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1	To get revenge on Superman, a group of criminals plot to capture and kill the ''Daily Planet'' staff. Can Superman save Lois, Perry, and Jimmy without giving away his identity as Clark?
2	!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
3	* BoundAndGagged: The gangsters leave Lois Lane tied and gagged to train tracks.
4	* BruceWayneHeldHostage: Clark gets captured by the crooks and lowered into a vat of acid.
5	* CassandraTruth: The crooks realize that Clark Kent must be Superman, or he wouldn't still be alive after being submerged in acid, but they think no one would believe them.
6	* ChainedToARailway: The crooks tie Lois to the train tracks.
7	* ConveyorBeltODoom [=/=] LumberMillMayhem: Perry is tied to a log in a sawmill.
8	* DamselInDistress [=/=] DistressedDude: Lois, Perry, and Jimmy are all put in danger during this episode.
9	* DeathTrap: The villains use a number of overly complicated methods to kill their hostages.
10	* FatalFlaw: The leader of the villains takes great care to hide his identity; he wears a mask with a lead coating, which Superman's x-ray vision can't see through, and all his partners wear a similar one; all the masks are locked on, and the leader carries the only key. The flaw, which Superman figures out is, he can ID the leader by the one who has the key; his x-ray vision can see into pockets just fine.
11	* HollywoodAcid: Clark Kent was lowered into an enormous vat of acid by chortling villains, who then walked out to arrange their next evil deed. Naturally, Superman then emerged, his costume soaked, but unharmed. Presumably, Kent’s glasses and clothes were dissolved.
12	* LiteralCliffhanger: Superman finds Jimmy dangling off a ledge after his car crashed.
13	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Two crooks ask Perry how he'd describe the route to their hideaway. Perry describes the route, and the crooks use a recording of his voice to get Jimmy onto the roads in the sabotaged car.
14	* RevengeByProxy: Lampshaded. The VillainOfTheWeek comments that while he can't hurt Superman physically, he can "strike at him through his friends."
15	* ShoutOut: The title may refer to ''Film/ThePerilsOfPauline''.
16	* VehicularSabotage: How the villains try to kill Jimmy. They use acid on his brakes so that they give out when he rounds a curve.

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