Super Best Friends Forever - DC Nation Shorts

THIS is one of the cartoons that Cartoon Network and DC should have turned into a regular series.
The other was of course Batman of Shanghai.
Super Best Friends Forever was part of the DC Nation Shorts.
These short cartoons were aired when Cartoon Network aired Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice, before replacing them with the vastly inferior Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go!
(No I'm not letting that go!)
Out of all the shorts, SBFF and Batman of Shanghai were the best.

SBFF was created by Lauren Faust, who you may know from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and The Powerpuff Girls.
It starred Wonder Girl (Grey DeLisle), Batgirl (Tara Strong) and Supergirl (Nicole Sullivan) and was awesome.
Wonder Girl actually looked ethnic and had an accent, Batgirl was hyper and Supergirl was curvy and cocky.
It all fell together perfectly.

There were only five episodes....

1. Invisible Joy Ride
2. Time Waits for No Girl
3. Grounded
4. Name Game
5. Solomon Grundy Don't Fight Girls

The best thing about the cartoons is that they are actually funny!
You don’t have to be a comic book fan to get the jokes, but it helps.

DCNation has them all on YouTube so you can check them out. 
And they are VERY kid friendly.
So children of any age can watch them.

Justice League Unlimited (2004)

While the Justice League may have been the best of the best in the DC animated universe at the time, they decided to take it a step further with Justice League Unlimited. JLU took over right where Justice League left off and even though sadly it was the last series in the DC animated universe, Justice League Unlimited pulled out all the stops. This time we got our founding members, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and (not near enough) Flash, and they also added just about every DC hero they could, even if at times it was just background shots. With almost 60 heroes total, it was kind of hard to balance the stories.

Here is where some people have a problem with JLU. Originally with seven members, it was fairly easy to give everyone screen time. But with sixty? That’s a whole 'nother story.

We did get some really cool "stunt" voice casting though. Along with the originals I mentioned before we got.... John C. McGinley (Scrubs) as Atom (Dr. Ray Palmer) Jerry O'Connell (Sliders) as Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) Oded Fehr (The Mummy) as Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson/Nabu) Jeremy Piven (Entourage) as Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny) Michael T. Weiss (The Pretender) as Etrigan the Demon (Jason Blood) Jeffrey Combs (The Reanimator) as Question (Charles Victor Szasz/Vic Sage)

In a couple of cool moves we got "The Wonder Years" Kevin and Wayne Arnold (Fred Savage and Jason Hervey) as brothers Hawk and Dove.

And the cast of Firefly was well represented as Nathan Fillion, Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin all showed up on the show at one time or another. In a really cool episode Vigilante (Fillion) was piloting a spaceship as Vixen (Torres) complained about it.

All good things must come to an end and so did Justice League Unlimited. We got two years worth of good shows before it left and took the DC animated universe with it. There were more DC cartoons true, but none were set in that Universe.

Young Justice Invasion

Added Season 2, Episode 13 "The Fix" to my Hub about about Young Justice Invasion

Green Arrow and Speedy Foreshadow Young Justice in Justice League Unlimited

Remember the Justice League Unlimited episode where Crimson Avenger and Speedy were teleported in to help Green Arrow.
It was from the episode "Patriot Act" which I thought was one of the best JLU episodes.
What caught my eye (ear actually) was the little exchange between Green Arrow and Speedy at the beginning....

Green Arrow: The Crimson Avenger and my ex-sidekick!
Speedy: Ex-Partner....
Green Arrow: Speedy...we gotta do this now?

What made this funny (and cool) to me was that four years later in Young Justice, Speedy would be the main catalyst in the separation of the heroes and their "sidekicks".
He was even the one that delivered the line "Don't call us sidekicks".

Even though, I know JLU and Young Justice are set in different universes, that kind of tip of the hat is what makes the DCU cool to me.