In the vein of the Harley Quinn animated series, Kite-Man: Hell Yeah continues exploring deeper, darker issues involving the leads of the series, and the narrative hits hard even with the added layer of dark humor balancing out the tone. Previously, Kite-Man’s diffident attitude came to light after his girlfriend initially rejected his proposition that they move in together. Glider was apprehensive about the uncontrollable state of her powers, and her fear of unwittingly putting Chuck in harm’s way stopped her from accepting his offer. But eventually, while thwarting the attempted hostile takeover by rival bar Villigan’s, Chuck and Lisa reconciled and moved in together. The fourth episode continues the narrative thread as the lovebirds settle in together and Lisa struggles with the demons of her past.
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How Did Bane Get Stranded in the 80s?
As the episode begins, Lisa and Chuck are seen hijacking a furniture truck with Bane’s help. They need help with moving in to their new apartment on Noonan’s upper floor, and Bane assists by shifting new furniture inside and whatnot. Chuck hangs his childhood pictures on the wall and notices that Lisa has no pictures of her childhood with her—in fact, he gets quite surprised after realizing that, whenever he tries to discuss Lisa’s past, her upbringing, or about her parents, Lisa swiftly avoids the topic or changes the conversation. Chuck remains adamant to learn the possible reason behind it, despite Lisa repeatedly asking him to drop the issue.
While the couple are having this conversation about Lisa’s childhood, Bane goes to take a dump in the apartment toilet and gets inexplicably transported back to the 80s after using the flush. Initially dumbfounded, Bane eventually realizes that he has become stuck in the past and doesn’t know a way to return to his time. However, he writes a message on the apartment wall, hoping that while tearing the wallpaper down in the present timeline, Chuck and Lisa will notice the message and try to reach him in the future. Bane later meets the then owner of the bar, Sean Noonan himself, and upon questioning him, he learns that in order to return to the present he needs to take a leak in the toilet and flush again. Sean warns Bane not to mess with the past, or else it will result in troubling consequences in the future. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Bane’s return gets delayed. Despite noticing Bane’s message, Chuck and Lisa get sidetracked by their conversation about Lisa’s past.
What Happened to Lisa During Her Childhood?
Determined to learn about Lisa’s past, Chuck goes to her brother, Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold, who reveals the tragic reason as to why Lisa was avoiding speaking about her past. During her childhood, Lisa had accidentally caused the death of her parents at Noonan’s bar, and as a result, the Snart siblings had a tough time growing up. Chuck is baffled after realizing the problematic repercussions of the childhood trauma might have prompted Lisa to implore him to buy the bar in the first place. Anyway, he takes the only remaining childhood picture of Lisa with her father from Leonard, that too from the fateful day, and later, as Lisa notices it, the couple have an argument. Lisa eventually reveals that when she was five years old, her oft-arguing parents, Lawrence and Rebecca, were having a very heated quarrel at Noonan’s bar; they were neglecting their children as usual, and Lawrence was being abusive towards his wife. An enraged Lisa had unleashed her powers for the first time and unwittingly ended up killing both her parents. She had thought that perhaps making new, better memories by owning the bar would allow her to forget the childhood trauma associated with the place. Chuck tries to argue that there might be better ways of dealing with her emotional burdens, and Lisa angrily storms off.
Was Golden Glider Able To Save Her Mother?
Back in the 80s, Bane falls for the bar singer, Rebecca, only to eventually realize that she is Lisa and Leonard Snart’s mother, and unbeknownst to him, he has arrived on the very day the fateful event of Lisa’s parents’ death is going to occur. Bane gets accidentally featured in Lisa’s childhood picture as well, and in the present, Chuck notices the change. He goes through the entire wallpaper message written by Bane to realize that Bane has become stranded in the past through toilet time traveling and decides to follow suit in order to help his girlfriend by saving her parents from getting killed by her powers. A remorseful Lisa returns to her apartment to find her brother, Leonard, loitering around, and reads Chuck’s message (he wrote one too) on the wall to realize that in his foolhardy attempt, Chuck is going to manipulate the past to save her from her trauma. Lisa follows Chuck to the 80s, and none of them are able to prevent the tragic accident caused by a younger Lisa angrily unleashing her powers for the first time.
However, Rebecca is revealed to remain unscathed, and Lisa becomes overjoyed at the proposition of having a better childhood with at least one of her parents by her side. She reconciles with Rebecca (without sharing her true identity, of course), and she and Chuck decide to return to the present, while Bane wants to stay in the 80s with Rebecca. However, unbeknownst to Chuck and Lisa, Rebecca abandons her children on the very same day after finally being freed from her abusive husband, and to save the young Lisa and Leonard from the pain of abandonment, Bane shares that their mother had passed away in the accident and returns to the present as well.
At the present. Lisa is flabbergasted to realize that Rebecca hasn’t been there for her at all, despite their manipulations of the past, unaware of the fact that her mother had abandoned her and Leonard anyway, thereby resulting in the kids being raised as orphans anyway. As the episode ends, we see an older version of Rebecca, trapped and drugged at some place in the present day, although the identity of her captor(s) remains unknown.
