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1* ActingForTwo: Many of the minor villains like Deadshot or random bystanders are voiced by the main cast members. More prominently, [[Creator/PhilLaMarr Static and Green Lantern]] have pretty lengthy conversations. Done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PETk8eBbfN0 literally]] by Batman at the end of the first ''Unlimited'' season..[[BadassCrew while yet another Batman is in the same room]].
2** Hawkgirl and Fire and Livewire were all voiced by Maria Canals-Barrera.
3** Dr. Moon's only speaking role was interrogating the Combs-voiced Question.
4** Creator/MarkHamill voiced both Joker and Solomon Grundy in "Injustice for All", and of course they start arguing.
5* ActorInspiredHeroism: The writers initially wanted Vixen/Mari [=McCabe=] to be a very temporary RomanticFalseLead for [[Franchise/GreenLantern John Stewart]]. She was supposed to reveal herself as a big enough jerk that John could break up with her guilt-free and get back with his first love interest, Hawkgirl/Shayera Hol. But Mari's VA Creator/GinaTorres played her with enough humanity that the writers couldn't bring themselves to make her a jerk. As a result, the writers couldn't come up with another in-character reason for John to break up with her — so their relationship lasted through the end of the series (with some ambiguous clues that John might get back together with Shayera sometime in the future).
6* ApprovalOfGod: Dave Gibbons and Creator/AlanMoore voiced their approval of the episode ''[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E2ForTheManWhoHasEverything For the Man who has Everything]]'', including the necessary changes made, giving the episode the honor of being the only adaptation of Moore's work that he's on record [[https://animesuperhero.com/toonzone-presents-interview-tribute-dwayne-mcduffie/ for actually liking]].
7* ChildrenVoicingChildren: The younger versions of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern in the episode "Kid Stuff", are all voiced by actual children.
8* CrossDressingVoices:
9** Creator/EdwardAsner as Granny Goodness, a role he had previously played in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and would reprise in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse''. A Creator/BruceTimm artbook revealed that Granny Goodness was specifically designed to look like Ed Asner in drag...so as a CastingGag they figured they should get Asner and just have him speak in a deliberately bad falsetto. (Visually and audially, Asner is an excellent choice to play an evil old battleaxe.)
10** Creator/GreyDeLisle voiced both halves of the CaptainErsatz of the Wonder Twins, including the male Downpour.
11* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: Vancouver voice actor Ian James Corlett did a few voices for the show while the majority of the cast is from the United States. This is one of the few shows he worked outside Vancouver until he gotdual citizenship in the 2010s.
12* EditedForSyndication: ''JLU'' found a new home on the Saban-branded ''Creator/{{Vortexx}}'' block. However, it suffered from Saturday Morning edits. From the first episode, guns were given laser sounds, Green Arrow's boxing glove arrow hitting someone was cut, and Black Canary seductively zipping up her boot was cut.
13* ExecutiveMeddling:
14** After ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' began airing during the ''Unlimited'' phase, all major characters from that property other than Batman himself were suddenly verboten in ''JLU''; this was referred to as the "Bat-Embargo" by fans. Similarly, the villain Black Manta was banned when ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' [[DevelopmentHell seemed]] a go for a live-action series, as were Robin and Nightwing (aside from a silhouetted cameo from the latter in "Grudge Match") because of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' (which resulted in Wonder Woman taking Jason Todd's role as the one who brought down Mongul in [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E2ForTheManWhoHasEverything the adaptation of]] ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''). Fortunately, DC has plenty of characters to use. As a result, viewers got to see more minor and obscure characters, like Deadman, Warlord, and the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory, who otherwise would have probably been ignored.
15** The episode "Legends" was originally supposed to feature the [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], but DC management informed the show's producers that they could not use the JSA (one: they were trying to establish the comics as a non-parody group and two: producer James Tucker later revealed on Website/{{Twitter}} in 2020 that a sticking point was [[spoiler:the JSA dying]], both of which the episode would have been counterproductive towards) and the show had to come up with the {{exp|y}}ies that were used in the episode proper.
16** The villain of "Starcrossed" was originally supposed to be Katar Hol, the Silver Age ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and Shayera's DistaffCounterpart in the comics. However, DC didn't allow the showrunners to make Hawkman evil, so they creared [[SignificantAnagram Hro Talak]] instead. Later, the show introduced a proper Hawkman based on the Golden Age version, a human named Carter Hall - who in a nifty twist claimed to be [[CompositeCharacter the reincarnation of Katar Hol]], so [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools the veto turned out for the best]].
