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Warning : The following feature arrest SPOILERS forStargirlseason 1 , instalment 7 , " Shiv Part One . "
The latest installment of DC Universe’sStargirl,“Shiv Part One , " cast several hint as to the identity of Justin , a janitor at Blue Valley High School . The clues suggest that Justin is not only more than a mere sanitization applied scientist but that he may be one of DC Comics ' oldest Cuban sandwich in disguise . Previously episodes ofStargirlshowed that Justin had been watch over Courtney Whitmore in the halls soon after her Assumption of Mary of the Stargirl drapery . More recently , Justin had also been seen spy on the other teens whom Courtney recruited to help her restartthe Justice Society of America . Justin even went so far as to deliver a warning to the new Dr. Mid - Nite , Beth Chapel , whispering to her that " there are dragons in the water . "
The mentions of dragons were the first cue as to Justin ’s true identity . Who would know more about the habits of dragons than a hero used to struggle them ? A horse in shining armor , perhaps ? One of the oldest heroes in DC Comics ' history was such a horse ; Sir Justin of Camelot , aka The Shining Knight . primitively the youngest and poorest of the Knights of the Round Table , Sir Justin undertook a quest to prove himself by slaying the fiend Blunderbore . As he searched for the monster , Sir Justin happened upon the wizard Merlin , who had been trapped by the workings of a rival witch . In gratitude for the unseasoned horse ’s assistance , Merlin bewitch Sir Justin ’s armor and sword and devote his horse , Victory , offstage that enable it to vanish .
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Despite the power granted to them by Merlin ’s thaumaturgy , Sir Justin and Winged triumph were unable to protect themselves from the avalanche that was triggered when they in conclusion cut Blunderbore atop an icy raft . Like Captain America , the two were cryogenically frozen until the 1940s , where they were discovered during an archeologic expedition and recreate . scholarship of the evils posed by the Axis Powers , Sir Justin vowed to defend the strange new humanity in which he had awoken and joined other costumed heroes of the earned run average , including the Star - Spangled Kid and Stripsey , to form the Seven Soldiers of Victory . He later disappear shortly after an risky venture that scattered the Seven Soldiers across time and space and it was assumed that he had give back home to Camelot . In truth , he had remained in modern time and task himself with tracking down the Dragon King , the villain responsible for killing the heroine Firebrand , who had been Sir Justin ’s beauty during World War II .
A major subplot of theStars and STRIPEcomics which introduced Courtney Whitmore center on around a janitor named Justin , who was eventually bring out to be an amnesiac shinny Knight . Fans of the comic strip suppose at the connection when Justin first appeared inStargirl . However , showrunner Geoff Johnsrefused to confirm or deny Justin the Janitor ’s identity , but tease that he would have a major role to act in the show . " Shiv Part One " seems to confirm that Justin is indeed Shining Knight . A brief scene in his closet shows that Justin has several horse toys and a chivalric goblet on one table , along with a horse calendar , which he look at yearningly . He also has a medieval longsword with a cross work into the pommel tuck by among his brooms and swab .
The most damnatory evidence comes near the end of the instalment , however , when Justin step in in the battle between Shiv andStargirland saves Courtney Whitmore from an wrong expiry . He also identifies Pat Dugan as Stripsey , when Courtney ’s stepfather discovers her wounded and near death . There may be other explanations why Justin acknowledge Pat Dugan , carries a sword , and uses medieval terms such as " milady . " It seems most potential , however , that Justin the Janitor truly is the Shining Knight .
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