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[[WMG:[[center: [- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' '''[[Characters/YoungJustice Main Character Index]]'''\\
'''The Team''' ([[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonOne Season One]], [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonTwo Season Two]], [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonThree Season Three]]) | [[Characters/YoungJusticeNightwingsTeam Nightwing's Team]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeBatmanIncorporated Batman Incorporated]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOutsiders Outsiders]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeJusticeLeague Justice League]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeMinionsOfTheLight Minions of the Light]] ([[Characters/YoungJusticeLeagueOfShadows League of Shadows]]) | [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheReach The Reach]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeApokolips Apokolips]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOtherVillains Other Villains]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

Due to length, this page was split into three sub-pages, each dealing with the Team members by the season they joined; see the navigation above.
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!The Team (In General)
%%Please list members by order of which they joined.
->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
->'''Former Members:''' [[MakingASplash Kaldur'ahm / Aqualad / Black Manta II / Aquaman II]], [[SuperSpeed Wally West / Kid Flash I]], [[FlyingBrick Conner Kent / Superboy]], [[TheMole Roy Harper II / Speedy II / Red Arrow / Will Harper]], [[FunctionalMagic Zatanna Zatara]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raquel Ervin / Rocket]], [[MakingASplash Garth / Tempest]], [[MakingASplash Tula / Aquagirl]], [[{{Ambadassador}} Donna Troy / Troia]], [[KilledOffscreen Jason Todd / Robin II]], Freddy Freeman / Lieutenant Marvel, Mary Bromfield / Sergeant Marvel, [[McNinja Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle]], [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Karen Beecher / Bumblebee]], [[FishPeople La'gaan / Lagoon Boy]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Garfield Logan / Beast Boy]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[CuteBruiser Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III]], [[MissionControl Mal Duncan / Guardian III]], [[SuperSpeed Bart Allen / Impulse / Kid Flash II]], [[ElectricBlackGuy Virgil Hawkins / Static]], [[DishingOutDirt Brion Markov / Geo-Force]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Forager / Fred Bugg]], [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov / Terra]]
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"The Team" is the de facto name for the group of young superheroes assigned to undertake covert operations on behalf of the Justice League.
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* BadassCrew: Though they started out as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, when they come together as a team, they are an incredibly effective force to be reckoned with, as seen in most episodes. But no episode showcases this better than “Summit”, where the team completely outsmarts both the Light AND the Reach, singlehandedly not only destroying their alliance, but setting up an EngineeredPublicConfession that obliterates the Reach's VillainWithGoodPublicity act. The end result is about half the Light captured and the Reach's invasion of Earth completely thwarted in every conceivable way. This causes Vandal Savage to truly lose his cool for the first time in the entire series. As he outright says, they've done more to derail his plans than anyone in his entire immortal life.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Robin and Superboy have this dynamic when they work together, though [[DownplayedTrope Robin isn't a pushover and Supey isn't dumb]]. Ditto with Batgirl and Wonder Girl.
* BreakingTheFellowship:
** Though not completely. Five years later only Robin (now Nightwing), Miss Martian and Superboy are still on the team. Zatanna and Rocket have just recently joined the Justice League. Kid Flash and Artemis have dropped hero work to focus on college but are still close to and concerned for their friends. Red Arrow, obsessed with finding the original Speedy, is basically a hobo. Aqualad, while initially presented as having gone off the deep end morally, is in fact a deep cover agent infiltrating Black Manta's organization. Later he brings in Artemis to help him, and Nightwing acts as their handler. They're still (mostly) on the same side and they're definitely TrueCompanions but they aren't all working together anymore.
** As of "Complications", Nightwing is the only member that hasn't been abducted, killed, retired, promoted to League membership, pretended to defect, hospitalized or gone MIA.
** Again, at the start of ''Outsiders'', where the Team is but a shadow of its former self and most of its members are gone elsewhere.
** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo and Orphan have joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's Team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.
