"Shoot for the Moon" is the fortieth episode of the Disney Channel and Marvel Animation series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and is the series finale.
Synopsis[]
Moon Girl must make a life-changing decision.
Plot[]
Lunella begins to fantasize about life with S.H.I.E.L.D., but is now caught in a crossroads about her future. While at a special event celebrating the reformation of past Moon Girl villains, Lunella begins to wonder if the L.E.S. will survive without her. After getting a mysterious call at a break in, Lunella and Devil stop crocodile villain Slime Tooth and knock him out. They learn that he had a detonator for a bomb that is still active and locate it down to New Jersey. Despite Lunella and Devil's apprehension about the Garden State, they find that it is a wonderful place and Lunella starts to feel that maybe the L.E.S. can survive without her.
Lunella locates the bomb and with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s help, manage to disarm it. However, the real villain Decoy reveals herself. She wanted to lure Moon Girl away from the L.E.S. so that she can break into the secret weapon armory under the L.E.S. Distracting them with goo, Decoy manages to break in and steals the Athena Ray, a staff that can create digital copies of herself and wrecks havoc all across the L.E.S. By the time Lunella and Devil manage to make it, they are unable to fight back due to the abundance of Decoy clones. Just as Lunella is at her lowest, the reformed villains (Quickwhip, Odessa, Instananegirl, Blue Streak, and Abyss) arrive to aid Lunella.
Lunella and her allies manage to finally defeat Decoy and arrest her, saving the L.E.S. Nick Fury shows up to personally congratulate Lunella on a job well done. Realizing that she does not need to balance saving the world on her own, Lunella agrees to finally join S.H.I.E.L.D. Lunella says her goodbyes to her family, who proudly see her off. As she makes her way to the airport, in costume, everyone is there to also say their goodbyes with the reformed villains promising to look after the L.E.S. for her. Lunella and Devil board the plane with Nick Fury and venture off to unknown adventures as Beyonder signs off with "You go, Moon Girl!"
Cast[]
- Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl
- Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur
- Alfre Woodard as Mimi Lafayette
- Libe Barer as Casey Calderon
- Gary Anthony Williams as Pops Lafayette, Rockin' Rudy
- Laurence Fishburne as The Beyonder
- Sasheer Zamata as Adria Lafayette
- Jermaine Fowler as James Lafayette Jr.
- Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
- Carlee Baker as Sophie Slugfoot/Instantanegirl
- Robin Thede as Zekiah/Quickwhip
- Angela Bassett as Decoy
- Manny Jacinto as Brian Glory/Blue Streak
- Anna Akana as Odessa Drake
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Keith Ferguson as Jimmy
- Maya Hawke as Abyss
- Omid Abtahi as Ahmed
- Kimberly D. Brooks as Alfretta Johnson
Songs[]
- "Where You Come From (Remix)" by Taura Stinson
- "Juice it Up x Moon Girl Magic Mashup" by Raphael Saadiq, Jane Handock, Taura Stinson, and Halima Lucas
Trivia[]
- This episode reveals that several of Moon Girl's enemies have reformed.
- With this being the series finale, it is never revealed who the person behind the superhero yard sale was.
- Hulk, Captain Marvel, Ant-Man, and Captain America all make cameo appearances, albeit as part of a fantasy.
- This episode was written as a proper conclusion to the series and was in production long before the series' cancellation was announced in October 2024, suggesting that the series was actually cancelled well before it became public information.
- There were plans for more seasons if the series did well on Disney+, but ultimately never happened.
- Originally, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was meant and written to be a three-season show as confirmed by the show’s executive producer Steve Loter, believing he and the production team could tell a complete three-act story within that timeframe while remaining open to the possibility of creating a Season 4 and beyond. But because the show wasn’t picked up for a proper third season, the last 10 episodes, that were originally ordered as Season 3, were added onto Season 2’s 14-episode count, thus making Season 2 a two-part season with 25 episodes in total.
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