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* AbsenteeActor: Nathan, Anthony, and Lourdes all disappear.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Naomi's birth parents were the only ones who didn't believe Zumbado betrayed the 29, something that he deeply appreciated and played a role in his watching over Naomi as she grew up.


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* WhenHeSmiles: Zumbado gives a genuinely warm at the end of the episode when talking with Naomi.

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* AffablyEvil: Dr. Bell continues to be pretty polite even as she has Zumbado strapped down.



* AffablyEvil: Dr. Bell continues to be pretty polite even as she has Zumbado strapped down.



* FrameUp: Zumbado was blamed by Akira for betrying the 29 to Brutus, which he denies. Only Naomi's parents believed him.
* FriendshipMoment: Annabelle and Dee share a downplayed one at the end of the episode. While they're not exactly friends, they both appreciate that the other has Naomi's back, and Dee tells Annabelle that if she ever needs him, she knows where to find them.

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* FrameUp: Zumbado was blamed by Akira for betrying betraying the 29 to Brutus, which he denies. Only Naomi's parents believed him.
* FriendshipMoment: Annabelle and Dee share a downplayed one at the end of the episode. While they're not exactly friends, they both appreciate that the other has Naomi's back, and Dee tells Annabelle that if she ever needs him, she knows where to find them. him.



* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Dee doesn't catch a single reference when Annabelle compares herself and Naomi to ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', ''Creator/FinneasOConnell'' and ''Music/BillieEilish'' and ''Music/SnoopDogg'' and Martha Stewart, respectively.

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* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Dee doesn't catch a single reference when Annabelle compares herself and Naomi to ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', ''Creator/FinneasOConnell'' Creator/FinneasOConnell and ''Music/BillieEilish'' Music/BillieEilish, and ''Music/SnoopDogg'' Music/SnoopDogg and Martha Stewart, respectively.

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* AbsenteeActor: Nathan, Anthony, and Lourdes all disappear.



* AlienSky: Earth-29 had 2 moons. As Zumbado points out, that is actually a common thing, with this Earth being the outlier.
* AwfulTruth: The reason Zumbado wasn't upfront with Naomi, he thought the truth would be too much for her.

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* AffablyEvil: Dr. Bell continues to be pretty polite even as she has Zumbado strapped down.
* AlienSky: Earth-29 had 2 moons. As Zumbado points out, that is actually a common thing, with this Earth planet being the outlier.
* AwfulTruth: The reason Zumbado wasn't upfront with Naomi, as he thought the truth would be too much for her.



* {{Flashback}}: Several to Zumbado's life on Earth-29, which he shows to Naomi via "Mental Teleportation". It shows him gaining his powers, his first meeting with Akira and later his falling out with her.

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* {{Flashback}}: Several to Zumbado's life on Earth-29, which he shows to Naomi via "Mental Teleportation". Teleportation." It shows him gaining his powers, his first meeting with Akira and later his falling out with her.



* FriendshipMoment: Annabelle and Dee share a downplayed one at the end of the episode. While they're not exactly friends, they both appreciate that the other has Naomi's back, and Dee tells Annabelle that if she ever needs him, she knows where to find them.



* IdiotBall:
** Akira believed Brutus that Zumbado betrayed the 29, despite the fact that she ought to have known one was trustworthy and one very much does not seem to be.
** Naomi comes back to Zumbado's rescue, but does not immediately destroy Dr. Bell's device, allowing it to siphon some of her energy before she attacks it.



* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** We don't get to see how Zumbado got away from Brutus' thugs.
** Naomi broke back into STAR Labs and beat up multiple security guards to rescue Zumbado, but all we get is some shouting, groaning, and grunting from offscreen.



** The 29 were a bunch of fellow superpowered people Zumbado and Akira fought with side by side.

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** The 29 were a bunch of fellow superpowered people people, including Zumbado and Akira fought with side by side.Akira.