* BrieferThanTheyThink: With how emphasized the "Original Six" members (Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis) of the Team are by the fanbase and promotional material, one would be surprised to learn that they were only the core lineup for a total of thirteen episodes. Artemis didn't join until Episode 7, and Episode 20 saw the first recruit since with Zatanna, while Red Arrow and Rocket joined subsequently. Then, ''Invasion'' completely shuffled the roster with a bunch of newcomers, and only continued further from there. ''Young Justice'' currently has sixty episodes, making the time they were the roster a relatively brief part of it all.
* ChildSoldiers: They are used as black ops agents to go on missions that the Justice League can't tackle publicly, due to the bad guys being a VillainWithGoodPublicity or in places the League can't legally go. The morally grey area of their youth is brought up from time to time and their missions give them all a fair amount of trauma. But they would all rather be a child soldier than a pure SideKick.
* CombatPragmatist: A necessary adjunct to WeakButSkilled below.
* CompositeCharacter: The team as a whole is a composite of the teams from the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' and ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' comics.
* DeadpanSnarker: Each of them have had snarky moments in at least one point in the show.
* DemotedToExtra: The Team exists in ''Outsiders'', but have lost considerable ground compared to Nightwing's Team during the first half of the season and the titular Outsiders during the second half of the season, who are now ''the'' protagonists of that season.
* DysfunctionJunction: Of the original team of six, only Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad were particularly stable. Aqualad was later revealed to have a DarkAndTroubledPast while Robin/Nightwing picked up TheChainsOfCommanding. Superboy and Miss Martian got over most of their issues by the end of season 1 only to pick up a pack of new ones over the TimeSkip while Wally got extremely bitter in Season 2. By the start of Season 2 Artemis is the only one who really qualifies as an OnlySaneMan which is somewhat ironic since she was the most damaged in season 1. And now she's Tigress and has BecomingTheMask problems while her world crumbles around her. Go figure.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Several of them such as Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad are experienced superheroes who made their career as sidekicks with the official Justice League superheroes like Batman, Flash and Aquaman. {{Averted}} with others, like Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis, who begin their superhero careers during the story.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: As of "Usual Suspects" with male Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Superboy and female Artemis, Miss Martian, Rocket and Zatanna. But back to more boys than girls after Season One.
** Taken as a whole, of the 26 individual heroes who have been on the team, there have been 16 boys and 10 girls. Counting them up chronologically, the team may have had periods of being majority female during the timeskip, but after Blue Beetle joined, every subsequent new teammate was male, leading to their overall majority.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The team at the end of Season 1 had two [[LightningBruiser Lightning Bruisers]], two [[FragileSpeedster Fragile Speedsters]], two [[GlassCannon Glass Cannons]] and two [[SquishyWizard Squishy Wizards]]... guess which gender was which. This is no longer the case when Batgirl and Wonder Girl show up.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Occasionally they'll run missions off camera with their mentors. The Team eventually becomes skilled to the point of being able to defeat their mentors, and handles the crisis in season 2 pretty much on their own top to bottom.
* IAmNotShazam: Unlike the original comics, the team isn't called ''Young Justice''. It's at least justified as they are a covert group, for the most part.
* ImprobableAge: Despite their superpowers, not one is older than 16 and they're being used in covert ops missions against some of the most formidable DC Comics villains without the help of their mentors.
* JustAKid: The Light consistently refers to them as "children" and their UnderestimatingBadassery of the team is what causes their defeat.
* OfficialCouple: Superboy and Miss Martian were an item in season one, along with Zatanna/Robin and Artemis/Kid Flash. Superboy broke up with Miss Martian during the timeskip between season 1 and 2, with Miss Martian now seeing Lagoon Boy. It is confirmed that both Zatanna and Rocket are Nightwing's AmicableExes, with him implied to still be FriendsWithBenefits with Zatanna, and possibly Batgirl as well. Rocket and Aqualad also dated for a bit (according to Greg Weisman), and now Rocket is getting married to someone else. Artemis and Kid Flash lasted until Wally's death.
* OnOneCondition: The first members of The Team, all sidekicks and protoges of the Justice League, are formed under Batman's condition to fight crime on "League Terms". During Season 1, this means they operate under the radar and under supervision.
* SuperheroSpeciation: Varies at times.
* RetiredBadass: Post-time skip, Wally and Artemis have hung up their tights and decided to focus on college.