17** [[https://dcanimated.com//WF/jlu/backstage/interviews/wayne01.php This was why]] the expanded Secret Society in season 3 of ''Unlimited'' couldn't just be called the LegionOfDoom -- some higher-up at DC apparently thought the name sounded too silly and ordered them not to use it. That said, the Legion of Doom name was still used off-screen by the writers and by the packaging of the season 3 DVD set. (Had they been able to, the name would've come from The Flash calling them that after the events of "The Great Brain Robbery".)
18* FakeAmerican: Creator/JenniferHale, who voices Zatanna, Killer Frost, and Giganta, is Canadian, though with American parents and raised in America.
19* FlipFlopOfGod: Dwayne [=McDuffie=] confirmed that yes, [[spoiler:Darkseid and Luthor are trapped in the Source Wall and might as well be dead]], but later retracted that statement in 2011, saying that they escaped.
20* InMemoriam: Following Creator/KevinConroy's passing in 2022, HBO Max put a tribute to him in at the beginning of the series.
21* KidsMealToy: It got toys at Arby's and UsefulNotes/McDonalds.
22* LyingCreator: Knowing the series bible would be used for promotional material, the crew created a fake bio for Hawkgirl to hide the truth of her arc in the first two seasons.
23* NonSingingVoice:
24** Jeffrey Combs does his own singing as The Question, although it is PlayedForLaughs.
25** Green Arrow humming his own theme in "To Another Shore", as Creator/KinShriner's attempt didn't work for the creators so producer Creator/BruceTimm took a crack at it and was still unhappy, so it was dubbed in looping by Creator/LexLang.
26* TheOriginalDarrin:
27** After being replaced in "Hereafter" by Creator/CoreyBurton, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell and Bud Cort would come back during the final ''Unlimited'' season in their respective roles of Metallo and Toyman.
28** "Hereafter" itself saw the return of Creator/BradGarrett as Lobo after Creator/GregEagles and Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson replaced him for [[WebAnimation/LoboWebseries Lobo's own webseries]].
29* TheOtherDarrin:
30** Within the show itself:
31*** Creator/ChrisCox replaced George Eads as Captain Atom.
32*** [[Anime/TransformersRobotsinDisguise Bob Joles]] replaced Creator/JohnRhysDavies as Hades (the exact same situation occurred in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', of all shows--there, Joles replaced Rhys-Davies as Manray, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's arch-nemesis).
33*** As the role was already written to only consist of roars and screams, producer Creator/BruceTimm replaced Creator/MarkHamill as Solomon Grundy in "Wake the Dead".
34*** In the French dub, Stefan Godin replaced Bruno Carna as Batman for ''Unlimited''.
35** Regarding characters introduced in the other shows that are part of the ''DCAU'' who also appeared in ''Justice League''...
36*** Creator/GeorgeNewbern replaced Creator/TimDaly as [[ActingForTwo Superman and Bizarro]]. Creator/MichaelRosenbaum replaced Creator/CharlieSchlatter as the Flash.
37*** Creator/ScottRummell and Creator/CoreyBurton replaced Creator/MiguelFerrer as Aquaman and Weather Wizard, respectively. Burton also replaced Creator/ShermanHoward as Steppenwolf, Creator/MichaelYork as Kanto, and briefly Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as Metallo and Creator/BudCort as Toyman, though Metallo and Toyman would be subject to TheOriginalDarrin as [=McDowell=] and Cort would later reprise their respective roles.
38*** Creator/MichaelTWeiss replaced Creator/BillyZane as Jason Blood and Etrigan.
39*** Creator/OdedFehr and Creator/JenniferHale replaced [[Series/StElsewhere George DelHoyo]] and Creator/JenniferLien respectively as Doctor Fate and Inza. Hale also replaced [[Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy Julie Brown]] and Stacie Barrett as Zatanna. In "The Balance", however, Hale herself was replaced by Creator/JulietLandau as Zatanna via an uncredited performance.
40*** Creator/RonPerlman replaced Steve Sandor as Orion.
41*** Series regulars Creator/PhilLaMarr (Green Lantern) and Creator/MariaCanalsBarrera (Hawkgirl) replaced Creator/MichaelDorn and Lori Petty as Steel and Livewire, respectively (though Dorn did reprise his role as Kalibak).
