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* AdultFear: Exploited by Agent Liberty, who suggests using mind-controlled aliens to attack a city fair to make people fear for the lives of their children.
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Mercy shot the agent.
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** Otis guns down a DEO agent who assisted them, casually shrugging off Jensen's objections that "[[ApeShallNotKillApe we don't kill humans]]" by saying that the dead man wasn't human, [[LackOfEmpathy he was "loose ends"]].
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** Otis Mercy guns down a DEO agent who assisted them, then Otis casually shrugging shrugs off Jensen's objections that "[[ApeShallNotKillApe we don't kill humans]]" by saying that the dead man wasn't human, [[LackOfEmpathy he was "loose ends"]].
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It was Mercy, not Otis, who shot the DEO agent.
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** When Otis kills a DEO defector, Jensen says that he thought the Children of Liberty didn't kill humans, echoing Agent Liberty's words from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel the previous episode]]. Jensen clearly has a short memory; Agent Liberty tried to use the quoted line to talk Otis and Mercy out of killing ''him''.
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** When Otis Mercy kills a DEO defector, Jensen says that he thought the Children of Liberty didn't kill humans, echoing Agent Liberty's words from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel the previous episode]]. Jensen clearly has a short memory; Agent Liberty tried to use the quoted line to talk Otis and Mercy out of killing ''him''.
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* RealityEnsues:
** Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking is most certainly]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope a free action]].
** Alex ignores a direct order from President Baker to keep Supergirl at the DEO unless he orders otherwise, so he assigns military officer Lauren Haley to act as oversight over her command of the DEO.
** Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking is most certainly]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope a free action]].
** Alex ignores a direct order from President Baker to keep Supergirl at the DEO unless he orders otherwise, so he assigns military officer Lauren Haley to act as oversight over her command of the DEO.
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted with Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. Talking is most certainly ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' a free action.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with; James' extralegal outing as Guardian actually received a ''positive'' response from law enforcement, with there even being talk of him being deputised. Unfortunately, the pictures of Guardian, a human, fighting aliens struck a chord with the Earth First movement; they happily praise Guardian as human hero taking the fight to the "roaches", much to James' disgust. He's getting nothing but good press, but [[AbsoluteXenophobe the kind of people]] praising his efforts is not the kind of praise he (or any genuine hero) wants.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with; James' extralegal outing as Guardian actually received a ''positive'' response from law enforcement, with there even being talk of him being deputised. Unfortunately, the pictures of Guardian, a human, fighting aliens struck a chord with the Earth First movement; they happily praise Guardian as a human hero taking the fight to the "roaches", much to James' disgust. He's getting nothing but good press, but [[AbsoluteXenophobe the kind of people]] praising his efforts is not the kind of praise he (or any genuine hero) wants.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Brainy, see ManlyTears above. Lena is absolutely flabbergasted. He responds that he's techno-organic, not an emotionless robot, though he is still caught off-guard.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Brainy, see ManlyTears above. Lena is absolutely flabbergasted. He responds that he's techno-organic, not an emotionless robot, though he is still caught off-guard.off guard.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Agent Liberty believes that the best way to turn people against aliens is to make them afraid for their children. Therefore, the Children of Liberty sic their mind-controlled aliens on a city fair full of children.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Agent Liberty believes that the best way to turn people against aliens is to make them afraid for their children. Therefore, the Children of Liberty sic their mind-controlled aliens on a city fair full of children.them.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Mercy tries to convince Alex of the righteousness of their actions, and that the aliens are somehow at fault, despite them being ''brainwashed'' into attacking civilians by them.
* BittersweetEnding: The good: the attack on the fair was stopped, Mercy and Otis are dead, and the atmosphere has been purged of kryptonite. The bad: Fiona still died from her injuries, and despite her pleas, Manchester is out for blood in the aftermath, while Agent Liberty is undaunted by this defeat and the mysterious clone of Kara is "training" for some unknown purpose.
* BittersweetEnding: The good: the attack on the fair was stopped, Mercy and Otis are dead, and the atmosphere has been purged of kryptonite. The bad: Fiona still died from her injuries, and despite her pleas, Manchester is out for blood in the aftermath, while Agent Liberty is undaunted by this defeat and the mysterious clone of Kara is "training" for some unknown purpose.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Mercy tries to convince Alex of the righteousness of their actions, and that the aliens are somehow at fault, despite them being ''brainwashed'' into attacking civilians by them.
her side.