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* UncertainDoom: It's unclear whether or not Dr. Bell survived the explosion of the universe-openey-thing.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Naomi, with her powers fully returned, comes back for Zumbado after the latter lets himself get captured by Dr. Bell, destroying her device.



* FantasticRacism: Zumbado and other powered people were discriminated against.



* FrameUp: Zumbado was blamed by Akira for betrying the 29 to Brutus, which he denies. Only Naomi's parents believed him.
* TheGhost: Brutus is mentioned, but not seen.
* GoodAllAlong: Zumbado turns out to have been looking after Naomi her whole life, having been a comrade in arms with her biological parents.



* JerkassRealization: Naomi cries when she realizes how badly she treated Zumbado, despite him having protected her for her whole life.
* OhCrap: Dee, when Annabelle tells him about Naomi being at S.T.A.R. labs.
* OutsideContextProblem: Brutus, the one who started hunting down the 29. Nobody knew where he was coming from.



** Naomi's parents were members of the 29 and Zumbado kept an eye on her her whole life, looking after her.
* SwappedRoles: Last episode, Zumbado came to save Naomi. This episode, after Zumbado stays behind to delay the enemies and gets captured by Dr. Bell, Naomi comes back and saves ''him''.



* UnrealiableExpositor: Turns out Akira didn't tell Naomi the truth about Zumbado. Or rather, she herself doesn't ''know'' the truth, as she was led to believe that he was responsible for the destruction of Earth-29.

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* UnrealiableExpositor: UnreliableExpositor: Turns out Akira didn't tell Naomi the truth about Zumbado. Or rather, she herself doesn't ''know'' the truth, as she was led to believe that he was responsible for the destruction of Earth-29.Earth-29.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Naomi's powers start manifesting some of Zumbado's memories into reality.
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After being saved from Dr. Bell by Zumbado, Naomi learns a bunch of shocking secrets about her origins.
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!!Tropes featured in this episode:
* AirVentPassageway: Zumbado and Naomi crawl through one at S.T.A.R. labs.
* AlienSky: Earth-29 had 2 moons. As Zumbado points out, that is actually a common thing, with this Earth being the outlier.
* AwfulTruth: The reason Zumbado wasn't upfront with Naomi, he thought the truth would be too much for her.
* BadLiar: Annabelle is ''really'' bad at finding excuses when Dee catches her in his workshop.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Akira believed that this was the reason she, Zumbado and the 29 gained powers. Initially, he didn't believe it, but by the time he tells Naomi about it, he does.
* CurbStompBattle: Zumbado vs a bunch of security guards at the beginning.
* {{Flashback}}: Several to Zumbado's life on Earth-29, which he shows to Naomi via "Mental Teleportation". It shows him gaining his powers, his first meeting with Akira and later his falling out with her.
* GreenAesop: The purple meteor shower that hit Earth-29 was apparently a man-caused disaster. Naomi directly compares it to Global Warming.
* HopeBringer: The 29 used to be this to their world.
* PoorCommunicationKills: It turns out that Zumbado has always had Naomi's best interests at heart. He was just ''really'' bad at showing it.
* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Dee doesn't catch a single reference when Annabelle compares herself and Naomi to ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', ''Creator/FinneasOConnell'' and ''Music/BillieEilish'' and ''Music/SnoopDogg'' and Martha Stewart, respectively.
* TheReveal:
** The 29 were a bunch of fellow superpowered people Zumbado and Akira fought with side by side.
* TechnicolorFire: Fire on Earth-29 is purple.
* TookALevelInCynicism: Naomi notes how much of a nicer person Zumbado used to be back on Earth-29. Turns out there was a good reason for that.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Zumbado's powers awakened when a meteor shower hit his Earth and he was falling from a crane.
* UnrealiableExpositor: Turns out Akira didn't tell Naomi the truth about Zumbado. Or rather, she herself doesn't ''know'' the truth, as she was led to believe that he was responsible for the destruction of Earth-29.

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