History Recap / BatmanBeyondS1E12DisappearingInque

* TheTease: Inque acts rather flirty towards Terry and Aaron at different points, getting up close, caressing their faces and speaking in a [[ContraltoOfDanger sensual tone of voice]].

* Callback: Inque [[ForcefulKiss forcibly making out]] with Terry is reminiscent of [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison all]] [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE15TheCatAndTheClawPart1 the]] [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE61TheDemonsQuestPart2 many]], [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE16HarleysHoliday many]] [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE1HolidayKnights times]] [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE15CultOfTheCat that]] Bruce was made to kiss an attractive, [[TheVamp vampy]] lady during his career.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Inque makes it very, very clear that she did not enjoy being Herbst's "confidant" for all his boring and petty problems, does not return his obsession with her, and regards him at best as a useful idiot.

** Herbst only gets half the formula from Inque, becoming an immobile half-liquid blob who can barely communicate.
** Inque was also on the receiving end during her time in Gotham Cryogenics. As it turns out, she was fully conscious the whole time she was frozen, and did ''not'' appreciate the several months Herbst spent talking to her about his sad, empty life and petty troubles. There's a bit of subtext that implies that he may have done something ''worse''.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Herbst wants to be like Inque, and in the end, he receives her ability to assume a liquid form...but with only half the formula, so he has no control over it whatsoever.

* BodyHorror: Herbst embodies this when he only takes half the formula that gave Inque her powers. Not only is he a human blob who can barely move, it's implied he can't eat solid food. Yikes.

* BookEnds: It opens up with Herbst confiding in an immobile Inque as he maintains her imprisonment. It ends with him in her position as a woman confides in him.

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Herbst has spent months talking to the frozen Inque as if she were his confidant; he's fired when it gets to the point of [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kissing her ice block]]. Inque, who was in fact conscious the whole time, is not happy about it after she gets out. He'd later be on the receiving end at the end of the episode so he gets to know what it feels like.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: At the start of the episode when Herbst is called to talk to his boss, he mistakenly thinks he is finally going to catch a break, and kisses the ice block holding Inque [[MotivationalKiss for luck]]. It turns out his boss had been filming his conversations with Inque, and this kiss was the last bit of unprofessionalism that gets him fired. This is played with when Inque reveals she was fully conscious while she was in the ice block and could hear and see everything Herbst said and did to her, which would include the kiss.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Unknown to Herbst, his superiors had monitored him whenever he conversed with the frozen Inque. But what raised some flags happens to be when he [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kissed Inque's frozen form]] "for luck". Not long after, Herbst's boss expresses disgust at such unprofessional and creepy behavior, even towards a criminal and saboteur.

* FakeOutMakeOut: Inque and Herbst. Aaron likes it, as he is infatuated with Inque, but she just used it to get out of a sticky situation, and threatens him never to try it with her again under pain of her creativity. She...doesn't like him.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: A somewhat villainous example. Herbst did everything in his power to serve Inque (in return for a "reward"). In the end, she rightly 'rewards' him. ...By only giving Herbst half the formula, rendering him a helpless humanoid blob.

* HereWeGoAgain: Herbst ends up in the same situation Inque was in, with a cryogenics worker chatting with him about her mundane life, all while being monitored.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: Inque doesn't pull any punches when she describes how annoying she finds Herbst.

** Herbst, who worked at Gotham Cryogenics, is infatuated with a frozen Inque and talks to her [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious in her inert state]] about his sad, empty life and petty troubles. After he kisses the ice-block, he's caught on camera in the act and fired by his superiors, and who remind him that they have video evidence against him if he tries to argue to the review board. He then frees Inque and begs her to give him a similar mutation. [[AndIMustScream She does, but only in half-state, leaving him barely able to move]]. After Inque's defeat, he ends up in Gotham Cryogenics in the same situation on the other end with a female caretaker, with the camera filming her grindingly dull conversations with him.
** Inque also suffers from this, from betraying Herbst. When she finally agrees to give him his promised "reward" by injecting him with the formula to give him the same powers as her, she purposely only gives him half the treatment. He's left as a formless blob with no control over his powers. He ends up interfering when she prepares to kill Bruce, telling her "you promised!" in a accusing tone. When she tries to knock him aside, he attacks her in retaliation, and their scuffle ends up inadvertently freeing Terry.

* MadLove: Herbst is obsessed with Inque, and Inque takes advantage of it, giving him only half the treatment after he's fulfilled his usefulness to her.

* SinisterSuffocation: When Terry refuses to tell Bruce that Inque and Herbst are holding him at the Gotham Hills Arena, she turns her arm into a tentacle and wraps it around his neck, and starts choking him while growling at him to tell him. She eventually releases him after telling Bruce where they are herself, and forcing a kiss on Terry to stop him from warning Bruce not to come.

* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: Inque is released and assisted by Herbst, who was supposed to be guarding her, to steal a chemical that can return her to human form. In return, he wants to be turned into a being like her. Inque, not being the world's most trustworthy person, agrees...but only gives him half the treatment, turning him into a formless blob with no ability to move.

