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FIGURES
Justice League
DC Superheroes/ Universe
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"Kid Stuff" |
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Episode Number- JL-57 (straight count), JL3-05(as
'Justice League'), JLU-01-05(as 'Justice League Unlimited') |
Writer: Henry Gilroy
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Star: George Newbern (Superman/Clark Kent/Kal-El), Phil LaMarr (Green
Lantern/John Stewart), Kevin Conroy (Batman/Bruce Wayne), Susan Eisenberg
(Wonder Woman/Diana)
Recurring Role: Olivia d'Abo (Morgaine Le Fey)
Guest Star: Dakota Fanning (Kid Wonder Woman), Kyle Alcazar (Kid Batman),
Marc John Jefferies (Kid Green Lantern), Soren Fulton (Mordred), Sheryl Lee
Ralph (Cheetah), Ashley Edner (May), Jose Yenque (Copperhead), Dee Bradley
Baker (Blockbuster), Shane Haboucha (Kid Superman) |
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Episode Description |
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When Mordred banishes all adults into
Limbo, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern must make a deal
with his mother Morgaine to transform into 8-year-olds in a desperate
attempt to defeat the boy-wizard. |
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Full Synopsis |
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In an ancient ruin Morgaine le Fay and
Modred arrive to procure the Amulet of First Magic. Mordred takes the amulet
against Morgaine's wishes and makes a wish to never see her or anyone older
then her, ever again. Across the world, everyone older then Mordred begins
disappearing. The League are fighting a group of villains when the spell
hits, despite Green Lantern's best efforts to protect them. All the adults
find themselves floating in limbo – Morgaine meets with the League and warns
them there is little she can do against them by herself. She reduces the
four Leaguers to the age of children and sends them back to Earth, while
Mordred changes an amusement park to a "magic kingdom" more to his liking
and commands the children to obey him.
The "junior" Justice League arrive while Mordred quickly grows bored with
the demands of his "subjects." The League square off against Mordred and his
mystical guardians. Despite their best efforts they are captured and
banished to the dungeon to fight a . . . baby Etrigan (aahhhhh...). They
manage to defeat him and sneak in to steal the amulet, but Mordred catches
on and grows to giant size. Mordred sends dragons against them. They defeat
them and make it to Mordred's castle, where Green Lantern causes a
distraction with a giant power-ring manga robot while the others try to grab
the amulet. Etrigan ends up with the amulet, which he eats, reversing much
of Mordred's magic. He still has enough to render them all helpless, but
before he can kill them a child intervenes, distracting him enough for the
Leaguers to taunt him into breaking his mother's spell and becoming an adult
. . . which results in Mordred's own banishment to limbo sans his remaining
magic.
The spell is reversed and Morgaine restores the Leaguers, and Mordred
becomes an old man (gifted with eternal life but no longer eternal youth) in
the care of his mother. |
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Trivia |
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Olivia D'Abo and Soren Fulton reprise
their roles from "A Knight of Shadows". Sheryl Lee Ralph reprises her role
from "Injustice for All". Jose Yenque reprises his role from "Fury (1)".
Michael T. Weiss clearly doesn't reprise his role as Etrigan. His one word
of dialogue is uncredited, although he sounds a bit like Kevin Conroy.
The villains at the beginning are
Blockbuster, Cheetah, the KGBeast, and Copperhead.
John Stewart's "glasses" are similiar to
the mask Kyle Rayner wears in the comics. |
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Logic Right Out The Window... |
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If Mordred's spell is literal (as is
presented throughout), then it shouldn't work the way it does. He's over
5,000 years old, even though he looks 8 years old. With the exception of
other immortals like Hippolyta and Morgan Le Fay, most people would just
stay on Earth because they're all younger then him.
If the Leaguers are physically deaged (as
indicated since Green Lantern's vision is at his childhood levels),
shouldn't their physical powers and intellect be equally reversed? But
Superman didn't have most of his powers until he was a teenager (at least in
the Animated setting). But if Morgaine's spell let them keep their powers
and intellect at adult levels, why didn't she make sure GL's eyesight
remained unaffected?
How did Etrigan end up on Earth in baby
form? If he was an adult when the spell hit, he would have ended up in Limbo
with the other adults. There's no indication that he was on Mordred's trail
and Mordred somehow deaged and imprisoned him before Mordred got the amulet.
So apparently Etrigan was immune to the spell in some manner, confronted
Mordred, and got deaged...all off-camera in the five minutes or so before
the League emerged from Limbo and confronted Mordred. Hmmm? Further
confusing the matter, Etrigan doesn't revert when Mordred's spells
dissipate, but when Morgaine reverses her own spell on the Leaguers. So who
turned him into a baby?
Where's the rest of the League? They're
neither in limbo or on Earth after Mordred establishes his realm. If they're
in limbo, the four Leaguers make no effort to find them and get more forces
on their side. And if by coincidence every single other Leaguer (except for
Etrigan) was on the Watchtower in orbit and trapped, why didn't the four Kid
Leaguers at least try to signal them?
Although Morgaine did help the League,
you would think that Etrigan would try to take her down before she left. He
didn't make a deal with her.
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Continuity References |
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Pop Culture References |
Silver Surfer
Green Lantern's surf board could be a reference to Marvel's Silver
Surfer. In the comic book saga DC vs Marvel, a group of heros from
Marvel battle a group of heros from DC. Silver Surfer battled Green
Lantern Kyle Ryner in the showdown and the Lantern lost.
Sins of Youth
Adult heroes becoming children also occurred in the Young Justice event,
"Sins of Youth". In that story, Klarion the Witch Boy uses magic to turn
the Justice League into teenagers.
Worlds Without Grown-ups
DC featured a story, World Without Grown-ups, which featured a boy using
the powers of a genie named Bedlam to form two Earths (one for kids one
for adults). Only heroes who were already teenagers (Superboy, Robin,
and Impulse) remained on Kid-world to stop him. They later came together
to form the superhero group Young Justice.
More Worlds Without Adults
The idea of all the adults in the world disappearing or dying and only
children and young people left are found in many sources: the TV show
Jeremiah, the 1971 movie Gas-s-s-s, and even "Childhood's
End", the episode of Stargate: Atlantis that premiered the night
before "Kid Stuff" premiered.
Visual: Mordred drawing a
sword from a stone
In the Arthurian legend – which Mordred originates from – King Arthur
draws Excalibur from the Stone of Destiny in order to become King of
Britain. |
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Quotes |
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Morgaine: Did you miss Mummy? Well
don't you worry, baby, mommy's going to take good care of you. From now
on...
Etrigan: Mommy!
Kid Wonder Woman: I guess I'll go
with Clark. Unless I should go with you.
Kid Batman: Whatever.
Kid Superman: I'm fine to go with Diana.
Kid Green Lantern: So Bruce and I are good to go?
Kid Wonder Woman: I changed my mind. I'll go with Bruce, and John can
go with Clark.
Kid Batman: Whatever!
Kid Green Lantern: Your girlfriend
sure is bossy.
Kid Batman: Shut up!
Kid Wonder Woman: That's enough!
Girl: You can't tell us what to do. You're not our mom.
Kid Wonder Woman: No, but I promise you - we will find all your moms.
And I'm going to tell!
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