One of the interesting things aboutBlack Lightning ’s second seasonis the growing presence of new metahumans in Freeland whose power do n’t seem to be dependent on them using the unripened light drug . Like Jefferson Pierce , these raw metas ’ powers come from within , which begs the question — where did they come from ?
Black Lightning drop a lot of time launch the idea that Jefferson Pierce , and by extension his children Jennifer and Anissa , were the only static metahumans hold up normal lives after the experiments that activated Jeff ’s meta - gene as a child ultimately proved to be unsuccessful on other mental test subjects . Because the show is still technicallyseparate from the larger Arrowversewhere the relief of the CW ’s DC comic book shows take berth , it made a sure degree of sense that the series ( and its small population of metas ) would primarily be focused on Freeland , where its theatrical role know . But in this week ’s instalment , “ The Book of Secrets : Chapter One : Prodigal Son , ” Black Lightning very nonchalantly dropped some details about the gravid world the show ’s jell in that could mean major thing about its heroes ’ time to come .
While the country of Markovia has been name - see to it on Black Lightning ( and Arrow ) in the past , none of the CW shows have really delved all that deep into its larger mythos from DC ’s comics . In Black Lightning ’s first time of year , a televised tidings report detail the late demise of the Markovian king and what would mean for the country , but that was middling much it . But Black Lightning began drawing on Markovia again this time of year by introducing a threatening version of Dr. Helga Jace , a quality who in the comics is the royal doctor responsible for for giving the hero Geo - Force his powers to manipulate earth and lava .
In Black Lightning , Jace is a corrupt scientist who was put away for her unethical experiments on patient that lead in a number of them suffer tree branch and one of them die . Much to Lynn Pierce ’s dismay , Jace is sprung from her imprisonment as part of a last - ditch endeavour to save a number of metahuman teen experiments who are trapped in stasis pods , and the two begrudgingly worked alongside one another rightfulness up until the consequence where Jace ’s latest experiment ends up killing half of the pod tike .
deadly though Jace ’s method acting are , her research into the meta - gene makes her a valuable asset to citizenry like Tobias Whale who see young metahumans as worthful artillery , and so it is n’t long before the kingpin leap her from jail for a consultation . Brief as her interchange with Whale is , what Jace says is interesting , if not important : After she left Freeland follow her early experiments on immature people , she made her way to Markovia specifically to start up a metahuman researching program there .
coincidently , Markovia ’s metahuman research programme plays a major role inYoung Justice : Outsiders ’ current arcrevolving around the earth ’s hero trying to pass over out the external metahuman trafficking market . There , Jace is an ally to Prince Brion ( Geo - Force ’s public identity operator ) and works alongside Black Lightning and the rest of the Young Justice squad as they explore to find Brion ’s kidnapped sister , princess Tara Markov .
In DC ’s comic , Black Lightning ’s link to Jace comes by way of his involvement with the Outsiders , the team of superheroes ( admit Batman and Geo - Force ) who end up kill her in a battle , and so her being woven into Black Lightning is n’t exactly surprising . But in making Jace ’s connection to Markovia much more explicitly about creating metas , Black Lightning might be laying the foundation for somethingbig and much more comic book - yin the future .
chastisement : An early version of the post stated that Dr. Jace ’s experiment killed all of the pod kids , when in realism it only killed one-half of them . We repent the error .
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