Karen Beecher is regularly harassed at school by bully Doris Zeul, even before the latter becomes the villainess Giganta. When the hulking brute begins rampaging at a mall, however, Bumblebee gets the opportunity for revenge.
Tropes:
- Barbell Beating: Wonder Woman confronts Giganta with a hockey stick, while Giganta grabs a large barbell, removes the weights from one side and puts them on the other end to make an improvised club.
- Be the Ball: Giganta grabs Batgirl and uses her as a ball to play some bowling with mannequins as the pins.
- Bring It: Wonder Woman makes the gesture toward Giganta once armed with a hockey stick.
- David Versus Goliath: Bumblebee using her small size to defeat the much bigger Giganta.
- Deadly Dodging: After noting that her stingers are too weak to harm Giganta in any way, Bumblebee opts to use her small size and mobility to trick the giantess into hitting herself in the face.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: When Bumblebee sees that her ability to shrink enable her to avoid getting crushed by Giganta's hands, we see a grotesquely detailed close-up of Giganta's fingers.
- Growing Muscles Sequence: Happens to Doris when she unleashes her newfound powers for the first time, complete with close-ups of her bulging muscles and growing figure.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Karen laments that her suit only shrinks her despite her efforts to make it do otherwise, but ends up discovering that shrinking is a great advantage against Giganta since she's too small, literally fitting between the enlarged Giganta's fingers, and too quick for Giganta to get a hit on her.
- Human Hammer-Throw: When Supergirl rises up, still defiant, after a Metronomic Man Mashing, Giganta grabs her by the head and, after spinning several times, sends her flying through the mall's ceiling and into the horizon.
- Impact Silhouette: Giganta leaves her silhouette as she falls through the floor of the mall and several levels of the parking lot.
- Ironic Echo: At the beginning, Doris bullies Karen with the Stop Hitting Yourself routine while saying "Why you hitting yourself?" At the end, Bumblebee mockingly throws those words back at Giganta after a successful Deadly Dodging.
- Letting the Air out of the Band:
- When Bumblebee start demonstrating the new capacity of her improved outfit to the girls, the background music triumphantly rises. But then, when she just shrinks like with her old suit, the music sputters down abruptly.
- Done again when Bumblebee is confronting Giganta, and she starts growing with appropriately dramatic music... and then her suit malfunctions, she shrinks and the music dies down pitifully.
- Metronomic Man Mashing: Supergirl is a bit too confident against Giganta, and gets slammed left and right into the floor for her troubles. This isn't enough to put her out the fight, but Giganta's following Human Hammer-Throw is.
- No-Sell: Giganta can tank a punch to the face from Wonder Woman without flinching, and Diana actually hurts her fist, to her shock.
- Shout-Out:
- When Bumblebee's buzzing around Giganta, the background music briefly switches to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee".
- On the subject of musical references... "#SheMightBeGiant".
- Squirrels in My Pants: The tiny Bumblebee briefly sneaks into Giganta's top, making her squirm and jumps, as well as laughs ticklishly.
- Stop Hitting Yourself: Doris bullies Karen at school by making her hit herself, but the punches are so light that Karen finds it more funny than anything. This gets an Ironic Echo later in the episode where Bumblebee says "Why you hitting yourself?" after Giganta punched herself in the face and before Bumblebee pushes down the villainess several stories to defeat her.
- Stuffed into a Locker: When threatened by Doris and Leslie, Karen prefers stuffing herself in a locker, saving them the trouble.
- Signs of Disrepair: The mall store where a defeated Wonder Woman dangles is named "BIG TIME CLOSET", but Giganta knocks down the C and T, which results in "BIG TIME LOSE".
- Unwilling Suspension: Giganta ties up Wonder Woman with her own Lasso of Truth and she ends up dangling from the letters of a storefront.Wonder Woman: The Lasso compels me to tell the truth... this is humiliating.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Karen initially believes that there's no benefit to being small. It isn't until her fight with Giganta that she starts seeing the benefits.
- Who Dares?: Giganta to the sports store clerk, right after having thrown him through the entrance's glass pane.Giganta: Puny man! How DARE you insult... GIGANTA!!
- Word, Schmord!: Batgirl responds to Bumblebee succeeding in using her shrinking abilities to defeat Giganta by cheering "Growth tech, schmowth tech!"
