Young Justice is one thing of an oddity within the DC Universe. It’s so fashionable with followers, but appears to fluctuate out and in of continuity. Even once they’re remembered, there’s nonetheless some a part of the world itself that appears intent on ignoring no matter troubles the younger crew goes via. No comedian emphasizes that greater than Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1 (by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, Luis Guerrero, and Pat Brosseau).
Within the difficulty, when her teammates go lacking, Wonder Girl goes to their numerous mentors and members of the family to attempt to get assist discovering them. Slightly than instantly soar into motion, these mentors and members of the family, brush off Cassie’s considerations, chalking all of it as much as both teen angst or grief. It is a surprisingly flippant perspective all of them needed to the issues of the youthful heroes, and one which demonstrates how little they really take note of the following era.
One would suppose, within the wake of the Justice League’s demise, that extra potential loss would stir the opposite heroes to behave. As a substitute, there appears to be a sure stigma related to the crew. The Flash summed it up finest by rudely stating it was teen angst. In his protection, there’s plenty of fact to that assertion. Any teenage crew of heroes is sure to have angst, and Young Justice has loads of historical past with it. Be it from relationship points, to betrayals of belief, and even simply adjusting to one another’s personalities usually, the crew is rife with teen turmoil. That was a part of the enjoyable of studying about them.
But, this is not the one factor inflicting individuals to dismiss their disappearance. Nightwing and Jon moderately believed that there’s a lot of grief going round, and that may have motivated the opposite members of the crew to isolate themselves to course of it. Even when that was what occurred, throughout such an emotionally devastating time, it might nonetheless be an affordable choice to test on the crew. Dropping family members can result in darkish occasions for the bereaved, so it might be in everybody’s finest curiosity to check out Young Justice to make it possible for they have been no less than emotionally okay. Even this concern is disregarded, nevertheless.
There’s additionally a level of hypocrisy of their attitudes. Every of the heroes Wonder Girl went to have been all in her place in some unspecified time in the future of their lives. Drowning in teen angst, emotionally traumatized, needing somebody to test in on them to verify they’re okay. Nightwing and the Flash may have benefited from having extra attentive caretakers, and now that they are those in cost they’re making the identical errors as their mentors.
Giving them some protection, they do have their very own issues. Young Justice actually is not the one one grappling with grief and with the Justice League gone the remaining heroes have to choose up the slack and take care of the fallout. They could not have any time to fret about one other drawback. Maybe additionally they do not wish to. They’ve already misplaced mentors, guardian figures in some circumstances, the lack of their youthful siblings or kids is likely to be the straw that breaks the camel’s again. Something taking place to Young Justice after such a loss is likely to be sufficient to lastly crush their spirit. Pretending every little thing is ok, is likely to be the simpler, if no more egocentric, course.