* BittersweetEnding: The good: the attack on the fair was stopped, Mercy and Otis are dead, and the atmosphere has been purged ofkryptonite.Kryptonite. The bad: Fiona still died from her injuries, and despite her pleas, Manchester is out for blood in the aftermath, while Agent Liberty is undaunted by this defeat and the mysterious clone of Kara is "training" for some unknown purpose.
* BittersweetEnding: The good: the attack on the fair was stopped, Mercy and Otis are dead, and the atmosphere has been purged of
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Alex is under some serious pressure from all her responsibility as the director of the DEO and later almost breaks down crying.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Alex is under some serious pressure from all her responsibility as the director of the DEO DEO, and later almost breaks down crying.
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** In the [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel preceding episode]], Ben Lockwood praised Guardian as a "human hero"; in this episode, other Earth First proponents praise Guardian's actions the same way (the comment "Guardian of Liberty" implies that Lockwood might even had had a hand in this).
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** In the [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel preceding episode]], Ben Lockwood praised Guardian as a "human hero"; in this episode, other Earth First proponents praise Guardian's actions the same way (the comment "Guardian of Liberty" implies that Lockwood might even had have had a hand in this).
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* BadBoss: After the FalseFlagOperation falls apart, Agent Liberty subjects Jensen to an alien parasite.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Even when in a suit that is just barely keeping her alive and from harm, and being explicitly ordered not to, Kkara just can't help herself and jumps into action regardless.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Even when in a suit that is just barely keeping her alive and from harm, and being explicitly ordered not to, Kkara Kara just can't help herself and jumps into action regardless.
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** When Otis kills a DEO defector, Jensen says that he thought the Children of Liberty didn't kill humans, echoing Agent Liberty's words from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel the previous episode]].
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** When Otis kills a DEO defector, Jensen says that he thought the Children of Liberty didn't kill humans, echoing Agent Liberty's words from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel the previous episode]]. Jensen clearly has a short memory; Agent Liberty tried to use the quoted line to talk Otis and Mercy out of killing ''him''.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jensen, like Lockkwood before him, is not happy about Mercy and Otis murdering humans.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jensen, like Lockkwood Lockwood before him, is not happy about Mercy and Otis murdering humans.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with; James' extra-legal outing as Guardian actually received a ''positive'' response from law enforcement, with there even being talk of him being deputised. Unfortunately, the pictures of Guardian, a human, fighting aliens struck a chord with the Earth First movement; they happily praise Guardian as human hero taking the fight to the "roaches", much to James' disgust. He's getting nothing but good press, but [[AbsoluteXenophobe the kind of people]] praising his efforts is not the kind of praise he (or any genuine hero) wants.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with; James' extra-legal extralegal outing as Guardian actually received a ''positive'' response from law enforcement, with there even being talk of him being deputised. Unfortunately, the pictures of Guardian, a human, fighting aliens struck a chord with the Earth First movement; they happily praise Guardian as human hero taking the fight to the "roaches", much to James' disgust. He's getting nothing but good press, but [[AbsoluteXenophobe the kind of people]] praising his efforts is not the kind of praise he (or any genuine hero) wants.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Demonstrated again by the Children of Liberty; ''all'' of the harm in this episode is caused by them as they try to convince the public that AliensAreBastards.
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* RaceLift: Manchester Black is....well, ''black''. In the comics, he's caucasian.
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* RaceLift: Manchester Black is....well, ''black''. In is black here; in the comics, he's caucasian.he is Caucasian.
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* ReformedCriminal: Manchester used to be a part of a hooligan group, until Fiona convinced him to become better.
