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Justice League (Unlimited) includes so many of these moments, and some of them so blatant, that one almost has to wonder if the censors were paying attention at all (Word of God is that they just didn't care). As time went on, the show was moved to a late primetime slot and the show became more obviously for older audiences, leading to even more direct crap getting past the radar.


  • The second episode, "Secret Origins, Part 2", features Wonder Woman pretty obviously getting naked when she drops her robe to put on her costume.
  • This exchange between Deadshot and Wonder Woman in "The Enemy Below":
    Deadshot: Why would a hired gun try to shoot somebody? Could it be someone paid me to?
    Wonder Woman: Who?
    Deadshot: Oh, come on, babe. You know I can't tell you that. Professional ethics.
    [cue Male Gaze]
    Deadshot: But, then again, if you make it worth my while...
    Batman: I'll take it from here.
    [Deadshot gets dragged off by Batman]
    • A more serious example, thanks to careful editing, is the scene where Aquaman cuts off his own hand, and they blatantly say that he did it!
  • "Injustice for All" has a legendary moment, when after Batman easily manipulates Ultra-Humanite and Solomon Grundy into fighting each other instead of watching him, Lex instead switches out the guard with Cheetah. Well, apparently Lex didn't remember Batman has a thing for cats. When we cut back in, Batman and Cheetah are in the middle of a conversation that starts out already sounding awful friendly, and then Bruce outright seduces her, to the point of earning himself what looks to be a French kiss. The dialogue is so suggestive it might cause one to clutch their pearls and fan themselves.
    Cheetah: How do you know so much about me?
    Batman: [smiling] Let's just say cats aren't the only ones who are curious.
    Cheetah: Too much curiosity can be dangerous.
    Batman: Maybe I like danger.
    Cheetah: Do you?
    Batman: [whispers] Try me.
  • "Paradise Lost" has some pretty blatant, in-your-face rape imagery. Specifically with Olympian God Hades constantly manhandling and forcing himself on his ex-lover Hippolyta and declaring her "His" before implying how he wanted to see if Diana is as loving as her mother. When he transforms into his true form, he even grabs and wraps his tongue around one of Diana's legs! It gets even worse when it's later implied in "The Balance" that Hades might be Diana's father!
  • In "War World", John is shown picking up a discarded calendar featuring a nude alien pinup girl, proclaiming "one man's trash is another man's treasure".
  • In "Fury", when Wonder Woman bemoans the faults of the male sex:
    Hawkgirl: Yes, but who wants to live in a world without men?
    Wonder Woman: They can't possibly be that essential to your life.
    Hawkgirl: Don't knock it until you've tried it, Princess.
  • In "Legends", the Streak tells Green Lantern that "you're a credit to your people".
  • "A Knight of Shadows" includes Wonder Woman and Flash rescuing a magazine publisher who is very obviously a No Celebrities Were Harmed Hugh Hefner at his Totally not-Playboy mansion. She gets propositioned, and Flash insists he buys the magazines for the articles.
    • They could have stopped at putting a Playboy mansion in this, but no. They had to take it further by showing us the Hefner Captain Ersatz' bedroom. His bed has a... manly shape to it. Of course, we only get to see this because Wonder Woman wants to see Hefner's stone. She means the Philosopher's Stone. He thinks she wanted to see something else...
      • For God's sake, while Wonder Woman is doing that, Flash is in the grotto! They even have the women positioned so that, until they turn, it appears that they are topless.
    • To further emphasize the link, the publisher's name is Harvey Hickman, with the same alliteration but different syllables — until he mentions that he prefers to be called Harv.
  • Simon Stagg from "Metamorphosis" seems to love his daughter Sapphire just a little too much... He goes to visit her in her apartment like he's picking her up for a date (bringing flowers, making a last-minute hair and breath check) and then later when they hug, he appears to smell her hair.
    • Then there's the fact that he tries to kill her boyfriend over their impending marriage and ends up turning him into a super-powered freak, and then when he himself gets turned into a gigantic mutant monster, the first thing he does is to go after his daughter and carry her off like King Kong.
    • He also tries to kill Green Lantern for consoling his daughter with a hug. A subtle addition is his face that, despite its relative shapelessness as a blob, conveys the disgust and anger of a scorned lover when he is mistaken by his daughter to be Rex. With the three above comments, and all the evidence given, we can say that this is completely intentional.
