Secret Society (episode)

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Justice League episode
"Secret Society"
Airdate:	November 22, 2003
Airdate Order:	43-44
Animation Services by:	45-46
Written by:	Stan Berkowitz
Directed by:	Dan Riba

"Secret Society" is the forty third and forty fourth episodes of Justice League. As the Justice League undergoes training to trust each other, Gorilla Grodd organizes a Secret Society to bring them down.

Continuity

• Shade refers to the two previous incarnations of the Injustice Gang, as shown in "Injustice For All" and "Fury."

Background Information

Trivia

• With the exception of Killer Frost, each member of the Secret Society belongs to the rogues gallery of one of the members of the Justice League in the DC Comics:

Hero	Rogue
Batman	Clayface
Flash	Gorilla Grodd & Shade
Green Lantern	Sinestro
Superman	Parasite
Wonder Woman	Giganta

• Brian George replaces Brion James as the voice of Parasite;
• In the comics, Giganta is often portrayed as a brutish woman, whereas in the DCAU she is almost excessively feminine, even girlish (by contrast, Jennifer Hale voices Killer Frost as excessively rough and masculine).
• Also in the comics, Giganta is a human scientist who gives herself the power of self-magnification, not a genetically modified ape, as she is in the DCAU.
• The exchange between Shade's thug and Flash is a spoof on Lloyd Bentsen's famous cutting remark to Dan Quayle during the 1988 U.S. Vice Presidential debates: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

Cast

Actor	Role
Powers Boothe	Grodd
Maria Canals	Hawkgirl
Kevin Conroy	Batman
Susan Eisenberg	Wonder Woman
Brian George	Parasite
Jennifer Hale	Giganta Killer Frost
Stephen McHattie	Shade
Phil LaMarr	Green Lantern
Ted Levine	Sinestro
Carl Lumbly	J'onn J'onzz
George Newbern	Superman
Ron Perlman	Clayface
Michael Rosenbaum	Flash

Uncredited Appearances

• Morgan Edge

Quotes

(Parasite falls backward, and Sinestro catches him) Parasite: Yeah! Killer Frost: Your turn. Giganta: I don't think this is such a good idea... Killer Frost: Don't be such a girl. Giganta: But, I mean, I'm a little heavier than I look... Shade: Trying to get them to trust each other, huh? Grodd: Not the easiest thing for loners, sociopaths, and psychos. (crash, rumble) Giganta: Ow.

(as Flash dangles him off a roof) Shade's Thug: Who do you think you are, Batman? Flash: It's been a long night. Just tell me where Shade is, okay? Shade's Thug: Look, buddy, I know Batman. I once ratted out a counterfeiter to Batman. And believe me, you are no Bat- (Flash drops him) -MAAAAAAAAAAANNN!

John Stewart: A little practice? Was that too much to ask? Hawkgirl: You wanted me to be someone else. John Stewart: I'm just trying to make you all better. Hawkgirl: You don't care about me. John Stewart: What are you talking about? I'd give my life for you! (awkward pause) Hawkgirl: You don't know what you're saying.

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