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Shows that feel likeYoung Justice (2010–2022)

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

If you loved Young Justice, the closest series we have are Teen Titans (2003), Justice League Unlimited (2004) and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010). All three share Young Justice's cerebral and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is X-Men '97 (2024).

★ 8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗4 seasons · Cartoon Networkcreated by Greg Weismancerebraldreamlikekineticepic
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If Young Justice hit the spot, these will too

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Teen Titans
2003–2006 · 5 seasons · The WB
★ 7.9animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Teen heroes juggling growing pains with saving the city

The difference: Gag-forward and anime-styled — lighter than the covert plotting

Fighting for truth, justice and the last slice of pizza, these five superheroes are living proof you're never too young to save the planet. Protecting Earth and beyond, the Teen Titans use martial arts and gadgetry to battle villains.

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Justice League Unlimited
2004–2006 · 3 seasons · Cartoon Network
★ 8.7animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

The DC universe at full width, with real continuity payoffs

The difference: The mentors' show — the League leads, no teen growing pains

The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe.

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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
2010–2012 · 2 seasons · Disney XD
★ 8.3action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

A sprawling hero roster woven into one long serialized story

The difference: Adult A-listers front and center — no sidekicks proving themselves

The most powerful villains on the planet escape from prison. However, none of the superheroes can stop them without help, not even S.H.I.E.L.D. The Avengers then join forces to fight evil, and discover that as a group they are stronger.

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DC's Stargirl
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · The CW
★ 7.1sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaMax

Legacy heroes handing the mission to a hopeful next generation

The difference: Lighter CW sincerity — the stakes stay small-town

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

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Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man
2012–2017 · 4 seasons · Disney XD
★ 7.2animation · action & adventure · comedyDisney+

A teen team learning heroism under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watchful eye

The difference: Fourth-wall gags galore — comedy first, continuity a distant second

While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues.

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X-Men '97
2024– · 2 seasons · Disney+
★ 8.7animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Revived team animation that treats its continuity as sacred

The difference: Heavier and more political — grief outweighs the adventure

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

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Jupiter's Legacy
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaNetflix

Superpowered kids measured against their parents' legend

The difference: A muddled single season — the idea outruns the execution

As the world's first generation of superheroes (who received their powers in the 1930s) become the revered elder guard in the present, their superpowered children struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents.

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016–2022 · 7 seasons · The CW
★ 6.7action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

B-list heroes bonding into a family across a big shared universe

The difference: Deliberately goofy — it stops taking itself seriously fast

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

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X-Men
1992–1997 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 8.4kids · sci-fi & fantasy · animationDisney+

A team cartoon that trusted kids with real serialized stakes

The difference: Nineties production values and louder melodrama

The X-Men are an elite team of mutants, genetically gifted human beings with superpowers, sworn to fight for mutant rights against hostile Government agencies, whilst at the same time protecting mankind from mutant supremacist Magneto who seeks to destroy the human race in return for the atrocities committed against mutant kind.

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Doom Patrol
2019–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaMax

Damaged misfits slowly cohering into something like a team

The difference: Weird, adult and wounded — therapy first, missions second

The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.

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Arrow
2012–2020 · 8 seasons · The CW
★ 7.5crime · drama · action & adventure

Vigilante mentorship and a hero building his own found team

The difference: Grounded and grim — street crime instead of cosmic scope

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

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Marvel's Inhumans
2017 · 1 season · ABC
★ 4.9drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Common ground: superhero

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Young Justice does

After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself.

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