Super Friends
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Release | September 8, 1973 October 26, 1985 | –
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Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1973 to 1985[1] on ABC as part of its Saturday-morning cartoon lineup. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and was based on the Justice League of America and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.[2]
The name of the program (and the Justice League members featured with the Super Friends) has been variously represented (as Super Friends and
Series titles
Over the years, the show existed under several titles:[3]
- Super Friends (1973–1974)
- The All-New Super Friends Hour (1977–1978)
- Challenge of the Superfriends (1978–1979)
- The World's Greatest SuperFriends (1979–1980)
- SuperFriends (1980–1983)
- Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984–1985)
- The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985–1986)
Series | Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||
Super Friends (1973) | 1 | — | 16 | September 8, 1973 | December 22, 1973 | |
The All-New Super Friends Hour | 1 | 60 | 15 | September 10, 1977 | December 10, 1977 | |
Challenge of the Superfriends | 1 | 32 | 16 | September 9, 1978 | December 23, 1978 | |
The World's Greatest SuperFriends | 1 | — | 8 | September 22, 1979 | November 10, 1979 | |
Super Friends (1980) | 1 | 24 | 8 | September 13, 1980 | November 1, 1980 | |
2 | 18 | 6 | September 26, 1981 | October 31, 1981 | ||
3 | 24 | 8 | September 10, 1983 | October 29, 1983 | ||
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show | 1 | 12 | 8 | September 8, 1984 | October 27, 1984 | |
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians | 1 | 4 | 8 | September 7, 1985 | October 26, 1985 |
Writing
Plot lines for the later series involved many of the familiar DC Comics super-villains, like the Joker and the Riddler, that the first incarnation of the Super Friends did not. Instead, like the comic books, they focused on the far-fetched schemes of mad scientists and aliens, who were invariably revealed as being well-intentioned, and simply pursuing their goals through unlawful or disreputable means.[4] Typically, at the end of each story, a peaceful and reasonable discussion would be performed by the heroes to convince the antagonists to adopt more reasonable methods.[5]
The All-New Super Friends Hour departed somewhat from the previous series' formula by featuring villains using more elaborate methods to further their goals; as a rule they could not be reasoned with, requiring the heroes to use direct force to stop them. Beginning with Challenge of the Superfriends, several of the heroes' arch-villains from the comic books (such as Lex Luthor and The Riddler) began to feature prominently in comic-style stories. Throughout the series, plots often wrapped themselves up neatly in the final minutes of an episode in the fashion of the typical comic books and deus ex machina.[4]
Production history
In 1973, animation company
As a DC Comics-based show, the Super Friends franchise was owned by DC's parent company
1973–1974 series
Super Friends first aired on ABC on September 8, 1973, featuring well-known DC characters
In addition to the superheroes, a trio of sidekicks was introduced, each of whom were new characters not drawn from the comic books: Wendy and Marvin (voiced by Sherri Alberoni and Frank Welker) and Wonder Dog (also voiced by Frank Welker), none of whom had any special abilities (save the dog's unexplained ability to reason and talk). The trio—or at least its human members—were depicted as detectives and/or superheroes-in-training; the "teen detectives and their talking animal" cliché, originally popularized by Scooby-Doo, was typical in Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the mid/late 1970s.
Each episode began with the heroes responding to an emergency detected by the massive TroubAlert computer in the Hall of Justice, which served as the headquarters of the team. Colonel Wilcox, a U.S. Army official, was a recurring character who would act as a government liaison with the Super Friends during emergencies. Colonel Wilcox was voiced by John Stephenson. Conflicts were usually resolved with the antagonists persuaded to adapt more reasonable methods to achieve their aims (with the assistance of the heroes). Natural disasters triggered by human (or alien) activity were often shown, and environmental themes featured strongly in the program. Three other DC Comics superheroes were featured as guest stars during this season: the Flash, Plastic Man, and Green Arrow; the latter two did not appear in any subsequent episodes of the series.
This first run of Super Friends, consisting of 16 one-hour episodes which were rerun several times, concluded on August 24, 1974. At this point, the series was cancelled. However, interest in superheroes among ABC's prime-time viewers (with the success of The Six Million Dollar Man and the live-action Wonder Woman series) caused the network to revive Super Friends.[2] The original 16 episodes of the series were rebroadcast as a mid-season replacement, running from February 7, 1976, to September 3, 1977. These episodes were edited into half-hour versions. At the same time, DC Comics published a Super Friends comic, which used Wendy and Marvin from issue #1 (November 1976) to #6 (August 1977). In the meantime, Hanna-Barbera began production on a revamped version of the show.
