Line #44 Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E3KidStuff


1	Mordred uses his magic to remove all adults from Earth, leaving only children. Morgaine le Fey uses her magic to turn Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman into children in order to change things back.
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3	!!This episode includes examples of:
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5	* AdaptationDistillation: The story is a loose adaptation of the ''JLA: World Without Grown-ups'' story, with Young Justice, Shazam and the instigating villain of the story AdaptedOut, combined with elements of the ''Sins of Youth'' crossover, ''also'' with Young Justice, Old Justice and the (different) instigating villain adapted out.
6	* AdultsAreUseless: According to [[OverlordJr Mordred]] anyways. However, it's Morgaine le Fey who helps the Justice League get back to Earth to fight him and several children admit out right that they miss their parents.
7	* 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. And because he now only has eternal life instead of eternal life ''and'' youth, [[IronicHell his mother]] ''[[IronicHell still]]'' [[IronicHell has to take care of him.]]
8	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Superman uses his heat vision on the bottom of an enlarged Mordred's GiantFootOfStomping, but it doesn't slow him down for long.
9	* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The Amulet of First Magic.
10	* AndIMustScream: Mordred's fate. As Le Fey states, he had eternal youth, but now he only has [[AgeWithoutYouth eternal life]].
11	* BadassAdorable: The kiddy-fied Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and Etrigan. With Wonder Woman as a LittleMissBadass.
12	* BatmanGambit: How Batman 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.]]
13	-->'''Superboy:''' Some king.\
14	'''Wondergirl:''' I'm not impressed.\
15	'''Batboy:''' What'd you expect? He's a ''boy'', doing a ''man's'' job.\
16	'''Mordred:''' You don't know what it's like, being stuck as a ''kid''!\
17	'''Batboy:''' (''smirking'') Since you got all that power, you could've been a man anytime you wanted! I think you're too chicken to grow up!\
18	'''Kid Lantern:''' Yup! Biiiiig chicken, that's what you are!\
19	'''Batboy:''' (''full-on grinning at this point'') Face it, Precious; you ''like'' being a little MommasBoy!\
20	'''Mordred:''' [[VillainousBreakdown I'll show you!]] ''[[VillainousBreakdown I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!]]'' (''transforms into an adult'') I'm older than you now!\
21	'''Batboy:''' You sure are.\
22	'''Mordred:''' (''starts to vanish'') What? Wait! NO!!!
23	* BetrayalByOffspring: Morgaine by Mordred.
24	* BlackAndNerdy: John spends some time geeking out about what he can make with his ring.
25	* 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 knocking it away with a giant boxing glove.
26	* CaptainOblivious: Superman.
27	* TheComedyDrop: the Leaguers are de-aged to face Mordred. When they're restored to their proper ages, Etrigan is in Wonder Woman's arms. He grins at her and facetiously says, "Mommy!"; Wondy drops him like a sack of potatoes on the ground.
28	* CoolShades: Green Lantern had bad vision as a child, and needs these, though they take the form of NerdGlasses until Batman makes a comment about them.
29	* CreepyChild: Mordred.
30	* CurbStompBattle: The League just finishes wrapping one up against a gang of C-list villains, consisting of Blockbuster, [=KGBeast=], Cheetah, and Copperhead, before the plot begins.
31	* CuteBruiser: Superman.
32	* DarkShepherd: How Superman gets some kids to stop fighting and listen to him: he shoots his heat vision at them.
33	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Sadly after a huge amount of ShipTease, Batman still pushes Wonder Woman away.
34	* DontTellMama: How Wonder Woman gets the whole populace of children to do what she says or else.
35	* DoubleMeaning: At the end of the episode, with everything back to normal. Wonder Woman admits it was fun being a kid again. Batman claims he hasn't ''"been a kid since he was 8 years old"'', no doubt referring to the day his parents were gunned down, thus robbing him of his childhood and making him the man he is today.
36	* EnemyMine: Morgaine Le Fay helps the Justice League get back to Earth and defeat Mordred...mainly because he stabbed her in the back when he cast his spell.
37	* EvilBrit: Mordred. Morgaine le Fay is also evil, but willing to work with her enemies in order to work against her son.
38	* FakeShemp: Etrigan’s VA Michael T Weiss didn’t return for this episode, so Etrigan spends most of the episode de-aged into a baby, with grunts provided by Creator/DeeBradleyBaker, with his one line of dialogue when returned to normal being an uncredited Creator/KevinConroy.
39	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: John is sanguine, Diana is choleric, Bruce is melancholic and Clark is phlegmatic.
40	* FountainOfYouth: The heroes have to accept Morgaine's help to turn them temporarily into children to help them get back to Earth.
41	* FunSize: The heroes are turned into kids.
42	* GenreBlindness: 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.
43	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Copperhead needs some sense smacked into him by Cheetah when he believes the adults enter Hell.
44	-->'''Copperhead''': It was Judgement Day! And we got sent to the Bad Place! The ''Bad Place!!!''
45	-->'''Cheetah''': (''smacks Copperhead'') Snap out of it, Copper!
