History Recap / YoungJusticeS3E23Terminus

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The heroes launch a rescue mission to save Violet, fully aware she is being used by Granny for the Anti-Life Equation, which they know can be used to strip people of their free will. Naturally, this ends with [[NiceJobBreakingItHero all the heroes under the Anti-Life Equation's control, not Violet's rescue]].
** Dick has ''not'' fully recovered from the X-Pit, despite his claims to the contrary. This impedes his effectiveness in combat and results in him hallucinating right in the middle of battle.
** Overlord is a machine, thus M'gann's mind powers don't affect him as they do Granny or the mind-controlled heroes, and he can trigger the release of the Anti-Life Equation to strip them all of their free will.

* RealityEnsues:

* TheReveal: Granny's device generates a Ghost Dimension field, which when combined with Halo's powers allows it to spread the Anti-Life Equation throughout the cosmos.

* AmbiguousEnding: Granny's device releases Anti-Life throughout...that galaxy? The universe? Just a bit of {{Symbolism}}? It's ''assumed'' the device can't be powerful enough to affect the whole universe in one burst, since then all the heroes would be affected and there wouldn't be anyone left to fix this mess, but the episode's title ''is'' “Terminus”...

* DownerEnding: Dick, Kaldur, M'gann, Conner, Artemis, and the rest of the rescue team are placed under the Anti-Life Equation's control, joining the Justice League members that had already been taken over (which includes Superman and Wonder Woman) at the start of the episode, and Granny has begun spreading the Anti-Life Equation across the universe.
* EnemyMine: Savage and the Light are the heroes' biggest enemy on an average day. Darkseid having the Anti-Life Equation means it's most certainly ''not'' the average day and they all have a ''much'' bigger problem. Thus, Savage provides the heroes with the location of The Orphanage with no real strings attached. Given how this episode [[DownerEnding ends]], this likely won't be the last time Savage and the Light attempt to assist the heroes before the season ends. Hopefully, future attempts will end better.

* BatmanGambit: Brion, knowing Granny can't resist cruelty, pretends to be losing control under her BreakingSpeech to provide a distraction so they can get the cerebral leash off Violet. Unfortunately, J'onn intervenes.

* HeroicRROD: Dick is still feeling the effects of the brainwashing, thus he's not at 100%. It's later revealed that that's because the brainwashing was actually being controlled by the Anti-Life Equation and it damages normal humans more than it does metas.

* IShallTauntYou: Granny taunts Brion about how his parents died, his brother and country abandoned him, his girlfriend is now a mindless puppet, and a confidante (which Brion assumes to be Jace but is likely referring to Tara, his own sister) betrayed him.

* TheReveal: Granny's device generates a field like that of the X-Pit, which when combined with Halo's powers allows it to spread the Anti-Life Equation throughout the cosmos.

'''Conner''': Yeah, but that doesn't mean forgetting.

* CharacterDevelopment: Brion has matured to the point where the team puts him in charge of Alpha Squad, and when Granny tries to exploit his HairTriggerTemper he only pretends to give in to provide a distraction.
* DarkestHour: The entire episode sets up the worst possible situation for the remaining heroes. The Justice League members (which includes Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and all three of Earth's Green Lanterns, among others) that were on the space goodwill mission are taken control of by Granny with the Anti-Life Equation. The rescue team sent to retrieve Violet (which includes most of the Covert Ops team and the Justice League chairman) fall suit. This leaves only the Outsiders (sans Brion), Batman Incorporated, what remains of the Justice League on Earth (sans Kaldur), [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Black Lightning]], the ''one'' remaining member of the Covert Ops team (Traci Thirteen), and the various other heroes scattered across the universe (which isn't as many as it may sound) to fix this mess, somehow. Oh, and [[TooDesperateToBePicky The Light]], provided the desperate situation doesn't lead most of them [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to turn on each other]].

** The situation near the end of the episode is bad enough that M'gann is willing to employ her MindRape powers she swore off after Season 2 on all the heroes being controlled by Granny, and Kaldur is completely in support of this. Like with Vandal, it's AllForNothing, because it doesn't affect [[AmbiguousRobots Overlord]], who triggers the release of the Anti-Life Equation.

