History Film / JusticeLeagueOfAmerica

The Justice League is a superhero team composed of ComicBook/TheAtom (Creator/JohnKassir), Fire (Creator/MichelleHurd), ComicBook/TheFlash (Kenny Johnston) and Franchise/GreenLantern (Matthew Settle), all led by the ComicBook/MartianManhunter (Creator/DavidOgdenStiers). When Tori Olafsdotter (Kim Oja) acquires ice-related powers and finds her boss (Creator/MiguelFerrer) is using a weather machine against the city, she helps the team against him and ends joining them as Ice.

The Justice League is a superhero team composed of ComicBook/TheAtom, Fire, ComicBook/TheFlash and Franchise/GreenLantern, all led by the ComicBook/MartianManhunter. When Tori Olafsdotter acquires ice-related powers and finds her boss is using a weather machine against the city, she helps the team against him and ends joining them as Ice.

* CulturalTranslation: Both Fire and Ice become American, and their names reflect this. ''Beatriz'' becomes ''B.B.'' and ''Tora'' becomes ''Tori''.

* AdaptationDistillation: Averted. The Justice League has been around for decades and featured numerous characters and storyarcs but this pilot focused on just one period. WordOfGod stated that the series was meant to reflect the J.M. [=DeMatteis=] and Keith Giffen's ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' from the late 80's and early 90's due to its trademark comedy. This in evident in the fact that the series' tone and the team lineup is almost identical to the Giffen/[=DeMatteis=] era. While their run was very popular with fans, it was long gone by the time the pilot was filmed.
** Despite that, the film uses classic member the Atom instead of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, who were icons of that incarnation. The Flash would also count as a classic addition if you take into account that he's Barry Allen, at least in name.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Ice has light brown hair, while she has white hair in the comics. Fire is a brunette, but the example is arguable since the comicbook one, despite having green hair, it was dyed green on her natural brown hair.

* AdaptationalWimp:
** The entire Justice League are significantly less powerful than their comic book incarnations. They're even less impressive when comparing their civilian personas as well.

* AdaptedOut: Despite being one of the core members in the Giffen/[=DeMatteis=] run[[note]]in said run, Martian Manhunter was the only other member who was also a founding member; due to Creator/JohnByrne[='=]s [[ComicBook/TheManOfSteel reboot of Superman]], Mike Baron launching [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]] and Creator/GeorgePerez relaunching ComicBook/WonderWoman, the 3 were unavailable for the comic run; Aquaman wouldn't get a post-''[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]]'' reboot until 2 years after the run's start[[/note]], Batman is nowhere to be found[[note]]Danny O'Neil had taken pity on the comic and allowed them to use Batman; presumably, his absence here is due to the "Bat Embargo" that Warner Bros has (which usually prevents him from being used in live-action TV series if there's a film starring him in the works), and this time, he was off limits due to, of all things, '''''Film/BatmanAndRobin'''''![[/note]].

See also ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' (2017), which was the debut of the SuperTeam on the big screen.

* SuperHeroOrigin: Ice gets hers in the movie. It's a FreakLabAccident rather than her origin as part of an [[IcePerson ice-people race]] as in the comics. The other members briefly gloss over their origins in one scene, with the Atom being the one who elaborates the most on his one. Chances are, if the series had been picked up, it would have elaborated on their backstories a lot more.

* AdaptationDistillation: Averted. The Justice League has been around for decades and featured numerous characters and storyarcs but this pilot focused on just one period. WordOfGod stated that the series was meant to reflect the J.M. [=DeMatties=] and Keith Giffen run from the late 80's and early 90's due to its trademark comedy. This in evident in the fact that the series' tone and the team lineup is almost identical to the Giffen/[=DeMatties=] era. While their run was very popular with fans, it was long gone by the time the pilot was filmed.

* AdaptedOut: Despite being one of the core members in the Giffen/[=DeMatties=] run[[note]]in said run, Martian Manhunter was the only other member who was also a founding member; due to Creator/JohnByrne[='=]s [[ComicBook/TheManOfSteel reboot of Superman]], Mike Baron launching [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]] and Creator/GeorgePerez relaunching ComicBook/WonderWoman, the 3 were unavailable for the comic run; Aquaman wouldn't get a post-''[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]]'' reboot until 2 years after the run's start[[/note]], Batman is nowhere to be found[[note]]Danny O'Neil had taken pity on the comic and allowed them to use Batman; presumably, his absence here is due to the "Bat Embargo" that Warner Bros has (which usually prevents him from being used in live-action TV series if there's a film starring him in the works), and this time, he was off limits due to, of all things, '''''Film/BatmanAndRobin'''''![[/note]].

* 8 The Atom suffers from an inferiority complex since he can simply shrink while the other members have grander abilities. Case in point: at the beginning of the pilot, while the rest of the League are saving people from a hurricane, he simply shrinks down to save an old woman's cat.