History Recap / WithThisRingEpisode97

* AcceptableTarget: Black Lantern Paul works with the local John Constantine and Zatanna to recharge his ring. John summons a succession of demons, Zatanna forces them to feel emotion, and then Black Lantern Paul harvests their hearts.

* {{Regeneration}}: Black Lantern Paul, when cut off from his exit portal, ''tears off his own ring finger'' and throws it through the portal. Some time later, after his main body is destroyed, he wakes up on the other side, having been rebuilt by the ring.

This episode is a direct continuation of the previous one. It takes place outside the normal flow of time, but returns to the original timeline on April 2.

* TheBerserker: When confronted by Lanterns wielding the green light, Red Paul tries to restrain himself, but when he sees evidence that they're vulnerable to other colours as usual, and is then offended by their brusqueness and presumption, he succumbs to his ring's design and attacks them in a frenzy. Not only does his [[PaintingTheMedium punctuation turn]] [[ColorCodedEmotions red]], we also see an emotion spike in his internal monologue, identified by a preceding exclamation mark. He has the upper hand, too, despite being outnumbered, until Indigo Paul calms him down.

* DidntSeeThatComing: The failure to "acquire" Peter Wynne is of only minor concern to Krona, who can easily replace him. But the fact that a Clayface was acquired, someone able to resist Krona's paralytic technology, escape from the tuning fork, and mimic the appearance of a Manhunter robot? That was unexpected.

** Clayface splits himself in two so that one can go looking for a way out while the other keeps impersonating Peter Wynne in their pod. Initially the spawn is a small blob with limited intelligence, just pre-programmed instructions, but it then demonstrates the ability to absorb more material and develop into a full copy. Fortunately, it is horrified by the fact that the process resulted in a sapient being, and doesn't intend to [[GrayGoo repeat it]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding After everything that has happened to him, Time Trapper Paul finally gets what he wants and goes home.

* HeelRealization: Overgirl finally gets that the National Socialist government was pointless, and that all the suffering that they inflicted on everyone had no point. She gets this when she visits the Jewish alternate version of her.

* SealedGoodInACan: Time Trapper gives Clayface the mission of freeing the Paragon and providing him with an orange ring. When he succeeds, the Paragon is able to subvert the attacking Manhunter robots, summon all the rings right out of the Orange Manhunter Titan fighting the Gold Lantern Corps (greatly weakening it), free all the other Pauls, and put Krona on the back foot.

* AcceptableTarget: Black Lantern Paul works with the local John Constantine and Zatanna to recharge his ring. John summons a succession of demons, Zatanna forces them to feel emotion, and then Paul harvests their hearts.

* DidntSeeThatComing: The failure to "acquire" Peter Wynne is of only minor concern to Krona, who can easily replace him. But the fact that, instead, a Clayface was acquired, able to resist Krona's paralytic technology, escape from the tuning fork, and mimic the appearance of a Manhunter robot? That was unexpected.

* SealedGoodInACan: Time Trapper gives Clayface the mission of freeing the Paragon and providing him with an orange ring. When he succeeds, Paragon is able to subvert the attacking Manhunter robots, summon all the rings right out of the Orange Manhunter Titan fighting the Gold Lantern Corps (greatly depowering it), free all the other Pauls, and put Krona on the back foot.

This episode is a direct continuation of the previous one.

--> '''Paul (internal)''': [[red: !TAKE THE DATA FROM THEIR BURNING CORPSES!]]

** Clayface splits himself in two so that one can go looking for a way out while the other keeps impersonating Peter Wynne in their pod. Initially the spawn is a small blob with limited intelligence, just preprogrammed instructions, but it then demonstrates the ability to absorb more material and develop into a full copy. Fortunately, it is horrified by the fact that the process resulted in a sapient being, and doesn't intend to [[GrayGoo repeat it]].

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Black Lantern Paul gets a "Department of Common Sense" interrupt where he advises the Gold Lantern Corps commander to simply give him a secure channel to contact Red and Indigo Paul and warn them about the Red Queen infiltrator.

* YourHeadASplode: Krona's death in the power of the Dream Twister is quite messy.

* SealedGoodInACan: Time Trapper gives Clayface the mission of freeing the Paragon and providing him with an orange ring. When he succeeds, Paragon quickly frees and arms the other Pauls and gets Krona on the back foot.

** Red Queen's power creates alternate versions of herself and later merges with them to gain their experience and skills. However, Krona has captured many of her copies and used them to empower his Manhunter robots. One of those copies impersonates the original, apparently still under Krona's influence.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Black Lantern Paul gets a "Department of Common Sense" interrupt where he advises the Gold Lantern Corps commander to simply give him a secure channel to contact Red and Indigo Paul and warn them about the Red Queen infiltrator.

Meanwhile, Clayface of Earth 12, who was mistakenly acquired instead of the local Paul, is attached to Krona's reality-breaking device, along with hundreds of alternate Pauls including the captured Paragon. However, Clayface is unaffected by Krona's paralytic technology due to his unusual physiology. He escapes, makes contact with the imprisoned Time Trapper, recovers an orange ring, and frees the Paragon. The Paragon then frees his alternate versions and they attack Krona together, banishing him to a universe whose physical laws make it difficult for him to return.

Black Lantern Paul reveals that the version of Red Queen who escaped Time Trapper's base was not the original, but a plant by Krona, with her brain trapped in a Manhunter chassis. Upon exposure, she attacks Red Paul and Indigo Paul, but the local Justice League helps to overpower her, and Black Lantern Paul makes another black ring to revive her with a proper body. She helps in building a device to block Krona's work, triggering a showdown with his giant Manhunter robots wielding the rings stolen from alternate Pauls.

Meanwhile, Clayface of Earth 12, who was mistakenly acquired instead of the local Paul, is attached to Krona's reality-breaking device, along with hundreds of alternate Pauls including the captured Paragon. However, Clayface is unaffected by Krona's paralytic technology due to his unusual physiology. He feigns helplessness, then escapes and makes contact with the imprisoned Time Trapper, who instructs him in how to free the Paragon. Clayface breaks the Paragon's imprisonment pod and supplies him with a recovered orange ring, which the Paragon uses to free his alternate versions and attack Krona, eventually succeeding in banishing him to a universe whose physical laws make it difficult for him to return.

Meanwhile, Clayface of Earth 12, who was mistakenly acquired instead of the local Paul, is attached to Krona's reality-breaking device, along with hundreds of alternate Pauls including the captured Paragon. However, Clayface is unaffected by Krona's paralytic technology due to his unusual physiology. He feigns helplessness, then escapes and makes contact with the imprisoned Time Trapper, who instructs him in how to free the Paragon. Clayface breaks the Paragon's imprisonment pod and supplies him with a recovered orange ring, which the Paragon uses to free his alternate versions and attack Krona.

* {{Callback}}: Several of the alternate Pauls from long past chapters show up, such as Sybarite (who embeds a ring in his chest), Lord Protector Paul (who has yellow [[EnlightenmentSuperPowers enlightenment]] and summons several yellow rings to help), and what looks like Common Sense Paul (who grabs Clayface and goes to investigate Krona's facility when it's clear that they can't easily damage Krona directly).