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chernobog13 · 1 month

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The Justice League and the Legion of Doom rushing towards their final conflict.

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ultradude13 · 6 months

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Introducing the Legion of Doom.

#video clip #animated series #retro #challenge of the superfriends #lex luthor #solomon grundy #captain cold #giganta #bizzaro #the toyman #the riddler #the cheetah #black manta #sinestro #the scarecrow #gorilla grodd

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doctorslippery · 4 months

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#challenge of the superfriends #robin #batman #superman #wonder woman #aquaman #brainiac #toyman #cheetah #lex luthor #riddler #scarecrow #sinestro

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jimintomystery · 1 year

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Here's a bunch of video packages for each of the 13 members of the Legion of Doom. I think these were originally made as bonus features in some Superfriends DVDs.

It's all pretty lighthearted goofiness, although at 2:52 the Riddler just straight up murders Batman with a laser beam.

#dc comics #superfriends #challenge of the superfriends #the legion of doom #lex luthor #brainiac #toyman #bizarro #the riddler #scarecrow #cheetah #giganta #captain cold #gorilla grodd #sinestro #black manta #solomon grundy

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mjschryver · 4 months

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Challenge of the Superfriends, by Dave Perillo

#comic books #super heroes #challenge of the superfriends #dave perillo

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gameraboy2 · 1 year

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Challenge of the Super Friends (1978), "Superfriends, Rest in Peace"

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goldenagearchive1970 · 2 months

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I looked forward to the Super Friends every Saturday morning. I was the only day of the week that I got myself out of bed.

#challenge of the superfriends gif #super friends #dc comics #saturday morning cartoons #nostalgia #childhood memories

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lena-in-a-red-dress · 6 days

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i looove that you’re back at writing! everything is sooo good! supercorp where kara stands by lena and chooses her over the superfriends 💜 aus where lena goes off on kara about how she was treated 💜 spheercorp 💜 agentcorp 💜 i loved them all and hope you keep being inspired cause everything you write is awesome

I'm so glad you're enjoying them! More are coming-- I challenged myself to write 10k words in April, and I still have 2k left. And who knows what else will come. Let's just say that the gifset renaissance has helped lol. Keep 'em coming folks!

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gorogues · 8 months

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I have to admit I enjoy the Video game version of Captain Cold in Injustice 2 than any of the other media Colds I’ve seen. Especially his ending. I haven’t seen all the endings for Injustice 2 but he’s probably the only one that says “🤬 you Grodd”. 🤭

It’s terrible but it makes me giggle. Especially his verbal sparring with Harley Quinn. Out of curiosity. What Media version of Captain Cold is your version?

I think probably it's the Len from Justice League Unlimited, as it first aired when I was somewhat new to Rogues fandom and it kind of cemented him in my head. I vaguely remembered him from the Challenge of the Superfriends cartoon back in the `80s, but didn't know anything about him before the cartoon so he didn't mean much to me (also I was like 8). Plus it helps that "Flash and Substance" is a genuinely great episode and the Rogues get to be skilled and competent even while they're being ridiculous dweebs…so it handles them really well.

However, most of the time when I 'hear' Len's voice in my head it's now Wentworth Miller, although occasionally JLU Len is there too. JLU Len is the modern everyman, while CW Len is the old-school guy with a little more panache.

Injustice Len is pretty great! (I refuse to say cool, sorry Len.) I'm totally incompetent at gaming so I haven't played it, but have enjoyed the clips I've seen from it. I think of C. Thomas Howell as Eobard's voice thanks to the animated movies, though. It's always weird when adaptations get the same actor to play more than one Flash villain.

#demonbirdsforever #Captain Cold #words #JLU #games #Super Friends

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seeksstaronmewni · 1 year

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I forgot so much of “Challenge of the Superfriends”...

except for this scene of course.

Tweet version here.

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chernobog13 · 2 years

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Character sheet detailing flying poses for Superman from Challenge of the Superfriends.

#Superman #Challenge of the Superfriends #Hanna-Barbera #DC Comics #animation

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myscalesofjustice · 5 months

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Expanding on the post about Shojo flowers for the Superfriends, this is as much Lois’ story as Superman’s, so the Trinity’s significant others should get meaningful Shojo flowers too!

Bird-of-paradise for Lois, representing success, freedom and enlightenment. All of what Lois strives for.

Clematis for Selina, a showy flower representing cleverness and ambition. Catwoman is always after the bigger challenge with the bigger prize.

Hazel leaves for Steve, representing knowledge. Knowing stuff is a spy's job.

(The Trinity is all primary colours, so I picked orange, green and purple plants for their better halves.)

