List of Justice League episodes
Justice League
Justice League is an American animated series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network. Since April 2006 it is being shown on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang. It is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. There were a total of 52 episodes, along with multiple episodes of Static Shock in which the League appeared. Each episode was half an hour long including commercials.
Season 1: 2001-2002
Image | Title | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Original Airdate(s) | # |
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File:JLSecretOrigins.jpg | Secret Origins | Dan Riba and Butch Lukic | Rich Fogel | November 17, 2001 | 1, 2 & 3 |
As alien invaders begin to take over the Earth, Batman and Superman rescue J'onn J'onnz who telepathically recruits Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl, the Flash, and Green Lantern to defeat the invasion. The group decides to form a permanent team, the Justice League.
Astronauts on Mars uncover relics of an alien race. Years later, Batman uncovers a plot to cripple Earth's space monitoring systems. He is joined by Superman who begins to experience strange mental phenomena. This is eventually revealed to be caused by the captive, J'onn J'onzz (also known as Martian Manhunter). Meanwhile, Earth comes under attack from aliens who land and begin converting Earth into a habitat more suitable to their physiology. J'onn explains that these same creatures devastated Mars and that they were defeated at the cost of his species, he being the last of his kind. The human astronauts had been killed and replaced by these aliens. Superman, Batman and The Martian Manhunter, are joined by fellow superheroes Green Lantern (John Stewart), Hawkgirl, The Flash and new-comer Wonder Woman (we have previously seen Wonder Woman defying her mother's wishes and leaving her homeland to join the fight). Eventually, Batman realises that the changes being made to Earth's environment primarily involve blotting out the sun, and uses this to defeat the Aliens. The title of these episodes come from DC Comics's series of comic books that explain the origins of various heroes. | |||||
File:Inblackestnight new.jpg | In Blackest Night | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | November 19, 2001 (Part 1) November 26, 2001 (Part 2) | 4 & 5 |
Robotic Manhunters arrive on Earth, intent on capturing the Green Lantern. The Justice League try to defend their colleague - none but Superman can match the power of the Manhunters. Then, John shocks the team by stopping the fight and agreeing to be captured by the Manhunters. He is taken to a planet where he is put on trial for the destruction of a neighboring world. John pleads guilty to the charges; the rest of the League are confused as to how he could have done such a thing. It is explained, by an alien witness, that the Green Lantern was pursuing him, to try to bring him to justice. The alien's ship's shields deflected one of Green Lantern's force beams into a faultline on a planet, causing a catastophic reaction that destroyed the entire world - leaving nothing more than an asteroid field. Investigating further, the Justice League uncover a plot by the Manhunters to steal the energy of the Lantern Core, the power source of all Green Lanterns. They also discover that the lead Manhunter had falsified the destruction of the planet in order to implicate John Stewart. The lead Manhunter succeeds in taking the Lantern Core's energy, but John is able to defeat him by channelling the same raw energy through his ring, destroying the Manhunters. | |||||
File:AquamanJL.jpg | The Enemy Below | Dan Riba | Kevin Hopps | December 3, 2001 (Part 1) December 10, 2001 (Part 2) | 6 & 7 |
A nuclear submarine is attacked in the Atlantic, forcing the League to come face-to-face with Aquaman and his Atlantean army. After agreeing to have the crew rescued, but leaving the sub with all of its weapons on the bottom of the ocean, Aquaman goes to Metropolis to take his problems up with the various governments of the world. Unfortunately the meeting does not go well for the king of the seas, and as he leaves discouraged, he is attacked and must be rushed to the hospital. When the mercenary Deadshot tries to attack Aquaman again, the League steps in, and Aquaman discovers that Lord Orm, his own brother, was behind the attack. He tries to stop Orm from starting an all-out war with the surface world, but he is taken prisoner when his own officers stage a coup. Orm takes Aquaman and his infant son and place them on a cliff over a vein of molten lava and leaves them to die. In order to save his son, Aquaman must make a terrible sacrifice. | |||||
