History YMMV / JusticeLeagueOfAmerica

*** [[PersonOfMassDestruction Despero]] is one of the oldest enemies of the Justice League. Having murdered his father to take control of his world, Despero never recovered his pride after the League defeated him. Rebuilding himself into a savage beast, Despero invaded Earth, taking joy in slaughtering the humans he could while attempting to wipe out every living thing, returning multiple times to try again. Resuming his role as a GalacticConqueror, Despero has conquered dozens of worlds and destroyed many others, with billions dead to his name, even attempting to trick other aliens into annihilating Earth out of sheer spite against the heroes he so loathes.

* SnarkBait: Likely the main reason (in combination with SoBadItsGood) it hasn't completely faded into obscurity.

* EthnicScrappy: Vibe.

* HoYay:
** Fire and Ice

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
** Snapper Carr, in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' and the late-'90s ''ComicBook/{{Hourman}}'' series.
** Creator/GrantMorrison's run did this for [[Franchise/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]].

** Snapper Carr.

* {{Asspull}}: The Justice League of America once went up against Despero (an alien with vast mental powers, at the time recently powered-up to be almost as strong and invulnerable as {{Superman}}) with a mostly C-List team. How to beat him? With an innate Martian power that the ComicBook/MartianManhunter had never before mentioned that he had, because using it was so stressful that any given Martian can only do it [[ItOnlyWorksOnce once]] in their life. Despite that, it was still a fairly well-received story. Another weird power of his was the ability to see through the flow of time. This somehow resulted in him being immune to the powers of an opponent who completely rewrote reality. Pulling never before seen powers out of his ass is the ComicBook/MartianManhunter's shtick. And then getting lit on fire the next time said power would have been useful.

*** Creator/GrantMorrison's ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA: Earth-2]]'' brought us ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s [[MirrorUniverse Antimatter Universe]] counterpart. An organic syntellect who was captured by Ultraman and forced to be his slave, Brainiac schemed to not only escape his bonds, but to upgrade himself into an "Nth Level Intelligence." In order to do this, he swapped a plane in the Antimatter Universe for one in the Matter Universe, killing all the passengers on both in the process, and triggering a war between the Justice League and the Crime Syndicate. While the teams were busy fighting, Brainiac set in motion a plan to merge the Matter and Antimatter Universes, a move that would have resulted in the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of all reality]], plotting to use the energy from the resultant explosion to complete his upgrade and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Willing to destroy all life in order to better himself, Antimatter Brainiac was every bit as vile as his Matter Universe twin.

** Pre-Crisis: The bloodthirsty [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Benn Blanx]], from issues 71 and 144, is the EvilCounterpart and ArchEnemy of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]. Blanx restarts a war between two races of Martians and exiles J'onn, whom he later tracks to Earth to kill, murdering countless humans in the process. Becoming the planet's dictator, Blanx uses the powerful Blue Flame to set all of Mars ablaze, leaving the civilization in ruins and leading to J'onn returning to find his people on the verge of extinction. When J'onn demands an explanation for Blanx's cruelty, Blanx reveals [[{{Greed}} a mining corporation offered to purchase the planet]] from Blanx, but he had to be "the last living Martian".

* VindicatedByHistory: In retrospect, Vibe wasn't ''that'' bad. He just needed some work.

** Once he was retconned out of being a founding member in the New 52, Martian Manhunter defaulted into this role. It's almost impossible to find a discussion regarding the New 52 League and not have someone bring up wanting J'onn back to replace Cyborg.

