Justice League

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"Come on, boys. Let's go save the world!" - Oliver Queen, Justice

Justice League
Occupation	Super-Heroes
Appeared In	Justice, Justice and Doom, Siren, Odyssey, Hex, Doomsday (episode)

The Justice League is Oliver Queen's team of heroes which was founded to stop Lex Luthor and his 33.1 project(s).

They have neutralized many LuthorCorp facilities around the world, stopping LuthorCorp's testing on innocent people.

The team was temporarily disbanded in 2008, after LuthorCorp discovered the secret identities of Aquaman and Black Canary. However, the team has since reformed.

In 2009, the group attempted to save the world by sacrificing the life of Davis Bloome, along with the life of the monstrous Doomsday, only to almost get them all killed. By the time they bury Doomsday underground, Jimmy Olsen loses his life by their mistake. The group has then scattered all across the world.

Contents 1 Members 2 Affiliates 3 Known Missions 4 Season Six 5 Justice and Doom 6 Season Seven 7 Season Eight 8 Season Nine 9 Why the "DC Trinity" will not appear on Smallville 10 Quotes 11 In The Comics 12 Notes 13 Appearances 14 External Links

[edit] Members

Smallville's version of a proto-Justice League (although they never adopt that name) first appeared in Season Six.

The members are:

• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen): The team's leader and founder. Appears for the first time in Sneeze.

• Aquaman (Arthur Curry): Recruited after Green Arrow saved him from "ending up in a thousand tuna cans," in Japan. Appears for first time in Aqua.

• Impulse (Bart Allen): Recruited after Green Arrow found him stealing a meal in Star City. Appears for the first time in Run.

• Cyborg (Victor Stone): Recruited after Green Arrow found him depressed and alone. Appears for the first time in Cyborg.

• Black Canary (Dinah Lance): Recruited after realizing the Justice League weren't villains. Appears for the first time in Siren.

• Watchtower (Chloe Sullivan): Originally a part time mission co-ordinator and information hacker, Chloe became a full time member in Hex.

[edit] Affiliates

This is a list of people who have been involved with the League in one form or another but not become full time members

• (Clark Kent): Although on hand to lend assistance when necessary, such as the attack on the 33.1 facility outside Metropolis, and a recent incident in Keystone City, Clark is still only a part time member, mixing the Justice League with his double identity life as the Red-Blue Blur and "Clark Kent, Reporter". Appears for the first time in Pilot.
• Dr. Emil Hamilton: A staff physician at Metropolis General Hospital, Emil is also on Oliver Queen's payroll, after Queen was poisoned, and realized having an on-staff medic would be beneficial to their team efforts. He was called in when Detective John Jones was shot in the line of duty, and needed 'extra care' due to his true alien nature. Chloe met with Emil Hamilton to ask of him about Davis Bloome, but all he could tell her that he was dangerous and the more attempts he would use to try to destroy his cells, the stronger they have adapted to it. Oliver called for him to ask him to help Jimmy after Davis attacked. Appears for the first time in Bulletproof
• Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz): A "member" in Justice & Doom, in Bulletproof it is revealed that he has protected Oliver from the police and is considered a member. Appears for the first time in Static.

[edit] Known Missions

The Justice League have primary missions that ensure the best well being for earth. They started out against Lex Luthor's 33.1 projects.

• Recruitment - Oliver began gathering Metahumans to form a team of heroes. He recruited Bart Allen, Arthur Curry, Victor Stone and tried to recruit Clark Kent who declined.

Mission Success

• Stopping 33.1 Metropolis - The Justice League began tracking 33.1 projects around the globe and when Bart was captured and taken to the Metropolis facility, the team had to rescue him. Clark tried to do it alone but was foiled by Kryptonite and so the team had to rescue both.

Mission Success (Justice)

• Stopping 33.1 World-Wide - The team then left Metropolis to stop 33.1 facility around the globe coming up against protoype super soldiers Lex had been creating.