    • He doesn't just bring his daughter flowers... he brings a dozen red roses. There quite simply is no more blatant expression of romantic interest than that.
  • In "The Savage Time", when the team is thrown into a pile while riding alternate-Bruce Wayne's rocket train (long story), the following exchange occurs.
    Hawkgirl: ...Whose hand is that?
    Flash: [pulling his hand from what appears to be her breasts] Sorry!
  • Speaking of which, one of the New Gods in "Twilight" evidently slaps Wonder Woman's ass just off-screen to provoke her into chasing him.
    Wonder Woman: He's worse than the Flash!
    • In the same episode, Superman tries to enlarge a hole in Brainiac's force field. As part of the plan, Darkseid then fires an energy cannon at Brainiac. The beam passes between Superman's legs, and it's colored yellow.
    • After Brainiac captures Superman and attempts to convince him that Evil Feels Good, Superman gives him this response:
      Brainiac: I am Krypton.
      Superman: You're a perversion, dishonoring the very memory of my father and all my people.
      Brainiac: And this is your final decision?
      Superman: Read my lips. Go to— [cut off]
      Brainiac: Unfortunate, but predictable.
  • Poor Mercy gets harassed/propositioned/verbally abused multiple times by Lex Luthor in "Tabula Rasa". His taunts imply that they previously had an aggressive sexual relationship. Even a few of the Leaguers refer to their not-so-professional relationship.
  • A delightful exchange between fire-type villains Firefly and Volcana in "Only a Dream":
    Volcana: That's your flamethrower?
    Firefly: Wait'll you see how I use it.
    [he makes a brief and crappy show of it before getting shot at and running back inside, standing before Volcana looking ashamed as she pats him comfortingly]
    Volcana: That's alright, honey.
    [she immediately torches up the place while Firefly watches with raised flamethrower]
    Firefly: I think I'm in love. [he shoots a burst of fire from his gun on the last word]
    • Made even better when you consider Volcana is voiced by Peri Gilpin, who plays the rather promiscuous Roz on Frasier. She even talks to Firefly like Roz would talk to Frasier or Niles.
    • After Firefly gets outmaneuvered by Batman and sent careening into Volcana's back, setting them both up for capture, she exasperatedly snaps, "Are you good for anything?", leaving the viewer to wonder in what other ways she found him less than satisfactory.
    • In the same episode, this line from Flash to Hawkgirl:
      Flash: You look beat. Come on, time to hit the sack! [Hawkgirl stares, Flash throws up his hands] Uh, I mean... you know... I'll, uh, I'll take first watch.
  • In "Maid of Honor", Princess Audrey, trying to get Wonder Woman to go clubbing: "I'm a world class party girl. I intend to go out with a bang. Several, if it can be arranged." It's like they're not even trying.
    • Wonder Woman's sexy torn dress in the beginning of the episode.
    • Batman also arranges a very interesting position for himself at the end of that episode.
    • Also from that episode — the maid.
      Maid: Are you certain the wine is all you require, your highness?
    • The following exchange, also from this episode.
      Diana: I won't let you hurt Audrey.
      Savage: Hurt her? I love her. I've never met a woman who can do the things for me that she can.
      Diana: I don't need to hear this.
      Savage: I meant make me a member of the royal family.
    • When Audrey ditches her guards and they look into the taxi she used as a decoy and find nothing, one of them says a foreign word translated as "Poop!"
    • And yet another from this episode, while they're clubbing, Diana approaches Audrey, who is standing with four buff, shirtless "hunk" type guys. Audrey says "Look, party favors!" then offers two to Diana, and suggests they "go to the VIP room".
    • Princess Audrey's confusion upon waking up alone, whilst wearing a skimpy nightie, makes it very clear that she and Vandal have indeed consummated their marriage. As if that weren't enough, a Freeze-Frame Bonus shows a man's dress shirts and pants carelessly tossed aside in their bedroom.
  • "Hearts and Minds" has many of these. The episode's main premise revolves around the allegory of Green Lantern suffering from... Performance Anxiety issues. At one point, Katma Tui calls his power loss "emerald impudence", which Flash mishears as "impotence".
