatred of monkeys]].

* [[Double Entendre]]: Of the rare non-sexual type, in the second season Lagoon Boy, an Atlantean fish-boy, refers to someone who has just insulted him as 'Chum'.

* [[Double Take]]: Wally's reaction to seeing M'gann using her shape-shifting powers to grow extra limbs in "Schooled". He suffers a brief freak-out.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Karen Beecher [[Chekhov's Gunman|appears as a classmate of Superboy and Miss Martian in several episodes of season one]]; during the Halloween episode she is dressed as Bumblebee, the superhero identity she had in the comics which she did not assume until season two of the series.

* [[Earth Is the Center of the Universe]]: Vandal Savage believes it ''should be'', at least.

* [[Emergency Transformation]]: Unintentional, but in order to save the life of a dying boy, Miss Martian shapeshifts her cells to match his blood type. His eyes are shown to have changed green later on. His name is [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Garfield Logan]].

* [[Enemy Mine]]: The Team works with Bane in order to stop Kobra. {{spoiler|Of course, Bane betrays them.}}

* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: {{spoiler|Kid Flash pulls this on Count Vertigo to get his diplomatic immunity revoked.}}

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]:

** The robot minions in "Schooled," M.O.N.Q.I.s. This began a [[Running Gag]] of Superboy explaining that he ''hates'' monkeys

** Beast Boy likes transforming into monkeys and gorillas, and his default form looks like a human-monkey hybrid.

* [[Everything's Better with Rainbows]]: Lampshaded in "Denial" when Nabu blocks Klarion's attack with a rainbow shield.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: In "Disordered" one of the thugs immediately places himself protectively in front of his mother<ref>except, it's not really her</ref> when he thinks they're under attack.

* [[Evil vs. Evil]]: Bane's forces vs. the Cult of Kobra.

* [[Expressive Mask]]: About half of everyone who wears a mask, though the show makes an effort to keep it more subtle than this trope has been in the past.

* [[Expy]]: Black Spider in episode 6 bears a remarkable similarity to [[Spider-Man]], mostly in the powerset. When he reappears in episode 23 he's even voiced by [[The Spectacular Spider-Man|Josh Keaton]].

* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Red Tornado, having been transferred to his "John Smith" body, gets the skin around his right eye blown off by Black Canary's Canary Cry.}}

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: In Season 2 {{spoiler|we learn Aqualad has joined Black Manta after learning about his parentage and when Tula was killed in an earlier mission}}.

** When talking about race conflicts in class, Megan mentions to Connor that on Mars there is a lot of prejudice and discrimination against the ''very'' alien-looking white minority against the green majority. {{spoiler|It turns out that Megan is really a white martian, who takes the green form to avoid banishment and hatred on Earth.}}

** In season two, reporter G. Gordon Godfrey is trying to encourage this by suggesting that the Justice League may be harboring more aliens than the publicly accepted Martian Manhunter and Superman. It seems to be working.

* [[Fastball Special]]:

** [[Attack Pattern Alpha|Maneuver Seven]], wherein one of the Team cups his or her hands together and throws another member of the Team at the enemy. Bonus points when you go back to "Uncanny X-Men #100", [[Shout-Out|and remember that the tactic was introduced as Maneuver 7 before it became the catchier Fastball Special.]]

** In "Auld Acquaintance", Superboy throws Robin at {{spoiler|mind-controlled Batman}}.

** In "Alienated", Superboy asks Superman for a "triple combo", which starts with Superman throwing him at a [[Spider Tank]]. He jumps off it, hits another one, jumps off that one to take out a third, then lands and punches out a fourth one.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Very much Speedy.

* [[Fighting Game]]: "Revelation" opens with Robin and Aqualad [[Virtual Training Simulation|in a real-life fighting game as a sparring session]]. They are awarded points for combos, dodges and other gaming moves.

* [[From a Certain Point of View]] mixed with [[Lying Creator]]: Before the second season began airing, Greg Weisman stated that it would continue on minutes after the last season finale ended. While this is technically true, it is very misleading, since the scene that does take place right after the first season lasts less than a minute and is followed by a five year [[Time Skip]].

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: Robot monkeys? Why they are '''M'''obile '''O'''ptimal '''N'''eural '''Q'''uotient '''I'''nfiltrators. Ivo even lampshades it when they get destroyed.

