Justice League Animated Series

<div style="text-align: right;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/wondwomanbutt.jpg" border="0" /><!--right--></div><strong>Justice League</strong> is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. After its second season, it became Justice League Unlimited, and ran an additional three seasons. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/jllogo.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> - History Animator Bruce Timm, having successfully adapted both Batman and Superman into animated television programs in the 1990s, took on the challenge of faithfully adapting the Justice League comic book and turning it into an animated sequel to his two former animated series. This new animated TV series brought all sorts of new characters. Ignoring the sidekicks, pets and other extraneous elements of the earlier Super Friends show, the line-up of this new JLA adaptation was created with two things in mind: to pay tribute to the original line-up of the Justice League of America while also reflecting racial and cultural diversity. Significantly, the well-known (but much-depreciated) superhero Aquaman was left out of the lineup (although he would be used on the show) in favor of a second female on the team - Hawkgirl - and the African-American Green Lantern John Stewart, who has worked with the League in the comics before, was used rather than one of the better-known modern-era Green Lanterns Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner or Kyle Rayner, even though Rayner had appeared as Green Lantern in the Superman animated series. (In the second season, Rayner is described as a Lantern in training under Stewart's old mentor, explaining his absence. Both Rayner and Jordan make brief appearances in Justice League Unlimited.) Gardner was never seen in either series. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/watchtower1.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> The show met with significant success, partially due to loyal fans already familiar with these incarnations of the characters, and partially from a new generation of viewers. The two-part nature of most episodes led Cartoon Network to choose to air the episodes back-to-back. According to audio commentary on the DVD release of Season 2, the second season finale "Starcrossed" was expected to be the final episode of the series. However, in February 2004, Cartoon Network announced a follow-up series, Justice League Unlimited, which premiered on July 31, 2004. Justice League Unlimited features a greatly expanded roster of heroes, usually with only a few appearing in any given episode, although there are a few featuring just about the entire roster fighting against one giant enemy. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/jlulogo.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> <strong>Justice League Unlimited</strong> (or <strong>JLU</strong>) is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series. JLU debuted on July 31, 2004 on Toonami and ended with the episode aired May 13, 2006. It is also the last series of the DC Animated Universe. - Overview The series is a continuation of its predecessor, taking up soon after Justice League ended. It features a greatly-expanded League, in which the characters from the original series—now referred to as "founding members"—are joined by a large number of other superheroes from the DC Universe; in the first episode, well over 50 characters appear. A number of these were heroes who had made guest appearances in the first two seasons of Justice League, Batman: The Animated Series, and Superman: The Animated Series, but many heroes and other characters made their first animated appearances in this series. The general format of each episode is to have a small ad hoc team assemble to deal with a particular situation, with a focus on both action and character interaction. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/watchtower2.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> Most episodes tell a self-contained story, but the series also features extended story arcs, the first involving the building conflict between the League and a secret government agency known as Project Cadmus. This plot line builds upon events that occurred during the second season of Justice League (which in turn built upon events in Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, and The Zeta Project)., and has affected the plotlines of most of its episodes. It was resolved in a four-part story at the end of the second season of Justice League Unlimited. The third season story arc focuses on the new Secret Society (which is based on the Legion of Doom) as the main villains, a loose-knit organization formed to combat the increased superhero coordination of the first season. Towards the end of the series, certain characters became off-limits to the show. Characters associated with Batman and those who appeared in Batman: The Animated Series (aside from Batman himself) were restricted due to the unrelated animated series The Batman to avoid continuity confusion. Aquaman and related characters were unavailable due to the development of a pilot for a live-action series featuring the character as a young man (similar to Smallville), which wasn't picked up. Characters from DC's "mature readers" Vertigo imprint were also not allowed. No characters appearing in the Teen Titans animated series in JLU while the Titans series was running, nor vice versa. Speedy appeared in an episode referencing the Seven Soldiers of Victory after the Titans' series ended. DC Comics created an ongoing monthly comic book series based on the TV series, as part of its Johnny DC line of "all ages" comics. Justice League Unlimited, like the second season of Justice League, is animated in widescreen. The show also features new theme music. The two-part series finale was aired in the UK on February 8 and February 18, 2006 and in the United States on May 6 and May 13, 2006. - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_</a>(TV_series) - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_Unlimited" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_Unlimited</a> <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/hawkgirlbutt.jpg" border="0" /> <div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/p81_kAFdyr8&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p81_kAFdyr8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/I6dF0xYIFsg&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I6dF0xYIFsg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div>