Characters appearing in Justice League Unlimited

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The 2004-2006 television series Justice League Unlimited is notable for featuring dozens of characters from the DC Comics roster (possibly more than any other series related to the DC Universe). While many characters played important or ongoing roles in the series, many more appeared only in the background. This is a list of characters appearing in Justice League Unlimited.

Contents 1 Justice League 2 Full Roster 2.1 Founding members 2.2 Other Members 2.3 Future members 3 Guest heroes 4 Other guest characters 5 Villains 5.1 Injustice Gang 5.2 Apokolips 5.3 Batman Beyond-era villains 5.4 Cadmus 5.5 Central City Rogues 5.6 The Extremists 5.7 Fatal Five (from the 31st century) 5.8 Secret Society 5.9 Meta-Brawlers 6 Characters who could not appear 7 External links

[edit] Justice League

The seven founding members listed were the original regular lineup of the Justice League the previous two seasons (see Justice League).

Many of these members only made small appearances in the series while others were featured prominently in episodes.

The seven founding members on Justice League Unlimited consist of the League's members during the original two Justice League seasons; these members continue to have greater authority and responsibility in the League.

[edit] Full Roster

[edit] Founding members

• Batman
• Flash (Wally West)
• Green Lantern (John Stewart)
• Hawkgirl (Shayera Hol)
• Martian Manhunter
• Superman
• Wonder Woman

[edit] Other Members

Aquaman (Orin) Atom (Ray Palmer) Atom Smasher Aztek Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance) Blue Devil B'wana Beast Booster Gold Captain Atom Captain Marvel Creeper Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis) Crimson Fox Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson) Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi) Doctor Mid-Nite (Charles M. McNider) Dove (Don Hall) Elongated Man

Etrigan the Demon Fire Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) Gypsy Hawk (Hank Hall) Hawkman (Carter Hall) Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) Hourman (Rick Tyler) Ice Long Shadow Metamorpho Mister Terrific (Michael Holt) Nemesis (Tom Tresser) Obsidian Orion Question Plastic Man mentioned by Green Lantern and Elongated Man Ray (Ray Terrill) Red Tornado (Ulthoon)

Rocket Red (Dmitri Pushkin) Sand Shining Knight (Sir Justin) Speedy (Roy Harper) Stargirl Starman (Prince Gavyn) Steel (Hank Heywood, III) Steel (John Henry Irons) S.T.R.I.P.E. Supergirl (Kara In-Ze) Johnny Thunder & Thunderbolt Vibe Vigilante (Greg Sanders) Vixen Waverider Wildcat (Ted Grant) Zatanna

[edit] Future members

These are the members of the Justice League around fifty years in the future, as seen in "The Once and Future Thing" and "Epilogue", as well as the Batman Beyond episode "The Call" and mentioned in Static Shock Episode "Future Shock." At different times they were shown being led by an either aged Superman or an aged Bruce Wayne.

Aquagirl (Marina) Batman II (Terry McGinnis) Bruce Wayne Big Barda

Gear Green Lantern (Kai-Ro) Micron

Static Superman Warhawk Wonder Woman

[edit] Guest heroes

Other DC heroes appear, but not as JLU members:

Deadman King Faraday Green Lantern Corps: Guardians of the Universe Hal Jordan Katma Tui Kilowog Kyle Rayner Many other members make cameo apperences Hawkman (Carter Hall/Joseph Gardner) Legion of Super-Heroes: Bouncing Boy Brainiac 5

Inza Nelson Tim Drake (Cameo: "Hereafter".) Barbara Gordon (Cameo: "Hereafter".) Speedy (Roy Harper) New Gods of New Genesis: Big Barda Lightray Mister Miracle (Scott Free) Nightwing (Dick Grayson) (Silhouette cameo: "Grudge Match".) Oberon Warlord

Western Heroes: Bat Lash El Diablo (Lazarus Lane) Jonah Hex Sheriff Ohiyesa Smith World War II heroes: Blackhawk (comics) Spy Smasher (flashback) Sgt. Rock and Easy Company Steve Trevor

[edit] Other guest characters

• Jor-El
• Lois Lane
• Lobo
• Jimmy Olsen
• Linda Park
• Alfred Pennyworth
• Hippolyta
• Ma and Pa Kent