** Subverted with Artemis, who fakes her death to become a deep cover agent.
* RotatingProtagonist: There is no definite main protagonist in ''Young Justice''. Each of the members [[ADayInTheLimelight get their own episode]] throughout the series.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Until the very end of the premiere there are no females, and for several episodes thereafter there's only Miss Martian. Then Artemis joined up.
** Averted as of "Usual Suspects". As of the first season finale, the team had an even split of four boys and four girls.
** And then in season two, the new line-up consists of five boys and four girls.
** Inverted as of the end of ''Outsiders'' due to every male member of the Team except Nightwing and Robin III having either died[[note]](Kid Flash I)[[/note]], left[[note]](Speedy I/Arsenal, Lagoon Boy, Guardian III)[[/note]], got promoted to a member of the Justice League[[note]](Aqualad/Aquaman II)[[/note]] or joined the Outsiders[[note]](Beast Boy, Blue Beetle III, Impulse/Kid Flash II, Static, Geo-Force, Superboy, Forager)[[/note]].
* SuperheroSpeciation: Varies at times.
** The original lineup includes two {{Badass Normal}}s but one uses a bow, a speedster, an Atlantean hydromancer, a ([[NotQuiteFlight not quite]])-FlyingBrick and a Martian telepath. Their abilities were distinct and played a unique role, Miss Martian even losing her SuperStrength here to emphasize it. They gained a TokenWizard with Zatanna, but it officially ended when fellow BadassNormal archer Red Arrow joined (even with a [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]]). However, this didn't last long.
** Season 2 has multiple martial artists (Nightwing, Robin III, Batgirl) and two Bricks (Superboy and Wonder Girl).
* TheTeam: Incidentally they are actually called 'the Team' InUniverse.
** The initial core team hits the FiveManBand archetypes. Aqualad is TheLeader since everyone agreed he's the most responsible and clearest communicator. Robin is primarily TheLancer, a bit jealous that he's been passed over for leadership due to his youth despite his experience. Kid Flash is primarily TheSmartGuy since he's the most scientific minded. Superboy is TheBigGuy as the most withdrawn and volatile member, he also has the most offense oriented powers. Miss Martian is TheChick as the NaiveNewcomer NiceGirl trying to fit in and TheEmpath.
** They are supplemented by Red Arrow who [[HonoraryTrueCompanion never formally joins]] since he hates the idea of the Team as the Jr. Justice League, but still helps and is helped by his friends in times of need. Artemis joins later on. Still later, Zatanna and Rocket.
** They also rely on Miss Martian's Bio-Ship as the SignatureTeamTransport, Sphere the RobotBuddy who doubles as a CoolBike, and Wolf The TeamPet.
* TrueCompanions: Even five years later when the fellowship is, at least partly, [[BreakingTheFellowship broken]] and Superboy and Miss Martian are broken up they still slide easily into the telepathic conversations they used when they were a team.
** The trope is then played with in regards to Kaldur. First it seems that he has become evil due to the gut-punch combo of long-time crush Tula dying on a mission and the revelation Black Manta is his father. Then it seems that the The Only One Allowed to Defeat You clause for True Companions still applies, as Nightwing and Superboy make sure they intercept and confront Aqualad themselves, leaving Leaguers and newer members of the Team behind. But then it turns out that Kaldur was a FakeDefector the whole time, and Nightwing, as his handler, was just going to talk with him, only for the meeting to be interrupted by Superboy.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Artemis and Miss Martian. This trope was so enforced in the minds of its demographic that rumours that another female team member (either Wonder Girl or Secret) would be joining the cast launched much speculation that either Artemis or Miss Martian would be outed as The Mole, die, or otherwise leave the team.
** This trope, and the anxiety associated with it, has been averted with the inclusion of Zatanna as a long term member without any other character being removed from the team.
** As of the end of season 1, Rocket and Zatanna have joined the Team, so that the gender ratio is even with four boys and four girls.
** As of season 2, the ratio for the team stands at five males and four females.
* WeakButSkilled: How the team, as a unit, compares to many of their opponents. More often than not, they can't overpower everyone they face, much less take any of them in a one-on-one fight. Instead, they're at their best when they rely on coordination (Martian telepathy helps immensely), teamwork, GeoEffects, and cleverness.
