The 5 Darkest Moments In Justice League TAS/Unlimited
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When Deadman possessed Batman and shot someone with a gun, then left his body with Batman still holding the gun.
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Your name is zac without the k what are you
@@EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX zac
@@EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX a demon
I would have at least dropped the gun and THEN left his body.
I'm surprised Superman reliving Kryptons destruction, and telling his son he isn't real is not on the list.
Yea that was dope
wasn't that episode title "the man who has everything "?
jashard wallington Yh that was dark
@@aBamaMelmsie yes
I personally remember the episode where they destroy the snake cristal and get infected with the remains of the cristals as one of the most horrifics...
Flash trying to stay alive against his friends, wondering what was happening ... though we as the viewers obviously get the shot which makes it pretty clear at the beginning what happened... IT was a real drama would they come back ...
Flash disappearing into the Speed Force was a very emotional scene. Also liked seeing how everyone mourned when Superman seemingly died. Love the DCAU Justice League!
The latter was definitely a very adult episode. You had Superman in a wasteland future with no access to his powers (due to Vandal Savage making the sun red) and trying to figure out how to survive. Only to come across Savage himself now toned down and into "a lot" of Self-Help Books. Side note: I always hated how CN treated DCAU Justice League as sometimes the stories were WAY better than some of the live-action CW series episodes.
Another emotional moment in the series was when Hawkgirl had to take out Solomon Grundy.
Man I remember Toyman saying Superman go bye bye or something like that and Wonder Woman having tears in her eyes and was going to kill him
@@damonm. The tears mixing with the rain man. This show was just brilliant
@@raonair yes man that part was awesome!
And then Bruce named his dog after a little girl who died.
Ahh, never noticed that till now. Wonder if that was the reason?
@@forastero54321 It is if you want it to be. In reality, it's a coincidence as Ace the Bat-Hound is a character going all the way back to the 1950s, and the Royal Flush Gang the 1960s.
But making it head canon doesn't hurt anyone.
Maybe they named the character after the dog, so in the show Batman names the dog after the character
@@JonSmith-hk1bq Retroactively impacted, made the Bat-Hound's namesake a touching and sad story
It was most likely intentional, just not in canon chronological
@@JonSmith-hk1bq that maybe true in our world but in the canon of this series there is no reason it can't be true
Aquaman cutting off his arm to save his son is a seriously badass moment
DAD nr.1
Technically he doesn’t cut off his arm he cuts off his hand
Aquaman's brother looks like Loki.
That's one of the things I can never understand. He has super strength that can rival Superman and he couldn't break that chain?
@@danieltran9634 animation logic. Like how the Thanagarians can fly without flapping their wings.
The most horrifying thing in this show are those cheek lines superman had in season 1
😂 very true
He looks so olddd
@@tanner201x8 and ugly
Yup. He looks kinda tired
The fact that people complain about something so miniscule will never cease to amaze me.
Jeez justice league TAS was a lot darker than i remembered
I know right
That's the beauty of it, it was a HELL of a lot more mature than we remembered. The only episode to actually get me to cry was the one where Solomon Grundy died in Hawkgirl's arms.
For the Man Who Has Everything
The Justice Guild’s existence in that alternate universe that was controlled by the poor child who went insane after the events of World War II and tried to recreate his life, and the ruined earth, while forcing innocent people to play along with golden age antics.
OML YEA THAT EP WAS SO DARK and heartbreaking ah jesus it was so good
I haven’t watched this show since I was a child, but to this day that two part episode is the only one I remember vividly.
That episode is actually called Legends. But yes, that one was very dark and depressing, way more than worthy for this list.
And then WandaVision does a similar story. (This is not throwing shade at Marvel. I like both. Just found it fun realizing the similarities between WandaVision and the Legends episode.)
The Justice Guild died 40yrs earlier. That JG that the JL encountered were a facsimile. And the "boy" survived the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I've never seen a justice league adaptation that i liked more than this, easily one of my favourite shows
Agreed.
So you are part of the holy trinity of "guy with/without a moustache"
Another one????
