10 Former Justice League Members Who Need Another Call-Up

The Justice League is due an expansion.

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The main Justice League comic at DC primarily consists of what the publisher has established as their new core group of heroes: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Flash, with the Green Lantern spot actually taken up by two current Green Lanterns - Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz.

While this is great given the upcoming cinema release of Justice League, featuring a team made up of largely these characters, as far as the comics are concerned this has left the team feeling as though it is lacking in some key areas.

While there is also a Justice League of America, filled with a diverse group of heroes, the main core Justice League watching over Earth from their orbital Watchtower is missing some vital power-sets and viewpoints that - it must be said - would be nice to see in the team once again.

But which heroes are most deserving of another League call-up? The ones who've absented the spotlight for far too long? While members come and go all the time, here are the few that should really be brought back into the ranks of DC's premier superhero team.

10. Rocket Red

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The current Justice League team is pretty predominantly American based. Sure, Superman is actually an alien from Krypton, and Wonder Woman an Amazon from Themyscira, but both are now based in the States, along with all the rest of the team.

If the team's goal is to protect the whole world, maybe it's worth giving the League more of a global viewpoint and outlook to work from.

And what better way to do so than by including a hero from a country with an often antagonistic relationship to the nation that the rest of the team would naturally fall back into?

Rocket Red has actually been several different people over the years (including an android, because comics!) so this could be an opportunity to use an existing version or a wholly new character that could fill other gaps in the teams not greatly diverse appearance.

Enhanced via 'forced evolution' and wearing power suits, this could be quite a different power-set for the team to play with too.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.