History ComicBook / YoungJustice

** Arguably for DC Comics or the whole superhero genre as well. Comicbook/YoungJustice had its share of grim or dark storylines, but it also had lots of {{Bizarro Episode}}s, LeaningOnTheFourthWall and HilarityEnsues storylines. During one CrisisCrossover they spent a little time possessed by demons [[AuthorAppeal harrassing the NRA]] before moving on to a recurring villain who vaguely fit the crossover's theme, and when they were at the center of another CrisisCrossover, it involved [[FountainOfYouth turning all the world's adult heroes into children and vice versa]], and TheMenInBlack who were recurring antagonists had [[MeaningfulName Joke Names]].

Launched out of a FifthWeekEvent tie-in "Girlfrenzy: Young Justice -- The Secret" and a Justice League mini-series "World Without Grown-Ups", the series was written by PeterDavid and ran for 55 issues before being canceled. The cancellation (along with cancellation of another Titans comic that was launched in 1999) of course was done mainly to launch a ''new'' ''Teen Titans'' comic to complement the recently debuted ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon series, placing the remaining members of Young Justice under the wing of veterans from the classic Wolfman Titans team.

* ShoutOut: Many, the most blatant when Snapper Carr is all but revealed to be talking on the phone with Rick Jones, who was currently starring in another PeterDavid written book, Captain Marvel. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

* EvilTwin: Inverted with Slo-Bo, the degenerated clone of {{Lobo}} who contained all of the Last Czarnian's "repressed" traits: he was intelligent, good-natured, responsible, monogamous, self-sacrificing...oh, and slowly dying from not receiving any of Lobo's CanonSue superpowers.

* TakeThat: Wonder Girl mentions to CaptainMarvel Jr./CM3 that "[[MarvelComics The Marvel]]" would be a lousy name.

* ShowWithinAShow: The characters often watched "Wendy the Werewolf Stalker", an expy of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

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* WitchWithACapitalB: Arrowette refers to AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse as "rhymes with witches."

** Arguably for DC Comics or the whole superhero genre as well. Comicbook/YoungJustice had its share of grim or dark storylines, but it also had lots of {{BLAM Episode}}s, LeaningOnTheFourthWall and HilarityEnsues storylines. During one CrisisCrossover they spent a little time possessed by demons [[AuthorAppeal harrassing the NRA]] before moving on to a recurring villain who vaguely fit the crossover's theme, and when they were at the center of another CrisisCrossover, it involved [[FountainOfYouth turning all the world's adult heroes into children and vice versa]], and TheMenInBlack who were recurring antagonists had [[MeaningfulName Joke Names]].

** This resulted in a couple of TakeThat jokes during a reality show story ("Did the all-concealing shadows just say ouch?"), including Robin creating the hero identity of "Mr. Sarcastic," a shaved-head ShoutOut to Spider Jerusalem (and possibly to Paragon, a Robin expy created for 80's ComicBook/TeenTitans PSA comics when licensing contracts prevented the Boy Wonder's use).

* landmarkingTheHiddenBase: A.P.E.'s headquarters is inside Mount Rushmore.

** In this case, quite literally ''Gag'' Boobs. Everyone makes fun of them, and very often they [[BeyondTheImpossible don't fit in the panel.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Robin. But sometimes NotAboveItAll.

** Doesn't he get saved from it?
*** [[NightmareFuel No, he gets melted into goo.]]

* LesYay: Only one time, and nothing sexual, but when Arrowette and Wondergirl's moms found out they went on a co-ed camping trip with the boys, they flipped their lids and went to give the girls what-for... only to find them asleep in their own tent, holding hands, with Secret in mist form hovering asleep around them. "D'aaaw!"

In 1996, riding high on the GrantMorrison relaunch of the Justice League, DC Comics attempted to relaunch ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' yet again. It failed miserably, in large part due to massive amounts of ExecutiveMeddling. Most notably, the fact that NO ONE wanted to let the 1996 Teen Titans writer Dan Jurgens use any of the major teen heroes running around DC at the time (particularly Robin III -- Tim Drake, who actually WON a fan contest to select a new member of the team -- only for the Batman editors to refuse to honor the contest results, resulting in Captain Marvel Jr. being forced upon Jurgens instead.) The lack of "Teen" in the "Titans" didn't help, either.

** Arguably for DC Comics or the whole superhero genre as well. Comicbook/YoungJustice had its share of grim or dark storylines, but it also had lots of {{BLAM Episode}}s, LeaningOnTheFourthWall and HilarityEnsues storylines. During one CrisisCrossover they spent a little time possessed by demons [[AuthorAppeal harrassing the NRA]] before moving on to a recurring villain who vaguely fit the crossover's theme, and when they were at the center of another CrisisCrossover, it involved [[FountainOfYouth turning all the world's adult heroes into children and vice versa]], and the {{MIB}}s who were recurring antagonists had [[MeaningfulName Joke Names]].

* TheBumblebee: Impulse.

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Secret's real-name, [[spoiler: Greta Hayes]], isn't reveales until late in the series' run. Prior to the revelation, she goes by Suzie.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Superboy and Wonder Girl. [[spoiler: They do. Then they do ''it''. Then he dies. [[IGotBetter Then he gets better!]]]]

** Some issues do fall under this, though; one issue has the team jumping out of the A.P.E.S. headquarters (which is located in Mount Rushmore, up Abraham Lincoln's nose), with Robin shouting "[[JustForPun It's gonna blow]]!" and carrying a detonator, connected to various bombs that are stuffed in Lincoln's nose. Within the comic, however, it's ''Superboy'' who defaces Mount Rushmore, and he does it to George Washington, rather than Lincoln. He also does it out of necessity, and does not use dynamite. Furthermore, the line about blowing Lincoln's nose is said when ''entering'' the nose, not exiting, and is just an offhand remark made in reply to Impulse's pun about them running up the nose, instead of the nose running.

* WitchWithACapitalB: Arrowette refers to TheLibby and her GirlPosse as "rhymes with witches."

* PowerPerversionPotential: When Secret manages to partially solidify to catch Superboy from being flung around, he remarks that he didn't know she could do that. Her response? "Oh, I can do [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean all sorts of things you don't know about]]". Not that Secret normally made such innuendos, but the look on her face sold it as such.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Superboy and Wonder Girl. [[spoiler: They do. Then they do ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean it]]''. Then he dies. [[IGotBetter Then he gets better!]]]]