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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After spotting Stargirl and Wildcat leaving the hospital and Stargirl using Yolanda's real name when talking to her, Beth is easily able to deduce Courtney's identity through her interactions with Yolanda at school, seeing them hanging out together all of a sudden. The goggles even refer to Courtney using Yolanda's real name as a rookie mistake.



* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Matt's truck is delivered to Pat, with the tow truck driver noting that it looks like some monster tore it in half. Pat sees the fist indent and immediately realizes that Rick, whom he already suspects to be Rex's son, must be responsible and therefore must have Hourman's hourglass, which he only could have gotten his hands on if Courtney gave it to him. This leads him to realize that Courtney took the JSA's arsenal.

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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Matt's truck is delivered to Pat, with the tow truck driver noting that it looks like some monster tore it in half. Pat sees the fist first indent and immediately realizes that Rick, whom he already suspects to be Rex's son, must be responsible and therefore must have Hourman's hourglass, which he only could have gotten his hands on if Courtney gave it to him. This leads him to realize that Courtney took the JSA's arsenal.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Injustice Society sent Solomon Grundy to run Rex's car off the road and into a tree, then covered up the accident as a result of the car having been given the wrong kind of tires. The fact this is revealed one episode after another mysterious and fatal car crash suggests Icicle used the same means to cover up the loose end of [[SayingTooMuch Denise Zarick]], but this is never confirmed.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Injustice Society sent Solomon Grundy to run Rex's Rex and Wendi's car off the road and into a tree, then covered up the accident as a result of the car having been given the wrong kind of tires. The fact this is revealed one episode after another mysterious and fatal car crash suggests Icicle used the same means to cover up the loose end of [[SayingTooMuch Denise Zarick]], but this is never confirmed.

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* CommonalityConnection: Courtney empathizes with Rick, since they both lost their parents to the Injustice Society.



* NotSoDifferent: Courtney empathizes with Rick, since they both lost their parents to the Injustice Society.

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* RealityEnsues: After spotting Stargirl and Wildcat leaving the hospital and Stargirl using Yolanda's real name when talking to her, Beth is easily able to deduce Courtney's identity through her interactions with Yolanda at school, seeing them hanging out together all of a sudden. The goggles even refer to Courtney using Yolanda's real name as a rookie mistake.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After spotting Stargirl and Wildcat leaving the hospital and Stargirl using Yolanda's real name when talking to her, Beth is easily able to deduce Courtney's identity through her interactions with Yolanda at school, seeing them hanging out together all of a sudden. The goggles even refer to Courtney using Yolanda's real name as a rookie mistake.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Injustice Society sent Solomon Grundy to run Rex's car off the road and into a tree, then covered up the accident as a result of the car having been given the wrong kind of tires.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Injustice Society sent Solomon Grundy to run Rex's car off the road and into a tree, then covered up the accident as a result of the car having been given the wrong kind of tires. The fact this is revealed one episode after another mysterious and fatal car crash suggests Icicle used the same means to cover up the loose end of [[SayingTooMuch Denise Zarick]], but this is never confirmed.
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** The goggles label the picture of Santa Claus at that of an impersonator.

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** The goggles label the picture of Santa Claus at as that of an impersonator.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Principal Bowin attempts to use her violin to control the two truck drivers one proves too strong willed, and is killed by Sharpe as a result. [[spoiler:Fast forward to episode 12 and it is revealed that the drawback to the ISA's plan to brainwash several states worth of people is that about 1 in 4 will be too strong willed, and be killed by the strain of resisting.]]
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: somehow Dr. Midnight's goggles are able to get perfect footage of Grundy killing Rick's parents even though it happened in the middle of the woods years ago.

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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: somehow Somehow Dr. Midnight's goggles are able to get perfect footage of Grundy killing Rick's parents even though it happened in the middle of the woods years ago.
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: somehow Dr. Midnight's goggles are able to get perfect footage of Grundy killing Rick's parents even though it happened in the middle of the woods years ago.
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* WildTeenParty: Beth tracks Rex to Cindy's party, which she notes has a total of one person not underage and 80 violations of the legal drinking age.

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* WildTeenParty: Beth tracks Rex Rick to Cindy's party, which she notes has a total of one person not underage and 80 violations of the legal drinking age.
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* OmniscientDatabase: Dr. Mid-nite's goggles know practically everything ever recorded, even stuff it logically shouldn't know such as information on Courtney's art projects. They also manage to easily identify Beth Chapel from just her name (and perhaps her voice) even though she can't possibly be the only person in the world with that name.