#Superman #Lois Lane #Catwoman #Selina Kyle #Wonder Woman #Steve Trevor #My Adventures with Superman #DC Comics

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dean-isms · 6 months

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“Okay, well then how about you do what we say, or we tell the, uh, Legion of Doom about your secret identity?”

Reference: DC Comic’s Justice League

Episode: 5x19 “Hammer of the Gods”

Writer: Andrew Dabb, Daniel Loflin, David Reed

Spoken To: Gabriel

Media Type: Comics, Television - Cartoon

Timeframe: 1996 (First Comics Appearance), 1978 (First Television Appearance)

Description: A group who originated in Challenge of the Superfriends, an animated series from Hanna-Barbera based on DC Comics' Justice League. Lex Luthor assembled 12 supervillains in order to form the most powerful and sinister group the world had ever seen.

#season five #comics #television #from the dean isms spreadsheet

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milathefox1384 · 1 year

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You know, I just love it when this guy sneezes

also go watch the episode challenge of the superfriends. He says he’s allergic to flowers (or at least pollen) in that episode

#foster’s home for imaginary friends #fhfif #bloo #blooregard q. kazoo #blown away #mac #sneeze #sneezing #allergies #flowers #pollen

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fancoloredglasses · 2 years

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[RERUN] Secret Origins of the Superfriends (Fun with Paradoxes)

[All images are owned by DC Comics and Hannah-Barbara. I hope I’m too small-fry to sue...]

After Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC decided they needed a platform to showcase all the (remaining) heroes in their universe (especially since they rewrote their history, deleted a number of Golden Age heroes since they were more or less the same in the modern age (such as the Golden Age Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Green Arrow), and inserted heroes from other universes into the current one (such as Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle, and the Freedom Fighters (sorry Captain Carrot)), so they created a series called Secret Origins (as well as another stripped down series called Who’s Who, but we’re not discussing that here)

Which brings us to this RERUN. years before Crisis, we had a little episode of Challenge of the Superfriends that, for the first time in the series, explored the humble beginnings of some of their more powerful (for Superfriends, anyway) heroes.

If you would like to see the original review, you may do so here.

Time travel is a VERY slippery slope. Doing so can change the past to alter the future (like Back to the Future), can cause alternate timelines that branch off from your own (such as the JJ Abrams Star Trek films), or can be “destiny” for your timeline (Such as what happened to Jeffery Sinclair/”Valen” and Babylon 4 in Babylon 5)

As long as the rules of time travel aren’t altered within the context (How did old Biff return to 2015-prime after altering his past?), people are generally OK with whatever BS a franchise comes up with to explain how time travel functions.

Then there’s this mess. Watching the Legion of Doom commit atrocities to continuity is enough to make anyone’s head hurt.

If you would like to see the episode, it’s available on Amazon Prime once you pass the paywall.

Lex Luthor unveils his latest scheme to (say it with me) “destroy the Superfriends once and for all!”: going back in time to remove...

...Superman...

...Wonder Woman...

...and Green Lantern from existence.

OK, I’m just gonna stop right there and point out the obvious: Bizarro is an imperfect clone of Superman and therefore needs Superman for himself to exist, and Lex Luthor became a super villain because of Superman. How the HELL does he manage to counter history erasing himself and Bizarro? Good question…one that is never even addressed!

Anyway, back to our paradox…Luthor has learned the secret origins of these three heroes (shouldn’t Sinestro already know Green Lantern’s? I mean, he used to be a Green Lantern before Hal Jordan exposed him as a tyrant. You mean he never told anyone before this?) and intends on making sure these origins never happen by going back in time and interrupting their origin stories.

At Themyscira Paradise Island, Cheetah disguises herself as an Amazon (you’d think Hippolyta would recognize all the Amazons…I mean they’ve lived for 3,000 years so they should know each other fairly well…but then she didn’t recognize her own daughter behind a mask, so…) and cheats (Cheetah cheats? I swear, sometimes these jokes write themselves!) to win the tournament that would have sent Diana to the World of Man to become...

...Wonder Woman.

In the present, Wonder Woman (in the Invisible Jet) and Batman & Robin (in the Batplane) put out a raging forest fire, but as the three celebrate a Job Well Done...

...she vanishes and Batman and Robin congratulate each other on a Job Well Done (without help from any of the other Superfriends), their memories of Wonder Woman removed.

