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* FanNickname: The Series/{{Arrowverse}} connection happened too late and too abruptly for the series' pre-Series/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths2019}} universe to [[TheUnreveal receive a canon designation]], leading the Arrowverse Wiki to designate it "Earth-BL" for the time being, much like [[Series/Supergirl2015 Earth-38]]). Unlike [[SacrificialLamb the other universes that went poof]] during the search for the Paragons, Earth-BL wasn't some random one-shot universe, but the setting of an ongoing series.
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* FanNickname: The Series/{{Arrowverse}} connection happened too late and too abruptly for the series' pre-Series/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths2019}} universe to [[TheUnreveal receive a canon designation]], leading the Arrowverse Wiki to designate it "Earth-BL" for the time being, much like [[Series/Supergirl2015 Earth-38]]). Unlike but unlike [[SacrificialLamb the other universes that went poof]] during the search for the Paragons, Earth-BL it wasn't some random one-shot universe, universe but the setting of an ongoing series.series. This led the Arrowverse Wiki to designate it "Earth-BL" so they could give it an actual page. This was replaced with "Earth-[=TUD5=]" after the wiki set up a "Temporary Universe Designation" system.
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* QuestionableCasting: Some fans of Grace Choi have taken issue with the fact that her actress is much less muscular than her comic counterpart, pointing out that women, and especially Asian women, usually aren't allowed to have that body type in media.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Some fans of Grace Choi have taken issue with the fact that her actress is much less muscular than her comic counterpart, pointing out that women, and especially Asian women, usually aren't allowed to have that body type in media.
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** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero Jefferson [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor, when his plans finally fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations.
** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], subservient cult.
** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], subservient cult.
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** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA.A.S.A. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero Jefferson [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor, when his plans finally fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations.
** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children ofa the Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], subservient cult.
** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of
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* FanNickname: The Series/{{Arrowverse}} connection happened too late and too abruptly for the series' pre-Series/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths2019}} universe to [[TheUnreveal receive a canon designation]], leading [[TheWikiRule the Arrowverse Wiki]] to designate it "Earth-BL" for the time being, much like [[Series/Supergirl2015 Earth-38]]). Unlike [[SacrificialLamb the other universes that went poof]] during the search for the Paragons, Earth-BL wasn't some random one-shot universe, but the setting of an ongoing series.
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* FanNickname: The Series/{{Arrowverse}} connection happened too late and too abruptly for the series' pre-Series/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths2019}} universe to [[TheUnreveal receive a canon designation]], leading [[TheWikiRule the Arrowverse Wiki]] Wiki to designate it "Earth-BL" for the time being, much like [[Series/Supergirl2015 Earth-38]]). Unlike [[SacrificialLamb the other universes that went poof]] during the search for the Paragons, Earth-BL wasn't some random one-shot universe, but the setting of an ongoing series.
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* MoralEventHorizon:
** Tobias Whale has several possible moments throughout the series; the first notable one occurred before the start of the series, namely him murdering Jefferson's dad by literally shoving his newspaper articles down his throat until he chokes. But him [[spoiler: brutally ripping Khalil's spinal implant out of his back and leaving him to a slow and agonizing death]] is by far his worst moment and seals the deal of him being an utter psychopath.
** Agent Odell has ''many'' possible moments throughout season 2 and the beginning of season 3, but his most despicable action is without a doubt [[spoiler: implanting a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brain chip]] into the newly resurrected Khalil and making him kill his own mother to test out its effectiveness, which he ultimately does. Even Odell's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] Carson Williams [[EvenEvilHasStandards objects to this]]; while he claims it's on [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] grounds, it's implied he actually finds it going way too far]]. And if ''that'' didn't do the trick then [[spoiler: basically turning Jennifer into a ChildSoldier by feeding her misinformation and getting Lynn addicted to Green Light to ensure her productivity]] surely does.
** Tobias Whale has several possible moments throughout the series; the first notable one occurred before the start of the series, namely him murdering Jefferson's dad by literally shoving his newspaper articles down his throat until he chokes. But him [[spoiler: brutally ripping Khalil's spinal implant out of his back and leaving him to a slow and agonizing death]] is by far his worst moment and seals the deal of him being an utter psychopath.