* [[Future Slang]]: Impulse has more than a few 'unusual' phrases in his vocabulary, most notable being 'crash' for something good, and 'the mode' for something...not. {{spoiler|Possible [[Foreshadowing]], as he comes from a [[Bad Future|post-apocalyptic future]], and in the present the agents [[Mind Control Device|controlling]] Neutron refer to his [[Mind Control|controlled]] state as "the mode" and, when he overloads, speak of it "crashing the mode..."}}

** "Secrets," where the male characters (and M'gann) are either at a school dance or meeting with members of the Justice League, leaving Zatanna and Artemis to spend the night fighting crime in New York City.

** "Beneath," where Nightwing uses Queen Bee's ability to control men as a justification for Alpha Squad consisting of the all-female Miss Martian, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Wonder Girl and Bio Ship. Batgirl calls Nightwing on the implied sexism-- and the last time Dick explained Bee's powers that way, Batman called him on the heteronormative implications.

* [[Glamour Failure]]: Played with in "Disordered". M'gann suddenly changes into her human appearance during her therapy session, causing her to flip out when Black Canary points out that she just turned "white"; she calms down when she finds BC meant "Caucasian", as opposed to a White Martian.

* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: Using the Helm of Nabu transforms the wearer into Dr. Fate and grants them the power of a Lord of Order, but Nabu is not that keen on letting the one wearing it have their body back.

** {{spoiler|When Aqualad feels that he and the Team cannot defeat the Injustice League, he becomes Dr. Fate. Kent Nelson talks Nabu into backing off.}}

* [[Good Guns, Bad Guns]]: Inverted in the case of oppressive Bialya and progressive Qurac. The former's military uses equipment drawn to resemble [[Real Life]] American military equipment, while the latter's soldiers were shown using Kalashnikov-like guns.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Nabu, a Lord of Order, is one of the world's most powerful protectors and one of the only defenses against the Lords of Chaos, but to affect the world he must inhabit the body of a mortal. If he cannot find a willing host he will ''take'' one, and if he fears that his host cannot be trusted to don the Helm of Nabu after they have been freed, ''he will never let them go''.

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Good Thing You Are Invulnerable]]: Despite all the fighting on the show, the only member of the Team to actually receive lethal blows is Superboy, the only character that is [[Nigh Invulnerable]].

* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: [[Zatanna]], Red Arrow, Rocket, Tempest and Aquagirl (all teen heroes introduced in previous episodes) come together and form a resistance group to help the Team fight off the invading aliens in "Failsafe".

* [[GPS Evidence]]: Time detection instead of location, Kid Flash is able to deduce that they have been in Bialya for at least twenty-four hours since his costume-rations have already been eaten.

* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: Robin, in the traditional bat-style.

** [[Gratuitous Greek]]: In "Downtime", the conversation between Aquaman and Aqualad is spoken in very bad Greek. [[Word of God]] is that it was supposed to be a dialect based on ''ancient'' Greek, which might explain why it sounded jarring to modern Greek speakers.

** [[Gratuitous Spanish]]:

* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: Miss Martian -- well, the PG rated version of one.

* [[Grenade Tag]]: Robin.

** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in season two, where the first episode introduces Wonder Girl and Batgirl, two hand-to-hand combatants that serve as some of the members of the newer Team.

* [[Harmless Freezing]]: At least to Miss Martian, due to her [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]. Being frozen by an ice villain is implied to usually be fatal.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: The Scarab says this word for word when Ty Longshadow's grandfather makes a vague reference to Jaime's "one on the inside". Fortunately, Jaime keeps the Scarab in check.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Chesire.}} Implied, [[Time Skip|offscreen]], and possibly temporary.

* [[He's Just Hiding]]: Wally's in-universe reaction to Artemis and the rest of the Team's deaths in "Failsafe", because he thinks the beams are just transporters.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Dick Grayson (Robin I) and Wally West (Kid Flash) according to [[Word of God]].

* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: Mount Justice is this, by Robin and Kid Flash's admission. See [[Home Base]] below.

'''Kid Flash''': Uh... He means, we're hiding in plain sight. }}

* [[Holding Hands]]:

* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Seems to be Robin's thing.

