Warning: The next comprises SPOILERS for Young Justice season 4, episode 25.
The Gandalf joke Nightwing made within the penultimate episode of Young Justice: Phantoms might clarify how he may return following his obvious dying. Young Justice is exclusive amongst superhero animated collection, permitting dying to be an actual risk, with no miraculous resurrections within the collection so far. And but there’s a precedent within the comics for dying solely being the start of Dick Grayson’s efforts to assist others as a hero, hinting he may come again as Gandalf did in The Lord of the Rings.
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The motion of Young Justice season 4 episode 25, “Over and Out,” discovered Nightwing main a gaggle of heroes in a Battle of Thermopylae state of affairs like in Zack Snyder’s 300, guarding a portal out of the Phantom Zone because the armies of Common Zod sought to flee the interdimensional jail airplane. Because the Kryptonian criminals charged the exit, Nightwing planted himself between them and the small portal, declaring, in imitation of Gandalf the Gray from Lord of the Rings, “You shall not move!” Ever the quipster, even with the world’s destiny at stake, he then advised his teammates that he had at all times needed to say that.
Whereas his allies held the move, Nightwing ran via the portal and emerged out the opposite aspect in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, discovering that Common Zod and Ursa had begun utilizing the photo voltaic chambers Superman used for therapeutic extreme accidents to hurry the event of their powers underneath Earth’s yellow solar. Nightwing tried to explode the chambers however was rapidly subdued after Common Zod’s son, Lor-Zod, collapsed the statue of Superman’s dad and mom on high of Nightwing. The episode emphasised Nightwing’s dying, exhibiting his face in close-up because the blood flowed from the again of his head whereas Lor-Zod listened to his heartbeat gradual earlier than stopping fully. This was notable, because the occasions of “Over and Out” steered that many heroes may need died by the hands of Common Zod and Lor-Zod, however Nightwing was the episode’s solely confirmed casualty. Regardless of this, there’s proof to imagine that Nightwing may imitate Gandalf in one other respect.
Gandalf the Gray famously sacrificed himself to save lots of the Fellowship of the Ring from the Balrog, happening to be reborn as Gandalf the White. Dick Grayson underwent an identical transformation on this planet of Injustice: Gods Amongst Us following his unintentional dying by the hands of Damian Wayne. Dick Grayson took over the mantle of Deadman, changing fellow acrobat Boston Model as a ghostly agent of justice who might quickly possess the residing.
The state of affairs is dire as Young Justice season 4’s finale approaches, with the one heroes on Earth conscious of Common Zod’s method both useless or incapacitated. It’s solely attainable that Dick Grayson may defy dying to be the hero Earth wants most in its darkest hour. If nothing else, a ghostly Nightwing would add one other becoming which means to the subtitle of Young Justice season 4, aka Young Justice: Phantoms.
Young Justice season 4 finale releases on Thursday, June 9, on HBO Max.