** Agent Odell has ''many'' possible moments throughout season 2 and the beginning of season 3, but his most despicable action is without a doubt [[spoiler: implanting a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brain chip]] into the newly resurrected Khalil and making him kill his own mother to test out its effectiveness, which he ultimately does. Even Odell's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] Carson Williams [[EvenEvilHasStandards objects to this]]; while he claims it's on [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] grounds, it's implied he actually finds it going way too far]]. And if ''that'' didn't do the trick then [[spoiler: basically turning Jennifer into a ChildSoldier by feeding her misinformation and getting Lynn addicted to Green Light to ensure her productivity]] surely does.
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* MoralEventHorizon:
** Tobias Whale has several possible moments throughout the series; the first notable one occurred before the start of the series, namely him murdering Jefferson's dad by literally shoving his newspaper articles down his throat until he chokes. But him [[spoiler: brutally ripping Khalil's spinal implant out of his back and leaving him to a slow and agonizing death]] is by far his worst moment and seals the deal of him being an utter psychopath.
** Agent Odell has ''many'' possible moments throughout season 2 and the beginning of season 3, but his most despicable action is without a doubt [[spoiler: implanting a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brain chip]] into the newly resurrected Khalil and making him kill his own mother to test out its effectiveness, which he ultimately does. Even Odell's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] Carson Williams [[EvenEvilHasStandards objects to this]]; while he claims it's on [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] grounds, it's implied he actually finds it going way too far]]. And if ''that'' didn't do the trick then [[spoiler: basically turning Jennifer into a ChildSoldier by feeding her misinformation and getting Lynn addicted to Green Light to ensure her productivity]] surely does.MoralEventHorizon: See [[MoralEventHorizon/{{Arrowverse}} here]].
** Tobias Whale has several possible moments throughout the series; the first notable one occurred before the start of the series, namely him murdering Jefferson's dad by literally shoving his newspaper articles down his throat until he chokes. But him [[spoiler: brutally ripping Khalil's spinal implant out of his back and leaving him to a slow and agonizing death]] is by far his worst moment and seals the deal of him being an utter psychopath.
** Agent Odell has ''many'' possible moments throughout season 2 and the beginning of season 3, but his most despicable action is without a doubt [[spoiler: implanting a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brain chip]] into the newly resurrected Khalil and making him kill his own mother to test out its effectiveness, which he ultimately does. Even Odell's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] Carson Williams [[EvenEvilHasStandards objects to this]]; while he claims it's on [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] grounds, it's implied he actually finds it going way too far]]. And if ''that'' didn't do the trick then [[spoiler: basically turning Jennifer into a ChildSoldier by feeding her misinformation and getting Lynn addicted to Green Light to ensure her productivity]] surely does.
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** After the show was clearly not allowed to use the N-word in Season 1, severely neutering its portrayal of racism as noted in {{Narm}} below, the network is allowing it in Season 2. It was used exactly once (in the first episode by Napier to describe Jefferson's status as the only black man on the board of education).
** Season 1 also got some criticism of its political message being rendered a bit toothless by Proctor being a RogueAgent. Season 3 reveals that he actually ''was'' officially sanctioned by the US government, and Agent Odell is following the exact same project.
** After much criticism surrounding the titular hero's flashy modern outfit making him look like a walking neon sign, Jeff is upgraded to a much sleeker set AdaptiveArmor comprised of nanotech that strikes a perfect balance between the source material and the more pragmatic designs featured in the other CW live-action adaptations.
** After the show was clearly not allowed to use the N-word in Season 1, severely neutering its portrayal of racism as noted in {{Narm}} below, the network is allowing it in Season 2. It was used exactly once (in the first episode by Napier to describe Jefferson's status as the only black man on the board of education).
** Season 1 also got some criticism of its political message being rendered a bit toothless by Proctor being a RogueAgent. Season 3 reveals that he actually ''was'' officially sanctioned by the US government, and Agent Odell is following the exact same project.
** After much criticism surrounding the titular hero's flashy modern outfit making him look like a walking neon sign, Jeff is upgraded to a much sleeker set AdaptiveArmor comprised of nanotech that strikes a perfect balance between the source material and the more pragmatic designs featured in the other CW live-action adaptations.
