50 Fun Facts About Young Justice

Young Justice was cancelled after two seasons when poor sales led which toy company to pull its funding?

Mattel paid for much of the show through a toy deal, and scrapped the line when the figures sold poorly. Co-creator Greg Weisman only revealed the reason three years later.

Superboy in Young Justice is a clone who mixes Superman's DNA with that of which human villain?

Lex Luthor supplied the human half, which holds back the clone's powers. He later hands over patches that unlock them for about an hour, at the cost of extra aggression.

Dick Grayson, Robin in the first season of Young Justice, returns five years later under which name?

Nightwing leads the Team in the second season, having handed the Robin costume on. By then a third wearer has it, following the death of Jason Todd.

Which 2000s pop singer provides the voice of Dick Grayson, the first Robin, in Young Justice?

Jesse McCartney went platinum with his debut album Beautiful Soul before taking the part. He also voices Theodore in the Alvin and the Chipmunks films.

Aqualad goes undercover in Young Justice season two after learning which supervillain is his father?

Black Manta welcomes his son's apparent defection, which is really a deep-cover mission against the villains. Father and son are both voiced by the same actor.

Which Young Justice hero turns green and gains new powers after a blood transfusion from Miss Martian?

Beast Boy starts out as Garfield Logan, a boy badly hurt when his mother's animal sanctuary is attacked. The donated blood saves his life and lets him transform into animals.

Which founding member of the Team in Young Justice dies saving the world in the season two finale?

Wally West, the original Kid Flash, is lost while helping to shut down an alien doomsday machine in the Arctic. He had come out of retirement to fight the invasion.

Artemis joins the Team in Young Justice claiming to be the niece of which Justice League hero?

Green Arrow goes along with the niece story to hide Artemis's real family, a household of criminals. She is really his protegee, and an expert archer in her own right.

Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash find Superboy in the Young Justice pilot while investigating a fire at which facility?

Cadmus hides a conspiracy beneath its labs, including a plan to grow a copy of Superman. The three sidekicks went there on their own after being refused full League membership.

Young Justice aired its first two seasons, including the Invasion storyline, on which American cable channel?

Cartoon Network showed the first 46 episodes, later inside its DC Nation programming block. The revival moved to streaming, where the writers had room for more adult stories.

Which actress, a child star of late-1980s television, voices Miss Martian in Young Justice?

Danica McKellar is best known as Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years. Away from acting she writes about mathematics, and she has voiced other DC characters such as Killer Frost.

Artemis in Young Justice hides a criminal family from her teammates, including which villain as her father?

Sportsmaster works as an agent for the show's main villains, and his ex-wife Paula is a former criminal too. His granddaughter Lian arrives later in the series.

Which assassin of the League of Shadows in Young Justice turns out to be the sister of Artemis?

Cheshire has a soft spot for Artemis and refuses to harm her, even when they fight on opposite sides. She is voiced by Kelly Hu, who also plays the sisters' mother.

Artemis fakes her death in Young Justice season two and goes undercover using which new codename?

Tigress begins as a disguise for infiltrating a villain's organization alongside Aqualad. Artemis keeps the name for good once the mission is over.

Which secret cabal of supervillains, including Ra's al Ghul and Queen Bee, pulls the strings throughout Young Justice?

The Light set up another team of villains as a fall guy in season one, so the heroes would stop looking for it. Its members even have their own teleporter rank, the letter L.

Which immortal villain founded and leads the secret cabal behind the schemes of Young Justice?

Vandal Savage is a prehistoric caveman who became immortal, and Genghis Khan is one of the many names he has used since. The show also makes him the father of Nabu, the ancient sorcerer who possesses several heroes.

Which imperial alien race abducts teenagers to test for superpowers in the second season of Young Justice?

The Reach also built the scarab that powers one of the Team's own members. Their experiments on abducted teenagers leave several of them with superpowers.

Jaime Reyes, a teenager from El Paso, fights in Young Justice season two as which armored hero?

Blue Beetle draws his armour from an alien scarab bonded to his spine, picked up after the death of Ted Kord. Jaime often ignores its advice, which leans towards violence.

Which speedster arrives from the future in Young Justice season two, claiming to be Barry Allen's grandson?

Impulse plays the cheerful chatterbox to hide a grim mission: changing history to prevent the ruined future he comes from. The Team first meet him as a stranger who turns up inside their base.

Barbara Gordon, Batgirl in Young Justice season two, adopts which identity after an injury leaves her paralyzed?

Oracle is the role Barbara takes on between the second and third seasons. In this version the injury is an accident, caused by a young assassin who later sides with the heroes.

Zatara, father of Zatanna, gives up his freedom in Young Justice to become which sorcerer?

Doctor Fate is whoever serves as host to the ancient Nabu, and Zatara sacrifices himself to the role. In season four Zatanna persuades Nabu to rotate between several hosts instead.

Which Mean Girls actress voices the young magician Zatanna in Young Justice?

Lacey Chabert played Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls. In animation she was also the original voice of Meg Griffin, during the first season of Family Guy.

Which hero of Young Justice: Outsiders is a Quraci refugee brought back to life by a Mother Box?

Halo is killed by metahuman traffickers and buried beside the alien device, which revives and possesses the body. The powers that follow are rainbow-themed.

Terra joins the Outsiders in Young Justice while secretly spying on them for which assassin?

Deathstroke arranges for the heroes to 'rescue' Terra so that she can infiltrate them. She turns on him after Artemis reminds her of the kindness the team has shown her.

Which cosmic tyrant is revealed as a hidden ally of the villains at the end of Young Justice: Invasion?

Darkseid first appears at the very end of the second season, when the villains' leader visits his planet. In Outsiders he secretly moves against his own allies in a bid to enslave the universe.