1977–1978 season: The All-New Super Friends Hour
The All-New Super Friends Hour featured four animated shorts per program. Wendy, Marvin, and Wonder Dog were dropped from this and all future TV iterations of Super Friends, and were replaced by Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna, and their pet monkey, Gleek. Unlike Wendy and Marvin, Zan and Jayna had super powers. A total of 15 episodes were produced. Darrell McNeil of the Hanna-Barbera animation studios later explained the change in cast:
When the decision was made by ABC to renew Super Friends three years after the first series' 1973 production, ABC and Hanna-Barbera wanted to ramp up (as much as they could) the series' action content. And since we were ramping that up, that meant making all of our cast a bit more serious, and giving our five leads a bit more backup than three non-powered sidekicks. [New sidekicks] also helped emphasize the 'New' in All-New Super Friends. [emphasis in original][8]
The show followed a basic format each week. The first segment of every show featured two of the heroes (for the purposes of the team-ups in the first and fourth segments, Batman and Robin were considered one hero) teaming up in a separate mini-story. The second segment featured a story with the Wonder Twins. The third segment was considered the primary adventure of the week, featuring the entire Super Friends roster (including the Wonder Twins) in a longer adventure. The fourth and final segment featured a story with one of the primary lineup and a "special guest star". This segment typically featured a problem that was solved using the guest star's unique abilities.
Between segments there were short spots with members of the Super Friends giving basic safety lessons, providing first-aid advice, demonstrating magic tricks, creating crafts, and presenting a two-part riddle featuring the week's primary plot line. This was the first season to feature two villains appearing in the comic books, Black Manta and Gentleman Ghost. Each appeared in only one episode this season and each was somewhat modified for television. Black Manta's costume was not black and he was only referred to as "Manta". The Gentleman Ghost was referred to as "Gentleman Jim Craddock" which is his human name in the comics.
1978–1979 season Super Friends / Challenge of the Superfriends
The next season of Super Friends featured two segments:
First segment: Super Friends episodes
The first segment of the program featured the established group of heroes: Superman, Batman and Robin, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and the Wonder Twins and Gleek. They were rerun with intro from the All-New Super Friends Hour when in syndication in the early 1980s, but they are seldom seen in syndication since then.
Second segment: Challenge of the Superfriends
The second half-hour of the show introduced the
Additional heroes who had previously appeared as guest stars were added to the roster as well, to make a total of 11. These included The Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkman from DC Comics and three Hanna-Barbera creations to reflect diversity: Black Vulcan, Apache Chief, and Samurai. Despite the Riddler showing a set of playing cards with (from left to right) Gleek, Zan, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Batman, and Superman (which he then burns to ashes in his introduction in "Wanted: The Super Friends"), the Wonder Twins and Gleek did not appear in Challenge.
The Challenge of the Superfriends segment was expanded to 90 minutes mid-season, with reruns of earlier episodes filling out the last half-hour.[8]
1979–1980 season: The World's Greatest SuperFriends
In the fall of 1979, the Super Friends returned to their prior format, bringing back the original set of five DC superheroes and Zan, Jayna, and Gleek. Eight half-hour episodes were created for this run, with the majority of the season consisting of rebroadcasts of The All-New Super Friends Hour from 1977 to 1978 and The Super Friends segments from Challenge of the Superfriends from 1978 to 1979. Renamed The World's Greatest SuperFriends, this series began on September 22, 1979, and ran until September 27, 1980.[9]
1980–1982 seasons: SuperFriends
Renamed SuperFriends in 1980, the series changed formats again, abandoning the production of half-hour episodes and producing seven-minute shorts. Each episode of SuperFriends would feature a rerun from one of the previous six years and three new shorts. These new adventures featured appearances by the core group of five Super Friends and Zan, Jayna, and Gleek. There were also guest appearances from members previously depicted in Challenge of the Superfriends and the Hanna-Barbera-created hero El Dorado, who was added to the show in 1981 to provide additional cultural diversity.
This would prove to be one of the longer-lived incarnations of the series (three years). A total of 22 episodes were produced.
1982–1983 season: The Best of the Super Friends (reruns)
For the 1982–1983 television season ABC ran half-hour reruns of shows from the previous seven seasons, with none of the seven-minute shorts rebroadcast. ABC called the rerun package The Best of the Super Friends.
