History Recap / TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeOfTheWorld

** When Luz recalls her encounter with the Collector in Belos' memories, she misremembers their rhyme as "Let's slash and rend and crush and bruise! Let's curse the land in nine bright hues!", when in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E16HollowMind Hollow Mind]]" it was "We'll play forever, me and you, when you paint the land in nine bright hues!". Possibly due to her overt guilt over inadvertently helping them and Belos plan the Day of Unity.

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* {{Protectorate}}: Lilith sends Hooty along with Luz and King for their protection, something he is shown to take very seriously. He is horrified when he thinks Luz lost and arm, expresses concern about letting King be alone with a bunch of strangers, and uses his body to shield them from both the Titan Trappers and a rockslide.

* MakeMeWannaShout: King uses his shouting power once more in the climax to destroy the portal and cut off the Titan Trappers.

--> "But if you think ''Belos'' is evil... you've never seen a live Titan. The children out there haven't either! Don't know a thing about their [[BigEater ravenous appetites]], or their [[MakeMeWannaShout terrible cries]]! Even their babies act like [[SmallNameBigEgo little monarchs]]. The last living Titan... I saw it once, before it disappeared. Its hateful roar blew out my eardrums. How did it go? '[[VerbalTic Weh]]!'"

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt}} Now I am home! Here among my trappings and belongings I belong. And if anybody doubts it,]]'' ''[[TemptingFate they couldn't be more wrong!]]'']]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Titan Trappers seem friendly at first, taking King in and teaching him their ways. But once they learn he's actually a real Titan, they are all too eager to sacrifice him to Collector for their own personal glory.

** The plot of this episode is kicked off when Hooty finally vomits up [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E8KnockKnockKnockinOnHootysDoor the letter to King that he accidentally ate.]]
** Luz gets help from the Captain Salty of the selkiedomus hunting ship in order to reach the portal to the Titan Trappers. The rest of the crew is also mentioned to have left now that he no longer works for the Golden Guard. Luz also wears the sailing hat she wore in that same episode.

--> "But if you think ''Belos'' is evil... you've never seen a live Titan. The children out there haven't either! Don't know a thing about their [[BigEater ravenous appetites]], or their [[MakeMeWannaShout terrible cries]]! Even their babies act like [[SmallNameBigEgo little monarchs]]. The last living Titan... I saw it once, before it disappeared. Its hateful roar blew out my eardrums. How did it go...? '[[VerbalTic Weh]]!'"

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: PlayedForDrama. The Titan Trappers are very proud of their Titan-hunting culture, and Bill boasts to Luz how they exterminated all but one of the "evil" Titan race and how eager they are to finish the job and free the "Grand Huntsman" (actually The Collector) whom they worship as a god. However, Luz and Hooty are rightly horrified, not only by their association with the Collector (who is helping Belos wipe out all witch and demon-kind), but their gleeful genocide of sentient creatures.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: Sacrificing King would’ve freed the Collector without using the Draining Spell, but since that was foiled, the original plan for the Day of Unity still stands.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's a little unclear just how much communication Bill ''actually'' has with the Collector, namely because he is initially willing to help Luz against Belos, who his working with his "god".

** Hooty is in the middle of giving Luz a CoolDownHug when Lilith arrives, and he's so excited by his best friend showing up that he nearly crushes the poor girl.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Luz, King and Hooty sailing back to the Boiling Isles just as the Emperor's Coven surrounds the Owl House with Eda & Lilith still inside.

** The book on titan hunting Bill is shown reading during his introduction was written by [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E12ElsewhereAndElsewhen Flora D'splora]].

* CoolDownHug: When Luz is on the verge of a meltdown due to the guilt of thinking that she's responsible for Belos' rise to power, Eda motions for King and Hooty to give her a hug.

* FinalSolution: Turns out the Titans didn't just go extinct on accident. It was a genocide carried out by the Titan Trappers, spearheaded by The Collector (whom they worship as a god). They're also absolutely giddy to find out King is the last Titan so they can slay him and permanently put an end to the Titan race.