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* ReformedCriminal: Manchester used to be a part of a hooligan group, until Fiona convinced him to become better. With her death, he seems to be reverting to old habits for the sake of revenge.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While James going out as Guardian ''did'' end up helping people in the climax, the optics of a human superhero fighting aliens in this political climate only ended up emboldening the "Earth First" movement, particularly with Agent Liberty to help manipulate the PR.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While James going out as Guardian ''did'' end up helping people in the climax, the optics of a human superhero fighting aliens in this political climate only ended up emboldening the "Earth First" movement, particularly with Agent Liberty to help manipulate the PR.PR by blogging about it in his civilian guise.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Brainy, see ManlyTears above. Lena is absolutely flabbergasted.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Brainy, see ManlyTears above. Lena is absolutely flabbergasted. He responds that he's techno-organic, not an emotionless robot, though he is still caught off-guard.
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SITF is when the character is explicitly killed so that the bad guy can cause the hero pain. Simply dying to motivate another character's story is Disposable Woman. Or at least that's how I understand the tropes.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Fiona's death is what motivates Manchester to go on the Warpath in the closing scenes.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: Fiona has enough time to share a few words with Manchester before she expires.
* BadassLongcoat: Manchester Black, true to the comics.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Mercy tries to convince Alex of the righteousness of their actions, and that the aliens are somehow at fault, despite them being ''brainwashed'' into attacking civilians by them.
* TheBusCameBack: The Hellgramite from Season 1 returns.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Alex is under some serious pressure from all her responsibility as the director of the DEO and later almost breaks down crying.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Even when in a suit that is just barely keeping her alive and from harm, and being explicitly ordered not to, Kkara just can't help herself and jumps into action regardless.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Alex is under some serious pressure from all her responsibility as the director of the DEO and later almost breaks down crying.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Even when in a suit that is just barely keeping her alive and from harm, and being explicitly ordered not to, Kkara just can't help herself and jumps into action regardless.
* DefiantCaptive: Both the Kopy and the Hellgramite towards the Children of Liberty.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jensen, like Lockkwood before him, is not happy about Mercy and Otis murdering humans.
* HesBack: J'onn finally jumps back into action.
* ItsAllMyFault: Both Alex and J'onn blame themselves for everything going wrong this episode. Alex for her flawed leadership, J'onn for initially refusing to help Kara because of his new pacifist way of life.
* ManlyTears:
** Brainy of all people starts to cry for Kara.
** Manchester, after Fiona's death.
** Brainy of all people starts to cry for Kara.
** Manchester, after Fiona's death.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Brainy, see ManlyTears above. Lena is absolutely flabbergasted.
* RaceLift: Manchester Black is....well, ''black''. In the comics, he's caucasian.
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** Alex ignores a direct order from President Baker to keep Supergirl at the DEO unless he orders otherwise, so he assigns a military officer to act as oversight over her command of the DEO.
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** Alex ignores a direct order from President Baker to keep Supergirl at the DEO unless he orders otherwise, so he assigns a military officer Lauren Haley to act as oversight over her command of the DEO.DEO.
* ReformedCriminal: Manchester used to be a part of a hooligan group, until Fiona convinced him to become better.
* RousingSpeech: Alex gives one to the DEO, hoping to convince any faltering agent to do the right thing and not give in to hate.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite the danger of facing additional charges, James finally decides to go out as Guardian and help Supergirl.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Fiona's death is what motivates Manchester to go on the Warpath in the closing scenes.
* ReformedCriminal: Manchester used to be a part of a hooligan group, until Fiona convinced him to become better.
* RousingSpeech: Alex gives one to the DEO, hoping to convince any faltering agent to do the right thing and not give in to hate.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite the danger of facing additional charges, James finally decides to go out as Guardian and help Supergirl.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Fiona's death is what motivates Manchester to go on the Warpath in the closing scenes.
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I'm fixing some errors.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When Season 4 began shooting, Creator/MelissaBenoist was on Broadway in the musical "Beautiful". Thus, this episode was the first shot, with Benoist adding voiceover in post, as well as close-up's of her face added in. When her run ended, she joined the rest of the cast in Vancouver, starting with filming the scene where Supergirl takes the new suit's helmet off.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When Season 4 began shooting, Creator/MelissaBenoist was on Broadway in the musical "Beautiful". Thus, this episode was the first shot, with Benoist adding voiceover in post, as well as close-up's close-ups of her face added in. When her run ended, she joined the rest of the cast in Vancouver, starting with filming the scene where Supergirl takes the new suit's helmet off.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: James is not pleased to find out the Children of Liberty is praising him as a ''human'' hero and using the image of Guardian to promote their beliefs.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: James is not pleased to find out the Children of Liberty is are praising him as a ''human'' hero and using the image of Guardian to promote their beliefs.
