Justice League Unlimited | |
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Also known as | Justice League Season 3 (Justice League Unlimited Season 1) Justice League Season 4 (Justice League Unlimited Season 2) Justice League Season 5 (Justice League Unlimited Season 3) |
Genre | |
Based on | DC Comics' characters |
Directed by |
Joaquim dos Santos Dan Riba |
Voices of | |
Theme music composer | Michael McCuistion |
Composer(s) |
Kristopher Carter Michael McCuistion Lolita Ritmanis |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
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Producer(s) |
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Editor(s) | Joe Gall |
Running time | 21–23 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Warner Bros. Animation DC Comics |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
Release | |
Original network | Cartoon Network |
Original release | July 31, 2004 | – May 13, 2006
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Batman Beyond, Static Shock, The Zeta Project, and Justice League |
Related shows | Super Friends, Young Justice, Justice League Action |
Website |
Justice League Unlimited (JLU) is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series. JLU debuted on July 31, 2004 on Toonami and ended with the episode aired May 13, 2006. It was also the final series set in the long-running DC animated universe, which started with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992.
In August 2012, The CW's Vortexx Saturday morning block began airing reruns of this series. Reruns of this show ended in August 2014.
According to animator Bruce Timm, the series finale of Justice League, "Starcrossed", was originally planned to be the final episode of the series; however, Cartoon Network ordered the production of a successor, entitled Justice League Unlimited. Taking place shortly after its predecessor ended, it features a greatly expanded League, in which the characters from the original series—now referred to as "founding members"—are joined by many other superheroes from the DC Universe; in the first episode, well over 50 characters appear. A number of these were heroes who had made guest appearances in Justice League, but many heroes and other characters made their first animated appearances in this series. The general format of each episode is to have a small team assemble to deal with a particular situation, with a focus on both action and character interaction. This extension of the Justice League was originally planned to be explained in a planned direct-to-video feature film, but the project never materialized.