* [[Holodeck Malfunction]]: {{spoiler|The [[Twist Ending]] of "Failsafe".}}

* [[Home Base]]: The Team uses Mount Justice, which was the former base of the Justice League until it was exposed to the rest of the world. [[Refuge in Audacity|Yes, they let the covert team stay in the hideout everyone knows about.]]

* [[Homosexual Reproduction]]: {{spoiler|Superboy has the DNA of both Superman and Lex Luthor}}.

* [[Hot for Teacher]]: Kid Flash, in true Flash style, starts to flirt with [[Black Canary]] as soon as she appears as the Team's combat trainer. He does this again as a [[Jerkass Facade|defense mechanism]] when she mentions Artemis' "death" in "Disordered".

* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]]: Captain Marvel deals with a giant, mutated plant this way.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Dr. Fate, having possessed both Kid Flash and Aqualad at different points, supports their candidacy when the Justice League is discussing new members. {{spoiler|Then they bring up Zatanna, whom he has also possessed, and he quickly refuses. He is immediately called on still having Zatara's protective instincts.}}

* [[I Gave My Word]]: When {{spoiler|Zatara}} offers himself as an alternate host, Nabu asks what guarantee he has that he won't just put the Helmet of Fate back on a shelf when it's removed. {{spoiler|Zatara}} simply response, "My word." Nabu accepts this, and {{spoiler|Zatara}} is true to his word, putting on the helmet and becoming the new [[Doctor Fate]].

* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: How Artemis took down the Reds in "Homefront".

* [[I Was Just Joking]]: When Wally sarcastically asks which team member has a dramatic revelation to share with the rest of the Team next, he is shocked when M'gann steps forward.

* [[Identity Amnesia]]: When Psimon erases six months worth of memories from the Team's minds in "Bereft," Superboy is left without any memory, since he'd only existed for six months. Hence, he became a wild-eyed, [[Walking Shirtless Scene|shirtless]] Berserker.

* [[Impairment Shot]]:

* [[Implacable Man]]: Red Torpedo and Red Inferno.

* [[In the Blood]]: {{spoiler|Cheshire jokingly says this of Lian Harper when Roy expresses concern that his daughter seems to ''enjoy'' watching them beat the crap out of bunch of mooks.}}

* [[In Medias Res]]: "Earthlings" begins right in the middle of the mission, then jumps back several hours to cover how it began.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Back in a flash!" By, [[The Flash|you guessed it]]. This has not escaped his extended family.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in "Secrets", where the [[Monster of the Week|Villain-of-the-Week, Harm,]] {{spoiler|is revealed to have murdered his younger sister in order to gain the purity needed to wield an [[Infinity+1 Sword]].}}

* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]:

** In the pilot.

'''Kid Flash''': Sweet! }}

** In "Humanity":

'''Zatara''': She's grounded for life! }}

* [[Irony]]: {{spoiler|Red Arrow, the most adamant on finding the mole, was revealed to the be mole all along. Though, unwillingly}}.

** "Failsafe" opened with the defeat of the entire Justice League and steadily went downhill. {{spoiler|[[Unwinnable Training Simulation|Which was the entire point]].}}

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Kid Flash and Robin {{spoiler|share a wordless sentiment right before charging into their "final battle." It's likely that such a message was conveyed between the two best friends.}}

** When Superboy first awakes in Cadmus, they make a point of referring to him as "it" and "the weapon."

** Harm calls Artemis and Zatanna "its."

** Batman defeated Clayface in his first appearance with electric batarangs; when Robin tried it again in Clayface's second appearance, Clayface explained that that trick did not work anymore. {{spoiler|It is a good thing the Team knew that and were only using the batarangs as a distraction}}.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Speedy.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Subverted by Vandal Savage in the first season finale. He goes on a [[Motive Rant]] to Black Canary, Red Tornado, and Red Arrow, but he never actually gives any specific details about his plans.

* [[Kid Hero]]: The creators have promised that there will be some deconstruction of this trope on the show, especially in regards to Robin.

** In "Terrors", during a therapy session at Belle Reve, Superboy snaps at Miss Martian that they "don't live in a fantasy world where all problems are solved in half an hour." In "Image", M'gann explains how she envies Megan from 'Hello Megan!', including the fact that all of her problems can be solved in twenty-two minutes.

