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* AgeLift: A notably one with second ComicBook/BlackCanary (Dinah Lance) who is usually a contemporary of the JLA, but due to the Silver Age setting is instead the same age as the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''



* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: The ending features ComicBook/BlackCanary as a member of ComicBook/TeenTitans, due to her AgeLift.

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The ending features ComicBook/BlackCanary and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} as a member founding members of ComicBook/TeenTitans, due to her AgeLift.ComicBook/TeenTitans. Black Canary is mainly associated with the JLA and JSA while Supergirl was only briefly part of the OYL-team and had no affiliation with them Pre-Crisis.



** Were any of the Amazons able to get away from the Centre or is Wonder Woman [[LastOfHerKind the only survivor]]?

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** Were any of the Amazons able to get away from the Centre or is Wonder Woman [[LastOfHerKind the only survivor]]?survivor]]? Wonder Girl AKA Donna Troy briefly appears in the ending but whether she's an Amazon in this continuity is unknown.



* WhatTheHellHero: Superman is shocked that Wonder Woman freed slaves and sat by and watched as they killed their tormenters. Wonder Woman argues that it was necessary for them to get their pride back, and that she's doing more than Superman is about it.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Superman is shocked that Wonder Woman freed slaves and sat by and watched as they killed their tormenters.tormentors. Wonder Woman argues that it was necessary for them to get their pride back, and that she's doing more than Superman is about it.
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* SignificantWardrobeShift: Batman undergoes one after his costume terrifies a child he's trying to rescue, switching to a LighterAndSofter Dick Sprang-inspired look to fit his partnership with Robin.


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* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: The ending features ComicBook/BlackCanary as a member of ComicBook/TeenTitans, due to her AgeLift.

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* TheMenInBlack: King Faraday.

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* TheMenInBlack: King Faraday.
Faraday is a government agent with the job of handling otherworldly and superhuman things in secret.


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* MistakenForInsane: Adam Strange gets institutionalized because Dr. Leslie Thompkins assumed his claims of having adventures on the alien world Rann were indicative of a delusion. In the lead-up to the heroes uniting to fight back against the Centre, she lets Adam go and apologizes after seeing that he's a real space hero and not insane.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: A rare case applying to a location rather than a character. In the main canon, Dinosaur Island is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that,]] an island inhabited by prehistoric beasts. In this story, the island, called "the Centre" is fully sapient and bent on wiping out humanity with it's army of dinosaurs.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: A rare case applying to a location rather than a character. In the main canon, Dinosaur Island is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that,]] an island inhabited by prehistoric beasts. In this story, the island, called "the Centre" is fully sapient and bent on wiping out humanity with it's its army of dinosaurs.



* AmazonianBeauty: Diana here physically embodies this more than in most incarnations. She's a broad shouldered warrior noticably taller than ''Superman'' yet is nonetheless a lovely, Darwyn Cooke drawn bombshell just as 40s pinup gorgeous as the other female characters.

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* AmazonianBeauty: Diana here physically embodies this more than in most incarnations. She's a broad shouldered warrior noticably broad-shouldered warrior, notably taller than ''Superman'' ''Superman'', yet is nonetheless a lovely, Darwyn Cooke drawn Darwyn-Cooke-drawn bombshell just as 40s pinup 40s-pinup gorgeous as the other female characters.



---> "''My instincts tell me that you're to be trusted. Make no mistake, though: I have a $70000 sliver of radioactive meteor to stop [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} the one in Metropolis]]. With you all I need is a penny for a book of matches''."

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---> "''My instincts tell me that you're to be trusted. Make no mistake, though: I have a $70000 $70,000 sliver of radioactive meteor to stop [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} the one in Metropolis]]. With you all I need is a penny for a book of matches''."



* BigNo: The Centre, [[spoiler:when it's destroyed. Though it's unclear if he screamed because he's killed or he failed to cleanse the Earth of humanity]].

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* BigNo: The Centre, [[spoiler:when it's destroyed. Though it's It's unclear if he it screamed because he's killed it's dying or he because it failed to cleanse the Earth of humanity]].



* {{Cult}}: The unnamed purple robed men under the thrall of the Centre that Batman dispatches.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Hal Jordan, the Martian Manhunter, and the Flash are the POV characters while the big name characters Superman and especially Batman are relatively OutOfFocus.
* DeathSeeker: Task Force X, hence the nickname "Suicide Squad." Also Hal Jordan and John Cloud, though Hal gets over it. The trope is deconstructed, as the problems with relying on such unstable individuals are addressed. [[spoiler: Jess Bright loses it, sabotages the spacecraft in mid-mission, and causes an international crisis.]]

