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* DropTheHammer: During their first fight, Rankins conjures up a hammer against Kelly.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: When Joey was first introduced, it's revealed he can't really control his EMP powers and they start going out of control when he's agitated or upset. Despite being on death's door, his powers don't manifest in the slightest.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: When Joey was first introduced, it's it was revealed he can't really control his EMP powers and they start going out of control when he's agitated or upset. Despite being on death's door, door in this episode, his powers don't manifest in the slightest.
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* AbsenteeActor:
** Despite taking place at the same time period as last episode, Mxy doesn't appear.
** William is also absent again.
** Despite taking place at the same time period as last episode, Mxy doesn't appear.
** William is also absent again.
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* AdultFear: Joey is first caught in a building collapse and is then on the verge of suffocating throughout the entire episode.
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** Councilwoman Rankin's first reaction to seeing the Ormfell collapse is to think how she can profit politically from it. And when she gets 5th dimensional powers from the debris, she jumps on the opportunity to tear down the Heights (and later the whole city) and remake it how she sees fit.
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** Councilwoman Rankin's first reaction to seeing the Ormfell collapse is to think how she can profit politically from it. She also threatens to cut down a hospital's funding if they don't give her the expensive treatment she wants. And when she gets 5th dimensional powers from the debris, she jumps on the opportunity to tear down the Heights (and later the whole city) and remake it how she sees fit.
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* AVerySpecialEpisode: About ignoring the problems of minority communities.
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* AVerySpecialEpisode: VerySpecialEpisode: About ignoring the problems of minority communities.
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* AdultFear: Joey is first caught in a building collapse and is then on the verge of suffocating throughout the entire episode.
* BigDamnHeroes: Kelly blocks the baton from one of Rankin's bodyguards, who was just about to batter Orlando.
* BlingOfWar: Brainy helps Kelly in recolouring the Guardian armor golden.
* BlingOfWar: Brainy helps Kelly in recolouring the Guardian armor golden.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode mostly focuses on Kelly and her struggles.
* DePower: In the end, Rankin is depowered and arrested.
* DePower: In the end, Rankin is depowered and arrested.
* DropTheHammer: During their first fight, Rankins conjures up a hammer against Kelly.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Andrea refuses to report on the suffering of the people of the Heights, only focusing on traffic delays, since her viewership doesn't care about the Heights.
** Rankin once more proves herself to be a ruthless piece of work, who plans on remodelling the Heights without any regards for its citizens.
** Andrea refuses to report on the suffering of the people of the Heights, only focusing on traffic delays, since her viewership doesn't care about the Heights.
** Rankin once more proves herself to be a ruthless piece of work, who plans on remodelling the Heights without any regards for its citizens.
* MustMakeAmends: Supergirl realizes her blind spot in regards to the social issues Kelly raised and vows to do better.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While it makes everybody healthy again, Rankin's de-powering also causes an energy spike which helps Nxyly locate the Courage Totem.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While it makes everybody healthy again, Rankin's de-powering also causes an energy spike which helps Nxyly locate the Courage Totem.
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* OutOfFocus: Andrea only has a single brief scene.
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* OutOfFocus: OutOfFocus:
** Andrea only has a single briefscene.scene.
** Lena only has two, the first one returning to National City and the second one receiving the book that Florence mailed her.
* PoliceBrutality: Or rather, Bodyguard brutality, as one of Rankin's security detail starts assaulting Orlanda merely for speaking out against his boss.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Once more the series tackles real-life social and racial issues.
** Andrea only has a single brief
** Lena only has two, the first one returning to National City and the second one receiving the book that Florence mailed her.
* PoliceBrutality: Or rather, Bodyguard brutality, as one of Rankin's security detail starts assaulting Orlanda merely for speaking out against his boss.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Once more the series tackles real-life social and racial issues.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Kelly explodes on the Superfriends for being so focused on capturing Nxyly that they're ignoring the people of the Heights who are suffering.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Kelly explodes on the Superfriends for being so focused on capturing Nxyly that they're ignoring the people of the Heights who are suffering.suffering.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Brainy gives Kelly a much needed pep talk.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Brainy gives Kelly a much needed pep talk.
