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* BlatantLies: During Jack's BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Mad Jack insists he's the one who had been keeping them alive and Jack needs him. The first time we saw him, he was ''encouraging'' Jack to kill himself and to just give up already.
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* FatalFlaw: {{Wrath}}.

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* FatalFlaw: {{Wrath}}.Wrath.
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* RemoteYetVulnerable: Upon realizing that his sword simply vanished due to [[MyGreatestFailure deeming him unworthy after he killed innocent sheep in blind rage]], he decides to return to the spot he lost it alongside Ashi and enter a [[VisionQuest state of deep meditation to go on a journey to reclaim it]]. However, his body is very much vulnerable during this and Ashi is forced to literally [[OneManArmy slaughter an entire army]] and [[SelfMadeOrphan kill her own mother]] to ensure Jack can safely complete this trial.
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'''XCVIII'''

'''Original air date:''' 4/29/17

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* BalefulPolymorph: Aku turned the goats into monsters, infecting them with his evil to trick Jack into slaying them.


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* ForcedTransformation: Aku turned the goats into monsters, infecting them with his evil to trick Jack into slaying them.
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* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Ashi offers to help Jack recover his sword, but Jack explains that he has to do it alone, because it's not a physical place he can take her. However, Ashi has one important task--to guard him while he's in the spirit world.

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* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Ashi offers to help Jack recover his sword, but Jack explains that he has to do it alone, because alone (especially since it's not a physical place he can take her.Ashi could come with him to). However, Ashi has one important task--to guard him while he's in the spirit world.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The three little sheep that follow Jack up the mountain, which of course makes it all the more tragic when Jack kills them after Aku turns them into huge hulking monsters.

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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: [[SweetSheep The three little sheep sheep]] that follow Jack up the mountain, which of course makes it all the more tragic when Jack kills them after Aku turns them into huge hulking monsters.
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* IceCreamKoan: Mad Jack takes this interpretation of the Buddhist Monk's teachings. When told that the monk cannot show Jack the path to inner balance, Jack's emotions immediately dismiss the advice.
--> "That's fortune cookie nonsense!"

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** This isn't the first time Jack was blinded by rage, let alone Aku taking advantage of that. One could say that Mad Jack came back in the form of his hallucinations. [[RealityEnsues Just because someone overcomes their anger once in their lifetime, it doesn't mean they won't be compelled by it again when something else deeply upsets them.]]

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** This isn't the first time Jack was blinded by rage, let alone Aku taking advantage of that. One could say that Mad Jack came back in the form of his hallucinations. [[RealityEnsues Just because someone overcomes their anger once in their lifetime, it doesn't mean they won't be compelled by it again when something else deeply upsets them.]]them.



* ICantHearYou: When Ashi tells the orc-like army she faces that she will stop them, the ones at the front just laugh at her, while the ones in the middle and back are confused why everyone stopped walking.
-->'''Soldier #1:''' What did he say?\\
'''Soldier #2:''' Something 'bout a squirrel.\\
'''Soldier #1:''' I love squirrels! Is it lunch already?



* RealityEnsues: When Ashi tells the orc-like army she faces that she will stop them, the ones at the front just laugh at her, while the ones in the middle and back are confused why everyone stopped walking.
-->'''Soldier #1:''' What did he say?\\
'''Solider #2:''' Something 'bout a squirrel.\\
'''Solider #1:''' I love squirrels! Is it lunch already?
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* CallingTheOldManOut: During their battle, Ashi tears into her mother for raising her and her sisters as weapons from birth, and sending them [[SuicideMission to their deaths]].

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* CallingTheOldManOut: During their battle, Ashi tears into her mother for [[ChildSoldiers raising her and her sisters as weapons from birth, birth]], and sending them [[SuicideMission to their deaths]].
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* CallingTheOldManOut: During their battle, Ashi tears into her mother for raising her and her sisters as weapons from birth, and sending them [[SuicideMission to their deaths]].
-->'''High Priestess:''' [[{{Hypocrite}} How could you betray your family?!]] He killed your sisters, and you let him live!\\
'''Ashi:''' No, ''you'' killed them! We were made for one purpose: to kill! Our fate was sealed ''the day we were born''!
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* TheReveal: The beginning of the episode shows how Jack lost the sword in the first place, and how Aku destroyed the last of the time portals.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Ashi when she compliments Jack on how he got his sword back and his haircut.
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* ShownTheirWork: Jack's spiritual journey involves performing a tea ceremony, which is a Japanese custom where the server's spiritual balance is expressed through the quality of the tea. It also doubles as FiveSecondForeshadowing, if you pay attention and notice haste in Jack's preparation. The tea's awful quality highlights that Jack is spiritually unbalanced and what causes Jack to confront the anger within. It's also rather accurately performed.