Mission Success (Justice & Doom)

• Intercepting Lex's Files - Oliver had Chloe intercepting Lex's private files for information on 33.1 and had to stop Lex's own super-powered vigilante.

Mission Success (Siren)

• Finding Clark and Chloe - When Clark and Chloe both went missing, The Justice League searched the world for them splitting up and finding nothing. Whilst trying to find them, members of the Justice League were captured by LuthorCorp. Oliver managed to find Clark at a work camp in Russia.

Mission Partial Success (Odyssey)

• Rescue Chloe, Dinah and AC - Oliver and Clark went to the last 33.1 facility Black Creek and broke out Dinah and AC as well as Chloe before Oliver was drugged and shot Clark killing him before J'onn J'onzz saved him.

Mission Success (Odyssey)

• Capture Doomsday and destroy him - Oliver, Bart and Dinah kidnapped Davis and Chloe and took them to a geothermal LuthorCorp facility just outside Metropolis but Davis was split from Doomsday who escaped but Clark managed to get him back and bury him under the facility.

Mission Success (Doomsday)

• Help Oliver rediscover - Chloe tracked down the missing League and arranged for them to help Oliver rediscover his hero alter ego. They worked to together arranging a game that would Oliver rediscover who he truly is.

Mission Success (Roulette)

[edit] Season Six

When Lex's Level 33.1 project, which is studying and using people with super-powers as weapons, comes to fruition, Oliver Queen brings together several heroic super-powered allies together: Arthur Curry, Bart Allen, and Victor Stone.

Bart has been breaking into LuthorCorp facilities and downloading files. As a result, Lionel meets Lex and tells him that another LuthorCorp facility has been hit. Lionel says six facilities have been attacked, all having to do with 33.1. Lex is not worried and shows Lionel a security camera photograph of a red blur. Lex says that whoever is responsible can move very fast and he intends to catch them and make them a test subject.

Chloe reveals that she knows Oliver is the Green Arrow; Clark admits that Bart can super speed. He says Bart is in some kind of trouble and asks her if they can track his cell phone. They look up his records and realize that Bart is working for Oliver Queen. Meanwhile, Bart is at his next assignment, but is caught by an electrical trap and knocked unconscious. Lex arrives immediately to take possession of him.

The next day, Clark confronts Oliver about Bart. Clark thinks Oliver is using Bart to fuel his vendetta against Lex. They argue because Oliver says that Clark is waiting for trouble to show up at his doorstep. Oliver explains to Clark about 33.1, and says his team is working on it as Arthur Curry and Victor Stone arrive. Oliver is working to stop Lex from using 33.1 to build an army of super-powered meteor freaks, and eventually starting a war. Clark concedes and asks for more information. Oliver knows Lex has Bart, and his team is already on it.

Meanwhile, Bart wakes up in a cell and Lex wants to know who he's working for. When Bart does not answer, but retorts, Lex activates the pressure plates in his cell: if Bart does not keep moving he will be intensely electrocuted.

Oliver and his team work to locate Bart and narrowed it down to 100 miles. Clark suggests they get help, and he goes to Chloe. She gets a lead and Clark tells her to get the information to Oliver while he goes to the Ridge Facility, where Bart is located. Clark insists he goes to the facility to rescue Bart alone, saying he can get there faster.

Chloe goes to Queen Tower and gives Oliver the lead on Bart. Oliver pulls up a schematic of the building and Chloe notices several rooms lined with lead. They prepare to move out to check the facility and Chloe realizes that the facility is also being used to store meteor rocks. Clark enters the lead-lined vault containing refined meteor rock, and collapses.