  • Another serious example in "A Better World": parallel Superman glaring at Lex Luthor with glowing eyes as he decides that he's tired of playing the hero, when the camera cuts away to Batman, who suddenly asks Wonder Woman if she smells something burning...
    • The Justice Lords universe versions of Hawkgirl and Green Lantern have the following exchange:
      Hawkgirl: So do you sleep better now?
      Green Lantern: You know I do.
    • After breaking out of the Justice Lords' holding cells:
      Superman: I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready to kick some serious— [Flash interrupts]
  • The exchange between Green Lantern and Flash after the latter appears in a commercial for a power bar in "Eclipsed". The Flash uses the money he receives to buy (of all things) a van:
    Lantern: Why do you need a van... wait, don't answer that, I don't wanna know.
    • Followed by Flash stating that it's an expression of his inner self. He then presses a button, and the van begins to move up and down.
    • And if that wasn't enough of a visual metaphor, the Flash Van starts spraying windshield wiper fluids soon after.
    • In the same episode, Glorious Godfrey rudely calls out Wonder Woman on her choice of clothes:
      Godfrey: Role model? Look, I've seen showgirls with more modesty than this so-called Wonder Woman.
      [Wonder Woman breaks the television]
      Wonder Woman: I will not tolerate this!
      Green Lantern: Princess, I don't like Godfrey any more than you do, but in this country the man's entitled to his opinion... however bone-headed it is.
      The Flash: Democracy in action. Hey, didn't the Greeks invent that?
      [Woman Woman glares and goes over to check her reflection]
      Wonder Woman: And what's wrong with the way I dress?!
      The Flash: [to Green Lantern] Uh... You wanna take that?
  • Hawkgirl's response in "The Terror Beyond" when being held by a giant alien squid who is definitely not Cthulhu (well, kind of — he just has an I tacked on before his name):
    Ichthultu: Speak to me, child of Thanagar.
    Hawkgirl: Nothing to say. I have a gesture for you, but my hands are tied.
  • In "Secret Society", as the team starts in-fighting, Hawkgirl nearly calls Wonder Woman a stuck-up bitch but is cut short.
    • Likewise, in Part 2, some of the Shade's goons from the last episode are seen walking out of a seedy-looking club with loud music, explaining they only got out because one guy's mom put up bail. "How's she gonna pay it all back?" "Eh, she'll just have to keep dancing for a few more years." Yes, folks, we just got a strip club on Cartoon Network.
    • In the same episode, Grodd explains how bad decisions can come from of "one of those moods you get into every so often". Giganta responds with "I hear that!", which is out-of-the-blue enough to make one suspect that she's actually talking about something a little different...
    • Grodd's preference for human women. He's so into them that he took his gorilla lover and made her into a human just to suit his particular fetish.
    • Shade remarks "this just gets better and better" upon seeing Giganta grow in order to break through a wall. He's standing at her feet, looking up, and she's wearing a short dress and no underwear (as one can see from her side view). Then, when Shade finds out that Giganta used to be a gorilla, he looks squicked out for a second before appearing to shrug and decide he's fine with borderline bestiality.
    • Wonder Woman being a Straw Feminist with a Gender Scoff: "Men! Unless you do it yourself, it doesn't count." Oh, Wondy... you really have no idea, do you?
  • This exchange from "Hereafter":
    Wonder Woman: You're no Superman.
    Lobo: The ladies say different.
  • The opening scene of "Wild Cards" is a shot of the Watchtower with audio of Hawkgirl and Green Lantern looking for something (turns out they're financial records).
    Shayera: Uh-huh... that's it... right there.
    John: No, it's not.
    Shayera: I think I would know.
    John: Really?
    • And then a little later in the episode, when the Royal Flush Gang are getting their intro, the camera is poised right at Queen's crotch for a good 2 seconds. Yikes!
    • Joker isn't exactly subtle about his feelings towards Batman in this gem:
      Joker: Zoom in, I want a nice shot of Batman! Lower, LOWER!
    • Nor is he subtle about commenting about John and Hawkgirl:
      Joker: Whew! Is it just me, or is there something going on between those two? Will Green Lantern ever admit to his true feelings? Will Hawkgirl ever stop sublimating her passions with that big honking mace?