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** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, subservient cult.
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** Seasons 2 & 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds]] who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, racist]], subservient cult.
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** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Jefferson Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor allows his men to kill any in their way as they please and when his plans fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations on.
** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to control minds who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her racist, subservient {{cult}}.
** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to control minds who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her racist, subservient {{cult}}.
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** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero Jefferson [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Jefferson Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor allows his men to kill any in their way as they please and Proctor, when his plans finally fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations on.
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**"[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" Seasons 2 & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": 4: [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to [[MindControl control minds minds]] who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist, subservient {{cult}}.cult.
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* FanNickname: The Series/{{Arrowverse}} connection happened too late and too abruptly for the series' pre-Series/{{Crisis|OnInfiniteEarths2019}} universe to [[TheUnreveal receive a canon designation]], leading [[TheWikiRule the Arrowverse Wiki]] to designate it "Earth-BL" for the time being, much like [[Series/Supergirl2015 Earth-38]]). Unlike [[SacrificialLamb the other universes that went poof]] during the search for the Paragons, Earth-BL wasn't some random one-shot universe, but the setting of an ongoing series.
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* WinTheCrowd: The series ended up being the highest rated series premiere on the CW in two years. Not bad, considering the series stars a lower B-Tier hero in DC's history and "black" shows are seen as [[MinorityShowGhetto having niche appeal]].
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* CatharsisFactor:
** After all the horrible things he had done, including [[spoiler:tearing out Khalil's spinal implant]], seeing Tobias get curb stomped by [[spoiler:Jefferson and Jen in the season 2 finale is very satisfying]].
** As ruthless as it was, [[spoiler:Khalil shooting Agent Odell in the back, paralyzing him is much deserved revenge for Odell's crimes, including using Khalil to kill his own mother.]]
** [[spoiler:Tobias being killed off for real in the series finale following all his plans being foiled is very cathartic.]]
** After all the horrible things he had done, including [[spoiler:tearing out Khalil's spinal implant]], seeing Tobias get curb stomped by [[spoiler:Jefferson and Jen in the season 2 finale is very satisfying]].
** As ruthless as it was, [[spoiler:Khalil shooting Agent Odell in the back, paralyzing him is much deserved revenge for Odell's crimes, including using Khalil to kill his own mother.]]
** [[spoiler:Tobias being killed off for real in the series finale following all his plans being foiled is very cathartic.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The show has a general message of "police brutality is bad", which is delivered with all the subtlety of a baton to the temple. Same goes for the "racism is bad" message the show practically screams at its audience. While SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped on occasion, especially in a show like this that deals with black culture, depending on who you ask, either people think it makes the show feel bloated with audience moral teachings that never stops hammering home at the anvils mentioned above, or it's one of the highlights of the show, and people should take notice of systemic racism, something that needs addressing in cultures around the world. What we're saying here, is that the show isn't subtle about its content.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: {{Anvilicious}}:
** The show has a general message of "police brutality is bad", which is delivered with all the subtlety of a baton to the temple. Same goes for the "racism is bad" message the show practically screams at its audience.While SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped on occasion, especially in a show like this that deals with black culture, depending Depending on who you ask, either people think it makes the show feel bloated with audience moral teachings that never stops hammering home at the anvils mentioned above, or it's one of the highlights of the show, and people should take notice of systemic racism, something that needs addressing in cultures around the world. What we're saying here, is that the show isn't subtle about its content.content.
** The show makes no bones about the fact that many of the police are racist and in some cases actively on Tobias Whale's payroll. In addition to mirroring real life problems that African-Americans deal with, it helps to further establish the need for Black Lightning, as even many of the police that are not brazenly corrupt don't show overmuch interest in distinguishing the 100 from the rest of the city's black population.
** Episode 11 spends an awfully long time for a scripted show on Jefferson's processing after being arrested, including the strip and cavity search, despite nothing plotwise happening. What it does do is give the viewer an appreciation of how completely humiliating the process is, and how being innocent doesn't change that.
