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* AdaptationalWimp: Mon-El only has SuperToughness and SuperStrength (not on par with a Kryptonian) here and none of the more exotic powers like Heat Vision or Freeze Breath which Daxamites and Kryptonians share in the comics.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with - M'gann M'orzz recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians and helped her escape. In the final shot of the episode, it's revealed she ''is'' that White Martian.

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* AdaptationalWimp: Mon-El only has SuperToughness and SuperStrength (not on par with a Kryptonian) here and none of the more exotic powers like Heat Vision or Freeze Breath which Daxamites and Kryptonians share in the comics.
comics. It's possible he just needs more time to develop them, since he's barely been on the planet for a week.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with - with. M'gann M'orzz recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians and helped her escape. In the final shot of the episode, it's revealed she ''is'' that White Martian.



-->'''Kara:''' Ugh, they were the worst. And their son, the prince, he was rumored to be the worst of the worst. ''Frat boy'' of the universe.
-->'''Mon-El:''' Ah he... he had his good moments, too.

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-->'''Kara:''' Ugh, they were the worst. And their son, the prince, he was rumored to be the worst of the worst. ''Frat boy'' of the universe. \n-->'''Mon-El:''' \\
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Ah he... he had his good moments, too.



* TheReveal: It turns out the M'gann is not another Green Martian, but a White Martian in disguise.



* TheReveal: It turns out the M'gann is not another Green Martian, but a White Martian in disguise.
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* {{Fratbro}}: The Prince of Daxam had this reputation, according to Kara. And Mon-El doesn't exactly disagree.
-->'''Kara:''' Ugh, they were the worst. And their son, the prince, he was rumored to be the worst of the worst. ''Frat boy'' of the universe.
-->'''Mon-El:''' Ah he... he had his good moments, too.

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* MrsRobinson: Inverted. Mon-El is the one who thinks that Alura is hot after seeing her hologram.


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* StacysMom: Mon-El comments on how very attractive Alura is after seeing her hologram.
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* FantasticRacism: Not as great but Kara and Mon-El clearly still have issues letting go of the old hates between Krypton and Daxaam.

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* FantasticRacism: Not as great but Kara and Mon-El clearly still have issues letting go of the old hates between Krypton and Daxaam.Daxam.
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* TheBusCameBack: The Alura hologram makes her return.


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* MrsRobinson: Inverted. Mon-El is the one who thinks that Alura is hot after seeing her hologram.
* MultiCharacterTitle: As written in DoubleMeaningTitle above, the title refers to five characters, specifically two pairs of alien refugees and an evil human who [[KarmaHoudini survived being prosecuted]] due to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]].
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: If it wasn't for the altruistic Prince of Daxam, Mon-El wouldn't have gotten into the ship. Meaning Mon-El would never have gotten to Earth and start season 1's CliffHanger.


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* WeHardlyKnewYe: In the beginning of the episode, the Prince of Daxam tricked Mon-El into boarding the last ship in order to save Mon-El from Daxam's catastrophe.
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* FantasticRacism: Not as great but Kara and Mon-El clearly still have issues letting go of the old hates between Krypton and Daxaam.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Mon-El only has SuperToughness and SuperStrength (not on par with a Kryptonian) here and none of the more exotic powers like Heat Vision or Freeze Breath which Daxamites and Kryptonians share in the comics.


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* BreakingSpeech: Roulette gives Kara one when she tries to shut her down.


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* InASingleBound: Mon-El can't fly, but jump really high and far.


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* KarmaHoudini: Roulette walks away free at the end of the episode.


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* ManipulativeBastard: Despite having some of them fight ''to the death'', Roulette still manages to convince some of the aliens that she is the one providing for them.


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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Roulette doesn't even consider Aliens real people.


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* ShoutOut: After Mon-El smashes one of Winn's training blocks, the latter says ''[[{{Film/Jaws}} We're gonna need a bigger block.]]''
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Draga is strong and tough enough to fight powerful aliens like Kryptonians....but retreats when Alex has a ''handgun'' trained on him.
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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Mon-El challenges a guy to an arm-wrestling match and accidentally dislocates his elbow from putting too much force into winning.
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* WhamShot: M'gann transforms into a ''White'' Martian.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: J'onn figured that the only reason why M'gann would participate in the fight club is because of this trope, and he pleads her not to punish herself anymore.

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* AchillesHeel: Draga has a bad knee from a fight on War World, which Mon-El tells Kara about after her first failed fight against him.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: M'gann recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians and helped her escape. In the final shot of the episode, it's revealed she is that White Martian.

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* AchillesHeel: Draga has a bad knee from a fight on War World, Warworld, which Mon-El tells Kara about after her first failed fight against him.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Played with - M'gann M'orzz recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians and helped her escape. In the final shot of the episode, it's revealed she is ''is'' that White Martian.