    • Worst of all is the implied pedophilia between the Joker and Ace. This isn't a viewer interpretation. It is literally a plot point. Batman uses it to get Harley to expose Joker's hideout in a jealous rage, which incidentally only further strengthens the point they're trying to get across. Whether Batman is trying to turn Harley against Joker with lies or truth, the fact remains that he's implying pedophilia.
    • We are all provided a Male Gaze of Queen by the cameraman. The fact that she is a teen also comes close to crossing the line into ephebophilia, depending on how old you think she is (her age is never explicitly stated).
    • At the end of the episode, an injured John is laying in bed (shirtless!) and ends the UST between he and Hawkgirl by removing her mask with the romance and slow intensity most movies would use to remove the woman's shirt and passionately kiss her. Black out and cut back to Las Vegas where an old lady (who's been at the slot machine the whole episode) hits the jackpot and exclaims "Finally!" just to let the audience know, yes, GL and Hawkgirl will now bone.
      Old Woman: ...Well, it's about time! [cue jackpot sound]
      • It's also a reference to fans going berserk over the tension between the two being resolved.
  • In the final part of "Starcrossed", during the final battle between Green Lantern and Hro Talak, John tells Talak to "Kiss my axe!" He does make an axe with his ring, but the delivery of the line sounds so much like "ass" that many fans think that's actually what he said.
    • In the same episode, Martian Manhunter delves deep into Kragger (Hro Talak's right hand man)'s head. the first thing he sees is a destroyed statue of Hawkgirl (Talak's fiance, last they knew), followed by a statue of the man right beside Talak, so close they could make a doorway between their legs. Bruce Timm states that this was intentional.
  • Non-sex example: The orbit-to-surface energy weapon on the Watchtower satellite was once named in dialog as the "Binary Fusion Generator".
  • In "For the Man Who Has Everything", just before Wonder Woman fires the neural impactor at Mongul, she says "Go. To—" The blast when she shoots the weapon drowns out her last word, but you can read her lips and it's pretty obvious that the last word was "Hell". The uncensored "Go to hell!" was used in the comic story from which this episode was adapted — as one of the best lines, they had to at least try to get it in.
  • In "Hawk and Dove":
    Dove: Why don't you calm down, and I'll let you go.
    Goon: Why don't you kiss my ah-AACK! [Hawk punches him]
  • "This Little Piggy" has a pretty good one, right before Circe turns Wonder Woman into a pig.
    Circe: When I'm done with you, Hippolyta won't want you for a daughter, and your pointy-eared boyfriend here won't want you for anything.
    • The commentary is even funnier as the producers point out how Bruce is nicer to Diana when she's a pig than when she's a person, especially since they note this during the scene where he's petting her. Diana would've had a fit if she knew.
      • The ending heavily implied that she remembered everything.
    • From the same episode, Batman's famous nightclub blues ballad includes one quick shot of the audience. Comprised entirely of male couples. It appears Batman sang the blues at a gay club. Circe might've just wanted an all-male audience for vanity's sake, but it does give an impression anyway. When Circe claims she is as good as the Sirens at charming men, the all-male audience give her blank looks followed by polite/baffled clapping. It doesn't help that Medusa says the club is on Mykonos, a Greek island known for its gay tourism.
  • In "Fearful Symmetry", upon finding out about Galatea, Green Arrow notes that she is identical to Supergirl, just more "mature". The camera is centered squarely on Galatea's chest. Not surprising considering who Galatea is basically an Expy of. She even has the Cleavage Window!
    • There's also the scene where Question was interrogating the reporter who Galatea had been seeing. Apparently, he knew that she had trouble sleeping. Somehow.
    • After Kara's nightmare, she discovers she's burned two holes in her ceiling, and it's implied that this isn't the first time this has happened. Perhaps the other times weren't all nightmares...
    • Galatea's name is a subtle example — like, bordering on Genius Bonus. On one hand, she's named after a figure from Greco-Roman mythology who came to life after being sculpted as a statue by a sculptor who created her to be his ideal woman, just like Hamilton artificially engineered Galatea to be his ideal warrior. On the other hand, her name literally means "She who is milky white" in Ancient Greek, with the root word "gala" ("milk") right at the beginning of her name. note  And she's the DCAU's version of Power Girl, a character infamous for being ridiculously busty and eager to show it off. So the character best known for her large breasts gets a new name with the Greek word for "milk" as a prefix.