File:Paradiselost.jpg | Paradise Lost | Dan Riba | Joseph Kuhr | January 21, 2002 (Part 1)
January 28, 2002 (Part 2) |
8 & 9 |
Sorcerer Felix Faust blackmails Wonder Woman into gathering artifacts for him. He uses the artifacts to release Hades from Tartarus. The League succeeds in banishing Hades and his minions, but the victory is bittersweet as Diana is exiled from Paradise Island for summoning the males of the Justice League. | |||||
File:MongulWarWorld.jpg | War World | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | February 23, 2002 (Part 1)
March 3, 2002 (Part 2) |
10 & 11 |
Superman and Martian Manhunter are abducted by extraterrestrial slavers and sold to a planet of the despotic ruler Mongul where the population spends its time watching aliens kill each other in an enormous coliseum. Green Lantern and Hawkgirl set out to rescue them. | |||||
File:Cartoon grodd.jpg | The Brave and the Bold | Dan Riba | - | March 10, 2002 (Part 1)
March 17, 2002 (Part 2) |
12 & 13 |
Green Lantern and the Flash uncover a plot by Grodd, an intelligent talking gorilla, to destroy Gorilla City, a hidden city of hyperintelligent talking gorillas in Africa. Grodd has the power to control the minds of others with his device and the assistance of his lover, Dr. Sarah Corwin. Grodd mind control's The Flash into stealing radioactive isotopes. While under Grodd's control, Flash suffers hallucinations, only to wake up remembering nothing that happened. The only protection our heroes have against Grodd's mind control is a special headband, given to Flash and Green Lantern by Solovar, Gorilla City's chief of security. | |||||
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Fury | Butch Lukic | - | April 7, 2002 (Part 1)
April 14, 2002 (Part 2) |
14 & 15 |
A rogue Amazon (born in the mortal world, raised in Themyscira) sets out to kill all men in the world as punishment for the men who killed her family in a war. | |||||
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Legends | Dan Riba | Andrew Kreisberg | April 21, 2002 (Part 1)
April 28, 2002 (Part 2) |
16 & 17 |
The Justice League are accidentally transported to a parallel world that is the home of the Justice Guild of America, who are comic book characters in the Justice League's world. | |||||
File:Ww vs c.jpg | Injustice For All | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | September 6, 2002 (Part 1)
September 13, 2002 (Part 2) |
18 & 19 |
Exposed as a criminal, sentenced to prison and terminally ill due to long term kryptonite exposure, Lex Luthor escapes and assembles a supervillain team consisting of The Joker, Cheetah, The Shade, Solomon Grundy, Star Sapphire, Copperhead, and Ultra-Humanite to take on the Justice League. | |||||
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A Knight of Shadows | Butch Lukic | Keith Damron | September 20, 2002 (Part 1)
September 27, 2002 (Part 2) |
20 & 21 |
The Demon, also known as Etrigan, seeks the assistance of the Justice League in preventing the Philosopher's stone from falling into the hands of his ancient enemy, the sorceress Morgan le Fay. | |||||
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Metamorphosis | Dan Riba | - | October 4, 2002 | 22 & 23 |
Green Lantern's old friend Rex Mason, now working for a shady industrialist, suffers an "accident" arranged by his jealous employer, and becomes the superhero Metamorpho. | |||||
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The Savage Time | Butch Lukic and Dan Riba | Stan Berkowitz | November 9, 2002 | 24, 25 & 26 |
The Justice League return from a mission in space to find the world altered - a result of supervillain Vandal Savage feeding information to his younger self in the 1940s, allowing him to have taken over the world during World War II. The Justice League travel back in time themselves to stop him, with the assistance of DC Comics' WWII-era heroes (including Easy Company, the Blackhawks, and Steve Trevor). |
Season 2: 2003-2004
Image | Title | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | # |
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File:Kalibak.jpg | Twilight | Dan Riba | Rich Fogel and Bruce Timm | July 5, 2003 | 27, 28 |
