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* Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' takes many cues from the earliest ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' stories from the [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], in marked contrast to earlier seasons, which were mainly based on more recent [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] stories. Most notably, the first episode features the League establishing the Hall of Justice as a second base in addition to the Watchtower, and continues the story with a fugitive ComicBook/LexLuthor joining the new Secret Society (which is very much modeled after the LegionOfDoom) after [[spoiler:having his many crimes exposed]]. Overlaps with DeconReconSwitch; the season spends much time [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructing]] the same SuperheroTropes that the previous season [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], returning to the light-hearted and optimistic tone of early ''League'' stories.

** Starfire has got married and stayed in Tamaran. Nightwing does not want to hear about anything. Changeling tries to stop Mento, who got crazy. Cyborg is in the hospital, after Mento almost killed him. Raven has been missing since ''ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon''. Kole is dead, and Jericho is crying for her. The New Titans are no more. So, who will work with Wonder Girl? Wally West, Jason Todd, Speedy, Aqualad and Hawk. The original Teen Titans are back! (but not for very long).
** Following the end of ''Teen Titans Volume 2''[[note]]The series dedicated to the H'san Natall and their affairs.[[/note]], apparently ''somebody'' felt the franchise had gone too far astray, so Devin Grayson's work on ''The Titans'' (launched in 1999) and the [=JLA/Titans=] crossover preceding it focused greatly on setting up the Fab Five as TrueCompanions and building a new phase of the team based around the Fab Five and their personal nominees.

** Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' ''[[ComicBook/{{Action Comics|New52}} run]]'' from the ComicBook/New52 was based around doing this for [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Superman]]. Like in the original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] stories, their Superman was physically weaker and had an AntiHero streak, as well as a strong inclination towards social justice. This was justified by having their stories be a {{Prequel}} of sorts, showing Superman as a brash, young idealist.
** ''The Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'' was intended to return the character to his [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] roots as a weaker but wiser and more human character.

* After decades of dark, serious ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' stories, ''Westernanimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' revived the goofy silliness of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories.
* Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' takes many cues from the earliest ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' stories from the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], in marked contrast to earlier seasons, which were mainly based on more recent [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] stories. Most notably, the first episode features the League establishing the Hall of Justice as a second base in addition to the Watchtower, and continues the story with a fugitive ComicBook/LexLuthor joining the new Secret Society (which is very much modeled after the LegionOfDoom) after [[spoiler:having his many crimes exposed]]. Overlaps with DeconReconSwitch; the season spends much time [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructing]] the same SuperheroTropes that the previous season [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], returning to the light-hearted and optimistic tone of early ''League'' stories.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' ''[[ComicBook/{{Action Comics|New52}} run]]'' from the ComicBook/New52 was based around doing this for ComicBook/{{Superman}}. Like in the original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] stories, their Superman was physically weaker and had an AntiHero streak, as well as a strong inclination towards social justice. This was justified by having their stories be a {{Prequel}} of sorts, showing Superman as a brash, young idealist.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern2023'': After years of cosmic adventures, this series focuses on Earth like the Silver, Bronze, and Dark Age comics.
* ''The Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'' was intended to return the character to his [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] roots as a weaker but wiser and more human character.

* Every so often, when the main members of the RoguesGallery just can't come up with particularly good ideas for capers and run-of-the-mill street crime in Gotham City spikes upward, Franchise/{{Batman}} will be called upon to beat down ordinary muggers and two-bit murderers. This never seems to bore Batman, however, but to strengthen his resolve: it reminds him how his lifelong quest began in the first place.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' ''[[ComicBook/{{Action Comics|New52}} run]]'' from the ComicBook/New52 was based around doing this for ComicBook/{{Superman}}. Like in the original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] stories, their Superman was physically weaker and had an AntiHero streak, as well as a strong inclination towards social justice. This was justified by having their stories be a {{Prequel}} of sorts, showing Superman as a brash, young idealist.
* Grant Morrison again in their run on ''ComicBook/{{Batman|GrantMorrison}}''. Remember back in the Silver Age, when Batman made a social club for all his international imitators? Or when he participated in a psychological isolation experiment for NASA? Or when a female socialite became Batwoman to try and get his attention? Grant did, and they reminded us all.
* The ''Batman'' story "The Monster Men" does this for Hugo Strange. In his initial appearances ''very'' early in Batman's career, Hugo Strange was a fairly typical MadScientist whose main goal was the creation of "monster men"--that being, mental patients converted through genetic engineering into hulking, brutish superhumans. He then vanished from continuity for decades, and made scattered appearances in the 70s and 80s before being fully revamped in the Post-Crisis era in his modern incarnation as a PsychoPsychologist who grows obsessed with Batman's psychological profile and seeks to test and emulate him. "The Monster Men" marries the two portrayals by bringing those early appearances back into continuity, and retelling them such that Strange is both a geneticist ''and'' a psychologist, and his monster men represent his experiments with creating a higher form of being. Batman's defeat of him gives him a full up-close view of what Batman is capable of, sparking his obsession, as he believes Batman to be a better example of what he's looking for than his own creations.

* ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'': As part of the ''Rebirth'' initiative, Jason's Post-Crisis origin is brought back alongside elements from his story that hadn't seen referenced in ''decades'' like Ma Gunn.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' run from the ComicBook/New52 was based around doing this for ComicBook/{{Superman}}. Like in the original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] stories, their Superman was physically weaker and had an AntiHero streak, as well as a strong inclination towards social justice. This was justified by having their stories be a {{Prequel}} of sorts, showing Superman as a brash, young idealist.

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* Grant Morrison again in their run on ''ComicBook/{{Batman|GrantMorrison}}. Remember back in the Silver Age, when Batman made a social club for all his international imitators? Or when he participated in a psychological isolation experiment for NASA? Or when a female socialite became Batwoman to try and get his attention? Grant did, and they reminded us all.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Season Three plans restores the first season's use of mystery and espionage, something that was mostly absent from the second season, Invasion.

* Grant Morrison again in their run on [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman]]. Remember back in the Silver Age, when Batman made a social club for all his international imitators? Or when he participated in a psychological isolation experiment for NASA? Or when a female socialite became Batwoman to try and get his attention? Grant did, and they reminded us all.

* ''Film/ManOfSteel'''s take on the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' mythos is largely this, taking quite a few cues from Siegel and Shuster's earliest ''Superman'' comics from the 1930's. Clark Kent is presented as a working-class hero and a defender of the common man rather than an iron-jawed lawman, he's regarded with fear and suspicion by most authority figures, and he spends most of the movie feeling like an outsider. Even the movie's most controversial moment, when Superman [[spoiler:snaps General Zod's neck]], is actually very much in line with his Golden Age portrayal; in the early days of the comic, Superman wasn't quite the TechnicalPacifist that he later became, and he had quite a few ShootTheDog moments.[[note]]Though most comic book historians consider that EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.[[/note]]

* ''The Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'' was an attempt by returning the character to his [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] roots as a weaker but wiser and more human character.