The Best Episodes of Justice League

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   8.3/10(20 votes)

   #1 - Legends (2)

   S1:E154/28/2002

   The League aid the Justice Guild against their arch-nemeses while trying to unravel the secrets of the Guild's world.

   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Andrew Kreisberg

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Andrew Kreisberg
2. 

   8.2/10(13 votes)

   #2 - Starcrossed (3)

   S2:E265/29/2004

   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

   Writers:Dwayne McDuffie, Rich Fogel

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   Director:Butch Lukic

   Writers:Dwayne McDuffie, Rich Fogel
3. 

   8.1/10(20 votes)

   #3 - Legends (1)

   S1:E144/21/2002

   An explosion throws four Leaguers into an alternate dimension where they meet their childhood comic book heroes...the Justice Guild!

   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Andrew Kreisberg

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Andrew Kreisberg
4. 

   8.1/10(15 votes)

   #4 - A Better World (1)

   S2:E1111/1/2003

   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

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Stan Berkowitz
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   8.1/10(13 votes)

   #5 - Starcrossed (1)

   S2:E245/29/2004

   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

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   Director:Butch Lukic

   Writer:Rich Fogel
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   8.1/10(13 votes)

   #6 - Starcrossed (2)

   S2:E255/29/2004

   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

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:John Ridley
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7. 

   8.0/10(15 votes)

   #7 - Tabula Rasa (2)

   S2:E410/4/2003

   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

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   Writer:Stan Berkowitz
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   8.0/10(15 votes)

   #8 - A Better World (2)

   S2:E1211/1/2003

   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

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Stan Berkowitz
9. 

   8.0/10(13 votes)

   #9 - Hereafter (1)

   S2:E1911/29/2003

   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

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   Director:Butch Lukic

   Writer:Dwayne McDuffie
10. 

    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Paradise Lost (1)

    S1:E61/21/2002

    Wonder Woman returns to Paradise Island to make up with her mother for her rapid departure, only to find the Amazons transformed to statutes. The sorcerer Felix Faust is holding them hostage to force Diana to recover three ancient artifacts.

    Director:Dan Riba

    Writer:Joseph Kuhr

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    Director:Dan Riba

    Writer:Joseph Kuhr
11. 

    7.9/10(19 votes)

    #11 - The Savage Time (3)

    S1:E2411/9/2002

    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.

    Directors:Dan Riba, Butch Lukic

    Writer:Stan Berkowitz

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
12. 

    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #12 - Tabula Rasa (1)

    S2:E310/4/2003

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
13. 

    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Only a Dream (1)

    S2:E510/11/2003

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
14. 

    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #14 - Only a Dream (2)

    S2:E610/11/2003

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
15. 

    7.9/10(13 votes)

    #15 - Wild Cards (2)

    S2:E2212/6/2003

    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

    Writers:Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie

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    Director:Dan Riba

    Writers:Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie
16. 

    7.8/10(24 votes)

    #16 - The Enemy Below (2)

    S1:E512/10/2001

    Betrayed by his own subjects, Aquaman and the League fight to save Atlantis, the world, and Aquaman's own son against his half-brother Orm's coup.

    Director:Dan Riba

    Writer:Kevin Hopps

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    Writer:Kevin Hopps
17. 

    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #17 - Fury (1)

    S1:E124/7/2002

    A renegade Amazon, Aresia, leads a new incarnation of the Injustice Gang to accumulate the components for a bio-weapon.

    Director:Butch Lukic

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #18 - Injustice for All (1)

    S1:E169/6/2002

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
19. 

    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #19 - Injustice for All (2)

    S1:E179/13/2002

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
20. 

    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Secret Society (2)

    S2:E1811/22/2003

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
21. 

    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #21 - Hereafter (2)

    S2:E2011/29/2003

    Superman finds himself on a devastated future Earth with the man responsible - Vandal Savage.

    Director:Butch Lukic

    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie

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    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie
22. 

    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #22 - Wild Cards (1)

    S2:E2112/6/2003

    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

    Writers:Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie

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    Writers:Stan Berkowitz, Dwayne McDuffie
23. 

    7.7/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Fury (2)

    S1:E134/14/2002

    When the male Leaguers are infected by the same disease sweeping Earth, Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl must defeat Aresia and find a cure.

    Director:Butch Lukic

    Writer:Stan Berkowitz

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
24. 

    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #24 - In Blackest Night (2)

    S1:E311/26/2001

    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

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    Writer:Stan Berkowitz
25. 

    7.6/10(24 votes)

    #25 - The Enemy Below (1)

    S1:E412/3/2001

    When Aquaman, ruler of Atlantis, decides he has had enough of the surface-dwellers trespassing in his ocean, the Justice League tries to smooth things over. Aquaman takes Superman's advice and arrives in New York City to speak to the World Assembly, but it soon becomes apparent that he may have been right about the surface-dwellers all along.

    Director:Dan Riba

    Writer:Kevin Hopps

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    Writer:Kevin Hopps