** The bloodthirsty [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Benn Blanx]], from issues 71 and 144, is the EvilCounterpart and ArchEnemy of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]. Blanx restarts a war between two races of Martians and exiles J'onn, whom he later tracks to Earth to kill, murdering countless humans in the process. Becoming the planet's dictator, Blanx uses the powerful Blue Flame to set all of Mars ablaze, leaving the civilization in ruins and leading to J'onn returning to find his people on the verge of extinction. When J'onn demands an explanation for Blanx's cruelty, Blanx reveals [[{{Greed}} a mining corporation offered to purchase the planet]] from Blanx, but he had to be "the last living Martian".
** [[EvilSorcerer Felix Faust]] is one of the most power-hungry sorcerers alive. Kicking off his career by selling his infant son's soul for his own ability, Faust committed many acts of cruel murder and torture to fuel his black magic. When he finally realized he could no longer bargain with his own tainted soul, Faust resorted to harvesting the soul of an innocent little girl to trade to demons. Faust offered his assistance to Black Adam to help resurrect Black Adam's wife Isis, but deceived Adam into thinking Isis's revival had failed, while Faust kept a paralyzed Isis to serve as his personal sex toy.
** Creator/GrantMorrison's ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA: Earth-2]]'' brought us ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s [[MirrorUniverse Antimatter Universe]] counterpart. An organic syntellect who was captured by Ultraman and forced to be his slave, Brainiac schemed to not only escape his bonds, but to upgrade himself into an "Nth Level Intelligence." In order to do this, he swapped a plane in the Antimatter Universe for one in the Matter Universe, killing all the passengers on both in the process, and triggering a war between the Justice League and the Crime Syndicate. While the teams were busy fighting, Brainiac set in motion a plan to merge the Matter and Antimatter Universes, a move that would have resulted in the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of all reality]], plotting to use the energy from the resultant explosion to complete his upgrade and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Willing to destroy all life in order to better himself, Antimatter Brainiac was every bit as vile as his Matter Universe twin.

* MagnificentBastard:
** Max Lord's like the embodiment of this. In the first issue of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'' alone, he [[spoiler:comes back from the dead to mind-control two cops into shooting each other, beats ComicBook/BoosterGold half to death with a pipe, infuses himself with the blood of a small army of random extras, wipes the memory of his existence from the minds of *everyone in the entire world* (except our small band of plucky heroes)]], and rounds it all off with a glass of claret and a cigar on the battlements of Checkmate HQ. Magnificent.
** Prometheus. What else would you expect from a character who was specifically created to be an EvilCounterpart to Batman? Prometheus's got no superpowers, but he's stampeded through the Justice League three times now, and has pulled off ridiculous stuff like completely disabling the Flash by lying to him, or talking Superman into suicide, or blackmailing the League into letting him go after destroying Star City. He even teamed up with Luthor once (they caused World War III, no big deal), which led to a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment ]]when Prometheus showed Luthor around his "crooked house" and the two masterminds passive-aggressively sniped at each other.

** The bloodthirsty [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Benn Blanx]], from issues 71 and 144, is the EvilCounterpart of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]. Blanx restarts a war between two races of Martians and exiles J'onn, whom he later tracks to Earth to kill, murdering countless humans in the process. Becoming the planet's [[EvilOverlord dictator]], Blanx uses the powerful Blue Flame to set all of Mars ablaze, leaving the civilization in ruins and leading to J'onn returning to find his people on the verge of extinction. When J'onn demands an explanation for Blanx's cruelty, Blanx reveals [[{{Greed}} a mining corporation offered to purchase the planet]] from Blanx, but he had to be "the last living Martian".

** The bloodthirsty [[InsaneAdmiral Commander Benn Blanx]], from issues 71 and 144, is the EvilCounterpart and ArchEnemy of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]. Blanx restarts a war between two races of Martians and exiles J'onn, whom he later tracks to Earth to kill, murdering countless humans in the process. Becoming the planet's [[EvilOverlord dictator]], Blanx uses the powerful Blue Flame to set all of Mars ablaze, leaving the civilization in ruins and leading to J'onn returning to find his people on the verge of extinction. When J'onn demands an explanation for Blanx's cruelty, Blanx reveals [[{{Greed}} a mining corporation offered to purchase the planet]] from Blanx, but he had to be "the last living Martian".

