History Recap / Stargirl2020S1E06TheJusticeSociety

* CurbStompCushion: While two veteran, adult, [[HeroKiller hero-killing]] warriors are obviously going to [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome come out victorious against four teenagers with no training]] (and one with no combat capabilities whatsoever), the kids are surprisingly able to hold their own for a while, and survive long enough for S.T.R.I.P.E. to arrive and ward them off.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Sportsmaster and Tigress are two seasoned BadassNormal villains who fought the original Justice Society, while the new ones are a bunch of teenagers with virtually no training. Courtney is the only one who barely holds her own, and that's only because the Cosmic Staff is able to fight with her. Once Sportsmaster and Tigress tag-team her, she's beaten handily. Courtney admits after the fight that Pat's arrival is the only reason they're alive.
** Speaking of S.T.R.I.P.E.'s arrival, Icicle and Brainwave's powers allowed them to handle S.T.R.I.P.E., but Sportsmaster and Tigress immediately know that their arsenal is inadequate to defeat a giant, armored robot, so they immediately flee.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Crusher and Paula kill the school's football coach because he benched Artemis during practice when she punched one of her teammates. And he's actually the ''third'' coach they've murdered for trivial reasons.

** PlayedForLaughs. Paula and Crusher may be the kind of people to kill a coach for benching their daughter, but they don't tolerate littering on school grounds as Paula sternly orders Steven Sharpe to pick up his bag of peanuts and throw it away as he's leaving.

* CurbStompCushion: While two veteran, adult, [[HeroKiller hero-killing]] warriors are obviously going to [[RealityEnsues come out victorious against four teenagers with no training]] (and one with no combat capabilities whatsoever), the kids are surprisingly able to hold their own for a while, and survive long enough for S.T.R.I.P.E. to arrive and ward them off.

* RealityEnsues:
** Sportsmaster and Tigress are two seasoned BadassNormal villains who fought the original Justice Society, while the new ones are a bunch of teenagers with virtually no training. Courtney is the only one who barely holds her own, and that's only because the Cosmic Staff is able to fight with her. Once Sportsmaster and Tigress tag-team her, she's beaten handily. Courtney admits after the fight that Pat's arrival is the only reason they're alive.
** Speaking of S.T.R.I.P.E.'s arrival, Icicle and Brainwave's powers allowed them to handle S.T.R.I.P.E., but Sportsmaster and Tigress immediately know that their arsenal is inadequate to defeat a giant, armored robot, so they immediately flee.

** PlayedForLaughs. Paula and Crusher may be the kind of people to kill a coach for benching their daughter, but they don't tolerate littering on school grounds.

* JerkassHasAPoint: There's no denying Rick was insensitive and disrespectful towards Pat by questioning what it was Starman saw in him and essentially calling him useless. However, Rick does have a leg to stand on when he criticizes Pat for not suspecting earlier on that the deaths of his parents were orchestrated by the Injustice Society, especially since Pat knew Rex was tailing the ISA long before he reached Blue Valley and has encountered two of the JSA's members alongside Courtney since arriving in Blue Valley himself.

* RealityEnsues: Sportsmaster and Tigress are two seasoned BadassNormal villains who fought the original Justice Society, while the new ones are a bunch of teenagers with virtually no training. Courtney is the only one who barely holds her own, and that's only because the Cosmic Staff is able to fight with her. Once Sportsmaster and Tigress tag-team her, she's beaten handily. Courtney admits after the fight that Pat's arrival is the only reason they're alive.
** Speaking of Pat's arrival during the battle, Icicle and Brainwave's powers allowed them to handle S.T.R.I.P.E, but Sportsmaster and Tigress immediately knew that as they don't have powers, their weaponry would not be much use against a giant, armored robot, so they immediately flee.

** InUniverse example: as the team enters Empire Enterprises, they come across the corpse of a poor security guard who was KilledOffscreen by the ISA. The camera then pans over to each of the teens' shocked reactions as the reality of their situation kicks in: the criminals they're pursuing mean ''business'', and they won't hesitate to kill anyone who stands in their way.

* WhamShot: When Cameron blows out the candle on the slice of birthday cake, he demonstrates the same icy breath as his father.

* VisualPun: Tigress is [[TigerMom an Asian woman who's an overbearing sports mom to her daughter.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Crusher and Paula attack the school's football coach because he benched Artemis during practice when she punched one of her teammates. And he's actually the ''third'' coach they've murdered for trivial reasons.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs. Paula and Crusher may be the kind of people to kill a coach for benching their daughter, but they don't tolerate littering on school grounds.
** Also downplayed with Crusher on his fight with Rick in which while he does give Rick quite a fight he does show some restraint since this Hour Man is JustAKid and even tells him to stand down instead of killing him. However Tigress on the other hand was much more willing to go for the kill on Wildcat.

** Crusher bashes the new coach's head in for benching his daughter after she slugs a teammate for a late tackle. He's the third coach in two seasons Crusher and Paula have knocked off.

* PragmaticVillainy: Icicle berates Sportsmaster & Tigress for killing the coach who benched their daughter but its mainly due to how they did it more than once and tells them to stop doing that so they don't attract any unwanted attention.

* CurbStompCushion: While two veteran, adult, [[HeroKiller hero-killing]] warriors are obviously going to come out victorious against four teenagers with no training (and one with no combat capabilities whatsoeveR), the kids are surprisingly able to hold their own for a while, and survive long enough for S.T.R.I.P.E. to arrive and ward them off.