History ComicBook / YoungJustice

** One notable ShoutOut goes to DC's [[MarvelComics main competitor]]; more specifically, to their [[SpiderMan poster boy]]'s origin. A cop chases after a crook, shouting for someone to stop him before he gets to the elevator, and Arrowette lets him pass. The cop then chastizes her, hoping he doesn't shoot someone's mom...or uncle.

* TakeThat: Wonder Girl mentions to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] Jr./CM3 that "[[MarvelComics The Marvel]]" would be a lousy name.

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 Creator/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.

Cancelled in 1998, DC decided to launch a new replacement book; but since the Jurgens Titans series was pretty much universally reviled, it was decided to instead come up with a new name for the new teen book. Meanwhile, Robin's popularity was matched by two other teenage {{Legacy Character}}s: [[TheFlash Impulse]] and [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman the Post-Crisis Superboy]] -- and the trio worked as a PowerTrio. Hence, "Young Justice" was born.

* VerySpecialEpisode: The gun control story is probably supposed to be this. A less [[BaseBreaker dividing]] example is the episode that indirectly, but very clearly, refers to 9/11.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Superboy and Wonder Girl. [[spoiler:They do (only in the series' last issue, but they still do). Then they do ''it'' (years later). Then he dies. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then he gets better!]]]]

* TheyMightBeGiants: Wonder Girl is apparently a fan. Too bad the [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Wonder Twins]] ate her ''Flood'' CD!

* TheyMightBeGiants: Wonder Girl is apparently a fan. Too bad the [[SuperFriends Wonder Twins]] ate her ''Flood'' CD!

* 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 superpowers.

Cancelled in 1998, DC decided to launch a new replacement book; but since the Jurgens Titans series was pretty much universally reviled, it was decided to instead come up with a new name for the new teen book. Meanwhile, Robin's popularity was matched by two other teenage {{Legacy Character}}s: [[TheFlash Impulse]] and [[TheDeathOfSuperman the Post-Crisis Superboy]] -- and the trio worked as a PowerTrio. Hence, "Young Justice" was born.

* ContinuitySnarl: Mocked in an aside: Red Tornado says he has files on every superhero, with "nineteen on {{Hawkman}} alone".

* FanService: Surprisingly averted for a 90's comic. Helped by the fact that artist Todd Nanuck drew the characters with the proportions of ACTUAL teenagers (as opposed to other artists working on "teen" books where they drew everyone looking like 20-something underwear models). However, played a bit more straight straight whenever a guest-artist showed up, and later on in the series as Wonder Girl ditched the terrible wig and grew a cup size. Not to mention Empress showing up naked a couple times...

** Played more straight with Match, who secretly replaced Superboy for several issues in order to destabilize the team from within and make sure they got bad press.

* CloningBlues: Purposely avoided and ''repeatedly'' lampshaded by Superboy, played much straighter by Slo-Bo.

In 1996, riding high on the GrantMorrison relaunch of the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, 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.

** A cross-title one that ''could'' be an accident...if it weren't for GrantMorrison's involvement. In the first Young Justice story, a kid gets hold of an all-powerful genie and wreaks havoc. When the team save the world and the League are congratulating them, someone says "So cool!" among the chatter. A year or so later, in a {{JLA}} story, a former superhero gets hold of an all-powerful genie and wreaks havoc. The genie here is a revealed to be a 5th-dimensional being like Mxyzptlk, and can be summoned or dismissed by saying his name backwards. His name is Lkz, making his control phrase zkl...pronounced in the comics as "so cool".

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* 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 Creator/PeterDavid written book, '' [[CaptainMarVell Captain Marvel]]''. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

** Another example: when Arrowette and Wonder Girl were attempting to connect to the Internet using AOL, Cassie started complaining about the unreliability and slowness of the service...only to be quickly hushed by Cissie who hurriedly whispered something in her ear, prompting Cassie to smile falsely at the reader and start talking about how wonderful AOL was. Guess who'd just entered into a corporate partnership with Creator/WarnerBros and parent company Time Warner at the time..? [[spoiler:[[http://money.cnn.com/2000/01/10/deals/aol_warner/ America Online!]]]]

** Another example: when Arrowette and Wonder Girl were attempting to connect to the Internet using AOL, Cassie started complaining about the unreliability and slowness of the service...only to be quickly hushed by Cissie who hurriedly whispered something in her ear, prompting Cassie to smile falsely at the reader and start talking about how wonderful AOL was. Guess who'd just entered into a corporate partnership with Creator/WarnerBros and parent company Time Warner at the time..?

** Another example: when Arrowette and Wonder Girl were attempting to connect to the Internet using AOL, Cassie started complaining about the unreliability and slowness of the service...only to be quickly hushed by Cissie who hurriedly whispered something in her ear, prompting Cassie to smile falsely at the reader and start talking about how wonderful AOL was. Guess who'd just entered into a corporate partnership with Warner Bros. at the time..?

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Superboy and Wonder Girl. [[spoiler:They do (only after they're ported to ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'', but they still do). Then they do ''it''. Then he dies. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then he gets better!]]]]

* ExecutiveMeddling: The Bat-Editors constantly threatened to yank Robin from the book unless the writers obeyed their edicts on how he could be featured; most notably, Robin could not be used in any battle that took place in public, according to the "urban legend" policy in the Bat-books.
** 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 Protector, a Robin expy created for 80's ComicBook/TeenTitans PSA comics when licensing contracts prevented the Boy Wonder's use).
** RecursiveAdaptation: The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon was initially planned as an adaptation of ''Young Justice'', but the number of {{Legacy Character}}s was too much of a problem. The solution: ReVision the Wolfman-Perez Titans in the style of ''Young Justice''!
*** It looks like we're now getting a a ReVision of Young Justice in the style of Geoff Johns' "Teen Titans". Make of that what you will.

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

--> '''{{Superboy}}:''' Wow. I can tell '''you''' were trained by the world's greatest detective.

* CloningBlues: Purposely avoided and ''repeatedly'' lampshaded by Superboy , played much straighter by Slo-Bo.

* VerySpecialEpisode: The gun control story is probably supposed to be this.

* VerySpecialEpisode: The gun control story is probably supposed to be this. A less [[BaseBreaker dividing]] example is the episode that indirectly, but very clearly, refers to 9/11.

* 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 Creator/PeterDavid written book, Captain Marvel. This is only the tip of the iceberg.