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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death (which he genuinely is), and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group. Whilst Theo is obviously wrong to blame Debbie for Nolan's actions, their meeting stresses the reason why the support group strictly operates by only first-name references. It's also TruthInTelevision that people who are most closely associated with someone responsible for actions of a similar gravity in consequence as Nolan's are often scapegoated by those the casualties are survived by as if they're just as responsible, usually out of grief and resentment.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Allen realizes he's up against no less than ''three'' Viltrumites (bearing in mind that he can't match even one in direct combat) he lets out a rather understated "Oh [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]".
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* After he refuses to co-operate with their demands, the Viltrumites conduct their spectacularly brutal incapacitation of Allen the Alien in full view of the Space Station he's been abducted from, apparently providing a show to the helplessly watching onlookers within (including his girlfriend) as they take turns torturing him. It's also subtly hinted (but NOT confirmed) that ''Thaedeus himself'' may potentially be the mole feeding information to the Viltrumites after he sabotages Allen's life support system afterwards.
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* After he refuses to co-operate with their demands, the Viltrumites conduct their spectacularly brutal incapacitation of Allen the Alien in full view of the Space Station he's been abducted from, apparently providing a show to the helplessly watching onlookers within (including his girlfriend) as they take turns torturing him. It's also subtly hinted (but NOT confirmed) that ''Thaedeus himself'' may potentially be the mole feeding information to the Viltrumites after he sabotages Allen's life support system afterwards.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Dupli-Kate reasons that, counting her clones, she and Immortal are roughly the same age. Whatever math she's using to reach that conclusion, it's definitely wrong. If Immortal is 2000 years old, and Dupli-Kate is 20 (likely a slight overestimate, since she seems of age with Atom Eve and Invincible, who only just graduated high school), then she would need 100 copies of herself since birth to match Immortal. She is rarely seen with more than five copies out, and never for more than a few minutes at a time, so she falls well short. If she counts them all as having lived her full life despite existing for short periods, then she would probably have shot well past Immortal by now. [[JustifiedTrope That said]] it is clear she's basing her logic entirely off of [[MayflyDecemberRomance the emotional connection]] of [[DeathIsCheap their shared condition]], so the scale of the actual math is meaningless compared to the feeling of what is implied is what truly matters to her when she said it.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Dupli-Kate reasons that, counting her clones, she and Immortal are roughly the same age. Whatever math she's using to reach that conclusion, it's definitely wrong. If Immortal is 2000 years old, and Dupli-Kate is 20 (likely a slight overestimate, since she seems of age with Atom Eve and Invincible, who only just graduated high school), then she would need 100 copies of herself since birth to match Immortal. She is rarely seen with more than five copies out, and never for more than a few minutes at a time, so she falls well short. If she counts them all as having lived her full life despite existing for short periods, then she would probably have shot well past Immortal by now. [[JustifiedTrope That said]] it is clear she's basing her logic entirely off of [[MayflyDecemberRomance the emotional connection]] of [[DeathIsCheap their shared condition]], so the scale of the actual math is meaningless compared to the feeling of what is implied is what truly matters to her when she said it. However, there is also the fact that she probably includes clones which are KIA during their missions - the main reason she relates so closely with Immortal - since to her, they matter just as much as she does, and considering how many of ''those'' she must have lost during her career would likely ramp up that number ''at least'' past the 60 mark.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death (which he genuinely is), and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group. Whilst Theo is obviously wrong to blame Debbie for Nolan's actions, their meeting stresses the reason why the support group strictly operates by only first-name references. It's also TruthInTelevision that people who are most closely associated with someone responsible for actions of a similar gravity in consequence as Nolan's are often targeted by those the casualties are survived by as if they're just as responsible.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death (which he genuinely is), and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group. Whilst Theo is obviously wrong to blame Debbie for Nolan's actions, their meeting stresses the reason why the support group strictly operates by only first-name references. It's also TruthInTelevision that people who are most closely associated with someone responsible for actions of a similar gravity in consequence as Nolan's are often targeted scapegoated by those the casualties are survived by as if they're just as responsible.responsible, usually out of grief and resentment.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death, and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death (which he genuinely is), and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group. Whilst Theo is obviously wrong to blame Debbie for Nolan's actions, their meeting stresses the reason why the support group strictly operates by only first-name references. It's also TruthInTelevision that people who are most closely associated with someone responsible for actions of a similar gravity in consequence as Nolan's are often targeted by those the casualties are survived by as if they're just as responsible.
