History JusticeLeague / TropesMToZ

* NoImmortalInertia: This happens to Mordred in "Kids' Stuff" after he breaks Morgan's eternal youth spell to make himself older.

** Mordred in "Kids' Stuff" with an AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: J'onn, Vandal Savage, Morgaine le Fey and her son Mordred. [[spoiler: Mordred ultimately undoes the spell that keeps him eternally young in the episode "Kids' Stuff" [[FateWorseThanDeath and ends up rapidly degrading to his true age]].]]

** [[spoiler:Hawkgirl is a spy for Thanagar, not a cop -- and unlike Batman in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel'', she's allowed to stay on the League and her temporary departure was by her own hand.]]

* MagiciansAreWizards: When Comicbook/{{Zatanna}} closes out [[StageMagician her show]], she tends to perform actual magic to give the audience a big finale. Instead of [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat grabbing a rabbit]], she pulled a member of the audience out of her hat. This is different from how she was back in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', where she was depicted as just a StageMagician, although it is consistent with the original version of the character from the comics.

* MarshmallowHell: Franchise/WonderWoman is carrying a shrunk-down Atom in her hands. She needs ''both'' of these to fight. [[VictoriasSecretCompartment Guess where she stuffs him?]]

* MonowheelMayhem: Due to Vandal Savage's time-tampering, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is filled with Nazis War Wheels, [[StupidJetpackHitler mammoth war machines that overwhelm Allied tanks and infantry alike]]. The War Wheels are originally from the Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}} series, and the Blackhawks themselves appear to help defeat the Axis.

%%* MrViceGuy: Comicbook/BoosterGold's character.

** Franchise/WonderWoman. She is a tall, very beautiful raven-haired Amazonian woman who gets a significant amount of MaleGaze in the series due to the fact that she usually wears a strapless leotard that highlights her bust and voluptuous yet athletic build. The second episode, "Secret Origins, Part 2", features Wonder Woman pretty obviously getting naked when she drops her robe to put on her costume. In "Dark Heart", The Atom gets a ride to the fight [[MarshmallowHell in Wonder Woman's]] ''[[VictoriasSecretCompartment cleavage]]''.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Comicbook/CaptainAtom is manipulated into turning against the League and fighting Superman during the Cadmus arc by General Eiling. When Huntress mocks him, he simply replies "I've got my orders, Ma'am."

* NeverSayDie: Completely averted, as characters never shied away from talking bluntly about death or killing and there's even an episode revolving around Superman's [[NeverFoundTheBody apparent]] death (complete with funeral). It's relatively rare for anyone to actually die though. Played straight with the name "Comicbook/SuicideSquad" however. The team is simply referred to as "Task Force X" in order to avoid the repeated use of the word "suicide" in a children's cartoon.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}} Blackhawk Island]] is protected by, among other things, Flying Robot Gunsharks. In "The Once And Future Thing, Part 1", Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman end up fighting cowboys who are riding on robot dinosaurs.

* NoGravityForYou: When ComicBook/LexLuthor and Franchise/TheFlash go through a FreakyFridayFlip, Mr. Terrific pulls this to try and stop Luthor. Lex figures out how to fly in the zero gravity, but Mr. Terrific uses that against him too. An interesting use of dueling brains by two of the smartest humans.

** Of the "Not Blackmailed" variety, [[Comicbook/SuicideSquad Task Force X]] is filled with [[BoxedCrook criminals forced into service to the US government]], led in the field by Colonel Flagg. At the end of the episode, Deadshot asks Flagg just what it is that Amanda Waller has on him which makes him such a loyal and determined lackey. Flagg explains that she doesn't have a thing on him; his loyalty is ''genuine''.

* NowOrNeverKiss: In "Far From Home", [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] kisses Brainiac 5 before going into battle against the entire [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes plus Franchise/GreenLantern which is foretold to lead to her death.