Green Arrow knocks two guards unconscious, and then the team enters while Chloe coordinates from his "watchtower." Victor interfaces with the alarm system and Arthur enters from the harbor entrance. Green Arrow and Cyborg go in on foot, then Cyborg goes off on a separate mission, while in his cell Bart begins to slow down form exhaustion. Each of them individually take out the guards, with Green Arrow knocking the one unconscious who has found Clark. Green Arrow sends him to get Bart then heads off, planting explosives. Cyborg and Aquaman meet up and Cyborg interfaces with the main computer. Clark gets Bart out just in time while Lex arrives to order a lockdown. Bart is so exhausted that his nose is bleeding, and he can't use his super-speed. Green Arrow confronts him and warns that he has ten minutes to get everyone out before the place blows. He then shoots an arrow at Lex, barely cutting his cheek, also scaring him.

Chloe confirms that everyone has left the building and even Clark agrees to blow up the facility. They get out and Green Arrow triggers the charges, destroying the facility.

The team meets with Clark and Chloe in his barn (out of "uniform"). Oliver reports that Lex is setting up laboratories all over the globe and asks Clark to join the team. Clark says he wants to, but he has to clean up his own mess first- meaning he has to capture all of the Zoners still out of the Phantom Zone. The members left Clark behind to go across the world to find more divisions of Lex's Level 33.1 project and stop his other illegal plans. Oliver shakes Clark's hand, then Oliver and his young justice team leave for their next mission, proudly saying, "Come on boys, let's go save the world."

It remains unknown if they are aware Clark has destroyed a 33.1 facility nearby Smallville.

[edit] Justice and Doom

Smallville Legends: Justice and Doom is an animated comic book that further explores the adventures of Green Arrow's Team. In these, the Green Arrow, Cyborg, Aquaman, Impulse, and Watchtower all work together to take out the rest of Lex Luthor's Level 33.1 facilities.

The team also defeated another Ares prototype set loose in Utah. Oliver offered Chloe valuable clues from his experiences when she and Clark were trying to defeat Wes Keenan.

The story also insinuates that the Martian Manhunter had been in contact with Dr. Virgil Swann, since he is seen using the large orbital satellite built by Swann Communications, as a base. The satellite might be considered the Smallville version of the Justice League Watchtower. The Martian Manhunter is also seen wearing the costume he currently wears in the comic as well when he turns into his Martian form at the end of the web story arc.

[edit] Season Seven

When Green Arrow's band of heroes thwarts his efforts once too often, Lex employs a super-powered vigilante Black Canary, also known as Dinah Lance, to take down the Emerald Archer.

Chloe is working late at the Daily Planet using the computers to intercept a file, as a masked figure watches her from the shadows. As she burns it to disc, the figure throws a knife at her and Chloe runs outside, letting the person she's in contact know she's in danger. Chloe gets to the roof where the figure attacks her: a blond woman in black with a black band of makeup across her eyes. She draws a knife on Chloe, but Green Arrow arrives and pins her to the wall. She pulls free and as Green Arrow fires three arrows, the woman deflects them with a sonic blast. She then knocks down Chloe and takes the disc, jumps off the roof, and breaks her fall with a cable.

Clark talks to Chloe as she looks through files on female criminals and talks about how he's uncomfortable with the fact that Lana expressed her love for his phantom duplicate. Noticing her injury, Clark finally gets her to admit she's doing freelance work for Oliver Queen.

Clark goes to confront Oliver, angry that he put Chloe in danger. Oliver denies putting her at risk and notes they were hacking into Lex's projects. Meanwhile, the woman meets with Lex and turns over the disc, and he offers to pay her to bring him Green Arrow.

Lex made Dinah believe that The Justice League were terrorists. So she breaks into Chloe's desk and checks her phone call log, finding Oliver Queen's number.

After deducing his identity, she arrives at Oliver's balcony and shatters the window with her "sonic scream." Oliver is knocked out. Oliver is held hostage and accused of being a terrorist. He denies it but she calls Lex and has him initiate the wire transfer. Meanwhile, Clarks meets at the Planet Chloe, who realized that someone tapped into her activities at the Planet, from inside the Planet. Dinah Lance was the only one logged on and Chloe alters her photo to confirm she's the woman, who they nickname "Black Canary." Chloe locates the wire transfer and cuts it off.