** The show has a general message of "police brutality is bad", which is delivered with all the subtlety of a baton to the temple. Same goes for the "racism is bad" message the show practically screams at its audience.
** The show makes no bones about the fact that many of the police are racist and in some cases actively on Tobias Whale's payroll. In addition to mirroring real life problems that African-Americans deal with, it helps to further establish the need for Black Lightning, as even many of the police that are not brazenly corrupt don't show overmuch interest in distinguishing the 100 from the rest of the city's black population.
** Episode 11 spends an awfully long time for a scripted show on Jefferson's processing after being arrested, including the strip and cavity search, despite nothing plotwise happening. What it does do is give the viewer an appreciation of how completely humiliating the process is, and how being innocent doesn't change that.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** The show makes no bones about the fact that many of the police are racist and in some cases actively on Tobias Whale's payroll. In addition to mirroring real life problems that African-Americans deal with, it helps to further establish the need for Black Lightning, as even many of the police that are not brazenly corrupt don't show overmuch interest in distinguishing the 100 from the rest of the city's black population. A more subtle application would not properly explain why the police are so ineffective and would just lead to FridgeLogic.
** Episode 11 spends an awfully long time for a scripted show on Jefferson's processing after being arrested, including the strip and cavity search, despite nothing plotwise happening. What it does do is give the viewer an appreciation of how completely humiliating the process is, and how being innocent doesn't change that.
** The show makes no bones about the fact that many of the police are racist and in some cases actively on Tobias Whale's payroll. In addition to mirroring real life problems that African-Americans deal with, it helps to further establish the need for Black Lightning, as even many of the police that are not brazenly corrupt don't show overmuch interest in distinguishing the 100 from the rest of the city's black population. A more subtle application would not properly explain why the police are so ineffective and would just lead to FridgeLogic.
** Episode 11 spends an awfully long time for a scripted show on Jefferson's processing after being arrested, including the strip and cavity search, despite nothing plotwise happening. What it does do is give the viewer an appreciation of how completely humiliating the process is, and how being innocent doesn't change that.
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: After a whole season of Lowry’s supposed amazing track record being an InformedAbility, as we never get to see him as anything but an apathetic bully who doesn't really care for the kids unless they follow his sometimes arbitrary rules, Season 3 has him actually stand up for one of his students against the fully armed soldiers abducting him, taking a rifle butt to the jaw for his trouble.
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** After a whole season of Lowry’s supposed amazing track record being an InformedAbility, as we never get to see him as anything but an apathetic bully who doesn't really care for the kids unless they follow his sometimes arbitrary rules, Season 3 has him actually stand up for one of his students against the fully armed soldiers abducting him, taking a rifle butt to the jaw for histrouble.trouble.
** Khalil was heavily disliked in Season 1 for picking up the IdiotBall and falling for Tobias' ObviouslyEvil flowery speeches, not realizing the negatives until it was too late. However, over the next few seasons, Khalil got a lot of character development and fan response warmed for him, so much so that the creators wanted to make a spinoff starring him, with a PoorlyDisguisedPilot in Season 4. When the series was not picked up, a number of fans were quite angry at The CW.
** After a whole season of Lowry’s supposed amazing track record being an InformedAbility, as we never get to see him as anything but an apathetic bully who doesn't really care for the kids unless they follow his sometimes arbitrary rules, Season 3 has him actually stand up for one of his students against the fully armed soldiers abducting him, taking a rifle butt to the jaw for his
** Khalil was heavily disliked in Season 1 for picking up the IdiotBall and falling for Tobias' ObviouslyEvil flowery speeches, not realizing the negatives until it was too late. However, over the next few seasons, Khalil got a lot of character development and fan response warmed for him, so much so that the creators wanted to make a spinoff starring him, with a PoorlyDisguisedPilot in Season 4. When the series was not picked up, a number of fans were quite angry at The CW.
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* WatchedItForTheRepresentation: The show is a huge draw among audiences, especially African-Americans, for starring a black superhero in a landscape where the majority of superhero shows are led by white protagonists. It also has an LGBTFanbase courtesy of the title character's lesbian daughter and her relationship with a Korean-American woman named Grace Choi.