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** Like he did two episodes ago, Brainy encourages children to eat vegetables.
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* TitleDrop: Kelly asks Kara to acknowledge her blind spots.
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* JerkassRealization: The Superfriends have a minor one near the end when it dawns on them that they really haven't been listening to Kelly, much less supporting her or the Heights community with the issues they have to deal with.[[note]] Keep in mind that a couple of episodes ago, Supergirl was assuring Orlando that, as an alien herself, she fully understood his situation. Of course, as an alien ''who looks like a blonde white woman'', she really ''doesn't'', and she's forced to acknowledge that fact and come to terms with it here.[[/note]]
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* JerkassRealization: The Superfriends have a minor one near the end when it dawns on them that they really haven't been listening to Kelly, much less supporting her or the Heights community with the issues they have to deal with.[[note]] Keep in mind that a couple of episodes ago, Supergirl was assuring Orlando that, as an alien herself, she fully understood his situation. Of course, as an alien ''who looks like a blonde white woman'', woman'' and has a professional middle-class career, she really ''doesn't'', and she's forced to acknowledge that fact and come to terms with it here.[[/note]]
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* {{Artistic License Biology}}/{{Artistic License Medicine}}: Joey is suffering from difficulty breathing due to smoke and dust inhalation. Instead of having Orlando or Kelly carry him into the ER or at least putting him in a wheelchair, they instead have him walk normally, which would only make the situation worse.
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* {{Artistic License Biology}}/{{Artistic License Medicine}}: ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Joey is suffering from difficulty breathing due to smoke and dust inhalation. Instead of having Orlando or Kelly carry him into the ER or at least putting him in a wheelchair, they instead have him walk normally, which would only make the situation worse.
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* FightSceneFailure: When Diggle beats up Rankin's security agents, the knockout blow against one agent clearly does not connect but we hear the punching sound and the agent crumples to the ground regardless.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: Guardian goes from the roof of the hospital to the street below in less than five seconds.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: Guardian goes from the roof of the hospital to the street below in less than five seconds.seconds (it's possible Kara flew her down).
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* JerkassRealization: The Superfriends have a minor one near the end when it dawns on them that they really haven't been listening to Kelly, much less supporting her or the Heights community with the issues they have to deal with.[[note]] Keep in mind that a couple of episodes ago, Supergirl was assuring Orlando that, as an alien herself, she fully understood his situation. Of course, as an alien ''who looks like a blonde white woman'', she really ''doesn't'', and she's forced to acknowledge that fact and come to terms with it here.[[/note]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Rankin finally crosses the line from snobbish, {{corrupt|Politician}}, selfish, power-crazed, racist {{Jerkass}} to outright terrorist supervillain when she declares her intent to destroy National City and rebuild it from the ground up [[InTheirOwnImage according to her own vision]].
* LifeDrain: Rankin's new power gives her the ability to do this, draining the energy from the others who were affected by the blast to power herself.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Rankin finally crosses the line from snobbish, {{corrupt|Politician}}, selfish, power-crazed, racist {{Jerkass}} to outright terrorist supervillain when she declares her intent to destroy National City and rebuild it from the ground up [[InTheirOwnImage according to her own vision]].
* LifeDrain: Rankin's new power gives her the ability to do this, draining the energy from the others who were affected by the blast to power herself.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Rankin demands an experimental -- and expensive -- treatment under threat of having the hospital's healthcare grant refused.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: Rankin becomes this, denouncing those whose energy she is draining as weak, and later declaring that she will "sweep away the useless and the weak" and make the city "perfect".
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* AVerySpecialEpisode: About ignoring the problems of minority communities.
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* FightSceneFailure: When Diggle beats up Rankin's security agents, the knockout blow against one agent clearly does not connect but we hear the punching sound and the agent crumples to the ground regardless.
