History Recap / TheOwlHouseS2E3EchoesOfThePast

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: This is the first episode where Lilith calls Luz by her name, having previously only addressed her as "Human" and "Teacher".

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Luz implies a NoodleIncident where if Eda is left alone, she ends up drinking too much apple blood, the last time the group needing to pry her off of the roof.
* TheAllegedCar: Since Luz took Owlbert, Eda has to follow on a decrepit flying bathtub with a propeller.

* BaitAndSwitch: After seeing the carvings of what looks like a larger and more powerful King, Lilith and Hooty start to think that King might really ''have'' been the King of Demons. While Eda later clarifies that King wasn't the powerful figure in the murals, and that she merely found him there eight years ago with his memories of kinghood being fragments of infantile memories conflated with tales of royalty Eda told him, the end of the episode reveals that the figure was likely King's ''father'' or ancestor instead, implying that King might actually ''be'' demon royalty.

* CerebusRetcon: King's delusions of being the "King of Demons" throughout the first season were hilarious, but this episode makes them heartwrenching when it was all King really ever knew and believed.

* CongruentMemory: King's earliest memories become much clearer when he returns to where they happened and put his broken horn back in place.

** When King asks Luz if Lilith is being blackmailed by Hooty to be nice to him, she responds they have become friends, in reference to "Separate Tides".

* EyeScream: Lilith and Hooty sharing a high five results in Lilith giving Hooty a black eye.

** When first telling our heroes about the events that took place after he lost power, King narrates how he woke up in Eda's arms who carried him off "like a widdle baby". Later, we learn that wasn't a metaphor, as King really was but a little baby when Eda first met him.

** When the gang first arrived in the ruins, Jean-Luc only swiped at Luz who was holding King, but didn't swipe at King and ignored Lilith and Hooty until they started attacking it, which is further foreshadowing that its purpose was to protect King.
** When King first starts giving Luz a tour of his castle, he claims the enemies hearts that he devoured tasted cold and bitter. The next shot is of a fly buzzing away from a little statue, which is a subtle hint that his real memory was eating bitter little bugs he found in the ruin.

* GeneHunting: After realizing that the larger figure in the murals was likely his father (or potentially his ancestor) King decides to try and find him if he's still out there.

* LandmarkOfLore: The temple on the island where Eda found King is older than recorded history and has Mesoamerican-style wall-art depicting a colossal horned skull-headed demon -- who King assumes to be himself but is revealed to be either his father or a more distant ancestor -- being worshiped and battling foes such as a [[Creator/HRGiger Gigeresque]] dragon-like monster. Lilith is awestruck by this discovery, as it changes everything the Witches think they know about the world in which they live.

* LivingRelic: King himself is a descendant of a creature far more ancient that long predates Emperor Belos himself.
* LostWorld: The island that Eda originally found King is unlike any other part of the Boiling Isles. It is completely shrouded in mist, the jungle is too thick to fly through, the temple is covered in murals and carvings of unknown origin and is guarded by a shapeshifting, robot-like demon that only listens to King. Whatever it is, no one on the Boiling Isles (save for everyone in the Owl House) knows about it. Lilith -- who was a member of the Emperor's Coven with vast knowledge of the Isle's history -- is at a complete loss at what she's looking at.

** Luz reveals that the last time they left Eda alone, the latter drunk so much apple blood, that they had to pry her off of the roof.
** This isn't the first time King tried to go back to his island where he was found by Eda if the latter's reaction is any indication.
* OhNoNotAgain: Apparently, King has attempted to find his kingdom before, given Eda's reaction of these exact words.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: After finding the place he hatched in, King realizes that his recollection of being "shrunk" was actually him as a puppy falling down a hole, that his "subjects" were built by him out of random objects, that his "feasts" were whatever food he could find, and that the memory of his lost "crown" was based on the loss of one of his horns.
* OpinionFlipFlop: After taking a look at the murals on the temple wall, Lilith and Hooty (who had been mocking King's claims from the start) start to think that King really is a ruler of demons. Both immediately start talking to him with far more respect and reverence, Hooty cowing to his authority, Lilith trying to pry historical information.

-->'''Hooty:''' Special delivery: '''Pain!'''

* TheReveal: King isn't actually a monster dictator reduced to SealedEvilInATeddyBear, but a monster child Eda found in a temple who took her play-talk to heart. Although, [[TheUnreveal this clearly isn't the end of the story since said temple was built to house his egg and filled with sentinels to guard him, ancient writing in a language Lilith is unfamiliar with, and murals of a larger member of his species (once presumed to be him, now presumed to be his father) that predates even Emperor Belos]]. King determines that his father will have the answers about who or what King really is, and resolves to find him.

** Jean-Luc's sinewy body and ceiling crawl resemble a [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Licker]]. He's also presumably named after film theorist Jean-Luc Godard (as King's stuffed toy is [[ThemeNaming named]] "François", as in fellow film François Truffault).

** Jean-Luc's sinewy body and ceiling crawl resemble a [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Licker]].

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** One of King's plushies resembles [[VideoGame/HollowKnight the Knight]].

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Hooty delivers one when he and Lilith distract Jean-Luc.

* FreakOut: After King learns from Eda that he isn't actually the King of Demons, he is breakdown at realizing everything he thought he knew about himself was a lie and that everyone was playing along with his delusions. He runs off in tears, later despairing to Luz that he's a nobody.

** Luz discovers an invisibility spell that is a combination of three glyphs, though we're not show what glyphs are used to make it.

* TheUnreveal: Though we do get a lot of information, we still don't know who King's father is, nor what the carvings and markings in the temple actually mean. King determines that he needs to find his father to get some answers about who and what he is.

* ShoutOut: One of King's plushies resembles [[VideoGame/HollowKnight the Knight]].

* AppropriatedAppelation: King took on his name after Eda noted his habit of constructing friends out of whatever was at hand made him look like "a king amongst his subjects."

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: This is the first episode where Lilith calls Luz by her name, having previously only addressed her as "Human".

* FluffyTheTerrible: The terrifying guardian is named "Jean-Luc" by King.

** When first telling our heroes about the events that took place after he lost power, he narrates how he woke up in Eda's arms and carried him off "like a widdle baby". Later, we learn that wasn't metaphor, as King really was but a little baby when she first met him.

* FreakOut: After King learns from Eda that he isn't actually the King of Demons, he has a breakdown at realizing everything he thought he knew about himself was a lie and that everyone was playing along with his delusions. He runs off in tears, later despairing to Luz that he's a nobody.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The potion that's thrown at Jean-Luc's face has note depicting a doodle of Eda making an EyelidPullTaunt face, signed "From Eda".

* CerebusRetcon: King's delusions of being the "King of Demons" throughout the first season were hilarious, but this episode makes them heartwrenching when it all King really ever knew and believed.

--> '''King:''' Ah, my kingdom. I, uh...I've got some bone dust in my eye.

* TakeOurWordForIt: The audience doesn't see Hooty remove himself from the door, but judging from the others' reactions, [[GoryDiscretionShot it's an unsettling sight]].

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: ''Baby King''.

* CongruentMemory: King's earliest memories become much clearer when he returns to where they happened and put his broken back in place.

* {{Squick}}: InUniverse, Luz, Lilith, and King are highly grossed out by the sight of Hooty removing himself from the door to the Owl House. We [[TakeOurWordForIt thankfully don't see it]], but Luz in particular struggles not to vomit.