Justice League Unlimited: Season 3 Continues / by Mark

We get two lighthearted episodes, followed by a big battle and a reveal.

  • Morgan Le Fey and Mordred are back for "Kid Stuff"
    • I love how Mordred's playing a GameBoy before he gets a shinier toy--a magical artifact that he uses to eliminate all adults on Earth
    • We get a cameo from Blockbuster (Dee Bradley Baker) and other villains fighting the heroes before they all disappear
    • The show's opening theme usually includes shots from the episode, but they had to be careful to avoid the big spoiler in this case...
    • The adults find themselves in limbo, and Morgan (who's stuck there as well) proposes a deal--she turns Supes, Bats, WW, and GL into kids (hence the spoiler) so they can return and defeat him
    • There's a convenient set piece - an amusement park with a Sherwood Forest theme which Mordred turns into a creepy hellscape
    • The regular kids seem awfully willing to follow Mordred, at least to start with...
    • Kid Bruce has a hard time being a brooding presence--of course, he didn't have the best childhood
    • Etrigan is also there--as a baby. Kid Diana (played by Dakota Fanning) yells at him and he cries. She's acting as surrogate mom.
    • She's also not so good as a kid hiding her feelings for Kid Bruce (Kyle Alcazar)--this has been a subtext on the show for awhile. When Kid Clark (Shane Haboucha) doesn't understand, Kid GL (Marc John Jeffries) says "Man, for somebody with like 50 kinds of vision, you are so blind!"
    • Kid GL does what any kid would do with a ring that could construct anything--he makes a huge robot with multiple weapons
    • Kid Bruce tricks Mordred into becoming an adult--which sends him to limbo and reverses the original spell. It also shuts down his eternal youth--leaving him an ancient man with Morgan caring for him.
  • Diana feels a bit porcine in "This Little Piggy"
    • Classic lines--Diana: "No, no dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time." Bruce: "You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues".
    • They run into Circe (Rachel York), who, as you might have guessed from the title, turns Diana into a pig
    • He turns to Zatanna (Jennifer Hale) for help. She's a real magician who does showbiz work on the side--her gimmick is speaking her spells backwards. Zatanna, in turn, goes to an old conjurer (Jack Carter) for supplies. It doesn't work, so Bruce calls in Medusa (Laraine Newman), who owes him (?!?) and finds out Circe's whereabouts.
    • We get, of all things, a musical number from Circe! It's there, apparently, to show off the voice actor's singing skills.
    • Wonder Pig escapes her leash, so Bruce calls in a tracker--B'wana Beast (Peter Onorati). Crimson Avenger, Red Tornado, and Elongated Man join the search.
    • Our little piggy ends up at a pork processing plant. Uh, oh, she's gonna end up being Wonder Ham!
    • Just in time, Batman makes a deal with Circe to lift the spell--he sings a ballad!
  • Amazo's (Robert Picardo) back, and he's gunning for Lex Luthor in "The Return"
    • As an appetizer, he takes out the GL Corps and their HQ, the planet OA!
    • The League is put in the uncomfortable position of protecting Lex
    • Supergirl and Steel take him into protective custody. Lex has a better idea--he has a "safe room" far underground. He's been ready for this. He ditches the other heroes, but The Atom (John C. McGinley) hitched a ride on Lex's suit.
    • The space-capable heroes get ready in orbit, along with hundreds of Javelins (who's paying for this? Not even Bruce could cover it). The team (Clark, GL, Orion, Captain Atom, Dr. Light, S.T.R.I.P.E., and Starman) throw everything they have at Amazo, but it barely slows him down. I guess a lot of Javelin teams died that day.
    • Meanwhile, Lex and Atom furiously work on a way to stop him
    • Team 2 (Supergirl, Rocket Red, Red Tornado, Fire) and Team 3 (Flash, WW, Ice, and Steel) do little better. It's interesting that we hear no quips from Flash--Michael Rosenbaum didn't participate most of this season, so Flash is silent.
    • The GL Corps show up to help--they managed to survive the initial attack
    • J'onn and Dr. Fate argue last case scenarios on the Watchtower
    • Amazo finds Lex, and asks his purpose. Lex talks Amazo into experiencing the end of the universe--and letting him go.
    • Amazo brings back OA--he just moved it--and Dr. Fate joins him on his search for knowledge
    • In a final reveal, we learn that Hawkgirl has been hiding in Fate's magical tower since season 2, trying to get her life back together

If you would like to play along, the DVD box set is available on Amazon.