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* BaitTheDog: Olga gives Debbie a card leading her to a therapy group, and she ends up hitting it off with a man named Theo... at first. When he, in his grief, lets slip the fact that his wife was Green Ghost and that he's very mad at Omni-Man for killing her, Debbie later reveals the identity of her own husband, which leads Theo to immediately disregard all of his sympathy for her despite her being a sobbing, guilt-filled mess who also made it apparent that she was tricked by him and instead roast her for having not known any better, implicitly banning her from the therapy group.
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* BaitTheDog: Olga gives Debbie a card leading her to a therapy group, and she ends up hitting it off with a man named Theo... at first. When he, in his grief, lets slip the fact that his wife was Green Ghost and that he's very mad at Omni-Man for killing her, Debbie later reveals the identity of her own husband, which leads Theo to immediately disregard all of his sympathy for her despite her being a sobbing, guilt-filled mess who also made it apparent that she was tricked by him and instead roast blame her for having not known any better, implicitly banning her from the therapy group.
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* BreatherEpisode: After Allen's horrific beating and subsequent death, the rest of the episode is set on Earth and follows a day in the life of various characters, such as Rudy and Amanda going on a date, Kate explaining to Rex why she hooked up with the Immortal, Deborah attending a support group for the widows of superheroes, and Mark attending college...until he is called upon to aid an alien planet in danger, and in heeding the call, unexpectedly [[WhamShot reunites with his father]].
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* AccompliceByInaction: Debbie was tricked by Nolan, but as far as Theo's concerned that's still reason to hate her since she should have known better.
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* BaitTheDog: Olga gives Debbie a card leading her to a therapy group, and she ends up hitting it off with a man named Theo... at first. When he, in his grief, lets slip the fact that his wife was Green Ghost and that he's very mad at Omni-Man for killing her, Debbie later reveals the identity of her own husband, which leads Theo to immediately disregard all of his sympathy for her despite her being a sobbing, guilt-filled mess who also made it apparent that she was tricked by him and instead roast her for having not known any better, implicitly banning her from the therapy group.
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* ImmuneToDrugs: Discussed. When Debbie warns Mark not to do drugs at college, he just wonders if they'd even have any effect on his body, though she insists it's not worth the risk.
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Mark moves into college with Amber and William. Meanwhile, Allen is tasked with outing a mole in the Coalition of Planets.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The episode is based off of Issue 23 of the comic, which is the first appearance of Lucan. In the episode, Thula and Kregg appear alongside him earlier than they did in the comic continuity.
* AmbiguousSituation: After gently telling Telia to leave the room and let him watch over Allen, Thaddeus proceeds to sabotage Allen’s recovery before apologizing to him. Why he would do this has yet to be revealed.
* AlienBlood: Unopans have purple blood.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death, and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group.
* BodyHorror: The failed subjects of the Unopan SuperSoldier breeding project have various disfigurements and deformities like an extra arm or malformed bottom half. Played for laughs with one subject that has two eyes instead of one.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Before Mark and Amber have sex, a LemonyNarrator shows up to give them some privacy before narrating Allen's story in the episode... Before Allen begins to have ''his'' own sexy times with his girlfriend. Eventually, after desperately attempting to avoid showing the explicitness, the Narrator gives up after even Allen's alien cat starts licking its own ass in front of the camera and [[RageAgainstTheAuthor just begins describing in detail]].
* CommonalityConnection: Dupli-Kate tells Rex that what she and Immortal have in common is having experienced death multiple times.
* CreditsGag: The end credits start rolling after Allen is seemingly beaten to death by three Viltrumites… halfway through the episode. The customary mid-credits [[TheStinger stinger]] is actually the second half of the episode, with the end credits resuming at the end of the episode.
* CurbStompBattle: Allen gets the tar (and several internal organs) beaten out of him by three Viltrumites. To say that it's a one-sided fight is an understatement.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode focuses heavily on Allen the Alien, along with a sequence showing Monster Girl and Rudy on a date.
* EyeScream: Allen has his single eye punched out of his head, though it remains attached via his dangling optic nerve.
* FearIsNormal: Rudy, unsatisfied with his performance against the Giant, practices meditation and active thought to control his fear response. Amanda warns him that people feel fear for a reason, but Rudy deems it an unnecessary emotion.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Nuolzot takes the form of the comic character Seance Dog to talk to Mark. Mark naturally sees through this and is only angered by the obvious ruse, forcing Nuolzot to drop it before Mark gets violent.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: A Viltrumite chops off Allen's arm then smacks him with it.
