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2[[caption-width-right:350:[[OpeningScroll It was a dark time for Greendale...]]]]
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4->''"Greendale students: I understand you've unified and intend to draw this game out. Well, if it's a war you want, it's a war you will lose. City College is stronger, faster; our sperm counts are higher, even in our women. Resistance is as pointless as your degrees."''
5-->-- '''Dean Spreck'''
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7[[WarWasBeginning Greendale is at war]]. The school has been all but destroyed by its own students, all playing paintball to win the $100,000 prize offered by Pistol Patty's Ice Creamery. But "Pistol Patty" is really Dean Spreck of City College, who has [[EvilPlan unleashed this scheme]] to destroy the Greendale campus and has employed ringers such as the Black Rider and his stormtrooper-esque White Clones -- all of whom have been enrolled at Greendale for weeks -- to ensure he doesn't have to pay out the prize. The only hope for saving the school is for one of its students to win the prize and donate it to the school, so the Study Group assembles a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag bunch of misfit students]] to fight back, stop Dean Spreck and save Greendale Community College.
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10!! The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "For A Few Paintballs More" provides examples of:
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12* ActionGirl: Britta, Shirley and Annie do a lot of impressive paintball feats for a bunch of ordinary college students. Especially the former two, who are the last Greendale Students standing (besides Pierce) and fire at City College troops from a golf cart in the climax.
13* AffectionateParody: Of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' model of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits resisting TheEmpire. It's instead a bunch of community college students resisting their rival school in a do-or-die paintball war.
14* AirVentPassageway: Would've been attempted by Troy's squad, had Garrett not gotten stuck in the duct.
15* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Annie is attracted to Abed's LovableRogue [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]-type character and is visibly bummed when he drops the impersonation.
16* AlmostDeadGuy: After JumpingOnAGrenade to save the rest of the rebels, Magnitude croaks out half of his catchphrase as Troy sobs over his body, begging him to complete it.
17* AloofAlly: Abed takes the role of Han Solo so Jeff wouldn't beat him to it.
18* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Greendale students rejoice after Shirley wins the competition. And again after Pierce wins it for real and promises the money to Greendale.
19* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Pierce comments that it took the study group two years to kick him out, Spreck fires back, "What took them so long?"
20* AttackDrone: City College sends a bomb attached to a remote-controlled car to the Greendale students' classroom hideout. Doubles as a SurveillanceDrone, since Jeff picks it up and uses it to communicate with Spreck.
21* AsLongAsThereIsOneMan: DoubleSubverted. Under heavy fire from the enemy troops, Jeff gives an inspiring speech to Quendra with a QU, telling her that City College might take out most of their troops, but someone will carry the fight to the end. He is then taken out by a Stormtrooper and shrugs off the loss, walking off the quad. Britta ends up being the last person on the field and visibly hesitates to charge... [[BigDamnHeroes before Shirley arrives in a golf cart]] and the two of them go for the win.
22* BadassDriver: Shirley drives an increasingly paint-splattered golf cart all the way to the enemy stronghold. She, essentially, single-handedly saves Jeff's plan when it fails.
23* BatmanGambit: The entirety of the previous episode is revealed to be one of these by Dean Spreck of City College. Spreck sponsored the Spring Fling as "Pistol Patty", and offered the $100,000 cash prize, knowing the students would turn on each other and trash the school, and knowing full and well that the Greendale wouldn't have the money to fix it.
24* BigBad: Dean Spreck orchestrated the whole plan in order to destroy Greendale.
25* BigDamnHeroes: When Britta is cornered by enemy troops and at a loss for what to do, Shirley triumphantly arrives in a golf cart and the two of them save Jeff's plan. The two of them are then taken out by the last two Stormtroopers...who are ''then'' taken out by Pierce Hawthorne.
26* TheBigDamnKiss: Parodied. Abed and Annie have a NowOrNeverKiss when cornered by Stormtroopers in the library just before Shirley pulls the fire alarm rigged with paint. The two are then bathed in paint, evoking a [[RomanticRain kiss in the rain]] intercut with Troy's RedemptionInTheRain as triumphant music swells. Then Abed drops the LovableRogue act and walks away, visibly disappointing Annie.
27* BigStupidDoodooHead: While improvising banter with Abed, Annie can only come up with "no-good, laser-faced, jabba scoundrel".
28* BittersweetEnding: Pierce wins the paintball competition and decides to donate the money to repair the school, but he comes to a decision to quit the Study Group.
29* BlackDudeDiesFirst:
30** Averted, since a nameless student is the first to get taken out by the Stormtroopers (however, Magnitude is the first named character to "die").
31** Also inverted in that Shirley ends up being the last full-time Greendale student to get taken out.
32* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jeff's plan to take out City College is to storm their Gatling gun in the courtyard and take it out. The problem is that this plan is a SuicideMission. Troy retorts that if they set off the sprinklers after luring the City College Stormtroopers to the library, he can get them all at once. This is also a SuicideMission for anyone left inside. Annie tells them to TakeAThirdOption and for Greendale's rebels to engage in ''both'' plans at once. It works in getting rid of most of the Stormtroopers except for the ones holding Pierce hostage.
33** Troy's plan would have worked had Garrett not gotten stuck in the vent, thereby blocking the Greendale team's exit route.
34* BrickJoke:
35** Throughout the first half of the episode, Jeff fights with Troy over leadership of the resistance. The Dean even believes that Jeff will be the one to save the day. Guess who's the first member of the study group who gets eliminated?
36** Early on, Leonard interprets "Hit 'em where it hurts" to mean "Just below their balls." Later, when getting ready to fight, his BattleCry is "Let's kick some taint."