42*** Creator/ReneAuberjonois and Creator/ArminShimerman respectively replaced Robert Morse and [[Series/{{Everwood}} Treat Williams]] as, again respectively, Desaad and Professor Milo (though Auberjonois voiced Desaad on ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'', so it's still a RoleReprise).
43*** Creator/BrianGeorge replaced Creator/BrionJames as Parasite due to James's death.
44*** Creator/RobertFoxworth replaced [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Victor Brandt]] as Professor Hamilton.
45*** Creator/WillFriedle replaced Michael P. Greco as the voice of Kyle Rayner.
46*** While most of the Jokerz from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' retained their voice actors for "The Once and Future Thing, Part 2", Creator/AdamBaldwin replaced Music/HenryRollins as Bonk and Creator/DeeBradleyBaker replaced Creator/FrankWelker as Woof's growls. In "Part 1", Baldwin also replaced [[Film/{{Deliverance}} Bill McKinney]] as ComicBook/JonahHex.
47*** As for the French dub, Bruce Wayne/Batman was first voiced by Bruno Carna instead of Patrick Messe (''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'') and Creator/RichardDarbois (''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'').
48* OutOfOrder:
49** In the first season, the producers held back the airing of "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E8And9InjusticeForAll Injustice For All]]" for eight months, so that it would coincide with the Video Game with the same name. But since it did [[ShortRunInPeru air elsewhere during that period]], it didn't take long for spoilers and pirated copies to appear online. However, both "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E16And17Fury Fury]]" and "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E18And19Legends Legends]]" have have elements that didn't appear until "Injustice for All".[[note]]"Fury" has its main villain gather the Injustice Gang sans Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, and Ultra-Humanite, with Shade and Copperhead commenting that she's a better boss than Luthor; and "Legends" opens with Luthor in the PoweredArmor designed to save his life controlling a mecha against the League.[[/note]]
50** In the second season, everything between "A Better World" and "Starcrossed" has their airing order rearranged from their production order. "The Terror Beyond" and "Eclipsed" had their airing order swapped from their production order, as did "Hereafter" and "Secret Society", and "Comfort and Joy" and "Wild Cards". However, this doesn't really affect anything, even with Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's RelationshipUpgrade in "Wild Cards" despite "Comfort and Joy" being the episode before it in production order, but airing after.
51* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JenniferHale as Giganta, a more explicitly "girly" character than the tomboys she usually plays. Pronounced due to her playing Killer Frost as well.
52* PlayingWithCharacterType: Creator/WilliamAtherton, who usually plays [[SmugSnake smug]] [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]], voiced Doctor Destiny, who is a smug, sadistic sociopath with delusions of grandeur who psychologically tortures his victims out of petty revenge.
53* PopCultureUrbanLegends: It was long believed that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wlCj-PqSk the original teaser/commercial for the episode "Legends"]] used footage from an earlier version of the episode that still featured the JSA, as opposed to their {{expy}} counterparts the Justice Guild. This commercial was just a fan-creation redrawing over part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oZseMTT1Y the real commercial]]; the JSA version of the episode never made it past the scripting stage. The [=YouTube=] video, which was a reupload, would later have its description changed to reflect [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwuzYmLdsP0 Watchtower Database discovering the actual origin of the fake]].
54* PostScriptSeason: The season two finale was written as a potential GrandFinale, making ''JLU'' something of a post-script SequelSeries. The second season of ''JLU'' was also intended to be the wrap-up, hence the BookEnds with "Epilogue". After wrapping up so many storylines, the only place left to go was the LegionOfDoom. They also took the opportunity to tap into the deepest pools of the DCU, including ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'', ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'' and ''ComicBook/{{Deadman}}''. According to Dwayne [=McDuffie=], there were plans for a fourth season if Warner Bros. wanted them to do one.
55* PromotedFanboy:
56** Creator/PhilLaMarr as John Stewart/Green Lantern. He proudly boasted that for "In Blackest Night", he didn't need his script when reciting the Green Lantern oath.
57** Creator/PhilMorris was a huge comic book fan and didn't need to be told anything about Vandal Savage before he voiced him.
58* RealLifeRelative: In "Hunter's Moon," Maria Canals-Barrera plays Hawkgirl alongside her husband David Barrera, who plays a Thanagarian soldier.
59* RecastAsARegular:
60** Prior to being cast as the Martian Manhunter, Creator/CarlLumbly has a few guest spots in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and Stalker on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.
61** Creator/CCHPounder appeared as a reporter in the opening of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' before being cast as ComicBook/AmandaWaller during ''Unlimited''.
