The BEST episodes of Young Justice season 1

Every episode of Young Justice season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Young Justice season 1!

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

Last Updated: 11/22/2024Network: HBO MaxStatus: Ended
Auld Acquaintance
star
8.64
745 votes

#1 - Auld Acquaintance

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/21/2012

The Team finally learns the identity of the traitor in their midst, forcing a battle against an enemy more dangerous than any they’ve ever faced before!

Writer: Greg Weisman
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Usual Suspects
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8.38
685 votes

#2 - Usual Suspects

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/14/2012

The Team gets a new member and a new mission – a mission that may finally expose all the Team’s secrets... and all their lies!

Directors: Jay Oliva, Tim Divar
Writer: Kevin Hopps
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Humanity
star
8.24
789 votes

#3 - Humanity

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/21/2011

The team is on the hunt for Red Tornado, determined to find out once and for all whether the robot was the mole - even if it means kidnapping new friend Zatanna and dragging her along on their quest!

Directors: Matt Youngberg
Writer: Greg Weisman
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Revelation
star
8.17
872 votes

#4 - Revelation

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/14/2011

When Plant Creatures attack major cities around the world, the team is eager to join the fight alongside the Justice League. Instead, Batman assigns them a still more dangerous task - taking out the plants' masters: a secret society of super- villains: the Injustice League!

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Kevin Hopps
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Failsafe
star
8.15
853 votes

#5 - Failsafe

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/4/2011

When the Justice League is defeated during an alien invasion, the Team has to step up and fill their mentors shoes.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Nicole Dubuc
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Homefront
star
8.14
949 votes

#6 - Homefront

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/30/2011

When Mount Justice itself is attacked, can Artemis and Robin (the two teens without super-powers) save the Team (or even themselves) from the unknown invaders?

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Jon Weisman
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Targets
star
8.13
837 votes

#7 - Targets

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/2011

Red Arrow is on his own against the world's most dangerous assassins in preventing the League of Shadows from starting a war, until he is forced to make an unlikely alliance with someone even more dangerous. Aqualad fails to convince Red Arrow to ask the team for help.

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Misplaced
star
8.11
786 votes

#8 - Misplaced

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/2012

When every adult on the planet disappears, only the team, Zatanna, and Billy Batson are left to defeat the five most powerful sorcerers on Earth. In the end, Zatanna officialy joins the team and Zatara becomes the new Doctor Fate.

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Greg Weisman
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Alpha Male
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8.11
859 votes

#9 - Alpha Male

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/7/2011

Already exhausted and rattled after a home turf invasion of The Cave, the team learns that Aqualad - their friend and leader - withheld vital information that put them all at risk. When Batman sends the Team and new “den-mother” Captain Marvel to India to investigate bizarre reports of armed animals attacking human beings, can Aqualad pull his fractured team together?

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Tom Pugsley
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Performance
star
8.09
635 votes

#10 - Performance

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/7/2012

The Team goes undercover at the Haly International Traveling Circus to locate a thief stealing weapons technology across Europe. But a thief isn’t all they find…

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Jon Weisman
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Schooled
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8.08
953 votes

#11 - Schooled

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2011

Superboy's anger over his non-relationship with Superman is getting out of control. He refuses to train with Black Canary, and when the team faces an opponent that even the Justice League had trouble defeating, the Boy of Steel goes rogue.

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Nicole Dubuc
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Insecurity
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8.04
651 votes

#12 - Insecurity

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/31/2012

Red Arrow's return undercuts Artemis' confidence, while the team's mission to track down Sportsmaster threatens to expose her darkest secrets.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Peter David
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Coldhearted
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8.04
788 votes

#13 - Coldhearted

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/2012

Wally West comes oh-so-close to fulfilling his birthday wish to finally fight alongside the Justice League. Instead, a massively disappointed Kid Flash is taken off the mission and tasked with a simple delivery job. But a few deadly surprises await the birthday boy along the way.

Directors: Victor Cook
Writer: Jon Weisman
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Agendas
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8.03
686 votes

#14 - Agendas

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/2012

Superboy returns to Project Cadmus, where he learns the top-secret genetics lab may have created another Super-clone.

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Kevin Hopps
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Terrors
star
8.01
935 votes

#15 - Terrors

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/23/2011

Superboy and Miss Martian go undercover inside Belle Reve Penitentiary.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Greg Weisman
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Image
star
8.01
651 votes

#16 - Image

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/17/2012

A covert operation against Queen Bee in Qurac forces Miss Martian to finally face her greatest fears and her biggest secrets. But will she reveal those secrets to her friends—or allow what she's hiding to take down the entire team?

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Nicole Dubuc
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Fireworks
star
8.00
771 votes

#17 - Fireworks

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/26/2010

The sidekicks find a clone of Superman known as Superboy. They free him from Cadmus' control, while battling Blockbuster.

Directors: Sam Liu
Writer: Greg Weisman
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Drop-Zone
star
8.00
951 votes

#18 - Drop-Zone

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2011

Young Justice goes on its first official mission under Batman, while trying to determine which of them will lead the team.

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Infiltrator
star
7.98
945 votes

#19 - Infiltrator

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2011

Green Arrow's niece, Artemis, joins Young Justice and must save a bright young scientist from the League of Shadows.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Jon Weisman
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Denial
star
7.98
787 votes

#20 - Denial

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2011

When the team investigates the disappearance of Kent Nelson (formerly Doctor Fate), the scientific-minded Wally West is forced to confront his disbelief in magic while battling Abra Kadabra and Klarion the Witch Boy, for the ultra-powerful Helmet of Fate.

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Tom Pugsley
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Downtime
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7.96
881 votes

#21 - Downtime

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/2011

After a disastrous mission with the team, Aqualad returns to Atlantis to choose between a life on the surface world or one beneath the waves with the Aquagirl of his dreams. But other forces at play may make Aqualad's decision for him.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Kevin Hopps
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Bereft
star
7.92
852 votes

#22 - Bereft

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/2011

Young Justice discovers that they have forgotten the last six months of their lives, including each other and a final fateful mission in Bialya. The team turns to Miss Martian to recover their memories, before it is too late for Superboy.

Directors: Michael Chang
Writer: Nicole Dubuc
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Disordered
star
7.88
770 votes

#23 - Disordered

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/11/2011

Superboy's “Sphere” goes through a surprising change, revealing a connection to the forever people of New Genesis.

Directors: Michael Chang
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Independence Day
star
7.87
1276 votes

#24 - Independence Day

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/26/2010

Robin, Aqualad, and Kid Flash break into Cadmus and find that it is being run by Genomorphs.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Greg Weisman
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Secrets
star
7.78
796 votes

#25 - Secrets

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/18/2011

It's Halloween. Artemis and Zatanna are in Manhattan for a girls' night out. There, they encounter the deadly Harm, who has a secret.

Directors: Jay Oliva
Writer: Peter David
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