History WesternAnimation / SupermanTheAnimatedSeries

** During the "[[WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies Public Enemies]]" arc of ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' comic, Metallo's disguise was reminiscent of his human form and disguise from the ''DCAU''.

* ATeamFiring: Averted throughout most of the series (not that they would actually ''need'' to play it straight, with a bulletproof hero), except for the crossover "World's Finest," which brought Batman and the Joker to Metropolis and seemed to be trying to make up for not using the trope before. When the Joker kidnaps Lois his [[{{Mooks}} henchmen]] shoot at Bruce Wayne and, though they initially appear to be firing at his feet in a deliberate attempt to force him to fall off the roof, by the the time he actually falls they are firing dozens of shots at him from five feet away, [[KnifeOutline outlining his entire body]], without hitting him even once. When he finally does fall off the roof he lands on a scaffold and the criminals continue to shoot at him, firing so many bullets ''they knock the scaffold off the building and actually demolish the wooden floor he is standing on'', still without hitting Bruce.

* HitchhikersLeg: In "World's Finest", ComicBook/TheJoker, of all people, pulls this off while acting like a hitchhiker to stop ComicBook/LexLuthor's car (driven by [[Characters/BatmanHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]]) to pick him up.

* AndIMustScream: Metallo's predicament at the end of "Action Figures". He gets better.

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** In a WhatCouldHaveBeen example, Perry White was originally considering to be turned into an African-American man before DC vetoed the idea -- 13 years before Creator/ZackSnyder made the idea a reality with the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse and the casting of Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Perry.

* BaldOfEvil: [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Three guesses who]].

** Despite the show's version of Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} being a loose adaptation of Kara Zor-El, the then-current Supergirl, Linda Danvers, wore the first costume of ''DCAU'' Supergirl for the rest of her tenure. Likewise, Kara In-Ze's age gap, being ''older'' than Clark technically, but not physically or mentally, was reused for ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' when it introduced a post-Crisis version of Kara.
** During the "[[WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies Public Enemies]]" arc of ''Superman/Batman'' comic, Metallo's disguise was reminiscent of his human form and disguise from the ''DCAU''.

* AcquittedTooLate: When Superman and Lois Lane have found the proof to exonerate a man on death-row, they find that the governor is not at home because he decided to attend the execution personally, and Lois laments that they barely had time for him to make the phone call stopping the execution. Kenny is already in the gas chamber and the switch had already been thrown. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope It is a good thing Superman]] [[BigDamnHero is able to save him anyway]].]]

** In "The Late Mr. Kent", Kenny, who is on death row, admits that he was a thief who committed robbery plenty of times, but he never hurt anybody and ''did not'' kill the woman he was convicted of murdering.

* BoxingKangaroo: In "Obsession," Toyman deploys a mechanical kangaroo with boxing gloves to capture Darcy. It matches up pretty well against Superman.

* BoxingKangaroo: In "Obsession," Toyman deploys a mechanical kangaroo with boxing gloves to capture Darcy.

** In "World's Finest," when the Lexwing is about to blow, Superman saves Lex and Batman saves Harley Quinn. Joker [[AvertedTrope is on his own]].

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: A retroactive case concerning Abin Sur. The reason he was dying in the first place (being mortally wounded by Atrocitus, future founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps) wasn't revealed until the "Secret Origin" arc of Geoff Johns' run on the ''Green Lantern'' comic, which was published two years after the DCAU came to an end. Here, it was established that Sinestro is responsible for Abin Sur dying.

** This continuity gives Green Lantern Kyle Rayner a decidedly different origin from what he had in the comics, where he was given a ring by Ganthet during a time where the Green Lantern Corps was disbanded. This version of Kyle Rayner is established to be a co-worker of Clark Kent's to explain his presence in Metropolis, is given his ring by a dying Abin Sur due to being a CompositeCharacter with Hal Jordan and had Sinestro indirectly responsible for Kyle being inducted into the Corps because Sinestro was the one who killed Abin Sur in the first place (in the comics, Sinestro had no involvement in the death of Abin Sur and was even established later on to consider Abin Sur a friend in spite of his own betrayal of the Green Lantern Corps).

* AdaptationOriginConnection: In this version, the failure to evacuate Krypton is due to Brainiac's deliberate suppression of Jor-El's theories, making the comic-book Coluan robot into a Kryptonian example of AIIsACrapshoot. As such, Brainiac is responsible for Superman's status as (initially) the LastOfHisKind. Brainiac goes on to be one of the series' {{Big Bad}}s alongside Comicbook/LexLuthor and {{Comicbook/Darkseid}}.

%%* AmusingAlien: Mr. Mxyzptlk.

%%* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Titano.

%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: This happens to Superman in the GrandFinale "Legacy".

%%* TheCollector: The Preserver in "The Main Man".

%%* CreepyMonotone: Brainiac

%%* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dan Turpin]].

* SillySimians: "Monkey Fun". Yes, the episode's name is ''actually'' "Monkey Fun". The episode is about the monkey Titano, and is more of a comic relief episode.