Young Justice (TV series)

Young Justice is an animated TV series based in the DC Comics universe. It's been pointed out that in the first season the team has many similarities to the Teen Titans,Young Justice Episode 8 - Downtime post/discussion at Scans Daily, accessed March 12, 2011 perhaps more than to the original '90s comic series. However, it is considered a separate universe from the other animated DC cartoons, as Earth-16. In its second season, the team in Young Justice becomes very similar to the original '90s comic series (The second season takes place five years after the first).
The third season started airing on DC Universe, DC's streaming platform, on January 4, 2019. It focuses on meta-human trafficking.
==Canon==
The first season introduces us first to Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Speedy who all want recognition and a promotion to full-fledged superheroes instead of their "sidekick" status. In a mission to prove themselves, they discover a clone of Superman, named Superboy. This leads them to create their own team, Young Justice, which is based in Mount Justice, a mountain that is hollowed out and was formerly a Justice League HQ. Miss Martian makes up their last member to join in the beginning of the season. Eventually Zatanna Zatara and Artemis join the team.
The second season, titled Young Justice: Invasion, has a new team in place of the original one, although Miss Martian, Superboy and Dick Grayson as Nightwing remains on the team. Wally and Artemis are no longer active on the team, although still appear in the series, and Zatanna is part of the Justice League team. Kaldur'ahm is Nightwing's mole in his father Black Manta's organization in order to infiltrate the Light. The new members include Blue Beetle, Beast Boy, Batgirl, Bumblebee, Guardian, Lagoon Boy, Robin, Wonder Girl, Impulse, Arsenal (the original Roy), and eventually Virgil Hawkins (Static).
The third season, titled Young Justice: Outsiders takes place two years after Young Justice: Invasion. It focuses on meta-human trafficking and introduces three new major characters named Prince Brion Markov, Halo, and Forager.
The fourth season, titled Young Justice: Phantoms takes place one year after Young Justice: Outsiders. It focuses on the original team members from the first season and how their experiences have affected them now that ten years have passed in-universe since the series began. 
==Fandom==
It has an anonymous kink meme on Livejournal, which is required to be based on the animated series; it allows crossovers, but the team members have to be the animated ones.yj_anon_meme (Accessed March 12, 2011)
Superboy, Miss Martian, and Aqualad's misunderstandings of human culture are a popular theme to explore through fic, either for shipping or as a gen topic. Batman's role as mentor to the group also appears in many stories.
Black fans have pointed out that much of the show's fandom is racist."The Moment you realized Fandom was racist…" by mikeymagee
===Shipping===
The most popular slash pairings are Kid Flash/Robin and Superboy/Robin, as well as Bart Allen/Jaime Reyes after season 2.
Popular het pairings are Artemis Crock/Wally West and Miss Martian/Superboy.
The most popular femslash pairing is Artemis Crock/Zatanna Zatara
====Pairing Names====
The fandom is notable for being heavily based on Tumblr, a site that doesn't allow the use of / in tagging. This meant that the most common way of listing a pairing (Character A/Character B) was not possible. As a result, the fandom has come up with a wide range of pairing names.
* SuperMartian - Superboy/Miss Martian
* Spitfire - Kid Flash/Artemis
* Snaibsel - Artemis/Zatanna
* BirdFlash - Dick Grayson/Wally West
* Traught or RobArt - Dick Grayson/Artemis
* Chalant - Zatanna/Dick Grayson
* MissFlash - Kid Flash/Miss Martian
* SeaArrow - Kaldur'ahm/Artemis
* Frostbite or Article - Artemis/Icicle Jr.