** Mon-El mentions having seen the gladiator matches on War World, and that Draga was a participant.

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** Mon-El mentions having seen the gladiator matches on War World, and that Warworld, with Draga as a participant. Warworld is the name of the artificial planet whom the Franchise/{{Superman}} villain Mongul was a participant.introduced into Comicbook/DCComics.


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** This is not the first time where [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E1TheCatAndTheCanary Roulette has organized an underground fight club]].

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: J'onn suspects M'Gann is hiding something when she refuses to share a psychic link, and is proven right when he learns she was participating in Roulette's fight club. He buys her explanation that she is simply trying not to remember the horrors, though the real reason is that he would almost certainly discover she is not who she claims to be.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: J'onn suspects M'Gann M'gann is hiding something when she refuses to share a psychic link, and is proven right when he learns she was participating in Roulette's fight club. He buys her explanation that she is simply trying not to remember the horrors, though the real reason is that he would almost certainly discover she is not who she claims to be.



* SuperToughness: Other than that and SuperStrength (which Winn says is nowhere near Supergirl's strength), Mon-El couldn't demonstrate any other Kryptonian super powers like HeatVision, SuperBreath, or {{Flight}}.

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* SuperToughness: Other than that and SuperStrength (which Winn says is nowhere near Supergirl's strength), Mon-El couldn't demonstrate any other Kryptonian super powers like HeatVision, SuperBreath, or {{Flight}}. Kara plans to help him on that front by the end of the episode.
* ThouShallNotKill: M'gann participates in the fight club of her own free will but refuses to kill.

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* {{Malaproper}}: Mon-El hasn't quite gotten slang down yet, thinking "awesome" is two words instead of one.



* SceneryGorn: Watch as the splendor of Daxam is laid to waste by the fragments of Krypton raining down upon it.



* ShipTease: Kara gets this with Mon-El.
** Sparks continue to fly between Alex and Maggie.

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* ShipTease: ShipTease:
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Kara gets this with Mon-El.
** Sparks continue to fly between Alex and Maggie. Alex seems more than a little disappointed that Maggie already has a girlfriend.



* SuperToughness: Other than that and SuperStrength (which Winn says is nowhere near Supergirl's strength), Mon-El couldn't demonstrate any other Kryptonian super powers like HeatVision, SuperBreath, or {{Flight}}.

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* SuperToughness: Other than that and SuperStrength (which Winn says is nowhere near Supergirl's strength), Mon-El couldn't demonstrate any other Kryptonian super powers like HeatVision, SuperBreath, or {{Flight}}.{{Flight}}.
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* SuperToughness: Other than that and SuperStrength, Mon-El couldn't demonstrate any other Kryptonian super powers like HeatVision or {{Flight}}.

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* SuperToughness: Other than that and SuperStrength, SuperStrength (which Winn says is nowhere near Supergirl's strength), Mon-El couldn't demonstrate any other Kryptonian super powers like HeatVision HeatVision, SuperBreath, or {{Flight}}.
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* ExactWords: M'Gann notes that she doesn't want to remember the horrors on Mars. She deliberately does not mention that the horrors she wants to forget are those perpetrated by ''her own'' people, not her oppressors.
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** Winn commented that Mon-El was at least able to leap over a building in a single bound.

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** Winn commented that Mon-El was at least able to leap over a building in a single bound.tall buildings InASingleBound.

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* AchillesHeel: Braga has a bad knee from a fight on War World, which Mon-El tells Kara about after her first failed fight against him.

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* AchillesHeel: Braga Draga has a bad knee from a fight on War World, which Mon-El tells Kara about after her first failed fight against him.



* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Winn lamely tries to deny having been out drinking with Mon-El until J'onn mentions that the alien had a 5'1" sidekick. Winn immediately protests that he's 5'9".

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Winn lamely tries to deny having been out drinking with Mon-El until J'onn mentions that the alien had a 5'1" 5'2" sidekick. Winn immediately protests that he's 5'9".



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: J'onn suspects M'Gann is hiding something when she refuses to share a psychic link, and is proven right when he learns she was participating in Roulette's fight club. He buys her explanation that she is simply trying not to remember the horrors, though the real reason is that he would almost certainly discover she is not who she claims to be.

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** Winn commented that Mon-El was at least able to leap over a building in a single bound.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: RightForTheWrongReasons: J'onn suspects M'Gann is hiding something when she refuses to share a psychic link, and is proven right when he learns she was participating in Roulette's fight club. He buys her explanation that she is simply trying not to remember the horrors, though the real reason is that he would almost certainly discover she is not who she claims to be.



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* ShipTease: Kara gets this with Mon-El.
** Sparks continue to fly between Alex and Maggie.

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* AchillesHeel: Mon-El gave Kara a tip to strike the alien gladiator's right leg since Mon-El injured the gladiator in the past.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: M'gann recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians.

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* AchillesHeel: Braga has a bad knee from a fight on War World, which Mon-El gave tells Kara a tip to strike the alien gladiator's right leg since Mon-El injured the gladiator in the past.
about after her first failed fight against him.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: M'gann recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians. Martians and helped her escape. In the final shot of the episode, it's revealed she is that White Martian.



