History HoYay / JusticeLeague

[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[Characters/DCAUSuperman Superman]]''': Batman! It's really you!\\
'''[[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]]''': Am I missing something?]]

---> '''Batman''': I've got some things to say. I should have said them when you were here, but... despite our differences, I have nothing but respect for you. I hope you knew - ''know'' that. You showed me that justice doesn't always have to come from the darkness. I'll miss - "\\
[''explosion in the distance'']\\

--> '''Batman''' [to Flash]: I think he likes you.

[[caption-width-right:350:Kraggers really doesn't like [[MurderTheHypotenuse Hawkgirl getting Hro Talak's attention]].]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Maid of Honor", Wonder Woman and Princess Audrey have a... very close relationship after a night of partying. Considering that Diana is an Amazon hailing from a society with literally no men and Audrey just radiates that "[[AnythingThatMoves depraved]] aristocrat" vibe, one might wonder what exactly went on that night.

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' had more than its fair share of Superman/Batman HoYay, the pinnacle of which occurred in the episode "Hereafter". Superman is vaporized in the first act, and Batman's response is to carry around a scrap of his cape, finger it absently while reviewing a tape of Supes' death ad infinitum, and maintain to anyone who'll listen that he's {{not quite dead}}. Of course, this being Batman, [[NeverFoundTheBody he's]] [[MeanwhileInTheFuture right]], but League members still manage to call him out on his stoic bullshit. [[TalkingToTheDead And then there's this speech]]:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Maid of Honor", Wonder Woman and Princess Audrey have a... very close relationship after a night of partying. Considering that Diana is an Amazon hailing from a society with no men whatsoever and Audrey just radiates that "[[AnythingThatMoves depraved]] aristocrat" vibe, one might wonder what exactly went on that night.

* [[TheStoic Batman]] going from dismissal to grudging respect for [[PluckyComicRelief Flash]] would be fine on its own, but there's the episode "A Better World", and [[KnightTemplar Lord Batman]] repeatedly apologizing to Flash for taking on the League, leaping down the stairs when he believes [[TheHeart Flash]] is dying, and not checking any kind of security before releasing Flash's bonds.

* At the beginning of the three-part story "The Savage Time", normal Batman was replaced by freedom fighter Batman due to Vandal Savage changing history. After setting everything right, the Justice League returned to their original timeline. When normal Batman shows up, Superman [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BatSlash.jpg runs over and hugs him]]. The rest of the Justice League smile sympathetically.

* Huntress and Black Canary have some pretty strong subtext in Grudge Match. Question (aka Huntress' ''boyfriend'') calls Huntress out on essentially ''stalking'' Black Canary, a woman who she's not even supposed to like, and she defends herself in embarrassment while she watches Black Canary in her room. When they give in to temptation and agree to have a fight at the end, Black Canary takes off her jacket and Huntress ''takes off her belt''.

* In ''Starcrossed'', Hro Talak's lieutenant Kragger seizes every opportunity he can to cock-block Hro and Shayera, who are engaged. Towards the end, he's actually ''smiling'' as he does so. When J'onn looks into his mind, we see statues of Shayera, Hro and Kragger. The Shayera statue is broken and crumbled, and the Kragger statue has replaced it by Hro's side.
** When the Thanagarians return in ''Justice League Unlimited'' and Kragger is basically a vegetable in a robot suit, almost all of his dialogue is reinforcing the HoYay between him and Talak. "You took Commander Talak from us!". It wasn't her costing his home planet the war and dooming it's survivors to enslavement that made him really upset, it was her "taking Talak from us". According to [[WordOfGod Bruce Timm]], "[Kragger] plays Hro Talak's right-hand man who probably is a little bit more than that — at least in his own mind, which is pretty obvious when J'onn gets in here, we see the two big statues with the crushed statue of Hawkgirl laying at their feet. A little bit of symbolism there, which amazingly went over a lot of people's head."

* There was something between a serious bromance and this trope going on between the Shining Knight and Vigilante. They were only ever in episodes ''and'' fight scenes together (except for Vig in Hunter's Moon, anyways). Even when they show up only in the background, like in the cafeteria, they're eating together. Not to mention the late nights staying up watching Clint Eastwood movies together....

