History Recap / VoltronLegendaryDefenderS1E04TheFallOfTheCastleOfLions

--> '''Sendak:''' I see you spent some time with the druids. They do love to experiment. Too bad you didn't get the ''latest'' model.

* WhatTheHellHero: Pidge gets this from Keith for wanting to leave the team, especially given that replacing a Paladin isn't a trivial task.

* WhatTheHellHero: Pidge gets this from Keith for wanting to leave the team, especially given that replacing a Paladin isn't a trivial task.
* WaitWhat: Allura has this response when Pidge says she's leaving Team Voltron.

** Locks Allura and Keith out of the castle due to a diversion--setting the Arusian village on fire!
** Even though Pidge is devising a plan to get Allura and Keith back into the castle, Sendak still has Shiro and Lance as hostages, with Lance in dire need of medical attention. Oh and if Coran and Hunk can't make it back with a replacement Balmera crystal in time, the castle is on a one-way trip to ''Zarkon himself''.

* DieHardOnAnX: The episode is largely "Die Hard on a captured Altean castle." Pidge is alone in the castle (other than the other two paladins who are used as hostages), infiltrating and taking on a superior force (largely through use of air ducts, no less).

* RefusalOfTheCall: When everyone gives Pidge a hard time about wanting to leave, she points out she never ''asked'' to taken from her home to be a Defender of the Universe.

* TastesLikeFeet: Lance thinks that Nunvil "tastes like hot-dog water and feet".
* TakingTheBullet: A variation of this. The moment Lance realizes there's a bomb about to go off mere feet away from them, Lance's immediate reaction is to shove Coran down so he doesn't get hurt. The result is Lance taking a massive brunt of the explosion and being out of commission for awhile. Lucky for him, he gets better after a few episodes.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Allura after finding out Pidge's secret tries to get her to open up, namely by talking about all the things they have in common, among them having fathers lost to the Galra Empire. Pidge remarks that the difference is [[KickTheDog she's going to find her father]]. She then immediately apologizes knowing how insensitive that sounds.

* WhatTheHellHero: Pidge gets this from everyone for wanting to leave the team, especially given that replacing a Lion pilot isn't a trivial task.

* WhatTheHellHero: Pidge gets this from everyone for wanting to leave the team, especially given that replacing a Lion pilot isn't a trivial task.

As the crew begin to prepare the castle to launch, the mice reveal some secrets to Allura, including the fact that Pidge is a female. Allura tries to get Pidge to confess to this, but she instead confesses that she plans on leaving Team Voltron to find her father and brother by herself. Meanwhile, Commander Sendak is still active on the planet, and devises a plan to infiltrate and capture The Castle of Lions.

** Even though Pidge is devising a plan to get Allura and Keith back into the castle, Sendak still has Shiro and Lance as hostages, with Lance in dire need of a medical pod.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Everyone begins to realize in various degrees that they are this to various degrees. Lance wonders where Earth even is and Coran helpfully shows him. Even on a star map zoomed out to galactic scale, it takes him quite a while to scroll over from Arus to Earth.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: Sendak destroys the Castle's power crystal, and replaces it with a Galran power crystal, which powers it back up while also changing all blue lighting purple.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The fact that Pidge was preparing to leave as the power to the castle was shut down leaves her ship as the only one capable of leaving the Castle to get help.