History AdaptationalHeroism / YoungJustice2010

* [[ArcherArchetype Artemis Crock]] in the comics is the child of [[UnholyMatrimony Paula and Lawrence Crock]], all three being unrepentant supervillains. In the show Artemis is ashamed of her criminal lineage and Paula does a HeelFaceTurn after [[WheelchairWoobie being crippled]] and spending six years in prison.

* In the comics, Ma'alefa'ak is considerably more, well, malefic. While still villainous, this version is a WellIntentionedExtremist who is angry about the persecution of his fellow White Martians, while similarly stirring tensions on New Genesis, and there’s no level he won’t sink to in the name of, as he sees it, leveling the playing field (and while still the Cain in a CainAndAbel dynamic, he is changed from being Martian Manhunter's brother [[RelatedInTheAdaptation to]] Miss Martian's brother, being renamed [[AdaptationNameChange M'comm M'orzz]], who named himself after a Martian animal named the ma'alefa'ak in much the same manner that Batman uses the imagery of a bat to strike fear into the hearts of enemies). The comic version was a Green Martian who wiped out the other Green Martians[[note]]LostInImitation note: yes, it was the White Martians in both WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague and Series/Supergirl2015, so you can be forgiven for thinking it must be so in the comics, but it’s not.[[/note]] in revenge for being justly punished for using his PsychicPowers for MindRape of J'onn's wife. This slowly begins to be subverted when the season 4 premiere episodes show him [[spoiler:accepting a gene bomb from [[ComicBook/NewGods DeSaad]], the right hand man of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, attempting the genocide his comics counterpart was more successful at if it wasn't for the bomb being found and destroyed, though said destruction took a HeroicSacrifice from [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Conner Kent]] when he was going to get married, and thus earned the revolutionist his heartbroken sister's (who Conner was engaged to) wrath. It fully becomes [[AdaptationalVillainy the opposite trope]] showing shades of being a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist upon his more open alliance with Darkseid in the second half of season 4, followed by aligning with Lor-Zod and then General Zod.]]

* The Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} villain Black Manta is reimagined as a [[ManOfWealthAndTaste sophisticated]] and somewhat [[NobleDemon noble]] villain who has numerous PetTheDog moments with his subordinates, particularly [[PapaWolf his son]]. In the comics, he's an utterly heartless [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] and doesn't give a crap about his son, and even threatened to kill him just to torment Aquaman.

* Livewire started off as a villain as shown in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', often committing crimes willingly, but upon becoming a CanonImmigrant to the mainline comics has occasionally pulled a HeelFaceTurn. The show's [[AgeLift younger]] portrayal of Livewire was a trafficked teenager who only reluctantly did crime, until apprehended by ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'s team, which freed her from being controlled and allowed her to make later appearances fully reformed at the Metahuman Youth Center. This takes an extra step in season 4 when [[spoiler:she was shown to have joined [[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders the Outsiders]] in the one year TimeSkip]].

* The tie-in comic does this both to [[KillerGorilla Gorilla Grodd]] and [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking King Nanaue Sha'ark]]. Both are borderline {{Token Evil Teammate}}s for their respective groups (Grodd being a member of a group of gorillas given Kobra Venom by the Brain, with the Team helping them rebel against him, and Nanaue Sha'ark being the teenaged king of the Atlantean province of Nanauve and being more brutish towards enemies) but are set up as adversaries of greater villains. Grodd becomes a subversion, however, as he begins showing his true villainous motives by the time the Team meets him again in the captivity of the Collector of Worlds (Grodd uses his telepathy to hide a group of other captive villains from the Team so they leave without finding out), while the grown up King Sha'ark seen in season 4's Atlantis arc remains a straight example who while still brutish, is primarily an ally of Atlantis.

* The tie-in comic does this both to [[KillerGorilla Gorilla Grodd]] and [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking King Sha'ark]]. Both are borderline {{Token Evil Teammate}}s for their respective groups but are set up as adversaries of greater villains.