* MoodWhiplash: The hallucination sequence and the scene immediately following it. It features numerous tongue-in-cheek references to [[LighterAndSofter Season 1]] and the heroes defeating their enemies is shown via arcade fighter-style visuals, with the heroes looking like they are essentially using [[CheatCode cheat codes]] to win. Afterward, the team has a small moment that seems intended to honor the one fallen member [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether of the original team]] that [[HeroicSacrifice can't be with them]]. Considering what swiftly [[TheBadGuyWins follows]], one has to wonder if maybe they should've saved that for a more triumphant episode. Provided it wasn't meant to serve some [[{{Foreshadowing}} other]] purpose.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: This episode reunites the five surviving members of the original Season 1 team (not counting Zatanna and Raquel, who joined later in the season). This doesn't go as well as fans [[DownerEnding had hoped]].

* MoodWhiplash: The hallucination sequence and the scene immediately following it. It features numerous tongue-in-cheek references to [[LighterAndSofter Season 1]] and the heroes defeating their enemies is shown via arcade fighter-style visuals, with the heroes looking like they are essentially using [[CheatCode cheat codes]] to win. Afterward, the team has a small moment that seems intended to honor the one fallen member of the original team that [[HeroicSacrifice can't be with them]]. Considering what swiftly [[TheBadGuyWins follows]], one has to wonder if maybe they should've saved that for a more triumphant episode. Provided it wasn't meant to serve some [[{{Foreshadowing}} other]] purpose.

* DarkestHour: The entire episode sets up the worst possible situation for the remaining heroes. The Justice League members (which includes Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and all three of Earth's Green Lanterns, among others) that were on the space goodwill mission are taken control of by Granny with the Anti-Life Equation. The rescue team sent to retrieve Violet (which includes most of the Covert Ops team and the Justice League chairman) fall suit. This leaves only the Outsiders (sans Brion), Batman Incorporated, what remains of the Justice League on Earth (sans Kaldur), [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Black Lightning]], the ''one'' remaining member of the Covert Ops team (Traci Thirteen), and the various other heroes scattered across the universe to fix this mess, somehow. Oh, and [[TooDesperateToBePicky The Light]], provided the desperate situation doesn't lead most of them [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to turn on each other]].

* EnemyMine: Savage and the Light are the heroes' biggest enemy on the average day. Darkseid having the Anti-Life Equation means it's most certainly NOT the average day and they all have a ''much'' bigger problem. Thus, Savage provides the heroes with the location of The Orphanage with no real strings attached. Given how this episode [[DownerEnding ends]], this likely won't be the last time Savage and the Light attempt to assist the heroes before the season ends. Hopefully, future attempts will end better.

** M'gann using her MindRape powers, which she considers the equivalent of sacrificing her soul, doesn't stop Overlord from triggering the device, resulting in her and the rest of the team being taken control of with the Anti-Life Equation.

* DarkestHour: Possibly only the opening minutes of the DarkestHour, at that. The episode ''starts'' with the Justice League members (which includes Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and all three of Earth's Green Lanterns, among others) that were on the space goodwill mission being taken control of by Granny with the Anti-Life Equation. It ends with the entire rescue team (which includes most of the Covert Ops team and the Justice League chairman) also being taken control of by Granny with Anti-Life Equation. This leaves only the Outsiders (sans Brion), Batman Incorporated, what remains of the Justice League on Earth (sans Kaldur), [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Black Lightning]], the ''one'' remaining member of the Covert Ops team (Traci Thirteen), and the various other heroes scattered across the universe to fix this mess, somehow. Oh, and [[TooDesperateToBePicky The Light]], provided the desperate situation doesn't lead most of them [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to turn on each other]].

** The situation near the end of the episode is bad enough that M'gann is willing to employ her MindRape powers she swore off after Season 2 on all the heroes being controlled by Granny, and Kaldur is completely in support of this. Like with Vandal, it's AllForNothing, because it doesn't effect [[AmbiguousRobots Overlord]], who triggers the release of Anti-Life.

* PsychicBlockDefense: Victims of the Anti-Life Equation are completely undetectable to psychics, outside when they directly use psychic abilities on them. This renders the mind-controlled Justice Leaguers undetectable to the rescue party until they ambush them.