* HeroicSacrifice: Allen is faced with three Viltrumites who he has no chance of escaping, let alone killing, but he is also in range of a space station full of people, his girlfriend included. To that end, he intentionally eggs on the Viltrumites so they'll lose their temper and beat him to death, hoping that they'll leave once they've failed to make him talk. Fortunately, he comes out of it barely alive.
* KickTheDog: It doesn't matter to Theo that Debbie is just as much a victim of Nolan's lies and deceptions over the years as anyone else. She married him so in his eyes she is complicit in the horrors he has committed.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Discussed. When Mark and Amber are about to have sex, she first inquires if Mark has "weird sperm", i.e. the bullet problem. Mark assures her that it's normal, so far as he can tell. She then wonders if Mark might accidentally crush her if he gets too excited, so she decides to be on top just to play it safe.
* TheMole: Thaedeus suspects there to be one in the Coalition of Planets that he assigns Allen to find.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: According to Telia, the Viltrumites are big on racial purity so the idea that Nolan, and possibly other members of his species, are now breeding with other species is unexpected. Allen points out ''that'' should have been a subject of discussion instead of [=questioning/dismissing=] his claims.
* SpecialEditionTitle: Allen gets his own title card in this episode much like Eve in the Atom Eve special, with a blood splatter-style splash going across the screen to provide a "the Alien" part to the "Allen" title.
* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: Allen and Telia have a meal in a diner on a space station orbiting Talescria. Allen is eating a bowl of kanzlok, yellow grub-like creatures that crawl for their lives. Telia is [[BrainFood eating the brains]] of a {{Cephalothorax}} creature that is also still alive, and eating the kanzlok that escapes Allen's plate.
* WhamShot: The episode ends with a Thraxan named Nuolzot arriving on Earth to enlist Mark to help protect his people from a meteor shower. When Mark arrives on the Thraxans' home planet, however, he soon realizes that the meteors were a lie to get him to reunite with Omni-Man, who has become the Thraxans' ruler since the first season finale.
-->'''Nolan:''' Hello, son.\\
'''Mark:''' Huh?\\
'''Nolan:''' It's been a while.\\
'''Mark:'''' ...Dad?
* WritersCannotDoMath: Dupli-Kate reasons that, counting her clones, she and Immortal are roughly the same age. Whatever math she's using to reach that conclusion, it's definitely wrong. If Immortal is 2000 years old, and Dupli-Kate is 20 (likely a slight overestimate, since she seems of age with Atom Eve and Invincible, who only just graduated high school), then she would need 100 copies of herself since birth to match Immortal. She is rarely seen with more than five copies out, and never for more than a few minutes at a time, so she falls well short. If she counts them all as having lived her full life despite existing for short periods, then she would probably have shot well past Immortal by now. [[JustifiedTrope That said]] it is clear she's basing her logic entirely off of [[MayflyDecemberRomance the emotional connection]] of [[DeathIsCheap their shared condition]], so the scale of the actual math is meaningless compared to the feeling of what is implied is what truly matters to her when she said it.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The episode is based off of Issue 23 of the comic, which is the first appearance of Lucan. In the episode, Thula and Kregg appear alongside him earlier than they did in the comic continuity.
* AmbiguousSituation: After gently telling Telia to leave the room and let him watch over Allen, Thaddeus proceeds to sabotage Allen’s recovery before apologizing to him. Why he would do this has yet to be revealed.
* AlienBlood: Unopans have purple blood.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Theo comes off as a nice guy going through a hard time after his wife's death, and who invites Debbie for a drink after her first group meeting. Then, he reveals the name of his wife (Green Ghost), which breaks the rules of the group, which makes Debbie reveal her husband was Omni-Man out of guilt. Despite pouring her heart out to him and showing that she was also a victim of Nolan, Theo doesn't care, thinks she should have known Nolan was evil, and essentially bullies her out of the therapy group.
* BodyHorror: The failed subjects of the Unopan SuperSoldier breeding project have various disfigurements and deformities like an extra arm or malformed bottom half. Played for laughs with one subject that has two eyes instead of one.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Before Mark and Amber have sex, a LemonyNarrator shows up to give them some privacy before narrating Allen's story in the episode... Before Allen begins to have ''his'' own sexy times with his girlfriend. Eventually, after desperately attempting to avoid showing the explicitness, the Narrator gives up after even Allen's alien cat starts licking its own ass in front of the camera and [[RageAgainstTheAuthor just begins describing in detail]].
