History Recap / JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E3KidStuff

* BoringButPractical: When Kid GL was trying to decide what weapon to form to fight the golems, from a laser cannon to a missile launcher, Batboy angrily tells him to just pick something already as the golem was getting closer. He settles with hitting it away with a giant boxing glove.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Superman shoots Mordred in the foot with his heat vision, but it doesn't slow him down for long.

Morgaine le Fey transforms Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern into 8-year-olds after her son Mordred uses his magic to remove all adults from Earth and keep children on the earth.

* ThereAreNoAdults

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point, Mordred rubs his face in frustration. For a split second, this makes him look similar to his appearance by the end of the episode
* GenreBlind: Not that it matters too much. The JL managed to trick Mordred into doing the one thing that will turn his own magic against him: aging himself up.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Copperhead needs some sense smacked into him by Cheetah when he believes the adults enter Hell.
-->'''Copperhead''': "It was Judgement Day! And we got sent to the Bad Place! THE BAD PLACE!!!"
-->'''Cheetah''': (smacks Copperhead) "Snap out of it, Copper!"

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: All four Justice League members are technically this, as they have the physical bodies of their child years with the memories of their adulthood. But as they also have their childhood ''personalities'', only Bruce acts this way.

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-->''"You don't need a mommy! You're better off without one! Trust me!"''

* AndIMustScream: Mordred's fate. He had eternal youth ,but now he only has [[AgeWithoutYouth eternal life.]]

-->Copperhead: "It was Judgement Day! And we got sent to the Bad Place! THE BAD PLACE!!!"
-->Cheetah: (smacks Copperhead) "Snap out of it, Copper!"

* GenreBlind: Not that it matters too much. They managed to trick him into doing the one thing that will turn his own magic against him: aging himself up.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Justice Kids and Etrigan succeed in getting the First Magic amulet away from Mordred only to find he doesn't need it anyway.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Mordred.

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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Copperhead needs some sense smacked into him when he believes the adults enter Hell.

* [[spoiler:AgeWithoutYouth: Once Mordred breaks Morgaine's spell of eternal youth, he ages to the appearance of what you'd expect someone several centuries old would look like. [[IronicHell And because he now only has eternal LIFE instead of eternal LIFE AND YOUTH, his mother STILL has to take care of him.]]]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Mordred's fate. He had eternal youth ,but now he only has [[AgeWithoutYouth eternal life.]]]]

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:How Batman [[IncrediblyLamePun (hahaha)]] gets Mordred to defeat himself. He mocks Mordred for being a MommasBoy, accuses him of ''liking it'' and proposes that if he ''really DIDN'T,'' he wouldn't allow himself to look like a child forever. Mordred ages himself up. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard The expected happens.]]]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:The Justice Kids and Etrigan succeed in getting the First Magic amulet away from Mordred only to find he doesn't need it anyway.]]
** GenreBlind: [[spoiler:Not that it matters too much. They managed to trick him into doing the one thing that will turn his own magic against him: aging himself up.]]

* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mordred ages himself up to an adult to prove that he can, which causes his magic to send him away to the dimension the rest of the adults are sealed in, [[AgeWithoutYouth among other things.]]]]

* [[spoiler:NotAllowedToGrowUp: Mordred is still a child despite being centuries old. Because if his mother allowed him to age, he'd age [[AgeWithoutYouth FOREVER.]]]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Inverted for the heroes; turning them into children allows them to stay on Earth. [[spoiler:Played straight for Mordred; this allows him to be defeated.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: The little redhead girl with the bunny doll. [[spoiler:Her understandable fearfulness and crying distracts Mordred from killing the Justice Kids.]]
** UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: But before that, she was this. [[spoiler:She woke Mordred up just before the heroes could take his AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome.]]

* MythologyGag: When John creates his second (much cooler) glasses, they look nearly identical to the mask of Green Lantern Kyle Raynor.

* VillainousBreakdown: Guess.

* CoolShades: Green Lantern had bad vision as a child so he needs these.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:The Justice Kids and Etrigan succeed in getting the First Magic amulet away from Mordred only to find he doesn't need it anymore anyway.]]

* EvilBrit: Mordred.

* GuileHero: Batman.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Batman.

* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Inverted for the heroes; this allows them to fight. [[spoiler:Played straight for Mordred; this allows him to be defeated.]]

* TeamMom: Wonder Woman.

* FourTempermentEnsemble: John is sanguine, Diana is choleric, Bruce is melancholic and Clark is phlegmatic.