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* CorruptPolitician:
** Councilwoman Rankin's first reaction to seeing the Ormfell collapse is to think how she can profit politically from it. And when she gets 5th dimensional powers from the debris, she jumps on the opportunity to tear down the Heights (and later the whole city) and remake it how she sees fit.
** There's also the other councilwoman who is seen accepting a bribe from Rankin to vote her way.
** Councilwoman Rankin's first reaction to seeing the Ormfell collapse is to think how she can profit politically from it. And when she gets 5th dimensional powers from the debris, she jumps on the opportunity to tear down the Heights (and later the whole city) and remake it how she sees fit.
** There's also the other councilwoman who is seen accepting a bribe from Rankin to vote her way.
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* ShipTease: Lena gets two messages, an alert talking about Supergirl fighting the giant cat from last episode and a message from Kelly asking her to return. It's the first that causes Lena to immediately abandon her magic training and return to National City.
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* ShipTease: Lena gets two messages, an alert talking about Supergirl fighting the giant cat from last episode and a message from Kelly asking her to return. It's the first that causes Lena to immediately abandon her magic training and return to National City.City.
* WhatTheHellHero: Kelly explodes on the Superfriends for being so focused on capturing Nxyly that they're ignoring the people of the Heights who are suffering.
* WhatTheHellHero: Kelly explodes on the Superfriends for being so focused on capturing Nxyly that they're ignoring the people of the Heights who are suffering.
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* RunningGag: Subverted. After several instances of being useless in the field, this time Sentinel halts a building collapse by firing some kind of stabilizing energy beam from her Hand of the Soldier.
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* RunningGag: Subverted. After several instances of being useless in the field, field this season, this time Sentinel halts a building collapse by firing some kind of stabilizing energy beam from her Hand of the Soldier.
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* RunningGag: Subverted. After several instances of being useless in the field, this time Sentinel halts a building collapse by firing some kind of stabilizing energy beam from her Hand of the Soldier.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Brainy sees Diggle striding purposefully to the tower's elevator and asks whether he is returning to Metropolis. Diggle says yes and adds the cryptic remark, "Worlds await." Brainy does not appear particularly surprised to hear this.
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* ContinuityNod: Diggle name drops both [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] and [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] during his pep talks with Kelly.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Diggle name drops both [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] and [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] during his pep talks withKelly. Kelly.
** Kara mentions her participation in the march against the Children of Liberty in Season 4.
** Diggle name drops both [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] and [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] during his pep talks with
** Kara mentions her participation in the march against the Children of Liberty in Season 4.
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* DreadlockRasta: Kelly's new Guardian outfit includes several long dreads coming out of the helmet. Presumably, they are fake, since Kelly has nowhere near enough hair to produce them naturally.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: Guardian goes from the roof of the hospital to the street below in less than five seconds.
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* {{Artistic License Biology}}/{{Artistic License Medicine}}: Joey is suffering from difficulty breathing due to smoke and dust inhalation. Instead of having Orlando or Kelly carry him into the ER or at least putting him in a wheelchair, they instead have him walk normally, which would only make the situation worse.
* TheBusCameBack: Diggle once again appears in another Arrowverse show.
* ContinuityNod: Diggle name drops both [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] and [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] during his pep talks with Kelly.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: When Joey was first introduced, it's revealed he can't really control his EMP powers and they start going out of control when he's agitated or upset. Despite being on death's door, his powers don't manifest in the slightest.
* TheBusCameBack: Diggle once again appears in another Arrowverse show.
* ContinuityNod: Diggle name drops both [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] and [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] during his pep talks with Kelly.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: When Joey was first introduced, it's revealed he can't really control his EMP powers and they start going out of control when he's agitated or upset. Despite being on death's door, his powers don't manifest in the slightest.
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* AbsenteeActor:
** Despite taking place at the same time period as last episode, Mxy doesn't appear.
** William is also absent again.
* OutOfFocus: Andrea only has a single brief scene.
* ShipTease: Lena gets two messages, an alert talking about Supergirl fighting the giant cat from last episode and a message from Kelly asking her to return. It's the first that causes Lena to immediately abandon her magic training and return to National City.