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* ArmorIsUseless: The armor Supergirl wears has to dedicate all of its power to filtering the Kryptonite out of her system and it doesn't take many hits for it to cease functioning.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: James is not pleased to find out the Children of Liberty is praising him as a ''human'' hero and using the image of Guardian to promote their beliefs.
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* EarAche: The final scene has Agent Liberty place the parasite on Jensen. It crawls into his ear.
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* MesACrowd: Kopy can duplicate himself, with each duplicate able to do the same.
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* TragicKeepsake: Manchester Black has Fiona's engagement ring around his necklace.
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* EurekaMoment: When Lena told Brainiac to calm himself by shoving his feelings in thousands of imaginary boxes, it gives Brainiac the idea to use thousands of nanites to clear up the Kryptonite in the atmosphere.
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* TragicKeepsake:
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* MythologyGag: At the end of the episode Manchester Black wears a shirt with the Union Jack on it, a nod to his famous chest tattoo from the comics.
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* DisposableWoman: Fiona's purpose in the story is solely as a tool for the Children of Liberty and a means to drive Manchester and J'onn's personal storylines.
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: It's ultimately a Hellgrammite criminal who ends up killing the Graves siblings ([[KarmicDeath one who they psychically enslaved]]).
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While James going out as Guardian ''did'' end up helping people in the climax, the optics of a human superhero fighting aliens in this political climate only ended up emboldening the "Earth First" movement, particularly with Agent Liberty to help manipulate the PR.
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* AdultFear: Exploited by Agent Liberty, who suggests using mind-controlled aliens to attack a city fair to make people fear for the lives of their children.
* ContinuityNod:
** When Otis kills a DEO defector, Jensen says that he thought the Children of Liberty didn't kill humans, echoing Agent Liberty's words from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel the previous episode]].
** In the [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel preceding episode]], Ben Lockwood praised Guardian as a "human hero"; in this episode, other Earth First proponents praise Guardian's actions the same way (the comment "Guardian of Liberty" implies that Lockwood might even had had a hand in this).
** When Otis kills a DEO defector, Jensen says that he thought the Children of Liberty didn't kill humans, echoing Agent Liberty's words from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel the previous episode]].
** In the [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel preceding episode]], Ben Lockwood praised Guardian as a "human hero"; in this episode, other Earth First proponents praise Guardian's actions the same way (the comment "Guardian of Liberty" implies that Lockwood might even had had a hand in this).
* ExactWords: Otis tries to brush off falsely reporting Supergirl as dead by saying that she was never "confirmed" dead. Unsurprisingly, this doesn't appease Agent Liberty.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Played with; James' extra-legal outing as Guardian actually received a ''positive'' response from law enforcement, with there even being talk of him being deputised. Unfortunately, the pictures of Guardian, a human, fighting aliens struck a chord with the Earth First movement; they happily praise Guardian as human hero taking the fight to the "roaches", much to James' disgust. He's getting nothing but good press, but [[AbsoluteXenophobe the kind of people]] praising his efforts is not the kind of praise he (or any genuine hero) wants.
** Agent Liberty unmasks himself to the Hellgrammite to dispel any notion that he's a coward. He does this while the Hellgrammite and Kopy are still shackled and harmless, and proceeds to place them under mind control to make them even ''more'' harmless. The only way he isn't still a "coward in a mask" is that he took off the mask.
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* RealityEnsues: Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking is most certainly]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope a free action]].
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* RealityEnsues: RealityEnsues:
** Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking is most certainly]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope a freeaction]].action]].
** Alex ignores a direct order from President Baker to keep Supergirl at the DEO unless he orders otherwise, so he assigns a military officer to act as oversight over her command of the DEO.
** Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking is most certainly]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope a free
** Alex ignores a direct order from President Baker to keep Supergirl at the DEO unless he orders otherwise, so he assigns a military officer to act as oversight over her command of the DEO.
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* TheDogBitesBack: The Hellgramite spikes Mercy and Otis once he's free from Jensen's control.