46	* GuileHero: About the only thing Batman has in child form are his brain and child-sized bat-gadgets.
47	* 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]].
48	* HumongousMecha: Green Lantern makes one.
49	* IdiotBall: Mordred aging himself into an adult, allowing him to become HoistByHisOwnPetard.
50	* IGaveMyWord: "A bargain is a bargain," in Morgaine's own words, right before she turns the heroes (even Etrigan, her archenemy) back into adults rather than try and take revenge for previously foiling her schemes.
51	* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Aged down, John finds it much easier to use his power ring, but his imagination goes into overdrive and he can't decide what to make first. He is also more easily distracted.
52	* ImmortalImmaturity: Mordred as a side effect of not maturing for centuries.
53	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bruce's normal personality is softened. He keeps his distance from the other League members as usual, but is the only one who doesn't boss the normal children around (even Clark does!), and he is the first to tell everyone not to hurt Etrigan.
54	* KidsAreCruel: Some children have great fun using a guillotine. John briefly ponders using a giant lawn mower to chew up Mordred, and even Clark uses his heat vision to make boys listen to him (although he does aim away from them).
55	* LittleMissBadass: The aged-down Wonder Woman.
56	* LivingToys: Mordred animates some action figures to act as his guards.
57	* LoopholeAbuse: Mordred's spell banished all adults to another dimension. How do the League combat him? By having Le Fay temporarily turn them into kids in order to get back to Earth.
58	* MagicPants: The heroes' outfits and equipment shrink to fit their smaller bodies, and grow back to normal size at the end.
59	* MentalShutdown: After defeating Mordred, [[spoiler:he loses his eternal youth, [[AgeWithoutYouth but not his immortality]]. This leaves him completely unresponsive, trapped in a body that has aged thousands of years in seconds.]]
60	* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The de-aged heroes act like eight-year olds… except for Batman, and that is because stopped considering himself a child [[HarmfulToMinors when his parents were murdered]].
61	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Morgaine le Fey cooperates with the Justice League after Mordred banishes her.
62	** Furthermore, given her power to turn the League into children, it's entirely possible that she has the power to undo Mordred's decrepit state at the episode's end, but simply doesn't as punishment for his actions.
63	* MommasBoy: Mordred. He does not like being reminded of this.
64	* MyBelovedSmother: Morgaine le Fey.
65	* MythologyGag: When John creates his second (much cooler) glasses, they look nearly identical to the mask fellow Lantern Kyle Rayner wears in the comics.
66	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Mordred is still a child despite being centuries old. Because if his mother allowed him to age, he'd age ''[[AgeWithoutYouth forever]]''. Which is why he decides to backstab his mom -- he'd gotten fed up with the constant failed plots and wanted to start ''ruling'' already.
67	* NotSoAboveItAll:
68	** For all their bluster in battle, Blockbuster and Copperhead wind up scared silly when they get transported to another universe. The former is even ''sucking his thumb''!
69	** Batkid tries to act serious, but being aged down has made him more prone to childish behavior.
70	** Once Morgaine le Fey restores the heroes to their proper ages, Etrigan calls Diana "Mommy".
71	* OhCrap: Mordred has this reaction when he realizes he just broke the eternal youth spell, knowing his age will finally catch up to him, but thanks to the eternal life spell, he won't die.
72	* OnlySaneMan: The de-aged Batman is the one who has an easier time keeping his head on his shoulders and focusing on the mission... [[DeconstructedTrope because of the trauma of his parents' murder that happened at that age]].
73	* OverlordJr: Mordred.
74	* PetTheDog: There's really no other way to explain why Morgaine would turn Etrigan, her eternal enemy, back into an adult other than this trope, as he wasn't a part of her initial deal to aid the Justice League.
75	* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Played straight for Mordred; this allows him to be defeated.
76	* PuppyLove: Kid Diana's crush on Bruce.
77	* SequelEpisode: To Season One's [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E20And21AKnightOfShadows "A Knight of Shadows"]], continuing and concluding the Morgan le Fey storyline.
78	* ShipTease: Between Bruce and Diana, as usual. She also shows a little interest in Clark, though that may have just been an attempt to [[OperationJealousy make Bruce jealous]].
79	* SpannerInTheWorks: The little redhead girl with the bunny doll. Her justified fearfulness and crying distracts Mordred from killing the Justice Kids.
80	* TeamMom: Wonder Woman, of the extremely bossy kind.
81	* TeenageWasteland: The world becomes this with Mordred's no-adults spell put into place.
82	* ThereAreNoAdults: Courtesy of Mordred's spell.
83	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Using a guillotine to remove the helmet from ''an empty suit of armor''.
84	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Green Lantern voicing his dislike towards Morgaine's suggestion on how the League will deal with her son.
85	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The girl woke Mordred up just before the heroes could take his AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome.
86	* VictoryIsBoring: Briefly implied for Mordred; before the Justice Kids show up, he's trying to act like an "adult" king the best he can, grudgingly using his magic to grant the wishes of any kid that approaches his throne.
87	* VillainousBreakdown: Mordred loses control of his authority of an adult-free world, especially when the League shows up.

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