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%% No TitleDrop so far either.
%% Spoilering trope titles is against the spoiler policy. Don't do it. For more information, see Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers.
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[[WMG:[[center: [- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' '''[[Characters/YoungJustice Main Character Index]]'''\\
'''The Team''' ([[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonOne Season One]], [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonTwo Season Two]], [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonThree Season Three]]) | [[Characters/YoungJusticeNightwingsTeam Nightwing's Team]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeBatmanIncorporated Batman Incorporated]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOutsiders Outsiders]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeJusticeLeague Justice League]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeMinionsOfTheLight Minions of the Light]] ([[Characters/YoungJusticeLeagueOfShadows League of Shadows]]) | [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheReach The Reach]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeApokolips Apokolips]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOtherVillains Other Villains]] | [[Characters/YoungJusticeOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

Due to length, this page was split into three sub-pages, each dealing with the Team members by the season they joined; see the navigation above.
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!The Team (In General)
%%Please list members by order of which they joined.
->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
->'''Former Members:''' [[MakingASplash Kaldur'ahm / Aqualad / Black Manta II / Aquaman II]], [[SuperSpeed Wally West / Kid Flash I]], [[FlyingBrick Conner Kent / Superboy]], [[TheMole Roy Harper II / Speedy II / Red Arrow / Will Harper]], [[FunctionalMagic Zatanna Zatara]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raquel Ervin / Rocket]], [[MakingASplash Garth / Tempest]], [[MakingASplash Tula / Aquagirl]], [[{{Ambadassador}} Donna Troy / Troia]], [[KilledOffscreen Jason Todd / Robin II]], Freddy Freeman / Lieutenant Marvel, Mary Bromfield / Sergeant Marvel, [[McNinja Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle]], [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Karen Beecher / Bumblebee]], [[FishPeople La'gaan / Lagoon Boy]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Garfield Logan / Beast Boy]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[CuteBruiser Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III]], [[MissionControl Mal Duncan / Guardian III]], [[SuperSpeed Bart Allen / Impulse / Kid Flash II]], [[ElectricBlackGuy Virgil Hawkins / Static]], [[DishingOutDirt Brion Markov / Geo-Force]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Forager / Fred Bugg]], [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov / Terra]]
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"The Team" is the de facto name for the group of young superheroes assigned to undertake covert operations on behalf of the Justice League.
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* BadassCrew: Though they started out as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, when they come together as a team, they are an incredibly effective force to be reckoned with, as seen in most episodes. But no episode showcases this better than “Summit”, where the team completely outsmarts both the Light AND the Reach, singlehandedly not only destroying their alliance, but setting up an EngineeredPublicConfession that obliterates the Reach's VillainWithGoodPublicity act. The end result is about half the Light captured and the Reach's invasion of Earth completely thwarted in every conceivable way. This causes Vandal Savage to truly lose his cool for the first time in the entire series. As he outright says, they've done more to derail his plans than anyone in his entire immortal life.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Robin and Superboy have this dynamic when they work together, though [[DownplayedTrope Robin isn't a pushover and Supey isn't dumb]]. Ditto with Batgirl and Wonder Girl.
* BreakingTheFellowship:
** Though not completely. Five years later only Robin (now Nightwing), Miss Martian and Superboy are still on the team. Zatanna and Rocket have just recently joined the Justice League. Kid Flash and Artemis have dropped hero work to focus on college but are still close to and concerned for their friends. Red Arrow, obsessed with finding the original Speedy, is basically a hobo. Aqualad, while initially presented as having gone off the deep end morally, is in fact a deep cover agent infiltrating Black Manta's organization. Later he brings in Artemis to help him, and Nightwing acts as their handler. They're still (mostly) on the same side and they're definitely TrueCompanions but they aren't all working together anymore.
** As of "Complications", Nightwing is the only member that hasn't been abducted, killed, retired, promoted to League membership, pretended to defect, hospitalized or gone MIA.
** Again, at the start of ''Outsiders'', where the Team is but a shadow of its former self and most of its members are gone elsewhere.
** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo and Orphan have joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's Team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.
* BrieferThanTheyThink: With how emphasized the "Original Six" members (Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis) of the Team are by the fanbase and promotional material, one would be surprised to learn that they were only the core lineup for a total of thirteen episodes. Artemis didn't join until Episode 7, and Episode 20 saw the first recruit since with Zatanna, while Red Arrow and Rocket joined subsequently. Then, ''Invasion'' completely shuffled the roster with a bunch of newcomers, and only continued further from there. ''Young Justice'' currently has sixty episodes, making the time they were the roster a relatively brief part of it all.
* ChildSoldiers: They are used as black ops agents to go on missions that the Justice League can't tackle publicly, due to the bad guys being a VillainWithGoodPublicity or in places the League can't legally go. The morally grey area of their youth is brought up from time to time and their missions give them all a fair amount of trauma. But they would all rather be a child soldier than a pure SideKick.
* CombatPragmatist: A necessary adjunct to WeakButSkilled below.
* CompositeCharacter: The team as a whole is a composite of the teams from the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' and ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' comics.
* DeadpanSnarker: Each of them have had snarky moments in at least one point in the show.
* DemotedToExtra: The Team exists in ''Outsiders'', but have lost considerable ground compared to Nightwing's Team during the first half of the season and the titular Outsiders during the second half of the season, who are now ''the'' protagonists of that season.
* DysfunctionJunction: Of the original team of six, only Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad were particularly stable. Aqualad was later revealed to have a DarkAndTroubledPast while Robin/Nightwing picked up TheChainsOfCommanding. Superboy and Miss Martian got over most of their issues by the end of season 1 only to pick up a pack of new ones over the TimeSkip while Wally got extremely bitter in Season 2. By the start of Season 2 Artemis is the only one who really qualifies as an OnlySaneMan which is somewhat ironic since she was the most damaged in season 1. And now she's Tigress and has BecomingTheMask problems while her world crumbles around her. Go figure.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Several of them such as Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad are experienced superheroes who made their career as sidekicks with the official Justice League superheroes like Batman, Flash and Aquaman. {{Averted}} with others, like Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis, who begin their superhero careers during the story.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: As of "Usual Suspects" with male Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Superboy and female Artemis, Miss Martian, Rocket and Zatanna. But back to more boys than girls after Season One.
** Taken as a whole, of the 26 individual heroes who have been on the team, there have been 16 boys and 10 girls. Counting them up chronologically, the team may have had periods of being majority female during the timeskip, but after Blue Beetle joined, every subsequent new teammate was male, leading to their overall majority.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The team at the end of Season 1 had two [[LightningBruiser Lightning Bruisers]], two [[FragileSpeedster Fragile Speedsters]], two [[GlassCannon Glass Cannons]] and two [[SquishyWizard Squishy Wizards]]... guess which gender was which. This is no longer the case when Batgirl and Wonder Girl show up.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Occasionally they'll run missions off camera with their mentors. The Team eventually becomes skilled to the point of being able to defeat their mentors, and handles the crisis in season 2 pretty much on their own top to bottom.
* IAmNotShazam: Unlike the original comics, the team isn't called ''Young Justice''. It's at least justified as they are a covert group, for the most part.
* ImprobableAge: Despite their superpowers, not one is older than 16 and they're being used in covert ops missions against some of the most formidable DC Comics villains without the help of their mentors.
* JustAKid: The Light consistently refers to them as "children" and their UnderestimatingBadassery of the team is what causes their defeat.
* OfficialCouple: Superboy and Miss Martian were an item in season one, along with Zatanna/Robin and Artemis/Kid Flash. Superboy broke up with Miss Martian during the timeskip between season 1 and 2, with Miss Martian now seeing Lagoon Boy. It is confirmed that both Zatanna and Rocket are Nightwing's AmicableExes, with him implied to still be FriendsWithBenefits with Zatanna, and possibly Batgirl as well. Rocket and Aqualad also dated for a bit (according to Greg Weisman), and now Rocket is getting married to someone else. Artemis and Kid Flash lasted until Wally's death.
