Scarletspeed7 Ranks Every ******* Justice League Member Ever

Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

The Justice League was a reincarnation of the first ever superhero team, the Justice Society, which debuted in 1941, and featured the two biggest comics companies' main heroes gathered together... to have dinner. From these humble origins in All-Star Comics #3, the JSA proved massively successful, and once the Silver Age of Superheroes kicked off with revisited interpretations of classic Golden Age heroes, it was only a matter of time before a new gathering of the greatest heroes of a generation gathered together again.

Since 1961, the JLA has been through many incarnations, many highs, many lows, great writers, poor ones, even days where the League was barely a shell of its former glory days past. But one thing is always for certain: there will be a Justice League, a gathering of those considered to be the A-List, the top-tier, the icons.

This is a ranking of 215 Justice League members, what I consider to be an all-time roster of every canonical Justice League member ever. How do I determine canonical? At some point during a character's membership, they must be in what is the "main timeline" for the DC Universe. Elseworlds aren't included unless that Elseworld included a member in the "main timeline" League. So Pre-Crisis Earth-1, Post-Crisis Central Timeline, Post-IC New Earth, New 52 Earth-1. This does not include the Justice League Beyond (which has yet to be included in the main timeline, although it appears that might happen soon). This also does not include the JLU from the DCAU, although almost every single JLU member is already a part of the JLA at this point. What does this include?

Members from: -Justice League of America -Justice League Detroit -Justice League International/Europe/America -Extreme Justice -Justice League Antarctica -JLA -Justice Leagues -New 52 Justice League/JLA/Justice League Dark -52's short-lived League -Justice League Task Force -Justice League's Reserves <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">-Justice League Elite <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">-Alternate Timeline Characters Who Joined the Main Timeline's Leagues <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">-Honorary Members (Including Those Given Posthumous Membership)

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">That leaves me with telling you how I plan to rank these characters. True to form with my Batman Villain Rankings, I've created a scoring system. This time there are 6 categories with a maximum of 10 points in each, minimum of 1. Categories are as follows:

Justice League Relevance:<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> How much have they contributed to the League already? How positive is that contribution to the team?

Justice League Potential:<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> Do they bring something unique to the table? Have they worn out their welcome yet? Would fans of the League like to see their membership return or continue?

DC Universe Stature:<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> Do the really live up to the name "Earth's Mightiest Heroes," at least in terms of what people in the DCU think of them?

Teamwork:<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> How well do they play with others? What is their track record in group settings overall?

Fundamentals:<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> Is this a generally well-developed character? Are they well-designed in appearance? Does this character have an interesting power or skill set? Does this character have a memorable voice?

Scarlet Factor:<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> That wild card category that makes this a truly Scarletspeed7 list. Do I like this character?

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">All said, only 1 character was able to score perfectly in all 6 categories. On the flip side, I had 4 characters tie with a lowest possible score of 6.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">With that out of the way, share some of YOUR thoughts. What would you like to see in this set of write-ups? What characters do you think will do extremely well or extremely poorly? How fairly will I score Boring Allen?

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Grab your communicators and head to the Meeting Hall - it's time to rank some JLAers.

The Worse-Than-the-Guy-Who-Killed-Himself Tier
''There was literally a Leaguer who killed himself. These guys are worse than that guy.''

#215. Yazz

'''First Appearance: Justice League America #95 (Jan 1995) Joined: Justice League America #95''' http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120919094642/marvel_dc/images/8/86/Yazz.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Yazz writes the book on how to be a terrible Justice League member. He was so reviled by fans and writers that he disappeared soon after his introduction in Justice League America, and he didn't show up for ten years again... only to be included in a monument to fallen Justice Leaguers. That's right. He was killed off ten years after his last appearance just to make sure that no one would ever attempt to put him in a comic again (this was actually done by the 52 writing team in one of their most brilliant moments).

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">He's hated that much.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Let's talk about why. Here's a rundown of ways Yazz breaks every possible rule for a good Justice League member: <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- The League didn't need a Snarf.<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> An incompetent fool trying to run with the big dogs who succeeds at nothing except sounding like an annoying mutant creature. <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- The League didn't need a pet.<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> Just because it had worked with Power Girl's cat didn't mean that any animal would be successful. Especially a miniature pterodactyl with a Brooklyn accent. That can't do anything. At all. <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- You can't join the League on your first appearance.<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> This isn't the University of Nebraska. We don't accept walk-ons in the team of the greatest superheroes ever. You gotta have cred to join this group. Yazz felt minor leaguer in a team that was literally made up of Nuklon, Tasmanian Devil, Blue Devil, Obsidian, and Icemaiden. I mean, that's pretty minor league ALREADY. <span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- The Justice League isn't the Developmental League.<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> Don't test your new characters on the world's biggest stage, because if said character turns out to be like Yazz (aka universally more loathed than Wesley Crusher on Star Trek:TNG), you've just killed your own sales.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">In conclusion: The Yazz is the worst, I hate his guts, he deserved to die, he ****ing sucked, he sucking ****ed, he was a poop stain on the legacy of the League, and that's all I got to say about that.