** The titular characters of ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' and ''Comicbook/GreenArrow'' bond in "Initiation", the first episode of ''Unlimited'', and are frequently shown conversing and cooperating throughout the series. She and Green Lantern also spend a lot of screen-time together and banter freely and warmly, but they have a more traditional mentor/student role instead of partnership.

** ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} helped train and mentor Comicbook/BlackCanary when she was just getting started.

* PhantomZone: A slightly ironic use, where Franchise/{{Batman}} becomes disgruntled with Franchise/{{Superman}} after he sends Doomsday into the literal Phantom Zone. The plot really isn't trying to cover up the fact Batman's anger is treating it as giving someone an actual death sentence.

** Darkseid and the Comicbook/NewGods aren't exactly divine, but identify themselves as such and have the power to back it up.

** Franchise/{{Superman}} does this to ComicBook/CaptainAtom after [[spoiler:Superman is forced to beat him unconscious in "Flashpoint"]].
** Franchise/GreenLantern does this to [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}]] in "Far From Home".

* PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: When Comicbook/{{Zatanna}} is closing out [[StageMagician her performance]], she proclaims that she will pull a rabbit out of her hat. [[MagiciansAreWizards She grabs someone from the audience instead]].

* ReallyGetsAround: Tala. Luthor, Grodd, alludes to past history with Felix Faust (All apparently more power plays than anything else) and even manages to [[FreakyFridayFlip sneak in]] [[{{Pun}} a quickie]] with Franchise/TheFlash.

** [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] gives one to the Original Seven in "Clash" (particularly Superman) over their recent actions.

** Not long after the series premiered, in comics canon John Stewart returned to being an active Green Lantern with his haircut and costume from the series and joined the JLA. While the comics have yet to shave him bald and give him a beard ala the ''JLU'' seasons, his MirrorUniverse counterpart, Power Ring, sports a similar look and John joked about it with Black Lightning (who is currently bald) when he replaced Hal Jordan in the post-''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' version of the League.
** Comicbook/{{Vixen}}'s current 'superpowered Josephine Baker' look came to the comics from here.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In "Hereafter", Superman is sent back to the day of his disappearance by Vandal Savage to avert a BadFuture where Savage disrupts the entire solar system's gravity and wipes out mankind. The lead-up to this scheme involved the death of [[Comicbook/TheAtom a scientist named Ray Palmer]], so that's a bonus, too.

** In the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII battles of "The Savage Time", Superman flies directly through a German plane and emerges from the inevitable explosion covered head to toe in flames - which makes him a dead ringer for the Franchise/MarvelUniverse's original, Nazi-fighting Human Torch. An unidentified Allied solider later in the episode is shown injured and clutching his eye in reference to Comicbook/NickFury. In the same episode, the Flash heckles the Nazis by yelling "Over here, [[Series/HogansHeroes Colonel Klink!]]"

** "The Terror Beyond" is an extended homage to the Creator/MarvelComics team Comicbook/TheDefenders. ComicBook/DoctorFate stands in for Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Solomon Grundy for the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], Hawkgirl for Nighthawk, and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} for [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]. Grundy even refers to Hawkgirl as "Bird Nose", Hulk's nickname for Nighthawk. The villain this team fights? [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos An octopus-headed god known as "Ichulthu"]]. The same team returns in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Wake the Dead", with A.M.A.Z.O. now added to the group as a stand-in for the ComicBook/SilverSurfer.

*** When Ace's background is shown, the men bringing her into the secret facility where the Royal Flush Gang was kept are protecting themselves from her psychic powers with special helmets, similar to how Magneto protects himself from telepathic intrusions in ''[[Franchise/XMen X-Men]]''

** In "This Little Piggy", when Comicbook/{{Zatanna}} is trying to [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat grab a rabbit in her hat]], she calls out for "WesternAnimation/{{Bugs|Bunny}}." Later in the episode, Circe is crushed by a flung piano and [[Film/TheWizardOfOz her feet, which are sticking out from under the piano, go flat and roll up under the piano.]]

