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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Toyman had no idea that Static existed (and is in no hurry to learn his name once made aware), but the fact his soldiers are made of plastic makes them a formidable foe for an electrokinetic superhero.



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Darci grabs a ping pong ball and Static is about to charge, Toyman quickly tells him that the ping pong ball is a device that can take out a whole city block. He then sadly activate the failsafe and lets the police arrest him.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Darci grabs a ping pong ball and Static is about to charge, Toyman quickly tells him that the ping pong ball is a device that can take out a whole city block. He then sadly activate activates the failsafe and lets the police arrest him.

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: After activating her failsafe, Toyman reveals he has the antidote. Darci begs for it, but Toyman tosses it away and watches her die.



* PayEvilUntoEvil: After activating her failsafe, Toyman reveals he has the antidote. Darci begs for it, but Toyman tosses it away and watches her die.



* SpotTheImpostor: Darci becomes a mirror image of Daisy, right down to her DNA. Even Superman can't tell them apart with X-ray vision. Static finally does by generating everyone's electric aura; due to being a robot, Darci doesn't have an electric aura.

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* SpotTheImpostor: Darci becomes a mirror image of Daisy, right down to her DNA. Even Superman can't tell them apart with X-ray vision. Static finally does by generating everyone's electric bioelectric aura; due to being a robot, Darci doesn't have an electric aura.one.
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* DependingOnTheArtist: Suoerman is normally drawn with black dots for eyes, but here has a more comic accurate, realistic looking blue eyes.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: Suoerman Superman is normally drawn with black dots for eyes, but here he has a more comic accurate, realistic looking blue eyes.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: Suoerman is normally drawn with black dots for eyes, but here has a more comic accurate, realistic looking blue eyes.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: After activating her failsafe, Toyman reveals he has the antidote. Darci begs for it, but Toyman tosses it away and watches her die.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: PayEvilUntoEvil: After activating her failsafe, Toyman reveals he has the antidote. Darci begs for it, but Toyman tosses it away and watches her die.
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* OffModel: Superman is drawn with normal eyes in this episode, as opposed to the black dots used in his other appearances.
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* OffModel: Superman is drawn with normal eyes in this episode, as opposed to the black dots used in his other appearances.
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* CarryingTheAntidote: After Toyman activates the failsafe to melt Darci's body, he taunts her that he's the only one with the antidote. She begs him to help her and give it to her, but he simply tosses it away in front of her and lets her die.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Toyman is sniffling beneath his mask as he kills Darci. He didn't want to do it, but the other choice was die in a massive explosion.
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* {{Crossover}}: With ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', although if the past couple of episodes are any indication, this episode takes place during ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
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* VillainsWantMercy: Once Toyman's failsafe starts to liquefy Darci's body, the latter begs him to give her the antidote, even calling him her "love" despite betraying him yet again. Toyman instead just destroys the antidote, having already gotten wise to Darci's tricks.

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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Static is annoyed that Toyman tends to ignore him and then not bother to remember his name.



* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe, Superman decides not to help Darci after she assists in kidnapping and impersonating a ''high school student''

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* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe, Superman decides not to help Darci after she assists in kidnapping and impersonating a ''high school student''student''.
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* MatryoshkaObject: Toyman's giant robot monkey, which releases smaller robot versions of itself to fight off Superman and Static, while one of them kidnapped Daisy.
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* BittersweetEnding: Static and Superman save Daisy from Toyman and Darci's schemes. Toyman realizes, however, that Darci doesn't love him and she's too dangerous to keep alive, so he activates her failsafe and kills her.


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* EntertaininglyWrong: Superman assumes that Toyman has come for Darci again, and as Clark Kent offers her protection. This is actually a logical explanation. He finds out her plan is a bit more complicated than that.

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* BaitAndSwitch: It seems at first that Toyman is after Darci again, to make her his. It turns out they've done a VillainTeamUp so she can kidnap, replace and impersonate a high school student.



** Darci in the meantime wears her hair in a bun and thick glasses.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Daisy frees herself from the table she's strapped to at the nearest opportunity, and briefly grapples with Darci, who has become her BodyDouble. When Darcy tries to claim Daisy is the clone, Daisy threatens to punch her lights out.

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** Darci in the meantime wears her hair in a bun and thick glasses. \n This is more justified since Darci has been presumed dead in a helicopter crash.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Daisy frees herself from the table she's strapped to at the nearest opportunity, and briefly grapples with Darci, who has become her BodyDouble. When Darcy Darci tries to claim Daisy is the clone, Daisy threatens to punch her lights out.out.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: So did Darci really forget that the last time she tried to kill Toyman that it went all pear-shaped?
* EasilyForgiven: Superman has forgiven Darci for trying to kill Lana, and for trying to kill Toyman in her first appearance.