1983–1984 season: Cancellation and the "lost episodes"
Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. had created a syndication package of the earlier Super Friends series (co-distributed by LBS Communications); these were picked up by stations across the United States and typically broadcast on weekday afternoons. Not wishing to compete with the syndication programming, ABC dropped the series from the 1983–1984 Saturday morning television line-up. For the second time, Super Friends was cancelled.
However, during this time Hanna-Barbera continued to produce new episodes with the Super Friends, with ABC's approval and funding.
1984–1985 season: SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
Super Friends returned to ABC Saturday, September 8, 1984, with a new 30-minute program typically featuring two 11-minute stories per episode. This incarnation featured Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and the Wonder Twins and Gleek, this time teamed up with
1985–1986 season: The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
In the fall of 1985, the next version of Hanna-Barbera's depiction of the DC Comics heroes began, although it no longer carried the Super Friends name. This series returned to a conventional lineup for the team, with a focus on teen members
Notably, it is in this series that Batman's origin is depicted for the first time outside of comics and the first cartoon series. Batman and Robin chase The Scarecrow into Crime Alley, where Thomas and Martha Wayne were murdered, which triggers a fear-induced flashback. Additionally, in the same episode, Professor Jonathan Crane appears as the Scarecrow's secret identity, which was unknown to the authorities, allowing Scarecrow to use it to secretly sabotage the Super Friends' investigations until Batman managed to deduce his identity, leading to his arrest.
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians lasted one season before being canceled. The final new episode aired was "Escape From Space City" on October 26, 1985. This third cancellation would be the final one, and Galactic Guardians marked the end of Hanna-Barbera's 12-year run of Super Friends.
Characters
The Justice League of America
The core group of five heroes made up the "Super Friends":
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Other members and guest stars:
- The Flash (1973; 1977–1985)
- Plastic Man (1973)
- Green Arrow (1973)
- The Atom (1977; 1980–1983)
- Green Lantern (1977–1985)
- Hawkgirl (1977; 1980; 1983)
- Hawkman (1977–1978; 1980–1985)
- Rima the Jungle Girl (1977; 1980)
- Apache Chief (1977–1978; 1980–1984)
- Black Vulcan (1977–1978; 1980–1984)
- Samurai (1977–1978; 1980–1985)
- Abin Sur (1978)
- Superboy (1978; 1983)
- El Dorado (1982–1985)
Junior Super Friends:
- Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog (1973–1975)
- Wonder Twins: Zan and Jayna and Gleek (1977–1984)
Supporting characters originally from DC comic books:
- Commissioner James Gordon
- Hippolyta
- Lois Lane
- Jimmy Olsen
- Alfred Pennyworth
- Perry White
- Solovar
- Steve Trevor
Legion of Doom
Thirteen villains composed the Legion of Doom during the Challenge of the Superfriends season:
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Other DC Comics villains
Villains appearing independently from the Legion of Doom:
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Villains not adapted from the comic books
- The Alien Mummy
- The Anti-Matter Monster
- Barko
- Bigfoot creatures
- Blackbeard
- Bulgor the Behemoth
- The Brain Creatures
- The Capricorn Kid
- Captain Shark
- The Collector
- The Incredible Crude Oil Monster
- Darkon
- Dictor and the mysterious Time Creatures
- The Dollmaker
- Dracula
- Dr. Cranium
- Dr. Droid
- Dr. Frankenstein
- Dr. Fright
- Dr. Gulliver
- The Earthors
- The Enforcer
- Giant Snow Creature
- The Highway Angels
- The Hydronoids
- The Ice Demon
- Insecta and the Arthropods
- The Iron Cyclops
- John Palette
- The Junk Creature from the Dump
- Kareem Azaar
- Keelhaul Kelly
- King Arthur
- The Lion Men
- The Make Up Monster
- Mal Havok
- The Man Beasts Of Xra
- The Marsh Monster
- Medula and her Mind Maidens
- Mongor
- The Mummy Of Nazca
- The Mysterious Mutants of the Space Sphere
- Nartan
- Ocina and the Ancient Atlantean Warriors
- Old Man Holmes
- Orville Gump
- The Outlaws of Orion (Pack and Stardust)
- The Phantom Zone Villains (Hul, Logar, Rom-Lok)
- The Plant Creatures
- Professor Amy Zhan
- Professor Fearo
- Professor Korloff
- The Power Pirate
- The Robber Baron and Sleeves
- The Rock and Roll Space Bandits
- Rock Batman
- Rokan
- R.O.M.A.C.