* OnOneCondition: The first members of The Team, all sidekicks and protoges of the Justice League, are formed under Batman's condition to fight crime on "League Terms". During Season 1, this means they operate under the radar and under supervision.
* SuperheroSpeciation: Varies at times.
* RetiredBadass: Post-time skip, Wally and Artemis have hung up their tights and decided to focus on college.
** Subverted with Artemis, who fakes her death to become a deep cover agent.
* RotatingProtagonist: There is no definite main protagonist in ''Young Justice''. Each of the members [[ADayInTheLimelight get their own episode]] throughout the series.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Until the very end of the premiere there are no females, and for several episodes thereafter there's only Miss Martian. Then Artemis joined up.
** Averted as of "Usual Suspects". As of the first season finale, the team had an even split of four boys and four girls.
** And then in season two, the new line-up consists of five boys and four girls.
** Inverted as of the end of ''Outsiders'' due to every male member of the Team except Nightwing and Robin III having either died[[note]](Kid Flash I)[[/note]], left[[note]](Speedy I/Arsenal, Lagoon Boy, Guardian III)[[/note]], got promoted to a member of the Justice League[[note]](Aqualad/Aquaman II)[[/note]] or joined the Outsiders[[note]](Beast Boy, Blue Beetle III, Impulse/Kid Flash II, Static, Geo-Force, Superboy, Forager)[[/note]].
* SuperheroSpeciation: Varies at times.
** The original lineup includes two {{Badass Normal}}s but one uses a bow, a speedster, an Atlantean hydromancer, a ([[NotQuiteFlight not quite]])-FlyingBrick and a Martian telepath. Their abilities were distinct and played a unique role, Miss Martian even losing her SuperStrength here to emphasize it. They gained a TokenWizard with Zatanna, but it officially ended when fellow BadassNormal archer Red Arrow joined (even with a [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]]). However, this didn't last long.
** Season 2 has multiple martial artists (Nightwing, Robin III, Batgirl) and two Bricks (Superboy and Wonder Girl).
* TheTeam: Incidentally they are actually called 'the Team' InUniverse.
** The initial core team hits the FiveManBand archetypes. Aqualad is TheLeader since everyone agreed he's the most responsible and clearest communicator. Robin is primarily TheLancer, a bit jealous that he's been passed over for leadership due to his youth despite his experience. Kid Flash is primarily TheSmartGuy since he's the most scientific minded. Superboy is TheBigGuy as the most withdrawn and volatile member, he also has the most offense oriented powers. Miss Martian is TheChick as the NaiveNewcomer NiceGirl trying to fit in and TheEmpath.
** They are supplemented by Red Arrow who [[HonoraryTrueCompanion never formally joins]] since he hates the idea of the Team as the Jr. Justice League, but still helps and is helped by his friends in times of need. Artemis joins later on. Still later, Zatanna and Rocket.
** They also rely on Miss Martian's Bio-Ship as the SignatureTeamTransport, Sphere the RobotBuddy who doubles as a CoolBike, and Wolf The TeamPet.
* TrueCompanions: Even five years later when the fellowship is, at least partly, [[BreakingTheFellowship broken]] and Superboy and Miss Martian are broken up they still slide easily into the telepathic conversations they used when they were a team.
** The trope is then played with in regards to Kaldur. First it seems that he has become evil due to the gut-punch combo of long-time crush Tula dying on a mission and the revelation Black Manta is his father. Then it seems that the The Only One Allowed to Defeat You clause for True Companions still applies, as Nightwing and Superboy make sure they intercept and confront Aqualad themselves, leaving Leaguers and newer members of the Team behind. But then it turns out that Kaldur was a FakeDefector the whole time, and Nightwing, as his handler, was just going to talk with him, only for the meeting to be interrupted by Superboy.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Artemis and Miss Martian. This trope was so enforced in the minds of its demographic that rumours that another female team member (either Wonder Girl or Secret) would be joining the cast launched much speculation that either Artemis or Miss Martian would be outed as The Mole, die, or otherwise leave the team.
** This trope, and the anxiety associated with it, has been averted with the inclusion of Zatanna as a long term member without any other character being removed from the team.