Which Lord of Chaos in Young Justice keeps a cat-like familiar named Teekl?

Klarion became the partner of the show's immortal arch-villain after the two first met as enemies in battle. His familiar can grow into a sabre-toothed cat.

Which Justice League member serves as den mother to the Team in Young Justice?

Red Tornado was built by the villain T. O. Morrow to infiltrate the League, only to defect to it. The Team spend part of season one suspecting him of being a mole.

Which Justice League member serves as both combat trainer and therapist to the Team in Young Justice?

Black Canary later rises to chair the League. Greg Weisman gave her the mentor role partly because she is his favourite DC Comics character.

Superboy and Miss Martian attend high school in Young Justice in which town, once attacked by Mister Twister?

Happy Harbor is where the pair enrol as students, alongside future teammates Bumblebee and Mal Duncan. In DC Comics the Rhode Island town housed the Justice League's first base.

Superboy and Miss Martian travel to which alien planet in Young Justice: Invasion to stop the Kroloteans at source?

Rann is reached with the scientist Adam Strange as guide. The trip also uncovers what six brainwashed Justice League members did during 16 missing hours.

The first letters of the episode titles in Young Justice: Outsiders spell a hidden phrase about which cosmic secret?

The Anti-Life Equation is the prize the season's villains chase, a formula that takes away free will. Read in order, the 26 titles tell viewers to prepare for it.

Rocket joins the Team near the end of Young Justice season one as the protegee of which alien hero?

Icon enters the Justice League on the same day his apprentice signs up with the younger heroes. Her powers come from an inertia belt that stores kinetic energy.

Young Justice is set on which numbered world of the DC Multiverse, a name its fans used in a renewal campaign?

Earth-16 gave the fans a rallying cry: hoping for a fifth season, Greg Weisman asked viewers to keep rewatching under the hashtag SaveEarth16.

Robin's running wordplay in Young Justice coins new words by stripping which part from ordinary ones?

The prefix goes, leaving stubs of words such as disaster and distraught. He favours words that stop working once the front is removed.

Which enemy of Superman manipulates Superboy inside the Phantom Zone in the fourth season of Young Justice?

General Zod exploits the hero's Zone-sickness to keep him under control. The first letters of the season's episode titles spell out a hidden message that names him.

Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl and Chameleon Boy secretly protect Superboy in Young Justice as members of which team?

Legion of Super-Heroes members travel back from the 31st century because Superboy's example inspires their founding. If he dies too soon, their team never exists.

Which Young Justice episode shows the Team dying in an alien attack that proves to be a mental training simulation?

Failsafe ends with the reveal that Miss Martian's powers made everyone forget the exercise was not real. Her uncle concludes she may be the strongest psychic of all her people.

Greg Weisman, co-developer of Young Justice, is best known as the creator of which Disney animated series?

Gargoyles began as a comedy pitch that Weisman reworked into a serialised action drama. He went on to produce The Spectacular Spider-Man just before this show.

Which sidekick storms out on the Justice League in the Young Justice pilot and is later revealed to be a clone?

Speedy quits in anger at being offered only junior membership. The season one finale reveals he is a copy of the real sidekick, who had been imprisoned by the villains.

Strong viewing figures on which streaming service helped persuade Warner Bros. to bring Young Justice back?

Netflix was where fans rewatched the old episodes after Greg Weisman urged them to keep the show trending. The revival itself then premiered on a different service, DC's own.

Which prolific video game voice actor plays both Superboy and Superman in Young Justice?

Nolan North is best known as Nathan Drake in the Uncharted games. In this show he also voices the magician Zatara and a high school classmate named Marvin.

Which actor voices both Aqualad and the hero's supervillain father in Young Justice?

Khary Payton also plays King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead. A third role in this show makes him the electricity-wielding hero Black Lightning as well.

Which actor voices Batman in Young Justice, having played the role earlier in Batman: Under the Red Hood?

Bruce Greenwood has described this Batman as younger, tougher and more of a father figure than his earlier, more damaged take. On screen he is Captain Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film.

Which Star Trek: The Next Generation star voices the Joker in Young Justice?

Brent Spiner is best known as the android Data. The guest cast also includes his old crewmate Marina Sirtis, as the mind-controlling dictator Queen Bee.

Which Rocky Horror Picture Show star voices anti-alien TV pundit G. Gordon Godfrey in Young Justice: Invasion?

Tim Curry, the original Dr. Frank-N-Furter, played the commentator only in the second season. James Arnold Taylor took over the part when the show returned.

Which actor voices Captain Marvel in the hero's first Young Justice appearance, before his own brother took over?

Rob Lowe passed the part to his younger brother Chad Lowe for later episodes. The hero is secretly a boy, Billy Batson, who has a separate voice actor of his own.

Key animation for Young Justice was drawn by overseas studios such as MOI Animation, based in which country?

South Korea is home to MOI Animation and Lotto Animation, which drew the key frames and inbetweens. Storyboards and designs came from Warner Bros. Animation in Los Angeles.

The cosmic storylines of Young Justice, with its New Gods and Apokolips, draw on the work of which comics creator?

Jack Kirby imagined the cosmic conflicts that the series borrows for its space opera side. Greg Weisman has said the Apokolips story builds a little more with every season.

Superboy adopts a Venom-enhanced animal in India in Young Justice and gives it which blunt name?

Wolf is simply a wolf, enhanced by the strength drug Venom and adopted after the Team's fight with the Brain. The teleporter lists him as a team pet, under the rank C.

Heroes in Young Justice teleport from place to place, announced by a computer voice, using which kind of beam?

Zeta beams carry each hero under a spoken code: plain numbers for the Justice League, the letter B for the Team. The automated voice belongs to the actress who plays Artemis.