* WinTheCrowd: The series ended up being the highest rated series premiere on the CW in two years. Not bad, considering the series stars a lower B-Tier hero in DC's history and "black" shows are seen as [[MinorityShowGhetto having nicheappeal.appeal]].
* WinTheCrowd: The series ended up being the highest rated series premiere on the CW in two years. Not bad, considering the series stars a lower B-Tier hero in DC's history and "black" shows are seen as [[MinorityShowGhetto having niche
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** The painfully fake dreads Khalil has as Pain Killer only make it obvious that it's a wig.
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** After much criticism surrounding the titular hero's flashy modern outfit making him look like a walking neon sign, Jeff is upgraded to a much sleeker set AdaptiveArmor comprised of nanotech that strikes a perfect balance between the source material and the more pragmatic designs featured in the other CW live-action adaptations.
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** Jefferson getting mad at Lynn for trying to find a cure for Jennifer’s meta gene. Unlike Anissa, Jennifer had already made it clear that she doesn’t want to be a hero and wants a normal life. It’s a little hard to understand Jefferson’s side when he kinda sounds like a guy complaining that his daughter won’t be like him anymore. While his attitude might make more sense if metas were a common [[FantasticRacism and persecuted]] part of society in their world ''a la'' the X-Men, here it seems that the ''only'' people with powers are the Pierce family and those the ASA have experimented on, so his attitude doesn't really fit the setting of the show.
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** Jefferson getting mad at Lynn for trying to find a cure for Jennifer’s meta gene. Unlike Anissa, Jennifer had already made it clear that she doesn’t want to be a hero and wants a normal life. It’s a little hard to understand Jefferson’s side when he kinda sounds like a guy complaining that his daughter won’t be like him anymore. While his attitude might make more sense if metas were a common [[FantasticRacism and persecuted]] part of society in their world ''a la'' the X-Men, here it seems that the ''only'' people with powers are the Pierce family and those the ASA have experimented on, so his attitude doesn't really fit the setting of the show. At least until the later seasons reveal that Freeland's metahuman population is not only more vast than initially believed but have a long history of being targeted and inhumanly experimented on by both the ASA and the Markovians in an attempt to weaponize them for their ongoing SecretWar.
** Anissa's growing infatuation with becoming an AntiHero and [[LaResistance Resistance Fighter]] during the ASA's Occupation to the point of explicitly disregarding her father's numerous warnings and concerns despite being the more experienced vigilante. While it's framed as a big CallingTheOldManOut moment over Jefferson's inaction as Black Lightning while Freeland's metahumans are being targeted as well as his ControlFreak behavior when it comes to his family and crimefighting, Jeff is right to be worried as the ASA is a highly militarized threat that is '''way''' bigger than any street level gangs they've dealt with in the past. This gets particularly egregious when Jeff finally does decide to suit up to assist Anissa in some of her greatest times of need, only for her to get mad at Jeff for seemingly undercutting her authority as a RebelLeader, making her come off as more of a GlorySeeker rather than a genuine supporter of the cause.
** Anissa's growing infatuation with becoming an AntiHero and [[LaResistance Resistance Fighter]] during the ASA's Occupation to the point of explicitly disregarding her father's numerous warnings and concerns despite being the more experienced vigilante. While it's framed as a big CallingTheOldManOut moment over Jefferson's inaction as Black Lightning while Freeland's metahumans are being targeted as well as his ControlFreak behavior when it comes to his family and crimefighting, Jeff is right to be worried as the ASA is a highly militarized threat that is '''way''' bigger than any street level gangs they've dealt with in the past. This gets particularly egregious when Jeff finally does decide to suit up to assist Anissa in some of her greatest times of need, only for her to get mad at Jeff for seemingly undercutting her authority as a RebelLeader, making her come off as more of a GlorySeeker rather than a genuine supporter of the cause.
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** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a metahuman with the power to control minds who enslaves the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her racist, subservient cult.
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** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a metahuman [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]] with the power to control minds who enslaves [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] the white population of South Freeland as her "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves hunt down and lynch the town's black population and stops at nothing to hunt down the children of a Sange to ensnare them in her racist, subservient cult.{{cult}}.
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** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a drug to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Jefferson Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor allows his men to kill any in their way as they please and when his plans fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations on.