** As of the end of season 1, Rocket and Zatanna have joined the Team, so that the gender ratio is even with four boys and four girls.
** As of season 2, the ratio for the team stands at five males and four females.
* WeakButSkilled: How the team, as a unit, compares to many of their opponents. More often than not, they can't overpower everyone they face, much less take any of them in a one-on-one fight. Instead, they're at their best when they rely on coordination (Martian telepathy helps immensely), teamwork, GeoEffects, and cleverness.
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->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]

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->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
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->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
->'''Former Members:''' [[MakingASplash Kaldur'ahm / Aqualad / Black Manta II / Aquaman II]], [[SuperSpeed Wally West / Kid Flash I]], [[FlyingBrick Conner Kent / Superboy]], [[TheMole Roy Harper II / Speedy II / Red Arrow / Will Harper]], [[FunctionalMagic Zatanna Zatara]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raquel Ervin / Rocket]], [[MakingASplash Garth / Tempest]], [[MakingASplash Tula / Aquagirl]], [[{{Ambadassador}} Donna Troy / Troia]], [[KilledOffscreen Jason Todd / Robin II]], Freddy Freeman / Lieutenant Marvel, Mary Bromfield / Sergeant Marvel, [[McNinja Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle]], [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Karen Beecher / Bumblebee]], [[FishPeople La'gaan / Lagoon Boy]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Garfield Logan / Beast Boy]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[CuteBruiser Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III]], [[MissionControl Mal Duncan / Guardian III]], [[SuperSpeed Bart Allen / Impulse / Kid Flash II]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[ElectricBlackGuy Virgil Hawkins / Static]], [[DishingOutDirt Brion Markov / Geo-Force]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Forager / Fred Bugg]], [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov / Terra]]

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->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
->'''Former Members:''' [[MakingASplash Kaldur'ahm / Aqualad / Black Manta II / Aquaman II]], [[SuperSpeed Wally West / Kid Flash I]], [[FlyingBrick Conner Kent / Superboy]], [[TheMole Roy Harper II / Speedy II / Red Arrow / Will Harper]], [[FunctionalMagic Zatanna Zatara]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raquel Ervin / Rocket]], [[MakingASplash Garth / Tempest]], [[MakingASplash Tula / Aquagirl]], [[{{Ambadassador}} Donna Troy / Troia]], [[KilledOffscreen Jason Todd / Robin II]], Freddy Freeman / Lieutenant Marvel, Mary Bromfield / Sergeant Marvel, [[McNinja Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle]], [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Karen Beecher / Bumblebee]], [[FishPeople La'gaan / Lagoon Boy]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Garfield Logan / Beast Boy]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[CuteBruiser Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III]], [[MissionControl Mal Duncan / Guardian III]], [[SuperSpeed Bart Allen / Impulse / Kid Flash II]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[ElectricBlackGuy Virgil Hawkins / Static]], [[DishingOutDirt Brion Markov / Geo-Force]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Forager / Fred Bugg]], [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov / Terra]]

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->'''Current Members:''' [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
->'''Former Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MakingASplash Kaldur'ahm / Aqualad / Black Manta II / Aquaman II]], [[SuperSpeed Wally West / Kid Flash I]], [[FlyingBrick Conner Kent / Superboy]], [[TheMole Roy Harper II / Speedy II / Red Arrow / Will Harper]], [[FunctionalMagic Zatanna Zatara]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raquel Ervin / Rocket]], [[MakingASplash Garth / Tempest]], [[MakingASplash Tula / Aquagirl]], [[{{Ambadassador}} Donna Troy / Troia]], [[KilledOffscreen Jason Todd / Robin II]], Freddy Freeman / Lieutenant Marvel, Mary Bromfield / Sergeant Marvel, [[McNinja Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle]], [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Karen Beecher / Bumblebee]], [[FishPeople La'gaan / Lagoon Boy]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Garfield Logan / Beast Boy]], [[CuteBruiser Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III]], [[MissionControl Mal Duncan / Guardian III]], [[SuperSpeed Bart Allen / Impulse / Kid Flash II]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[ElectricBlackGuy Virgil Hawkins / Static]], [[DishingOutDirt Brion Markov / Geo-Force]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Forager / Fred Bugg]], [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov / Terra]]