** In "Failsafe", before the Team heads off against the alien invaders.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]:

** Kid Flash is guilty of this in the pilot. And also in "Drop Zone", where he shoots the Team's "stealth" orders to hell by rushing headlong into a crossfire between Bane and Kobra cultists.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Kid Flash likes Miss Martian and [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|"hates"]] Artemis. Miss Martian likes Superboy and recommends to Artemis that she should ask Kid Flash out, but Artemis also likes Superboy. Superboy eventually returns M'gann's affections and they begin dating, but Wally and Artemis are still pouting themselves. It eventually all settles itself out at the end of season one.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]:

** The half-Kryptonian, half-human Superboy was created at the behest of, and obtained half his DNA from, his human "father" {{spoiler|Lex Luthor.}}

* [[Luminescent Blush]]: Miss Martian.

* [[Manchurian Agent]]: {{spoiler|Red Arrow, a deep-cover operative planted three years before the show began, responding to phrases by his handler, Sportsmaster.}}.

* [[Meat Moss]]: The lower levels of the Cadmus lab has this look. It actually serves a function however, used to incubate their bio-weapons.

* [[The Mentor]]:

** All of the kids have individual mentors in the heroes they are sidekicking to (Robin gets Batman, Kid Flash gets Flash, etc.). The Team as a whole has three mentors: Red Tornado, Black Canary and Batman.

* [[Mistaken Identity]]: In "Homefront", Artemis hears Red Tornado call out her and Robin's code names and assumes he has come to save them from the bad guys. It turns out to be Red Torpedo, who has the exact same voice as Red Tornado.

* [[Mobile Suit Human]]: The Kroloteans are [[Kill and Replace|kidnapping people and replacing them with Krolotean-piloted suits]], which starts the season two plot of their invasion of Earth.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Impulse.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Superboy has a number of shirtless scenes, and together with Aqualad, has the most muscled physique. Works in-universe for Miss Martian.

'''Miss Martian''': (Blushing) Works for me. }}

* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: In "Misplaced", Zatanna tries to use a spell against Klarion, only for it to fizzle pointlessly against his shield. He dismisses her attempt as "baby magic", then uses her type of spellcasting to send her flying.

** Kid Flash's stealth costume has the same colors as the Black Flash's (the [[Grim Reaper]] in Flash form).

** In the very first episode, the "for show" base of the Justice League that the sidekicks are brought to (as opposed to their real, space-based headquarters) is the [[Superfriends|Hall of Justice]].

** In "Denial", Kent Nelson meets a scam artist named Madame Xanadu, who cons tourists with phony predictions. After mocking Xanadu and calling her a fraud, Kent remarks that despite being a faker, she does indeed have "the right aura for the job". In the comics books, [[Madame Xanadu]] is a long-lived and renowned psychic.

** In "Downtime", Garth (the original Aqualad of the comics) chants, "I summon the power of the tempest!" while conjuring up a cyclone of magical water. Tempest is the [[Code Name]] Garth would later take up in the comics.

** "Targets" features [[Superfriends|Marvin and Wendy]] as students at Happy Harbor High and [[Tagalong Kid|an adult Snapper Carr]] as a teacher.

** In "Alpha Male" Captain Marvel makes friends with a wild tiger who was under the Brain's control. CM names the Tiger "Mr. Tawny". Mr. Tawny was a talking tiger who walked upright and wore a suit in the Captain Marvel comics.

** In "Alpha Male" Wally suggests "How's about [[Krypto the Superdog|Krypto]]?" as a name for the white wolf that had taken a liking to Superboy. M'gann says it's taken.

** Jaime Reyes mentions that Captain Atom was the one who told him about Ted Kord, the previous Blue Beetle. In the comics, Captain Atom and Ted were both [[Charlton Comics]] characters, and the latter even debuted in a back-up feature in Captain Atom's series.

** Jaime's Native American friend Tye Longshadow looks like a teenage version of [[Captain Ethnic|Apache Chief]] from ''[[Superfriends]]'', and he comes from a long line of [[wikipedia:Mescalero|Mescalero Apache]] chiefs. His last name is an allusion to Long Shadow from ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]] Unlimited'', who was himself an [[Expy]] of Apache Chief.

* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Miss Martian.

* [[Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy]]: The Light seems to have connections or acts as the [[The Man Behind the Man|mastermind]] with nearly every villain that the heroes have faced so far.