Agreed, while it has its dark moments it doesnt go into full grim dark killing for the sake of killing like modern DC Animated movies do
looking at you Justice League Apokolips War
If young justice had more league scenes it would’ve been better than this sheo
The episode with Dr Destiny was pretty dark especially when he torments his wife with his nightmare powers until she goes into a coma.
The Dr Destiny episode is definitely one of the darkest.
Yeah, and she didn’t make it…
I never noticed that the villains were lobotomized in Injustice.
Me too especially the joker he freaked me out with his calm tone tbh
Sohail Khateeb boy are you in for a surprise when you find out (if you didn’t already play/know it) what Supes did to Shazam
@@theonlyethanhiroshiki I mean, Shazam wasn’t so much of a boy in that game; he was fairly older at that point in the story (still relatively young), but still.
@@simplebutnotsolongname6642 he was still a teen
@@SIdCon03 and it's not even the first time Shazam was brutally killed like that. He got stabbed by Wonder Woman in Flashpoint.
That episode when Green Lantern is framed for exploding that planet was one of the funniest ones I remember, flash just buying time and the court having to put up with him
Yeah that would be heck for them.
If the Ring wasn't lit, you must acquit! I loved that episode. It was really funny
There is a comic when john gets cocky and blows off Martian Manhunters help that leads to the destruction of the planet, wonder if thats where the inspiration came from
I remember when Solomon Grondy sacrficed him self that was really emotional.
That was the worst moment. I remember it until days after that.
Ngl you missed out on 1 particularly dark moment ... Solomon Grundy’s second on screen death. The first one is more of a sad upsetting one and the second one is just as however is far darker than you think. Hawk girl who had befriended Grundy sat with him through his dying moments the first time. The second time she’s been stuck in a position where she has to beat her friend to death with her mace because putting him down was a much kinder and safer thing to do, than leaving him alive.
"Your favorite movie's Old Yeller, you know exactly what he's saying."
A dying Longshadow being inducted into the Justice League then never seeing him again in the show only to see clones of him assault the Watchtower messed me up as a kid.
Yeah me too.
There a hero in fight where Cadmus Invades that has Longshadows powers but wears a complete black head mask. I thought that was the real Longshadow.
Yeah that probably messed a few of the people that knew him head's up imagine that A teammate that you know is gonna die soon joins you and later on dies and let's say a few months later a evil clone of him attacks you.
@@leonardocastro410 are u perhaps thinking of atom smasher?
@@superdragonlewis5870 worse, imagine u cure him, (hes in background but still alive in the show) a bunch of evil clones of him invade the tower, he either gets mistaken for an evil clone or an evil clone sees him pretends to b good gets the help of some1 and they fight another few come along and kill him together the evil surprise attacks and kills a few of the team that fought to kill the good version. 😳
Honestly this show was the reason Shayera was even put on my radar and this version of Hawkgirl is quite easily by favorite. I never cared about Hawkman and Hawkgirl while Kendra Saunders was in the comic run, but this show turned Shayera into easily one of my favorite DC characters of all time. I love that one of my favorite episodes made it onto this list
The TV version of Hawkgirl, Hawkman, and Vandal Savage were not very good versions in my opinion. I loved the Animated Versions and wish there were more seasons.
The scene with batman and ace always hits me hard. Two broken souls comforting eachother for a brief moment. You can can almost grab the inner pain and the demons both have inside . And the fact that ace immediately trusts batman because she can read his mind... I cant realy explain it but theres so much bittersweet beauty in this scene, it always makes me shed a tear.
Whoever wrote this deserves an emmy or something. Its pure art
I'd say you should have had Doctor Destiny murdering his ex-girlfriend in her dream like Freddy Kruger on this list.
Yes, the Dr Destiny episode was dark.
There was a fanfic I read of Doctor Destiny getting into Batman's mind when he's vulnerable and he had an a pretty bad psychotic break as a result. Like he was unable to function as a human, drooling, loss of mobility and loss of bladder control amongst other things kind of psychotic break.
that one was creepy as fuck
@@daisybrianna77 If you can ever find that one again, definitely link it
Easily top five
“Aquaman cuts off his arm”
You mean his hand?
