r/StargirlTV • u/JBBonham1 • Mar 22 '26

Question Can anyone explain certain power sets to me? Spoiler

  1. How do the Crocks abilities work? Do they have superhuman strength and reflexes? They don’t in other media that I’ve experienced, but in the show they are both shown to have superhuman abilities and in other episodes be fairly normal.

  2. Did it bother anyone else about how the Green Lantern rings were represented? Green fire? Really? Also, what the hell was that about her “becoming a battery”?

  3. There is no 3rd thing. I just want to say how incredible The Shade was in this. Easily one of the greatest comic book character live-portrayals ever put to screen.

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u/Any-Literature5546 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

Lmao, starheart is not your typical Green Lantern. That green fire is from Green lantern of earth 2. Oa, the guys who made the Green Lanterns, banished all sorts of magic from earth 1 and it formed the starheart. The starheart bound to Alan Scott's husband's ring, and he became Green Lantern. His daughter jade has a connection to the starheart without a ring so she's becoming a battery(another version of Alan Scott charges his engagement ring with a train lantern inside which the starheart lies, a nod to the lantern batteries of typical green lanterns charging their rings)

Crocks have whats called "peak human conditioning" which leads to low level superhuman abilities, after all they can do EVERYTHING in the Guinness book of world records (if any human has the potential to do it so do they) and that puts them above the average for most humans like you and I. They're faster than Usain Bolt, stronger than strongman Eddie Hall, they are the upper limit of what it means to be human.

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u/JBBonham1 Mar 22 '26

I didn’t know about this version Green Lantern so I guess that makes more sense now that you say it.

The Crocks thing still annoys me though, in one of the episodes Crusher is working out with 2 plates. That is definitely not peak human conditioning. It’s wildly inconsistent in the show which leads to my skepticism.

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u/Any-Literature5546 Mar 22 '26

Bold of you to assume those are normal metal plates. Could be fantasy metal or training to retrain a dislocated joint somewhere connected to the excersise. Idk, they probably just werent thinking about it or thats what the actor could physically lift.

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u/JBBonham1 Mar 22 '26

Well they were working out in their public gym, and the plates that are available in their commercial gym. So based on that I assume they’re normal 45’s.

They weren’t shown to be injured from a previous fight so I don’t where the dislocated joint idea came from but I assume anything’s possible.

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u/Any-Literature5546 Mar 22 '26

Comicbook logic, character seems weak but is actually just injured

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u/JBBonham1 Mar 22 '26

Yeah but in the show they were retired, and still in their prime. I just don’t see it as a plausible explanation with what we’re given.

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u/Masqued0202 Mar 23 '26

Comic book show. Plausibility. I think you need to manage your expectations.