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The Penultimate episode of the series picks up where the last one left off. The Titans that are left standing at the end of the episode band together under Beast Boy's leadership. With a team consisting of Mas, Jericho, The Herald, and Pantha, the five break into the Brotherhood of Evil's headquarters, with the intent of establishing the Mas-Menos speedster duo as a first step towards resistance.


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  • An Arm and a Leg: Bushido cuts off Atlas's leg.
  • Back for the Finale: Several heroes and villains from across the series return for the final fight.
  • Battle Trophy: After defeating Wrestling Star with one hand, Pantha took his mask as her prize as per the codes of Lucha Libre.
  • Big Badass Battle Sequence: Dozens of heroes, dozens of villains. Epicness practically consumes the last half of the episode.
  • Bookends: Cyborg and Robin start off the charge of the original 5 by blowing away several villains with a Sonic Boom, straight from the first episode.
  • The Cavalry: Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven all show up just in the nick of time with more heroes to turn the tide.
    Madame Rouge: (to Beast Boy) Any last words?
    Beast Boy: (noticing the floor under Rouge starting to crack) Yeah...I wouldn't stand there if I were you. (turns into fly and escapes her grasp)
    (The floor explodes as a sonic blast erupts from it, sending Rouge reeling, but she quickly recovers and delivers a Death Glare at who would dare stop her from killing the Brotherhood's Arch-Enemy)
    Starfire: The lesson two: We never give up!
    (Madame Rouge and several villains now all have looks of Oh, Crap! and You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! written all over their faces)
    Beast Boy: Titans! Together!
  • Call-Back: Being the second-to-last episode of the series and the Grand Finale, there's enough call-backs and references to the previous episodes:
    • Robin and Cyborg performs a Sonic Boom to take down a number of villains, the same way they did in the pilot "Divide and Conquer".
    • Cyborg telling the Brotherhood, "Lesson number one: Never throw me down a hole, unless you make sure I stay there!"... after all, that's what Terra did to him in the end of "Aftershocks - Part 1" and it certainly didn't work.
    • Raven defeats Plasmus by teleporting inside the monster and reverting Plasmus to his dormant form, much like "The End - Part 1".
  • Conservation of Ninjutsu: Zigzagged, the five Titans fight pretty well against the hordes of villains originally, but around the time Mas goes to unfreeze Menos, the villains find a combination or an opening to beat them.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Beast Boy goes to a secret Titans base, most likely prepared in the event of an emergency like this one.
  • Extradimensional Shortcut: Herald uses his horn to create dimensional portals he can use as shortcuts for himself or the whole team.
  • Harmless Freezing: The captured heroes are all flash frozen, when they are thawed out, they are all able to fight like nothing happened.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Jinx.
  • Humiliation Conga: Madame Rouge suffers this for all the crap she pulled in the previous episodes. Not only did she gets attacked many times before she even gets a chance to fight, Jinx returns to defeat her before being flung towards the machine she and the Brotherhood use to freeze the young heroes by Hot Spot and Wildebeest.
  • Imposter Forgot One Detail: Jericho is possessing Cinderblock, but exposes himself when he talks, which, as Sgt. Hive points out, Cinderblock normally doesn't do.
  • I Warned You: As Kid Flash puts it,
    Kid Flash: Now's the time when you're probably thinking "I shouldn't have hooked up with these Brotherhood guys." Hate to say it, but TOLD YA!
  • Lame Pun Reaction: Beast Boy can't pass up on a joke at the end. All of the heroes collectively groan in response.
    Beast Boy: Dudes, check it out. "Brain Freeze"!
  • Laser-Guided Karma: The Brotherhood and their allies have to be frozen by the machine that they intended for the Titans and the other young heroes.
  • Nothing Personal: Jinx apologizes to her former H.I.V.E Five teammates that she holds no malice towards them before sending them flying with her powers.
  • Nuke 'em: Brain's final and desperate resort to kill off the heroes when the villains failed with direct combat.
  • Oh, Crap!: Raven surmises Dr. Light that is going to have a major one just before he's confronted by over thirty Teen Titans.
  • Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "I wouldn't stand there if I were you."
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Beast Boy's retaliation team consists of Mas, Pantha, Herald, and Jericho. It doesn't take them long to undergo a Misfit Mobilization Moment.
  • Relocating the Explosion: The Brain's final gambit is setting off a high-yield bomb to kill the heroes. Cyborg can't defuse it, so they have Herald warp it into deep space.
  • Shockwave Clap: Thunder unleashes a powerful thunder attack to obliterate Trident and Warp.
  • Stop Hitting Yourself: Jericho possesses Private HIVE to hit himself.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The H.I.V.E Five tries to do this after their allies are being taken down in mass by the Teen Titans. They didn't get far.
  • Series Fauxnale: It seems like the finale. Except there's one episode left ...
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: At the end of the episode, the crime alert goes off as Dr. Light is robbing a bank. The Titans decide to go after him while taking all of their allies with them.
    Raven: He's totally going to freak this time.
  • Title Drop:
    Beast Boy: Titans, together!
  • Twin Telepathy: Actually justified, Mas & Menos emit a magnetic field sensed by the other that becomes more powerful the closer they are.
  • The Voiceless: Jericho. He only talks when he takes control of Cinderblock, at which other villains are suspicious because they've never heard him talk before.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: The Doom Patrol, the group that's been pursuing the Brotherhood of Evil for a long time, do not appear, as Beast Boy did not call on them.
    • Not to mention that it's left unsure what happened to the other villains like Kitten and Mother Mae-Eye.

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