* GracefulLoser: This time around, Toyman isn't too brokenhearted about being sent to prison.

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* GracefulLoser: This time around, Toyman isn't too brokenhearted about being sent to prison. He's sadder about losing the robot he loved.



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Darci grabs a paddleball and Static is about to charge, Toyman quickly tells him that the paddleball is a device that can take out a whole city block. He also lets the police arrest him.
'* RedemptionRejection: Darci refuses Clark's and Superman's help to deal with Toyman before she's outed as a robot.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Darci grabs a paddleball ping pong ball and Static is about to charge, Toyman quickly tells him that the paddleball ping pong ball is a device that can take out a whole city block. He also then sadly activate the failsafe and lets the police arrest him.
'* * MoralEventHorizon: In-universe, Superman decides not to help Darci after she assists in kidnapping and impersonating a ''high school student''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Darci hadn't been focused on getting rid of the real Daisy, she could have killed Toyman and made it out of there long before Static was able to out her as a robot.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: So just how did Superman find out Darci was in Dakota? We'll never know.
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RedemptionRejection: Darci refuses Clark's and Superman's help to deal with Toyman before she's outed as a robot.



* SpotTheImpostor: Darci becomes a mirror image of Daisy, right down to her DNA. Even Superman can't tell them apart. Static finally does by generating everyone's aura; due to being a robot, Darci doesn't have a human charge.

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* SpotTheImpostor: Darci becomes a mirror image of Daisy, right down to her DNA. Even Superman can't tell them apart. apart with X-ray vision. Static finally does by generating everyone's electric aura; due to being a robot, Darci doesn't have a human charge. an electric aura.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Superman has it for Darci, up until she works with Toyman to kidnap Daisy and impersonate her.



** Toyman has made toys laced with kryptonite that manage to incapacitate Superman.

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** Toyman has made toys laced with kryptonite and plastic that manage to incapacitate Superman.Superman and Static.



* VillainHasAPoint: Darci is quite correct that she doesn't owe Toyman anything because she doesn't love him.

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* VillainHasAPoint: Darci is quite correct that she doesn't owe Toyman anything because she doesn't love him.
* {{Yandere}}: When Darci betrays him again, Toyman kills her. Not that he's happy about it.
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Virgil attends a class trip with the new teacher, Ms. Moore, in charge. A giant monkey robot stops the bus, however, and Static finds he's out of his depth. Fortunately, a familiar red and blue figure comes out of the sky, revealing he's tracking down the villain Toyman. Meanwhile, Ms. Moore isn't what she seems, and takes interest in Daisy.

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* BetrayalInsurance: Toyman installed a failsafe in Darci's new body that melts her, and he throws away the antidote.
* TheBusCameBack: ''Darci'', the robot model from ''Superman the Animated Series'', comes back; she's posing as a teacher at Dakota High. Toyman finds her.
* CharacterDevelopment: A villainous example; Toyman finally gets the memo that Darcy isn't interested in him, and that Superman isn't interested in Darci either. So instead of going all {{Yandere}} and targeting her in a dramatic fashion, he just kills her and lets the police arrest him.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Darci's failsafe. Toyman reveals that he made some adjustments on it to kill her if she betrayed him again.
* ClarkKenting:
** Clark of course shows up to interview Virgil and Richie about what they saw.
** Darci in the meantime wears her hair in a bun and thick glasses.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Daisy frees herself from the table she's strapped to at the nearest opportunity, and briefly grapples with Darci, who has become her BodyDouble. When Darcy tries to claim Daisy is the clone, Daisy threatens to punch her lights out.
* EtTuBrute: Daisy is shocked that her teacher is a robot who wants to impersonate her and take over her life.
* GracefulLoser: This time around, Toyman isn't too brokenhearted about being sent to prison.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: After activating her failsafe, Toyman reveals he has the antidote. Darci begs for it, but Toyman tosses it away and watches her die.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Darci grabs a paddleball and Static is about to charge, Toyman quickly tells him that the paddleball is a device that can take out a whole city block. He also lets the police arrest him.
'* RedemptionRejection: Darci refuses Clark's and Superman's help to deal with Toyman before she's outed as a robot.
* SaveTheVillain: Clark realizes who Darci is and talks to her in the privacy of the school bathroom. She refuses his help, saying that she's for her own plan.
* SpotTheImpostor: Darci becomes a mirror image of Daisy, right down to her DNA. Even Superman can't tell them apart. Static finally does by generating everyone's aura; due to being a robot, Darci doesn't have a human charge.
* TaughtByExperience:
** Toyman has made toys laced with kryptonite that manage to incapacitate Superman.
** Also he made some upgrades to Darci's failsafe since she threatened to kill all of them.
* VillainHasAPoint: Darci is quite correct that she doesn't owe Toyman anything because she doesn't love him.

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