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** Quentin wasn't the one who found the world seed page. Santa placed it in his desk, knowing Alice would find it and be driven to figure out, getting her out of her rut.

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** Quentin wasn't the one who found the world seed page. Santa placed it in his desk, knowing Alice would find it and be driven to figure it out, getting her out of her rut.
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* AllForNothing: Lance moved on to his eternal reward centuries ago and Martin's been impersonating him, so ruling Fillory for the last 300 years, summoning Takers who kidnapped and dragged innocent people to the Underworld so he could empty their protective realm little by little, basically every horrible thing Seb's done in attempt to summon his lost lover was always pointless.

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* AllForNothing: Lance moved on to his eternal reward centuries ago and Martin's been impersonating him, so ruling Fillory for the last 300 years, summoning Takers who kidnapped and dragged innocent people to the Underworld so he could empty their protective realm little by little, and basically every horrible thing Seb's done in an attempt to summon his lost lover was always pointless.
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Variation. Josh asked Penny to say "ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive" before Penny went to save Margo.
-->'''Penny:''' Yeah, sorry, Josh wanted me to say it. It seemed real important to him. C’mon.


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* RightHandCat: Discussed. After Fogg's sanity is tied to a cat that he always has to carry around, he complains about the fur ruining his suits. Lipson compares him to a ''Film/JamesBond'' villain.
-->'''Lipson''': No wonder all those Bond villains were so pissy.

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* AllForNothing: Lance moved on to his eternal reward centuries ago and Martin's been impersonating him.

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* AllForNothing: Lance moved on to his eternal reward centuries ago and Martin's been impersonating him.him, so ruling Fillory for the last 300 years, summoning Takers who kidnapped and dragged innocent people to the Underworld so he could empty their protective realm little by little, basically every horrible thing Seb's done in attempt to summon his lost lover was always pointless.



* OhCrap: Alice recognizes The Beast's voice, and Zelda realizes the dead are back.

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** Charlton's shocked at Hyman's proviso for donating his body.
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Alice recognizes The Beast's voice, and Zelda realizes the dead are back.


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* SingleTargetSexuality: In the entirety of his time on the show, Charlton hasn't shown any sexual or romantic inclination whatsoever, until he confesses his feelings for Eliot. Of course, [[NotSoImaginaryFriend they have had quite some time to get to know each other]].
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* HealingHands: Seb heals Eliot's broken hands as well as he can before encouraging him to go on with his plan. it still takes a while for them to recover.

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* HealingHands: Seb heals Eliot's broken hands as well as he can before encouraging him to go on with his plan. it It still takes a while for them to recover.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Margo keeps calling Plum "Peach".
* AllForNothing: Lance moved on to his eternal reward centuries ago and Martin's been impersonating him.



* BeYourself: Zelda explains to Alice that so long as a caster's internal Circumstances are appropriate, even ''one'' hand is plenty to cast any spell they want. Alice therefore accepts every part of herself and encourages the others to do the same while casting the World Seed spell. It works.



* CallBack: Fen's still keeping the Seed in her, uh, "ladies' hiding place" as of the opening.
* ChristmasInJuly: Santa sets up a tree and presents for everyone. Alice briefly questions it, but who's the expert here?



* CruelToBeKind: Fogg's vicious severing of Julia's umbilical cord and theft of the World Seed were necessary actions to save the day.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: The Beast continues impersonating Lance for ''just'' long enough to fool Seb.



* HealingHands: Seb heals Eliot's broken hands as well as he can before encouraging him to go on with his plan. it still takes a while for them to recover.



* MaternityCrisis: Okay, ''now'' Julia's water breaks, for real.



* OhCrap: Alice recognizes The Beast's voice, and Zelda realizes the dead are back.



