Episode 51: Titanfall
Takes place 18-20 June 2011.
Short version
The Team fights Oceanus, the Titan of the seas, and Superboy defeats him by channeling the power of Helios.
Longer version
Paul reveals what he knows about King Orin's son, and the Atlanteans conclude that the purpose of the attack must have been to free Oceanus, Titan of the seas, from his prison.
Returning to the Mountain, he finds that Truggs has sent mercenaries to loot and wreck the whole place. Truggs calls and warns him about Oceanus, telling him that the Light wants to motivate the nations of Earth to improve their defences — but Lex Luthor, Truggs' direct employer, doesn't actually want Metropolis destroyed. After the conversation, Paul installs serious defences in the Mountain, then the Team starts following leads to track Orm or Truggs down.
Before they can succeed, however, the resurrected Prince Orm releases Oceanus the Titan from his prison. Oceanus is miles tall and controls the wind and waves; he uses these powers in an attempt to flood the Earth. Earth's Lanterns are more or less able to stop the colossal waves he sends at neighboring continents, but all counterattacks prove ineffective, even an assault by Poseidon.
The Team tracks down the prison, defeats Orm, and removes the alterations he made, but in the fighting, too much of the structure is damaged. To recapture Oceanus, they need to first destroy his avatar. Paul flies Superboy close to the sun, where Helios floods him with power, essentially setting him on fire, and he dives through Oceanus, disrupting his body and allowing the prison to hold him again.
The Renegade visits the Justice League and reveals that his membership in the Light was an infiltration authorised by Batman all along. He then warns Jade to keep her head down until he contacts her again.
The title obviously refers to the defeat of Oceanus. "Titanfall" is also a multiplayer first-person shooter game.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: As he's not included in telepathic discussions, Plastic Man wants to know what's going on during a fight against a cetus.Robin: Big fish try eat us. Big fish bad. Very bad. Water men bad. Fish men bad. Drowning bad."
- Best Served Cold: Nabu destroys the identity verification system Paul added to the Mountain's zeta tubes, and Paul is strongly tempted to attack him on the spot, but decides he can wait a few weeks for his anti-Nabu campaign to come to fruition.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: Paul manages to seriously degrade Oceanus' massive wave, so Oceanus smites him with lightning. He survives due to his magic-absorbing amulet, but it's overloaded and vaporised in the process, with enough energy left over to leave him burned, dizzy, and weak.Paul: Ring, why is there bacon?
Ring: No bacon is present. Most likely source of smell is you. - Brandishment Bluff: Arsenal was amused to see the looks on the faces of Black Manta's employees when Zatanna pointed her "toy gun" at them. (Maybe they had some idea of what it really was.)
- Callback: Zatanna actually wears the Powered Armor Paul gave her several months earlier, including the bolt pistol.Zatanna: Ave Imperator.
Bolter: Weapon armed. - Double Agent: The Renegade returns to the Justice League and arranges to utterly destroy the Light. Even Batman is taken aback, having been unsure on whether the Renegade had made a genuine conversion to the Light or not (the Renegade did seriously consider it).
- Fusion Dance: Lantern Gardner summons Ion to help him shield the Atlantic coastline from Oceanus' waves.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: When a thug tries to claim that he won't talk, Paul simply releases a Praexis demon construct and tells it to eat his arm.
- Nuclear Option: The League actually doesn't (quite) use nuclear weapons on Oceanus, but Paul still cuts loose.Paul: (internally) If you absolutely, positively have to eliminate physical force as a possible vector for destroying your opponent, it's hard to do better than a singularity.
- Physical God: Oceanus is five miles tall and controls the wind and waves on a corresponding scale.
- The Power of the Sun: The only thing that meaningfully hurts Oceanus is Superboy, turned into, basically, a coronal mass ejection.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Einherjar hear about a water Titan fighting the Justice League and they are totally in.Paul: (internally) Do I know anyone who fights Titans? I mean, you'd have to be some sort of berserk lunatic to want to fight giant-.
I blink.
