9.3/10952 votesLoading...#1 - Starcrossed (3)
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/29/2004
The League defeats the squad of hawkmen sent to kill them at the Batcave, but must now figure out how to stop the activation of the hypergate before it destroys Earth.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie, Rich Fogel
9.1/10970 votesLoading...#2 - Hereafter (2)
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 11/29/2003
Superman finds himself on a devastated future Earth with the man responsible - Vandal Savage.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
9.0/10949 votesLoading...#3 - A Better World (2)
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/2003
The Justice League must escape from their imprisonment at the hands of the Justice Lords and defeat their counterparts with the help of an unlikely ally.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.9/10834 votesLoading...#4 - Wild Cards (2)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 12/6/2003
The League manage to defuse the Joker's bombs and defeat the four active members of the Royal Flush Gang...but the Joker has an Ace in the hole as he executes his real master plan.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie
8.9/10809 votesLoading...#5 - Starcrossed (2)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/29/2004
The League manage to escape and take refuge at Wayne Manor, while the Thanagarians scout the planet for them and realize their master plan for Earth.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: John Ridley
8.8/10920 votesLoading...#6 - A Better World (1)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/1/2003
The Justice Lords, an alternate version of the League from a different dimension, capture their counterparts and plan to bring their own brand of justice to the new Earth.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.8/10873 votesLoading...#7 - Hereafter (1)
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 11/29/2003
After Superman makes the ultimate sacrifice to save his fellow heroes, the Justice League and rest of the grieving planet must learn to live in a world without Superman.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
8.8/10836 votesLoading...#8 - Wild Cards (1)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 12/6/2003
In the ultimate reality show, the Joker pits the Justice League against the clock and against the Royal Flush Gang as the Justice League races to find and disarm all the bombs he's planted along the Strip in Las Vegas.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie
8.7/10843 votesLoading...#9 - Starcrossed (1)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/29/2004
The Thangarians, Hawkgirl's people, arrive on Earth to aid them against the menace of the Gordanians. But all is not what it seems.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Rich Fogel
8.6/101,036 votesLoading...#10 - Injustice for All (2)
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/13/2002
Exposed as a criminal, sentenced to prison, and terminally ill due to long term kryptonite exposure, Lex Luthor escapes and assembles a supervillain team consisting of Cheetah, The Shade, Solomon Grundy, Star Sapphire, Copperhead, and Ultra-Humanite to take on the Justice League, calling themselves the Injustice Gang. The Joker also becomes part of the team, but on his own choice. However, this gang proves short-lived as its major weakness proves no match for Batman's wiles.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.6/10980 votesLoading...#11 - A Knight of Shadows (2)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/27/2002
Morgaine and Mordred get the Stone and plan to transform England and restore it to its medieval glory.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Keith Damron
8.6/10785 votesLoading...#12 - Only a Dream (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/2003
Four of the Leaguers are trapped in their dreams by Dr. Destiny - only J'onn and Batman can rescue them...if they don't fall asleep first.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.5/10785 votesLoading...#13 - Twilight (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/5/2003
The League are forced to battle both Darkseid and Brainiac, while Wonder Woman and Batman seek the aid of Orion, son of Darkseid.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Bruce Timm, Rich Fogel
8.4/101,022 votesLoading...#14 - Injustice for All (1)
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/6/2002
Exposed as a criminal, sentenced to prison, and terminally ill due to long term kryptonite exposure, Lex Luthor escapes and assembles a supervillain team consisting of Cheetah, The Shade, Solomon Grundy, Star Sapphire, Copperhead, and Ultra-Humanite to take on the Justice League, calling themselves the Injustice Gang. The Joker also becomes part of the team, but on his own choice. However, this gang proves short-lived as its major weakness proves no match for Batman's wiles.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.4/10881 votesLoading...#15 - The Savage Time (3)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 11/9/2002
Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor survive the attack and trick the Germans into believing that the communicator was destroyed. GL and Easy Co. find the runaway and discover that Vandal Savage plans to use jet aircraft to invade America. GL boards and tries to stop Vandal's plane while Hawkgirl, Superman, and Flash try to intercept the flight with J'onn's help. With the aid of the Blackhawks and Flash notifying the U.S. Navy, the German flight is shot down and Vandal apparently is killed. The JLA return to the present to find everything restored and Wonder Woman visits a now elderly Steve Trevor in the restored present.
Director: Butch Lukic, Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.4/10766 votesLoading...#16 - Tabula Rasa (2)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2003
Even Superman is unable to defeat the android once it duplicates all of the League's powers. Only with the aid of J'onn, suffering a crisis of faith when he is overwhelmed by humanity's pettiness during a telepathic scan, can they turn Amazo against Lex.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.3/10989 votesLoading...#17 - A Knight of Shadows (1)
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/20/2002
The sorceress Morgaine Le Fey and her son Mordred search for the Philosopher's Stone, and the Justice League need the help of the Demon Etrigan to thwart her.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Keith Damron
8.3/10704 votesLoading...#18 - Secret Society (1)
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/22/2003
Gorilla Grodd brings together a powerful team of villains, welding them together into a close-knit group. Meanwhile the League is plagued by it own internal problems and non-cooperation, leaving them vulnerable to attack.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.2/10803 votesLoading...#19 - Twilight (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/5/2003
The Justice League is forced to ally with Darkseid against an enemy powerful enough to threaten both Earth and Apokolips.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Bruce Timm, Rich Fogel
8.2/10762 votesLoading...#20 - Only a Dream (1)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/2003
The Justice League must deal with a prison break, unaware that prisoner John Dee is using the distraction to gain access to an experimental ESP machine and gain the power to manipulate dreams.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.2/10717 votesLoading...#21 - The Terror Beyond (2)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 11/15/2003
With the initial ritual destroyed, the League, Fate, and Grundy must travel into the dimension of the Old Ones while Aquaman fights the invaders in the Earth realm.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
8.2/10690 votesLoading...#22 - Secret Society (2)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 11/22/2003
The Secret Society take advantage of the League's break-up to bring them down until only Green Lantern remains to free his comrades. When he falls as well everything looks hopeless.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.1/10758 votesLoading...#23 - Tabula Rasa (1)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2003
Lex Luthor, on the run from the League, reactivates an old LexCorp project to stop the League - an android that can duplicate the powers of anyone it sees.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
8.1/10812 votesLoading...#24 - Comfort and Joy
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 12/13/2003
The Justice Leaguers go their separate ways to celebrate the holiday season.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Paul Dini
8.0/101,276 votesLoading...#25 - In Blackest Night (2)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/26/2001
Believing that Green Lantern is receiving an unfair trial, the Leaguers investigate, while GL's superiors, the Guardians of the Universe, enter as witnesses. But the whole trial may be a ruse.
Director: Butch Lukic
Writer: Stan Berkowitz
The Best Episodes of Justice League
Every episode of Justice League ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Justice League!
The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Cartoon Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Starcrossed (3)" is the best rated episode of "Justice League". It scored 9.3/10 based on 952 votes. Directed by Butch Lukic and written by Dwayne McDuffie, Rich Fogel, it aired on 5/29/2004. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hereafter (2)".