“The Brave and the Bold Part 1”
After the seriousness of the last few episodes we get this one, starring the stubbornly joking Flash. Not that Flash doesn’t take his job seriously, but his role as “heart and soul” of the Justice League is evident and even younger viewers can tell sometimes he’s joking and happy to protect his fellow heroes from the mental stress that facing the crappiest parts of the multiverse can inflict.
Green Lantern is less than amused, though, as he ends up being the one to help Flash break up a science robbery. Even as silly as “a gorilla escaping the scene by driving a car away” sounds, he knows to take Flash seriously. Someone puts a whammy on Flash and he wakes up hours later in jail.
Green Lantern, though skeptical, supports Flash when the police show them video of Flash finishing the robbery that he earlier thwarted. They track down the talking, driving gorilla and discover just another intelligent being trying to save his city. (We already know that superheroes come in many forms, right? And though a lot of the Justice League LOOKS, or can look, human, this season has already taught us that being, or looking human does not equal good guy. Likewise being or looking military, or police, or even looking like a superhero doesn’t make you a good guy.)
This plots bad guy? None other than the hyper-intelligent, mind-controlling Gorilla Grodd. He’s promised to destroy the city of peaceful, hyper-intelligent Gorillas because they too stood up against his evil.
Can I just say we need more “animal” and outright non-human-looking super heroes in these stories?