Young Justice gave the impression to be beginning a theme when it jumped 5 years into the longer term for its second season, introducing a slew of latest characters to “The Group” who would undertake covert operations that the Justice League couldn’t publicly do.

When the present returns for its long-awaited third season, it should proceed that pattern with some model new additions to the workforce of undercover sidekicks together with Spoiler, Arrowette, and 13. We caught up with Young Justice producers Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman and lead character designer Philip Bourassa at San Diego Comedian-Con to debate these new additions and the way they match into Season 3.

“Two of these three aren’t truly new characters for us,” Weisman mentioned. “One is Arrowette who we launched in Season 1 as Cissie King-Jones. We did not identify her however we named her dad Burnell Jones, so if you happen to have been comedian guide savvy… you can lookup ‘Who was that man that just about bought assassinated? Oh, look who his daughter [is], that is who the daughter was.’ The concept was even again in Season 1, you see her expression as she sees Artemis save the lifetime of her father. So she was clearly impressed by Artemis and is now Arrowette, a hero in her personal proper.”

He then mentioned one other member of the Bat-family who additionally appeared earlier within the present.

“In Season 2 we launched Stephanie Brown whow as saved from the Attain by Batgirl and Robin and Bumblebee and a bunch of different heroes,” Weisman mentioned. “Our present could be very generational and so simply as Kaldur’ahm was impressed by Aquaman, there is a new technology impressed by the younger heroes who have been simply youngsters themselves throughout Season 1. That is half and parcel of what we at all times constructed into this present, is this concept of time passing, characters getting old up, and new characters coming in.”

Weisman was coy about 13’s position within the sequence, saying “13 is simply cool.”

Vietti added that the present will proceed to concentrate on the core group of characters we have come to know and love within the first season of Young Justice.

“However as Greg was saying, as a result of it is a present about generations we’ve to have new characters coming in,” Vietti mentioned. “That is the ‘younger’ a part of Young Justice is there’s at all times a brand new technology coming. The fascinating half for us within the writers room is determining, ‘effectively how do these new characters work together with our now older characters who’re extra in a mentor position to those youthful heroes?’ And we get numerous nice story stuff out of that that once more continues ahead our core characters.”

Whereas we’re excited to get again to the tales of M’gann, Conner Kent, Dick Grayson, and Artemis, we additionally wish to learn how the brand new characters combine into the Group with Blue Beatle, Impulse, and Wonder Girl.

Young Justice will return in 2018 on the WB’s new streaming service, alongside a live-action adaptation of Titans.