History Recap / CourageTheCowardlyDogS4E50CourageousCureBallOfRevenge

** Inverted with Eustace's punishment. He kidnaps Muriel and tries to kill Courage, but his wife only disciplines him by hitting him on the head with a rolling pin and forcing him to sleep on the floor, when he obviously deserved far worse.

* VillainTeamUp: Ball of Revenge deals with Courage's RoguesGallery teaming up.

* BackForTheDead: Several villians, except perhaps Le Quack and the Weremole (see WhatHappenedToTheMouse).

** Freaky Fred gets one at the end of the episode.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: At the beginning of the episode, Eustace gets angry over courage getting a blanket that Muriel made even though he has his beloved chair, [[DisproportionateRetribution which prompts him to start the events of the episode]]. At the end, he's on the floor with the blanket, while Courage gets to sit in his chair.

** Eustace wants Courage dead because he got a blanket instead of Eustace.
** Inverted with Eustace's punishment. His only punishment for kidnapping Muriel and trying to kill Courage is getting hit on the head with a rolling pin and being made to sleep on the floor, when he obviously deserved far worse.
* DodgeballIsHell: Taken to the extreme, where Courage almost dies. In the end, it is implied that all the villains died by falling through a crevas formed by Courage's Earth shattering scream.

* LegionOfDoom: Courage has made enough enemies throughout the series that they form one.
* MakeMeWannaShout: How Courage defeats his enemies.

* UngratefulBastard: Eustace calls up several of Courage's enemies to help kill him, despite the fact that several of them tried to kill Eustace before and Courage saved him from them. Special mention goes to the Queen of the black puddle, who tried to eat Eustace and was only stopped by Courage.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Le Quack mysteriously disappears halfway through and as such, isn't present to fall into the chasm Courage creates by screaming.

* DispropotionateRetribution:

* BackForTheDead: Several villians, except perhaps Le Quack (see WhatHappenedToTheMouse).

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Several villians, except perhaps Le Quack (see WhatHappenedToTheMouse)]].

* DodgeballIsHell: Taken to the extreme, where Courage almost dies. In the end, [[spoiler:it is implied that all the villains died by falling through a crevas formed by Courage's Earth shattering scream]].

* TheScream: Of course Courage always ends up screaming over something in every episode, but in "Ball of Revenge" [[spoiler:he screams so hard that he ultimately defeats his enemies by forming a crack in the ground that they all fall into]].

** The weremole was seen at the team, but he disappeared once he hopped inside the giant clam [[spoiler:before the other villains fell to their death.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout

Eustace is fed up with Muriel "spoiling" Courage, and invites several of Courage's past enemies together to form the ultimate dodgeball team that will satisfy their thirst for revenge.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: At the beginning of the episode, Eustace gets angry over courage [[DisproportionateRetribution getting a blanket that Muriel made even though he has his beloved chair]], which prompts him to start the events of the episode. At the end, he's on the floor with the blanket, while Courage gets to sit in his chair.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: At the beginning of the episode, Eustace gets angry over courage getting a blanket that Muriel made even though he has his beloved chair, which prompts him to start the events of the episode. At the end, he's on the floor with the blanket, while Courage gets to sit in his chair.

* LegionOfDoom: Courage has formed enough enemies that they form one.

* VillainTeamUp

Eustace is fed up with Muriel "spoiling" Courage, and invites all of Courage's past enemies together to form the ultimate dodgeball team that will satisfy their thirst for revenge.

* BackForTheDead [[spoiler: All the villians, except perhaps Le Quack (see WhatHappenedToTheMouse)]].
* TheCameo: Freaky Fred gets one at the end of "Ball of Revenge".
** And two of the duck brothers randomly cameo for the halftime show.

** OverlyLongScream
* TookALevelInJerkass: Eustace bumps up his regular {{Jerkass}} level to antagonistic.

* DodgeballIsHell: Taken to the extreme, where Courage almost dies. In the end, [[spoiler: it is implied that all the villains died by falling through a crevas formed by Courage's Earth shattering scream]].

* TheScream: Of course Courage always ends up screaming over something in every episode, but in "Ball of Revenge" [[spoiler: he screams so hard that he ultimately defeats his enemies by forming a crack in the ground that they all fall into]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Le Quack mysteriously disapears halfway through and as such, isn't present to fall into the chasm Courage creates by screaming.

* KarmaHoudini: Eustace is a horrific example here. To say Courage getting his chair hardly qualifies as karma is beyond an understatement, but the fact that Eustace gets Courage's blanket? Let's just say there's a good reason this episode isn't liked in some circles.

* EhTuBrute: The duck brothers do nothing to help Courage.

* BackForTheDead [[spoiler: All the villians]].

* BackForTheDead [[Spoiler: All the villians]].

* TheScream: Of course Courage always ends up screaming over something in every episode, but in "Ball of Revenge" [[spoiler: he screams so hard that he ultimately defeats his enemies by forming a crazk in the ground that they all fall into]].

* FridgeBrilliance: The aliens from "Courageous Cure" seek to find an antidote to a disease that causes them to punch themselves to death. Why is Courage the cure? Dogs don't have arms.

* VillainTeamUp