He cut off his wrist too
THE_LIGHTNING_Q8
Yes, but still not his whole arm.
Still part of his forearm.
@@beastmaster0934 but it's not just a hand
Forearm or wrist
Imagine if we got a live action dc movie like this tv show. That would do these charcters some JUSTICE.
Except mine would be A LOT more faithful to the comics.
- LEAGUE.
Had to. Sorry.
That wouldn't work. A movie has a few hours to tell ONE story. Whereas a TV show has the ability to tell many stories across different episodes.
Homie Narwhal hey man, You could argue the entire mcu is one big story
@@joshhedge5051 Yeah, one that took 23 movies and tens of hours to tell.
I like how Scareface has a laser scar but not Arnold.
Noticed that too!
Lobotomy by psychological proxy.
I mean, yeah, the Question got tortured, but his responses to the questioning was pretty great;
"The plastic tips found on the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets.' Their purpose is... *sinister*."
Cracked me up so hard.
4:54 Justice Lord universe Joker creeped me out with how calm he was due to his lobotomy.
Yeah Look at Joker in their universe crazy insane Pyscopath and Justice Lord Joker calm cool collected sane
I hate that they removed the show from Netflix, I was on the last season when they took it down.
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Didnt they remove it like 5 years ago
@@salemgelidi3266 thanks bro...
There's also watchcartoononline.com
@@luallual8180 nah i remember it being there 3 years ago then they removed it a bit after
Good list, though in my personal opinion, the darkest moment/setup would definitely be from the episode Legends. Finding out the whimsical, Golden Age-like comic book world was really an alternate earth annihilated by nuclear war, the whole city was a realistic illusion created by a mutated psychic obsessed with his heroes (except the inhabitants, who are all forced to live 'happy' lives...imagine doing nothing but driving an ice cream truck for 50 years), and the superheroes the League meets are also themselves just illusions of heroes who long since died protecting the city from nuclear war, was just...wow. The ending was also heartbreaking yet triumphant, the illusory heroes living up to their own legends, taking down the psychic mutant orchestrating the whole thing even though it means they themselves disappear forever. I was pretty stunned when I first saw it.
I remember that episode where The Flash was almost lost to the Speedforce
That got pretty dark
Yes it did get pretty dark. Flash is usually comic relief, but when it comes down to it, he does what he has to do, and I love how they gave him shine and showed what he can do. I mean he ripped through "Lexiac". You see Flash in a different light in that episode. Yes, him being trapped in the speed force was emotional, but what he did just causes you to have even more respect for him.
Truly one of my favourite shows of all time.
Same too💯
Needlemouse could you make a top 5 darkest batman the animated series moments
I can see that being a thing
He’d have to make it a top ten with BTAS
Nah he should make a vid bout what he thinks of doomsday superman+if batman should kill his rogues gallery
The episode the underdwellers should be on it
The whole Mad Love episode, I still can't think about it without wanting to cry.
With so many dark moments in this show, it’s easily understandable why it was hard for you to narrow it down to just 5.
“The tips of laces are called aglets”
-The Question during his Interrogation and Torture
You should make a review of apokolips war
Still too soon man. Still too soon. 😭
Lol that shit was a massacre
That was a little too dark
yeah the movie was pretty bad, especially the writing
@@sanicboom6443 nah it was the perfect way to end that universe and give birth to another
Some darker moments of the show that could be considered pretty dark once you think about it a bit is Superman "killing" his entire family after getting a Star Conqueror on him from his birthday and basically the Shazam vs Superman fight lol
Parents: *don't sorry this is a kids show*
maybe this is why this generation is desensitized towards violence and death.
Not all of us, me and all of my friends are not
Unproven fact, I think it's mostly how politics have been played in this generation to drive others to near insanity. But honestly, the media has been leading people to wrong beliefs on countless things
Not really.
Fantasy violence is nowhere near as gruesome as rl violence. Take a look at how COD or Titanfall depict a human being smashed.
After that, look up Jimquisition Desencitized To Violence.
So yeah, desencitized my dear aunt fanny.