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** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. Repackaging a dangerous vaccine as a drug [[FantasticDrug drug]] to circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns, Proctor's plans lead to an epidemic of death while he takes the survivors in for [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender forcing him to spare their lives. Seeking to ruin hero [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Jefferson Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor allows his men to kill any in their way as they please and when his plans fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens from his experiments with him to continue his abominable operations on.
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** Season 1: The [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], revolting [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. [[RogueAgent On his own]], he restarts a vaccine program with a high mortality rate due to how it can potentially enslave innocent African-Americans and create superpowered pawns. Repackaging it into a drug and circulating it throughout the city to target teenagers with an epidemic of death following, those who develop superpowers are taken for experimentation. When Proctor goes up against his rival Gambi, he has a subordinate force Gambi's surrender by holding a large crowd at gunpoint and is flatly disappointed he can't massacre them when Gambi surrenders. Proctor proceeds to betray and try to kill his ally, crime lord Tobias Whale, while also framing hero Jefferson Pierce as a drug user, not caring if his men kill anyone in the way. When his plans fail, Proctor shores up his losses and intends to take the surviving teens to [[PlayingWithSyringes perform hideous experiments]] on them to his heart's content, even trying to {{blackmail}} Jefferson into giving him a genetic sample by threatening to kill his family. A twisted, racist madman who cares nothing for the damage he does, Proctor is only too glad to condemn thousands of innocent young black men to death, justifying himself with the worst racist rhetoric.
** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a metahuman who lords over South Freeland, and an ArcVillain in season 2. Having been exposed to the ASA vaccine 30 years prior, she developed the powers to emanate a mysterious metallic substance known as the Element, which she uses to enslave the white population of South Freeland to join her HiveMind as Sange. Despite her [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist self-serving belief that she "saved" the town from a drug epidemic]], one of her slaves counters that her assimilation is far worse than the drugs; she counters by cruelly murdering him. With the town under her control, the black population--the Perdi--is forced to hide out in the woods, lest the Sange [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain lynch them and hang them from trees]]. When Anaya, a Perdi, has twin babies with Deacon, a Sange, Looker stops at nothing to capture these babies to be part of her control. Cruel, racist, and self-centered, Looker desired to maintain total dominance over South Freeland, by the most violent means imaginable.
** Season 1: The [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], revolting [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA. [[RogueAgent On his own]], he restarts a vaccine program with a high mortality rate due to how it can potentially enslave innocent African-Americans and create superpowered pawns. Repackaging it into a drug and circulating it throughout the city to target teenagers with an epidemic of death following, those who develop superpowers are taken for experimentation. When Proctor goes up against his rival Gambi, he has a subordinate force Gambi's surrender by holding a large crowd at gunpoint and is flatly disappointed he can't massacre them when Gambi surrenders. Proctor proceeds to betray and try to kill his ally, crime lord Tobias Whale, while also framing hero Jefferson Pierce as a drug user, not caring if his men kill anyone in the way. When his plans fail, Proctor shores up his losses and intends to take the surviving teens to [[PlayingWithSyringes perform hideous experiments]] on them to his heart's content, even trying to {{blackmail}} Jefferson into giving him a genetic sample by threatening to kill his family. A twisted, racist madman who cares nothing for the damage he does, Proctor is only too glad to condemn thousands of innocent young black men to death, justifying himself with the worst racist rhetoric.
** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a metahuman who lords over South Freeland, and an ArcVillain in season 2. Having been exposed to the ASA vaccine 30 years prior, she developed the powers to emanate a mysterious metallic substance known as the Element, which she uses to enslave the white population of South Freeland to join her HiveMind as Sange. Despite her [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist self-serving belief that she "saved" the town from a drug epidemic]], one of her slaves counters that her assimilation is far worse than the drugs; she counters by cruelly murdering him. With the town under her control, the black population--the Perdi--is forced to hide out in the woods, lest the Sange [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain lynch them and hang them from trees]]. When Anaya, a Perdi, has twin babies with Deacon, a Sange, Looker stops at nothing to capture these babies to be part of her control. Cruel, racist, and self-centered, Looker desired to maintain total dominance over South Freeland, by the most violent means imaginable.