The League is tricked into defending Apokolips, Darkseid's homeworld against the threat of Brainiac. The team meets the New Gods (including Orion, Lightray and Highfather), who are at war with Darkseid, and learn about the treaty between Darkseid and Brainiac. Desaad is killed by Darkseid's Omega Beams in a moment of rage. | |||||
File:AmazoCartoon.jpg | Tabula Rasa | Dan Riba | Stan Berkowitz | October 4, 2003 | 29, 30 |
Lex Luthor manipulates a powerful android named Amazo with the ability to copy and collect any superpower, posing as a father figure to it. Meanwhile, J'onn questions the nature of humans, and struggles with the burden of hearing thousands of their minds in his head at the same time. | |||||
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Only a Dream | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz | October 11, 2003 | 31, 32 |
Small time crook John Dee volunteers for an experimental treatment. Overdosing, he becomes the dream-controlling Doctor Destiny. Destiny takes telepathic control of the team in their sleep, with the exception of Batman and J'onn. | |||||
File:Voxkasnia2.jpg | Maid of Honor | Dan Riba | Dwayne McDuffie | October 18, 2003 | 33, 34 |
Wonder Woman befriends the princess of Kasnia, a jet-setting party girl who is reluctant to end her wild ways in order to get married. Unfortunately her fiancé is the immortal Vandal Savage, and he already has plans for both the throne and the Justice League. It is up to Wonder Woman and Batman to stop them. | |||||
File:HeartsAndMinds.jpg | Hearts and Minds | Butch Lukic | Keith Damron | October 25, 2003 | 35, 36 |
Green Lantern must rescue his fellow Lanterns from the alien minions of Despero. Kilowog, who has just barely managed to escape to the League's headquarters, tells of the plight facing his fellow Lanterns. Sadly for Green Lantern, his former mentor and lover, Katma Tui, has joined the forces of Despero. | |||||
File:Justice Lords.jpg | A Better World | Dan Riba | Stan Berkowitz | November 1, 2003 | 37, 38 |
After the death of the Flash, the Lords launch an assault on the White House, where Superman kills President Lex Luthor. Two years later, the Justice Lords now rule over the planet with a firm iron fist. Bored with their position, the Justice Lords discover that there is an alternate dimension where their counterparts are still good, and the Flash is still alive. They cross over, trapping the League in a force field, and then take their places in a quest to make this Earth like theirs. The idea of evil counterparts from an alternate realm is loosely based on the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3 (Pre-Crisis)/Anti-Matter Universe (Post-Crisis). | |||||
File:TerrorBeyond.jpg | The Terror Beyond | Butch Lukic | Dwayne McDuffie | November 15, 2003 | 39, 40 |
Dr. Fate and Aquaman release Solomon Grundy, intent on using him to help battle an ancient evil. The pairing of these heroes is a homage to the Marvel Comics superhero team The Defenders and the plot is based upon H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. | |||||
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Eclipsed | Dan Riba | Joseph Kuhr | November 8, 2003 | 41, 42 |
An ancient lunar crystal called The Black Heart is discovered. Little do the members of the Justice League know, it harbors an evil alien spirit with the ability to possess its bearer. The Alien's power contaminates almost all of the League, except for The Flash, who manages to prove his mettle and save his friends from the Solar Eclipse which will destroy both the Sun and the Earth. | |||||
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Hereafter | Butch Lukic | Dwayne McDuffie | November 29, 2003 | 43, 44 |
A band of supervillains (all previously seen on Superman: The Animated Series) team up to get revenge on Superman. When they attack Metropolis, Toyman succeeds in hitting Superman with an experimental weapon that seemingly vaporises him. The League attempts to cope with Superman's loss by defending Metropolis as best they can. Eventually, Lobo shows up to replace Superman against the wishes of the rest of the League. In their final battle with the "Superman Revenge Squad", Lobo drives home what a loss Superman was. In part 2, Superman wakes up on a strange planet. He spends years traveling across the surface, the red sun having drained him of his powers. He finally encounters the immortal villain Vandal Savage who reveals that this planet is Earth, but in the far future. Savage explains that one of his attempts at world domination accidentally caused Humanity to become extinct. He now lives alone with an immense feeling of guilt. He and Superman plan to repair a time machine Savage had built in an attempt to undo his earlier actions, but first they must steal back a power source (an artificial yellow sun) from a new species of insect that has appeared on Earth. They succeed and the show ends with Superman returning to the League and leading them to thwart Savage's plan that will destroy humanity. | |||||
