"...For Just One Day"

Okey dokey, folks, here it is: the last episode of the second season of Who Wants To Be A Superhero?. We're still down to just three - Hyper-Strike, the Defuser, and Hygena - following the previous episode's non-elimination. Let's get to it and see just who walks way from this thing as the winner.

I said at the previous post that the heroes were going to meet someone with plenty of balls, and that's true. As they celebrate their advancement to the finals, the party is crashed by ECW performer Balls Mahoney. Balls reveals that he was not sent by Doctor Dark, but by Stan so he could teach them to fight. The funny part is that they obviously have no idea who Balls is.

Morning comes, and it's time for the heroes to attend "superhero stunt school." Once they arrive, Balls introduces them to a stuntman by the name of John, who promptly cracks Balls upside the head with a metal folding chair. The heroes are amazed that he dented that chair with his head, but somebody needs to send them some tapes of Balls's matches in the old-school ECW. Once they see him get slammed through a table that's been set on fire and covered with barbed wire and thumbtacks, they'll know just how tough he is.

So first up is some flight training, via wirework in front of a green screen. The heroes learn how to throw some punches and kicks after that, and once they've completed that, Balls declares their training to be complete.

But before they themselves can leave, Doctor Dark arrives and wants to throw down. Good thing they just finished learning how to fight. They promptly kick the everloving crap out of Doctor Dark, barely letting him get a punch in at all. Stan congratulates them, and asks that they report back to the lair.

Just like last season's conclusion, Stan takes each of the finalists aside, asking why they're there...

• Hyper-Strike says he was a misfit in school, and wanted to prove that he was something special.
• Hygena reveals that she'd had a miscarriage in the past, and that caused a lot of damage to her self-esteem. She signed up for the show with the hope that it would give her the bravery to turn things around.
• When he was a kid, Defuser's sister was a drug addict. He said he wished he'd had a comic book hero to help her and their family through it, and decided to become that hero himself.

With that done, it's now time to find out who will win, and who will lose. Stan sends his three finalists to Universal Studios Hollywood for the big announcement, introducing them with their own goofy mock movie trailers and comments of encouragement from their families.

After they're introduced to the crowd, it's time to announce the winner. And the winner is... The Defuser. He dedicates his victory to not only his family, but also to every under-appreciated law enforcement official out there. All of the previously eliminated contestants return to congratulate him, along with his family, season one winner Feedback, and Stan Lee himself. Roll credits.

That's it for season two, folks. I was kinda taken aback at the beginning of the season by how silly it was compared to last season, since I had to have a far greater suspension of disbelief. But I thought this season was fun, for sure. And while I was bummed that some of the heroes I was rooting for were eliminated early, I'm not upset at all that Hyper-Strike, Defuser, and Hygena were the finalists, and that Defuser was the last hero standing. I might have picked Hyper-Strike or Hygena out of those three if it were up to me, but I'm not arguing with Defuser.

So now, we can wait a year for the third season, if there is one. Until then, true believers, excelsior.