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* CompleteMonster:
** Season 1: TheCompleteMonster: This series is not subtle about its villains, especially these two [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], revolting vile racists]]:
** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA.[[RogueAgent On his own]], he restarts Repackaging a dangerous vaccine program with as a high mortality rate due drug to how it can potentially enslave innocent African-Americans and circulate within his city to create an army of superpowered pawns. Repackaging it into a drug and circulating it throughout the city pawns, Proctor's plans lead to target teenagers with an epidemic of death following, those who develop superpowers are taken while he takes the survivors in for experimentation. When Proctor goes up against [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]. Forcing his rival Gambi, he has Gambi into surrendering to him by holding a subordinate force crowd at gunpoint, Proctor expresses sadistic disappointment at Gambi's surrender by holding a large crowd at gunpoint and is flatly disappointed he can't massacre them when Gambi surrenders. Proctor proceeds forcing him to betray and try spare their lives. Seeking to kill his ally, crime lord Tobias Whale, while also framing ruin hero [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Jefferson Pierce as a drug user, not caring if Pierce]]'s reputation, Proctor allows his men to kill anyone any in the way. When their way as they please and when his plans fail, Proctor shores up his losses and intends fall apart, aims to take the surviving teens to [[PlayingWithSyringes perform hideous experiments]] on them to from his heart's content, even trying to {{blackmail}} Jefferson into giving him a genetic sample by threatening to kill his family. A twisted, racist madman who cares nothing for the damage he does, Proctor is only too glad to condemn thousands of innocent young black men to death, justifying himself experiments with the worst racist rhetoric.
him to continue his abominable operations on.
** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a metahuman with the power to control minds wholords over South Freeland, and an ArcVillain in season 2. Having been exposed to the ASA vaccine 30 years prior, she developed the powers to emanate a mysterious metallic substance known as the Element, which she uses to enslave enslaves the white population of South Freeland to join as her HiveMind as Sange. Despite "Sange". When called out for her hypocrisy of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist self-serving belief that she "saved" claiming to have saved the town from a drug epidemic]], one of epidemic by her mind control being far worse]], she casually murders him for questioning her. Viciously prejudiced, the Looker has her slaves counters that her assimilation is far worse than hunt down and lynch the drugs; she counters by cruelly murdering him. With the town under her control, the town's black population--the Perdi--is forced to hide out in the woods, lest the Sange [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain lynch them population and hang them from trees]]. When Anaya, a Perdi, has twin babies with Deacon, a Sange, Looker stops at nothing to capture these babies hunt down the children of a Sange to be part of ensnare them in her control. Cruel, racist, and self-centered, Looker desired to maintain total dominance over South Freeland, by the most violent means imaginable.subservient cult.
** Season 1: The
** Season 1: [[SmugSnake Martin Proctor]] is the man in charge of the Freeland operations of the sinister ASA.
** "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Perdi]]" & "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E7TheSange The Sange]]": [[TheAssimilator The Looker]] is a metahuman with the power to control minds who
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** It is revealed in season 3 that outside coverage of ASA-controlled Freeland portrays the city's anti-ASA protests as lawless rioting and looting and claims the city is being quarantined due to the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. The season aired just a few months before the George Floyd protests against police brutality, which did involve some highly publicized incidents of rioting and looting, occurred amidst the nationwide outbreak of [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic SARS-CoV-2]].
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** The many times the show depicts black culture, and using bowdlerised forms of racial slurs when in conversation, which can be difficult to take seriously, since they can't use any slurs that are worse than 'negro' for most of the runtime (this being CW show and all). However, they make up for this by having characters casually express highly racist opinions with very little subtlety, which can get... pretty silly at times. In the season 1 finale, Martin Proctor's racism is so over the top that he becomes a caricature.
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** The many times the show depicts black culture, and using bowdlerised forms of racial slurs when in conversation, which can be difficult to take seriously, since they can't use any slurs that are worse than 'negro' for most of the runtime (this being CW show and all). However, they make up for this by having characters casually express highly racist opinions with very little subtlety, which can get... pretty silly at times. In the season 1 finale, Martin Proctor's racism is so over the top that he becomes a caricature.caricature, to the point he utters the phrase “[[Creator/DonaldTrump Make America great again]]” in a sentence [[spoiler: shortly before his death]].