* [[Nephewism]]: M'gann is introduced as niece to Martian Manhunter.

* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: When the Flash and Zatarra rescue Iris West-Allen from an alien invasion in "Failsafe," the first thing Iris does, after thanking the heroes, is ask Denny, her camerman, if he is okay. She is visibly relieved, and smiles, when he gives a thumbs-up.

* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]:

** Averted, as the characters explicitly point out that the biology of different alien species renders them immune to threats that would endanger the others. {{spoiler|That is why the Light uses magically enhanced biotechnology to get around the problem.}}

* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: Averted. Zatanna explicitly mentions that magic can only happen when there is energy to fuel it, usually given by the spellcaster.

* [[No MacGuffin, No Winner]]: When it becomes clear to Black Manta that he won't be able to steal Starro's frozen body, he angrily declares that no one will have it and blows it up. This turned out to be the contingency plan if he couldn't steal it.

* [[No Social Skills]]:

** Superboy, as a clone grown in a controlled laboratory environment, is hostile and unaware of how to work with a team of equals.

** M'gann, [[Aliens Steal Cable|who learned about Earth by watching TV]], is ignorant of a lot of common social mores, and struggles to learn what is appropriate with regards to telepathy and privacy.

* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: The result of the [[Time Skip]].

* [[Not Quite Saved Enough]]: {{spoiler|Impulse's [[Bad Future]]}} in "Bloodlines".

* [[One Steve Limit]]:

** Averted due to Martian Manhunter's fondness for the name John. He took the name John and came up with Red Tornado's name of John Smith. With Giovanni Zatara, who sometimes Anglicizes his name as "John," and Green Lantern John Stewart, that is four Justice League members named John. Martian Manhunter suggests that Superboy should also be named John, but that idea is turned down.

** Played with in "Disordered". When introducing themselves one of the Forever People says his name doesn't translate to anything on Earth so he goes with "Wolf"... except Superboy has a wolf named Wolf with him, so he goes with "Bear" instead.

* [[Only Fatal to Adults]]: "Misplaced" opens with Klarion and other immortal sorcerers casting a spell that causes everybody on the planet over the age of eighteen to disappear, leaving only the Team and Billy Batson (who cannot become Captain Marvel for fear of likewise being removed) to determine the cause. {{spoiler|Halfway through the episode it is revealed that, to the adults, it looks like the ''kids'' are missing: Klarion and the other sorcerers split Earth into two separate dimensions, one with the adults and one with the children. Captain Marvel's transformation allows him to switch between worlds thanks to the age change}}.

* [[Panty Shot]]: In episode 10, Cheshire's dress is [http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm302/suss2it/3e0daa79.png evidently] not magic.

* [[Le Parkour]]: Kid Flash, in sort of a stumbly, not-always-exactly-as-intended way. Robin, on the other hand, is the stylish one.

* [[Playful Hacker]]: Robin.

* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: A variation. When the Team finds out about Red Tornado's "civilian identity" android, Zatanna magically transforms the sheet that was covering it into pants, which she felt it needed.

* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: Superboy, who's only 16 weeks old at the start of the series, but had already been aged to an adolescent by Cadmus so they could "weaponize" him.

* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Secret]], since the last thing she saw before {{spoiler|her brother killed her was a neon sign that said "Secret."}}

* [[Popularity Food Chain]]: Lampshaded by Icicle, Jr. in the [[Prison Episode]]: there are strict groups and everyone better know his place.

* [[Power Glows]]:

* [[Psychic Link]]: Miss Martian often connects the Team telepathically while on missions, letting them communicate covertly over distances. Eventually, the group begins using this method of communication even outside of battle when they want to have private conversations.

* [[Psychic Static]]: Bane recites football scores in Spanish to defeat Miss Martian's attempts to read his mind.

** Superboy in the pilot movie: "I... Choose... Freedom!"

** Miss Martian: "Get! Out! Of my! Head!" in "Bereft."

** In the original comics, both Artemis Crock and her mother Paula are white. In the TV series, Paula is portrayed as an Asian, while Artemis is biracial.

** Like in ''[[Smallville]]'', the Martian Manhunter's "John Jones" identity is African-American.

* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: Superboy does this against Mammoth in "Usual Suspects".