* PlaceBeyondTime: The Clock Barrens' nature as a timeless place allows it and Jane to survive the destruction of Fillory. It'll just be harder to get access to her. Oh, and Seb ends up there, too.
* PossessionImpliesMastery: Averted. Charlton being in Hyman's body doesn't mean he automatically knows how to travel.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Hyman refuses to teleport around Fillory, since it's falling apart. He ''is'' okay with Charlton taking his body and doing it, though.



* TouchOfDeath: Martin kills Zelda by touching her cheek, causing her to desiccate in seconds.

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* TouchOfDeath: {{Teleportation}}:
** Seb teleports Eliot to the Taker Realm before he opens the door to the Underworld, so he can shut it as soon as Lance comes out.
** Penny (now able to safely teleport) zooms into Fillory to rescue Margo at the last minute.
* TouchOfDeath:
** The dead who come back to the living world have this ability.
** In particular,
Martin kills Zelda by touching her cheek, causing her to desiccate in seconds.


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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Zelda explains to Alice that as long as she understands and accepts herself, only being able to cast with one hand won't hold her back.
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* SuddenlySexuality: Turns out Charlton is into guys (or at least Elliot specifically).
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* UnwantedRescue: Side effects of leaving the Etheric Realm may include unstable behavior, inability to communicate with others, and [[HeroicBSOD catatonia punctuated with sobs of despair]]. Consult your doctor before leaving the Etheric Realm. Do not leave the Etheric Realm if you are allergic to cats.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: When Fogg severs the magical umbilical between Julia and her child, causing the former to start dying, Penny tries to get Plum to change the past. However, Plum reveals that he already asked her this once before, and she burnt out her remaining time travel juice performing a time loop with Jane Chatwin's help. From this, Penny realizes that Fogg's seemingly irrational attacks are because he is also trying to change things.

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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: When Fogg severs the magical umbilical between Julia and her child, causing the former to start dying, Penny tries to get Plum to change the past. However, Plum reveals that he already asked her this once before, and she burnt out her remaining time travel juice performing a time loop with Jane Chatwin's help. From this, Penny realizes that Fogg's seemingly irrational attacks are because he is also trying to change things.things.
* YouAreTooLate: Seb brings Eliot to Purgatory, where he plans to open the door to the Underworld. Eliot thinks Seb, subconsciously or otherwise, is giving Eliot a chance to talk him out of it. Seb then reveals he already cast a spell to open the door that will kick in shortly, and brought Eliot in so he could seal the door as soon as Seb drags Lance out.
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* ApocalypseWow: Fillory being torn apart by its clock running backwards, lava bursting from fissures as the entire continent cracks apart before finally letting out a burst of energy as its dying breath.



* SceneryGorn: Fillory being torn apart by its clock running backwards, lava bursting from fissures as the entire continent cracks apart before finally letting out a burst of energy as its dying breath.

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* AmuletOfDependency: Fogg's insanity is cured by giving him an enchanted cat that stores his craziness while leaving his rational mind intact. Unfortunately, it only works so long as he holds the cat. Fogg finds this annoying because the cat gets hair all over his suits.

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* AmuletOfDependency: AmuletOfDependency:
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Fogg's insanity is cured by giving him an enchanted cat that stores his craziness while leaving his rational mind intact. Unfortunately, it only works so long as he holds the cat. Fogg finds this annoying because the cat gets hair all over his suits.suits.
** To save Julia's life, Penny has their child's magical umbilical bound to himself. This allows him to use his psychic powers once more, but only when holding his child.



* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Fogg 40 is kicked out of the Etheric Realm, crazy from his time there, but gets an enchanted cat to shunt his insanity into. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.

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* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell.spell, and everyone else has no clue where they went. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Fogg 40 is kicked out of the Etheric Realm, crazy from his time there, but gets an enchanted cat to shunt his insanity into. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing her. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed cleanly and the world seed was lost.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing her.Julia. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed cleanly and the world seed was lost.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing her. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly and the world seed was lost.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing her. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly cleanly and the world seed was lost.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing the latter. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly and the world seed was lost.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing the latter.her. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly and the world seed was lost.
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Julia is the second mentioned, therefore the latter.


* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing the former. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly and the world seed was lost.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing the former.latter. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly and the world seed was lost.
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* HijackedByGanon: It turns out that Lance was never Lance, but always Martin Chatwin, who impersonated him and called out to Seb to entice him into opening the door to the afterlife.

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* HijackedByGanon: It turns out that the spirit of Lance calling to Seb was never Lance, but always Martin Chatwin, who impersonated him and called out to Seb to entice him Seb into opening the door to the afterlife.
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* BackForTheFinale: The whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to get caught in the destruction of the Fillory and have his ambitions quickly cut short.

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* BackForTheFinale: The whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to get caught in the destruction of the Fillory and have his ambitions quickly cut short.
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* BackFromTheDead and BackForTheFinale and BackForTheDead: Whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to face the destruction of the Fillory.
* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Fogg 40 is kicked out of etheric realm, crazy, though he gets enchanted cat to shunt his insanity. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.

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* BackFromTheDead and BackForTheFinale and BackForTheDead: Whole BackForTheFinale: The whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to face get caught in the destruction of the Fillory.
Fillory and have his ambitions quickly cut short.
* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Fogg 40 is kicked out of etheric realm, crazy, though he the Etheric Realm, crazy from his time there, but gets an enchanted cat to shunt his insanity.insanity into. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.



* EquivalentExchange: When Psycho-Fogg is trapped in the etheric realm, Fogg 40 is given a boot.

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* EquivalentExchange: When Psycho-Fogg is trapped in Because Kady tricked Fogg 17 into the etheric realm, Etheric Realm last episode, Fogg 40 is given a the boot.
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* BackFromTheDead and BackToTheFinale and BackForTheDead: Whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to face the destruction of the Fillory.

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* BackFromTheDead and BackToTheFinale BackForTheFinale and BackForTheDead: Whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to face the destruction of the Fillory.

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* BackFromTheDead and BackToTheFinale and BackForTheDead: Whole underworld escape scheme is orchestrated by dead Martin Chatwin. He succeeds, briefly, only to face the destruction of the Fillory.



* EquivalentExchange: When Psycho-Fogg is trapped in the etheric realm, Fogg 40 is given a boot.



* SuddenlySexuality: Turns out Charlton is into guys (or at least Elliot).

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* SuddenlySexuality: Turns out Charlton is into guys (or at least Elliot).Elliot specifically).

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* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.

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* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Fogg 40 is kicked out of etheric realm, crazy, though he gets enchanted cat to shunt his insanity. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.



* {{Glamour}}: After gaining Hyman's body, Charlton gets a transfiguration charm from Pete that makes Hyman's body look and feel like Charlton's original form.

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* {{Glamour}}: After gaining Hyman's body, Charlton gets a transfiguration charm with help from Pete figures out Santa's gift to Elliot is a transfigurative charm that makes Hyman's body look and feel like Charlton's original form.



* SuddenlySexuality: Turns out Charlton is into guys (or at least Elliot).



* WillingChanneler: Hyman is so sick of being mortal that he jumps at the chance to willingly vacate his own body so Charlton can inhabit it, his only condition being that Charlton engage in debauchery with the body which Hyman plans to watch.

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* WillingChanneler: Hyman is so sick of being mortal that he jumps at the chance to willingly vacate his own body so Charlton can inhabit it, his only condition being that Charlton engage in debauchery with the his body which Hyman plans to watch.

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* AmuletOfDependency: Fogg's insanity is cured by giving him an enchanted cat that stores his craziness while leaving his rational mind intact. Unfortunately, it only works so long as he holds the cat. Fogg finds this annoying because the cat gets hair all over his suits.



* {{Fingore}}: Martin stops Eliot from sealing the door to the underworld by magically breaking his fingers.
* {{Glamour}}: After gaining Hyman's body, Charlton gets a transfiguration charm from Pete that makes Hyman's body look and feel like Charlton's original form.