File:Giganta jl.jpg | Secret Society | Dan Riba | Stan Berkowitz | November 22, 2003 | 45, 46 |
While the Justice League are quarreling, Grodd organizes a Secret Society comprised of Parasite, Giganta, Sinestro, The Shade, Clayface, and Killer Frost. Green Lantern is the only League member willing to put his differences aside and fight the bad guys. | |||||
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Comfort and Joy | Butch Lukic | Paul Dini | December 13, 2003 | 47 |
After saving two worlds, the members of the Justice League decide to take a break to celebrate the holidays. Flash spends his Christmas Eve with the children of an orphanage, who ask that he find them a special animated toy duck. Unfortunately, the toy is so popular it cannot be found in any store. He manages to find the last one, only to come face-to-face with the Ultra-Humanite. Green Lantern and Hawkgirl show each other how they spend the holidays. Lantern engages in a snowball fight with Hawkgirl. Hawkgirl reciprocates by showing Lantern how she spends the holidays... in an interplanetary barroom brawl. Meanwhile, Superman invites J'onn over to Smallville for Christmas Eve with his adopted parents, and although he is welcomed by the Kents, J'onn still feels like a stranger. | |||||
File:Justice league harley quinn.jpg | Wild Cards | Butch Lukic | Stan Berkowitz and Dwayne McDuffie | December 6, 2003 | 48, 49 |
Taking over a TV station in Las Vegas, the Joker announces that he has placed a series of bombs that will destroy the Vegas Strip in thirty minutes if they are not stopped by the Justice League. But with the whole world watching Joker's version of reality television, the League must first get past the Joker's own super-team, the Royal Flush Gang. However, the threat imposed by the Joker is not as simple as it seems, and Batman must track down his HQ to stop his nemessis. | |||||
File:Hawkgirl301.jpg | Starcrossed | Butch Lukic(Pts.1 & 3) and Dan Riba (Pt.2) | - | May 29, 2004 | 50, 51, 52 |
After Earth is attacked by a Gordanian battleship, the Justice League are aided by an army of hawkmen from Hawkgirl's home planet of Thanagar. They discover that Hawkgirl has been providing her people with details about Earth... and about the League. Not only that, but Green Lantern discovers that Hawkgirl, whom he has gotten romantically involved with, is engaged to Hro Talak, the leader of the Thanagarian army. The Thanagarians offer to help Earth defend against the Gordanians, but Batman discovers that this is just a ruse. The Thanagarians have a much more sinister plan for Earth. Meanwhile, Shayera Hol finds herself torn between her allegiance to Thanagar and love for Hro Talak and her love for Earth and for John Stewart. Whom will she betray? |
Static Shock Crossovers
Image | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | # |
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File:ALEAGUEOFTHEIROWN STATICSHOCK.jpg | A League of Their Own | - | - | - | 34-35 |
When the Watchtower has a sudden power drain, the Justice League are forced to recruit Static Shock to "jump start" their station before it reenters the atmosphere. Unbeknownst to either Static or Gear, the power drain also releases Brainiac from his confinement. | |||||
File:Fallenhero STATICSHOCK.jpg | Fallen Hero | - | - | - | 44 |
Static faces off against his idol, Green Lantern, when he causes chaos all over town.. |
Justice League Unlimited
Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) is an animated television series produced by and aired on Cartoon Network, which ran from 2004 to May of 2006. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series. Template:Spoiler
Season 1: 2004-2005
Image | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | # |
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File:Glove arrow.JPG | Initiation | - | - | July 31st, 2004 | 1 |
