History Recap / Stargirl2020S2E04SummerSchoolChapterFour

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Artemis gripes about how she has to eat mac and cheese and go without sports channels in her foster home. Larry shared her sentiments, calling them animals.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: How Larry and Paula interacted with the various doohickeys at the Dugan-Whitemore living room while Pat and Barbara contemplated on what to do with their presence in their very house.

* AdultFear: Mike is snatched in broad daylight by the Crocks and held hostage while they talk to Pat.

* DramaticIrony: The vehement words Artemis gave to Courtney and Yolanda at the cafeteria outlined that the Crocks were not famed for their forgiving attitude if it even exists, with Artemis herself unaware that her parents broke out of jail and are in town - seeking to take refuge and then later behaving civilly in the household of the people who have a hand at their imprisonment in the first place.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Sportsmaster acts all buddy-buddy and smarmy towards Pat, but the audience knows he's a sadistic psychopath.

* DramaticIrony: The vehement words Artemis gave to Courtney and Yolanda at the cafeteria outlined that the Crocks were not famed for their forgiving attitude if it even exists, with Artemis herself unaware that her parents are in town - taking refuge and behaving civilly in the house of the people who have a hand at their imprisonment in the first place.

** The Shade claims to want to dump Eclipso somewhere it can never be found, considering it an evil too great for the world.

* BreakTheHaughty: Artemis's [[{{Understatement}} mild skirmish]] with the coach and Courtney on the field gets her rejected by any recruiters, costing her a scholarship, followed by her parents confessing to her that they aren't innocent after all. Unfortunately, before she seemingly has a chance to have a HeelRealization, [[TykeBomb Cindy]] got to her soon after to try and recruit her.

* DaddysLittleVillain: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] but Artemis definitely shows signs of being her parents' child. She behaves like a SpoiledBrat complaining about how nobody gives her extremely nutritional food like wheatgrass, is cruel to Courtney and Yolanda, fervently professes the innocence of her psychopathic supervillain parents, and has a HairTriggerTemper.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Shade claims that he doesn't want the black diamond so he can release and team up with Eclipso. Even he's not deranged enough to knowingly allow an entity that purely evil to be let loose and even finds it the greatest insult when Courtney suggested he wanted to ally with the malevolent being; moreover, the Shade tells her that he never wronged anyone who didn't have it coming. Eclipso is the cream of the crop in that regard. He wants the diamond so that he can personally dispose of it to ensure that Eclipso remains imprisoned permanently. Downplayed in that he further claims to Courtney that his motives were simply out of boredom and has nothing better to do with his longevity.

* BreakTheHaughty: Artemis's [[{{Understatement}} mild skirmish]] with Courtney on the field gets her rejected by any recruiters, costing her a scholarship, followed by her parents confessing to her that they aren't innocent after all. Unfortunately, before she seemingly has a chance to have a HeelRealization, [[TykeBomb Cindy]] got to her soon after to try and recruit her.

* {{Understatement}}: Artemis attacks Courtney during her tryouts for seemingly no reason and how does her father react?

** Early on in the episode, Barbara tells Paula that if she were to deny her kids junk food, they would just go out and get it somewhere else. By the end of the episode, because she and Pat are hiding information on Eclipso from Courtney, she decides to get it from a book store, and ends up learning about from the Shade.

* BreakTheHaughty: Artemis's parents confess to her that they aren't innocent afterall, and her [[{{Understatement}} mild skirmish]] with Courtney on the field gets her rejected by any recruiters, costing her a scholarship. Unfortunately, [[TykeBomb Cindy]] got to her soon after to try to recruit her, seemingly before it could do her any good.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on in the episode, Barbara tells Paula that if she were to deny her kids junk food, they would just go out and get it somewhere else. By the end of the episode, because she and Pat are hiding information on Eclipso from Courtney, she decides to get it from the Shade.

* Initially Pat thought Sportsmaster and Tigress broke out of prison to get revenge on the [=JSA=]. Turns out they just wanted to see Artemis's football tryout.