#214. Rolf Heimlich

'''First Appearance: Justice League America #53 (Aug 1991) Joined: Justice League America #53''' http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110511065119/marvel_dc/images/2/2b/Ambassador_Heimlich.png

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Heimlich is meant to be a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad character, but that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve a ridiculously low ranking. Because he does. Heimlich was a mole placed in the League through connections with the United Nations (which you might recall was in charge of League operations for a while) in order to simply destroy in from within.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">He was partially successful.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">How so? Because coming from the aftermath of Heimlich's short-lived tenure, Giffen and DeMatteis left the title, and the next writer came in to pick up the pieces. And no one could figure out what to do, because Heimlich had so thoroughly screwed up what the whole Justice League International concept was supposed to be. So it's really both an in-story screwover and a meta screwover; whether intentional or not, Heimlich essentially damned the JL titles to mediocrity for the next four years. I mean, the League titles were BAAAAAD while post-Heimlich. We're talking Extreme Justice bad. We're talking Justice League Task Force bad. We're talking THE YAZZ bad.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Thanks Heimlich for ruining comics for the length of a presidential administration!

#213. Retro

'''First Appearance: New Year's Evil: Prometheus #1 (Feb 1998) Joined: New Year's Evil: Prometheus #1''' http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100824162416/marvel_dc/images/e/e6/Retro_01.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Let's move on to Retro, the wannabe superhero who didn't even make it out of the waiting room for the transporter to the JLA Watchtower. I mean, damn son. Okay, I get why the Justice League might hold a contest for publicity purposes where "Even YOU can be a JLAer!" But let's be frank here; even if Retro hadn't been murdered by Prometheus and had his identity usurped and used as a tool to destroy the JLA from within, he still would've ranked extremely low just for the fact that HE CAN'T DO ANYTHING. He provides nothing to the team. He doesn't even notice when he gets f****** shanked from behind. Points for Prometheus, points against Retro.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Guy seriously was killed before he even met another Justice Leaguer.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">The name Retro was a suitable choice since, by the time we first saw him, he was already f****** dead. It was an instantly retroactive appearance.

#212. Devilfish

'''First Appearance: Justice Leagues: Justice League of Atlantis #1 (Mar 2001) Joined: Justice Leagues: Justice League of Atlantis #1''' http://jerome.galica.free.fr/dc%20comics/Jla/aquaman/DevilfishMHR.gif

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">You know what sucks? When, in your first appearance, you betray your team, destroy a crucial object necessary for possible for world-saving procedures, and go work with the major bad guy of whatever high priority overarching case is going on. And seriously, kick a team when it's down! We're talking about betraying the goddamn Justice League of ATLANTIS. They don't have a lot of solid draws to begin with; I mean, we're talking Aquaman, Mera, Tempest, and... um... uh... a guy who we thought had died over ten thousand years ago and a Kryptonian who also was serving with the Justice League of Amazons on the side. So uh, yeah. This wasn't exactly the best team in the world to start with. Then THIS GUY comes in, like, "Yeah, I'm awesomely powerful and I'll totally join one of these 8 really crappy Leagues!"

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Guess what? B****** just got their asses betrayed!

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Douchebag award goes out to the guy who, on his first appearance, flatout decided to skip town and work for literally the biggest bad guy at the time. Congratulations, Devilfish.

#211. Simon Carr

'''First Appearance: JLA: Year One #2 (Feb 1998) Joined: JLA: Year One #2 (Feb 1998)''' http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090909173125/marvel_dc/images/c/c4/JLA_Year_One_3.jpg<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> (This is an issue Simon is in. Literally have no other pictures)

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Simon Carr was the original JLA's financier and given a support position with the League. He was then taken over by an alien tyrant and helped to allow the entire Apellaxian Empire to invade Earth and enslave every superhero except the fledgling Justice League, so uh... yeah. Simon Carr, you ******* suck.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">I mean, he really wasn't that bad as a financier, but frankly I don't care who you are, who's inhabiting your body, you gotta, like, NOT allow aliens empires to invade and enslave the planet. That's like pretty much rule #2 of being a Justice League member. Rule #1 is to not rape people or mindwipe people about rape.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Also, he's Snapper Carr's uncle, so any contributions he made in that regard ultimately drop him many, many spots out of sheer spite for Snapper.