A reluctant Green Arrow joins the new Justice League. He teams up with Green Lantern, Supergirl, and Captain Atom to stop a rampaging nuclear monster in Asia. | |||||
File:Themanwhohaseverything2.jpg | For the Man Who Has Everything | Dan Riba | J.M. Dematteis (Adapted from a story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) | August 7th, 2004 | 2 |
Batman and Wonder Woman visit the Fortress of Solitude on Superman's birthday, only to find him trapped by Mongul. Based on the popular story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from Superman Annual #11. | |||||
File:KidStuff.jpg | Kid Stuff | - | - | August 14th, 2004 | 3 |
Morgan le Fay transforms Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern into 8-year-olds after Mordred uses his magic to remove all adults from Earth. | |||||
File:Hawkanddove.JPG | Hawk and Dove | - | - | August 21st, 2004 | 4 |
Wonder Woman teams up with two super powered brothers, one warlike (Hawk), the other a pacifist (Dove), to stop Ares' plans to escalate a European civil war into World War III by loosing a war machine called the Annihilator into the fray. | |||||
File:MadCirce.jpg | This Little Piggy | - | - | August 28th, 2004 | 5 |
Circe transforms Wonder Woman into a pig as revenge against Diana's mother. Batman and Zatanna work together to return her to normal. Contains the famous scene of Batman singing the standard "Am I Blue" to a nightclub audience. | |||||
File:Galatea-vs-supergirl.JPG | Fearful Symmetry | - | - | September 4th, 2004 | 6 |
Supergirl, Green Arrow, and The Question investigate Supergirl's disturbing dreams. They discover that Cadmus created a clone of Supergirl named Galatea. | |||||
File:Booster and skeets.JPG | The Greatest Story Never Told | - | - | September 11th, 2004 | 7 |
The Justice League battle Mordru in the background, while the narrative follows Booster Gold as he attempts to close a walking black hole while he's supposed to be on "crowd control". | |||||
File:ThereturnJLU.jpg | The Return | - | - | September 18th, 2004 | 8 |
The full power of the Unlimited League is unleashed for the first time while trying to keep an all-powerful android from reaching his goal: vengeance against the recently-reformed Lex Luthor. Luthor and the Atom attempt to create a weapon to neutralize Amazo's nanotechnology. | |||||
File:Ultimen.jpg | Ultimatum | - | - | December 4th, 2004 | 9 |
The Justice League meets the Ultimen, a popular group of young heroes. The Ultimen discover they are actually genetically created and attack the Justice League out of anger. As a nod to fans who grew up watching the Super Friends, the Ultimen are a pastiche of heroes unique to that show. | |||||
File:TheAtomImage.jpg | Warren Ellis | December 11th, 2004 | 10 | ||
Most of the League battles with powerful alien nanotechnology, but realize that the waves of self-replicating robots cannot be simply destroyed. The diminutive Atom shrinks himself to stop the robots from the inside. | |||||
File:Grundy.JPG | Wake the Dead | - | - | December 18th, 2004 | 11 |
Unintentionally invoked Chaos Magic resurrects Solomon Grundy. Grundy's body has returned more powerful than ever, but his memories have not. Dr. Fate, Amazo, Aquaman, and Shayera assist League regulars stopping his rampage. | |||||
File:Onceandfuturething1jlu.jpg | The Once and Future Thing, Part 1: Weird Western Tales | Dan Riba | Dwayne McDuffie | January 22nd, 2005 | 12 |
Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern chase Chronos to the past, where they team up with some of the greatest DC heroes of the Old West. After defeating stolen future tech in that era, they again follow Chronos to the future. Warhawk from the Batman Beyond era is revealed to be Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's son. | |||||
File:Onceandfuturething2jlu.jpg | The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time Warped | Joaquim dos Santos | Dwayne McDuffie | January 29th, 2005 | 13 |
The Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman’s chasing of the time thief, later known as Chronos, take them to the future Gotham City of Batman Beyond, just in time to face a battle between the remaining members of the Justice League of that era and the branch of the street gang previously led by the Joker himself, called the Jokerz (as seen on The Return of the Joker movie). Right after the time travelers identify Batman II, a very aged Static Shock and Warhawk, who immediately reveals himself as son of Green Lantern, they all join forces to win the battle.
