Young Justice: Phantoms dealt Nightwing’s workforce a serious setback when a key hero was left within the Phantom Zone and caught in a precarious place.
Young Justice: Phantoms has been rotating its forged all through the season. The sequence did not simply deal with the core workforce this time round; it is given characters who departed years earlier new moments within the highlight, too. Kaldur’s function as Aquaman and his queer romance with Wyynde have been revisited, whereas Zatanna and Nightwing reunited with the suggestion that they may rekindle their previous relationship. But it is Rocket who has been the most important beneficiary of this strategy.
Rocket has spent the season working via a problematic storyline together with her autistic son Amistad, whereas having emotions for Orion. However within the newest episode, she and the remainder of Nightwing’s alpha workforce confronted a serious firefight within the Phantom Zone. With all these aforementioned of us making an attempt to cease the unleashed Home of Zod, Rocket received left behind.
Whereas the alpha workforce battled to rescue a brainwashed Superboy from Lor-Zod, additionally they could not let the remainder of Lor-Zod’s cult go away the Phantom Zone and are available via the portal to the Fortress of Solitude. Rocket, Kaldur, Zatanna and Artemis tried to carry off the legion whereas Nightwing went to the Fortress. He was seemingly killed preventing Lor-Zod, which led to Rocket and Zatanna adapting the plan contained in the Increase Tube. Because the portal started collapsing, Rocket used her power protect to dam off the cultists.
Lor-Zod was additionally pressured to flee; he was now not capable of keep within the wormhole after he got here again to blast it together with his warmth imaginative and prescient. The retreat pained him since he needed to kill the remainder of the heroes after murdering Tomar-Re — one thing he even gloated about — however he had no alternative. His departure gave the workforce some respite, however when Zatanna opened her personal doorway again to their magic bus, everybody made it via besides Rocket. Young Justice followers instantly started speculating that Rocket had died defending her buddies.
However Young Justice often reveals its deaths — as seen with M’comm killing Danny Chase earlier this season — so it is extra possible that Rocket stored her bubble up and was marooned within the Zone after pushing her buddies house. That is not an excellent possibility, although, as a result of viewers know from Superboy’s expertise that being trapped there means being outnumbered and going through sure loss of life. Rocket’s storyline is an instance of how a lot heroes have sacrificed within the sequence, which retains the stakes at all times excessive.
With another episode left, Zatanna’s crew are going to have to determine what occurred to Rocket and if they will rescue her from the Phantom Zone. Additionally they need to resolve if reaching victory towards Lor-Zod is feasible with out her and Nightwing. Plot twists like these are why Young Justice: Phantoms is on target for the proper sequence finale.
The finale of Young Justice: Phantoms airs this Thursday on HBO Max.