- The Secret Four
- Scorpio
- Sculpin
- Sinbad and the Space Pirates
- Solderath and the Lava Men
- The Space Dolls
- The Evil Space Genie
- The Space Racers
- The Star Energy Creature
- The Super Enemies
- The Termites from Venus
- Torhana
- Tyrannic
- Vampiress, the Voodoo Vampire
- Yuna the Terrible
- Zarnum
- Zi-Kree
- The Zoons
DC characters who only appeared in Super Friends comics
- Batgirl
- Black Canary
- Black Orchid
- Chronos
- Doctor Mist of the Global Guardians
- Elongated Man
- Etrigan the Demon
- Green Fury
- Icemaiden of the Global Guardians
- Hector Hammond
- Huntress
- Jack O'Lantern of the Global Guardians
- The Little Mermaid of the Global Guardians
- Man-Bat
- Red Tornado
- Seraph of the Global Guardians
- Supergirl
- Swamp Thing
- Tasmanian Devil of the Global Guardians
References to the Justice League of America name
Beginning with the original Super Friends season, the opening narration describes the team's headquarters as "the great hall of the Justice League". The opening credits of Challenge of the Superfriends names the Super Friends as the
Notable voice actors
The voice of the Narrator was provided by actor
Reception
In January 2009, IGN listed Super Friends as the 50th best animated television series.[12]
DVD releases
Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | DVD title/volume | DVD release date and ASIN | ||||
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Region 1 | Region 2 | ASIN Number | |||||||
1 | 16 | September 8, 1973 | August 24, 1974 | Super Friends - Season 1: Volume 1 Super Friends - Season 1: Volume 2 |
January 5, 2010 July 20, 2010 |
B002S3Y1LQ B003F3NE4S | |||
2 | 15 | September 10, 1977 | September 2, 1978 | Super Friends - Season 2: The All-New Super Friends Hour, Volume 1 Super Friends - Season 2: The All-New Super Friends Hour, Volume 2 |
January 8, 2008 January 27, 2009 |
B000W2C28Y B001HRS8HW | |||
3 | 16 | September 9, 1978 | September 3, 1979 | Super Friends - Season 3: Challenge of the Superfriends, The First Season Super Friends - Season 3, Volume 2 |
July 6, 2004 May 24, 2005 |
B00023E88U B0007XFZMS | |||
4 | 8 | September 22, 1979 | September 27, 1980 | Super Friends - Season 4: The World's Greatest Super Friends, The Complete Series | April 23, 2013 | B00CREAO9O | |||
5 | 24 | September 13, 1980 | September 1, 1981 | Super Friends - Season 5: A Dangerous Fate, The Complete Series | July 23, 2013 | B00CM0DIT6 | |||
6 | 18 | September 26, 1981 | October 31, 1982 | Super Friends - Season 6: Super Friends! Legacy Of Super Powers, The Complete Season Six (6 on DVD label) | October 8, 2013 | B00DVKKWFE | |||
7 | 8 | September 10, 1983 | September 8, 1984 | Super Friends - Season 7: Super Friends The Lost Episodes | August 11, 2009 | B0027WNRV8 | |||
8 | 16 | September 8, 1984 | August 31, 1985 | Super Friends - Season 8: The Legendary Super Powers Show, The Complete Series | August 7, 2007 | B000PC8AKK | |||
9 | 10 | September 11, 1985 | November 6, 1986 | Super Friends - Season 9: The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, The Complete Series | October 23, 2007 | B000TSTEJG |
Spin-offs
Legends of the Superheroes
On January 18 and 25, 1979, Hanna-Barbera ran two one-hour live-action specials under the umbrella title Legends of the Superheroes. The first special, subtitled "The Challenge", was loosely based on the Super Friends and the 1960s Batman series (played for laughs, but this time, including a laugh track) and included several other DC characters who replaced Samurai, Black Vulcan, and Apache Chief: Black Canary, the E-2 Huntress Helena Wayne (a new DC character, gathering her own following in All-Star and Adventure Comics JSA runs as a JSA member), and Captain Marvel (who had previously had his own live action series through Filmation studios). The second special, entitled "The Roast", featured Ed McMahon as emcee of the roast, along the lines of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast specials. Due to Warner Bros.' contracts on Wonder Woman (already being used in her own live action series in which Lynda Carter starred) and Superman (in his own live-action theatrical movie at the time, portrayed by Christopher Reeve), they were unable to be featured on the specials.