[edit] Villains

A.M.A.Z.O. Ares Brimstone Brainwave Captain Nazi (flashback) Chemo Chronos Joe Chill (flashback) Circe

Medusa Deimos Demons Three: Abnegazar Ghast Rath Draaga

Morgan Edge Felix Faust Hades Harley Quinn Professor Ivo Morgaine le Fey Steven Mandragora

Tobias Manning Mercy Graves Mongul Mordru Orm Shadow Thief Vandal Savage

[edit] Injustice Gang

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Injustice Gang I: Lex Luthor The Joker Solomon Grundy Cheetah Copperhead Star Sapphire Shade Ultra-Humanite

Injustice Gang II: Aresia Tsukuri Star Sapphire Solomon Grundy Copperhead Shade

[edit] Apokolips

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Darkseid Desaad Female Furies: Bernadeth Lashina Mad Harriet Stompa

Granny Goodness Kalibak Kanto Mantis Steppenwolf Virman Vunderbarr Glorious Godfrey

[edit] Batman Beyond-era villains

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• Chronos
• Inque
• Jokerz
  • Bonk
  • Chucko
  • Dee Dee
  • Ghoul
  • Woof
• Parasite
• Shriek
• Stalker

[edit] Cadmus

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Board of Directors: Amanda Waller General Eiling Professor Hamilton General Hardcastle (director) Doctor Achilles Milo Doctor Moon Hugo Strange Tala Benefactors: Lex Luthor Brainiac (key role)

Assassin for Hire: Andrea Beaumont / The Phantasm Staff: Maxwell Lord Agents: Robert Vance Task Force X: Captain Rick Flag (leader) Captain Boomerang Clock King Deadshot Plastique

Meta-agents: Galatea Doomsday Ultimen: Downpour Juice Long Shadow Shifter Wind Dragon Royal Flush Gang Ace Jack King Queen Ten

[edit] Central City Rogues

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Abra Kadabra Captain Boomerang Captain Cold Doctor Alchemy Fiddler

Gorilla Grodd Heat Wave Mirror Master Pied Piper Thinker

Top Trickster The Turtle Man Weather Wizard

[edit] The Extremists

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• Dreamslayer
• Gorgon
• Lord Havok
• Tracer

[edit] Fatal Five (from the 31st century)

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• Emerald Empress
• Mano
• The Persuader
• Tharok
• Validus

[edit] Secret Society

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Original members:

• Grodd (First leader)
• Giganta
• Sinestro
• Parasite
• Killer Frost
• Shade
• Clayface

Legion of Doom:

Angle Man Atomic Skull Bizarro Blockbuster Bloodsport Blue Lama Brainiac Cadre: Black Mass Crowbar Fastball Shatterfist Cheetah Copperhead Devil Ray Doctor Cyber Doctor Destiny Doctor Polaris Doctor Psycho

Doctor Spectro Dummy Electrocutioner Evil Star Gentleman Ghost Giganta Goldface Gorilla Grodd (First Leader) Heat Wave Hellgrammite Javelin Key KGBeast Killer Frost Kobra Lady Lunar Lex Luthor (Second leader) Livewire Major Disaster Merlyn Metallo Monocle Neutron

Parasite Psycho-Pirate Puppeteer Puzzler Queen Bee Rampage Roulette Shade Shark Silver Banshee Sinestro Sonar Sportsmaster Star Sapphire Tala Tattooed Man Thinker Top Toyman Tsukuri Volcana Weather Wizard

[edit] Meta-Brawlers

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• Amygdala
• Atomic Skull
• Bloodsport
• Electrocutioner
• Evil Star
• Hellgrammite
• Sportsmaster
• Tracer

[edit] Characters who could not appear

A few characters have been cited by writers and producers as "off-limits", though they are allowed to appear in the comics based on the show (although they're not considered canon):

