History Recap / AmphibiaS3E03TurningPoint

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Back in "The New Normal", Andrias told an unconscious Marcy that her 'friends' were about be be eliminated from the equation after sending the assassin after Anne, hinting he'd already done something about Sasha to remove her as an obstacle to his plans. It turns out in this episode that whilst she did manage to escape him, Andrias sent a massive robot armed with a ludicrous amount of ordinance and a small battalion of forces after Sasha that, if not for the interference of the Wartwood villagers, would have overwhelmed both her and Grime.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ComicBook/Superman There's a superhero in all of us.]]'' ''[[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre We just need the courage to put on the cape.]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier All we can do is our best, and sometimes, the best we can do is to start over...]]'']]

* BalefulPolymorph: Maddie fights the robots by chucking curse bags at them, turning them into various tiny objects.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The Golden Boss is designed after a Surinam toad, seeing as how it summons smaller MechaMooks through holes in its back.

* PyrrhicVillainy: A big part of Sasha's CharacterDevelopment is finally realizing how her quest for control and power has done nothing but cost her, especially in regards to her friends, and that BeingEvilSucks.

* AbsenteeActor: Sort of. Anne's teleportation to Earth is shown from Sasha's POV for a few seconds and she's otherwise absent from the episode, but a voiceover of her plays as Sasha is reading her last journal entry.

* ShoutOut: The smaller green robot drones resemble [[Anime/DragonBallZ Saibamen]], right down to swarming their opponents and having a self-destructive role in combat with them.

* DefenstrationDestination: In order to escape Andrias's castle, Grime throws Sasha out the window then jumps after her.

* DestinationDefenstration: In order to escape Andrias's castle, Grime throws Sasha out the window then jumps after her.

* BecomingTheMask: Grime and Sasha claim Anne sent them to defend Wartwood from King Adrias and his forces as a cover to avoid questions and have an excuse to stay there. By the end, they've decided to become the town's protectors for real, Sasha as a form of atonement and Grime because [[VillainousFriendship where Sasha goes, he'll follow]].

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Sasha and Grime escape from Andrias and hide out in Wartwood.

* DownerBeginning: Sasha and Grime watch Andrias skewer Marcy after their attempt to hold him off fails, and Grime, knowing they can't fight him, orders a retreat. Sasha doesn't know what happened to Anne and is forced to abandon a mortally wounded Marcy to whatever Andrias plans to do to her, knowing full well things wouldn't have gone this wrong had she not faked being reformed and thus wracked with guilt and self-loathing.

* BeingEvilSucks: The crux of the episode. Sasha is forced to confront the consequences of her actions, and realizes that lying, manipulating, and backstabbing feels crumby when it just causes you to hurt and lose the people you care about. When she finally decides to do the right thing, she finds that GoodFeelsGood.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Well, ending to her HeelFaceTurn. While the show is far from over, Sasha is put through the ringer this episode. She's forced to face the consequences of her treacherous actions, subjected to relentless ObliviousGuiltSlinging, and has to perform a HeroicSacrifice to clear her conscience. When the town of Wartwood stand with her and make it clear they're just happy she came around, Sasha finds that she feels truly good about herself for the first time in her life.