* JerkassHasAPoint: As per usual, Snapper. He accurately says that while Kara may have a story, without sources it is baseless. When she gets her source ([[ExactWords Supergirl]]'s first person account), he lets her by.
** Roulette also has a point that even if her fight club shuts down, it won't stop the demand for gambling and death matches.
* MythologyGag: The banners seen briefly in the Royal Palace of Daxam resemble [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/superman/images/8/8e/Krypton_Flag.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090624234922 the flag of Krypton]] from the comics.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: InhumanableAlienRights: Roulette initially boasts that what she's doing is not illegal because the aliens she's forcing to fight don't have any rights.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Winn lamely tries to deny having been out drinking with Mon-El until J'onn mentions that the alien had a 5'1" sidekick. Winn immediately protests that he's 5'9".
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As per usual, Snapper. He accurately says that while Kara may have a story, without sources it is baseless. When she gets her source ([[ExactWords Supergirl]]'s first person account), he lets her by.
** Roulette also has a point that even if her fight club shuts down, it won't stop the demand for gambling and death matches.
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* MythologyGag: JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Roulette can't be busted for her alien FightClubbing. Operating without a liquor license, on the other hand, is fair game. Subverted when she's able to get the charges dropped.
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The banners seen briefly in the Royal Palace of Daxam resemble [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/superman/images/8/8e/Krypton_Flag.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090624234922 the flag of Krypton]] from the comics.comics.
** Mon-El mentions having seen the gladiator matches on War World, and that Draga was a participant.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: J'onn suspects M'Gann is hiding something when she refuses to share a psychic link, and is proven right when he learns she was participating in Roulette's fight club. He buys her explanation that she is simply trying not to remember the horrors, though the real reason is that he would almost certainly discover she is not who she claims to be.



* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Winn claims that he's not having a hangover after drinking out with Mon-El.

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* RousingSpeech: Kara gives one to the aliens protecting Roulette, convincing them that there's a better option than letting someone like her exploit them.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Roulette is out of prison on the same night thanks to unspecified friends.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Winn claims that he's not having a hangover after drinking out with Mon-El.Mon-El.
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* MythologyGag: The banners seen briefly in the Royal Palace of Daxam resemble [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/superman/images/8/8e/Krypton_Flag.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090624234922 the flag of Krypton]] from the comics.
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* AchillesHeel: Mon-El gave Kara a tip to strike the alien gladiator's right leg since Mon-El injured the gladiator in the past.

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: More like ''triple'' meaning. Kara and Mon-El are survivors as are J'onn and M'eggan. Meanwhile, Roulette proclaims just one survivor for her fights.

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\n* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: M'gann recounts that she survived the White Martians massacring the Green Martians because one of the White Martians refused to execute Green Martians.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: More like ''triple'' meaning. Kara and Mon-El are survivors as are J'onn and M'eggan. M'gann. Meanwhile, Roulette proclaims just one survivor for her fights.fights.
* DragonLady: Roulette has both the appearance and bossiness as the manager of her alien fight club.



* TheReveal: It turns out the M'eggan is not another Green Martian, but a White Martian in disguise.

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** Roulette also has a point that even if her fight club shuts down, it won't stop the demand for gambling and death matches.
* TheReveal: It turns out the M'eggan M'gann is not another Green Martian, but a White Martian in disguise.disguise.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Winn claims that he's not having a hangover after drinking out with Mon-El.
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* FuturisticPyramid: The Royal Palace of Daxam was a massive pyramid which dwarfed the skyscrapers of the nearby city.
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* HeroicSacrifice: The Prince of Daxam tricked Mon-El into boarding the only ship on the planet so that he would survive the devastation.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As per usual, Snapper. He accurately says that while Kara may have a story, without sources it is baseless. When she gets her source ([[ExactWords Supergirl]]'s first person account), he lets her by.
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* TheReveal: It turns out the M'eggan is not another Martian, but a white Martian in disguise.

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* TheReveal: It turns out the M'eggan is not another Green Martian, but a white White Martian in disguise.
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* FightClubbing: Roulette's fight club.

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* FightClubbing: Roulette's fight club.club.
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It's not a Mythology Gag to look like a character. That's just an adaptation of the character.


* MythologyGag
** Roulette looks just like the comic character, down to the snake tattoo under her dress.

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** Roulette looks just like the comic character, down to the snake tattoo under her dress.
FightClubbing: Roulette's fight club.
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Kara helps Mon-El adapt to Earth. J'onn reacts to finding another Martian. Alex and Maggie investigate an underground alien fight club run by Roulette.

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*DoubleMeaningTitle: More like ''triple'' meaning. Kara and Mon-El are survivors as are J'onn and M'eggan. Meanwhile, Roulette proclaims just one survivor for her fights.
*MythologyGag
** Roulette looks just like the comic character, down to the snake tattoo under her dress.

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