Japan is one of the most peaceful country in the world. No looting. No violent protests. A first world country.
Yet their anime are too violent compared to American content
You see that I see it’s why I respect it more. Cause it helped teach me to value it and what happens and what you can be if you don’t. Obviously this is to the most extreme extent but still.
Forgot the episode "Legends" in which an alternate earth that is partially destroyed by war, leads to a mutant kid developing psychic abilities, changes the appearance of the destroyed city, and brainwashes all the citizens of said city into thinking they are in paradise land.
A cool Emerald Twilight reference.
This show helped craft a lot of my love for storytelling and my love for superheroes.
It’s a shame we may never get another show like this. It was truly amazing and it hurts my heart knowing we’ll never get something like it again.
So happy to see the vid my man, absolutely love everything you do, blessings to you, and I truly hope everything is spectacular for you NeedleMouse. Stay safe, and blessings to you
“After all, the dead don’t feel any pain, so once you’re gone, it’s pretty chill”
Made me laugh really hard
To me, the darkest moment is during one of the episode where a virus was released to the world, that targets human males and it is a 100% fatality rate. Which was cause by a amazon name Aresia to-in her mind-get rid of the evilness that is man’s world.
This is incredibly dark because of the implications if wonder women & Hawkgirl didn’t stop Aresia in time and get the notes of a cure. I.E: The ultimately extinction of the human Race.
Also, that it was largely Hippolyta's fault for teaching her that men were inherently wrong when Aresia was kept alive by a man (according to the episode, the only man buried on Themyscira) who was the only reason she ended up being adopted by the Amazons instead of drowning.
I always thought in that episode where the Secret Society fights each other and Killer Frost instantly demonstrates loyalty to Luthor by freezing the losing supervillains to death was a really hardcore and quickly calculated multiple homicide. It was really the first character moment for Frost I ever saw in anything where I was like, I'm going to remember her. (Then the Flash show kind've made me want to forget her again, but that's just the shitty CW writing.)
I like both, their both from separate universes and timelines so y hate 1 cuz u liked the other, at least thats my perspective 🤷♂️
@@chrislanglois8275 Well, just because precisely the reasons I liked the DCAU Killer Frost were completely absent in the CW version. You're right they are quite different versions from different universes. It's apples and oranges. I could like them both. But in this case, I like oranges and not apples. Also in this case, the apple is rotten. So it's simply one fruit that tastes good versus one that doesn't. (Flash lost me by season 5.)
I've always watched this on when it was still on Netflix
When it was on Netlfix, that was how I introduced my sisters to super heroes. Justice League, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Young Justice, and Spectacular Spider-Man were the main shows that we watched simply because they were the ones that were available at the time and they influenced their lives to this day.
Grand Admiral Thrawn probably some of the best superhero TV shows ever
Same,back when Netflix had everything😔
I have it on iTunes
11:20 That episode did have a really funny scene where Batman agreed to sing so Circe would turn Wonder Woman back though.
What was funny about it? He actually sang pretty well.
Missed you needlemouse
His the best
The Question getting tortured was actually kind of funny.
"TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!"
"The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."
I need to know their true purpose now dammit.
Yeah needle mouse is back
I didn't expect him to not make a video for so long, i do agree.
Aquaman cuts his hand to saves his son ? Wait it sound familliar ...
Oh shi-
*Berserk The Esclipse vietnam flashback
the reason aces scene was touching is bc it was batman who was there, who opened up and showed how he is the most human of the team, not just some hardened vigilante but someone who feels empathy for a dying child
Wtf is wrong with him lobotomizing a monster like doomsday??? He should have done that the first chance he got in any universe to save everyone.
What part of he grew his brain back do you not understand
sawdustfart fr😂
It’s more him doing it on a regular basis and not just on doomsday.
To me the crowd cheering Superman for actually doing it was darker.
5:00 One of my favorite sight gags of Justice League was seeing that Superman lobotomized Scarface and not the Ventriloquist.
The way Aquaman cuts his hand off reminds me of Zeff cuting his own leg to save Sanji in One Piece.