#210. Krag

'''First Appearance: Justice League America Annual #7 (1993) Joined: Justice League Task Force #13''' http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080917232747/marvel_dc/images/6/62/Krag_01.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">So you know what comic event really sucked? Bloodlines. I mean, that thing blew. It tried to introduce about 20 new "edgy" characters into the DC Universe, and pretty much only Hitman and Anima were worth a tinker's damn. One of the other 18 rejects was named Krag, and he pretty much looks just like his name sounds: a generic Hulk-like broot with gray, rocky skin that can hit ****.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Wake me up when we hit a unique character trait in this write-up.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Anyways, Krag joined the dubious Justice League Task Force for one mission (the team changed constantly based on the threats it would undertake, which was a great concept hampered by terrible ******* characters and writers), where the Justice League International hogged almost the entire issue and left Krag to hit something at some point. Then he never showed up again. Which was at least the decent thing to do.

#209. Rocket Red 7 (Vladimir Mikoyan)

'''First Appearance: Justice League International #7 (Nov 1987) Joined: Justice League International #7''' http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120918072155/marvel_dc/images/5/5c/Rocket_Red_Vladimir_Mikoyan_003.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Tell me THAT face doesn't automatically look like someone who's gonna betray you. And have you noticed a trend here yet? Every single character so far that's shown up has debuted in a Justice League title. Coincidence?

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Anyways, this is a weird one, but it takes a little while to explain. Bear with me. Rocket Red #7 joined the League right before the big Millennium event where a ton of characters were revealed to be sleeper agents for the Manhunter androids. It wasn't bad, just not a very special events like some of them. Anyways, as it turns out, the guy they introduced about two months before the event TURNED OUT TO BE A TRAITOR. Shocker.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">This is why I don't allow Russians into the JLA.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">So after all was said and done with Benedict Putin, Rocket Red 4 ended up joining the League, and he served a quite lengthy and memorable tenure in Giffen's JLI era. Solid member; however, he fell into disuse after Giffen left, and in his final string of appearances in the OMAC Project, he's depicted wearing ROCKET RED 7 ARMOR. Why? They never say. Furthermore, post Rocket Red 4's death, the new Rocket Red (Gavril) joins the Justice League: Generation Lost team, and HE'S ALSO WEARING ROCKET RED 7 ARMOR. And guess what... they never explain why the **** these guys are wearing a traitor's armor. Ever.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Chararacters-Deserving-Death Tier
They may deserve to die, but at least they don't deserve the fate of the Yazz and his minions.

#208. Antaeus (Mark Antaeus)

'''First Appearance: JLA: Superpower (1999) Joined: JLA: Superpower (1999)''' http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130504225148/marvel_dc/images/1/1d/Mark_Antaeus_03.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Here's the guy who killed himself. And it was within not only his first appearance with the JLA, but also his OWN DAMN FIRST APPEARANCE.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Antaeus actually had a little bit of potential; he had this great Roman Warrior vibe with a dash of cyborg powers thrown in, and if he hadn't been freakin turned into sausage on day 1, we could've had a decent character on our hands. Instead, writer John Arcudi wanted to make some ridiculously long-winded soapbox point about suicide, so we got this Debbie Downer of a story. Y'know, because everyone wants to read the story about the guy who is accepted to the JLA and then FREAKING BLOWS HIS OWN HEART UP. Yeah, that's a happy thought. And also... just wanna throw out there that as much as Morrison's JLA rocked, they could NOT select new members at all. Tomorrow Woman betrays them, Antaeus kills himself, and the people they audition at the first drive include a guy who just came to look at Wonder Woman with X-Ray vision (Hitman) and a guy who literally didn't want to join (Max Mercury).

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Anyways... depressing, unnecessary, irritating, and yet another blight on the League legacy. Still better than Yazz though.

#207. Gammeron

'''First Appearance: Justice League Task Force #34 (May 1996) Joined: Justice League Task Force #34''' http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120221114953/martianmanhunter/images/b/ba/Gammeron.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">This is a weird one in that Gammeron could've been another decent character, if only they had chosen to use him more than just the three issues he existed. Gammeron was an old friend of J'onn J'onnz and also a bounty hunter from out in the cosmos, sent via contract to Earth in order to collect Despero. Despero, of course, was being inhabited at that time by L-Ron (the League's robot mascot), so some light hijinks ensued. The story itself was pretty darn weak, but Gammeron was left at a point where he could've launched from as a unique character.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Unfortunately THAT didn't happen. Instead, his only legacy is being the focal point of yet another weak JL Task Force storyline and causing way more problems than solutions (since he, y'know, jacked the physical form of one of the Leaguers). So here's your spot Gammeron.