* [[Real Name as an Alias]]:

** Artemis, whose real name is Artemis Crock.

** The Guardian is this in the pilot when he is not being [[brainwashed]].

** Batman as a mentor of the Team.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: The Team, particularly Kid Flash, initially considered Artemis as this for Speedy/Red Arrow in-universe.

* [[La Résistance]]: {{spoiler|1=Dubbilex the DNAlien and an undisclosed number of the other Genomorphs were well aware that Project Cadmus was using them for purposes they felt were wrong, such as brainwashing the Guardian and Superboy, so they had been surreptitiously trying to get the Justice League's attention and aiding the young heroes all along.}}

* [[Retool]]: The second season was titled ''Young Justice: Invasion'' and opened with a five year [[Time Skip]] from the end of the first season. Quite a few members of the old group have joined the Justice League or moved on, many new teenage heroes have joined the Team, and some characters have [[Sidekick Graduations Stick|changed identities]].

* [[Robotic Reveal]]: In the third episode, Mister Twister is revealed to be piloted by Bromwell Stikk. Except that Bromwell Stikk is a robot controlled by the real one. Later on, T.O. Morrow turns out to be a robot, too. {{spoiler|The flesh-and-blood Morrow is a sickly old man on his deathbed.}}

* [[Rule of Three]]:

** In episode 5, Miss Martian grows extra arms to fight off Ivo's robot M.O.N.Q.I.s. This scares the truck driver, Kid Flash, and then herself upon seeing Kid's reaction.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** Robin's obsession with prefixes and his tendency to create back-formations by removing them.

** Superboy's hatred of monkeys.

** People pointing out how Speedy's code name makes no sense.

** Shimmer being easily dispatched before being able to join in the action.

** Beast Boy saying "noted" whenever someone tells him something he didn't know.

* [[Save the Villain]]: {{spoiler|Superman tries this with the Kroleteans about to be destroyed by a bomb hidden in their volcano base. They don't believe him and keep attacking, so he fails.}}

* [[Schedule Slip]]: In the US, Cartoon Network took ''over a year'' (January 2011 - April 2012) to air the 26 episodes of the first season (not counting a two-episode preview in late 2010). [[Short Run in Peru|Other countries even finished airing them]] months before the US did.

** Doctor Fate is called "[[Doctor Strange|Earth's Sorcerer Supreme]]."

** Psimon: "Simon says: ''forget''!"

** Wally: [[Planet of the Apes|"Get your hands off her you]] [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|darn]] [[Planet of the Apes|dirty ape!"]]

** Judging from Wally's Halloween costume, he is a fan of ''[[Teen Wolf (film)|Teen Wolf]]''.

** [[Green Arrow]] and Artemis use a [[Doctor Who|blue police box as their Justice League teleporter.]]

** The villain Black Spider was retooled to resemble [[Spider-Man]], and is voiced by Josh Keaton who played Spider-Man in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' cartoon, which was also created by Greg Weisman.

** In "Earthlings", Adam Strange quotes Lewis Carroll in order to get some Rannian policemen to chase him, specifically [[Jabberwocky]] and [[Alice in Wonderland]]. Later Alanna, who obviously has never heard this tale and does not speak English, tries to do this to Kroleteans:

** Bumblebee's line after discovering the ancient ruins in "Beneath":

* [[Show Within a Show]]:

** Evidently there is a ''[[Saved by the Bell]]''-esque show called "Hello Megan" that M'gann got her catchphrase from. It's mentioned briefly at Artemis's home in Episode 8 and appears in one of M'gann's flashbacks in Episode 9. Has its [[Hello Megan (Darth Wiki)|own fabricated page now]]. Clips, including the opening sequence, are seen in "Image."

** In the 4th Episode "Drop Zone" when Kid Flash and Robin are discussing chemical formulas, models of them appear on screen. They are the general representations of a steroid and a DNA purine.

** The maps and locations given in the show are accurate to North East geography. Though why Batman thought Patterson, New York (population 11,306), was important enough to include on the map is a mystery.

* [[Sidekick]]: It is not quite a [[Berserk Button]], but Speedy in particular and the others do not really like being referred to as such.

* [[Sidekick Graduations Stick]]: As of the beginning of season two, Dick Grayson has become Nightwing while Zatanna and Rocket have officially joined the Justice League alongside their former mentors.