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y230T07D_8 The full version of the show's theme]] by Godholly. It captures how much of a HopeBringer Black Lightning is to his community.
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* HarsherInHindsight: A flashback in season 1 had Lynn compare Jefferson's need to be a superhero to drug addiction. [[spoiler: Episode 4 of season 3 reveals Lynn has been manipulated by Odell into becoming addicted to Green Light so her focus on curing the meta virus can be increased.]]
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** A flashback in season 1 had Lynn compare Jefferson's need to be a superhero to drug addiction. [[spoiler: Episode 4 of season 3 reveals Lynn has been manipulated by Odell into becoming addicted to Green Light so her focus on curing the meta virus can be increased.]]]]
** It is revealed in season 3 that outside coverage of ASA-controlled Freeland portrays the city's anti-ASA protests as lawless rioting and looting and claims the city is being quarantined due to the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. The season aired just a few months before the George Floyd protests against police brutality, which did involve some highly publicized incidents of rioting and looting, occurred amidst the nationwide outbreak of [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic SARS-CoV-2]].
** A flashback in season 1 had Lynn compare Jefferson's need to be a superhero to drug addiction. [[spoiler: Episode 4 of season 3 reveals Lynn has been manipulated by Odell into becoming addicted to Green Light so her focus on curing the meta virus can be increased.
** It is revealed in season 3 that outside coverage of ASA-controlled Freeland portrays the city's anti-ASA protests as lawless rioting and looting and claims the city is being quarantined due to the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. The season aired just a few months before the George Floyd protests against police brutality, which did involve some highly publicized incidents of rioting and looting, occurred amidst the nationwide outbreak of [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic SARS-CoV-2]].
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The "police brutality" message is delivered with all the subtlety of a baton to the temple. Same goes for the "racism is bad" message with similar effects. At least one of these morals will be incorporated into any given episode. While SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped on occasion, especially in a show like this, having too many anvils in a single episode makes the episode feel bloated with audience moral teachings. What we're saying here, is that the show isn't subtle about its content.
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** After the show was clearly not allowed to use the N-word in Season 1, severely neutering its portrayal of racism as noted in {{Narm}} below, the network is allowing it in Season 2.
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** After the show was clearly not allowed to use the N-word in Season 1, severely neutering its portrayal of racism as noted in {{Narm}} below, the network is allowing it in Season 2. It was used exactly once (in the first episode by Napier to describe Jefferson's status as the only black man on the board of education).
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** Many of the times the show depicts racism it can be difficult to take seriously; since they can't use slurs worse than 'negro' (this being CW show and all), they make up for it by having characters casually express highly racist opinions with no subtlety at all, which can get... pretty silly at times. In the season 1 finale, Martin Proctor's racism is so over the top that he becomes a caricature.
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** Many of the The many times the show depicts racism it black culture, and using bowdlerised forms of racial slurs when in conversation, which can be difficult to take seriously; seriously, since they can't use any slurs that are worse than 'negro' for most of the runtime (this being CW show and all), all). However, they make up for it this by having characters casually express highly racist opinions with no subtlety at all, very little subtlety, which can get... pretty silly at times. In the season 1 finale, Martin Proctor's racism is so over the top that he becomes a caricature.
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The show does make it quite clear he's not so much racist, as he is just a stickler for rules he's made that everyone should follow. Lowry even points this out; saying something you disagree with that isn't inherently racist, is not racist.
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: After a whole season of Lowry’s supposed amazing track record being an InformedAbility as we never get to see him as anything but a racist bully, Season 3 has him stand up for one of his students against the fully armed soldiers abducting him, taking a rifle butt to the jaw for his trouble.
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: After a whole season of Lowry’s supposed amazing track record being an InformedAbility InformedAbility, as we never get to see him as anything but a racist bully, an apathetic bully who doesn't really care for the kids unless they follow his sometimes arbitrary rules, Season 3 has him actually stand up for one of his students against the fully armed soldiers abducting him, taking a rifle butt to the jaw for his trouble.