62** Creator/MichaelBeach, who voiced Mr. Terrific and Devil Ray in the final season, voiced the male rock climber and one of the soldiers in "Dark Heart".
63* RecycledScript: Earth's mightiest heroes are suddenly lost in another dimension. Not all of them: the most powerful one and the BadassNormal were left behind. The lost heroes thought for a moment that they were in the past, but not, according to the newspapers the date is right. But some brief visions of doom tell them that something is not right. They soon find out that they are in another dimension, home of another supergroup (a CaptainErsatz of another group, which can not be used directly for network reasons). They fight each other first, then become friends, and fight against the real foe: a kid with a [[MyBrainIsBig big and grotesque brain]], so powerful that he actually created and controlled the world surrounding them. Sounds familiar? Hope so, true believer! That's the plot of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Avengers_Vol_1_85 #85]] and [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Avengers_Vol_1_86 #86]], the debut of the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme!
64* RefittedForSequel:
65** Back when there were considerations to have ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' be about Superman teaming up with various guest star heroes (and forming the Justice League at the end of the first season), some of these heroes included Green Arrow, Black Canary, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, the Question, Vixen, and Mister Miracle, who would later appear in ''Justice League Unlimited''.
66** The militaristic uniforms worn by the Justice Lords were based on a very early idea Bruce Timm had for the League to wear matching costumes, which had quickly been vetoed by DC.
67* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
68** The show consistently put out some of Creator/CartoonNetwork's best ratings in spite of the fact that it was rarely advertised, chronically shoved into unusual timeslots (six in the evening on a Saturday?!), and only aired once a week (most of Cartoon Network's other shows at this time aired reruns several times a week).
69** When the last season premiered in September 2005, Cartoon Network aired new episodes in an hour timeslot on Creator/{{Toonami}}. So, four episodes out of the thirteen ordered were burned off in two weeks...and new episodes didn't resume until the following February. And in-between, reruns were non-existent.
70* ShortRunInPeru: Frequently, thanks to Cartoon Network's scheduling.
71* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Creator/JohnRidley wrote an episode for the second season because he wanted to do something for his two children, since his recent work at the time had mostly been more adult fare like ''Series/ThirdWatch'' and ''Film/UndercoverBrother''.
72* ThrowItIn:
73** It was implied that Cheetah was killed by Solomon Grundy in "Injustice For All", but when the animators mistakenly drew her being arrested at the end of the episode, it was simply easier to say she was alive.
74** The [[ShipTease budding relationship]] between Diana and Bruce was due to the surprise fan reaction to "The Brave and the Bold" where Wonder Woman gives Batman an affectionate kiss on the cheek (he believed she was crushed by a missile and desperately tried digging her out, when [[NighInvulnerable she turned up fine]] she noticed his dirty gloves and could [[NotSoStoic tell he really does care]]). This came back around with a FakeOutMakeOut in "Starcrossed" and EveryoneCanSeeIt in the ''JLU'' phase.
75** The reveal in "Epilogue" that [[spoiler: Terry is genetically Bruce's son]] came from a discussion on how unlikely it was to have a redhead couple sire two black-haired boys.
76* UnCanceled: ''Twice!''
77* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There's enough for its own [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/JusticeLeague page]].
78* WordOfGod:
79** Here's what J.M. Dematteis said about [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E2ForTheManWhoHasEverything about adapting]] ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'':
80-->''I don't think he'd be happier on Krypton. It's just that Superman never really knew Krypton and had a profound longing to experience that part of his history. Krypton is part of him but Earth, I think, is a bigger part.''
81** The late Creator/DwayneMcDuffie more or less retconned or at least clarified [[spoiler:Darkseid's resurrection]] in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E12Alive Alive!]]" via this on his message board and on the special features on the DVD set for the final season, revealing Tala purposely [[spoiler:resurrected Darkseid]] as a final "Screw you!" to Luthor, rather than it being an accident.
82* WordOfSaintPaul: According to Creator/KevinConroy, Batman's "word of advice" to Deadshot in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E6And7TheEnemyBelow The Enemy Below]]" was, ''"I know where you live, [[SecretIdentity Floyd]]."''
83* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/PhilMorris voiced the gorilla who interrogated Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and Hawkgirl in "The Brave and the Bold" before being cast as Vandal Savage. The same episode had Dr. Sarah Corwin voiced by Creator/VirginiaMadsen, who'd go on to voice Roulette.
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