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->'''Current Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]
->'''Former Members:''' [[TheLeader Dick Grayson / Robin I / Nightwing]], [[MakingASplash Kaldur'ahm / Aqualad / Black Manta II / Aquaman II]], [[SuperSpeed Wally West / Kid Flash I]], [[FlyingBrick Conner Kent / Superboy]], [[TheMole Roy Harper II / Speedy II / Red Arrow / Will Harper]], [[FunctionalMagic Zatanna Zatara]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raquel Ervin / Rocket]], [[MakingASplash Garth / Tempest]], [[MakingASplash Tula / Aquagirl]], [[{{Ambadassador}} Donna Troy / Troia]], [[KilledOffscreen Jason Todd / Robin II]], Freddy Freeman / Lieutenant Marvel, Mary Bromfield / Sergeant Marvel, [[McNinja Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle]], [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Karen Beecher / Bumblebee]], [[FishPeople La'gaan / Lagoon Boy]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Garfield Logan / Beast Boy]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[CuteBruiser Cassie Sandsmark / Wonder Girl]], [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III]], [[MissionControl Mal Duncan / Guardian III]], [[SuperSpeed Bart Allen / Impulse / Kid Flash II]], [[ArmCannon Roy Harper / Speedy I / Arsenal]], [[ElectricBlackGuy Virgil Hawkins / Static]], [[DishingOutDirt Brion Markov / Geo-Force]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Forager / Fred Bugg]], [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov / Terra]]



* TheOneGuy: Robin III is this as of the end of ''Outsiders'' due to every other male member of the Team having either died[[note]](Kid Flash I)[[/note]], left[[note]](Speedy I/Arsenal, Robin I/Nightwing, Lagoon Boy, Guardian III)[[/note]], got promoted to a member of the Justice League[[note]](Speedy II/Red Arrow, Aqualad/Aquaman II)[[/note]] or joined the Outsiders[[note]](Beast Boy, Blue Beetle III, Impulse/Kid Flash II, Static, Geo-Force, Superboy, Forager)[[/note]].



** Inverted as of the end of ''Outsiders'' due to every male member of the Team except Robin III having either died[[note]](Kid Flash I)[[/note]], left[[note]](Speedy I/Arsenal, Robin I/Nightwing, Lagoon Boy, Guardian III)[[/note]], got promoted to a member of the Justice League[[note]](Aqualad/Aquaman II)[[/note]] or joined the Outsiders[[note]](Beast Boy, Blue Beetle III, Impulse/Kid Flash II, Static, Geo-Force, Superboy, Forager)[[/note]].

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** Inverted as of the end of ''Outsiders'' due to every male member of the Team except Nightwing and Robin III having either died[[note]](Kid Flash I)[[/note]], left[[note]](Speedy I/Arsenal, Robin I/Nightwing, Lagoon Boy, Guardian III)[[/note]], got promoted to a member of the Justice League[[note]](Aqualad/Aquaman II)[[/note]] or joined the Outsiders[[note]](Beast Boy, Blue Beetle III, Impulse/Kid Flash II, Static, Geo-Force, Superboy, Forager)[[/note]].
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** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo and Orphan have joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.

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** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo and Orphan have joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's team Team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.
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->'''Current Members:''' [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]]

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->'''Current Members:''' [[MindOverMatter M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Artemis Crock / Tigress]], [[BadassNormal Tim Drake / Robin III]], [[FunctionalMagic Traci Thurston / Thirteen]], [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette]], [[McNinja Stephanie Brown / Spoiler]], [[SuperpowerLottery Violet Harper / Halo]]Halo]], [[TheQuietOne Cassandra Cain / Orphan]]



** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo has joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.

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** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo has and Orphan have joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.
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** It's gotten even worse by the end of ''Outsiders'', while Halo has joined the Team and Artemis/Tigress, Robin III, Arrowette and Spoiler have re-joined the Team after Nightwing's team and Batman Incorporated both disbanded, most of the Team's other members have left to form the Outsiders.

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