Black Canary goes to see Lex only for Clark to intercept her. Clark insists Oliver is not the villain but when she attacks him she is bounces off. However, when she uses her sonic scream it overloads Clark's super-hearing, knocking him down long enough for her to escape.

After a confrontation with Clark she began to have doubts about Lex. Canary goes to see Lex and demands evidence about Green Arrow's supposed criminal activities. When she refuses, Lex shoots her but Green Arrow arrives and the two men fight. Black Canary arrives and takes out a guard, but as all three heroes shoot at each other, Clark arrives and deflects the bullets and arrows, then gets Black Canary away and lets Lex takes Black Canary's knife blade in the shoulder. Green Arrow walks out, wishing Lex better luck next time.

Black Canary has set up a meeting with Clark and Oliver to apologize and retire from crime fighting. Oliver suggests it would be a waste and she should join up with his team. Clark again defers on joining up and Oliver strolls away with Dinah.

[edit] Season Eight

The Justice League are shown attacking Tess Mercer's headquarters for the search of Lex Luthor in the Arctic, after cleaning out the camp, they come across a dead end when they find Clark's signature red jacket and nothing else.

The team then head to the Isis Foundation to use Lana's computers to try and find out information about Lex's disappearance but come up with nothing, and almost give up, but Oliver convinces them that Clark would never stop looking for them. Dinah says that for the 4 weeks they have been searching they have found nothing, with Impluse and Cyborg searching the southern hemisphere.

However, Lex's teams have kidnapped Chloe roughly a month ago also, and are pretending to be the DDS and try to make her track down a group of "terrorists", who are, unknown to Chloe, actually the Justice League. She uses her new power to track down Black Canary and Aquaman via cellphone, and is about to get Oliver but recognizes his phone number and realizes who the "terrorists" are and discovers what she's done.

Despite Chloe refusing to give Oliver's number to track him down, Black Canary and Aquaman are both captured, leaving Oliver the only one left. This is unknown to Oliver however, and he has managed to track down Clark to a shady Russian work camp, and together they break out, but it is revealed that Clark is powerless due to the Orb. On a plane home, they realize that the rest of the League has been captured, however they work out that Chloe is being held in Montana, at a LuthorCorp Facility named Black Creek.

Together, Clark and Green Arrow break in the facility and split up in order to find Chloe. Oliver manages to find the rest of his team but is captured and injected with a serum to put him in his captors control. Clark, meanwhile bumps into Lois, (who has also been tracking down Chloe) and together they take down many guards and eventually save Chloe. Clark goes to find Oliver, only to find Oliver under the enemies control and Oliver shoots him twice in the chest, Clark starts to die in Chloe's arms after she fails to heal him, but Martian Manhunter arrives to save Clark and flies him to the sun. Although Clark gets his powers back, Martian Manhunter (whose weakness is fire) loses his powers.

The Justice League then meet at night in Metropolis and come to the conclusion, due to the fact that half the members have had their identities have been exposed, that they should disband for a while and go underground. Oliver, however, whose identity remains a secret, decides to stay in Metropolis. He soon discovers that Lionel was responsible for the death of his parents, which caused him to completely abandon his heroic persona.

After several weeks, Clark confronts Oliver about his recent life choices and asks him for help to hide his identity by disguising himself as the red-blue blur. Whilst in disguise, Oliver saves Jimmy from being kidnapped. This reminds Oliver of what its like to be a hero and decides to restart the Justice League.

After John Jones is shot whilst on duty as a police officer, Oliver arranges for his specialist doctor Emil Hamilton to help Jones' recovery due to his Martian phsyiology and reveals to Clark that he and Jones have been working together with Jones helping Oliver out as Green Arrow considering Jones as part of the team.

