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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nurse Love is shown to be hesitant to subject Todd to a higher intensity of the light machine, despite Mr. Bones insisting that they'll lose control otherwise. This hints that their motives are more benevolent than they appear at a glance, as demonstrated when Todd reveals he is there willingly.
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* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on Jennie leaving the group home on her eighteenth birthday [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo as shown last season]]. At the same time in Civic City, her brother Todd and his boyfriend Danny have broken into a restaurant for a romantic birthday dinner. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
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* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on Jennie leaving the group home on her eighteenth birthday [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo as shown last season]]. At the same time in Civic City, her twin brother Todd and his boyfriend Danny have broken into a restaurant for a romantic birthday dinner. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
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* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on Jennie leaving the group home, [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo as shown last season]]. At the same time in Civic City, her brother and his boyfriend have broken into a restaurant for an anniversary date. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
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* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on Jennie leaving the group home, home on her eighteenth birthday [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo as shown last season]]. At the same time in Civic City, her brother Todd and his boyfriend Danny have broken into a restaurant for an anniversary date.a romantic birthday dinner. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jennie is not happy to be dealing with the Shade, who killed helped kill her dad, and their partnership is a matter of necessity. Half the reason Shade grabs Courtney is that he likewise finds working with Jennie intolerable, and the sooner their mutually debilitating connection is severed, the better.
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** Jennie is not happy to be dealing with the Shade, who killed her dad, and their partnership is a matter of necessity.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
**SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Yolanda's strained relationship with her parents reaches its logical conclusion when she decides to stand up for herself, with her being thrown out of the house.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jennie is not happy to be dealing with the Shade, who killed her dad, and their partnership is a matter ofnecessity.
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* InternalReveal: Rick tells Beth that he removed the limiter on the hourglass.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Shade, along with Pat, is sent to theShadowlands in the same manner that he managed to send Shadowlands, a fate his machinations inflicted upon Courtney in the previous season.
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* FlippingTheTable: The person watching the surveillance feeds knocks over the table with the jigsaw puzzle after the blackout interrupts the signal.
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* MythologyGag: The name of Beth's plan "Blackout Bomb", comes from one of Dr. Mid-Nite's signature gadgets.
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* ActingUnnatural: Pat's acting is incredibly wooden as they eat family dinner knowing they are being observed by a hidden camera while Beth attempts to trace the signal.
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* ActingUnnatural: Pat's acting is incredibly wooden as they eat family dinner knowing they are being observed by a hidden camera while Beth attempts to trace the signal.engineers a blackout.
* BigBlackout: Beth causes a city-wide blackout so the JSA can covertly disable the hidden cameras. She and Rick are caught disabling one at the school when power is restored, so the murderer now knows they're on to them.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nurse Love is shown be hesitant to subject Todd to a higher intensity of the light machine, despite Mr. Bones insisting that they'll lose control otherwise. This hints that their motives are more benevolent than they appear at a glance, as demonstrated when Todd reveals he is there willingly.
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* IHaveNoDaughter: Confirmed to be set in stone, when Yolanda is permanently removed from her home and thus her family, complete with luggage, considering that her mother does not even reply that she loves her daughter during the confrontation.
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* IHaveNoDaughter: Confirmed to be set in stone, when Yolanda is permanently removed from her family, complete with luggage, consdering considering that her mother does not even reply that she loves her during the confrontation.
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* LiteralGenie: Jakeem wishes for every camera the Gambler's killer ever touched. He fails to consider that "camera" is a rather broad category beyond digital surveillance cameras. This trope is also [[DiscussedTrope discussed]], wherein Zeek suggests to Jakeem that he not only phrase his wording on wishes precisely and unambiguously, but to actually put passion, heart, and drive into his actions when making them so that they're more likely to be successful, though we don't yet see the results of this pep talk.
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* LiteralGenie: Jakeem wishes for every camera the Gambler's killer ever touched. He fails to consider that "camera" is a rather broad category beyond digital surveillance cameras. For that matter, it also doesn't produce the cameras he intended to collect, presumably because the killer didn't personally install them. This trope is also [[DiscussedTrope discussed]], wherein Zeek suggests to Jakeem that he not only phrase his wording on wishes precisely and unambiguously, but to actually put passion, heart, and drive into his actions when making them so that they're more likely to be successful, though we don't yet see the results of this pep talk.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Creator/JoelMcHale doesn't appear in person as Sylvester/Starman in this episode, though his voice is heard acting as MissionControl.
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* AntiHero: The Shade. He needs help getting his powers untangled from Jennie's, so he proceeds to kidnap Courtney and Pat to achieve this. He also expresses no interest in helping the others deal with their latest problems and only agrees to help save Todd after Courtney tells him it's the only way to save himself.