** Inque was also on the receiving end during her time in Gotham Cryogenics. As it turns out, she was fully conscious the whole time she was frozen, and did ''not'' appreciate the several months Herbst spent talking to her about his sad, empty life and petty troubles.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Unknown to Herbst, his superiors had monitored him whenever he conversed with the frozen Inque. But what raised some flags happen to be when he [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kissed Inque's frozen form]] "for luck". Not long after, Herbst's boss expresses disgust at such unprofessional and creepy behavior, even towards a criminal and saboteur.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Inque [[ForcefulKiss forces a deep on Terry]] right after she threatens to kill him and while she is still [[SinisterSuffocation crushing his neck with her tentacle arm]].

* VillainousFaceHold: Inque holds Terry by the chin while holding him captive, once she realizes he is talking to "the old man" over his intercom. She holds him by the chin again -- as she is choking him -- while telling Bruce where they are and while kissing Terry to stop him from warning Bruce. Once she releases Terry from the kiss and pulls away, she brushes her hand against his chin in a teasing fashion.

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* BalefulPolymorph: Aaron Herbst when Inque injects him with only half the formula that fixed her genetic structure. He becomes a blobmonster confined to the same cell that he used to watch over Inque before he was fired from Gotham Cryogenics.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: While sealing the Batcave for Inque's possible return, Bruce stops him and shows a recording of her merging with a hostage's longcoat before Terry stopped her. He then asks why she doesn't just become a human to blend in. When Terry is unable to up with a conclusion, Bruce gives him one: she ''can't''. This leads them to investigate a research center that can fix her problem.

* ImproperlyParanoid: Following the events of "Black Out," Terry tries to seal up the Batcave in case Inque shows up again. Bruce points out how unlikely it is that she remembers where the Batcave is, and after doing some research about her escape, tells Terry she's not coming for them yet because she wants to fix her genetic structure and become human enough to blend in more.

** Herbst, who worked at Gotham Cryogenics, is infatuated with a frozen Inque and talks to her [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious in her inert state]] about his sad, empty life and petty troubles. After he kisses the ice-block, he's caught on camera in the act and fired by his superiors, and who remind him that they have video evidence against him if he tries to argue to the review board. He then frees Inque and begs her to give him a similar mutation. [[AndIMustScream She does, but only in half-state, making him barely able to move]]. After Inque's defeat, he ends up in Gotham Cryogenics in the same situation on the other end with a female caretaker, with the camera filming her grindingly dull conversations with him.

* HereWeGoAgain: Subverted. Herbst ends up in the same situation Inque was in, with a cryogenics worker chatting with him about her mundane life, all while being monitored. But he can't move or speak, and doesn't know enough about the formula to instruct her on how to fully Inque-ify him were she to agree.

* CrazyPrepared: After Herbst is imprisoned more-or-less in the same fashion as Inque (contained and with a care-taker), he's also monitored so as to avoid what happened in the beginning of the episode.

** Inque also suffers from this, from betraying Herbst. When she finally agrees to give him his promised "reward" by injecting him with the formula to give him the same powers as her. But she purposely only gives him half the treatment, leaving him as a formless blob with no control over his powers. He ends up interfering when she prepares to kill Bruce, telling her "you promised!" in a accusing tone. When she tries to knock him aside, he attacks her in retaliation, and their scuffle ends up inadvertently freeing Terry.

* ImproperlyParanoid: Following the events of "Black Out", Terry tries to seal up the Batcave in case Inque shows up again. After doing some research about Inque's escape, Bruce tells Terry she's not coming for them yet because she wants to fix her genetic structure and become human enough to blend in more.

* BalefulPolymorph: Aaron Herbst when Inque injects him with only half the formula. He becomes a blobmonster confined to the same cell that he used to watch over Inque before he was fired from Gotham Cryogenics.

** Herbst, who worked at Gotham Cryogenics, is infatuated with a frozen Inque and talks to her [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious in her inert state]] about his sad, empty life and petty troubles. After he kisses the ice-block, he's caught on camera in the act and fired. He then frees Inque and begs her to give him a similar mutation. [[AndIMustScream She does, but only in half-state, making him barely able to move]]. After Inque's defeat, he ends up in Gotham Cryogenics in the same situation on the other end with a female caretaker, with the camera filming her grindingly dull conversations with him.

* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: Inque is released and assisted by Herbst, who was supposed to be guarding her. In return, he wants to be turned into a being like her. Inque, not being the world's most trustworthy person, agrees...but only gives him half the treatment, turning him into a formless blob with no ability to move.

* BigNO: One from Batman when Inque punches Bruce across the room.

* BigNO!: One from Batman when Inque punches Bruce across the room.

* ChekhovsGun: Bruce's experimental PowerArmor Batsuit.

* GodzillaThreshold: Bruce has to come out of retirement in the experimental Batsuit (the use of which puts dangerous stress on his heart) to help Terry.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Inque [[ShutUpKiss kissing Terry on the mouth]] becomes this when a later episode reveals she has a daughter roughly around Terry's age. Admittedly, she probably doesn't know he's a teenager, though considering what she's also guilty of she likely wouldn't care how wrong it'd be.