During Chloe's birthday celebrations, Clark missed it as he and Bart were off dealing with a crisis in Keystone City. After Chloe realised that she is missing something in her life, decides to be more hands on with the Justice League and becomes Watchtower full time, putting online a system that tracks all of the members.

Clark asked for help by Bart and Dinah to get rid of Doomsday once and for all by burying him under a Geothermal LuthorCorp facility. Clark gave Bart Black kryptonite and told him that he was going to split Davis from Doomsday and then bury Doomsday. Oliver crashed the meeting and told Clark they need to kill Doomsday while Davis is still his camoflauge but Clark said no and told Bart and Dinah about Oliver killing Lex.

Bart and Dinah sided with Oliver and betrayed Clark and when they captured Chloe and Davis, Clark arrived where Green Arrow shot a kryptonite dart in his back so that he wouldn't be able to stop them. They took Davis and Chloe to the Geothermal facility and planned to bury Davis down there but he began to transform uncontrolably when Chloe used Black kryptonite to seperate the two beings. Doomsday then wreaked mayhem on Metropolis where Clark arrived after Jimmy found him and removed the dart and also learned his secret. Clark located Doomsday and after a brief tussle between the two, brought him back to the facility crashing into it where the Justice League blew the tunnel trapping Doomsday.

After the team attended Jimmy's funeral after Davis killed him, they went missing leaving Chloe in her new Heroes base, "The Watchtower" and Clark who has given up hope on humanity declaring that Clark Kent is dead.

[edit] Season Nine

After Chloe tracked down all of the scatterd Justice League members, they realised that they needed to bring Oliver back from his own personal demons and arranged to play a game that would bring the hero of Oliver from within. They hired Victoria Sinclair as the face of the game and kidnapped Oliver from a casino owned by Victoria aka Roulette and inprisoned Oliver in a casket. It's later revealed that Black Canary shattered the window in the warehouse, Impulse saved Oliver from the truck and Cyborg hacked into Oliver's bank account to "rob" him as Watchtower was watching the whole thing. At the end of the game Oliver once again became the Green Arrow telling The Blur that he will be there to help.

[edit] Why the "DC Trinity" will not appear on Smallville

Due to character rights issues, Batman and Wonder Woman will not appear in Smallville's Justice League. Also, Bart Allen will not be referred to as The Flash, instead being referred to by his incarnation's original DC Comics code name of Impulse. The Green Lantern has not appeared on the series, but could possibly make an appearance according to series creator Alfred Gough.Teen Titans character Cyborg is included (in Smallville, Victor is Clark's age.) The Martian Manhunter appeared three times in Season Six (Static, Labyrinth, Phantom), twice in Season Seven (Bizarro, Cure) and three times in Season Eight (Odyssey, Prey, Bulletproof). However, he was not part of the team yet until he lost his powers and began helping Oliver out with Police matters and was considered a member.

[edit] Quotes

Clark: Impulse, Aquaman, Cyborg, Green Arrow, what do you guys call your team?

Bart: I dunno, I've been thinkin', you know? We need something cool, we need something like, uh... like--

Oliver: I was thinking about something with the word "justice" in it. After all, that's what Lex is going a get a big dose of.

Justice

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Oliver: This isn't the end of the story, Clark. It's just the beginning. Come on, boys. Let's go save the world.

Justice

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Dinah: (walks onto roof of Daily Planet, where Clark and Oliver are waiting) Hey. Thanks for coming. I guess I need to eat a little crow huh. Is it too late to ask for an apology?

Clark: Apology accepted. Assuming you stop moonlighting for Lex.

Dinah: That won't be a problem, I've decided to hang up my fishnets. I think I was a little out of my league, I'll just sticking to being the Word of Justice. At least I can't hurt anyone over the airwaves.