The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show
Plastic Man appeared in the first season of Super Friends, in one episode. Later, Ruby-Spears Productions released a series starring the character in his own solo adventures.
Batman
A Batman animated series was also considered in the mid-1980s, presumably with Adam West reprising his role as the voice of Batman.[citation needed] "The Fear" was written as a pilot episode for the series, but was instead adapted in to an episode of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
The New Teen Titans
In 1983, a cartoon based upon
DC Super Friends
Fisher-Price developed a toy line named DC Super Friends featuring DC Comics characters as toys for young children. A comic book series and direct-to-video original animation called The Joker's Playhouse (2010) was developed to tie-in. The video features the World's Greatest Super Friends theme, allusions to the Legion of Doom, and the Super Friends and their Hall of Justice.
Comic books
Super Friends
The first use of the Super Friends name on a DC Comics publication was in Limited Collectors' Edition #C-41 (December 1975-January 1976) which reprinted stories from Justice League of America #36 and 61 and featured a new framing sequence by writer E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Alex Toth.[13][14] DC published a comic book version of the Super Friends from November 1976 to August 1981. The comic book series was launched by E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Ric Estrada.[15] Zan and Jayna were given back stories and secret identities as a pair of blond-haired high school kids; they were more competent heroes than their cartoon counterparts.
While the television cartoons were not part of the same fictional universe as the DC comic books, writer E. Nelson Bridwell made the comic book accord with the other DC titles via
- Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog were the only ones active at the Hall of Justice, because the Justice League are in the 30th Century with the Justice League of America #147–148). Robin was busy helping the Titans in Teen Titans #50-52. Bridwell also gave them last names and ties to the other characters' histories; Wendy Harris was the niece of detective Harvey Harris (who helped train Batman) and Marvin White was the son of Diana Prince (the woman who helped provide Wonder Womanwith a secret identity upon her arrival in America). While the show never explained the departure of Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog, the story was found in Super Friends #6–9.
The argument for the comic being part of the Earth-One continuity also included the fact that certain elements of the series impacted other books in the DC line:
1. TNT's appearance in Kandor in an issue of
2. Sinestro's lack of a power ring in an issue of
3. Superman already being familiar with Dr. Mist and the international heroes in DC Comics Presents after meeting them in Super Friends issues #7–9 and #12–13.
Because the Super Friends stories were referenced in and the events in them remembered by the characters in the core DC superhero titles - for example, in Justice League of America #155 (June 1978 - Red Tornado remembers using his powers to break the time barrier, which he did in Super Friends #8) - they have to be considered part of the Pre-Crisis Earth 1 ensemble of stories.
In 2008, DC began publishing a new
Collected Editions
- Super Friends: For Justice! (collects #1-7)
- Super Friends: Calling All Super Friends (collects #8-14)
- Super Friends: Head of the Class (collects #15-21)
- Super Friends: Mystery In Space (collects #22-28)
- DC Goes Ape (576 pages, October 2008, ISBN 978-1401219352) collects #30
- DC Through the 80s: The End of Eras (520 pages, December 2020, ISBN 978-1779500878) collects #36
- Super Friends: Saturday Morning Comics
- Volume 1 (520 pages, June 2020, ISBN 978-1401295424) collects #1-26, Aquateers Meet the Super Friends, and the Super Friends stories from Limited Collectors' Edition C-41 and C-46
- Volume 2 (488 pages, December 2020, ISBN 978-1779505927) collects #27-47
- Volume 1 (520 pages, June 2020,
Extreme Justice
In the comics, the Wonder Twins were members of the short-lived JLI offshoot, Extreme Justice.
Young Justice
Young Justice was a comic series that followed the adventures of a group composed of the latest teen superheroes of the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Robin, Superboy, Impulse and Wonder Girl. Towards the end of the run, Young Justice was involved in a mission which required them to invade an island whose population was made up of super-villains. To conduct a successful attack, the core team assembled all the then-known teen heroes (including the Wonder Twins). As in Extreme Justice, neither spoke English and both seemed to enjoy eating CDs. Unlike their cartoon counterparts, the Wonder Twins were rude and sarcastic.