* CommonalityConnection: Dupli-Kate tells Rex that what she and Immortal have in common is having experienced death multiple times.
* CreditsGag: The end credits start rolling after Allen is seemingly beaten to death by three Viltrumites… halfway through the episode. The customary mid-credits [[TheStinger stinger]] is actually the second half of the episode, with the end credits resuming at the end of the episode.
* CurbStompBattle: Allen gets the tar (and several internal organs) beaten out of him by three Viltrumites. To say that it's a one-sided fight is an understatement.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode focuses heavily on Allen the Alien, along with a sequence showing Monster Girl and Rudy on a date.
* EyeScream: Allen has his single eye punched out of his head, though it remains attached via his dangling optic nerve.
* FearIsNormal: Rudy, unsatisfied with his performance against the Giant, practices meditation and active thought to control his fear response. Amanda warns him that people feel fear for a reason, but Rudy deems it an unnecessary emotion.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Nuolzot takes the form of the comic character Seance Dog to talk to Mark. Mark naturally sees through this and is only angered by the obvious ruse, forcing Nuolzot to drop it before Mark gets violent.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: A Viltrumite chops off Allen's arm then smacks him with it.
* HeroicSacrifice: Allen is faced with three Viltrumites who he has no chance of escaping, let alone killing, but he is also in range of a space station full of people, his girlfriend included. To that end, he intentionally eggs on the Viltrumites so they'll lose their temper and beat him to death, hoping that they'll leave once they've failed to make him talk. Fortunately, he comes out of it barely alive.
* KickTheDog: It doesn't matter to Theo that Debbie is just as much a victim of Nolan's lies and deceptions over the years as anyone else. She married him so in his eyes she is complicit in the horrors he has committed.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Discussed. When Mark and Amber are about to have sex, she first inquires if Mark has "weird sperm", i.e. the bullet problem. Mark assures her that it's normal, so far as he can tell. She then wonders if Mark might accidentally crush her if he gets too excited, so she decides to be on top just to play it safe.
* TheMole: Thaedeus suspects there to be one in the Coalition of Planets that he assigns Allen to find.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: According to Telia, the Viltrumites are big on racial purity so the idea that Nolan, and possibly other members of his species, are now breeding with other species is unexpected. Allen points out ''that'' should have been a subject of discussion instead of [=questioning/dismissing=] his claims.
* SpecialEditionTitle: Allen gets his own title card in this episode much like Eve in the Atom Eve special, with a blood splatter-style splash going across the screen to provide a "the Alien" part to the "Allen" title.
* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: Allen and Telia have a meal in a diner on a space station orbiting Talescria. Allen is eating a bowl of kanzlok, yellow grub-like creatures that crawl for their lives. Telia is [[BrainFood eating the brains]] of a {{Cephalothorax}} creature that is also still alive, and eating the kanzlok that escapes Allen's plate.
* WhamShot: The episode ends with a Thraxan named Nuolzot arriving on Earth to enlist Mark to help protect his people from a meteor shower. When Mark arrives on the Thraxans' home planet, however, he soon realizes that the meteors were a lie to get him to reunite with Omni-Man, who has become the Thraxans' ruler since the first season finale.
-->'''Nolan:''' Hello, son.\\
'''Mark:''' Huh?\\
'''Nolan:''' It's been a while.\\
'''Mark:'''' ...Dad?
* WritersCannotDoMath: Dupli-Kate reasons that, counting her clones, she and Immortal are roughly the same age. Whatever math she's using to reach that conclusion, it's definitely wrong. If Immortal is 2000 years old, and Dupli-Kate is 20 (likely a slight overestimate, since she seems of age with Atom Eve and Invincible, who only just graduated high school), then she would need 100 copies of herself since birth to match Immortal. She is rarely seen with more than five copies out, and never for more than a few minutes at a time, so she falls well short. If she counts them all as having lived her full life despite existing for short periods, then she would probably have shot well past Immortal by now. [[JustifiedTrope That said]] it is clear she's basing her logic entirely off of [[MayflyDecemberRomance the emotional connection]] of [[DeathIsCheap their shared condition]], so the scale of the actual math is meaningless compared to the feeling of what is implied is what truly matters to her when she said it.
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