History Recap / Supergirl2015S1E5Livewire

-->'''Cat Grant:''' ...a cat, yes, congratulations, you have the wit of a YouTube comment.

-->'''Cat Grant:''' ...a cat, yes, congratulations, you have the wit of [[AcceptableTargets a YouTube comment]].

* IncrediblyLamePun: Livewire ''loves'' these, which of course gets lampshaded.
-->'''Livewire:''' There is more than one way to skin...
-->'''Cat Grant:''' ...a cat, yes, congratulations, you have the wit of [[AcceptableTargets a YouTube comment]].

* LightningCanDoAnything: Getting struck by lighting while holding a Kryptonian can apparently give you super powers, which include being able to [[RideTheLightning travel by wire]], absorb energy, and create lightning whips.
** The duplication of super powers by lightning was also used in ''Series/LoisAndClark'', although the there it was temporary.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Livewire easily spots the DEO's fancy EnergyBeing–capturing device and knocks it away before it can be used, but is defeated by the simple expedient of being sprayed with a water main.

* NoodleIncident: Supergirl says that she's been to twelve different planets in the past. It's unclear when this happened or what she did there, though apparently she ate dessert on at least some of them.

-->'''Kara:''' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I thought she was in a coma.]]

* NoodleIncident: Supergirl says that she's been to twelve different planets in the past. It's unclear when this happened or what she did there, though apparently she ate pie on at least some of them.

** A young Kara letting Alex ‘share’ in her powers, and Alex crying “This is amazing!”. Just like another pair of [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Sisters]].

Back at the Danvers Thanksgiving dinner, Kara helps reheat the turkey with her laser vision, while Winn merely looks at the pie lustfully. Kara attempts to diffuse the tension in the room with her plucky personality, but fails to notice Winn's bitterness when she gets a call from James from his out of town trip with Lucy. Meanwhile, Alex finally admits she works for the government as Kara advised. The result, a fight. Flashback to the aftermath of Kara and Alex's flight together, in which the girls are getting lectured by Mr. and Mrs. Danvers. Then the worst happens, a knock at the door from TheMenInBlack... led by Hank Henshaw.

* InternalReveal: Alex reveals to Eliza she's a DEO agent, and Eliza reveals to Alex and Kara that she not only knows about the DEO (although not about Alex being an agent) but also that Jeremiah went to work for them in exchange for them leaving Kara alone, and was killed under unknown circumstances in their employ.

* GenreSavvy: Livewire senses the DEO's trap thanks to her electric senses and knocks it out of commission.

* NotUsingTheZWord: Although Livewire is clearly a metahuman from both the DC Comics definition as well as that of Kreisberg/Berlanti's [[Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} other foray into DC mythology]], she is never referred to as such within the episode.

** The duplication of super powers by lightning was also used in '"Series/LoisAndClark'', although the there it was temporary.