Line #95 Recap/Supergirl2015S3E8CrisisOnEarthXPart1


1	->This episode is the first of the four-part ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' {{Crossover}} event between ''Series/Supergirl2015'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'', ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. The episodes in chronological order are "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1", "[[Recap/ArrowS6E8CrisisOnEarthXPart2 Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2]]", "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S4E8CrisisOnEarthXPart3 Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3]]", and "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E8CrisisOnEarthXPart4 Crisis on Earth-X, Part 4]]".
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3	It is the day before Barry Allen and Iris West's wedding, and some "special guests" show up to make this a momentous occasion. In the ceremony itself, before they can exchange their vows, some uninvited guests arrive: Nazis.
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8	* ActionDressRip: Sara and Alex, in tandem, when the Earth-X soldiers crash the wedding.
9	* ActionPrologue:
10	** On Earth-X, Dark Arrow cleans out a Resistance Base and kills Guardian.
11	** In Central City, Flash is going up against King Shark.
12	** In Star City, Green Arrow is fighting a bunch of ninjas.
13	** 1183 AD Sherwood Forest, the Legends are robbing a bunch of royal tax collectors.
14	** On Earth-38 in National City, Kara is fighting a Dominator.
15	* AesopAmnesia: Kara has failed to learn that there is nothing wrong with wanting to have love interests. She accuses herself of not learning that her life should just be about Supergirl.
16	* AlternateHistoryNaziVictory: Earth-X is the result of the Nazis winning World War II.
17	* ArrowsOnFire: Sara catches one in 1183 AD England when noting that the Legends are not Robin Hood.
18	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The mode of transportation of some of the special guests: A time-travelling CoolShip, a portal from another universe, and a motorcycle.
19	* BallroomBlitz: Nazis crash the wedding. Of course, the heroes in attendance are having none of that, and immediately fight back.
20	* BackToBackBadasses: Sara and Alex easily flow into a fighting tandem taking down Nazis and then Prometheus.
21	* BadBadActing: Sara and Alex acting like they've just met in front of Kara after sleeping with each other is ''not'' convincing in the slightest. Indeed, Sara, who seemed to only even try for Alex’s benefit and not particularly care about the whole thing, just gives it up to ask if Alex hurt herself falling out of bed that morning.
22	* BeamOWar: Supergirl and Overgirl duel with their heat vision clashing up in the sky.
23	* BedmateReveal: On the dawn of the wedding, Alex wakes up, then shortly afterwards realizes Sara is sleeping next to her.
24	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Killer Frost creates one on her right arm made of ice in the battle with the Nazis to cut down several of them in succession.
25	* BreatherEpisode: Outside of the cold open, this episode doesn't really concern itself that much with the Earth-X plot, until near the end during the wedding.
26	* BulletCatch: Barry and Wally both do this during the wedding fight. Wally goes a step further by throwing a bullet [[CatchAndReturn back down the gun's barrel]], jamming it.
27	* CallBack:
28	** Oliver brought his old collapsible bow from several seasons back to the wedding.
29	** Barry asks Kara to sing at his wedding, remembering her impressive soprano in the musical [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E17Duet "Duet"]]. In fact, the song she sings is "Runnin' Home to You", which Barry himself serenaded as his proposal to Iris in the same episode.
30	** Cisco and Harry devise a serum to decouple Stein from the Firestorm matrix using [[AppliedPhlebotinum quarks]] to essentially trick it into thinking he's still a part of it, [[Recap/TheFlash2014S4E1TheFlashReborn again]].
31	* TheCameo:
32	** King Shark in the opening scene, fighting the Flash.
33	** The Steins are also invited to the wedding, to Martin's delight; Jax (and Mick) even sleep over at their place.
34	** Captain Singh and his husband at the wedding procession, sitting right next to Mick. [[TheBusCameBack Singh's husband disappeared from screen for a long time]].
35	** Former [[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero superhero]] William Katt as the minister.
36	* CarCushion: Supergirl makes her DynamicEntry in the episode by crashing into a car while fighting a Dominator, under the eyes of the car's distressed owner.
37	* CollapsibleHelmet: Dark Arrow and Overgirl's facemasks can dematerialize with the push of a button.
38	* CombatPragmatist: During their fight with Prometheus-X, Sara grabs the incense censer, using it like a chain flail. While it doesn't hold up against a sword blade, it does allow her and Alex to get the upper-hand.
39	* ContinuityNod: Killer Frost hates pink -- guess what Caitlin is wearing at the wedding?
40	* DanceBattler: Wally shows some elements of this, at super-speed no less!
41	* DefiantToTheEnd: Earth-X's Guardian doesn't show fear when Dark Arrow prepares to kill him.
42	* DesignatedGirlFight: When the big battle starts, Supergirl and Overgirl quickly square off against each other, as they're the strongest characters on either side.
