History Recap / AdventureTimeS6E2EscapeFromTheCitadel

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the monsters in the Citadel, which consists only of a lower torso and legs, gets hit in the crotch with a skull.

Finn and Jake follow the Lich to the Citadel, where Finn meets his long lost father.

* AbusiveParents: Martin falls into the neglectful category.
* TheAlcatraz: The titular Citadel. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] for the Lich, who turns it into a CardboardPrison in a matter of minutes. [[WorfHadTheFlu To the Citadel's credit,]] it wasn't even [[TailorMadePrison designed to hold the Lich in the first place.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Finn finally gets his right arm torn off while trying to pull back the platform his dad is trying to escape on.

* BittersweetEnding: The Lich is defeated and is reverted into a baby but in the process, Finn learns the AwfulTruth about the true nature of [[AbusiveParents his father]] and also ended up losing his arm after Finn tries to chase his own father.
* BloodlessCarnage: Getting a limb ripped off would've been messy, but the grass blade takes over Finn's entire arm and is reduced to a smooth nub when it gets removed.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Martin describing the skin of his healed leg as "smooth like new".

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: The Lich reveals his entire plan to Finn. Justified as Finn is in no position to stop him and only manages to thanks to the Guardian blood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Finn and Jake freeing Martin results in a charasmatic criminal giving a bunch of stronger, world destroying criminals a leader who helps them escape.

* StoryArc: Both continues the Lich's and starts a new one with Martin
* VillainousBreakdown: The Lich finally loses his cool after being exposed to the Guardian blood, which begins 'rebooting' him into an innocent infant. He spends the entire time screaming in a complete panic and trying desperately to get it off him.
* WhamEpisode: The Lich is destroyed and reborn into a baby who's left with Tree Trunks and Mr.Pig, Finn meets his dad who turns out to be an annoying jerk who abandons him and runs on with a group of cosmic criminals, and Finn's long foreshadowed loss of his arm finally happens.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Lich actually falls into this twice: First, by waking Prismo himself instead of letting Finn and Jake do it, he allows them to get to the Citadel without being imprisoned. Second, by going to the Citadel he came within proximity of a substance capable of truly defeating him: Guardian blood.

* WhamEpisode: The Lich is destroyed and reborn into a baby who's left with Tree Trunks and Mr.Pig, Finn meet's his dad who turns out to be an annoying jerk who abandons him and runs on with a group of cosmic criminals, and Finn's long foreshadowed loss of his arm finally happens.

* JustBetweenYouandMe: The Lich reveals his entire plan to Finn. Justified as Finn is in no position to stop him and only manages to thanks to the Guardian blood.

* StoryArc: Both continues the Lich's and start's a new one with Martin

** He said he forgot though.

* {{Jerkass}}: Finn's father, Martin, is a huge one. He abandoned Finn for no reason, does not care about him in the slightest, and his actions leads to Finn losing his arm.

** Martin suffers from a third-degree burn from a stray [[FreakingLaserBeams laser beam of white hot death.]] Not a single drop is spilled.

-->'''Tree Trunks:''' This changes everything!

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Tree Trunks is about to ask Mr. Pig for a divorce before Jake brings them the baby Lich to raise.

* AnArmAndALeg: Finn gets his right arm torn off trying to pull back the platform his dad is trying to escape on.

** The Lich sheds its Billy skin and becomes a giant horned skeleton.

* AbusiveParents: Martin falls into the negelectful category.

* RaiseHimRightThisTime: The Lich's fate aafter being reduced to an innocent infant.

* ReviveKillsZombie: Played with when the Lich is defeated for good by the healing blood touching him, but is instead turned into a flesh and blood infant instead of dying.

* OneWingedAngel: In order to keep Finn's dad from escaping, the grass blade completely takes over Finn's arm and gives him SuperStrength. Unfortunately, it was not enough and Finn gets his arm torn off.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Tree Trunks is about to ask Mr. Pig for a divorce before Jake brings them the baby Lich.

Finn and Jake follow the Lich to the Citadel, where Finn meets his long lost father.