Yea, but one piece has characters that take inhumane amounts of damage and walk away just fine, to such and extreme point, that it's hardly anything impressive since it literally takes the removal of plot armor to kill any character in that show.
Can look no further than the original Saw for a man cutting off his limb for his wife and child.
The episode where Mongol "gifts" superman with the dream plant and he and batman are forced to relive the deaths of their families.
I remembered the time Green Lantern's best friend was transformed into metamorpho... and John was blamed because of it... and was accused of cheating as well...
But things eventually worked out.
Another moment was when Hawkgirl left the Justice League at the end of the original Justice League series.
Thinking back to it... this show was amazing... yes it had your favourite flashy superheros doing amazing things with thier abilites... but it also had much more complex themes.. that when and if you rewatched it as a teen or adult... it really hits different.
Cant say that about alot of shows now tho..
all the best shows have secret adult jokes
and there were so many in Justice League that were hidden masterfully
also that fucking moment with superman and darkseid in Justice League TAS, at the end of that sleeper hit, season opening, two part-er about braniac and darkseid (that time even was toned down for PG-ness, as superman said im not gonna stop until you're a greasy smear on the end of my fist, as opposed to a bloody smear)
It's sad that today's shows aren't close to this level.
Surprised the death of the Justice Guild of America wasn't on this list. The whole episode was so tragic
Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes came pretty close to the quality of thid show
I love Avengers EMH!
Agreed. That show is amazing!
Same here. Season 1 was the best, Season 2 ok, after that not so much.
@@55Quirll agreed the only thing i like about season two were the crossover episodes with other marvel heroes
I was about to say "Well Doomsday is a horrible monster" but then I saw what he did to Ivy. Ya don't mess with Ivy.
They really did do Aquaman justice in this show.
This was such an incredible show. I know everyone says their generation was better, but this show really stood out. It was so mature and the lessons it taught were so fundamental touching on everything from death, complex adult relationships, love, and even what it means to believe in a higher power or not. It's sad that children's media these days is so focused on being random, memes, and being pc. I think we underestimate what our children can handle. I think shows like this really are important, and parts of it concerning morality stuck with me even to this day.
Martian Manhunter denying chance to meet his family by destroying the sorcerer's stone,
I waited so long till you made another one
same.
What about when Batman traps Chronos in the infinite time loop of being nagged on by his "mean" wife?
What do you mean "mean" she was horrid and incredibly abusive
@@neminem233 That's why I put the quotation marks, friend. I put those to place emphasis on the word. I also would like to say that I had no idea how to describe her (without using curse words) at the moment so I just used that word.
Abusive and horrid are perfect.
@@jackychang9148 Honestly she deserves to be stuck in the time loop more than Chronos
@@neminem233 She was definitely the cause of his criminal escapades.
@@jackychang9148 "I just wanted him to grow a spine" No you treated him like shit you poor excuse for a human being
You know sometimes you’re sitting and wondering life’s biggest questions, is their a meaning to life, is God real and..
WHO ARE THE TOP 5 PEOPLE POISON IVY’S SLEPT WITH?
How about the time when Cadmus made clones of hero’s that had short life spans. Or when Superman got transferred to a future where him and only vandal savage exist
When I saw Batman making a friend with ace and then carrying her corpse almost made me cry
The episode that Lex Luthor sacrifices Tala to resurrect Brainiac and Darkseid is what comes back to life.
"I'll die, you'll die we'll all die sooner or later." Thanks Needlemouse.
which is especially true with the coronavirus now being a huge problem in so many countries, let's face it, we all do get infected by coronavirus.
Edit: OH. MY. GOSH, MY COMMENT GOT A LIKE VERY quickly..
Can you do "Five Best Times Superman Became a Dictator"? I can think of four instances off the top of my head:
1. Red Son
2. Injustice
3. Godfall
4. That one episode of Justice League TAS
Earth X
The narrator just made death sound so calm and soothing
I've been waiting so long
I think a one of the sadist moments of the show was when they defeat the alien that destroyed jonn's people on Mars and after they realize that everyone of them are the last of their species or adopted. Then they call themselves the JUST US League
They really are a found family so wholesome.
YES FINALLY YOU UPLOADED!
