Young Justice animated series

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So was there any woke stuff before the series was resurrected, or is there like a line there and everything afterward is where it suddenly started popping up?

No, remember the show started in 2011 an entire decade ago, and aired on Cartoon Network at a time kids would watch it. They weren't even allowed to show blood in the first two seasons for this reason, so of course there wasn't any gay stuff at the time. That wasn't a thing back in 2011-2013 when the show originally aired.

I mean this version of Aqualad was made black but that doesn't really matter as he was the only black member on the team. The female characters like Artemis, Miss Martian and Zatanna all liked boys or had boyfriends as the show went on, so there was no gay stuff either. Blue Beetle came in Season 2 who is hispanic but again that's fine since that's who the character is in the comics.

So not really, it's only with the revival since it airs on HBO and not Cartoon Network anymore that they're allowed to put in gay relationships. I do like there's now actual blood during the fight scenes and characters can get stabbed though, this is something the usual kids programming censors prevented them from doing for the most part besides sneaking things in once in awhile.