Young Justice urged it takes place in the identical actuality as Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence, choosing up a plotline from that sequence’ finale.
Warning: The next accommodates SPOILERS for Young Justice season 4 and Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence.
A cameo look by the character Razer in Young Justice means that the present could happen in the identical continuity as Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence. The sister sequence premiered on the identical day in 2010 and ran for 2 seasons as a part of Cartoon Community’s DC Nation block. Nevertheless, whereas Young Justice developed a cult following and was later revived for the DC Universe streaming service and HBO Max, Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence has remained comparatively obscure by comparability.
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The title of Young Justice season 4, episode 19, “Encounter Upon the Razor’s Edge!” proved to be a prophetic pun. Because the episode opens, the Inexperienced Lanterns Kilowog (Kevin Michael Richardson) and Tomar-Re (Dee Bradley Baker) are on their technique to a peace convention on the nice New Gods world of New Genesis, after they stumble throughout a comatose Blue Lantern. To Kilowog’s shock, the Blue Lantern is his previous ally Razer (Jason Spisak), who he had not seen in 4 years.
Razer was an unique character created for Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence. Born on the planet Volkreg throughout the Forgotten Zone, Razer was recruited into the rage-empowered Red Lantern Corps following the violent loss of life of his spouse. Whereas initially an enemy of the Inexperienced Lanterns, Razer turned upon his comrades after studying that the Red Lantern chief Atrocitus was chargeable for his spouse’s loss of life. Afterward, he tried to make use of the darkish energy of the Red Lanterns and his righteous fury to combat for good, finding out with the hope-empowered Blue Lanterns to manage his anger and discovering love once more with the bogus intelligence Aya. When the sequence ended, with Aya presumed useless, Razer parted methods with the Inexperienced Lantern Corps members he had befriended to go looking the universe for her. The ultimate episode confirmed a Blue Lantern ring flying after Razer, suggesting that his coronary heart was now ruled extra by hope than hate.
Had Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence been renewed for season 3, Razer would have formally develop into a Blue Lantern. Young Justice makes reference to this, with Razer explaining to Kilowog that he took up the Blue Lantern ring after it caught up with him and spent the final 4 years looking for Anya with no success. This would appear to verify that the occasions of Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence befell in the identical continuity as Young Justice and that each sequence share the identical actuality. This concept can also be inspired by the truth that Jason Spisak and Kevin Michael Richardson returned to voice Razer and Kilowog in Young Justice, after originating the characters in Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence.
Whereas the Young Justice episode “Encounter Upon the Razor’s Edge!” doesn’t deliver closure to Razer’s story, it does honor the Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence storyline and set up Razer as a power to be reckoned with. That is unsurprising on condition that the episode was written by Jim Krieg and Ginacarlo Volpe, who have been each producers on Inexperienced Lantern: The Animated Sequence. It stays to be seen, nonetheless, if Razer will go on to play a serious function within the story of Young Justice season 4.
New episodes of Young Justice launch Thursdays on HBO Max.