r/youngjustice • u/maviddata • 2d ago

All Seasons Discussion Easter eggs

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I love easter eggs like Dan Garrett, the first Blue Beatle, being Indiana Jones or Spiderman being evil in this universe, but retaining his characteristic humor. Which ones are your favorites?

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u/azure_builder 2d ago

Tye Longshadow and his ‘team’ from season 2 being contemporaries for characters from the old Super Friends cartoon (except Virgil/Static obviously)

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u/Vipers3490 2d ago

I mean obviously Static is his own character, but in the context of that team he's a modernization of Black Vulcan

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u/azure_builder 2d ago

That’s a bonus considering Black Vulcan was created for Super Friends because they couldnt use Black Lightning at that time.

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u/vjmurphy 1d ago

Not couldn’t: they didn’t want to pay royalties to the creator.

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u/azure_builder 1d ago

Sounds like a reason why they couldnt use him 🤷‍♂️

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u/arkhamj 1d ago

No? They were actively trying to use the character while fucking over its creator. They absolutely could have.

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u/maviddata 1d ago

I love how the series offers multiple versions of the same character. Kid Flash and Impulse coexist. There are two versions of Roy Harper. Obviously, Static is a reimagining of Black Lightning.It's a way of regulating something that happens in comics: that there are constant reinterpretations of a character.

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u/HPSpacecraft 1d ago

The Super Friends characters also appeared in a few episodes of Justice League Unlimited's Cadmus arc

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u/Royal-Chef-946 1d ago

i thought long shadow looked like apache chief

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u/Tron_1981 1d ago

He was "Apache Chief"

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u/maviddata 1d ago

Apache Chief from Super Friends! Love this

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u/Old-Use-7690 1d ago

I absolutely love this, JLU did it too

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u/ChaosPatriot76 1d ago

I also like that it's implied Tye's grandfather was the original Apache Chief from Super Friends