Line #12 Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E9GrudgeMatch


1	Huntress starts following Black Canary after noticing she seems a little off her game and discovers that Roulette has revived Meta-Brawl, but this time with a twist. Called the "Glamour Slam", and featuring only female fighters, she has taken over the minds of Justice League members and forces them to fight in brutal cage matches with each other.
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4	!! This episode includes examples of:
5	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Roulette seems to enjoy using this during her announcements, but the crowning one has to be calling Black Canary the "sultry siren of the sonic smackdown".
6	* BeamOWar: A sonic one between Canary and Sonar. It's hilariously brief when Canary [[CurbStompBattle absolutely overpowers him]] and his gun explodes.
7	* TheCameo: What appears to be Nightwing (kept in silhouette and unnamed due to the Bat-Embargo) watches as Huntress comes into town.
8	* CatFight: Roulette and Tala nearly get into one when Roulette starts getting a little too handsy with Lex.
9	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The Question during the "what are you wearing?" phone conversation.
10	* CurbStompBattle: Wonder Woman completely trounces Shayera and Vixen. Luckily, Canary and Huntress are able to break the trance before she's able to [[PutTheirHeadsTogether smash their heads together]].
11	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Roulette's whole intent is to fund Luthor's plan; with access to mind control powerful enough to work on Wonder Woman, you'd think there'd be better ways to profit than FightClubbing.
12	* DesignatedGirlFight: Averted. The episode primarily involves female characters and the males who are featured fighting (the mook guards and Sonar) get their asses absolutely handed to them.
13	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Sonar seems to get a little too much enjoyment from watching Tala and Roulette nearly getting into a fight. This inspired the idea to create a new Meta-Brawl featuring only female fighters.
14	* HypocriticalHumor:
15	** Canary and Huntress discuss the stereotype that superheroes only use violence to solve their problems. They proceed to settle their rivalry with a final rematch.
16	** The ''Question'', of all people, points out the Huntress is a little too obsessed with Black Canary.
17	* IntimateTelecommunications: The whole "what are you wearing?" phone conversation between Huntress and Question. Fortunately for the kids, he has no idea how the game works.
18	-->'''Huntress''': So, what are you wearing?\
19	'''Question''': Blue overcoat. Fedora.\
20	'''Huntress''': ''[sighs]'' You really stink at this.\
21	'''Question''': Orange socks?\
22	''[Huntress hangs up]''
23	* {{Irony}}:
24	** Earlier in the series, Canary attempted to get Wildcat out of superhuman cage fighting, who was the star attraction of the show. Now here Canary is (unwillingly) part of the brawl and the main undefeated champion of the Glamour Slam. Possibly an EnforcedTrope, as Roulette may have specifically picked her as [[EvilIsPetty possible payback]] for ruining her business the last time around.
25	** Painfully, Shayera and Vixen had earlier talked about their (un)settled rivalry over John Stewart, where Shayera noted she couldn't hurt Vixen the way her Hawkworld culture would want her to. During the fight with a mind-controlled Wonder Woman, Diana battles Vixen and uses her as a shield just as Shayera is swinging her nth-metal Mace down. Horrified, Shayera has to pull back before she leveled a blow that ''could hurt'' Diana but ''kill'' Vixen. Leaving them both vulnerable to a serious beatdown by Wonder Woman.
26	* KubrickStare: A brief, really scary one from Shayera when under mind control.
27	* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The long-haired figure on the rooftop watching Black Canary and Huntress enter Bludhaven is indeed Nightwing. At the time, Batman's supporting characters were ExiledFromContinuity (known at the time as "the Bat-Embargo"), so production snuck Nightwing in.
28	* LightheartedRematch: The episode with Canary and Huntress challenging each other to one final match just for fun, [[EvasiveFightThreadEpisode cutting to the credits]] moments before they make contact.
29	* MassOhCrap: Black Canary, Huntress, Shayera, and Vixen after being released from their mind control once they see who their next opponent is: a mind-controlled Wonder Woman.
30	* MindControl: How Lex and Roulette force members of the League to fight. Sonar tampered with the League's comm-link earpieces to put them in an obedient trance.
31	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: {{Brainwashed}} Black Canary breaks her own communicator before Huntress can use it to call in TheCavalry. But since said communicator was keeping her brainwashed, she ends up freeing herself.
32	* NonActionBigBad: Roulette subverts this. Huntress expects that she's the type that likes to watch others fight and doesn't get in on the action, but then Roulette breaks out the stilettos in her hair and catches her by surprise by turning out to be an actually decent fighter.
33	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
34	** Huntress mowing through the security guards when the elevator door closes. Cut to her stepping out and they're just slumped over, unconscious on the floor.
35	** The fight between her and Black Canary after the episode, too.
36	* SequelEpisode: To Season Four's "The Cat and the Canary" (and to a lesser extent "Double Date").
37	* StupidEvil:
38	** Roulette brainwashes five members of the Justice League (including two founding members) and has them in one place at the same time, no possible way to fight superhumans herself other than Sonar and a few mooks, and never considering what might happen if it all went wrong and her devices stopped working. Which they did. Kind of hard to call this idea anything ''but'' Stupid Evil.
39	** Also questionable is using the mind control to force the superwomen to fight each other in a rather low-scale enterprise, rather than use that mind control to affect ''all'' League members into committing high-value robberies or ''worse''.
40	* VitriolicBestBuds: Huntress and Canary seem to be developing into this by the end of the episode.
41	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Subverted and justified with Roulette. The simpler solution would've been to just kill Huntress and Canary, but her greed and need to make a profit get the better of her and she puts the two in a cage match. Of course, she had good reason to be confident that they would both get killed as they were facing off against Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl and Vixen, three major superheroes who have consistently proven they are forces to be reckoned with.
42	* WorfHadTheFlu: Black Canary is usually considered to be an equal, if not superior fighter over Huntress, but Huntress is able to defeat her in the parking lot in this episode. This can be justified based on the fact that Canary was mind-controlled at the time, and as is seen at the start of the episode, this makes her sloppy and less competent in battle. Even then, Huntress has to capitalise on the brief moment where Canary's mind control is broken and she's all dazed and confused to finish her off.
43	* YouDoNotWantToKnow:
44	-->'''Shayera''': ''[after being freed of the mind control during the cage match]'' I don't think I want to know.\
45	'''Vixen''': We're all in a cage match fighting to the death.\
46	'''Shayera''': Yeah, see?
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