‘Young Justice: Outsiders’ Recap of the Three Episode Premiere

Y’all, I’m so excited that we get to start 2019 by recapping not one, not two, but three episodes of Young Justice: Outsiders. We get an hour of animated superhero espionage. What a wonderful way to start the year. So why don’t we crash the mode? ***All of the spoilers below.*** Episode 1: Princes All Immediately after the season 2 finale, Nightwing has decided to take a leave of absence and points to Batgirl as his successor. Aqualad doesn’t miss a beat and rallies the remaining members and reallocates the teams. We get our patented seasonal time skip. Two years later and somewhere in Markovburg, a doctor informs a young child that his sister didn’t make it. We see that sister stirring on a medical gurney calling out for her brother. She wakes up in a weird mad scientist tube with a chip on her neck. Little girl has now become a magma-esque monster and on an alien planet. The chip forces her to attack the Justice League indiscriminately. Black Lightning comes in for a takedown, but the magma monster doesn’t take to the electric shock too kindly. Weeks later, Ms. Martian (sporting a new white palette) is commending the team on their latest endeavors as Superboy hovers off to the side. Steel and Black Lightning boom tube in, quickly followed by Aqualad, with the small exception that he is Aquaman and leader of the Justice League. Aquaman invites Ms. Martian to sit in and begins the emergency conference. Wonder Woman via hologram informs the team that the metahuman Metahumans a…