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- Can't Unhear It: Like most DCAU shows, these are now the definite fan voices for the characters.
- Continuity Lock Out: The show, JLU in particular, relies very heavily on references to past episodes of the DCAU. The Cadmus arc is a big one as a good part of it is built around the repercussions from the Grand Finale of Superman: The Animated Series.
- Crack Pairing: Martian Manhunter/Swayzak, due to both having the same voice actor.
- Die for Our Ship: Many a Supergirl centric fanfic, usually one that involves a Crossover Ship, has at least one author's note ranting about how Brainiac-5 ruined Kara or outright say that the future he comes from will never come to pass.
- Draco in Leather Pants: Quite a few fans are very willing to look the other way regarding the Thanagarians' conquest of Earth and their intent to destroy the planet.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Supergirl leaving to join the Legion of Super-Heroes? That never happened. Who would spread such lies?
- Fan-Preferred Couple: Batman/Wonder Woman.
- Foe Yay: Flash/Giganta.
- Friendly Fandoms: As it shares the late Dwayne McDuffie as a writer, the show had many fans in common with Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. Helps that the UAF era of Ben 10 is often viewed as JLU's Spiritual Successor.
- Also quite friendly with Danny Phantom, Kim Possible, Teen Titans, and Young Justice.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Hereafter", a Bad Future gave Vandal Savage a Heel Realization and he turned from war to become a man of art and culture. In 2011, the Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes crossover established that Flint from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Requiem for Methuselah", a man of art and culture, is a variant of Savage who likewise turned to peace after a Heel Realization.
- Inferred Holocaust: In "Kid Stuff", Mordred creates a world without adults. Imagine how many adults disappeared from their cars, leaving their kids either locked inside or to crash, or how many toddlers were left alone in empty houses.
- Informed Wrongness: Superman banishing Doomsday to the Phantom Zone. Doomsday cannot be contained by conventional methods and is a Super-Persistent Predator who will destroy anything in his path to get to Superman. You can't blame the League for taking extreme methods.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Who hasn't Kara been shipped with? Both among the show and the Friendly Fandoms.
- The Scrappy: Professor Emil Hamilton. When you have the gall to pull a Never My Fault attitude on Superman, after he'd profusely apologized, you lose any sympathy points.
- Seasonal Rot: Or Sequelitis depending on how one views the show. No one thinks Unlimited was a bad show but many found the rotating cast of heroes, with the original seven being Demoted to Extra, a step down from the more focused and character driven Justice League era.
- Signature Scene: Batman dodging Darkseid's Omega Beams.
- Strangled by the Red String: Supergirl/Brainiac-5. They knew each other for twenty-two minutes and suddenly Kara chooses to stay in the 31st century and abandon everyone she knew and loved.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Most of the League's side cast (such as Lois Lane and Alfred) have little to nothing to do in the show or simply went unmentioned.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The writers viewed Cadmus as sympathetic Anti-Villains, introducing Brainiac as an Eviler Than Thou Conflict Killer because they didn't want to paint Cadmus or the League as being in the wrong. Most fans admit that Cadmus had a point, but don't think too highly of them considering that they launched incredibly spiteful pre-emptive attacks on the League and had no compunctions about killing innocents.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The show really strides the line between children and adult viewers.
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