* In the comics, Ma'alefa'ak is considerably more, well, malefic. While still villainous, this version is a WellIntentionedExtremist who is angry about the persecution of his fellow White Martians, while similarly stirring tensions on New Genesis, and there’s no level he won’t sink to in the name of, as he sees it, leveling the playing field (and while still the Cain in a CainAndAbel dynamic, he is changed from being Martian Manhunter's brother [[RelatedInTheAdaptation to]] Miss Martian's brother, being renamed [[AdaptationNameChange M'comm M'orzz]], who named himself after a Martian animal named the ma'alefa'ak in much the same manner that Batman uses the imagery of a bat to strike fear into the hearts of enemies). The comic version was a Green Martian who wiped out the other Green Martians[[note]]LostInImitation note: yes, it was the White Martians in both WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague and Series/Supergirl2015, so you can be forgiven for thinking it must be so in the comics, but it’s not.[[/note]] in revenge for being justly punished for using his PsychicPowers for MindRape of J'onn's wife. This slowly begins to be subverted when the season 4 premiere episodes show him [[spoiler:accepting a gene bomb from [[ComicBook/NewGods DeSaad]], the right hand man of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, attempting the genocide his comics counterpart was more successful at if it wasn't for the bomb being found and destroyed, though said destruction took a HeroicSacrifice from [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Conner Kent]] when he was going to get married, and thus earned the revolutionist his heartbroken sister's (who Conner was engaged to) wrath. It fully becomes [[AdaptationalVillainy the opposite trope]] upon his more open alliance with Darkseid in the second half of season 4.]]

* [[ArcherArchetype Artemis Crock]] in the comics is the child of [[UnholyMatrimony Paula and Lawrence Crock]], all three being unrepentant supervillains. In the show Artemis is ashamed of her criminal lineage and Paula does a HeelFaceTurn after [[WheelchairWoobie being crippled]] and spending six years in prison. [[DarkActionGirl Cheshire]], who is Artemis' sister on the show [[RelatedInTheAdaptation (but not the comics)]], is introduced as a villain and member of the League of Shadows, but [[CharacterDevelopment evolves]] into an AntiVillain or AntiHero by season two. In the comics she once nuked a country ForTheEvulz. Her development when it comes to Lian is also better, as she chooses to stay away in order to not be a bad influence for her, [[spoiler:panicking when Lian presents a homemade replica of her mask over the phone]].

* Much like Neutron or even his own counterpart in the below mentioned ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', Plasmus isn't a willing villain, and ultimately turns on the villains to help the heroes [[RedemptionEqualsDeath at the cost of being sniped by a random bystander]]. His comic counterpart was not only a willing villain, he expressed ''jealousy'' at Chemo's powers in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.

* Both incarnations of Mist were the ArchEnemy of incarnations of ComicBook/{{Starman}}, though the second incarnation, Nash Nimbus, was more sympathetic in spite of taking part in a plot to destroy Opal City. In the show, Mist ([[AdaptationNameChange her name changed to Andie Murphy]]) was in a similar boat to Livewire as a trafficked metahuman teenager who was also reluctantly a criminal, before Nightwing's team apprehended her and sent her to the Metahuman Youth Center where she could reform. [[spoiler:A small cameo helping Tigress and Halo confirms she joined the Team between seasons 3 and 4]].
* When Superman discussed possible new members for the Justice League in "Beyond The Grip Of The Gods", one of the candidates is Batman villain Clayface who presumably went through a HeelFaceTurn.

* In the comics, Ma'alefa'ak is considerably more, well, malefic. While still villainous, this version is a WellIntentionedExtremist who is angry about the persecution of his fellow White Martians, while similarly stirring tensions on New Genesis, and there’s no level he won’t sink to in the name of, as he sees it, leveling the playing field (and while still the Cain in a CainAndAbel dynamic, he is changed from being Martian Manhunter's brother [[RelatedInTheAdaptation to]] Miss Martian's brother, being renamed [[AdaptationNameChange M'comm M'orzz]], who named himself after a Martian animal named the ma'alefa'ak in much the same manner that Batman uses the imagery of a bat to strike fear into the hearts of enemies). The comic version was a Green Martian who wiped out the other Green Martians[[note]]LostInImitation note: yes, it was the White Martians in both WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague and Series/Supergirl2015, so you can be forgiven for thinking it must be so in the comics, but it’s not.[[/note]] in revenge for being justly punished for using his PsychicPowers for MindRape of J'onn's wife. This slowly begins to be subverted when the season 4 premiere episodes show him [[spoiler:accepting a gene bomb from [[ComicBook/NewGods DeSaad]], the right hand man of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, attempting the genocide his comics counterpart was more successful at if it wasn't for the bomb being found and destroyed, though said destruction took a HeroicSacrifice from [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Conner Kent]] when he was going to get married, and thus earned the revolutionist his heartbroken sister's (who Conner was engaged to) wrath.]]