• Black Lightning cannot appear due to DC Comics's refusal to pay royalties to his creator, Tony Isabella. This resulted in the character Black Vulcan being created for the show Super Friends. The character Juice is a pastiche of Black Vulcan, and "Soul Power" in Static Shock is also pastiche Black Lightning/Black Vulcan.^{[citation needed]}
  • He makes comic book appearances in Justice League Unlimited #15 and #27.[1]
  • Also, several characters connected to him cannot be used. The original idea for "Double Date" was for Tobias Whale to be the man who murdered Huntress' parents. He was replaced with a villain called Steven Mandragora, who shares his last name with the man who arranged their deaths' in the comics.^{[citations needed]}
• Blue Beetle cannot appear due to rights being tied up until 2007 because of his 1940s radio show and 1980s cartoon proposals.[2]
  • He appears as a League member in the comic book series Justice League Unlimited.
• Firestorm, the Ronnie Raymond version, cannot appear as DC Comics did not allow the producers to include the classic version of Firestorm in the show; this is likely due to a new person (Jason Rusch) assuming the role of Firestorm in the comics, and DC Comics not wanting viewers to confuse two versions of the character introduced at the same time.
  • He was, however, going to be the main character spotlighted in "The Greatest Story Never Told".[3] He does appear as a League member in Justice League Unlimited #3 & 16.
• Adam Strange, was originally supposed to appear in "Hunter's Moon", but legal rights prevented that from happening.[4] The episode's original title was "Mystery In Space", the name of the monthly comics of the same name that Adam starred in.
  • Strange appears in Justice League Unlimited #4.
• Plastic Man was stated by Dwayne McDuffie to be unusable in the show despite being mentioned as a League member by John Stewart in one episode, but he did not explain why. [5] In the episode "The Greatest Story Never Told", Elongated Man complains longly and loudly to Booster Gold about feeling left out in comparison to Plastic Man, given the two's very similar powers. (Plastic Man can change into objects, but Elongated Man is one of the premiere detectives of the DC Universe.)
• Sandman and other Vertigo characters were said by Bruce Timm in a Wizard interview to be considered, featuring an appearance of Neil Gaiman's Sandman character, but they weren't sure how to incorporate it into the tone of the show. He went on to say "But now, it's not even an issue. The whole Vertigo universe is closed off for us." (Wizard #173. Mar. 2006. pg. 69). In the same interview, Bruce Timm also states that they did attempt to use the Phantom Stranger and the Spectre but were told they could not use those characters.

• Neil Gaiman on the subject[6]: "I always loved the idea of doing a Sandman/Batman Animated cartoon episode, and we were definitely talking about it in '93, after Vertigo came into existence...I'd assumed that they lost interest. But there was definitely some kind of Vertigo/DC divide that came into existence in there somewhere, imposed from DC/Vertigo editorial and above, worried, I was told, that a kid would feel pressured by continuity to pick up a "For Mature Readers" title and the world would end."

• The Phantom Stranger appears in animated forms in Justice League Unlimited #14 and #28. [7]
• Characters exclusively reserved for other TV shows and movies in development or production include most characters from the Batman comics due to the "Bat-Embargo" that reserved those characters for the new Batman cartoon The Batman and the new Batman movies. Only Batman could appear, although Nightwing makes an uncredited cameo as a silhouette atop a building in Blüdhaven in the episode "Grudge Match". Characters from Aquaman comics could not appear due to character rights being reserved for a potential live-action TV series.[8] This resulted in Black Manta's being renamed "Devil Ray" for the series, the character first appearing in an episode that was originally written to feature Aquaman. The Teen Titans and related characters were off-limits due to the eponymous series. Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy appears in the episode "Patriot Act".
  • Originally, Barbara Gordon was to appear in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Double Date". The episode would have her getting injured during a case as Batgirl. Since Bruce forbids her from participating she would recreate herself as Oracle, and get in touch with Black Canary and Huntress to finish her case. Neither of them would meet her in person. Due to the Bat Embargo, the story replaced Batgirl with Green Arrow and The Question.[9]
• Despite appearing in "The Clash", Captain Marvel and The Marvel Family is generally off limits to the show. In fact, Captain Marvel was set to appear in Justice League episode, "Hereafter" as the temporary 8th member (The honor of which went to Lobo).[10]
  • Doctor Sivana appears in Justice League Unlimited #15, where he rebuilds Mister Atom.
  • Mary Marvel makes an appearance and becomes a member in Justice League Unlimited #20.
  • In the episode "Patriot Act", one of Captain Marvel's enemies, Captain Nazi is seen in flashback.
  • In "Ancient History", another Captain Marvel villain, Black Adam as Teth-Adam, is mentioned.

[edit] External links

• World's Finest Bios
• The Watchtower Who's Who in the JLU?

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