Supergirl (TV Series)

Hope for Tomorrow (2021)

Matt Baram: Mitch

Quotes 

• Nxylgsptinz : "The Truth Behind Chaos." Huh. What a curious world this is, that this journalist William Dey would spin a narrative that Supergirl and her colleagues are trying to protect people... from me. If they would just leave me alone, I'd be free to collect all the totems, and I'd get out of their hair.

  [tinkering, Mitch isn't really listening] 

  Nxylgsptinz : But that's what people in power, like Supergirl, do. They tell tales to make themselves look like the hero. That's what my father did. Mitch.

  Mitch : [starting]  Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. I-I was just trying to help.

  [showing her a metallic wristband] 

  Mitch : Naxim stole it from an Almeraci he once imprisoned. It's designed to absorb and repel energy. I-I refashioned it to hold the Courage totem and affixed to the cuff Mxyzptlk put on you.

  Nxylgsptinz : To what end?

  Mitch : Well, I hate seeing your powers diminished by these superheroes. And I thought with this, maybe it'll give you some of your magic back and allow you to use the one totem you have the way it was meant to be used, to get the rest of the totems, starting with the Hope totem.

  [as he puts it on her wrist, she manages to conjure a ball of energy] 

  Nxylgsptinz : It works. You just gave me Courage. So now I think I should go and take Hope.

• Mitch : It's beautiful, watching you control the totem's magic that way.

  Nxylgsptinz : Yes, but it's not quite enough, is it, to pass the Hope totem's gauntlet?

  [snapping to conjure a ball of energy] 

  Nxylgsptinz : If only I had access to all of my magic, I can pass this gauntlet with the snap of my fingers.

  Mitch : You know, when I was locked up, I always found myself most hopeful on Monday nights. Because... Tuesdays meant tacos.

  Nxylgsptinz : Right. The point is, I'm never going to complete the Hope gauntlet before Supergirl does. Hope is her expertise. It's not mine.

  [a thought strikes her] 

  Nxylgsptinz : I should let Supergirl pass the gauntlet for me.

  Mitch : I'm not following.

  Nxylgsptinz : If I let her obtain the Hope totem, I can barter it and the Humanity totem from her. I just need... leverage.

  [glancing at William's article] 

  Nxylgsptinz : Oh. William Dey.

• Nxylgsptinz : Supergirl just destroyed the Hope totem. Now the AllStone will never be whole.

  [a portal opens and a wrapped present drops through] 

  Mitch : W-What is it?

  Nxylgsptinz : [inside is a watch with a note reading "Don't lose hope. Devotedly, your secret admirer"]  Secret admirer?

  [she touches a dial on the side and a LexoSuit forms around her]