Later, the time travelers are taken to the Justice League Unlimited hiding-place. Where they meet their leader, a 40 years older Bruce Wayne, who reveals the Jokerz were enhanced and, under Chronos lead, managed to kill the rest of the League of that era. Then, the combined heroes defeat the retooled Jokerz, and Batman traps Chronos in a time loop, right before he started his first time travel, preventing the entire adventure they went through from happening and making the future reality they met an alternate version that never was. Since before the end of the adventure, Wonder Woman was warped out of reality, the only people remembering the events were Batman and Green Lantern. |
Season 2: 2005
Image | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | # |
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File:Blackcanary11.jpg | The Cat and the Canary | - | - | (aired February 5th, 2005) | 14 |
Black Canary convinces Green Arrow to help save her mentor, Wildcat, from his involvement in an underground, super-powered fight club. | |||||
File:BardaFlash.jpg | The Ties That Bind | - | - | (aired February 12th, 2005 | 15 |
Mister Miracle and Big Barda solicit Justice League assistance to free Oberon from Apokolips. J'onn refuses, but Flash decides to help out on his own. | |||||
File:DoomsdayCartoon.jpg | The Doomsday Sanction | - | - | (aired February 19th, 2005 | 16 |
Superman battles Doomsday in the heart of a volcano. Doomsday is revealed to be an imperfect clone of Superman. Batman probes the Cadmus conspiracy to destroy the Justice League. | |||||
File:Suicide squad.JPG | Task Force X | - | - | (aired May 21st, 2005 | 17 |
In an homage to the Suicide Squad, a team of supervillains comprised of Deadshot, Plastique, Captain Boomerang, and the Clock King are recruited by Cadmus to steal the Annihilator machine from the Watchtower. | |||||
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The Balance | - | - | (aired June 4th, 2005 | 18 |
Felix Faust, imprisoned in a mirror, fools Tala into letting him out, where he possesses the Annihilator and casts Hades out of Tartarus. After unleashing the full power of her armor and lasso, Wonder Woman teams up with Hawkgirl to help Hades reclaim his kingdom at Zeus' command. | |||||
File:Huntressani.png | Double Date | - | - | (aired June 4th, 2005 | 19 |
Huntress is kicked out of the Justice League for attempting to murder mob boss Steven Mandragora, the man responsible for her parents' death. She recruits the Question to assist her in finishing him off while Green Arrow and Black Canary attempt to thwart their efforts. (This episode was written by Gail Simone, who also writes the comic book Birds of Prey, a book that stars Black Canary and the Huntress). | |||||
File:Shazam6.jpg | Clash | - | - | (aired June 11th, 2005 | 20 |
Lex Luthor's candidacy for President moves forward as Captain Marvel appears to endorse his candidacy. Luthor manipulates Superman's mistrust, causing Superman to get into an all-out brawl with Marvel. | |||||
File:HuntersMoon.jpg | Hunter's Moon | - | - | , aired June 18th, 2005 | 21 |
When the Justice League receives a distress call, Hawkgirl, Vigilante and Vixen investigate only to find that it was a trap set out by the remaining Thanagarian warriors who blame Hawkgirl for their loss in the war alluded to in "Starcrossed". | |||||
