History Recap / SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerS2E06LightSpinner

* OhCrap!: Light Spanner is visibly shocked when the Spell of Obtainment conjures the entity that twists her. This indicates that whatever she was expecting the spell to do, it wasn't that.

** The scene of Catra walking on Hordak as machines work on his cyborg body certainly bring to mind the famous scene from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
** To Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'': Newly [[FaceHeelTurn turned]] Shadow Weaver emulates [[FallenHero Lucifer's]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cabanel_shadow_weaver.jpg pose]], albeit standing instead of laying down. After having been consumed and [[EvilMakesYouUgly]] scarred by the evil entity summoned [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Spell of Obtainment]], the Council of Mystacor accuses her of being power-hungry and fire spells at her. She absorbs their attacks and her first offensive spell has her crossing her arms covering her mouth and with her hands skewed to the right. Her countenance is downright ballistic and betrayed.

** To Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'': Newly [[FacelHeelTurn turned]] Shadow Weaver emulates [[FallenHero Lucifer's]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cabanel_shadow_weaver.jpg pose]], albeit standing instead of laying down. After having been consumed and [[EvilMakesYouUgly]] scarred by the evil entity summoned [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Spell of Obtainment]], the Council of Mystacor accuses her of being power-hungry and fire spells at her. She absorbs their attacks and her first offensive spell has her crossing her arms covering her mouth and with her hands skewed to the right. Her countenance is downright ballistic and betrayed.

* GenerationXerox: We meet Glimmer's father Micah and see he had the same headstrong and mischievous yet goodhearted personality she does.

* ShoutOut: The scene of Catra walking on Hordak as machines work on his cyborg body certainly bring to mind the famous scene from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

* ContinuityNod: Among the things Light Spinner and Micah use as spell components are the mirror shards Castaspella said contained Mystacore's history on them, which they grind up to make magic.

** The images she'd shown the other sorcerers at Mystacore cast some doubt on Scorpia's previous claims of her family willingly joining the Horde and giving the Black Garnet to Hordak.

Hordak gives Catra two days to extract anything useful out of Shadow Weaver before the latter has to be exiled to Beast Island. Meanwhile, Shadow Weaver remembers her time at Mystacore.

* ShoutOut: The scene of Catra walking on Hordak as machines work on his cyborg body certanly bring to mind the famous scene from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

* The scene of Catra walking on Hordak as machines work on his cyborg body certanly bring to mind the famous scene from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

Hordak gives Catra two days to extract anything useful out of Shadow Weaver before Shadow Weaver has to be exiled to Beast Isle. Meanwhile, Shadow Weaver remembers her time at Mystacore.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Shadow Weaver is the focal character of this episode. Catra plays {{Deuteragonist}} for the day while the heroes only appear in the final scene.

** Averted when Shadow Weaver gently caresses Catra's face and even plays with her ear tuffs which should be an affectionate moment. However it becomes apparent once Shadow Weaver escapes that she only did it to manipulate [[WellDoneSonGuy Catra's need for her validation.]]

* BaitTheDog: Shadow Weaver's treatment of Catra when she visits her, which includes telling her why she constantly treated her badly, gently stroking her face, and telling her that she wants her to go farther in the Horde then she ever did, all seem like signs that she may want to reconcile with her ward. However this is all a ploy to convince Catra to get her old sorcerer guild badge so that she can escape leaving Catra high and dry now that she has lost a valuable prisoner.
* BatmanGambit: Catra personally delivers Shadow Weaver her meals because she enjoys seeing her in her current predicament, but deep down still cares about her despite how she treated her. Shadow Weaver exploits this by manipulating Catra into getting her sorcerer guild badge for her as a LastRequest, which contains what she needs to escape.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Norwyn was ultimately proven correct that Light Spinner only wished to use the Spell of Obtainment for personal gain. That being said, Light Spinner also had a point when she criticized Norwyn for his inaction against the Horde and was right when she claimed the Horde would pose a serious threat.

* EvilMakesYouUgly: The dark magic Light Spinner absorbs does a number on her face. And her eyes. And temporarily gives her the VoiceOfTheLegion.

* FunctionalMagic: Light Spinner explains to Micah a bit how sorcery works. The princesses all have natural connections to runestones that grant power but sorcerers can tap into ambient energy to perform their spells.
* GeometricMagic: More advanced spells create 3D holographic shapes such as a tetrahedron.
* GenerationXerox: We meet Glimmer's father Micah and see he had a similar headstrong, mischievous yet goodhearted personality that she does.

* OddFriendship: Entrapta and Hordak's strange bond continues. Not only does he favour her company over Catra's but one scene shows Entrapta sitting on one of the armrests of Hordak's throne, excitedly sharing her plans with him as he listens respectfully.
* PowerParasite: Shadow Weaver when she was still Light Spinner wanted to use the Spell of Obtainment to increase the sorcerers' powers to fend off the Horde but Norwyn denied it, saying the spell merely turns the caster into a magical parasite. This is what happened to Shadow Weaver after she cast the spell and why she was cut off from her magic after her connection with the Black Garnet was severed.
* TooMuchAlike: When Catra asks her why she always treated her so horribly Shadow Weaver admits that it was because she saw a lot of herself in Catra and that, since she always had to struggle in order to gain recognition, so should she. Catra rightfully points out that she was just a child so she couldn't have done anything to warrant such harsh treatment from Shadow Weaver.
* UnreliableExpositor: Twice by Shadow Weaver;
** The images that she'd shown the other sorcerers at Mystacore cast some doubt on Scorpia's previous claims of her family willingly joining the Horde and giving the Black Garnet to Hordak.

* VillainEpisode: This episode focuses mostly on Shadow Weaver and her backstory, with some scenes involving Catra, Scorpia, Entrapta and Hordak. Adora, Glimmer and Bow only appear in the last scene.
* VillainHasAPoint: As hard as it is to listen to Shadow Weaver, she was right about Catra beginning to be pushed out, in favour of Entrapta, like what happened to her.

* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Spell power gets a boost when Etheria's three mystic moons are aligned. In the past Light Spinner used the power of the moons to amplify her and Micah's magic in order to cast the Spell of Obtainment. In the present Shadow Weaver uses the moons to amplify the magic dust left inside her old sorcerers badge so she can escape from the Horde.

* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Averted when Shadow Weaver gently caresses Catra's face and even plays with her ear tuffs which should be an affectionate moment. However it becomes apparent once Shadow Weaver escapes that she only did it to manipulate [[WellDoneSonGuy Catra's need for her validation.]]

* BaitTheDog: Shadow Weaver's treatment of Catra when she visits her, which includes telling her why she constantly treated her badly, gently stroking her face, and telling her that she wants her to go farther in the Horde then she ever did, all seem like signs that she may wont to reconcile with her ward. However this is all a ploy to convince Catra to get her old sorcerer guild badge so that she can escape leaving Catra high and dry now that she has lost a valuable prisoner.

* PowerParasite: Shadow Weaver when she was still Light Spinner wanted to use the Spell of Obtainment to increase the sorcerers' powers to fend off the Horde but the leader denied it, saying the spell merely turns the caster into a magical parasite.

* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Spell power gets a boost when Etheria's three mystic moons are aligned.