** During their attempts to persuade Eda to let them go on the journey, Hooty asks if anyone can hear the marching on the edge of the forest. While it's completely ignored & immediately forgotten about, the end of the episode reveals that the marching came from the Emperor's Coven who completely surround the house and ready an attack. Eda even predicted that this would happen.

** When Bill offers to show Luz his collection of CoolScars that are older than Belos' reign, he pulls up his jacket to show a distinctly un-fuzzy and human-like torso with said scars. This hints at the reveal that the Titan Trappers are just witches dressed up in Titan costumes to emulate said titans in hopes of luring the last remaining one to them, which they don't realize they've succeeded in doing until Bill hears King's VerbalTic.
** The episode opens with a DreamIntro where King meets his family, only for him to realize it's TooGoodToBeTrue. Later in the episode, this happens for real when King thinks he's found his kind, only for it to turn out they're witches dressed in the pelts and skulls of his species, and that they want to hunt and sacrifice him on top of that.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Because Emperor Belos knows Luz was in his mind and she tells him she's going to tell everyone about what the Day of Unity really is, Eda knows he's going to send the Emperor's Coven to the Owl House to take care of them. At the end of the episode, they've surrounded the Owl House with dozens of soldiers to capture all involved.

** Although she's more composed, Lilith is similarly guilty to learn the truth as well.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By detaching himself from the Owl House, Hooty just left Eda and Lilith vulnerable, and they can’t properly defend the house as the Emperor’s Coven arrived. To be fair, it was Lilith's idea.
* NotAMask: Inverted with the Titan Trappers, who appear to the audience and Luz's group to be King's species, but turn out to be witches wearing costumes like the Titans they hunt. Played straight from their perspective, as they assume King was wearing a really nice titan costume.

* OhCrap: During their meeting, Bill points out that there is only one Titan still alive, describing it as a creature with a ravenous appetite, a [[AGodAmI God Complex]] and a distinctive shout. Upon seeing that they worship the Collector & that the inhabitants are hunters of Titans, Luz & Hooty are completely shocked, realizing that Bill just perfectly described King and instantly leave the room to try & get him off the island.

* SanityBall: Hooty, of all creatures, have it this episode. Not only does he take his job of protecting Luz and King seriously, saving their lives several times, but he expresses concern about letting King be alone with a bunch of strangers, though Luz brushes it off. Needless to say, his concern is proven ''very'' well founded.

* WhamEpisode: King is actually a baby Titan, the Collector has a cult of Titan-hunting witches (what King's supposed family turns out to be) worshiping him and apparently needs a Titan's power to be freed, and the episode ends with the Emperor's Coven about to attack the Owl House.

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: PlayedForDrama. The Titan Trappers are very proud of their Titan-hunting culture, and Bill boasts to Luz how they exterminated all but one of the "evil" Titan race and how eager they are to finish the job and free the "Grand Huntsman" (actually The Collector) whom they worship as a god. However, Luz and Hooty are rightly horrified. Not only by their association with the Collector (who is helping Belos wipe out all witch and demon-kind), but their gleeful genocide of sentient creatures.

* YankTheDogsChain: King thinks that he's finally found his people and bonded with them, even if his father isn't there, and Luz thinks that she's found allies against Belos. Unfortunately, the Titan Trappers are not his people but a witch cult hunting Titans and worshiping the Collector. When their leader realizes that King is the last known living Titan, they try to sacrifice him to free the Collector. And since they are still out there, Luz and King will probably have to face even more enemies in the future.

** The mural apparently depicting King's father heroically fighting off a monstrous creature depicted in the tower walls of "Echoes of the Past" was actually showing a ''Titan Trapper'' apparently in the act of striking down either King's father or another member of his species. Similarly, one of the drawings that depicted said Trapper in a side profile apparently had him [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/different_perspective.png with two curved horns]], but in actuality, that is the collector's ArcSymbol behind the Trapper, with the crack in the mural obscuring the eye portion of the design.