History ComicBook / JusticeLeague2011

* AbortedArc: The "Amazo Virus" arc ends with the eponymous villain vowing to escape and infect Luthor. Additionally, the mysterious party who had been behind Luthor's assassination attempts decides to take matters into their own hands. Finally, Amos Fortune is set up as the villain from an upcoming arc, as he is seen among the people who are granted superpowers by the titular virus. None of these plotlines are resolved by the time Johns leaves the book.

The run served by the early basis for the ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse''.

Storylines in this run that have their own pages:

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Issue 11 claims the Yan tribe, who live in Southern America, worship cheetahs, which is pretty impressive given cheetahs are found in ''Africa''.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Lex Luthor joins the League after the events of ''Forever Evil''. Well, "joins". He forces his way onto the team because he's Lex Luthor.

* AbortedArc: The "Amazo Virus" arc ends with the titular villain vowing to escape and infect Luthor. Additionally, the mysterious party who had been behind Luthor's assassination attempts decides to take matters into their own hands. Neither plotline is resolved by the time Johns leaves the book.

* PatientZero: Dr. Armen Ikarus is one for the titular virus of the "Amazo Virus" arc, becoming a cyborg version of the classic JLA enemy of the same name.
* TearsOfBlood: One of the symptoms Batman has when he contracts the Amazo Virus.

* TheVirus: Cheetah bites Superman, turning him into a super-cheetahman. It's mentioned that usually, people Cheetah bites just ''die''.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: The Cheetah and Wonder Woman. Diana is determined to save her friend, but Barbara insists she's wasting her time.
* WolverinePublicity: Given the first issue came out during the time ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' was being released and the same year as ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', this is why the first team up shown is with Batman and Green Lantern.

* EvilAllAlong: Barbara Minerva claims as such to Diana.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:The Atom/Atomica for the Crime Syndicate.]]

* AdaptedOut: The ComicBook/MartianManhunter was replaced by ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} as a founding member of the League.

* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; but ''Darkseid'', if you could believe it, is significantly [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]] in this run. While he's still plenty powerful and fearsome as always, the newly formed Justice League are able to repel him and his invasion force in a surprisingly short amount of time in "Origins", being grievously injured (i.e getting ''[[EyeScream stabbed in both eyes]]'') by both Wonder Woman and Aquaman and forced back through a Boom Tube by Superman and Batman. This defeat was so critical he was forced to go into hibernation to heal his these injuries and wouldn't show up until ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin'' when Batman and Co. ended up coming to Apokolips to find the Chaos Crystal. Batman purposely goes apeshit on his forces to wake him up as he needs to infuse the crystal with Darkseid's Omega Sanction to bring his son Damian back to life. Even then, Batman puts up a good fight (helped by utilizing a rather health-depleting PowerArmor) against the Dark One, and manages to get him to try and kill him with the Omega Beams, charges the crystal, and blasts him with a Unibeam-esque weapon and gets away to tell the tale. And even by ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' when he returns to Earth as he's been provoked into battle against the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]], who gains the upper hand and actually succeeds in ''killing him''. If that's not enough, it turns out to all be a ploy by his half-Amazon daughter Grail to utilize the Anti-Life Equation, the very weapon he's always sought, to bond his spirit into Superwoman's newborn baby and resurrect him, but completely mindless and under her control. And after the League eventually defeat them both, he reverts back to a baby looked after by Grail.

** Much like ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics'', the "Origins" arc takes place five years before the rest of the New 52 universe (and the rest of the series).

* LegacyImplosion: The ''New 52'' version of Cheetah is Barbara Minerva, who has gone under the false identities of the previous Cheetahs, meaning they no longer exist.

Thanks to the events of ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', the Franchise/DCUniverse was radically changed, with most superheroes only having been a recent thing and initally greeted with hostility from the general populace. That all changes when an invasion by the planet [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]] happens, leading to the formation of the Justice League. However, not all are happy with this, as the League learns as their adventures continues.

* BodyHorror: This was in full force with the Amazo Virus, with Armen Ikarus sporting bulging veins, a messed-up mouth, losing most of his hair, and even what looks to be patches of exposed muscle tissue at one point. And that's without getting into the depowering effects of it; giving superpowers to people in horrific ways; or that fact that when he has it, Batman is leaking blood and blind.

** In issue 6, it's established Darkseid is looking for his daughter.

* MythologyGag: The cover to the book-within-a-book "Justice League: Gods Among Men" shows the League fighting Starro the Conqueror, much like the cover to the team's debut in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #28.

* OriginsEpisode: Much like ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics'', the "Origins" arc takes place five years before the rest of the New 52 universe (and the rest of the series).
* PatientZero: Dr. Armen Ikarus was one of the titular virus of the "Amazo Virus" arc, becoming a cyborg version of the classic JLA enemy of the same name.

