Source: brickipedia.com
10. Apache Chief
More f***ing Super Friends! I should have broken this up in some way. But we’re hammering ahead with this thing, so here goes!!!
Apache Chief was one of the aforementioned added Super Friends superheroes. But I didn’t know that this and other characters were actually added to bring greater racial diversity to the Justice League lineup, which is AWESOME! The Justice League was pretty uniformly white, so fixing that problem was a smart move.
That’s true even though the additions weren’t the most racially sensitive ones. I mean, we’re talking about a Native American character called Apache Chief. Chief’s super power is his ability to grow to a giant size, which he usually uses to fight Giganta. While he never made it into the comics, a character from the Joe Kelly JLA run (Manitou Raven) was a stated tribute to the character. In the previously mentioned Super Friends tribute JLU episode, Apache Chief, redubbed Long Shadow, was played by Gregg Rainwater, an actor of Osage and Cherokee descent.
After Rainwater reprised his role as Tye Longshadow in Young Justice, Chief retired for a while. He popped up again later in – you guessed it – The Lego Batman Movie.
Next week: Part 4!
