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  • Catharsis Factor: Due to Dr. Hamilton's fascination with the Ultimatrix (along with the sheer amount of powers Ben has due to his shape-shifting abilities), CADMUS decides to try and recruit him. But when Amanda Waller meets with Ben (aka sneaks into his house while he's on patrol and reveals she knows his identity), he tears into her for saying that they're trying to protect the world when they're actually behind several of the most dangerous threats to attack the Earth in the last several months. He then basically tells her where to shove it and threatens her to never try to contact him again. Considering everything she and CADMUS do and get away with in this series (which they never suffer consequences for), it is so refreshing for her to get this "The Reason You Suck" Speech from the one League member she fears as much as Superman.
  • Complete Monster: Vilgax is every bit is monstrous as his canon counterpart. Just before the story began, he and Ben Tennyson engaged in a brutal battle where Vilgax murdered Ben's parents, his aunt and uncle, Gwen, Kevin, Julie, and Grandpa Max, resulting in Ben brutally beating him to an inch of his life and sending him to the Null Void. Over the next two years, Vilgax seethes over his "humiliation", swearing revenge on Ben. Once he gets released, Vilgax arrives with his entire fleet when Ben returns to his dimension to gain closure for his family's death. Goading Ben into fighting him, Vilgax reveals his sadistic pleasure in seeing Ben's horrified expression as he killed everyone Ben cherished. Afterwards, he depowers the Ultimatrix and brutally thrashes Ben, promising that he'll only kill Ben after he destroys Bellwood, leaving Ben's allies to watch Ben get pummeled to near death. When the rest of the Justice League arrives to help, Vilgax chooses to try to desecrate the graves of Ben's family rather than accept defeat. Obsessed with hurting Ben in any way, Vilgax proves as abhorrent as his canon self, willing to butcher anyone or destroy anything if it will hurt Ben more.
  • Fridge Brilliance: When you look at each of the original Leaguers' characters, it makes sense why they'd be so quick to accept Ben: Clark understands what it's like to be an alien among humans, Bruce has a reputation of helping kids/young adults in need, Wonder Woman knows what it's like to be taken from your home (and her empathic powers can tell that he's in a lot of pain), Flash is a Friend to All Children and a genuinely Nice Guy, and Green Lantern can relate to the "chosen by a piece of alien technology" thing. Martian Manhunter has the same reasons to like/trust Ben as Clark and Wonder Woman, and Ben is one of the few people Shayera knows trusts her after she betrayed Earth (and then the Thanagarians). It's no wonder they all consider him a surrogate little brother.
  • Fridge Horror: It's never revealed how Vilgax killed the Tennyson family...but he apparently destroyed their house in the process and left the bodies mutilated. The really scary thing, though? It's implied that Ben was made to watch it happen. No wonder the poor guy had nightmares...
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • This fic introduced Cyborg, Cassandra Cain, and Supergirl to Young Justice (2010) years before the actual series did.
    • Zatanna is portrayed as a mentor figure to Raven in the fic, mainly due to Giovanni Zatara being a Posthumous Character in the DCAU, leaving Zatanna to replace her own father's role in Young Justice while Raven took her role as the young sorceress who joins the Team. Season 3 of Young Justice would subsequently show YJ's Zatanna becoming a mentor figure for real, albeit to Traci Thurston, as well as Mary Bromfield and Khalid Nassour (overseeing all three as the founder of the Sentinels of Magic).
  • The Woobie: Ben is a little bit of this at first, seeing as how he’s lost his family and is now in another universe. He was so grieved about what happened that, for a while, he considers giving up being a hero. He doesn’t, but still. It says a lot when J’onn, who watched his planet and family die, is shocked at what Ben’s been through (especially when he learns he tried to kill himself).


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