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1	'''Season 1, Episode 10: Ty's Tail Tale'''
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4	!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
5	* BewareMyStingerTail: After his curse is removed, Tyrannis grows a scorpion tail just like Shlub's. At first he wants it removed, but when he stings Asskill with it to get him to give back the livestock he stole, Tyrannis begins to get DrunkWithPower and threaten others with the tail to get them to obey.
6	* TheCorrupter: Tyrannis goes drunk with power once he sees the authority the threat of his scorpion tail grants him, illustrated by his own reflection tempting him. When Shlub confronts him on his actions, Tyrannis tries goading him into giving into his worse impulses as well.
7	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The curse put on Tyrannis was to be born deformed. As the child of [[OurManticoresAreSpinier Shlub]], being born with no tail counts as deformed. Shlub even calls his son handsome upon first seeing him with the tail and explicitly says his son looks less freakish to him now that he has it.
8	* EvilSoundsDeep: Tyrannis's tail/reflection speaks to him in a notably deeper voice than his own.
9	* ExactWords: Deliria warns Stupendous and Hippocampus not to ride the Pegasus. When they find it, they decide to free it, since Deliria never said anything about setting it free. [[SubvertedTrope Then they decide that since it's free now, they can go ahead and ride it.]]
10	* FreudianExcuse: Shlub is such an unflappable MellowFellow that raises his kids through hands-off parenting because he wants to be the exact opposite of his father, a literally and figuratively monstrous ControlFreak.
11	* HellishHorse: The unicorns and the Pegasus are depicted as monstrous creatures that act as bees and attack and kill humans.
12	* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: A Pegasus is depicted here as a horrible monster that's the hive queen of a horde of man-eating unicorns, but its milk is so delicious that after experiencing its horror Stupendous immediately agrees that it's WorthIt.
13	* {{Irony}}: Shlub's father cursed the unborn Tyrannis to be deformed, which for a child born to a monster means being born a perfectly normal human. Tyrannis is shocked that getting the curse removed makes him grow a scorpion tail.
14	* KeystoneArmy: Once Deliria takes out the Pegasus, all the unicorns that share a HiveMind with it immediately stop moving and collapse.
15	* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: Tyrannis' reflection starts encouraging him to use his new tail to intimidate others and gain power. Schlub HangsALampshade after overhearing him by warning him that talking to his reflection is a sign that he's gone off the deep end.
16	* OneDoseFitsAll: Averted with the unicorn venom. Stupendous regains movement enough to fight and kill after hours at most. Hippocampus explicitly says that the difference in size between the two means that he'll need a week to be able to shake his head.
17	* OurHumansAreDifferent: Deliria discusses with Tyrannis how all of humanity is descended from gods and monsters.
18	* OurUnicornsAreDifferent: Unicorns in this episode are depicted as carnivorous creatures that are born from a Pegasus that acts as the queen bee in a hive by laying eggs. In fact, their whole cave looks like the inside of a beehive.
19	* ShownTheirWork: A lot of ancient depictions of unicorns depict them as vicious animals that kill humans without mercy. UnicornsPreferVirgins was born of a belief that virgins were the only humans pure enough to not anger them.

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