* In ''Fury'', Tsukuri's loyalty to Aresia boarders on LesYay. They're both trying to [[{{Gendercide}} eradicate men from the planet]]. Not to mention one particular scene where Tsukuri refuses to leave Aresia behind, even when it was just the plan.
* The Flash and GreenLantern, naturally, have their moments where their arguing almost looks like BelligerentSexualTension, with Green Lantern looking and feeling like an exasperated husband dealing with a flighty wife in Flash, while instances where they go to great lengths to protect and save one another make them seem like more than "just friends". In the JLU episode ''Kid's Stuff'' when everyone reacts in surprise to hear Green Lantern make a corny joke he embarrassingly chalks it up to spending too much time with the Flash.
* Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} become very close very... quickly in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Girl's Night Out", and in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' Christmas episode, they are absent 'on a skiing holiday together'. Don't forget the scene with Batgirl gleefully RIDING a flying Supergirl....

** Especially prevalent in that afterward Audrey started to treat Diana like a [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]], [[PsychoExGirlfriend jealous ex]] because she was trying to stop her marriage with [[spoiler:Vandal Savage]]. Also note how earlier in the episode, Audrey even says "I'm a world class party girl, I intend to go out with a bang. Several, if it can be arranged" then winks at WW. Then later she's flirting with 4 "hot guy" types, offers 2 of them to WW, then suggests they both "go to the VIP room"
** The scene at the Eiffel Tower is ''very'' heavy with the subtext, with Audrey's remark about keeping Wonder Woman's dancing a secret being rather flirtatious, especially since she's ''holding her hand'' . Some of the more passionate fans were screaming ''JUST KISS ALREADY!'' .

* Lex's obsession with finding Brainiac in the final season of ''Unlimited'' is pretty intense. To be fair there's probably little other way to play the search for someone you once [[spoiler:shared a body]] with, but still. Of course, it seems even ''more'' slashy when you start hearing Lex's dialogue ("We can finally be together again!"). Then there's the fact that [[spoiler:Tala, his lover, betrays him because she's sick of him always pining after Brainiac]]. Nope, nothing suspect about that at ''all''. Not to mention the attempted resurrection in "Alive," which includes a close-up of Lex's ecstatic face while he exclaims "Brainiac... I'm coming!"

* [[TheStoic Batman]] going from dismissal to grudging respect for [[PluckyComicRelief Flash]] would be fine on its own, but there's the episode "A Better World", and [[KnightTemplar JusticeLord!Batman]] repeatedly apologizing to Flash for taking on the League, leaping down the stairs when he believes [[TheHeart Flash]] is dying, and not checking any kind of security before releasing Flash's bonds.

** [[RefugeInAudacity Bondage. Lots of it.]]
** Especially prevalent in that afterward Audrey started to treat Diana like a [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]], [[PsychoExGirlfriend jealous ex]] because she was trying to stop her marriage with [[spoiler:Vandal Savage]].
** Also note how earlier in the episode, Audrey even says "I'm a world class party girl, I intend to go out with a bang. Several, if it can be arranged" then winks at WW. Then later she's flirting with 4 "hot guy" types, offers 2 of them to WW, then suggests they both "go to the VIP room"

** Of course, the entire episode was known for its LesYay subtext - as is every other Black Canary story these days.

** When the Thanagarians return in ''Justice League Unlimited'' and Kragger is basically a vegetable in a robot suit, almost all of his dialogue is reinforcing the HoYay between him and Talak. "You took Commander Talak from us!". It wasn't her costing his home planet the war and dooming it's survivors to enslavement that made him really upset, it was her "taking Talak from us".
*** According to [[WordOfGod Bruce Timm]], "[Kragger] plays Hro Talak's right-hand man who probably is a little bit more than that — at least in his own mind, which is pretty obvious when J'onn gets in here, we see the two big statues with the crushed statue of Hawkgirl laying at their feet. A little bit of symbolism there, which amazingly went over a lot of people's head."

* There was something between a serious bromance and this trope going on between the Shining Knight and Vigilante. They were only ever in episodes ''and'' fight scenes together (except for Vig in Hunter's Moon, anyways). Even when they show up only in the background, like in the cafeteria, they're eating together.
** Not to mention the late nights staying up watching Clint Eastwood movies together....
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "The Balance", contains a lot of Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl lesbian subtext.
** Especially as their estranged relationship could be looked at as two ex-couples incapable of moving on.

* Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} become very close very... quickly in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Girl's Night Out", and in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' Christmas episode, they are absent 'on a skiing holiday together'.
** Don't forget the scene with Batgirl gleefully RIDING a flying Supergirl....
* "The Balance" really ramps up the relationship between Diana and Shayera they act more like exes than estranged friends.