This show was my childhood! I still love it to this day!
same
There was an episode when HawkGirl had to Kill Solomon Grundy. Birdnose help Grundy, yes...close your eyes. Good stuff!
Here's a 2 for 1 - Both times when Vandal Savage took over the world: Dystopian nightmare where humanity is under his heel or Apocalyptic future where all humans are dead.
3:24 when you realise a whole fighting videogame franchise and a comic book series was inspired from this episode and they were all also called Injustice.
Aquaman cutting off his hand wasn't dark. It was *metal*.
Mark Gundle Actually, I think it was dark.
How about Hawkgirl having to kill Soloman Grudy? He was wild but he remembered his bird girl. She cried when she had to kill him after he had died a hero in another EP.
I still remember the episode where hawkgirl had to put down solomon grundy.
Yeah, and it even though he surrendered to death in the end it wasn’t a “clean” kill, she had to beat his brains in with her mace. I imagine it would have taken several blows
Great video. Never thought about the deeper meaning behind the episodes when I watches them as a kid.
Hope you are well needlemouse, have you seen Justice league dark apokolips war and what did you think of it?
Aaron Bood Agreed, he should make a review of that movie.
The Flash Paradox is pretty dark too!
Can’t thank you enough for taking me back to my childhood with this video.
I loved this show it was something special.
The Parallel universe Aussie Flash that was tricked by Batman into holding the portal open, which then caused him to rapidly age,
FINALLY NEW VIDEO OMG
I'd rank Grundy's death as darker than Ace's death. Hawkgirl trying to console him in his last moments was a tear jerker.
That's not what Question realized. He grasped that Luthor was fully capable of manipulating Superman into following a similar course of action, with Superman's own sense of morality being the -only- thing standing in the way of armageddon.
He is fully aware that the Justice Lords are, actually, from another reality.
Definitely the best animated super hero show ever made. Perfect writing, execution, comedy, action, even romance. Characters had arcs, were consistent and grew. I'm still blown away by how well crafted this show was. If the DCEU just found a way to capture this magic in their movies, they'd be unstoppable
Same I watch this guy everyday
At first, I thought it was weird that John’s past life lived in Egypt, and then I remembered that Egypt is in Africa. I always forget that.
Can you do a video top crimes ever done by villains?
“The dead dong feel any pain so once you’re gone, it’s pretty chill.”
#10:28-10:40 caught me off guard as a kid seeing power girls body twitch like that made me feel kinda bad for her. #JLReunion2021
Also one of the dark episodes where the team turned into kids by Mordred and eventually outsmarted him but Batman had words that really blows me away about he stopped being a kid when his parents were murdered.
Batman the animated series: am I a joke to u
I'm a bit surprised that he didn't mention the reason why the Justice League went evil was because Luthor executed the Flash
Dang man I thought you got corona virus or something. Nice to see you back!
I think he did get coronavirus, I don't know, if he does have an account on social media, I would ask him if he did get infected.
Hawkgirl having to kill Solomon Grundy, so the last face he sees is one of a friend.
3:05 Unless, of course, you believe that Hell is a thing.
P.S. Was anyone else expecting the Dr. Destiny episode to appear on the list?
Yes, the Dr. Destiny episode was dark.
There was also the woman whose name I can’t remember who was played by Juliet Landau. Lex Luthor had her magical abilities act as an energy source in order to bring back Brainiac’s disintegrated body (who turned out to be Darkseid); however this acted as a live conduit and was extremely painful so that she was screaming all the time. Apparently Juliet Landau’s screaming was so disturbing to the producers that they had to tone it down for the finished production.
1(for me)every nightmare from that one episode were there put into a nightmare
The episode with Doctor Destiny
Thank you so very much for posting this TRULY wonderful video! My family continues to watch BOTH series and ALSO make a point to watch Comfort and Joy along with all of our OTHER Christmas specials
Again thank you so very much for posting this
Merry Christmas from the Winthrop family
Do which Lantern Corps Team Avatar (from Legend of Korra) should be in
or do a part 2 of your Avatar lantern corp video with characters such as Iroh,Suki and Azula