Another beloved adaptation of a different superhero youth outfit, it's easy to see why Young Justice is well on its way back to the airwaves.
A more recent animated effort, having debuted in 2011, Young Justice won fans over with its mature take on adolescence and for an intricate and character-driven approach to storytelling. The first season was pretty much just a more serious version of Teen Titans, but the second saw a time gap and a change in roster, with Dick Grayson's Robin having made the transition to Nightwing, and a whole bunch more attempting to push themselves into the Justice League's main lineup.
The change in roster and time allowed the showrunners to approach a whole bunch of different themes too, with the older group navigating the world as young adults, and the new recruits all dealing with the melodrama of their teenage years - something the first season focussed on in particular.
What's more is that the series showed incredible maturity in navigating some pretty difficult subject matter, illustrating an age beyond its supposed years and reiterating the point that it doesn't matter if your series is dark - if it doesn't carry itself with a level of maturity, audiences will see straight through it.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
