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* AbsenteeActor: J'onn, who's on Mars, and Lex, yet again.
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* AdultFear: Haley is convinced to go against Lockwood (and by extension, President Baker) when her daughter has a panic attack, expressing her fear of martial law.

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* CurbStompBattle: Obviously, none of the prisoners stand a chance of apprehending Supergirl.

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* CurbStompBattle: Obviously, none of Normal civilians confronting Supergirl goes about as well as you'd expect; she all but ignores being shot at, catching bullets solely on reflex, and easily tosses aside the prisoners stand a chance of apprehending Supergirl.who try to fight her hand-to-hand.



* RealityEnsues:
** Declaring martial law in a country like America predictably creates more problems than it solves -- food shortages and an uptick in crime.
** Normal civilians confronting Supergirl goes about as well as you'd expect; she all but ignores being shot at, catching bullets solely on reflex, and easily tosses aside the prisoners who try to fight her hand-to-hand.



* SchmuckBait: Otis releases several prisoners from their cells, offering them freedom if they take down Supergirl. [[StupidCrooks Most of them fall for it]], and [[RealityEnsues get their asses handed to them]].

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* SchmuckBait: Otis releases several prisoners from their cells, offering them freedom if they take down Supergirl. [[StupidCrooks Most of them fall for it]], and [[RealityEnsues get their asses handed to them]].them.
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Supergirl and Lena go to Stryker's Island hoping to find clues about Lex's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Lockwood gets permission from President Baker to martial the Children of Liberty as a militia to hunt down Supergirl.

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Supergirl and Lena go to Stryker's Island hoping to find clues about Lex's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Lockwood gets permission from President Baker to martial marshal the Children of Liberty as a militia to hunt down Supergirl.
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* BlackEyes: James, when his new-found powers start overwhelming him.
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* WhyAmITicking: Otis is instructed to stand in the center of Lex's cell, then his implants start beeping. Moments before he becomes a kryptonite bomb, he realizes the implications of this. Lucky for him, all it does is vent the kryptonite in his implants, allowing Eve to revive him.

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* WhyAmITicking: Otis is instructed to stand in the center of Lex's cell, then his implants start beeping. Moments before he becomes a kryptonite Kryptonite bomb, he realizes the implications of this. Lucky for him, all it does is vent the kryptonite Kryptonite in his implants, allowing Eve to revive him.
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* FascistsBedTime: Baker declares Martial Law as a result of the attack, including a nationwide curfew. In a blatant double standard, humans will merely be ordered to go to bed, aliens are to be given much more rough treatment.

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* FascistsBedTime: Baker declares Martial Law martial law as a result of the attack, including a nationwide curfew. In a blatant double standard, humans will merely be ordered to go to bed, cited if they violate it; aliens are to be given much more rough treatment.



** You ''really'' have to wonder why Lena and Supergirl thought it was a good idea for Supergirl now Public Enemy #1 to go to Stryker's Island, and not expect any complications. She would've had much better luck going just as plain old Kara Danvers, something she lampshades by the end of the episode where she gets much better results.

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** You ''really'' have to wonder why Lena and Supergirl thought it was a good idea for Supergirl now (now Public Enemy #1 #1) to go to Stryker's Island, and not expect any complications. She would've had much better luck going just as plain old Kara Danvers, something she lampshades by the end of the episode where she gets much better results.



* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Haley knows Supergirl is innocent and is clearly disgusted to be taking orders from Lockwood, but still goes along with her orders. She averts it at the end, however; Alex's speech about following immoral orders, as well as her own daughter's fear of Martial Law convince Haley to take a look at the human cost of the government's actions and do the right thing.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Steve Lomeli, the self-righteous hacktivist in Lex's cell block is one to Julian Assange.

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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Haley knows Supergirl is innocent and is clearly disgusted to be taking orders from Lockwood, but still goes along with her orders. She averts it at the end, however; Alex's speech about following immoral orders, as well as her own daughter's fear of Martial Law martial law convince Haley to take a look at the human cost of the government's actions and do the right thing.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Steve Lomeli, the self-righteous hacktivist in Lex's cell block block, is one to based on Julian Assange.



** Declaring Martial Law in a country like America predictably creates more problems than it solves -- food shortages and an uptick in crime.

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** Declaring Martial Law martial law in a country like America predictably creates more problems than it solves -- food shortages and an uptick in crime.



* RefugeInAudacity: Supergirl just changing her clothes while running away from Otis and actually convincing him that she is here as a reporter in an all-men Cell Block.

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* RefugeInAudacity: Supergirl just changing her clothes while running away from Otis and actually convincing him that she is here as a reporter in an all-men Cell Block.all-men's cell block.



* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Colonel Haley doesn't want to comply with Lockwood's demands, but as military officer she doesn't have a choice as she knows that Baker will do whatever he asks... but in the end decides what her country asks of her isn't the right choice, ''especially'' after her daughter begins having panic attacks and her favorite school teacher, an alien, goes into hiding.

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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Colonel Haley doesn't want to comply with Lockwood's demands, but as a military officer she doesn't have a choice as she knows that Baker will do whatever he asks... but in the end decides what her country asks of her isn't the right choice, ''especially'' after her daughter begins having panic attacks and her favorite school teacher, an alien, goes into hiding.

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* FantasticRacism: Very evident in Baker's declaration of Martial Law; humans caught out past curfew will be "cited", whereas aliens will be "stopped by any means necessary". Haley mentions that one of her daughter's teachers, an alien who's clearly reading the writing on the wall, has gone into hiding to avoid persecution.

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* FantasticRacism: Very evident in Baker's declaration of Martial Law; martial law; humans caught out past curfew will be "cited", whereas aliens will be "stopped by any means necessary". Haley mentions that one of her daughter's teachers, an alien who's clearly reading the writing on the wall, has gone into hiding to avoid persecution.



* HollywoodLaw: Even under Martial Law, the military just can't go in and kill an entire prison of civilians hunting down ''one'' enemy -- it'd be a war crime of the highest order. But then again President Baker has never cared about such niceties.

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* HollywoodLaw: HollywoodLaw:
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Even under Martial Law, martial law, the military just can't go in and kill an entire prison of civilians hunting down ''one'' enemy -- it'd be a war crime of the highest order. But then again President Baker has never cared about such niceties.niceties.
** Blatantly discriminatory means in enforcing martial law Baker announces are unconstitutional as well, but again he likely isn't concerned.
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** Kara herself as it never occurs to her that, as a wanted fugitive and major threat, going around in costume is a bad idea. Likewise, it's not until Lomeli brings it up that Kara even considers the army will have no problem killing a place of convicted criminals to get at her.

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** Kara herself as it never occurs to her that, as a wanted fugitive and major threat, going around in costume is a bad idea. Likewise, it's not until Lomeli brings it up that Kara even considers the army will have no problem killing a place of massacring convicted criminals to get at her.

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* AdultFear: Haley is convinced to go against Lockwood (and by extension, President Baker) when her daughter has a panic attack, expressing her fear of Martial Law.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Even under Martial Law, the military just can't go in and kill an entire prison of civilians hunting down ''one'' enemy -- it'd be a war crime of the highest order. But then again President Baker has never cared about such niceties.

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* AdultFear: Haley is convinced to go against Lockwood (and by extension, President Baker) when her daughter has a panic attack, expressing her fear of Martial Law.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Even under Martial Law, the military just can't go in and kill an entire prison of civilians hunting down ''one'' enemy -- it'd be a war crime of the highest order. But then again President Baker has never cared about such niceties.
martial law.


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* HollywoodLaw: Even under Martial Law, the military just can't go in and kill an entire prison of civilians hunting down ''one'' enemy -- it'd be a war crime of the highest order. But then again President Baker has never cared about such niceties.
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** Kara herself as it never occurs to her that, as a wanted fugitive and major threat, going around in costume is a bad idea. Likewise, it's not until Lomeli brings it up that Kara even considers the army will have no problem killing a place of convicted criminals to get at her.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Supergirl can barely take it when the convicts as Stryker's talk of how "impressed" they were at "her" attack and even chanting her name.
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* EurekaMoment:
** When Lex leaves Lena a note taunting her about the first fatality of her Harun'el, Lena covers by claiming it's a reminder of Anastasia, since Lex used to call her the "lost princess." Then she realizes that there's a chess configuration named after Anastasia, and that's the key to finding his diaries.
** There's nothing actually important in Lex's diaries, they're just for taunting Lena. But in going over old memories, Lena remembers the time Lex told her he'd build a house on the mountain, and realizes his art is actually of that mountain. There's a hidden switch at the spot where he said he'd build the house.
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** Otis shouts ''[[Film/TheShining Here's Otis!]]'' when coming through the wall after Supergirl, and claims that [[Franchise/TheMuppets it's easy being green]] and [[HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas his heart grew three sizes]] when displaying his upgraded kryptonite heart.

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** Otis shouts ''[[Film/TheShining Here's Otis!]]'' when coming through the wall after Supergirl, and claims that [[Franchise/TheMuppets it's easy being green]] and [[HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas his heart grew three sizes]] when displaying his upgraded kryptonite heart.

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