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* {{Cult}}: The unnamed purple robed purple-robed men under the thrall of the Centre that Batman dispatches.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Hal Jordan, the Martian Manhunter, and the Flash are the POV characters characters, while the big name characters like Superman and especially Batman are relatively OutOfFocus.
* DeathSeeker: Task Force X, hence the nickname "Suicide Squad." Also Hal Jordan and John Cloud, though Hal gets over it. The trope is deconstructed, as the problems with relying on such unstable individuals are addressed. [[spoiler: Jess Bright loses it, sabotages the spacecraft in mid-mission, and causes an international crisis.]]
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* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: After seeing into Faraday's mind, and by extention his heart, J'onn sees that deep down Faraday believes in a better day, when all the government's nonsense will become unnecessary. Seeing that in someone like Faraday fills J'onn with renewed hope for humanity.

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* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: After seeing into sinister government agent King Faraday's mind, and by extention his heart, J'onn sees that deep down Faraday believes in a better day, when all the government's nonsense will become unnecessary. Seeing that in someone like Faraday fills J'onn with renewed hope for humanity.humanity.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Johnny Cloud's message to Flagg warning him about the Centre mentions a dangerous creature, "an all-consuming circle that dwarfs the monsters that roam this cursed place. ''It is a living thing.''" Flagg and the Challengers of the Unknown wonder why Johnny bothered to emphasize that the monster that's bigger than all the ones they've seen so far is living. They don't realize that the means the living "all-consuming circle" ''is'' "this cursed place": [[GeniusLoci Dinosaur Island itself]].



* UncertainDoom: Sarge and Storm of the Losers are never seen again after Sarge charges into the jungle after dinosaurs and a pterodactyl carries off Storm. Both men are treated as undisputedly dead in-universe, but other characters survive worse.

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Sarge and Storm of the Losers are never seen again after Sarge charges into the jungle after dinosaurs and a pterodactyl carries off Storm. Both men are treated as undisputedly dead in-universe, but other characters survive worse.worse.
** After the Centre drives him insane and makes him sabotage the flight and he is ejected from the Mars rocket (while wearing a spacesuit), Jess Bright is never seen again. He probably dies out there in space, but since Superman did fly into space to try to save the astronauts and their imperiled rescuers, he might have brought Bright back alive.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the comic, Slam Bradley is a PrivateDetective who temporarily teams up with John Jones, but in the movie, he seems to be a police detective and John's fulltime partner on the force.


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* AdaptationalWimp: Rick Flagg's role as a KnightInSourArmor WWII hero and leader of the Suicide Squad paramilitary unit is only subtly hinted at in the film, where he does little besides fly into space with Hal.
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Instead of reimagining the classic superheroes as they would be today, Cooke created a story firmly set in the [[TheFifties 1950s]] and took the superheroes as they were in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and made them believable. Even the art work itself is very similar to comics of that era, with only the layout being modernized. The plotline is broad-ranging, featuring dozens of characters in the Franchise/DCUniverse including Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, Franchise/GreenLantern, Franchise/TheFlash, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, and many more.

Part of this experiment was Cooke trying to figure out a reason why various characters changed in the switch between UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks. It was easy enough with {{Legacy Character}}s like Franchise/GreenLantern, but Batman went from a dark and menacing figure who wore grey and black into someone more kid-friendly with blue and yellow highlights. In the story, Batman changes it after frightening a child he was trying to help, rather than the criminals he wants to scare.

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Instead of reimagining the classic superheroes as they would be today, Cooke created a story firmly set in the [[TheFifties 1950s]] and took the superheroes as they were in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and made them believable. Even the art work itself is very similar to comics of that era, with only the layout being modernized. The plotline is broad-ranging, featuring dozens of characters in the Franchise/DCUniverse including Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, Franchise/GreenLantern, Franchise/TheFlash, ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/WonderWoman, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, and many more.

Part of this experiment was Cooke trying to figure out a reason why various characters changed in the switch between UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks. It was easy enough with {{Legacy Character}}s like Franchise/GreenLantern, ComicBook/GreenLantern, but Batman went from a dark and menacing figure who wore grey and black into someone more kid-friendly with blue and yellow highlights. In the story, Batman changes it after frightening a child he was trying to help, rather than the criminals he wants to scare.



---> "''My instincts tell me that you're to be trusted. Make no mistake, though: I have a $70000 sliver of radioactive meteor to stop [[Franchise/{{Superman}} the one in Metropolis]]. With you all I need is a penny for a book of matches''."

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---> "''My instincts tell me that you're to be trusted. Make no mistake, though: I have a $70000 sliver of radioactive meteor to stop [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} the one in Metropolis]]. With you all I need is a penny for a book of matches''."



* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Franchise/WonderWoman frees a group of sex slaves, disarms their captors, leaves weapons in the women's reach [[TheDogBitesBack and lets them decide what to do next]].

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* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Franchise/WonderWoman ComicBook/WonderWoman frees a group of sex slaves, disarms their captors, leaves weapons in the women's reach [[TheDogBitesBack and lets them decide what to do next]].



* IntrepidReporter: Comicbook/LoisLane, who is firmly on the government's side at the beginning of the story, reporting on UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar and superhero battles.
* IronicEcho: "There's the door, [[{{Franchise/Superman}} spaceman]]."

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* IntrepidReporter: Comicbook/LoisLane, ComicBook/LoisLane, who is firmly on the government's side at the beginning of the story, reporting on UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar and superhero battles.
* IronicEcho: "There's the door, [[{{Franchise/Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} spaceman]]."



* LegacyCharacter: Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are heirs to the legacies of the first Green Lantern and Flash. At the end, the Justice League -heir to the Justice Society- is born and its members' successors -Comicbook/{{Robin}}, Kid Flash, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, Comicbook/WonderGirl, Aqualad and Speedy- come together in the Franchise/TeenTitans, led by Comicbook/BlackCanary.

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* LegacyCharacter: Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are heirs to the legacies of the first Green Lantern and Flash. At the end, the Justice League -heir to the Justice Society- is born and its members' successors -Comicbook/{{Robin}}, -ComicBook/{{Robin}}, Kid Flash, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, Comicbook/WonderGirl, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, ComicBook/WonderGirl, Aqualad and Speedy- come together in the Franchise/TeenTitans, ComicBook/TeenTitans, led by Comicbook/BlackCanary.ComicBook/BlackCanary.



* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: It ''actually'' slides during the course of the story. It starts pretty cynical, but slowly gets more idealistic as the story progresses. How idealistic? The story ends with ''the friggin' formation of the '''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''''', that's how much.

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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: It ''actually'' slides during the course of the story. It starts pretty cynical, but slowly gets more idealistic as the story progresses. How idealistic? The story ends with ''the friggin' formation of the '''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''''', '''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''''', that's how much.



* SupportingProtagonist: Subverted. Hal Jordan doesn't have a huge impact on the story at first. But then, he is [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]].

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* SupportingProtagonist: Subverted. Hal Jordan doesn't have a huge impact on the story at first. But then, he is [[Franchise/GreenLantern [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]].
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* AWorldHalfFull: The book's take on late-50s America is quite cynical, with all the flaws of the era on full display. Despite this, its heroes are clearly and consistently good-aligned and are shown doing all they can to improve the world, and the story is optimistic about their chances in doing so.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: A rare case applying to a location rather than a character. In the main canon, Dinosaur Island is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that,]] an island inhabited by prehistoric beasts. In this story, the island, called "the Centre" is fully sapient and bent on wiping out humanity with it's army of dinosaurs.
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The comic was given an animated DirectToVideo film adaptation titled ''Justice League: The New Frontier'' in 2008, with the voices of Creator/DavidBoreanaz as Hal Jordan, Creator/KyleMacLachlan as Superman, Creator/JeremySisto as Batman, Creator/LucyLawless as Wonder Woman, Creator/MiguelFerrer as Martian Manhunter and Creator/NeilPatrickHarris as The Flash. Creator/KeithDavid's baritone voiced the omninous and faceless Centre. The film was produced by veteran Franchise/{{DCAU}} man Creator/BruceTimm and paid strict attention to the comic, lifting the majority of dialogue and scenes from the comic straight into the film. The film is part of the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'' line.

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The comic was given an animated DirectToVideo film adaptation titled ''Justice League: The New Frontier'' in 2008, with the voices of Creator/DavidBoreanaz as Hal Jordan, Creator/KyleMacLachlan as Superman, Creator/JeremySisto as Batman, Creator/LucyLawless as Wonder Woman, Creator/MiguelFerrer as Martian Manhunter and Creator/NeilPatrickHarris as The Flash. Creator/KeithDavid's baritone voiced the omninous and faceless Centre. The film was produced by veteran Franchise/{{DCAU}} [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse DCAU]] man Creator/BruceTimm and paid strict attention to the comic, lifting the majority of dialogue and scenes from the comic straight into the film. The film is part of the ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'' line.
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* ExpyCoexistence: After the Klan kills his family, John Wilson becomes a vigilante adopting the persona of "John Henry", after the folkloric steel drivin' man with a sledgehammer. (The folk song is even used as narration.) He appears to be the comic's version of [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons aka Steel]], who is similarly a riff on the folkloric figure, but at the end the actual John Henry Irons is shown as a kid.
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** The children's author DrivenToSuicide after writing his story from the Centre's POV is a clear stand-in for Creator/DrSeuss.
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* AlternateContinuity: Relative to the main DC universe. In the collected edition, space-time-traveler ComicBook/RipHunter shows up in a short prologue to basically say it's not important which timeline or Earth this takes place in.

