History Recap / MyAdventuresWithSupermanS1E05MyAdventuresWithMadScience

* PaintingTheMedium: Mallah's flashbacks to Cadmus' history is presented with video and sound artifacts on startup as if it were an old vhs recording. It happens again when he quickly gives some clarity to him and Brain faking their deaths.

-->'''The Brain:''' What?!

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Clark gets his sweater blasted off by a SentryGun halfway through the episode, and spends the rest of it topless.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: While they've almost certainly not officiated their relationship, Mallah and Brain love each other dearly. They also argue over the minutiae of their interests just like an old married couple.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: In Mallah and Brain's initial flashback, they claimed that while they were being being chased, Task Force X recklessly damaged the original black hole generator and caused it to explode. Later on, they reveal that in truth they delibrately caused the generator to blow in order to [[FakingTheDead fake their deaths]].

** Project Cadmus is typically closely associated with Amanda Waller and Task Force X as an organization dedicated to developing the means to subdue or kill powerful entities like Superman. In this story, Cadmus rebelled against its original purpose and tried to create peaceful, productive technology instead of weaponry. It was almost completely wiped out when Task Force X came to investigate, leaving only Mallah and Brain behind. On the other hand, Cadmus(what's left of it anyway) has now fallen into the hands of Task Force X, with Ivo in tow. So it's likely back to villainy for the brand.

** The next episode also reveals that [[spoiler:Mallah and Brain somehow helped Mr. Mxyzptlk escape the League of Lois Lanes.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: While Cadmus decided to apply the advanced technology they had altruistically, they were still a think tank organized to devise weapons. The remains of the military incursion to shut them down are a floating field of demolished vehicles and soldiers melted down to the bone.

** Despite being mad scientists to their core, Mallah and Brain are by far the kindest versions of themselves thus far, leaning on their love for each other and tragic backstory as opposed to any small mutant armies they might have made while they were bored in hiding. Although they kidnap Jimmy and briefly consider cutting him open, they quickly spare and release him once it's clear he's not a threat. Likewise, it turns out that they weren't the ones sending robots after Clark and Lois for most of the episode, and once it's clear Mallah and Brain have no nefarious goals Clark and Lois even work with them to create their wormhole.

* {{Homage}}: While nothing much else fits, the creators clearly drew inspiration from the Tachikomas of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' in Brain's LighterAndSofter design.

** Project Cadmus is typically closely associated with Amanda Waller and Task Force X as an organization dedicated to developing the means to subdue or kill powerful entities like Superman. In this story, Cadmus rebelled against its original purpose and tried to create peaceful, productive technology instead of weaponry. It was almost completely wiped out when Task Force X came to investigate, leaving only Mallah and Brain behind.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The OMACs, usually the cyborg creations and minions of Brother Eye, are the robotic mooks of Task Force X instead.

* RunningGag: Mallah first claims that he and Brain had been living a simple life of peace, only for Jimmy to discover another mad science experiment causing Mallah to amend his original statement repeatedly

* NoodleIncident: In addition to the army of mutants they created out of boredom that we do see, Mallah mentions that he and Brain made a black hole at some point.

* NoodleIncident: In addition to the army of mutants they created out of boredom that we do see, Mallah mentions that he and Brain made an unstable miniature black hole at some point.