Young Justice: Outsiders – 7 Major Questions After Episodes 4-6

A rescue op, relationship, and resurrection left us in serious need of some answers.

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Contains spoilers from Young Justice: Outsiders Episodes 4, 5 and 6.

After returning strong with its season premiere last week, Young Justice: Outsiders has debuted its next three offerings on DC Universe. Much like their trio of predecessors, these episodes gave us some much-needed insight into what is going inside the heads of certain characters while teasing us with the major events that are still to come.

Adopting a more standalone approach, in contrast to last week's three-part story, the writers used each of these separate adventures to slow things down and expand upon some of the deeper-rooted stories they have been teasing us with. Due to this, we learned a little more about Dick's unusual behaviour, understood why M'Gann is comfortable with her new appearance and discovered why Barbara Gordon has taken on the Oracle persona.

'Private Security', 'Away Mission', and 'Rescue Op' may have taken diversions from the show's overall story to provide us with answers to the questions posed last week, but it was their intentional ambiguity when it came to that overall narrative that left us in need of even more answers. Contains spoilers.

7. Is Princess Tara Working For The League Of Shadows?

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Following the abduction of Princess Tara, Markovia experienced a surge in metahuman-trafficking, which eventually led to the assumption that she was one of the first potential methumans kidnapped. Now that we know her brother Brion possessed the Meta-Gene and was subsequently transformed into a molten lava-bearing metahuman, it's highly likely that she possessed it too.

However, after teasing us with the possibility that she may not have survived the meta experiments, 'Rescue Op' suggested otherwise. After the episode opened with the death of Jaqqar Marlo, a man on The League of Shadows' hit-list, the team suspected that he could have been killed by none other than Tara. Their reasoning stemmed from the fact that, as Brion possessed Geo-Force meta powers, Tara's powers would grant her similar abilities - such as the ability to drop a giant boulder on Marlo.

Furthermore, following Marlo's death, League of Shadows assassin Black Spider turned to a dark figure and congratulated her, claiming that his bosses would be very proud. Thus, we are all left wondering if Tara is under the manipulation of the League, or has the awakening of her Geo-Force abilities unleashed a darker side of her?

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