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* AlternateContinuity: Relative to the main DC universe. In the collected edition, space-time-traveler ComicBook/RipHunter shows up in a short prologue epilogue to basically say it's not important which timeline or Earth this takes place in.



* DemotedToExtra: A lot of side characters in the original comic are reduced to brief cameos for the animated film, most notably the Justice Society, the Losers and Thomas Kalmaku.

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* DemotedToExtra: A lot of side characters in the original comic are reduced to brief cameos for the animated film, most notably the Justice Society, the Losers and Losers, Thomas Kalmaku.Kalmaku, Red, Rocky, Green Arrow, Adam Strange, and John Henry.



* NoSympathy: After Flash's public retirement, some people don't care or are glad he quit. This was the last straw for Martian Manhunter in his decision to return to Mars.

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* NoSympathy: After Flash's public retirement, in the movie, some people don't care or are glad he quit. This was the last straw for Martian Manhunter in his decision to return to Mars.



* UngratefulBastard: When Flash announces his retirement due to distrust from the public and the government, most people in the restaurant J'onn's eating at either don't care or are glad he quit.

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* UngratefulBastard: When In the movie, when Flash announces his retirement due to distrust from the public and the government, most people in the restaurant J'onn's eating at either don't care or are glad he quit.
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* PursuedProtagonist: The second half of the opening credits of the movie show unauthorized vigilante Hourman being chased across rooftops by the police (in a scene only described secondhand on the original comic) and eventually being shot and falling to his apparent death, emphasizing the government's hostility toward "Mystery Men" who won't reveal their identities.

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* RecurringExtra: FlatCharacter {{Mook}} Fike, a bald black guy in Selfridge's headquarters, two science team members who play basketball with their Avatars, and the Asian mission control tech on Grace's staff. All of them appear in multiple scenes throughout the film, but have very few lines and little characterization beyond their loyalties to one side or the other.



** The bar that Hal goes to after getting the ring (in the film) is very similar to the bar at the beginning of ''Film/TheRightStuff''. In the comic book, Hal actually goes to the Happy Bottom Riding Club as a child and meets Chuck Yeager and Pancho Barnes there.

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** The bar that Hal goes to after getting the ring (in the film) is very similar to the bar at the beginning of ''Film/TheRightStuff''. In the loop comic book, Hal actually goes to the Happy Bottom Riding Club as a child and meets Chuck Yeager and Pancho Barnes there.
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* MenOfSherwood: The many interchangable Army grunts, Ace's fellow Challengers of the Unknown (who are DemotedToExtra in the movie), and the Blackhawks are all pretty minor characters who do a lot of background fighting in the climax and don't take too many losses.


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* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:King Faraday sacrifices himself in both the comic and the animated film, but the context is different. The original comic had him give his life by forcing the Centre's influence away from J'onn, while the animated film has him go down by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:King Faraday sacrifices himself in both the comic and the animated film, but the context is different. The original comic had him give his life by forcing the Centre's influence away from J'onn, while the animated film has him go down by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades.]]

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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Superman.]]
* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Franchise/WonderWoman frees a group of sex slaves, disarms their captors, [[TheDogBitesBack and lets them decide what to do next]].

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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Superman.DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:King Faraday sacrifices himself in both the comic and the animated film, but the context is different. The original comic had him give his life by forcing the Centre's influence away from J'onn, while the animated film has him go down by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Superman appears to die and fall into the sea at one point, but later turns out to still live when he is returned to the surface by Aquaman.]]
* DoWithHimAsYouWill: Franchise/WonderWoman frees a group of sex slaves, disarms their captors, leaves weapons in the women's reach [[TheDogBitesBack and lets them decide what to do next]].

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* AdaptationTitleChange: The animated film is titled ''Justice League: The New Frontier'' instead of ''DC: The New Frontier''.



* DemotedToExtra: A lot of side characters in the original comic are reduced to brief cameos for the animated film, most notably the Justice Society, the Losers and Thomas Kalmaku.



* EarnYourHappyEnding

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* EarnYourHappyEndingEarnYourHappyEnding: J'onn J'onzz worries after his arrival on Earth of being persecuted for being an outsider, but in the end becomes another hero the public roots for during the battle against the Centre.
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Everythings Better With Dinosaurs is now a disambiguation page.


* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: No. [[EldritchAbomination It is not]].

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