A LOOK BACK AT OUR FAVORITE SUPERHERO SIDEKICKS' FINAL YEAR.
→ MARCH 20, 2013 Warning: Full spoilers for Season 2 of Young Justice follow...
If nothing else, Young Justice's second -- and, as it turns out, final -- season was big. It took our characters off-world on multiple occasions, brought a season-long cosmic threat to bear on planet Earth, and seriously expanded the roster of not just the team itself but the entire cast of the show.
It was also quite good at giving us the superhero equivalent of blue balls, both in terms of delayed gratification story-wise as well as its ongoing tendency to get bumped from Cartoon Network's schedule for extended periods of time.
Year two kicked off in April of 2012 (in a sort of confusing way, as there was no break between the Season 2 premiere and the Season 1 finale that aired the week prior). Right off the bat (pun intended), it was clear that we were in new ground: A five-year time jump had occurred between seasons, and the Young Justice that we knew and loved from the first season was gone forever. Robin was now Nightwing. Kid Flash, Aqualad and Artemis were simply not present nor mentioned. And loads of new characters had joined the team in the intervening years, including Lagoon Boy, Bumblebee, Beast Boy, Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Blue Beetle and the Tim Drake Robin.
All of which was… cool. But worrying, particularly knowing how creators Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti tended to gloss over characterization in favor of (admittedly awesome) eye-candy action scenes and plot, plot, plot in Season 1.
By the second episode, "Earthlings," some of these concerns were put to rest as Weisman and Vietti began to delve into how our core team had changed in those five years (like Superboy and Miss Martian's breaking up) while also starting to build connections to the new characters, like Beast Boy and his back story involving the death of his and M'Gann's "mom." As the season would proceed, most of these newer characters would get less and less focus, however, in favor of Blue Beetle (for the most part). Wonder Girl and Batgirl fans, for example, were pretty much out of luck.
Souce: IGN
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