Next up is Green Lantern. Just as Abin Sur’s ring is about to transport Hal Jordan’s flight simulator to him, Luthor shows up and urges Jordan to evacuate, taking his place in the simulator as it is carried away. (wait, it homed in on the simulator, not Jordan? Does that mean the simulator should have become Green Lantern?) Abin Sur gives the ring to Lex, making him…

...The Green Luthor! “Evil and injustice will never be the same! MUHAHAHA!”

Meanwhile in the present Hawkman, Black Vulcan, and Green Lantern are making repairs to the Justice League (shouldn’t that be “Superfriends”?) satellite. They congratulate each other on a Job Well Done when...

...Green Lantern vanishes and Black Vulcan tells Hawkman the two of them should be heading back, their memories of Green Lantern erased.

Finally, on to Superman. The Hall of Doom fires a beam that diverts young Kal-El’s rocket to a planet with a red sun so he won’t have any powers (why not destroy the rocket? Don’t tell me Green Luthor now has a code against murder)

Back in the present, it’s Superman Day in Metropolis as the Man of Steel poses in a parade in his honor with Hawkman when...

...Superman vanishes and the parade for Hawkman Day continues on.

Returning to the present, the Hall of Doom appears over the Hall of Justice and immediately ensnares the Superfriends in a tractor beam. (you’d think they’d have defenses against that sort of thing…) Luthor announces he has a gun that can mind control them to destroy one another (you’d think he could have just used that on Superman and Wonder Woman then sicced them on everyone else)...

...but imprisons the Flash, Batman, Robin, and Black Vulcan for later (you know, it’s that kind of crap that defeats them every time. You’d think they’d learn…)

As Aquaman, Hawkman, Apache Chief, and Samurai fight to the death...

...the Flash vibrates through the wall of his cell (you would think Captain Cold would have installed some device to counter that. I swear, it’s not the Superfriends that defeat the Legion of Doom, it’s laziness!) and frees the others. Rather than rushing to free the others before they kill each other, they poke around the Hall of Doom’s computer (no password? I mean, I know this is the 70s but even then people knew about stealing data! Hell, Luthor and Brainiac probably do it all the time when they’re bored!)...

...and discover the secret plot to erase three people no one in the room had ever heard of from history (wouldn’t erasing them from history erase them from the computer’s memory as well?) They take the cartridge containing the plot (convenient!) and escape. Let’s hope Aquaman, Apache Chief, Samurai, and Hawkman can survive long enough for these guys to remember they’re in danger.

At the Hall of Justice, the Justice League (ARGH! Make up your damn minds, writers!) computer realizes there are holes in its memory files large enough to fit three Superfriends (again, that shouldn’t be the case! History should have filled those holes) The four decide to go back in time and reverse the damage.

They go back in time in their various ways (OK, stop! Luthor and Brainiac could have used their genius to make a time machine...

Flash has the ability to travel fast enough to break the time barrier to reach Themyscira Paradise Island...

Black Vulcan is unique to Superfriends, so the full extent of his powers are unknown…so sure, we’ll say time travel is theoretically possible for him so he can save Green Lantern...

...but are you telling me Wayne Enterprises has developed a Bat Flux Capacitor AND a Bat-warp drive for the Batplane so they can reach Krypton?! Bullshit!)...

...and undo the damage done (so? The Legion has a goddamn time machine! Why not go back and murder them all as babies?! Plus now the Legion knows GL’s identity, so the can just kill him in his sleep!)

Back in the present, Superman, Wonder Woman, and GL reappear (so how do they account for being missing for the past 15 minutes?) and they finally realize there are 4 other Superfriends that have probably pounded each other into goo by now.

Somehow, despite the fact that they were present to witness their plans failing, the Legion are surprised to see 3 more Superfriends than there should be (and surprisingly even Aquaman is still alive, despite having no fish to ask for help!) and are handily defeated...

...but Luthor already had an escape plan ready as the episode ends.

OK, after trying to wrap my head around so many holes in the way time travel works in this episode, I need to go down an entire bottle of painkillers and a tequila-meister.

#DC comics #superfriends #superman #Wonder Woman #green lantern #time travel #i hate reruns #Fan Colored Glasses

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lena-in-a-red-dress · 6 months

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To add on to your nuanced foil Lena idea - I would've loved it if Andrea had served a similar purpose on the journalistic side of things. Maybe pushing CatCo in a direction that was critical of the Supers/superheroes in general without being anti-alien - heck, maybe even exposing the ways that the DEO/Supergirl actually harms/oppresses aliens. This could create such juicy conflict for Kara, James, Nia, etc. and it would actually challenge the default Superfriends worldview in a positive way.

You're not wrong, but I'm just gonna focus on Lena. Because I like her more and feel like it would have served her a little better considering her family history.

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