File:QuestionAuthority.jpg | Question Authority | - | - | (aired June 25th, 2005 | 22 |
Captain Atom's Air Force Reserve commission is reactivated. The Question discovers the records about the Justice Lords, and Luthor's attempts to discredit the Justice League. The Question is captured, and Superman and Huntress attempt to rescue him. Almost successful, they are confronted by Captain Atom, who has orders to stop them. | |||||
File:Jlu flashpoint revised.jpg | Flashpoint | - | - | (aired July 2nd, 2005 | 23 |
Lex Luthor seizes control of the Watchtower's main gun to fire on Cadmus, causing massive collateral damage on the city and falsely implicating the League as responsible. Convinced it is an act of revenge, Amanda Waller commands Galatea to attack the Watchtower with an army of Ultimen clones. | |||||
File:AnimatedSteel.jpg | Panic in the Sky | - | - | (aired July 9th, 2005 | 24 |
The founding members of the Justice League surrender to the government, with the exception of Batman, who tries to convince Amanda Waller that Lex Luthor hacked into the Watchtower with stolen Cadmus technology. In the middle of a huge battle between the secondary League characters and the Ultimen army, Supergirl and Steel battle Galatea to keep her from destroying the Watchtower. | |||||
File:Justice League Unlimited Divided We Fall .jpg | Divided We Fall | - | - | (aired July 16th, 2005 | 25 |
With most of the League unavailable, the League's original seven battle against the fused Luthor and Brainiac. Flash stands alone against the Luthor-Braniac team. | |||||
File:EpilogueJLUrevised.jpg | Epilogue | Dan Riba | Bruce Timm and Dwayne McDuffie | July 23rd, 2005 | 26 |
In the future, Amanda Waller reveals to an older Terry McGinnis that through her scientific manipulations, he is actually Bruce Wayne's genetic son. |
Season 3: 2005-2006
Image | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | # |
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File:IamlegionJLU.jpg | I Am Legion | - | - | (aired September 17th, 2005 | 27 |
After Lex Luthor escapes from prison, Gorilla Grodd baits him into joining the new Legion of Doom with a piece of Brainiac technology. Luthor, the Key, and Doctor Polaris steal the Spear of Longinus from Blackhawk Island despite Flash, Fire, Shayera and the last surviving Blackhawk's attempts to stop them. | |||||
File:ShadowofthehawkJLU2.jpg | Shadow of the Hawk | - | - | (aired September 17th, 2005 | 28 |
Shayera agrees to meet with Carter Hall, an archaeologist who has discovered Thanagarian artifacts from ancient Egypt. With a suspicious Batman eavesdropping, Carter reveals himself to be her reincarnated lover from the past and Hawkman to a confused Shayera. | |||||
File:Star spangled kid and stripe.JPG | Chaos at the Earth's Core | - | - | (aired September 24th, 2005 | 29 |
Supergirl, Stargirl, S.T.R.I.P.E. and Green Lantern help Warlord liberate Skartaris (a hidden world inside the Earth's core) from Deimos, a brutal dictator while protecting a very large piece of Kryptonite from Metallo and Silver Banshee.
Originally titled "Heart of Stone." | |||||
File:ToAnotherShore.jpg | To Another Shore | - | - | (aired September 24th, 2005 | 30 |
Wonder Woman protects the body of the Viking Prince from Legion agents who want it for reverse engineering of invulnerability powers. J'onn leaves the Justice League to better understand humanity.
