Episode 142: Do Or Die Time
Takes place 17 February 2013.
Paul finally goes ahead with his plan to purge the Anti-Life from Earth.
- Alternate Universe:
- P'ol talks about how his new relationship with work.
- Future Paul does his best to help Prince Diabo convince the senate the fighting against the Japanese is a fool's errand and that they should trade with them instead.
- Godzilla Threshold: Paul resorts to drugging Batman in order to make him capable of utilizing a yellow power ring. This is also an effort to avoid an even bigger threshold: asking Sinestro for direct assistance.
- I Did What I Had to Do: After Mannheim is defeated, Orion confronts Paul, who basically tells the former this.Paul: I don't enjoy talking people into doing things, but… I'm ruthless when I think I need to be. I felt the… Doctor Mist's compassion, and the unifying wonder of the… Essence of life itself… And getting you for red-.
Orion: You'd do it again.
Paul: Yes. It's not that I don't feel bad, it's that I don't think me feeling bad matters much compared to…
Orion: Compared to freeing a world from the Anti-Life. - Interspecies Romance: Discussed between P'ol and his coworkers.
- Serial Escalation: Alan comments on this after he learns what Mannheim would've done if he succeeded in exposing the lanterns to the Anti-Life.Alan: He'd have eaten everything. You know, first time Jay and I worked together we stopped a couple of guys doing an insurance scan at a shoe factory. I ever tell you about that?
- Shout-Out: Paul paraphrases Lord Commander Solar Macharius when telling Orion to focus on the big picture."The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence!" He turns his head my way, actually paying attention. "We need to be able to erase the Anti-Life, or we haven't done anything. Darkseid loves the Anti-Life? Let's take away something he actually cares about."