Oliver: Well as long as they're not subsonic. Still, I gotta say umm... it kinda seems like a a waste.

Clark: Besides Oliver and his boys could always use a den mother.

Oliver: It's true.

Dinah: I'm really not much of a team player.

Oliver: Really? That's perfect, you're gonna fit right in.

Dinah: (nods)

Siren

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Computer: Aquaman Online, Canary Online, Cyborg Online, Impulse Online.

Oliver: Arrow Online.

Chloe: Watchtower is officially online... let's get to work.

Hex

[edit] In The Comics

The original idea for such a team originated from Superman himself. He, along with Batman and Wonder Woman were the formal founding members of the team. Other founding members included the secondFlash, the Green Lantern, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. Originally skeptical about the idea of the team, Batman saw it as a new and interesting challenge and although slightly afraid of theprospect, joined the team almost immediately.

Superman believed that if heroes with abilities united their powers under the flag of one organization, the world would benefit greatly. The Green Arrow originally had to be convinced to join such a team, as he believed that fighting with a group of that sort would be "soulless," sacrificing the "little guy" in the process. Little did the members of the JLA know, however, that Oliver was secretly funding the organization before Batman decided to use his resources to fund the team.

Currently there are two Leagues one consits of Firestorm, Vixen, Zatanna, Green Lantern John Stewart, Doctor Light and Plastic Man and will bring in members like Batman Dick Grayson, Donna Troy, and Mon-El. This version of the League began being active one year after the events of DC's universe-spanning event, Infinite Crisis. Another team is to be led by Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Green Arrow that will eventually include Mikaal Tomas, Professor Ray Palmer, Supergirl, The former Captain Marvel Jr. Shazam, Congo Bill and Batwoman. This team is made due to Hal Jordan and Green Arrows outrage at the murder of Martian Manhunter and apparent murder of Batman.

Contrasts

In the comics two different Flashes, the late Barry Allen and his nephew Wally West served as members of the Justice League, and the original Flash Jay Garrick as a member briefly and is a member of the Justice Society. However, Bart Allen as Impulse was a member of the superhero team Young Justice and later the Teen Titans under the mantle of Kid Flash (as the Flash, Bart was not a member of any teams). Victor Stone has been a long time member of the Teen Titans, though he was considered for the current group (possibly as a reference to his membership in Smallville or his cartoon appearances in Super Friends). Clark and Arthur are both founding members of the team as well as John Jones. Green Arrow was a major Justice League member in the Silver Age, and will join a Justice League splinter team. Chloe's role in the team is similar to that of Oracle for the Justice League and Batman "Family" members.

[edit] Notes

• The team has never been referred "Justice League" on screen although Emil Hamilton refer to them as "Oliver and the league" in Rabid, "Super friends" in Prey by John Jones and Oliver said that their team name should have the word "Justice" in itJustice.
• Due to the situation of Oliver Queen's superhero team taking a pro-active role in crime-fighting, as well as their status as vigilantes or criminals in the eyes of the law, as well as many others, the team more closely resembles the comics' team The Outsiders rather than the Justice League, especially considering Clark's disagreement with many of their crime-fighting practices and his refusal to officially join the group. Also, considering the current lineup of the team, they have more in common with the type of heroes generally recruited for The Outsiders. The biggest thing that separates The Justice League from Queen's team is, of course, the absence of founding members Batman and Wonder Woman from their ranks, plus the fact that Clark and The Martian Manhunter have not joined them yet but instead have been involved with the League in one form or another.

[edit] Appearances

• Season Six - Justice
• Justice & Doom
• Season Seven - Siren
• Season Eight - Odyssey, Hex, Doomsday
• Season 9 - Roulette, (in mentioned only)

[edit] External Links

• Justice League of America - Wikipedia
• Justice League - DCAU wiki
• Justice League on Smallville - Wikipedia
• Justice League of America - DC Datebase
• Justice League - comicvine