* {{Implied}}: Granny uses the Anti-Life Equation multiple times in this episode from within her satellite. It's been previously established that the Orphanage is where Granny is keeping all the metahuman kids she's gathered, and it's stated the Justice League was launching at raid to rescue those kids. That would mean Granny now likely has an [[FromBadToWorse army of Anti-Life-controlled metahuman kids]] in addition to the Justice League members and the rescue team. And unlike with the mind control chips, Anti-Life doesn't have an obvious way to be removed.

* UnluckilyLucky: If Jefferson hadn't said ScrewThisImOuttaHere in the previous episode, there's a good chance he would've gone on the rescue mission to save Violet and also been placed under the control of the Anti-Life Equation. The same applies to Traci Thirteen, who was off training in Fate's Tower and couldn't be contacted, and avoids the same fate.

* TheBadGuyWins: Despite the Team racing to the Orphanage, they're unable to stop Granny Goodness from unleashing the Anti-Life Equation throughout the cosmos, and fall victim to it themselves.

** Darkseid acquiring the Anti-Life Equation is so bad that Vandal Savage doesn't bother with the manipulative tactics he usually employs to get the heroes to do what he wants. He walks up to the Outsider's tower and offers the location of Granny's Orphanage to the heroes, with his only condition being that they [[BestServedCold tell Granny who sent them]]. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this doesn't result in the heroes [[AllForNothing succeeding]].

** The whole rescue mission itself wound up being for nothing, as they don't rescue Violet, and actually makes the situation [[FromBadToWorse much worse]], with the members of the rescue team being taken control of by the Anti-Life Equation.

* DarkestHour: Possibly only the opening minutes of the DarkestHour, at that. The episode ''starts'' with the Justice League members (which includes Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and all three of Earth's Green Lanterns, among others) that were on the space goodwill mission being taken control of by Granny with the Anti-Life Equation. It ends with the entire rescue team (which includes most of the Covert Ops team and the Justice League chairman) also being taken control of by Granny with Anti-Life Equation. This leaves only the Outsiders (sans Brion), Batman Incorporated, what remains of the Justice League on Earth (sans Kaldur), [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Black Lightning]], and the ''one'' remaining member of the Covert Ops team (Traci Thirteen) to fix this mess, somehow. Oh, and [[TooDesperateToBePicky The Light]], provided the desperate situation doesn't lead most of them [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to turn on each other]].
* DownerEnding: Dick, Kaldur, M'gann, Conner, Artemis, and the rest of the rescue team are placed until the Anti-Life Equation's control, joining the Justice League members that had already been taken over (which includes Superman and Wonder Woman) at the start of the episode, and Granny has begun spreading the Anti-Life Equation across the universe.
* EnemyMine: Savage and the Light are the heroes biggest enemy on the average day. Darkseid having the Anti-Life Equation means it's not the average day and they all have a ''much'' bigger problem. Thus, Savage provides the heroes with the location of The Orphanage with no real strings attached. Given how this episode [[DownerEnding ends]], this likely won't be the last time Savage and the Light attempt to assist the heroes before the season ends. Hopefully, future attempts will end better.

* ArtShift: When Dick starts to hallucinate, the Team all shift back to their Season One looks.
* TheBadGuyWins: Despite the Team racing to Apokalips, they're unable to stop Granny Goodness from unleashing the Anti-Life Equation throughout the cosmos.

* TheWorfEffect: Green Lanterns Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner and John Stewart, along with Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Icon, Captain Atom and Elongated Man all get struck down by the Anti-Life Equation. The Team follows suit at the end.

* HeroicRROD: Dick is still feeling the effects of the brainwashing, thus he's not at 100%. It's later revealed that that's because the brainwashing was actually being controlled by the Anti-Life Equation and it damages normal humans than it does metas.

* HeroicRROD: Dick is still feeling the effects of the brainwashing, thus he's not at 100%.
* TheWorfEffect: Green Lanterns Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner and John Stewart, along with Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Icon, Captain Atom and Elongated Man all get struck down by the Anti-Life Equation.

* HeroicRROD: Dick is still feeling the effects of the brainwashing, thus he's not at 100%