Discussion YMMV / YoungJustice

Question on this item in folder Season 3:

• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The new series on DC Universe is clearly meant for an older audience. While the first two seasons definitely had their edgier content, they had to be censored for the kids due to being on Cartoon Network. But now, as a streaming-exclusive series, it does not.
  • Greg Weisman referred to the content as "PG-13 towards R" as opposed to "PG towards PG-13" , and the first five minutes make it clear; we see a 14-year-old girl being trafficked as she's completely helpless, sees corpses around her, forcibly turned into a monster, and then accidentally killed by Black Lightning, much to his horror. That's just the beginning.
  • The first three episodes alone of Season 3 contain multiple examples of Family-Unfriendly Violence; including people being stabbed or shot to death with visible blood getting spilled, and a teenage girl getting her face burned off by a monster (though fortunately, she instantly and completely regenerates from her injuries, but it was still a very gruesome sight).

Does the above really apply if it never meant to be for kids to begin with?

Some of the Narm entries (especially the later ones) seem like they're delving into the realm of just complaining for the sake of it. One in particular is about the JL not having a more prominent role...even though the show isn't even directly about them.

Kind of hesitant to remove them since it is a YMMV issue. Can anyone take a second look at them and voice an opinion?

Per the UI page, not Unfortunate Implications without an accompanying link to prove it's not just one person complaining.

•     Unfortunate Implications 
  • The show at one point had a tie-in toyline at the McDonald's burger chain. All four male members of Young Justice were included in the line, as were Superman and Batman. Guess who was excluded from the line? You guessed it, Miss Martian and Artemis. To add insult to injury, they were replaced by Black Manta and Captain Cold, the latter of whom hadn't even had a speaking role on the show yet.
  • The Young Justice Halloween costumes only feature Robin, Kid Flash, and Superboy — the three white boys. The two girls on the team and the black boy are left out.
  • The series' promotional materials, the tie-in comics, and most fanart depict the half-Vietnamese Artemis with a more "white" complexion and bright blue eyes; Word of God on the former two is that it was due to a miscommunication. The actual show has her with noticeably darker skin than her Caucasian teammates and dark gray eyes.
  • In "Beneath", Dick is explaining to Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Miss Martian, and Bumblebee that he put together an all-female team to investigate Queen Bee because her persuasion abilities don't work as competently on women as they do on men. Batgirl then asks Dick if he would've "felt the need to justify an all-male squad for a given mission?" At which point the rest of the squad gives Dick a dirty look and sheepishly asks "there's no right answer to that, is there?" When he logs out, Batgirl quips that Queen Bee's not the only one who can mess with men's minds, and the team laughs. Half the fanbase appreciates Batgirl for calling Nightwing on the unintentional assumption that an all-male squad is normal, while an all-female squad needs to be explained; the other half thinks she's being a Straw Feminist and giving Nightwing grief for no reason.
  • Any episode that deals with international politics tends to fall into this, especially for non-American viewers. "Targets" portrays "North and South Rhelasia", paper-thin expies of the two Koreas, as being run by essentially bratty children who continue to fight with each other for no particular reason until Lex Luthor steps in as a white savior, points out that they have no reason to fight, and persuades them into making peace... through a promise of selling advanced military tech to both sides. "Image" presents Qurac as essentially the culmination of all neoconservative propaganda about what Iraq would be like post-invasion with a leader who is Definitely Positively Democratically Elected and beloved by his people and supports the United States until the supervillain who runs Bialya brainwashes him into wanting to hand his country over to her, at which point the heroes need to intervene to save Qurac from itself. The tie-in comic has the democratic leader replaced by Sumaan Harjavti... who is in league with Queen Bee, willingly.
  • The fact that the one black guy in the show in a relationship has to call his girlfriend "woman" at least once.
  • Arsenal's comment about getting a reward (and Cassie willingly giving him one) has reminded many a fan of the sexist trope in which a hero would get abrupt kisses from women after saving the day as a "reward".