43	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Dark Arrow and Overgirl mount an attack on Barry's wedding, as they assumed the heroes would be caught flatfooted and they could take them out easily. Instead, they get beaten and the heroes now know there is another invasion going on. Reverse-Flash even calls them out on their foolishness and how it cost them Prometheus.
44	* DisintegratorRay: Overgirl's [[EyeBeams heat vision]] acts as this when she kills the wedding pastor.
45	* {{Expy}}: The costume of Earth-X's Guardian bears a slight resemblance to ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', with a StarSpangledSpandex-styled armor and shield.
46	* {{Foil}}: The forces of Earth-X are from a different Earth as opposed to an alien planet, like the Dominators were.
47	* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted, Stein and Caitlin talk about Ronnie at one point.
48	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Overgirl is evidently even stronger than Supergirl in a straight fight, but Supergirl manages to lay her out with one good punch to the chest after using a ShockwaveClap to disorient her.
49	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Mick spends the entire wedding procession catching some Zs and no-one bothers to wake him up. This may have been for the best, all things considered.
50	* GunsInChurch: Even before the Nazis crashed the wedding, Mick brought his flame gun and Oliver brought a bow. Of course, this is a JustifiedTrope, as Mick is a ReformedCriminal (more or less) and Oliver is CrazyPrepared with a RetractableWeapon.
51	* HaveWeMet:
52	** Barry to the waitress congratulating him on his wedding day. She quickly insists that they haven't, because she's a complete and total stranger and not, say, his and Iris's KidFromTheFuture.
53	** At the rehearsal dinner, Mick passes Caitlin and asks, "Did I try to kidnap you once?" She replies, "Yes, I'd advise not trying it again."
54	* HopeSpot: The Freedom Fighters are banking on the breach to be their last hope, but then Dark Arrow arrives, takes out the Freedom Fighters protecting the portal, and claims it for himself.
55	* IdiotBall: The Nazis would later claim that they have been keeping tabs on the heroes of Earth-1 for quite some time now, yet they underestimated their capabilities, and it didn't occur to the Nazis that a person they ''should'' know is a superhero would have invited a few fellow supers to his wedding. The Nazis promptly get their asses handed to them and lose one of their leaders in the process. Not to mention the fact that the Nazis could have kept themselves hidden if it weren't for such an act. Thawne (who wasn't in the church fight) only shows up to chew them out on this.
56	* ImprovisedWeapon: Sara picks up a censer at the wedding, as a kind of EpicFlail.
57	* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Mick is visibly intrigued when he sees Killer Frost for the first time.
58	* {{Irony}}: When the wedding pastor comments on how happy everybody is to be here, the camera lingers on several people who are actually quite upset, like Alex, Oliver and Felicity.
59	* ItsTheBestWhateverEver: After the fight with the Earth-X invaders ends, Mick enthusiastically pronounces this the [[LargeHam "BEST WEDDING EVER!"]]
60	* JustInTime: To ridiculous degrees, the other Arrowverse characters [[SanDimasTime more or less]] waited until ''the day before Barry's wedding'' to [=RSVP=]. Then again, they ''are'' all superheroes, so...
61	* JustLikeRobinHood: The Legends actually get confused for him when they are robbing the royal tax collectors.
62	* KindaBusyHere: Both Flash and Green Arrow have this problem, with their respective significant others calling them to discuss Barry's incoming wedding while they are busy fighting bad guys.
63	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Alex and Sara are first seen kissing after getting drunk. [[BedmateReveal Then we learn that they had sex.]]
64	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When a Dominator attacks National City, Kara comments that Dominators are "so last year", referencing them being the villains of the previous year's crossover.
65	* MindWipe: It's mentioned that the Legends used their memory-wiping device to make wedding guests forget they saw the gang using super-powers.
66	* MirrorMatch: Supergirl vs. Overgirl, and Green Arrow vs. Dark Arrow.
67	* MomentKiller: Felicity blurting out that she doesn't want to marry Oliver, loud enough to get everyone's attention.
68	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Fully played for laughs as Alex is horrified at drunkenly hooking up with Sara, while Sara is utterly casual about it and Kara is outright ''[[ShipperOnDeck delighted]]''.
69	* MythologyGag:
70	** Overgirl is an alternate Nazi ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} who made her first appearance in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
71	** At one point Supergirl delivers a Super-Clap, a movement used by both her cousin and herself in [[WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse animated]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound movies]] and comics like the "[[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lanterns]]" story arc "Atrocities".
72	** In order to create a cure for the Firestorm matrix, Cisco ran Stein's experiment data through a "Conway class nuclear dynamic synthesizer." This is a reference to Gerry Conway, creator of Firestorm.
73	* NoodleIncident: It isn't explained in the ActionPrologue how King Shark broke out of A.R.G.U.S. custody, why Oliver is fighting ninjas, or why the Legends are robbing medieval tax collectors.
