Young Justice: Phantoms simply unleashed a monstrous big on New Genesis, remixing Eternals’ scariest enemy in a really apocalyptic state of affairs.
The next accommodates spoilers for Young Justice: Phantoms Episode 21, “Odyssey of Demise!” now streaming on HBO Max.
Young Justice: Phantoms made the Justice League’s journey to New Genesis fairly enlightening. Jay Garrick had his first official mission since turning into The Flash, whereas Rocket realized about management and moreso herself. Seeing Orion coping with his internal demons helped her perceive that she wanted to raised relate to her autistic baby Amistad again dwelling.
Nevertheless, the mission additionally grew to become harmful after Lor-Zod emerged, attempting to energy up the Phantom Zone projector that the extremely ridiculed Mantis had stolen. Their objective was to free Normal Dru-Zod, however that is not precisely what occurred. Within the course of, the present let loose a special character that got here off as similar to the Celestials from Marvel’s Eternals — persevering with comparisons between the DC collection and the Marvel Universe.
Lor-Zod took his projector to the Boiling Lake to soak up warmth vitality in hopes of utilizing it to open a portal to carry Dru-Zod again. Nevertheless, his plan was interrupted by a number of heroes who did not wish to see Lor-Zod’s father return, together with Inexperienced Lantern’s Kilowog and Tomar-Re. A combat broke out and the the chaos activated a Promethean — an enormous statue that rose up from the forest.
In comedian canon, these giants tried and did not breach the Supply Wall to find the mysteries of the cosmos. The Prometheans ended up embedded within the wall or in meteors consequently. They have been left struggling as a reminder to the general public to not play god. However in Young Justice, the Promethean spewed cosmic fireplace into the environment in an try to incinerate the complete planet.
This sequence in “Odyssey of Demise!” felt like DC’s model of the Celestials rising from the core of planets in Eternals. They’d stand up, feed off the essence of the planet and energy up earlier than they destroyed these locations. The planets they consumed basically functioned as an incubation chamber for them. The Promethean was additionally attempting to take away life — however to not drain the planet of its vitality. As a substitute, it was attempting to guard the planet from invasive species… such because the heroes and villains.
Fortunately, Tomar-Re would funnel the flames out (dying within the course of) whereas the Legion of Tremendous Heroes blew the projector up, which allowed the being to sleep once more. Had they not finished so, Orion and the League had little hope of stopping the Promethean. They could not faucet into its thoughts or sever its connection just like the Eternals had with Tiamut. As a substitute, the New Genesis mission would have ended with the entire planet being turned to ash… not not like what viewers noticed in Eternals.
New episodes of Young Justice: Phantoms debut each Thursday on HBO Max.