History Recap / JusticeLeagueS2E19And20Hereafter

''(Firm handshake before Superman jumps into the wormhole.)''\\

** Superman working together with Vandal Savage to look for a way to go back in time, although the hostility is more on Superman's part.

** Again, at the end:
-->'''Vandal Savage''': (As he is disappearing) Thank you, my friend.

'''Superman''': What happens to you?\\

'''Vandal Savage''': (As he is disappearing) Thank you, my friend.

'''Superman''': What happens to you?
'''Vandal Savage''': Redemption if I'm lucky. Don't worry about me. Return to your friends. Do what you do best, what your are born to do. Save the world.
''(Firm handshake before Superman jumps into the wormhole.)''

-->"Superman": What happens to you?
-->"Vandal Savage": Redemption if I'm lucky. Don't worry about me. Return to your friends. Do what you do best, what your are born to do. Save the world.
(Firm handshake before Superman jumps into the wormhole.)

** In lieu of Superman's "death", the League decide to start a membership drive. This becomes the premise of the {{Retool}} for the next season, and the candidates each of them suggested become full-fledged members.

* LoopholeAbuse: When Superman asks Future Savage why he abandoned work on a new Time Machine, Savage states it was pointless. The technology prevents Savage himself from traveling to any time period where he already exists. Superman immediately realizes, and points out, that limitation ''doesn't'' apply to him because, of course, he 'died' 30,000 years ago. Savage immediately realizes he's right.

* MoodWhiplash: Constantly. Light hearted battle, Superman is killed and the world mourns, Lobo shows up for his usual BoisterousBruiser comedy, then the League mourns, then straight up adventure with ''[[{{Pun}} Superman: At Earth's End]]'' and then a Heartwarming/Tearjerking ending with Savage.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Vandal Savage says his [[RetGone erasure from history]] will, if he's lucky, be the outcome of sending Superman into the past to save Earth, and is pleased when it happens.

** What prompts the VillainTeamUp between Metallo, Weather Wizard, Toyman, Livewire, and Kalibak. They all have a score to settle with Superman. Then again, all incarnations of the Superman Revenge Squad has followed the trope.

** Should he? His turning point was "white dwarf matter successfully stolen", not "Superman disappearing". I mean, that return in the present is one thing and prevent the theft after that is another. Of course it will take some time in both present and future time fluxes, by obvious reason.

* SoMuchForStealth: Superman says this word for word when an unusually-alert roach notices them and roars, waking up the entire nest.

** Supes also has no problem with [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman killing the giant cockroach creatures]], which may or may not be intelligent beings. He also kills the leader of the wolfpack. It's possible Superman suspended his oath because ''here'', he was ''not'' a superpowered being, and therefore wasn't abusing his powers in a life-and-death situation.

* RagnarokProofing: The Watchtower stayed in orbit after Vandal Savage destroyed the Earth, only crashing down seventy-five years before Superman's arrival. And the security system still recognizes Superman when he finds it. Vandal lampshades, [[TheyDontMakeThemLikeTheyUsedTo "They don't build 'em like this anymore."]]

* GoOutWithASmile: Cease to exist, rather than physically die, but this is still Vandal Savage's reaction as it happens.

Superman seems to be vaporized after making a HeroicSacrifice. The League attempts to cope with the loss of Superman by defending Metropolis in his absence and ComicBook/{{Lobo}} offers to be the replacement. Superman actually wakes up 30,000 years in Earth's future with ComicBook/VandalSavage, the only human left alive as the result of an attempt at world domination staged a few months after Superman’s disappearance.

* AntagonistInMourning: ComicBook/LexLuthor shows up at Superman's funeral. Knowing the history between the two, Lois has every reason to slap him in the face for just showing up and says this:
-->'''Lois''': [[HaveYouComeToGloat You've come to gloat!]] You've tried to get rid of him for years! Are you ''happy'' now?! Isn't this what you've always wanted? I hate you! ''I HATE YOU!'' (''[[CryIntoChest she starts sobbing into Luthor's chest, and he holds her]]'')
-->'''Luthor''': Believe it or not, I'm going to miss him, too.

* CallForward: After piling lots of cars on Kalibak, Lobo says "I can't hear you..." in a way that the Joker would say before his [[KilledOfForReal final death]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker at the hands of Terry McGinnis]].

* RagnarokProofing: The Watchtower stayed in orbit after Vandal Savage destroyed the Earth, only crashing down seventy-five years before Superman's arrival. And the security system still recognizes Superman when he finds it. Vandal lampshades, "They don't build 'em like this anymore."

-->''(A batarang [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands knocks Weather Wizard's wand out of his hand]])''\\

-->'''Kalibak''': I'm not dead yet.\\

-->'''Green Lantern:''' [[UnreliableNarrator That's not how he told the story.]]

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Lois gives one to Lex Luthor when he shows up at Superman’s funeral.

* PhlebotinumBattery: Savage's zero-point energy generator, which is the only power source strong enough to make the time machine work. Unfortunately, it was stolen by mutant cockroaches who use it to incubate their eggs. Superman asks why Savage can't just make another one, but he explains that it takes about ''50 years'' to build. While that long might not mean much to an immortal like Savage, Superman doesn't have that kind of time to wait around.

* AuthorAppeal: Episode writer Rich Fogel's revealed ''Under a Red Sun'' is one of his all-time favorite Superman stories and he'd been looking for an opportunity since Season One to finally adapt it for ''Justice League''.

* PhlebotinumBattery: Savage's generator turns out to work as one.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Toyman when Green Lantern shows up first instead of Superman. Livewire concurs, fully expecting the expecting the rest of the League to show up.

** [[FridgeLogic]] sets in when you realize his promise was specifically "to leave (Superman) ''and'' the Earth alone" so the reason he's able to show up is because one of them is no longer part of the equation. Also explains why he takes off quick enough after Supes returns from the dead.