#206. Scarlet Skier

'''First Appearance: Justice League America #36 (Mar 1990) Joined: Justice League America Annual #4 (Oct 1990)''' http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gkzvtzl_4co/TS1WcUrn7RI/AAAAAAAAAms/0AkJfVcIlRg/s1600/488443-scarlet_skier_1.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Hey! It's someone that didn't debut in the issue they joined the League! It's someone who joined after two appearances instead!

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Anyways, I'm a huuuuuuge fan of the Justice League Antarctica issue. Love it to death. But a couple of the characters provide absolutely nothing to that story, and one of them is Scarlet Skier. The Skier originally debuted as a parody of the Silver Surfer (working for a Galactus parody named Mr. Nebula). Overall the concept was a nice silly diversion in Giffen's excellent JLI run, but never demonstrated himself as League material.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Of course, who WAS League material in the JLAntarctica? They lost to ******* penguins. You think I'm kidding, but I'm totally not.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Even so, Scarlet Skier was a really weak addition to that team; the rest of the members were either Justice League hangers-on (G'nort) or Injustice League members (everyone else), and Scarlet Skier really had A) no characterization and B) no reason to join even a loser team. I mean, he had yet to do anything. However, for some reason he was chosen to be a part of that League, and therefore, since he comes off as the most expendable member of a team comprised SOLELY of expendable members, he drop in at spot #206.

#205. Seneca

'''First Appearance: Justice League International #63 (Apr 1994) Joined: Justice League Task Force #14''' http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090824072802/marvel_dc/images/3/36/Seneca.JPG

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">I had to look this guy up because I had no memory of them. I saw a picture of him; no clue. Went and re-read the issues he was a member in; no clue who he was. Went on and read all 8 appearances of Seneca again; no clue who he is.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">So yeah, that was the first sign that this guy sucked.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Essentially, he was a shirtless Super-Chief with a Y painted on his face. That seems to be the extent of what I can figure out about him; no backstory, no really motivations, no real definitions of his abilities. He's just an Iroquois with superpowers. Worse yet, he essentially only joins the Justice League Task Force (are we seeing a trend here yet of ***** ******* JLTF members yet?) for one mission because he had been duped into joining a Cadre of other naive idiots conned by an "immortal" villain into fighting with the League, and resulting in Ice's death. And Ice is so cute. I heart her.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">So **** you Seneca and your bland characterization that relies upon being a diversity hire.

#204. Loose Cannon

'''First Appearance: Action Comics Annual #5 (1993) Joined: Justice League Task Force #9''' http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080916053944/marvel_dc/images/8/84/Loose_Cannon_04.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">This write-up is a case in point of how all of these crappy characters at the bottom of the list are essentially the same. Let's see how many keywords and phrases can be found in other previous write-ups, shall we?

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Loose Cannon debuted in that really terrible 90s even  Bloodlines<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> where he was supposed to be part of a  new, "edgy"<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> group of superheroes who mostly sucked (again, aside from Hitman and Anima). He was pretty much just a  large hulking brute<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> except with long hair and blue skin. He joined the  Justice League Task Force for one mission<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">, a pretty forgettable one at that, alongside a couple other Bloodlines rejects,  all of whom really never appeared again afterwards<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">. He had  no characterization<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;"> and thankfully aside from appearing in the background of some scenes in the Infinite Crisis, we never had to think about him again.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">I mean, I think the trends are obvious at this point: the Justice League franchise blew massive chunks in that mid-90s era between Giffen and Morrison. And guess what? Tomorrow we'll pick up with... ANOTHER JUSTICE LEAGUE TASK FORCE MEMBER. Are you shocked?!?!? Are you so totally surprised?!?!?!

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Get hype. The crap shoot continues.

#203. Hannibal Martin

'''First Appearance: Justice League Task Force #1 (Jun 1993) Joined: Justice League Task Force #1''' http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110620092151/marvel_dc/images/a/a3/Hannibal_Martin_01.png

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Hannibal Martin is just a normal guy who served for a while as the UN liaison to the.... guess what? Just take a WILD guess.

Justice League Task Force

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Man, how did you see that coming? Was it the fact that the Task Force seems to excel at churning out terrible, terrible members? It's like a who's who of mediocrity. I mean, look at this guy: his abilities seem to be eating more than he can reasonably metabolize and wearing unflattering suits. Quite a skill, definitely one that League was sorely lacking. What a waste of space. What a waste of a League membership card. Get this douchebag outta here.