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* ShownTheirWork: Jack's spiritual journey involves performing a tea ceremony, which is a Japanese custom where the server's spiritual balance is expressed through the quality of the tea. It also doubles as FiveSecondForeshadowing, if you pay attention and notice haste in Jack's preparation. The tea's awful quality highlights that Jack is spiritually unbalanced and what causes Jack to confront the anger within. It's also rather accurately performed.performed, as most of the steps Jack goes through to make the tea are what must be performed in real tea ceremonies.
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Jack and Ashi leave what is now the grave one of the fallen sheep. They return to the surface and thank the bird for helping them, and when Jack makes further plans to find his sword, Ashi offers to help him look for it. But Jack, though certainly appreciative of Ashi's offer, explains that this is something has to do on his own--the journey to get his sword is a spiritual journey (through meditation) rather than a physical journey that Ashi could travel with Jack on. Jack goes to meditate, leaving Ashi to wait however long it will take. She doesn't wait long as an army arrives to kill Jack. After they laugh off her calm declaration she will stop them, Ashi does just that. She turns back to the mountain to see one more figure racing up the mountain to kill Jack.

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Jack and Ashi leave what is now the grave one of the fallen sheep. They return to the surface and thank the bird for helping them, and when Jack makes further plans to find get his sword, sword back, Ashi offers to help him look for it. But Jack, though certainly appreciative of Ashi's him. Though Jack definitely appreciates the offer, he explains to her that this is something he has to do on his own--the own--also, the journey to get his sword is back isn't a physical journey (where Ashi could actually go with Jack) but rather a spiritual journey (through meditation) rather than a physical journey that Ashi could travel with Jack on.has to go on through meditation. Jack goes to meditate, leaving Ashi to wait however long it will take. She doesn't have to wait long as an army arrives to kill Jack. After they laugh off her calm declaration she will stop them, Ashi does just that. She turns back to the mountain to see one more figure racing up the mountain to kill Jack.



Ashi whistles for the help of the bird once more. Confronting the archer firing at Jack, it turns out to be none other than Ashi's mother, the High Priestess of the Cult of Aku--she's here to finish the job her daughters could/would not. She offers Ashi redemption if she will kill Jack. Ashi refuses and fights her mother to protect Jack.

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Ashi whistles for the help of the bird once more. Confronting the archer firing at Jack, it turns out to be none other than Ashi's mother, the High Priestess of the Cult of Aku--she's here to finish the job her daughters could/would not.couldn't/wouldn't. She offers Ashi redemption if she will kill Jack. Ashi refuses and fights her mother to protect Jack.



* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The orc leader's threat to Ashi, noted above in BringIt. She isn't impressed.

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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The orc leader's threat to Ashi, noted above in BringIt. She isn't impressed. She's clearly not impressed by it.



* HoldTheLine: Ashi has to hold off Jack's attackers until he's done...or dead. She has to kill an entire army by herself and have a duel to the death with her mother, but she succeeds.

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* HoldTheLine: Ashi has to hold off Jack's attackers until he's done...or dead. She has to kill an entire army by herself and have a duel to the death with her mother, but she ultimately succeeds.



* InTheBack: How Ashi kills her mother, an arrow through the back.

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* InTheBack: How Ashi kills her mother, an arrow mother--she throws one of the High Priestess's arrows at her and it impales the woman straight through the back.her spine.



* KirkSummation: Ashi points out to her mother that while Jack may have been the one kill the other Daughters of Aku, it was their mother's treatment of them that ultimately led to their deaths--the High Priestess never gave her daughters any other fate/choice, abusing them for basically their entire lives and then sending them out on what essentially amounted to a SuicideMission.

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* KirkSummation: Ashi points out to her mother that while Jack may have been the one kill the six other Daughters of Aku, it was their mother's treatment of them that ultimately led to their deaths--the High Priestess never gave her daughters any other fate/choice, abusing them for basically their entire lives and then sending them out on what essentially amounted to a SuicideMission.



* OurOrcsAreDifferent: They never actually call the evil army orcs, but given that they're ugly, warty, pale green humanoids with fangs and cockney accents, it's obviosu this is what they were going for.

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* OurOrcsAreDifferent: They never actually call the evil army orcs, but given that they're ugly, warty, pale green humanoids with fangs and cockney accents, it's obviosu obvious this is what they were going for.



* RealityEnsues: When Ashi tells the orc-like army she faces that she will stop them, the ones at the front just laugh at her, while the ones in the middle and back are confused why everyone stopped.

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* RealityEnsues: When Ashi tells the orc-like army she faces that she will stop them, the ones at the front just laugh at her, while the ones in the middle and back are confused why everyone stopped. stopped walking.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ashi finally gets to call her mother out for all the lies she fed her during her childhood. The High Priestess tries to do the same to Ashi when she asks on how Ashi could join Jack when the latter killed her sisters, only for Ashi to retort that it was their mother's cruelty that ultimately led the Daughters down the path to their deaths.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ashi finally gets to call her mother out for all the lies she fed to her and her sisters during her their childhood. The High Priestess tries to do the same to Ashi when she asks on how Ashi could join Jack when the latter killed her sisters, only for Ashi to retort that it was their mother's cruelty that ultimately led the Daughters down the path to their deaths.



* SelfMadeOrphan: Ashi (presumably) kills her mother in battle to protect Jack, throwing an arrow through her, sending her off a cliff.

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* SelfMadeOrphan: Ashi (presumably) kills throws an arrow that impales her mother in battle to protect Jack, throwing an arrow straight through her, her (the High Priestess's) spine, sending her off a cliff.the cliff that they were fighting on--assuming that she didn't die instantly or die of blood loss on the way down the side of the cliff, the impact of the fall could've been what ultimately killed the High Priestess.

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