* The canon audio play that took place at DC [=FanDome=] revealed that [[spoiler:Clayface reformed and joined Bowhunter Security. Clayface had a similar redemption arc in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', but the comics used Basil Karlo, and what defines it as this trope is the show's incarnation being Matt Hagen, who had no such arc, instead]].

* Both incarnations of Mist were the ArchEnemy of incarnations of ComicBook/{{Starman}}, though the second incarnation, Nash Nimbus, was more sympathetic in spite of taking part in a plot to destroy Opal City. In the show, Mist ([[AdaptationNameChange her name changed to Andie Murphy]]) was in a similar boat to Livewire as a trafficked metahuman teenager who was also reluctantly a criminal, before Nightwing's team apprehended her and sent her to the Metahuman Youth Center where she could reform. [[spoiler:A small cameo helping Tigress and Halo confirms she joined the Team between seasons 3 and 4]].

* In the comics, Ma'alefa'ak is considerably more, well, malefic. While still villainous, this version is a WellIntentionedExtremist who is angry about the persecution of his fellow White Martians, while similarly stirring tensions on New Gensis, and there’s no level he won’t sink to in the name of, as he sees it, leveling the playing field (and while still the Cain in a CainAndAbel dynamic, he is changed from being Martian Manhunter's brother [[RelatedInTheAdaptation to]] Miss Martian's brother, being renamed [[AdaptationNameChange M'comm M'orzz]], who named himself after a Martian animal named the ma'alefa'ak in much the same manner that Batman uses the imagery of a bat to strike fear into the hearts of enemies). The comic version was a Green Martian who wiped out the other Green Martians[[note]]LostInImitation note: yes, it was the White Martians in both WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague and Series/Supergirl2015, so you can be forgiven for thinking it must be so in the comics, but it’s not.[[/note]] in revenge for being justly punished for using his PsychicPowers for MindRape of J'onn's wife. This slowly begins to be subverted when the season 4 premiere episodes show him [[spoiler:accepting a gene bomb from [[ComicBook/NewGods DeSaad]], the right hand man of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, attempting the genocide his comics counterpart was more successful at if it wasn't for the bomb being found and destroyed, though said destruction took a HeroicSacrifice from [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Conner Kent]] when he was going to get married, and thus earned the revolutionist his heartbroken sister's (who Conner was engaged to) wrath.]]

* ComicBook/VandalSavage in the comics is probably the single most thoroughly vile individual in Franchise/TheDCU with many thousands of years worth of absolutely horrific crimes to his name. In the show, he's still definitely not a nice guy, but he's a KnightTemplar visionary whose acts are motivated by a desire to drive humanity to advance and make Earth a major universal power. While he does deliver a NeckSnap to one of his own daughters, Olympia, it is a MercyKill as she was increasingly becoming senile. [[spoiler:His brutality towards the show's version of his daughter Scandal Savage, renamed [[AdaptationNameChange Cassandra]], is given a nod at one point, but it was not enough for her to turn on him, she instead used it as a cover story to become a FakeDefector]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' incarnation of Terra goes one further than her ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' counterpart did as the heroes learned early on that Deathstroke was manipulating her and decided to let her make her own decisions while treating her nicely. She ends up turning to the side of angels on her own and becomes a member of the Outsiders in the end, never getting the RedemptionEqualsDeath, er, petrification, of her ''Teen Titans'' counterpart, though [[spoiler: her brother Geo-Force does a FaceHeelTurn in her place, being LockedOutOfTheLoop of her actions]].

* Much like Neutron or even his own counterpart in the below mentioned ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Plasmus isn't a willing villain, and ultimately turns on the villains to help the heroes [[RedemptionEqualsDeath at the cost of being sniped by a random bystander]]. His comic counterpart was not only a willing villain, he expressed ''jealousy'' at Chemo's powers in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.

* Both incarnations of Mist were the ArchEnemy of incarnations of ComicBook/{{Starman}}, though the second incarnation, Nash Nimbus, was more sympathetic in spite of taking part in a plot to destroy Opal City. In the show, Mist ([[AdaptationNameChange her name changed to Andy]]) was in a similar boat to Livewire as a trafficked metahuman teenager who was also reluctantly a criminal, before Nightwing's team apprehended her and sent her to the Metahuman Youth Center where she could reform. [[spoiler:A small cameo helping Tigress and Halo confirms she joined the Team between seasons 3 and 4]].