  • In "The Greatest Story Never Told", after saving the day Skeets tells Booster Gold that he missed the chance to kiss Dr. Simmons "according to my thermal readings". In other words, he's saying that Dr. Simmons was turned on.
  • In "Ultimatum", Batman says "Mine are bigger than yours." to Amanda Waller. Of course, he's talking about how he has Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman on his side while she just has mooks. The fact that he gives a (rather forced-looking) grin when he says it doesn't help. This is Batman, after all.
  • In "Dark Heart", the Atom gets a ride to the fight in Wonder Woman's cleavage.
  • Black Canary's character design has to be one of the most blatant examples of Ms. Fanservice of the series. Her initial conversation/sparring session with Green Arrow in "The Cat and the Canary" — sans jacket — is jaw-dropping, all blonde hair and curves flattening on the mat. She lets him get on top of her and pin her arms behind her back, to convince him to do her a favor. Really, any episode with Canary in it is made for fanservice.
    • Speaking of that scene:
      Black Canary: Are you happy punching the bag or do you want to go a few rounds with me?
      Green Arrow: [blank stare]
      Black Canary: I am talking about sparring.
      Green Arrow: That'd be nice, too.
    • Plus, Green Arrow brings up the subject of "coffee" to her at the end of the episode
    • Of course, prior to this, Green Arrow already had Black Canary on the brain. One look was the reason he stayed in the League in "Initiation", and she's noticed him checking her out. For example, when he and Supergirl are talking about dreams in "Fearful Symmetry":
      Green Arrow: I don't know, I've had some dreams that felt mighty real. [looks over at Black Canary] There was this one the other night...
    • Let's put it this way: Batman: The Animated Series used her design for a prostitute. No more need be said.
    • Later in "The Cat and the Canary", a ticket scalper solicits her as a prostitute. They're expensive tickets. Fortunately, Ollie foots the bill.
  • Zatanna could give Black Canary a run for her money in the Fanservice department. Of course...
  • In "The Ties That Bind", Flash, Mr. Miracle and Big Barda just come out of Barda's boom tube. Flash then proceeds to ask, in an episode that focuses on his immaturity: "Why can't your boob tube get us closer?"
  • In "Task Force X", Deadshot is introduced to the eponymous group, and comments on seeing pictures of Plastique, an explosives expert.
    Plastique: And that's all you're gonna see, killer.
    • The two flirt throughout the whole episode.
    • Could be a reference to Plastique's Defeat by Modesty she suffers in the comics when up against Firestorm.
    • Task Force X, by the way, is the in-universe government name for what's better known as the Suicide Squad.
  • In "The Balance", after Flash tries and fails to get Diana and Shayera to patch things up with each other over dinner, he announces to the entire lunchroom: "I had dinner with two women at the same time. Cause I'm a stud~!" ...and then accidentally squelching his hand into a plate of mashed potatoes, standing there awkwardly with white gunk all over his hands, and then licking it off.
    • Soon afterwards, Hermes delivers to Wonder Woman a message from Zeus to invade Tartarus.
      Wonder Woman: He's telling me to go to—
      Hermes: Basically.
    • When Hermes accidentally gives Diana the wrong message: "For a good time, call PodĂȘnemos...?"
      Hermes: Sorry! Wrong scroll! I think I've got a shot; it's her cell number.
    • Faust, the villain of the episode, currently a ghost trapped in a mirror, is lecturing his student on proper potion-making.
      Felix Faust: Tala, you've come a long way since my untimely demise, but the student, however gifted, still has much to learn from the teacher.
      Tala: [flirtatiously] Maybe I wouldn't if we'd spent more time on curriculum, and less time— [cut off by her potion exploding]
    • Later, when the ladies are deep in Tartarus:
      Hawkgirl: ...You haven't even broken a sweat.
      Wonder Woman: What? I do sweat.
      Hawkgirl: Oh, please, you practically glow. I wouldn't be surprised if you never have to... [cut off]
    • From the same episode, when the League's magical members are freaking out, record and reverse Zatanna's backwards ramblings. She's saying "Help us... please! All is lost! Faust sits on the throne of Hell!" Other than it being reversed, it's in no way censored (remember above, when the word "Hell" is subjected to a Curse Cut Short when said forwards later in the same episode).
  • At the end of "Double Date", after the Question confesses that he helped Huntress because he likes her, Huntress then drags him by his tie off screen to "thank" him. Two guesses what happened. Black Canary knew.