#202. Hawkman (Fel Andar)

'''First Appearance: Hawkworld #22 (Apr 1992) Joined: Hawkworld #22 (Apr 1992)''' http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130504141153/marvel_dc/images/f/f9/Fel_Andar.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">I hate random retcons that are pointlessly convoluted. Some idiot at DC decided that Hawkman's entire history needed to be altered, so they introduced Fel Andar, a Thanagarian sleeper agent who suppsedly had been pretending to be Hawkman's son while Hawkman spent the rest of eternity battling Norse Fire Giants in Limbo (that's a long story). Anyways, in came Fel Andar, a spy who planned to help Thanagar invade Earth, and for years he lived on Earth pretending to be this Carter Hall Jr. character, even going so far as to marry and have a kid who became the longtime D-List Titans reject Golden Eagle.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Eventually his wife realized his traitorous intent and tried to warn the League, but he literally shanked that ***** and was forced to flee Earth when J'onny J'onnz decided to take his ass down. When he got back to Thanagar he was sentenced to life in prison for his failure and, much like everyone else on this list so far, was never seen again. Although in this case during Infinite Crisis, he was dredged back up by Geoff Johns and co. in order to be brutally murdered by Starfire's evil sister Blackfire during the Rann-Thanagar War.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">And the world rejoiced. Because, and let's face it, we've had a few too many traitors on the League at this point. Was it really necessary to add YET another first appearance Leaguer who immediately proves himself to be ANOTHER Rocket Red 7? We get it: the League doesn't run background checks.

#201. Zan

'''First Appearance: Extreme Justice #9 (Oct 1995) Joined: Extreme Justice #15 or #16 (sometime around here he gets added to the group)''' http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110130210128/marvel_dc/images/1/11/Zan.png

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Let me get this clear: aside from the covers, Extreme Justice was awful. Awful. It's so bad that it took a pretty awful concept (the Wonder Twins) and made it even worse, in ways you can hardly imagine.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Because when I think of an "EXTREME" version of the Justice League, I think Wonder Twins.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Essentially, some idiot writing Extreme Justice decided that the Wonder Twins belonged on this group of great characters being saddled with REALLY stilted dialogue and over-the-top bordering on corny plotlines. It sucked. Furthermore, instead of just bringing in the Wonder Twins as they were back in those happier Superfriends days, we needed to make them grim 'n' gritty. Wonder Twins. Grim 'n' gritty. Yeah.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">So now the Wonder Twins wore freakin' hilarious ugly shades-of-putrid-purple BATTLE ARMOR and they were ESCAPED SLAVES. They also killed their enemies. It was terrible. These two were suddenly extremely dark, extremely angry adults with none of that campy charm from years before. It was a ****** joke. I mean, this team should've been awesome. We're talking Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold and Firestorm here! Hell, even Maxima was pretty cool back in the day.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">******* how? ******* why?

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">God this era sucked the chrome off a 57 Chevy.

#200. Super-Chief (Jon Standing Bear)

'''First Appearance: 52 #22 (Oct 2006) Joined: 52 #24 (Oct 2006)''' http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130606112832/marvel_dc/images/3/3f/Superchief.jpg

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">First of all, I really recommend 52 to anyone out there who's never read it. It was one of my favorite concepts ever in comics, with an all-star writing team at their peak (Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid and Keith Giffen) and some amazing artwork from a ton of talented artists. It's riveting, it's unique, and it's one of my personal favorite comic runs ever.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Now, let's talk about that there 52 League. It's awful. But, it's awful in a completely purposeful and excellent way. I mean, when you have a team so bad that they can't even decide if AMBUSH BUG should be the leader or not, you've struck fool's gold. Super-Chief, the latest in a long line of corny Native American mantle-bearing heroes of the same name, is easily the failiest of all, but that doesn't mean it didn't work perfectly.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">The aim of the 52 Justice League was to show off two things: first, that a League is not just in name only, but rather a team of the World's Finest. Morrison's message (this was one of his major contributions) was simply this: accept no substitutes. It worked extremely well: the faux League attempts to fight Skeets. SKEETS. And they get hammered. HAAAAAAMEREEED. I mean, Skeets actually kills Super-Chief.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">It's pretty great.

<span style="color:rgb(11,12,14);font-family:'HelveticaNeue',HelveticaNeue,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Anyways, Super-Chief was mainly serving as a plot device (and a good one), helping set up this short League storyline as well as providing a key element to the exceptional Elongated Man story. But, as a Justice Leaguer, this guy was pretty terrible. Way to fail dude.