Young Justice: Avengers Canon

I love mashups.  I've always enjoyed trying to figure out how one property relates to another, finding commonalities and relationships that can be exploited.  With Young Justice: Avengers, I wanted to take the best cartoon ever written for DC characters, Young Justice, and expand it to include Marvel,  "The Distinguished Competition"

That begs the question, what is canon in this setting?  I usually work on a grandfather principle:  Instead of just throwing everything into a blender I need to start from a base.  One setting has to be the truest and everything must build around that.

So, in this case, this setting is first two Young Justice cartoons - Young Justice and Young Justice: Invasion.  They are the backbone which this campaign is built around.  Because the game started before Young Justice: Outsiders had completed, I made a conscious decision not to treat that as canon material. 

Young Justice: Outsiders and the various video games and comic books are not canon for our game, but I will mine it for whatever cool lore and incorporate that into the background of our game.  Frankly, I am going in a different direction than Outsiders so its best just to ignore it.

Adding to that is Marvel and I am drawing from everything from the cartoons and animated features to comic books.  Again, because the Marvel content has to add and not rewrite Young Justice Canon, I have chosen to focus on New York and areas not normally detailed by the YJ cartoon.

Though I have not really used it in-game, I have stated that any cartoon or comic produced by DC or Marvel is fair game.  This includes Wildstorm (and by extension Image), Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc.  I might even sneak in Star Trek and Star Wars references because I am a huge dork.