** The bloodthirsty Commander Benn Blanx, from issues 71 and 144, is the EvilCounterpart and ArchEnemy of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]]. Blanx restarts a war between two races of Martians and exiles J'onn, whom he later tracks to Earth to kill, murdering countless humans in the process. Becoming the planet's [[EvilOverlord dictator]], Blanx uses the powerful Blue Flame to set all of Mars ablaze, leaving the civilization in ruins and leading to J'onn returning to find his people on the verge of extinction. When J'onn demands an explanation for Blanx's cruelty, Blanx reveals [[{{Greed}} a mining corporation offered to purchase the planet]] from Blanx, but he had to be "the last living Martian".

* FoeYay: Max's charmingly creepy JL:GL "I miss you" monologue to ComicBook/BoosterGold, delivered while lovingly beating Booster half to death with a pipe.

** Max Lord's like the embodiment of this. In the first issue of ''Generation Lost'' alone, he [[spoiler:comes back from the dead to mind-control two cops into shooting each other, beats ComicBook/BoosterGold half to death with a pipe, infuses himself with the blood of a small army of random extras, wipes the memory of his existence from the minds of *everyone in the entire world* (except our small band of plucky heroes)]], and rounds it all off with a glass of claret and a cigar on the battlements of Checkmate HQ. Magnificent.

* MemeticMolester: Aside from all the HoYay going on between him and Booster, in ''Generation Lost'' #9, Max Lord gives Magog a very creepy wink while talking about his 'cojones'.

** For Max Lord, it's killing Ted Kord. [[spoiler: He crossed it again by forcing Magog to kill himself. ''After'' playing with his head enough to get him to attack the heroes. It's implied he was influencing Magog from ''Generation Lost'' #4 up.]]

** Felix Faust is one of the most power hungry sorcerers alive. Kicking off his career by selling his infant son's soul for his own ability, Faust committed many acts of cruel murder and torture to fuel his black magic. When he finally realized he could no longer bargain with his own tainted soul, Faust resorted to harvesting the soul of an innocent little girl to trade to demons. Faust offered his assistance to Black Adam to help resurrect Black Adam's wife Isis, but deceived Adam into thinking Isis's revival had failed, while Faust kept a paralyzed Isis to serve as his personal sex toy.
** Creator/GrantMorrison's ''JLA: Earth-2'' brought us ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s [[MirrorUniverse Antimatter Universe]] counterpart. An organic syntellect who was captured by Ultraman and forced to be his slave, Brainiac schemed to not only escape his bonds, but to upgrade himself into an "Nth Level Intelligence." In order to do this, he swapped a plane in the Antimatter Universe for one in the Matter Universe, killing all the passengers on both in the process, and triggering a war between the Justice League and the Crime Syndicate. While the teams were busy fighting, Brainiac set in motion a plan to merge the Matter and Antimatter Universes, a move that would have resulted in the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of all reality]], plotting to use the energy from the resultant explosion to complete his upgrade and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Willing to destroy all life in order to better himself, Antimatter Brainiac was every bit as vile as his Matter Universe twin.

** Tomorrow Woman of Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]''. Originally debuting and making a HeroicSacrifice in the same issue, she was so popular she reappeared in a special one-shot dedicated to her, was briefly brought back in ''ComicBook/{{Hourman}}'' #2 by the main character, and then was brought back in ''Trinity'', [[spoiler: where she was permanently revived as a human woman with superpowers after the series ended]].

** Prometheus's got no superpowers, but he's stampeded through the Justice League three times now, and has pulled off ridiculous stuff like completely disabling the Flash by lying to him, or talking Superman into suicide, or blackmailing the League into letting him go after destroying Star City. He even teamed up with Luthor once (they caused World War III, no big deal), which led to a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment ]]when Prometheus showed Luthor around his "crooked house" and the two masterminds passive-aggressively sniped at each other.

