Lost Heroes, Part Two

**"Lost Heroes, Part Two"** is the final part of the season finale of the fifth season of *The Batman*. It is also the sixty-fifth episode overall as well as the last episode of *The Batman.*

## Synopsis

The heroes fight their android counterparts to recover the Justice League's powers, while Hugo Strange prepares for The Joinings' final assault on Earth.

## Plot

To the JL's advantage, the androids still cannot use the heroes' stolen powers to their full extent. Unable to fight the androids successfully, the League escapes Strange's hideout in a stolen Joining aircraft, which Batman pilots to a secure location to regroup and meet up with Batgirl.

Meanwhile, Hugo Strange tells the Joining that he has done his part as promised, and demands the knowledge of the universe. A member of the Joining comes through a portal and gives him what he asks for. In the hideout at the tech lab underneath Wayne Industries, Batman gives each de-powered hero a weapon that he has made to neutralize their powers--to Superman a Kryptonite gun, to Green Lantern a gun that shoots yellow powder, and so forth. The League, backed up by Robin and Batgirl on jetpacks, set out to ambush the androids, which are destroying Gotham City to find them. The weapons work, but only temporarily disable the androids, until Robin discovers that the androids have a weak spot on their chests. The heroes each smash the stolen symbols on the androids' chests and reclaim their powers.

Re-powered, the League returns to Strange's lair, only to find him in a vegetative state, due to his brain being overwhelmed by the influx of knowledge. From Strange's mind, the Martian Manhunter gleans that the invasion fleet is on its way. Superman and Green Lantern go to meet the mothership as it approaches, fighting swarms of the Joining fighters that fire Kryptonite blasts and yellow energy. Hawkman heads out to stop the ships in the sky. Flash and Green Arrow also go to fight the crafts that make it to the surface. However, there are too many to fight at once, so Batman suggests using the knowledge in Strange's mind to send a virus to the entire Joining.

As they begin, the giant, robotic creature who gave Strange his knowledge reappears, attempting to kill Strange before the League can use him. Batman & Robin go to engage it, leaving Batgirl to help the Martian Manhunter reprogram the Joining transmitter. Batman & Robin fight with the alien, but they chase it into the superpower transfer room, and some of the superpowered energy material left in the tubes drip onto it. The alien grows, glowing with green energy and moving with super-speed; Batman and Robin alone are no match for it. The alien dispenses with them and moves on to attack the Martian Manhunter as he extracts the last bit of information from Strange. At the last moment, Batgirl finishes the sequence; the alien shuts down at the same moment that all of the Joining fighters go dead, crackling with blue electricity. The fighters fall into Gotham Bay, while Green Lantern flings the Joining mothership into the sun.

The Justice League reconvenes in the Watchtower to witness the mothership explode. Superman acknowledges that even with their superpowers, the Justice League could not have triumphed without Batman and Green Arrow's participation. Green Arrow, who had been bitter about the power/no power distinction before, simply remarks that "Some of us need powers--and some of us don't."

The episode comes to a close with Batman & Robin alongside Batgirl in the Watchtower with the final lines spoken in the series having taken place.

Robin: "We have the coolest clubhouse."

Batman: "We?"

Batgirl: "Yeah! Junior Justice League: Teen Division."

Batman grins saying to them "Nice try." as all three of them look down on Earth from the Watchtower.

## Cast/Characters

* Rino Romano as Bruce Wayne/The Batman
* Evan Sabara as Dick Grayson/Robin
* Danielle Judovits as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl
* Richard Green as Professor Hugo Strange
* Chris Hardwick as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
* Dorian Harewood as Martian Manhunter
* Dermot Mulroney as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern
* George Newbern as Superman
* Charlie Schlatter as The Flash
* Robert Patrick as Hawkman
* The Joining

## Events

- Batman reveals his contingency plans against the Justice League.

- Batgirl gets a jetpack.

- The Joining is destroyed.

- The Justice Leaguers regain their powers.

- Hugo Strange is left catatonic.

- The Watchtower is finally repaired.

## Trivia

* As with *The Joining, Part 2* and *The Batman/Superman Story Pt. 2*, the opening sequence plays right as the episode starts.
* Superman refers to the events of *The Batman/Superman Story Pt. 2* when he states that he temporarily went renegade.
* When the android Superman uses heat vision the sounds used are AT-AT blaster sounds.
* Hugo Strange's eye(s) can be seen after he gains all the universe's knowledge.
* When Batgirl and Robin are discussing their own junior Justice League in the final scene, they may be referencing the Teen Titans.
* It is unkown who provided the voice for the Joining.

## Errors

* When Robin flies away from the Superman android, two of his jetpack can be seen.
* Robin says he is in middle school even though he is currently in high school.