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* CallBack: The bit of darkness Jennie absorbed last season turns out to be responsible for the Shade being tained by Green Lantern energy.
* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo Jennie leaving the group home, as shown last season. At the same time in Civic City, her brother and his boyfriend have broken into a restaurant for an anniversary date. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo Jennie leaving the group home, as shown last season. At the same time in Civic City, her brother and his boyfriend have broken into a restaurant for an anniversary date. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
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* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on Jennie leaving the group home, [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo
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* ActingUnnatural: Pat's acting is incredibly wooden as they eat family dinner knowing they are being observed by a hidden camera while Beth attempts to trace the signal.
* CallBack: The bit of darkness Jennie absorbed last season turns out to be responsible for the Shade being tained by Green Lantern energy.
* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo Jennie leaving the group home, as shown last season. At the same time in Civic City, her brother and his boyfriend have broken into a restaurant for an anniversary date. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
* ForcedFromTheirHome: Yolanda is forced to leave home when she refuses to go along with her mother's demand to see her phone.
* LiarRevealed: Yolanda's mother figures out she's been lying about taking late shifts, having called Maria to get her to stop scheduling them.
* LiteralGenie: Jakeen wishes for every camera the Gambler's killer ever touched. He fails to consider that "camera" is a rather broad category beyond digital survelliance cameras.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: The Shade is able to sense the shadows within Todd while the group searches the Helix Institute, even though he's not sure how.
* PowerHigh: Rick is concerningly happy about the hourglass working 24/7, using his strength just because he can.
* TheReveal:
** Todd was taken by the Helix Institute at the same time Jennie gained the power of the Green Lantern.
** When the fragment of the Black Diamond was absorbed by the Green Lantern ring, it linked her with the Shadowlands and caused her powers to bleed into the Shade and vice versa.
* SkullForAHead: Mr. Bones makes his formal introduction here, his head being a skull with translucenct skin covering it and no eyes to speak of.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Shade suddenly shows up to get Courtney's help while they're in the middle of searching for the cameras, and is desperate enough to not bother waiting for her consent.
* WeNeedADistraction: The JSA all engage in normal activities knowing they're under survelliance, while Beth and Slyvester hatch a plan to disable the cameras.
* WhamShot: The final scene is monochrome, showing Pat and the Shade were teleported into the Shadowlands by Todd.
* YinYangBomb: When Jennie touches Todd, her light and his shadows interact, creating an explosion which turns him into a shadow creature.
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* ActingUnnatural: Pat's acting is incredibly wooden as they eat family dinner knowing they are being observed by a hidden camera while Beth attempts to trace the signal.
* CallBack: The bit of darkness Jennie absorbed last season turns out to be responsible for the Shade being tained by Green Lantern energy.
* {{Flashback}}: The episode opens on [[Recap/Stargirl2020S2E02SummerSchoolChapterTwo Jennie leaving the group home, as shown last season. At the same time in Civic City, her brother and his boyfriend have broken into a restaurant for an anniversary date. When the Green Lantern power activates for Jennie, it also synchronizes with Todd, only for shadows to suddenly pour out of Todd's eyes. This draws the attention of the police, who know Todd by name and have been hired to bring him to the Helix Institute, where Nurse Love and Mr. Bones are aware of his connection to Alan Scott.
* ForcedFromTheirHome: Yolanda is forced to leave home when she refuses to go along with her mother's demand to see her phone.
* LiarRevealed: Yolanda's mother figures out she's been lying about taking late shifts, having called Maria to get her to stop scheduling them.
* LiteralGenie: Jakeen wishes for every camera the Gambler's killer ever touched. He fails to consider that "camera" is a rather broad category beyond digital survelliance cameras.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: The Shade is able to sense the shadows within Todd while the group searches the Helix Institute, even though he's not sure how.
* PowerHigh: Rick is concerningly happy about the hourglass working 24/7, using his strength just because he can.
* TheReveal:
** Todd was taken by the Helix Institute at the same time Jennie gained the power of the Green Lantern.
** When the fragment of the Black Diamond was absorbed by the Green Lantern ring, it linked her with the Shadowlands and caused her powers to bleed into the Shade and vice versa.
* SkullForAHead: Mr. Bones makes his formal introduction here, his head being a skull with translucenct skin covering it and no eyes to speak of.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Shade suddenly shows up to get Courtney's help while they're in the middle of searching for the cameras, and is desperate enough to not bother waiting for her consent.
* WeNeedADistraction: The JSA all engage in normal activities knowing they're under survelliance, while Beth and Slyvester hatch a plan to disable the cameras.
* WhamShot: The final scene is monochrome, showing Pat and the Shade were teleported into the Shadowlands by Todd.
* YinYangBomb: When Jennie touches Todd, her light and his shadows interact, creating an explosion which turns him into a shadow creature.