** In "Dead Reckoning", Superman, [[ItMakesSenseInContext currently possessed by Deadman]], says when he, Batman and Franchise/WonderWoman are transported to Africa, "You know, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries when they beam down on that TV show, they never miss.]]"

** The final two episodes of JLU, "Alive" and "Destroyer" are references to the titles of two Music/{{KISS}} albums. Darkseid's outfit is also a direct reference to Gene Simmon's on the cover of ''Destroyer''. In the episodes themselves, Captain Steel mimic Comicbook/CaptainAmerica by flinging a Parademon's shield.

* ShutUpKiss: Steve Trevor plants one on Franchise/WonderWoman and she returns the favor later in the episode.

* StageMagician: Comicbook/{{Zatanna}} is a primary guest star in "This Little Piggy", where she is introduced performing her act on stage.

* {{Thememobile}}: The Batmobile, obviously. Parodied with the Flashmobile, a souped-up shaggin' wagon Franchise/TheFlash bought with [[MoneyDearBoy the money he made]] shilling for an energy bar company.

** Franchise/TheFlash in "Maid Of Honor".

* TokenMinority: John Stewart was chosen from ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' for this series instead of the more popular Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner. The creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that part of this decision was to prevent the team from being solely composed of white people and aliens. Fortunately, Stewart had worked with the JLA in the comics years before, which gave his inclusion some needed credibility.

** [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] chews out the Original Seven before resigning from the Justice League for their paranoia and arrogance.

* WhoDares: Circe asks this after {{ComicBook/Zatanna}} interrupts her concert with [[TalkToTheFist a couple of tables to the face]]. Well, she ''tries'' to ask, anyway.

%%* WillNotBeAVictim: Franchise/TheFlash at the end of the fourth season.

* WithMyHandsTied: In "Starcrossed", the League are captured by the Thanagarians. Franchise/WonderWoman manages to free herself while tied to a pole by throwing the enemy's knife at the control panel with her teeth.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:[[invoked]] Parodied in "Comfort and Joy." Flash stumbles on Ultra-Humanite trashing a museum filled with destroyed sculptures. Humanite reveals that the museum was ''already'' like this and he was destroying it out of his hatred for this trope.

** The ''Hawkman'' series would take after the show making Hawkman and Hawkgirl being made CompositeCharacters with the Golden Age Hawks by retconning that Katar and Shayera were indeed among Carter and Kendra's past lives.

* RetroUniverse: The well-loved episode "Legends".

%%* SmugSnake:
%%** Lex Luthor, at least when he thinks he’s winning
%%** Amanda Waller has her moments

** ComicBook/{{Aztek}} appears as a member of the League in ''Justice League Unlimited'' and remains alive by the end of the series, when Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' killed him off during the "World War III" arc.

* SaltAndPepper: Reversed. Green Lantern is the straight man, while Flash is the goofball.

* MakeMeWannaShout:

* PowerWalk: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p81_kAFdyr8 The opening intro for Seasons One and Two]] featured this in [[RuleOfCool slow motion]].

** Aztek appears as a member of the League in ''Justice League Unlimited'' and remains alive by the end of the series, when Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' killed him off during the "World War III" arc.

%%* StageMom: Morgaine le Fay.

** In the mass VillainTeamUp in the final season of Unlimited, there's the snarky, short-haired DarkActionGirl Killer Frost and the more feminine DarkChick Giganta.

** In the episode "Metamorphosis", a {{squick}}y example occurs when an extremely OverprotectiveDad (who loved his daughter maybe [[ParentalIncest a bit too much]]) did not like Rex Mason, his daughter's fiancée. He attempted to have Mason killed, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive while also forwarding his research outside of standard safety protocols]], and when that failed he pretended that the one who told him to do it was Green Lantern, Mason's old friend. He then shows Rex a photo of John Stewart and his fiancée embracing, which had been a brief hug to support her following Mason's accident but was taken out of context, and Rex then went after Green Lantern in a rage.