** The Forever People have Dreamer.

** Intergang has Whisper.

* [[So Proud of You]]: In "Performance," Robin and other members of the Team go undercover at Haly's Circus, where Dick Grayson performed with his parents as the Flying Graysons Trapeze Artists before his parents were murdered and he went to live with Bruce Wayne. Despite identifying himself as "Dan Danger," Jack Haly recognizes and calls him Dick, commeting that he has grown, but that there is simply no way to disguise a Grayson on the trapeze, and asks him for one final performance.

* [[Something Only They Would Say]]:

** Billy Batson convinces Kid Flash that he's Captain Marvel by recalling Kid Flash's request for nachos after he had broken his arm.

* [[Speak of the Devil]]:

** In "Secrets":

'''Harm:''' Indeed, [[Third Person Person|Harm]] is not done... }}

** When the Forever People are explaining who Desaad works for to Superboy, the refuse to speak [[Darkseid]]'s name. Amusingly, Dreamer's projection of Desaad is the one that says "unspeakable", as if it has a mind of its own for that particular moment.

** Black Manta proves [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] when he notices that {{spoiler|Aqualad forgot to conceal his water-bearers when he and Garth stole the uniforms of two of his men.}}

** When {{spoiler|the Justice League was mind-controlled by Vandal Savage}}, one of the things that alerted the Team was {{spoiler|Batman}} [[Something They Would Never Say|calling them "kids".]]

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Zatanna is the only member of the Team who never does hand-to-hand combat.

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]:

** Robin appears to have inherited Batman's tendency for this, and the other members of the Team find it extremely frustrating.

** In "Downtime", Aqualad demonstrates to Garth that he seems to have picked up on this trait from Robin.

** Villains in general are very good at disappearing quickly when visibility is impaired.

** In "Beneath", Wonder Girl, Batgirl, Bumblebee and Miss Martian are hanging out on a dune. Wonder Girl looks away for a second, and when she looks back, all three are gone.

** In that same episode, Batgirl does this to Bumblebee.

* [[Stock Scream]]: Not even ''Young Justice'' is safe from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PxALy22utc Wilhelm!] For the curious, it occurs in "Drop Zone", when Superboy tosses Mammoth into the Kobra thugs.

* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: In "Humanity", Zatanna shares Robin's [[Running Gag]] tendency for backformations.

'''Zatanna:''' "Why? Be as chalant as you like." }}

* [[Suicide Mission]]: {{spoiler|"Failsafe" ends with an invasion of the alien mothership that Superboy, at least, knows is going to be a one-way trip. Robin and Kid Flash, though they had ''hoped'' to survive, were trapped within the ship and caught in the explosion}}.

* [[Sure, Let's Go with That]]: When Superboy needs a civilian last name, Martian Manhunter suggests Kent. Not being privy to Superman's secret identity, Miss Martian and Superboy assume that he's referring to the late Kent Nelson, who they've met.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Artemis in "Alpha Male"

* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]:

** Conner empathizes with Icicle, Jr. over living in their respective fathers' shadows.

** At the end of "Humanity", Red Tornado decides to care for {{spoiler|the real T.O. Morrow, now a bedridden old man on life support. Despite Morrow's past sins, Tornado still considers him his father/creator.}}

* [[Take Me Instead!]]: In "Misplaced", {{spoiler|Zatara gives himself to Dr. Fate in order to save his daughter.}}

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Tula for Garth. She gets better.

* [[Team Pet]]:

** The robo-sphere the Team found in Bialya, which "lives" with the group in their headquarters.

** The giant wolf found in India, which goes with the Team on missions.

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: Cheshire and Sportsmaster, who very plainly hate one another.

* [[Tele Frag]]: Superboy defeats Amazo by punching through his intangible head right before it turns solid again, causing Amazo's head to explode.

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]:

** A non-sexual one in "Homefront" when Robin and Artemis are watching the footage of the security cameras of their friends being ambushed and the four cameras are wiped out.

'''Robin''': ''(hurriedly)'' "The cameras! I meant the cameras." }}

** Played straight in "Humanity" in this conversation between Robin and Zatanna with a good helping of [[Ship Tease]].

'''Zatanna''': I don't mind. }}

* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Superboy in "Schooled." Using those exact words.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: It seems Artemis and Miss Martian are fitting this dynamic.