    Black Canary: I'm sorry, but... ew.
    • The best part? Question has no idea what's happening. Implying that this is the night he lost... something important.
    • "Double Date" has a second, blatant one; grotesque Politically Incorrect Villain Mandragora, while being guarded in a safehouse as a witness, hits on Black Canary while eating (and then licking) a plate of Freudian Oysters, telling an enraged Green Arrow to run off and fetch more oysters while he stays with GA's girlfriend since he likes them "sweet and juicy". Really, words don't do justice to how sleazy the scene is.
      Mandragora: Besides, I'm ravaged by hunger. Feed me, and I shall squeal on all manner of former associates. Speaking of squealing, Black Canary, I notice you can't take your eyes off me. One can hardly blame you. Perhaps after Agent Faraday helps absolve me of my alleged crimes, I could put you in a cage and have you sing for me.
    • Pretty much everything in "Double Date" is filled with blatant sexual innuendo. It's like they didn't even care if they got caught.
    • "Double Date" was written by Gail Simone. It was obvious this was an episode for the older fans from that fact alone.
  • In "Hunter's Moon", Hawkgirl and Vixen have a conversation about Green Lantern, and both of them mention that they've seen the inside of his underwear drawer.
  • Then there's the time Vixen ambushes John Stewart by pulling him into a side room with hope for some alone time.
    Green Lantern: Don't sneak up on me like that! Do you know what this ring could do to you?
    Vixen: Promises, promises.
  • Huntress confronting the Question after a theft in "Question Authority", and, wanting some alone time with him, taking the computer disk he has just stolen and tucking it into her Trouser Space, complete with closeup as she does!
    Question: Uh... Dinner? And a movie?
    Huntress: It's a start... [cue Trouser Space]
    • In the scene preceding this, Superman and Lois Lane are having a picnic. After finishing their meal, Lois smiles and slyly asks, "So, what's for dessert?"
  • There's a scene in "Epilogue" in which Waller tries to explain that she obtained Batman's DNA (for one of her late genetics experiments) from blood he left at the scene of a fight. Judging by her face, you almost get the feeling she phrased it like this on purpose:
    [flashback of the original Batman, wounded enough to draw blood]
    Waller: Bruce's DNA was easy enough to obtain: he left it all over town.
    [cut to Terry giving Waller an awkward stare.]
    Waller: ...Not remotely what I meant.
    • Given that Terry had by that time read up about Bruce's old playboy act, this is getting crap past and yet another way of hooking Batman Beyond to the older shows one more time, as the fat lady (Waller) is singing.
    • Another one-scene wonder in "Epilogue": pay close attention when Ace dies and the new Royal Flush Gang reverts to their non-powered true selves. The new Queen, a Brawn Hilda type woman, reverts to a fat man.
  • In "I Am Legion", Hawkgirl on Flash gazing at his new crush Fire (talking to her gal-pal Ice):
    Hawkgirl: You'd probably be wasting your time anyway. I hear she's, y'know... [long, Flash-panicking pause] Brazilian.
    • Doubles as a Mythology Gag, as Fire and Ice are close friends with a certain amount of Ho Yay in the comic.
    • Then there is the scene of them traveling to the island. Complete with Male Gaze on Fire as the episode makes it known to Flash, and the viewers old enough to get it, about her "assets".
  • In "Shadow of the Hawk", while visiting an archaeological dig the day after their first date, Carter Hall tells Hawkgirl that he misses the dress she wore. Hawkgirl replies, "You didn't miss it last night", implying the two had a one-night stand. In case that wasn't enough, Hall then replies "The pants are good too" right as a shot centers directly on her ass. This prompts her to tell Hall to lead the way.
  • In "Chaos at the Earth's Core", S.T.R.I.P.E utters "this is a load of crabcakes". A very moderate example, but an example all the same.
  • So many in "To Another Shore":
    • When Martian Manhunter is grabbing Killer Frost and flying her up into the air, she says "Hey, watch the hands!". While this is probably not intentional on his part, and he's in a hurry, his arms are crossed directly over her breasts.
    • A similar occurrence happens when Giganta, Heatwave, and some other guys are out on a mission. At one point the group starts to walk off, with Giganta still in her giant form. Heatwave walks underneath her, and they actually make a point of showing him briefly stopping and looking up as he does so! Devil Ray does the same at another point.