* GrowsOnTrees: One feature of the new world built by Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen is that pizza ovens literally grow on trees and dispense pizza. Various other plants growing cooked food, like bacon, are also mentioned.



* PairTheSpares: Charlton, in Hyman's body, but with a charm to look like himself, comes out to Elliot, who's feeling depressed in the end after all his exes' deaths, and they hook up.

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* PairTheSpares: Charlton, in Hyman's body, body but with a charm to look like himself, comes out to Elliot, Eliot, who's feeling depressed in the end after all his exes' deaths, deaths and they hook up.Margo's disappearance. Eliot decides to see where it goes.


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* SceneryGorn: Fillory being torn apart by its clock running backwards, lava bursting from fissures as the entire continent cracks apart before finally letting out a burst of energy as its dying breath.


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* WillingChanneler: Hyman is so sick of being mortal that he jumps at the chance to willingly vacate his own body so Charlton can inhabit it, his only condition being that Charlton engage in debauchery with the body which Hyman plans to watch.
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* PairTheSpares: Charlton, in Hyman's body, but with a charm to look like himself, comes out to Elliot, who's feeling depressed in the end after all his exes' deaths, and they hook up.
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* ContinuityNod: Zelda describes her death as simply moving to another Library branch. As a Librarian, her contract presumably extends for a billion years, just like Penny 40's.


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* HeroicSacrifice:
** Zelda stays behind in the Neitherlands to seal all the portals so the dead will be unable to go anywhere else, reasoning that even if she's killed, it's just a transfer to another Library branch.
** Margo stays behind on Fillory to wind the clock in reverse even though she has no way to escape, but thankfully Penny, his powers restored, pops in to save her at the last second.


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* ShoutOut: Penny, at Josh's request, tells Margo "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Come with me if you want to live!]]" while rescuing her.
* TouchOfDeath: Martin kills Zelda by touching her cheek, causing her to desiccate in seconds.
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'''Season 5, Episode 13'''

!Fillory and Further
With Seb on the cusp of opening the door to the afterlife, the crew rushes to destroy Fillory and create a new world.
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
* BittersweetEnding: Fillory is destroyed and the door to the underworld is sealed again with it, but a new Fillory is created in its place. However, the world seed takes Josh, Alice, Margo, and Fen with it, since they participated in the spell. While the four release Fillory's inhabitants to their new world, Penny, Julia, and their child go looking for them. The Moon is still angry and making things difficult, but people have adapted by hiring Lunatics to monitor her. Eliot is teaching at Brakebills to cope, but he starts up a relationship with Charlton who, in his words, plans to stick around and is emotionally available. Even Seb gets a relatively happy end, as Jane Chatwin saves him by taking him to the Clock Barrens.
* GrandFinale: The final episode of the series.
* HijackedByGanon: It turns out that Lance was never Lance, but always Martin Chatwin, who impersonated him and called out to Seb to entice him into opening the door to the afterlife.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Fogg, still insane from coming back from the Etheric Realm, steals the world seed and roughly severs Julia's connection to her child, nearly killing the former. When they find a way to restore his sanity, he reveals that he did both these things to save them, as he is aware of a previous loop where Julia died from the connection being severed properly and the world seed was lost.
* TheReveal:
** Quentin wasn't the one who found the world seed page. Santa placed it in his desk, knowing Alice would find it and be driven to figure out, getting her out of her rut.
** Martin Chatwin was impersonating Lance to get Seb to open the door to the afterlife.
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: When Fogg severs the magical umbilical between Julia and her child, causing the former to start dying, Penny tries to get Plum to change the past. However, Plum reveals that he already asked her this once before, and she burnt out her remaining time travel juice performing a time loop with Jane Chatwin's help. From this, Penny realizes that Fogg's seemingly irrational attacks are because he is also trying to change things.

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