* Koy, RedFish or SpearedFish - Roy Harper/Kaldur'ahm
* Longshot - Artemis/Roy Harper
* Superbird - Dick Grayson/Superboy
* TimKon - Tim Drake/Superboy
* BluePulse - Bart Allen/Jaime Reyes
===Controversy===
The fandom is very active on Tumblr, where fans have gotten into heated debates about several issues. Fans are divided as to whether Wally's treatment of M'gann is sexual harassment.okay, I've had it (Accessed March 12, 2011)On YJ and sexual harassment (Accessed March 12, 2011)untitled post (Accessed March 12, 2011) M'gann is criticized by some people for her romantic interest in Superboy.untitled post, untitled post (Accessed March 12, 2011)
The show was cancelled suddenly, and fans started various fan campaigns to save it. It appears that the show had been cancelled because young women were the largest viewer demographic instead of boys. See this Tumblr reblog of a podcast transcript from Fatman on Batman in December 2013.)
It was announced on November 8, 2016 that Young Justice would return for a third season.
The third season of Young Justice is now airing on DC's streaming platform DC Universe, where the other two seasons are housed, along with additional Young Justice programming. There is Young Justice Enhanced which is a show where the creators do commentary of certain episodes, Bringing Back Young Justice with Whitney Moore, a documentary series about the process behind bringing back the show, the series tie in comics that started in 2011, the new Young Justice: Outsiders tie in comics, and access to the original Young Justice comics from 1998.
==Notable Fanworks==
===Fics===
The fandom has a number of stories that are both highly influential and popular.
* New Kid On The Block by x_meets_y and it's sequels, Summary: Wally gained superspeed but instead of becoming Flash's sidekick, he became a thief.
* Strays available on LJ also on AO3 by blackash26, Summary: Batman is very happy with the way that Robin has picked up his training, his methods and his habits. Generally. But his protege showing up at the Batcave with two small children, Tim and Jason, clinging to him proves he's adopted one trait Batman would have rather he hadn't. It seems the batfamily has an incurable penchant for picking up strays, and Tim and Jason are only the beginning. This fic has become something of a shared world, complete with future!fic and crossovers with the main DCU universe.
* Minor Situation by hinn_raven, Summary: Gotham Academy is attacked by terroists while Batman is out in space with the Justice League. It's up to Artemis to round of the Team and save everybody. Except why is Dick Grayson getting involved and just how many siblings does he have anyways?
* Twist Your Hair by kingburu was a phenomenon in Roy/Wally circles. Summary: Changes happen fast, even for a speedster. When he falls for someone else for the first time in years, sometimes it's easier jumping hurdles and spraining ankles on one track than switching to another.
* World's Best Proxy Parent by Fiercest
* Linchpin by Tiger Lily Roar (Teen) The Heroes of the world have a *BIG* problem when Robin - yes, Robin - is kidnapped from Gotham City Academy. The big deal, other than the obvious? He was Dick Grayson at the time! (2012)
===Vids===
* Some Nights by MusicalChaos05 (has over 154k views)
* Black Parade by gtgrandom (has over 147k views)
* This is war by fernivega (has over 139k views)
* Young Justice Against the World by Listen2ourHearts (has over 135k views)
* remember the name by fired1000 (has over 88k views)
* Light em up MEP (has over 42k views)
* WARRIORS by gtgrandom (has over 11k views)
===Fanart===
* Young Justice by arunion - added Jessica Cruz and Supergirl to the lineup
* Titans East by bigoso91
==Archives and Fannish Links==
* AO3
* FFN and crossovers at FFN
===Recs===
* Het Reccers
* TV Tropes
===LiveJournal Communities===
* The Young Justice: Animated Anonymous Fic Meme
===Deviantart===
* YJ-Slash
* Young-Justice-Het
===Tumblr===
* fyeahyoungjustice
* youngjustice
* fuckyeahyoungjustice
* youngjusticefanart
* textsfromyoungjustice
* softerjustice
== Resources ==
* Young Justice at Wikipedia
* Young Justice Wiki
* Young Justice at DC Database Wiki
* World's Finest: Young Justice
==References==
Category:Young Justice
Category:DC Animated Universe