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* AssholeVictim: Mercy and Otis were both xenophobic psychopaths who cheerfully murdered innocents, human and alien alike. Nobody is especially sorry to see them killed by the Hellgrammite. Even in-universe, their own allies aren't upset at their deaths, although Jensen starts panicking about the loss of their resources.
* BittersweetEnding: The good: the attack on the fair was stopped, Mercy and Otis are dead, and the atmosphere has been purged of kryptonite. The bad: Fiona still died from her injuries, and despite her pleas, Manchester is out for blood in the aftermath, while Agent Liberty is undaunted by this defeat and the mysterious clone of Kara is "training" for some unknown purpose.
* DirtyCoward: The captive Hellgrammite derides Agent Liberty's rhetoric as nothing but "scary words from a coward in a mask". Lockwood takes his mask off, to prove he's not afraid, but since he's still spouting rhetoric to two aliens who are shackled, helpless, and totally at his mercy, it doesn't exactly have the desired effect. He also notably stays far away from the actual operations, unlike Mercy, Otis, or even Jensen, who are front and center.
* TheDogBitesBack: TheHellgramite Hellgrammite spikes Mercy and Otis once he's free from Jensen's control.control.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Otis and Mercy are both killed with little fanfare after being built up as major villains.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** In the aftermath of the attack on the police station, Agent Liberty averts this; unlike Mercy, he recognises that attacking the police, who face danger all the time, won't foster fear of aliens the way they want it to. He suggests making people afraid for the lives of their children, speaking from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel personal experience]].
** Mercy asks Alex why she's protecting Supergirl, and aliens in general. FantasticRacism aside, Mercy can't seem to wrap her head around the idea that Alex and Supergirl might actually be friends.
* EvilIsPetty: Otis stomps on a child's Beebo toy just to be a dick.
* BittersweetEnding: The good: the attack on the fair was stopped, Mercy and Otis are dead, and the atmosphere has been purged of kryptonite. The bad: Fiona still died from her injuries, and despite her pleas, Manchester is out for blood in the aftermath, while Agent Liberty is undaunted by this defeat and the mysterious clone of Kara is "training" for some unknown purpose.
* DirtyCoward: The captive Hellgrammite derides Agent Liberty's rhetoric as nothing but "scary words from a coward in a mask". Lockwood takes his mask off, to prove he's not afraid, but since he's still spouting rhetoric to two aliens who are shackled, helpless, and totally at his mercy, it doesn't exactly have the desired effect. He also notably stays far away from the actual operations, unlike Mercy, Otis, or even Jensen, who are front and center.
* TheDogBitesBack: The
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Otis and Mercy are both killed with little fanfare after being built up as major villains.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** In the aftermath of the attack on the police station, Agent Liberty averts this; unlike Mercy, he recognises that attacking the police, who face danger all the time, won't foster fear of aliens the way they want it to. He suggests making people afraid for the lives of their children, speaking from [[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E3ManOfSteel personal experience]].
** Mercy asks Alex why she's protecting Supergirl, and aliens in general. FantasticRacism aside, Mercy can't seem to wrap her head around the idea that Alex and Supergirl might actually be friends.
* EvilIsPetty: Otis stomps on a child's Beebo toy just to be a dick.
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* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Otis guns down a DEO agent who assisted them, casually shrugging off Jensen's objections that "[[ApeShallNotKillApe we don't kill humans]]" by saying that the dead man wasn't human, [[LackOfEmpathy he was "loose ends"]].
** The Children of Liberty use alien parasites and an entrapped alien to further their goals. They also deliberately target humans to cultivate fear of aliens.
* InSpiteOfANail: Earth-38 may have no versions of [[Series/{{Arrow}} Green Arrow]] or [[Series/TheFlash2014 the Flash]], but they ''do'' have [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow Beebo]].
* KilledMidSentence: Mercy is skewered by the Hellgrammite as she goes off on yet another xenophobic rant.
* MoralMyopia: The Children of Liberty seem to believe that forcing mind-controlled aliens to attack people proves that the ''aliens'' are the monsters, not them. Mercy even has the gall to say that people need to fear aliens, "even if we have to sell it to them".
