Justice League: The Second Chance
is a fanfiction by Mr Chaos (also author of Harry Potter: Pokémon Master, A Man of Iron and Authors of Our Own Fate that reimagines the Justice League core members (Batman, Flash, John Stewart!Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter, Superman and Wonder Woman) as high-schoolers, but with a twist: they have the memories of their adult, canon selves.
The story begins with the League responding to a threat by a terrorist called Anarky who is threatening to blow up several blocks in Jump City, only for things to turn surreal when Anarchy, a 10th dimensional being, appears and captures the League. Deciding on a whim to return the heroes to a time where things are a challenge to them, Anarchy transforms them into teenagers and sends them back in time while changing the past.
Leaving the seven Leaguers with what might be their hardest mission: playing teenagers while trying to secretly become superheroes again.
Justice League: The Second Chance has examples of these tropes:
- A-Cup Angst: Shayera is dismayed to lose her Most Common Superpower when getting her teen body back.
- Alpha Bitch: Aresia, who is just a cheerleader instead of a renegade Amazon. It's implied that this timeline's Diana was this before Anarchy did his trick.
- Betty and Veronica: Invoked, with Clark stating he is the Archie between Lana and Lois.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Anarchy can be utterly confusing in his dealings with mortal people.
- Buffy Speak: Diana and Shayera speak or think this way several times.
- Call-Back: Clark points out that their current situation is similar to how they were turned into children by Morgan le Fay.
- Cassandra Truth: Diana tells her mother the truth. She cracks up - although it's not clear if she did not believe her or if she just did not understand her (since she was rambling too quickly).
- Crossover: This story pulls characters from different media.
- The Justice League comes from the Justice League series, as well as Aresia.
- Bruce's Drama Club partners come from Batman: The Animated Series.
- Lois is a mix from the animated version and the one from Lois & Clark.
- Lana is the animated version.
- Oliver Queen is a younger version of the one from Arrow, which also brings Felicity in.
- Connor Kent and M'gann are from Teen Titans.
- Everyone Has Standards: When Anarchy pops in after Bruce realizes out loud his mother and Alfred are dating, he decides not to make a joke and leaves the room.
- Felony Misdemeanor:
- For Diana, the most horrible thing he finds about the new world is... that she is a stereotypical cheerleader.
- The couple of times Flash skipped class as a teen, his Uncle Barry handled it the same way he did with all the other times Wally acted out: he sat him down and made him talk about his feelings.
- Great Gazoo: Anarchy is this for the heroes. He is also implied to be the actual Great Gazoo.
- Hidden Depths: Clark and Shayera watched My Little Pony and play Pokémon.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: All of the Leaguers begin to suffer from this from the beginning.
- Wally blames hormones for his checking out Shayera's backside.
- Bruce has sexual fantasies featuring Diana.
- Diana and Shayera nearly start fighting over the former's cheerleader uniform and the latter's A-Cup Angst - only to begin giggling after Bruce stops their fighting.
- Shayera complains about suffering one of a teenager's worst nightmares: acne.
- Jerkass Realization: When Alfred sits down to have dinner with Bruce and Martha, Bruce realizes that, during those many years in his personal past, he never tried to have lunch with the man, even though he was his sort-of adoptive father.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Never mind their adult memories, the teen Justice League just cannot help to be controlled by their teen hormones. Not even Bruce can escape it.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: Bruce
Squicks when he realizes that his mother is dating Alfred. The other Leaguers react in a similar way. - Point of Divergence: In the alternate world shown in this story, many things have changed. For starters, all the Leaguers (save for J'onn J'onnz, who is sent back to Mars) attend the same high school in the town of Happy Harbor.
- Batman:
- Joe Chill only killed Thomas Wayne - Martha survived, but the bullet left her paralyzed waist down.
- Bruce is part of Drama Club along with Harvey Dent, Selina Kyle, Pam Isley and Harleen Quinzel.
- Green Lantern:
- John got the Green Lantern ring from a dying Nella Nivek, instead of being chosen by Hal Jordan. The ring is also stuck on "Parental Mode", which prevents him from leaving Earth, and also tends to nag him when he is doing something he shouldn't be doing.
- He wears glasses.
- His cousin is Virgil Hawkins, or, as the main characters know him, Static.
- Hawkgirl:
- Shayera was sent for deep cover infiltration to Earth, with her wings being surgically removed.
- To compensate, she has an Nth-metal harness that gives her metallic wings when needed.
- Shayera's mother is actually a Thanagarian Servant Droid. Which she later deactivates to give herself some breathing room to deal with the madness of her new life.
- Martian Manhunter:
- His parents are alive, and M'gann (Miss Martian) is his little sister here.
- The entire family travels from Mars to Earth, rather than J'onn being the only one that does so.
- Superman:
- Instead of being the only Kryptonian, he has two "siblings": Kara (Supergirl) and Connor (Superboy) Kent, both of whom are a couple of years younger than him.
- Instead of being a quarterback, he is the school team's running back.
- Not only do Lana Lang and Lois Lane attend, but so does Chloe Sullivan.
- Wonder Woman:
- Hippolyta (the Queen of the Amazons) decided to open up to the rest of the world earlier and settled in Happy Harbor.
- She is a Valley Girl who becomes the leader of the high school's cheerleaders - with those who were Amazons in the series joining the group.
- Batman:
- Retcon: Anarchy literally does this to Anarky, erasing him out of existence in such a way that the only thing that proves he ever existed is that the Leaguers remember him.
- Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: Shayera destroys her alarm clock because it is ringing with a song Anarchy was playing before sending them to the new world.
- Shout-Out:
- Anarchy mentions being Chaos from Aladdin: The Series and Discord from My Little Pony. A later scene implies he is also The Great Gazoo.
- Bruce's first fantasy with Diana is pulled straight out of American Beauty.
- Squick: Diana recoils at finding out her teen self has been trying to hook up with Clark.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Anarchy loves using his powers to make utterly ridiculous things look utterly normal to people.
- Unwanted Assistance: John's Green Lantern Ring is stuck on "Parental Mode", and it either nags him or helps him even when John does not want the help.
- Valley Girl: Diana's pre-change self was this.