Originally titled "Elegy." | |||||
File:OrionCartoon.jpg | Flash and Substance | - | - | (aired February 11th, 2006 | 31 |
Orion attempts to understand Flash's antics as Wally and Batman battle four of Flash's rogues that attack the museum that is opening in his honor. | |||||
File:DeadReckoningCartoon.jpg | Dead Reckoning | - | - | (aired February 18th, 2006 | 32 |
Deadman convinces Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman to help him retrieve the stolen souls of a mystic order of monks that the Legion has stolen. They force the Legion to retreat from Gorilla City, ending Grodd's attempt to turn all people on Earth into apes. Back at a general meeting in the Legion of Doom's HQ, Lex Luthor cites that (A); Grodd's plan failed and (B); his "master plan" -- turning everyone on Earth into apes -- was silly, and shoots him. Luthor takes over leadership of the Legion of Doom. | |||||
File:Elling-Hulk.jpg | Patriot Act | - | - | (aired February 25th, 2006 | 33 |
General Wade Eiling from Cadmus steals the "Captain Nazi" super-soldier serum and injects it into himself to protect the world from metahumans. With the more powerful League members busy, Green Arrow leads Stargirl, S.T.R.I.P.E., Shining Knight, Crimson Avenger, Vigilante and Speedy against him. This sub-team is an homage to the Golden Age Seven Soldiers of Victory. Though Eiling's transformation is due to the Captain Nazi serum, his resultant form is reminiscent of his more recent comic appearances in the body of the Shaggy Man. The WWII flashback that opens this episode shows Spy Smasher stealing the formula from the Nazis. | |||||
File:Jlu greatbrainrobbery revised.jpg | The Great Brain Robbery | - | - | (aired March 4th, 2006 | 34 |
Magic and science collide, placing Lex Luthor and Flash's minds in each other's body. The Justice League must now contain super-speed powered Luthor on the Watchtower while Flash tries to hide the reversal from the Legion. | |||||
File:JLUGrudgeMatch.jpg | Grudge Match | - | - | (aired January 30th, 2006 (UK)) (aired March 11th, 2006 (US) | 35 |
Roulette restarts Metabrawl, this time with an all-female fight card made up of mind-controlled Justice Leaguers. | |||||
File:FarFromHome.jpg | Far From Home | - | - | (aired February 1st, 2006 (UK))(aired April 15th, 2006 (US) | 36 |
Supergirl is kidnapped and taken to the 31st Century, where she is destined to embark on her very last mission. | |||||
File:Ancienthistoryjlu.jpg | Ancient History | - | - | (aired February 6th, 2006 (UK)) (April 29th, 2006 (US) | 37 |
The Shadow Thief returns and so does Hawkman as more mysteries from “Shadow of the Hawk” are explored. | |||||
File:Jlu alive revised.jpg | Alive (Part 1) | - | - | (aired February 8th, 2006 (UK)) (May 6th, 2006 (US) | 38 |
Luthor and the Legion refit the Hall of Doom and fly into deep space in a last-ditch attempt to reanimate Braniac. Enroute, Tala frees Grodd who leads a mutiny of other disaffected villains against Luthor and his supporters. Luthor uses his intellect and resourcefulness to counter his various adversaries' powers; Grodd's mind-control ability is used against him, forcing him to step into an airlock, from which he is released into the void. Luthor uses Tala's magic in an attempt to reconstitue Brainiac, but instead resurrects Darkseid who makes clear his plans to lay waste to Earth before dispatching the Legion. Then, he appears in Apokolips just in time to stop a war between the two factions of his Elite fighting for power, and reveals them his plans of massive invasion. The somehow surviving Legion members turn to the Justice League's door for help. | |||||
File:DestroyerDarkseid.jpg | Destroyer | Joaquim dos Santos | Dwayne McDuffie | February 18th, 2006 (UK), May 13th, 2006 (US) | 39 |
The Justice League reluctantly teams up with the Legion of Doom in anticipation of an omega-level threat. Darkseid at long last launches a full-scale invasion of Earth and while the combined League and Legion battle parademons across the planet. Meanwhile, Superman, Batman and Lex Luthor take on Darkseid atop the Daily Planet building. |
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The comic series spun off from the show (Justice League Adventures and Justice League Unlimited respectively), are loosely set in the same continuity as the series. They occasionaly use characters unavailable for use on the show, such as Blue Beetle, Mary Marvel, Power Girl and Firestorm and sometimes contradict events already shown, such as Wonder Woman remembering the events from The Once and Future Thing.