* VariantPowerCopying: Dr. Armen Ikarus, PatientZero of the titular "Amazo Virus" arc, could do this, including mutating his eyes to use heat vision and growing wings for flight.

* {{Flanderization}}: While Wonder Woman going from reluctant but willing to using lethal force to more often than not going for the kill is a problem the New 52-era has, issue #22 includes one of the more famous instances: Diana boasting to Superman that she doesn't have as much of a rogue's gallery like him, Batman, or the Flash because of her willingness to kill.

* {{Flanderization}}: While Wonder Woman going from reluctant but willing to using lethal force to more often than not going for the kill is a problem the New 52-era has, issue #22 includes one of the more famous instances: Diana boasting to Superman that she doesn't have a rogue's gallery like him, Batman, or the Flash because of her willingness to kill.

* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'' (a crossover series spawned from the events of ''Trinity War'')

* WolverinePublicity: Given the first issue came out during the time ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' was being released and the same year as the ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' movie, this is why the first team up shown is with Batman and Green Lantern.

* WolverinePublicity: Given the first issue came out during the time ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' was being released and the same year as the ''Film/GreenLantern'' movie, this is why the first team up shown is with Batman and Green Lantern. A quote by [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] about the use of this trope for Batman in the ComicBook/New52 also mentioned this series.

* BookEnds: The series begins and ends with invasions by ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. Both times, ironically enough, he suffers CurbStompBattles

* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; but ''Darkseid'', if you could believe it, is significantly [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]] in this run. While he's still plenty powerful and fearsome as always, the newly formed Justice League are able to repel him and his invasion force in a surprisingly short amount of timein "Origins", being grievously injured (i.e getting ''[[EyeScream stabbed in both eyes]]'') by both Wonder Woman and Aquaman and forced back through a Boom Tube by Superman and Batman. This defeat was so critical he was forced to go into hibernation to heal his these injuries and wouldn't show up until ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin'' when Batman and Co. ended up coming to Apokalips to find the Chaos Crystal. Batman purposely goes apeshit on his forces to wake him up as he needs to infuse the crystal with Darkseid's Omega Sanction to bring his son Damian back to life. Even then, Batman puts up a good fight (helped by utilizing a rather health-depleting PowerArmor) against the Dark One, and manages to get him to try and kill him with the Omega Beams, charges the crystal, and blasts him with a Unibeam-esque weapon and gets away to tell the tale. And even by ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' when he returns to Earth as he's been provoked into battle against the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]], who gains the upperhand and actually succeeds in ''killing him''. If that's not enough, it turns out to all be a ploy by his half-Amazon daughter Grail to utilize the Anti-Life Equation, the very weapon he's always sought, to bond his spirit into Superwoman's newborn baby and resurrect him, but completely mindless and under her control. And after the League eventually defeat them both, he reverts back to a baby looked after by Grail.

* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; but ''Darkseid'', if you could believe it, is significantly [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]] in this run. While he's still plenty powerful and fearsome as always, the newly formed Justice League are able to repel him and his invasion force in a surprisingly short amount of timein "Origins", being grievously injured (i.e getting ''[[EyeScream stabbed in both eyes]]'') by both Wonder Woman and Aquaman and forced back through a Boom Tube by Superman and Batman. This defeat was so critical he was forced to go into hibernation to heal his these injuries and wouldn't show up until ''ComicBook/Batman&Robin'' when Batman and Co. ended up coming to Apokalips to find the Chaos Crystal. Batman purposely goes apeshit on his forces to wake him up as he needs to infuse the crystal with Darkseid's Omega Sanction to bring his son Damian back to life. Even then, Batman puts up a good fight (helped by utilizing a rather health-depleting PowerArmor) against the Dark One, and manages to get him to try and kill him with the Omega Beams, charges the crystal, and blasts him with a Unibeam-esque weapon and gets away to tell the tale. And even by ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' when he returns to Earth as he's been provoked into battle against the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]], who gains the upperhand and actually succeeds in ''killing him''. If that's not enough, it turns out to all be a ploy by his half-Amazon daughter Grail to utilize the Anti-Life Equation, the very weapon he's always sought, to bond his spirit into Superwoman's newborn baby and resurrect him, but completely mindless and under her control. And after the League eventually defeat them both, he reverts back to a baby looked after by Grail.

** Likewise, most incarnations of Darkseid emerge years after the League forms. Here, he's the reason the League exists as his invasion caused the team to form.

* BookEnds: The series begins and ends with invasions by ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}.

'''Flash''': Well, I'm sure we'll think of something.