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* OmniscientDatabase: Dr. Mid-nite's Mid-Nite's goggles know practically everything ever recorded, even stuff it logically shouldn't know such as information on Courtney's art projects. They also manage to easily identify Beth Chapel from just her name (and perhaps her voice) even though she can't possibly be the only person in the world with that name.name, demonstrating the ability to narrow results by geography.
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* TrustPassword: Mention of Rex Tyler's classic car, a yellow '66 Mustang, is implied to be one. On the night he and his wife tried to flee, Rex gave Rick a toy version and made sure to stress the make and model. When Rick mentions the car, it tips Pat off there's something special about Rick.
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* OmniscientDatabase: Dr. Mid-nite's goggles know practically everything ever recorded, even stuff it logically shouldn't know such as information on Courtney's art projects. They also manage to easily identify Beth Chapel from just her name (and perhaps her voice) even though she can't possibly be the only person in the world with that name.
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** The goggles label the picture of Santa Claus at that of an impersonator.


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* MundaneUtility: Among the many amazing features of Dr. Mid-Nite's googles is access to Twitter.


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* ProductPlacement: This time it's Kit-Kats.
* ProperlyParanoid: Courtney thinks Principal Bowen is part of the ISA due to her suspicious behavior at the hospital. Pat rightly has doubts about it, but it turns out Courtney is right.
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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Matt's truck is delivered to Pat, with the tow truck driver noting that it looks like some monster tore it in half. Pat sees the fist indent and immediately realizes that Rick, who he already suspects to be Rex's son, must be responsible and therefore must have Hourman's hourglass, which he only could have gotten his hands on if Courtney gave it to him. This leads him to realize that Courtney took the JSA's arsenal.
* WildTeenParty: Beth tracks Rex to Cindy's party, which she notes has a total of one person not underage and 88 violations of the legal drinking age.

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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Matt's truck is delivered to Pat, with the tow truck driver noting that it looks like some monster tore it in half. Pat sees the fist indent and immediately realizes that Rick, who whom he already suspects to be Rex's son, must be responsible and therefore must have Hourman's hourglass, which he only could have gotten his hands on if Courtney gave it to him. This leads him to realize that Courtney took the JSA's arsenal.
* WildTeenParty: Beth tracks Rex to Cindy's party, which she notes has a total of one person not underage and 88 80 violations of the legal drinking age.
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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Pat sees Matt's car punched in half and immediately realizes it could've only been done with the power of Hourman's hourglass, which in turn, leads him to realize that Courtney took the JSA's arsenal.

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* WhamShot: At the end of the episode, Pat sees Matt's car punched truck is delivered to Pat, with the tow truck driver noting that it looks like some monster tore it in half half. Pat sees the fist indent and immediately realizes it could've only been done with the power of that Rick, who he already suspects to be Rex's son, must be responsible and therefore must have Hourman's hourglass, which in turn, he only could have gotten his hands on if Courtney gave it to him. This leads him to realize that Courtney took the JSA's arsenal.

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* AbusiveParents: Rick's maternal uncle turned foster father Matt makes no effort to hide how resentful he is about having to give up his aspirations to strike it big in Silicon Valley to become the unwilling guardian to his late sister's child, and abuses Rick every chance he gets to remind him of how he blames Rick for his current state of being.

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* AbusiveParents: Rick's maternal uncle turned foster father Matt makes no effort to hide how resentful he is about having to give up his aspirations to strike it big in Silicon Valley to become the unwilling guardian to his late sister's child, and abuses Rick every chance he gets to remind him of how [[MisplacedRetribution he blames Rick for his current state of being.being]].


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* GoneHorriblyRight: Courtney succeeds in finding a successor for Hourman, alright. His own son, in fact. Unfortunately, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Rick is so filled with anger than he uses the Hourglass's power to go on a rampage]].
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* ShootTheMessenger: Sharpe tips the informant who brought him the satellite plans with a chocolate coin that poisons him after a single bite.


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* VillainsOutShopping: When the satellite blueprints are delivered to the Gambler, he's in the middle of watching a movie and munching on popcorn at the theater.
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* ShoutOut: The mask Courtney "borrows" from a fellow party-goer at Cindy's party to avoid being noticed by her is from Film/{{Gremlins}}.

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* ShoutOut: The mask Courtney "borrows" from a fellow party-goer at Cindy's party to avoid being noticed by her is Gizmo from Film/{{Gremlins}}.''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.
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* ItsAlwaysSpring: Although the episode takes place at Halloween in the Midwestern state of Nebraska, the trees still appear to have mostly green leaves.


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* OlderThanTheyLook: Dr. Mid-Nite was born in 1914 and thus was 96 years old when he was killed by the Injustice Society in the incident at the start of the series.


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* ShoutOut: The mask Courtney "borrows" from a fellow party-goer at Cindy's party to avoid being noticed by her is from Film/{{Gremlins}}.

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