History YMMV / SupermantheAnimatedSeries

** If she was too stupid or too hung up on her own ego to listen to the people who warned her about the storm then she has no one to blame but herself. And considering that she was a rude, belligerent bitch to everyone, even when she wasn't being a bigot towards Superman, you really can't feel ''that'' bad for her, as she's definitely more of a victim of her own arrogance.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Livewire. Now, the main view is that she's a jerk who kept being a jerk and she has no right to be angry with Superman, having "saved her life after all." However, I forward something else: Her last facial expression conveys the emotional expression of someone anticipating, with glee, a lethal event. And not only did Superman steal that from her, he ultimately robbed her of her biological humanity. And I'd say that mostly justifies her actions in her first two appearances.
** If she was too stupid or too hung up on her own ego to listen to the people who warned her about the storm then she has no one to blame but herself. And considering that she was a rude, belligerent bitch to just about everyone, even when she wasn't being a bigot towards Superman, you really can't feel ''that'' bad for her, as she's definitely more of an AssholeVictim of her own arrogance.

* CompleteMonster:
** {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}, the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the UltimateEvil of the DCAnimatedUniverse, turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[AllLovingHero Superman]] outright tries to kill.

** As is usual for the character, {{ComicBook/Brainiac}} is a horrible individual with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. In the first episode, he consistently undermines Jor-El's attempts to warn his fellow Kryptonians about the planet's impending destruction, since coordinating a planetary evacuation might interfere with his own escape, which is [[ItsAllAboutMe clearly more important]]. He even attempts to sabotage Jor-El's plans to save his son Kal, just because [[IJustWantToBeSpecial he wants to be the planet's sole survivor]]. After escaping the planet's destruction, he becomes an OmnicidalManiac, [[PlanetLooters looting planets]] of their knowledge and then [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroying them]] and all their inhabitants. Why? Because the fewer people who possess a piece of knowledge, the more valuable it is. And just to top it off, he's not even [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily nice to his fellow villains]]: he has a severe case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, considering his partners and subordinates to be tools to be disposed of as soon as it becomes convenient.

* WhatAnIdiot: Lois Lane in ''Target''. She's put herself in danger multiple times, but at least usually she didn't know how dangerous it was or at least ''tried'' to take some kind of precaution. Here she knows exactly how dangerous her unknown enemy is and she's actually has police protection. During a phone conversation with Clark she suddenly realizes who's trying to kill her. What does she do? She sneaks off to confront them face to face. While Clark and everyone else still thinks she's under police protection. If it hadn't been for Luthor just happening to call Clark to give him a vital piece of information she would have been dead by the end of the episode.

* CompleteMonster: {{Darkseid}}, the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the UltimateEvil of the DCAnimatedUniverse, turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[AllLovingHero Superman]] outright tries to kill.

* WhatAnIdiot: Lois Lane in ''Target''. She's put herself in danger multiple times, but at least usually she didn't know how dangerous it was or at least ''tried'' to take some kind of precaution. Here she knows exactly how dangerous her unknown enemy is and she's actually has police protection. During a phone conversation with Clark she suddenly realizes who's trying to kill her. What does she do? She sneaks off to confront them face to face. While Clark and everyone else still thinks she's under police protection. If it hadn't been for Luthor just happening to call Clark to give him a vital piece of information she would have been dead by the end of the episode.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bruce Timm and Paul Dini have stated that "Legacy" was not originally intended to be the end of the entire show, but merely a season finale (many people are unaware of this, due to how much the well-written and climactic "Legacy" episode certainly ''felt'' like a GrandFinale to many); there was one more season planned, in which the audience would have seen Superman dealing with the horrific fallout from Legacy, especially the fact that [[spoiler: [[BewareTheSuperman a huge number of people don't believe his story that Darkseid had brainwashed him]]]]. It was planned to be the darkest season of the entire series, and would have culminated in a rematch between Superman and Darkseid, in which Superman would finally regain humanity's trust once and for all. Of course, "Legacy" ''did'' end up being a great note to end the show on and was very well-received, and two Superman vs. Darkseid rematches ended up happening after all on the sequel series JusticeLeague and JusticeLeagueUnlimited,and some of the planned story arc elements involving the government's distrust of Superman and Supergirl ended up making it into the Cadmus arc from JLU. But still, the hints that Timm and Dini have given about what the planned final STAS season would have been like ''do'' make one really wish that it had happened anyway, in addition to the later rematches on Justice League.

* CharacterRerailment: TheJoker suffered a pretty heavy VillainDecay in TNBA, becoming a lot less psychotic and intimidating. Here, he's in full-on PutTheLaughterInSlaughter mode, handing Superman a pretty brutal defeat and pulling an EvilerThanThou on Lex freaking Luthor.

* CompleteMonster: '''''{{Darkseid}},''''' , the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the worst bad guy of the DCAnimatedUniverse. Darkseid turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries and JusticeLeagueUnlimited, Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[TheMessiah Superman]] outright tries to kill.

* TooDumbToLive: Lois Lane in ''Target''. She's put herself in danger multiple times, but at least usually she didn't know how dangerous it was or at least ''tried'' to take some kind of precaution. Here she knows exactly how dangerous her unknown enemy is and she's actually has police protection. During a phone conversation with Clark she suddenly realizes who's trying to kill her. What does she do? She sneaks off to confront them face to face. While Clark and everyone else still thinks she's under police protection. If it hadn't been for Luthor just happening to call Clark to give him a vital piece of information she would have been dead by the end of the episode.

* InferredHolocaust: In the episode "Bizarro's World" a nuclear missile detonates a few miles above Metropolis.

* InferredHolocaust: In the episode "Bizarro's World" a nuclear missile detonates a few miles above Metropolis. A few months * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: See [[AwesomeMusic/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries here]]

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Let's just say that when he appeared, {{SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker}} acted more like [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter his usual self]] than every episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' combined.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: See [[AwesomeMusic/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries here]]

* CompleteMonster: '''''{{Darkseid}},''''' , the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the UltimateEvil of the DCAnimatedUniverse. Darkseid turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries and JusticeLeagueUnlimited, Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[TheMessiah Superman]] outright tries to kill.

* HarsherInHindsight: The second episode has a passenger plane hit with a missile and nearly crash into Metropolis. To make it worse the missile was fired by a ''terrorist''[[hottip:note: okay so they're more like mercenaries but everyone called them terrorists in the episode]].

* TooDumbToLive: * Lois Lane in ''Target''. She's put herself in danger multiple times, but at least usually she didn't know how dangerous it was or at least ''tried'' to take some kind of precaution. Here she knows exactly how dangerous her unknown enemy is and she's actually has police protection. During a phone conversation with Clark she suddenly realizes who's trying to kill her. What does she do? She sneaks off to confront them face to face. While Clark and everyone else still thinks she's under police protection. If it hadn't been for Luthor just happening to call Clark to give him a vital piece of information she would have been dead by the end of the episode.

*** In the same episode, Superman's impression of Batman is so spot on, [[UncannyValley Robin tells him never to do that again]]. Recently, Creator/BenAffleck has been chosen as the next Batman. Affleck is well-known for his impressions, and while filming ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', he did his impression of Creator/MorganFreeman for Freeman himself, prompting his to respond with "If you ever do that again, I'll kill you."

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Let's just say that when he appeared, {{SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker}} acted more like [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter his usual self]] than every episode of ''[[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' combined.

* CompleteMonster: '''''{{Darkseid}}.''''' JackKirby would've been proud.