* FridgeHorror: ''JLA: Rock of Ages'' showed a possible future where ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} ruled. Darkseid had a scar on the right side of his face in that future and his jawline was more pronounced. In ''JLA: World War III'' General Eiling says that he is "the face of tomorrow". Note that he had red eyes, a lantern jaw and a scar on the right side of his face. Now take into account ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', where Darkseid manages to cheat death by hiding in human hosts...

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: V1, #158. By this point, Red Tornado (who happens to be an android,) has been a member of the group for a while, but still has doubts about both himself, and his relationships with his other teammates. There are times when he isn't sure if his teammates truly trust him; where he wonders if all they think of him is just some machine. In this issue, that matter is solved once and for all. After Red Tornado ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome contains a freaking explosion,]]'' he briefly falls unconscious, and drops into the sea below. He probably could have flown out shortly after, but Batman, after dealing with other matters, flies back to Reddy in his jet, and pulls him out of the drink with a rope. As he's climbing, we get this:
-->'''Red Tornado:''' "But... how could you find me, out '''here...?'''
-->'''Batman:''' "How do you think? I followed you in my Batplane! A Justice Leaguer doesn't desert his friends, Reddy!"
-->'''Red Tornado:'''"Am'' I... your ''friend?''"
-->'''Batman:''' *Batman, of all people, simply clasps Reddy's hand, and smiles; Reddy smiles in turn.*

* VindicatedByHistory: In retrospect, Vibe wasn't ''that'' bad. He just needed some work.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: JusticeLeagueOfAmerica meets Series/{{Friends}}.

* VindicatedByHistory: In retrospect, Vibe wasn't ''that'' bad. He just needed some work.

** Once he was retconned out of being a founding member in the New 52, Martian Manhunter defaulted into this role. It's almost impossible to find a discussion regarding the New 52 League and not ahve someone bring up wanting J'onn back to replace Cyborg.

** Snapper Carr, ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' and the late-'90s ''ComicBook/{{Hourman}}'' series.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The latest version of ''Justice League International'' after ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tomorrow Woman of Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]''. Originally debuting and making a HeroicSacrifice in the same issue, she was so popular she reappeared in a special one-shot dedicated to her, was briefly brought back in ''ComicBook/{{Hourman}}'' #2 by the main character, and then was brought back in ''Trinity'', [[spoiler: where she was permanently revived as a human woman with superpowers after the series ended]].

** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'' has Prometheus.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: V1, #158. By this point, Red Tornado (who happens to be an android,) has been a member of the group for a while, but still has doubts about both himself, and his relationships with his other teammates. There are times when he isn't sure if his teammates truly trust him; where he wonders if all they think of him is just some machine. In this issue, that matter is solved once and for all. After Red Tornado ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome contains a freaking explosion,]]'' he briefly falls unconscious, and drops into the sea below. He probably could have flown out shortly after, but Batman, after dealing with other matters, flies back to Reddy in his jet, and pulls him out of the drink with a rope. As he's climbing, we get this:
-->'''Red Tornado:''' "But... how could you find me, out '''here...?'''
-->'''Batman:''' "How do you think? I followed you in my Batplane! A Justice Leaguer doesn't desert his friends, Reddy!"
-->'''Red Tornado:'''"Am'' I... your ''friend?''"
-->'''Batman:''' *Batman, of all people, simply clasps Reddy's hand, and smiles; Reddy smiles in turn.*

** Prometheus's got no superpowers, but he's stampeded through the Justice League three times now, and has pulled off ridiculous stuff like completely disabling the Flash by lying to him, or talking Superman into suicide, or blackmailing the League into letting him go after destroying Star City. He even teamed up with Luthor once (they caused World War III, no big deal), which led to a CrowningMomentOfFunny when Prometheus showed Luthor around his "crooked house" and the two masterminds passive-aggressively sniped at each other.

** Everything that came out as a result of ''ComicBook/CryForJustice''.