Super Buddies
The lighthearted nature of the show was spoofed in the 2000s with two DC miniseries, Formerly Known as the Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League! (although these series were more direct take-offs on the 1980s Blue Beetle/Booster Gold-era Justice League). In these miniseries the group is known as the "Super Buddies", and consists of a team of ex-Justice League members. A television advertisement for the team shows them posing in the postures of the original Super Friends title card.
Teen Titans
As of issue #34 (2006), Wendy and Marvin were part of the DC continuity. They are now
Justice League of America
During the events of the 2005 company-wide
Wizard magazine
Issue #77 of
Superman and Batman: World's Funnest
In the Elseworlds one-shot Superman and Batman: World's Funnest, Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk travel to different worlds within the DC Universe. On one of them, they encounter the Super Friends.
The Super Friends in other DC media
Superman: The Animated Series
In the
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In the
Justice League
At the end of "Secret Origins", the premiere three-episode arc of Justice League, Superman proposes the formation of a superhero coalition including himself, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash (Wally West), the Green Lantern (John Stewart), the Martian Manhunter, and Hawkgirl. In a direct reference (and perhaps a criticism of the somewhat silly name), the Flash jokingly asks if such a team would be called "Super Friends". Superman relabels the guild as the "Justice League".
Justice League Unlimited
In the animated series Justice League Unlimited, Gorilla Grodd reforms his Secret Society this time an even larger group of villains. While not called the Legion of Doom (due to DC executives disallowing the creative team from using the name), their headquarters is a craft similar to the Hall of Doom, located in a swamp. Additionally, the Justice League's Metro Tower headquarters in Metropolis strongly resembled the Hall of Justice.
The Ultimen, loosely based on characters created for the Super Friends, appear in the episode "Ultimatum", as allies and later antagonists to the League. The Ultimen consisted of Long Shadow (based on
The Batman
The animated series
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
The Hall of Justice appeared in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Sidekicks Assemble!", with a pastiche of the music played when the Hall appeared in Super Friends.
Smallville
The Wonder Twins appeared in the Smallville episode "Idol", with Zan played by David Gallagher and Jayna played by Allison Scagliotti. Gleek did not appear physically, but a cartoonish image of him was shown on each of the twins' cellphones.
Young Justice
The Hall of Justice was featured in
In the second season, approximations of the minority members created for Super Friends (similar to the Ultimen example above) are introduced as teenagers given powers by the
DC Nation Shorts
The title of the Super Best Friends Forever
Teen Titans Go!
In the Teen Titans Go! Two-Parter episode, the Titans go to the Hall of Justice to use the pool, as later, they become members of the Justice League to save the Justice League members from Darkseid, this sequence parodies the introduction of the super heroes as in the Super Friends series.
In the episode "You're Fired", Beast Boy is fired from the Teen Titans, and a competition is held to find his replacement. The eventual winners are the Wonder Twins.
Arrowverse
The shows set in The CW's Arrowverse have featured multiple references to the Super Friends.
In the pilot episode of
In the "
Season 2 of
The Lego Batman Movie
In The Lego Batman Movie, the cast of the Super Friends are seen celebrating an anniversary party in the Fortress of Solitude, which Batman was not invited to, featuring characters like El Dorado, The Wonder Twins, Gleek and Wonder Dog.
Video games
Injustice: Gods Among Us
The Hall of Justice is a playable stage in Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
In Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the Hall of Justice is one of the game's hubs, while the Hall of Doom and the surrounding swamp environs are explorable areas.
Toys
Super Powers Collection
The Super Powers toy line (and associated tie-in merchandise) was based on the final two seasons of Super Friends. Samurai, an original character from the show, and the Hall of Justice were both released. Plans for future waves from Super Powers would have also included Apache Chief, El Dorado, Black Vulcan and the Wonder Twins.
Justice League Unlimited
The toy line based on Justice League Unlimited released a three pack of figures from characters created for Super Friends, namely Black Vulcan, Apache Chief and Samurai. They were chosen over the Ultimen characters that actually appeared in the JLU animated series: Juice, Long Shadow and Wind Dragon.
DC Super Friends
Fisher-Price began to produce DC Comics characters in a kid-friendly toyline named after the Super Friends.
DC Universe Classics
Paying homage to Super Powers, DC Universe Classics produced original Super Friends characters such as Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, El Dorado, Samurai and the Wonder Twins.
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