** Otis guns down a DEO agent who assisted them, casually shrugging off Jensen's objections that "[[ApeShallNotKillApe we don't kill humans]]" by saying that the dead man wasn't human, [[LackOfEmpathy he was "loose ends"]].
** The Children of Liberty use alien parasites and an entrapped alien to further their goals. They also deliberately target humans to cultivate fear of aliens.
* InSpiteOfANail: Earth-38 may have no versions of [[Series/{{Arrow}} Green Arrow]] or [[Series/TheFlash2014 the Flash]], but they ''do'' have [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow Beebo]].
* KilledMidSentence: Mercy is skewered by the Hellgrammite as she goes off on yet another xenophobic rant.
* MoralMyopia: The Children of Liberty seem to believe that forcing mind-controlled aliens to attack people proves that the ''aliens'' are the monsters, not them. Mercy even has the gall to say that people need to fear aliens, "even if we have to sell it to them".
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* PragmaticVillainy:
** Agent Liberty disapproves of Mercy using the enslaved aliens to attack a police station. He doesn't care about law enforcement officers getting killed; he just thinks it was ineffective. If anything, [[WouldHurtAChild the tactic]] he suggests is even worse.
** Mercy tells Otis off for going out of his way to harass a kid for no reason because it's likely to draw unnecessary attention to them.
** Agent Liberty disapproves of Mercy using the enslaved aliens to attack a police station. He doesn't care about law enforcement officers getting killed; he just thinks it was ineffective. If anything, [[WouldHurtAChild the tactic]] he suggests is even worse.
** Mercy tells Otis off for going out of his way to harass a kid for no reason because it's likely to draw unnecessary attention to them.
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* RealityEnsues: Mercy's death; the Hellgrammite spikes her while she's distracted delivering a xenophobic rant to Alex. [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking is most certainly]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[SubvertedTrope a free action]].
* TranquilFury: Lena, in a totally calm voice, makes it clear that she is absolutely furious at her technology being used for evil yet again.
-->'''Lena''': I could ''murder'' someone.
* WouldHurtAChild: Agent Liberty believes that the best way to turn people against aliens is to make them afraid for their children. Therefore, the Children of Liberty sic their mind-controlled aliens on a city fair full of children.
* TranquilFury: Lena, in a totally calm voice, makes it clear that she is absolutely furious at her technology being used for evil yet again.
-->'''Lena''': I could ''murder'' someone.
* WouldHurtAChild: Agent Liberty believes that the best way to turn people against aliens is to make them afraid for their children. Therefore, the Children of Liberty sic their mind-controlled aliens on a city fair full of children.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When Season 4 began shooting, Creator/MelissaBenoist was on Broadway in the musical "Beautiful". Thus, this episode was the first shot, with Benoist adding voiceover in post, as well as close-up's of her face added in. When her run ended, she joined the rest of the cast in Vancouver, starting with filming the scene where Supergirl takes the new suit's helmet off.
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Lena and Brainiac work to purify the atmosphere of kryptonite while Mercy and Agent Liberty make their next move.
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!!Tropes:
* TheDogBitesBack: The Hellgramite spikes Mercy and Otis once he's free from Jensen's control.
* FalseFlagOperation: The Children of Liberty use controlled aliens to attack humans in an attempt to make humans turn against the alien population.
* NotQuiteDead: Fiona is being kept alive so she can be used to control other aliens. The stab wound is still quite fatal, however, and she dies shortly after Jensen runs off with the parasite.
* PeoplePuppets: Using a parasite and Fiona's telepathy, the Children of Liberty are able to control aliens remotely.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The agent that helps Otis and Mercy raid Site B is killed by them to cover their tracks.
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!!Tropes:
* TheDogBitesBack: The Hellgramite spikes Mercy and Otis once he's free from Jensen's control.
* FalseFlagOperation: The Children of Liberty use controlled aliens to attack humans in an attempt to make humans turn against the alien population.
* NotQuiteDead: Fiona is being kept alive so she can be used to control other aliens. The stab wound is still quite fatal, however, and she dies shortly after Jensen runs off with the parasite.
* PeoplePuppets: Using a parasite and Fiona's telepathy, the Children of Liberty are able to control aliens remotely.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The agent that helps Otis and Mercy raid Site B is killed by them to cover their tracks.
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