74	* NothingUpMySleeve: At the wedding, Oliver keeps a bow that's collapsible to the size of a small baton up his sleeve, [[CrazyPrepared just in case]].
75	* PlotArmor: At one point in the church fight, the Nazis fire at Sara and Alex from [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy a few feet away, yet don't seem to raise so much as a flesh wound.]] Meanwhile, [[ArmorIsUseless the two women are able to punch and kick them into unconsciousness with their bare hands]]. They then proceed to charge an enemy swordsman, Sara with an ImprovisedWeapon and Alex with nothing at all, yet manage to win the fight. See TooDumbToLive, below.
76	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Everything on Earth-X is red and black, including the sky.
77	* RedSkyTakeWarning: Among many other hints (including the swastikas everywhere) that Earth-X is a bad place, there's the fact the sky is blood red there.
78	* LaResistance: The opening shows Dark Arrow raiding a resistance base and killing Earth-X's version of Guardian.
79	* SanDimasTime: While in 1183 AD England, Sara abruptly remembers that the Legends never [=RSVP=]ed for Barry's wedding.
80	* SeenItAll: When Barry asks Kara what happened to Mon-El:
81	-->'''Kara:''' The end of the world.\
82	'''Barry:''' Faced that three times.\
83	'''Kara:''' Time travel.\
84	'''Barry:''' I've been there a lot.\
85	'''Kara:''' He's married to someone else.\
86	'''Barry:''' [[SubvertedTrope ...Oh. That's...I got nothing for that, I'm sorry.]]
87	* SexForSolace: Sara and Alex engage in some, after they get drunk.
88	* SigilSpam: The Nazis do love their swastikas, which are hung everywhere.
89	* ShockwaveClap: Supergirl used this technique to stun Overgirl and deliver a heavy punch hard enough to cause the Nazis to retreat.
90	* ShoutOut: Several to list:
91	** Cisco calling Harry [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward]] while discussing how to defuse the Firestorm Matrix safely with Martin and Jax.
92	--->'''Cisco:''' What Squidward here means to say is we took the data you extrapolated from [[UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton Newton]] and Curie and Galileo...
93	** Stein modifying the S.T.A.R. Labs cure into a smart virus that can rearrange the genetic code using a spider extract, leading Jax asking if Stein is trying to turn him into ComicBook/SpiderMan. They even talk about his [[SuperStrength various]] [[AllWebbedUp powers]].
94	* SlutShaming: inverted big time, Alex is ashamed at having a drunken one night stand to help her get over her break up, declaring it "Such a guy thing to do". Kara assures her it's actually perfectly healthy and she should explore her sexuality.
95	* SmokeOut: After being overwhelmed by the heroes at the wedding, Dark Arrow uses a light-generating grenade to obscure his escape with Overgirl.
96	* SoLastSeason: Kara's first scene has her give a CurbStompBattle to a Dominator, one of the villains of the previous four-way crossover, even calling it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "so last year"]].
97	%%* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace:
98	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
99	** When she shows up nearly late to the wedding, Alex claims she was out "jogging...fully clothed." Then Sara arrives and foregoes any pretense about the fact that she and Alex had sex.
100	** The awkward waitress at the wedding reception[[note]]Heavily implied to be Barry and Iris' future daughter Dawn Allen, or granddaughter Jenni Ognats[[/note]] says she's just really happy to be there. At a wedding, any wedding. Not specifically Barry and Iris', of course.
101	* SwappedRoles: Oliver actually comments on how ''he'' used to do the mentoring when Barry gives him some advice on his relationship with Felicity.
102	* TakeThat: Jax uttering his disgust with Nazis with the quip [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump "Make America Aryan Again"]].
103	* TechnoBabble:
104	-->'''Stein:''' This is a molecular resequencing smart virus with a non-normative reciprocal action.\
105	'''Jax:''' [[LampshadeHanging Do you just make up scientific words to make yourself sound smarter?!?]]
106	* ThouShaltNotKill: Notably averted when Barry shoves one Nazi's gun into another's face and knocks the guy backward. Unless the masks are bulletproof and Barry somehow figured it out.
107	* TooDumbToLive: Not a single one of the Resistance soldiers Dark Arrow attacks at the beginning thinks of just firing their weapon at him instead of charging towards him, which naturally gets them all killed. Of course, [[StatusQuoIsGod this is generally the case with Mooks...they never shoot at the main characters.]]
108	* VillainOpeningScene: Which shows the event's ArcVillain, Dark Arrow/Führer, easily taking out a resistance group.
109	* WhamShot:
110	** Dark Arrow and Overgirl are Oliver and Kara's doppelgangers, respectively.
111	** And Eobard Thawne is still alive and once again wearing Harrison Wells' face.
112	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Jax's response to the fact that the power that Stein is synthesizing is super-adhesion, and nothing else.
113	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: How Iris reacts to her wedding being crashed by a horde of Nazis.
114	* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Earth-X has them.

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