History Recap / ArcaneS1E3TheBaseViolenceNecessaryForChange

** An equally heartbreaking one when Vi realizes she hit Powder afterwards and is making the situation even worse.
** Marcus has one when he gets Grayson killed through his deal with Silco.

* HeroicBSOD: A particularly tragic example. After seeing the corpses of her slain friends buried under the rubble, the camera pans over to Powder's explosive monkey's dismembered metal head, making Vi realize that it was Powder who caused the explosion.

* PapaWolf: First inverted when Vi takes up Vander’s old gauntlets to hold off Silco’s thugs, then played straight when Vander must pull himself from wreckage, battle Deckard when he’s hulked-out, then survive a stabbing from Silco’s and a fall of a catwalk to rescue Vi again, this time hulking-out as well.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Powder doesn't stop to consider the destructive capabilities of an unstable and mysterious stone shown to have previously blown up an entire apartment, and she loads up the explosive monkey with at least ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill three]]''. The resulting explosion ends up killing a good chunk of her adoptive family and severely injuring Vi.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Ultimately, it's Powder's impulsive desire to help Vi and make herself useful that causes things to go FromBadToWorse. If Powder hadn't stopped to consider the consequences of setting off a ''highly volatile bomb'', it's likely Mylo, Claggor and Vander would have survived, since Claggor had created an escape route just moments earlier.

* DeathOfAChild: Claggor and Mylo, both mere teenagers, die in a rather graphic and brutal fashion - Claggor gets struck bloody in the head from Powder's bomb explosion, and Mylo himself is impaled in the chest by a pipe blown out by the force of the blast. Both eventually end up crushed by debris.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The warehouse explosion is repeated several times, each time focusing on a different character or characters it affects, including those not in the immediate area.

** After taking Shimmer, Vander uses parts of his restraints as makeshift knuckledusters.

* BrutalBrawl: Vi's StandYourGround moment on the warehouse catwalk, while containing some stylization, is mostly her punching out thugs while wearing heavy metal gauntlets, as said thugs try to kill her with knives and other melee weapons. Vi sends at least two of them over the railing to their possible deaths, seems to break another's neck, and her gauntlets quickly get bloodstained.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Ultimately, it's Powder's impulsive desire to help Vi and make herself useful that causes things to go FromBadToWorse. If Powder hadn't stopped to consider the consequences of setting off a ''highly volatile bomb'', it's likely Mylo, Claggor and Vander would have survived.

* LiteralMetaphor: When Silco hands Marcus the fee for luring Grayson into their ambush, a few of the coins falls into the pool of blood.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Powder doesn't stop to consider the destructive capabilities of an unstable and mysterious stone shown to have previously blown up an entire apartment. The resulting explosion ends up killing a good chunk of her adoptive family and severely injuring Vi.

* LiteralMetaphor: When Silco hands Marcus the fee for luring Grayson into their ambush, one of the coins falls into the pool of blood.

** Vi dons gauntlets to take on Silco's goons.

** Vi dons Vander's gauntlets to take on Silco's goons.

* CreepySouvenir: Crossed with TragicKeepsake. Silco's knife is one that he stole from Vander to defend himself during their falling out, and one he uses to stab Vander again.
* HarmfulToMinors: Both Vi and Powder experience this, as it’s in no way good for a teenager or a child to see their siblings killed by an explosion and their father figure apparently dead. Worse for Powder, ''she'' made and triggered the bomb that did it!
* HopeSpot: Much of the climax is made up of Vander's kids, led by Vi, falling for the trap he's bait for. Mylo picks the locks on Vander's chair, Claggor manages to find a weak spot in the wall to escape through, and Vi holds off most of Silco's thugs with her fists and a door. Things are looking up... but then Powder tries to help with an experimental explosive...

* PapaWolf: First inverted when Vi takes up Vander's old gauntlets to hold off Silco's thugs, then played straight when Vander must pull himself from wreckage, battle Deckard when he's hulked-out, then survive a stabbing from Silco's and a fall of a catwalk to rescue Vi again, this time hulking-out as well.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Very, very subtle, but it's there. After getting caught in her own improvised bomb's explosion, Powder can be seen mid-fall in slow motion, her face showing not fear, nor panic or horror, but subtle awe and wonder at the sheer destructiveness of her bomb's power. It's even more pronounced by the Dissonant Soundtrack that plays as this happens.

* CreepySouvenir: Crossed with TragicKeepsake. Silco’s knife is one that he stole from Vander to defend himself during their falling out, and one he uses to stab Vander again.

* HopeSpot: Much of the climax is made up of Vander’s kids, led by Vi, falling for the trap he’s bait for. Mylo picks the locks on Vander’s chair, Claggor manages to find a weak spot in the wall to escape through, and Vi holds off most of Silco’s thugs with her fists and a door. Things are looking up... but then Powder tries to help with an experimental explosive...

* PapaWolf: First inverted when Vi takes up Vander’s old gauntlets to hold off Silco’s thugs, then played straight when Vander must pull himself from wreckage, battle Deckard when he’s hulked-out, then survive a stabbing from Silco’s and a fall of a catwalk to rescue Vi again, this time hulking-out as well.

!! Tropes in tihs episode include:

* WhamEpisode: Grayson, Deckard, Mylo, Claggor, and Vander all die, Vi and Powder have a falling out over the deaths of their friends which Powder inadvertently caused, Silco takes Vi in after said falling out, and Vi is drugged and taken by Marcus.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Very, very subtle, but it's there. After getting caught in her own improvised bomb's explosion, [[spoiler: Powder can be seen mid-fall in slow motion, her face showing not fear, nor panic or horror, but subtle awe and wonder at the sheer destructiveness of her bomb's power. It's even more pronounced by the Dissonant Soundtrack that plays as this happens.

* CreepySouvenir: Crossed woth TragicKeepsake - Silco’s knife is one that he stole from Vander to defend himself during their falling out, and one he uses to stab Vander again.

* HopeSpot: Much of the climax is made up of Vander’s kids, led by Vi, falling for the trap he’s bait for… but Mylo to pick the locks on Vander’s chair, Claggor manages to find a weak spot in the wall to escape through, and Vi managed to hold off most of Silco’s thugs with her fists and a door... and then Powder tries to help with an experimental explosive...