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Red Arrow was the most gung-ho about finding the mole, only to find out that he was unknowningly the mole the entire time. Even worse, he is actually a clone of the original Roy Harper, who was kidnapped by the Light three years prior.}}

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The commercial still during the debut spoiled that Miss Martian and Artemis would join the Team.

* [[Tracking Device]]: Amazo has these built in. So do Red Arrow's arrow heads.

* [[Translator Microbes]]:

* [[Truncated Theme Tune]]: ''Young Justice'' returned from its last hiatus with the theme song reduced to a five second bit of the tune and its title card, rather than the 20 second one that introduced all characters. This was at least partly to make room for the ''DC Nation'' shorts that appear before/during/after the show. Foreign broadcasts keep the extended theme song.

* [[Truth-Telling Session]]: "Usual Suspects". {{spoiler|It's set up to look like Connor, M'Gann and Artemis are ALL selling the Team out for different reasons... and then a three-stage flashback shows them opening up about their issues one-by-one.}}

'''Wally:''' I swear I was kidding! }}

* [[Turn Out Like His Father|Turn Out Like His Mentor]]: Batman explicitly states that the reason he indoctrinated Robin into crimefighting at age nine was ''not'' to create a successor, but to help Robin bring his parents' killers to justice so that he could deal with his past and not turn into a jaded, bitter fanatic like Batman. He succeeded.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]:

** Superboy wants to learn from Superman, but Supes distanced himself from the kid until the New Year's episode.

'''Clark Kent''': (''angrily'') I am not his father! }}

** Robin shows some signs of this as well, being visibly jealous when Batman asks to speak to "Just Aqualad" after a failed training mission. Fortunately, Batman is fairly [[Genre Savvy]], and as soon as he notices Robin's hurt feelings he invites him outside for a father-son basketball game. He refers to it as "training" but his real intentions are obvious.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: In "Usual Suspects", {{spoiler|it turns out that Red Arrow is [[The Mole]] via mind control, and he has not only allowed The Light access to the Watchtower, but has also infected the entire Justice League with mind-controlling nanotechnology.}}

* [[Wham! Line]]: The [[Title In]] from "Happy New Year"

* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: When the Team kisses one another at midnight on New Years Eve, Red Tornado comments that "human customs still elude me."

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: {{spoiler|Miss Martian}} fears what will happen when her true appearance is discovered, as her natural form is huge and monstrous. [[Subverted Trope|The Team points out that they are not so shallow as to judge her by her appearance]].

** Superboy was a living weapon created by Project Cadmus to destroy Superman. {{spoiler|Also, his human "father" is Lex Luthor, and his "brother" Match is a clinically insane monster.}}

** {{spoiler|Artemis' father and sister are League of Assassins members Sportsmaster and Cheshire respectively.}}

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: The main plot of "Coldhearted" is taken directly from the comic book "The Flash Vol. 2 #1", the issue where Wally became The Flash for the first time after his career as Kid Flash.

* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: When Desaad uses the Father Box to reprogram Infinity Man and make him attack Superboy, a mook asks why Infinity Man (obviously the superior combatant) doesn't just kill Superboy outright. Desaad explains that he is not one to end things so quickly, and the Father Box is designed to emulate his mindset.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]:

** A liberal use in the pilot though not quite enough for a [[Hurricane of Puns]]...yet.

'''Robin:''' [upon running out of zipline] ... I'm at the end of my rope. }}

** "Psimon says forget!"

** In episode 18, "Secrets", [[Monster of the Week|Harm]] is revealed to have {{spoiler|murdered his younger sister}} to obtain power and [[Pure Is Not Good|purity of heart.]]

** In "Coldhearted", Count Vertigo {{spoiler|plots to kill his own ten year old niece to take control of his country, as his niece is currently Queen, by withholding a heart transplant from her.}} Fortunately, {{spoiler|Kid Flash stops his plot and Vertigo ends up humiliated in Belle Reve.}}

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Even after almost every defeat of their operatives, "The Light" manages some sort of victory and one step closer towards their endgame. This show is run by the man who '''created''' David Xanatos, after all.

* [[X-Ray Sparks]]: The alien weapons in "Failsafe" cause anyone hit by them to light up, revealing their skeleton before disintegrating the victim.

 

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