* MotiveMisidentification: Courtney assumes the Shade wants to ally himself with Eclipso. Instead, the Shade wants to dump the gem to the bottom of the ocean to keep that monster away.

* BreakTheHaughty: When Artemis's parents confess to her that they aren't innocent afterall, and her [[{{Understatement}} mild skirmish]] with Courtney on the field gets her rejected by any recruiters, costing her a scholarship. Unfortunately, [[TykeBomb Cindy]] got to her soon after to try to recruit her, seemingly before it could do her any good.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Shade claims that he doesn't want the black diamond so he can release and team up with Eclipso. Even he's not deranged enough to knowingly allow an entity that purely evil to be let loose and even finds it the greatest insult when Courtney suggested he wanted to ally with the malevolent being; moreover, the Shade tells her that he never wronged anyone who didn't had it coming. Eclipso is the cream of the crop in that regard. He wants the diamond so that he can personally dispose of it to ensure that Eclipso remains imprisoned permanently. Downplayed in that he further claims to Courtney that his motives were simply out of boredom and has nothing better to do with his longevity.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Artemis gripes about how she has to eat Mac and cheese and go without sports channels in her foster home. Larry shared her sentiments, calling them animals.

** The bookstore that Courtney meets The Shade in is called The House of Secrets, which was the name of the DC anthology series that Eclipso debuted in.

** The Dugans and the Crocks reference their various fights from last season.

** The Dugans' kitchen is still wrecked from Jennie and Courtney's fight a few episodes ago. Paula takes note of that while she and Barbara were tensely there.

** Yolanda is now waitressing for the summer at Richie's Diner. She is rather cute in her outfit as a waitress.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Shade claims that he doesn't want the black diamond so he can release and team up with Eclipso. Even he's not deranged enough to knowingly allow an entity that purely evil to be let loose and even finds it the greatest insult when Courtney suggested he wanted to ally with the malevolent being; moreover, the Shade tells her that he never wronged anyone who didn't had it coming. Eclipso is the cream of the crop, in that regard. He wants the diamond so that he can personally dispose of it to ensure that Eclipso remains imprisoned permanently. Downplayed in that he further claims to Courtney that his motives were simply out of boredom and has nothing better to do with his longevity.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Sportsmaster acts all buddy-buddy towards Pat, but the audience knows he's a sadistic psychopath.

** The Dugans' kitchen is still wrecked from Jennie and Courtney's fight a few episodes ago.

* RejectedApology: Courtney attempts to make peace with Artemis after the mishap from a few episodes ago. Unfortunately, she accidentally presses Artemis's BerserkButton by asking about her parents, with Yolanda making a light scoff behind Courtney probably not helping, so Artemis tells her that she's not forgiven.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Shade claims that he doesn't want the black diamond so he can release and team up with Eclipso. Even he's not deranged enough to knowingly allow an entity that purely evil to be let loose and even finds it the greatest insult when Courtney suggested he wanted to ally with the malevolent entity; moreover, the Shade claims that he never wronged anyone who didn't had it coming. Eclipso is the cream of the crop, in that regard. He wants the diamond so that he can personally dispose of it to ensure that Eclipso remains imprisoned permanently.

* HumbleGoal: All the Crocks want is to be there for their daughter during tryouts, and once that's done, they willingly return to prison. True enough, besides lightly manhandling Mike when they find him and bringing him over to the Pit Stop, where they wait for Pat, their interactions with the Dugan-Whitmore family are relatively harmless.

* MythologyGag: Bruce Gordon, the 19th century explorer whom Courtney and the others read about, is the original Silver Age identity of Eclipso in the comics.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The promo for this episode implied that Artemis crushing the apple in front of Courtney was because she found out Courtney was Stargirl, thus responsible for putting her parents in jail. In the episode, Artemis never does find out by episode's end.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Black Diamond is from a place called Diablo Island.

* HumbleGoal: All the Crocks want is to be there for their daughter during tryouts, and once that's done, they willingly return to prison. True enough, besides lightly manhandling Mike when they found him and bringing him over to the Pit Stop where they waited for Pat, their interactions with the Dugan-Whitmore family were relatively harmless.