  • In "Flash and Substance", Captain Boomerang complains to Mirror Master, "You just pull another mirror out of your blinkin' arsenal." Even better, his Aussie accent makes the "r" almost inaudible.
    • In the comics, at least, Cap is half-Australian, so even with the R in it doesn't really change the meaning as far as he's concerned.
    • Then there's the opening scene:
      Captain Cold: The way people tell it, you'd think the Flash shoved my cold gun
    • Reporter Linda Park reveals her Flash-fangirl side when, describing him in glowing terms, compares Flash to "like, the whole track team at once". On the air. (But, of course she would.)
  • By "Dead Reckoning", they aren't even trying. Tala kneels to Grodd and calls him her master. Not just in an I Owe You My Life sense, but as an implied BDSM pet. She also states that "Giganta isn't enough woman for Grodd".
  • "The Great Brain Robbery": The "Freaky Friday" Flip-suffering Flash is implied to have sex with supervillain Tala while in Lex Luthor's body. Quoth the Flash after Tala pulls him aside (off camera) to "rest": "Hey. That's not restful." She also implies he's better than Lex because he's warm and giving (and enthusiastic). There's also a strong implication that Tala had previously slept with Grodd, who is a sapient gorilla.
    • No wonder she chose Lex then. By human standards, gorillas are awfully underequipped in a certain manner.
    • The creators kind of tried to deny that Flash and Tala had sex in that scene (after some furor about the moral implications of such an act), but how else could you interpret Tala's words afterwards?
      "You're so different, so attentive, so caring, so enthusiastic... I like it."
    • Note also her apparent disappointment upon Lex's return.
    • Still regarding Tala's relationship with Grodd, we have this wonderful line delivered by the gorilla:
      "Ah, Tala. I so miss bending you to my will."
    • Her response isn't without implications, either ("Go eat a banana", and she might not have meant "eating" with his mouth...).
  • In "Grudge Match", the radar is invoked and Played for Laughs:
    Huntress: So... What are you wearing?
    Question: [sigh] Blue overcoat. Fedora.
    Huntress: You really stink at this.
    Question: ...Orange socks?
    • A few fanmade images of certain content seem to lampshade this scene by showing Huntress be surprised at a pantsless Question — or rather, by the fact his manhood is also sporting a small overcoat and fedora of its own!
    • A few choice quotes:
      "Keep her busy so I can take her from behind!"
      "I know your kind, Roulette! You like to watch..."
      "I do fine on my own."
    • And one exchange:
      Fire: I did what?
      Wonder Woman: I know how you feel.
    • Sonar, after Luthor breaks up a fight between Roulette and Tala: "C'mon, let them go at it for a minute."
      • Hell, Luthor basically admits that this kind of male interest is why a series of Designated Girl Fights would be more successful than the existing structure of the Meta Brawl.
    • When Roulette and Sonar are beaten, Roulette is tossed face down on Sonar's lap...
    • About a metric ton of Male Gaze shots.
    • Before Black Canary and Huntress have their Rocky shot ending, they take off their jacket and belt, respectively.
  • "Far From Home" doesn't even try for subtlety. When Supergirl catches Brainiac 5 from being thrown across the room, Brainiac questions why she's holding him, leading to this gem:
    Supergirl: Maybe I was just trying to cop a feel.
  • In "Ancient History", when Vixen and Hawkgirl are teasing each other back and forth while exercising, Vixen comments that Hawkgirl should stop lifting weights or she'll start getting bulky. Hawkgirl replies that she's just trying to maintain her girlish figure, then trails off grumbling "My girlish, girlish figure..." while the camera centers on her chest.
    • Shadow Thief has two instances when he insults Hawkgirl and Vixen; he calls the first "Harlot", and the other "Zoo Candy".
    • Hawkgirl uses a whip from a museum display to hold back Shadow Thief's attack against Hawkman. Hawkman's response: "You always were good with that thing!"
  • Grodd makes a literal example of this trope in "Alive!":
    Grodd: I'm not some monkey in a cage throwing—
    Tala: Shh!
    • Who can forget the close-up of Luthor's rapturous face as he exclaims "Brainiac, I'm coming!"? Also, "I want to merge with you again!"

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