37%%* BulletTime
38* CallBack: Oh boy...
39** [[Recap/CommunityS1E20TheScienceOfIllusion Shirley's driving]].
40** [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage Troy's super-plumbing abilities]], and the return of the janitor.
41** [[Recap/CommunityWebisodes The poster of]] [[Creator/DanHarmon Dean of Admissions Pat Isakson]].
42** [[Recap/CommunityS2E12AsianPopulationStudies Quendra with a Q-U]] returns briefly.
43** This is a bit more subtle, but [[Recap/CommunityS2E09ConspiracyTheoriesAndInteriorDesign as previously shown]], it's really easy for someone to mess with the school's application system so that the City College students could double as Greendale students. In fact, that's how Chang got involved with [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare the original paintball tournament]].
44* TheCameo: Busy Phillips and Dan Byrd from ''Series/CougarTown'' are seen briefly among the extras after Greendale wins. It's a CallBack to the episode where Abed says he was a background extra on the set of that show.
45* CameraAbuse: The camera screen gets paint on it during an action scene.
46* ChekhovsBoomerang: Pierce's [[WoundedGazelleGambit fake heart-attack ploy]] comes in handy once again.
47* ChekhovsSkill: Super-plumbing. Troy uses it to take out the main Stormtrooper forces within the school.
48* CollectiveGroan: Everyone groans when Abed says they've now entered a ''Franchise/StarWars'' motif.
49* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
50** "Pop what, Magnitude? Pop WHAT?"
51** Abed didn't understand that no one likes the Franchise/StarWars genre shift.
52* ConflictKiller: After City College's sinister plan is revealed, virtually all of Greendale's true students band together and agree that whoever wins will give the prize money to the school to repair the damage done by the game.
53* CueTheFallingObject: The last scene at the study room where everyone watches in silence after Pierce announced his resignation. Then a piece of furniture drops from the ceiling.
54* CurbStompCushion: Though he's the first one out, Jeff comes up with a viable plan to storm the Paintball Gatling gun and even gets in a few shots at the Stormtroopers manning it.
55* DareToBeBadass: Jeff prepping his team mates before [[StormingTheCastle Storming the Machine Gun]].
56* DarkestHour: Jeff's party is down to two fighters and Abed's group is surrounded with no bullets left. Cue Shirley's BigDamnHeroes moment.
57* DecoyProtagonist: The Dean and Jeff himself believe he is the hero of the story. Turns out Jeff is the first of the study group to 'die'. Really any of the other members could make a better argument for being the protagonist. The day, however, is saved by Pierce and Shirley, the last two standing.
58* DramaticUnmask: How Dean Spreck reveals himself as Pistol Patty.
59* DressingAsTheEnemy: Pierce at the end dresses as troopers and pretends to be on their side. Then he backstabs them.
60* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Parodied. Jeff gives an inspiring speech and prepares to make a LastStand... and is anticlimactically taken out with a paintball.
61--> '''Jeff''': Well, I'm out. We lost.
62* EvilGloating: A confused Dean Pelton needs Dean Spreck to do this:
63-->Now, I understand ''everything''! Now your whole evil plan is as ''clear as day''!\
64(pause)\
65But if you need to explain it to your men I will understand!
66* EvilPlan: Dean Spreck explains his plan to the Dean. Troy and Abed are [[ExactEavesDropping around to overhear everything]].
67* FaceDeathWithDignity: Troy's calm demeanor before being riddled with bullets.
68* FacelessGoons: Dean Spreck's mooks are dressed in white paintball armor. It allows Pierce to win the game for Greendale.
69* FaceNodAction: Abed and Troy have exchange nods before going on their SuicideMission against the troopers.
70* FaintInShock: The Dean has spent the entire episode trying to ensure that he won't have to pay out the paintball prize. He faints when Pierce announces that the award money should go to Greendale.
71* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Magnitude says that he works alone. A few seconds later, he goes out JumpingOnAGrenade to save his classmates from the onslaught of paint.
72* GatlingGood: The enemy "stronghold" is a paintball machine gun that puts the Greendale students at a massive disadvantage.
73* GenreShift: From [[TheWestern Western]] to "Rebels vs. TheEmpire", as mentioned above. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. (By meta-guy Abed, of course.)
74* GoldenMeanFallacy: From the way that both plans develop, it becomes clear that trying to do both renders each too weak to succeed. They only end up succeeding because Pierce is a MagnificentBastard.
75* HeroicSacrifice: Magnitude is the first of the rebels out because he jumps on a paintball grenade to ensure no one else gets hit.
76-->"Pop... p..."
77* HiddenVillain: At the start of the episode Pistol Patty is revealed to be Dean Spreck from the rival City College.
78* HisNameIs: Magnitude dies trying to cite his catchphrase.
79-->'''Troy''': "Pop? Pop what? What is he trying to say? Pop what, Magnitude?!"
80* HollywoodTactics: Jeff's plan to frontally assault a [[MoreDakka machine gun]] is called out as stupid, until Annie suggests combining it with Troy's plan to lure most of the goons away to the library.
81* AHouseDivided: Dean Spreck's evil plan was for Greendale students to turn on each other and destroy the campus.
82* HypocriticalHumor:
83** Troy interrupting Jeff's "Greendale on three!" at the count of two, insisting every second counts, only to proclaim "Greendale on two!" and starting the count again.
84** Towards the end, we get this.
85---> '''Jeff''': They can kill most of us, but as long as nobody gives up, somebody will make it through. Understand?\
86'''Quendra''': Yes.\
87 '''Jeff''': ''Charge''! (''gets shot'') Well, I'm out. We lost.
88* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The City College Stormtroopers make their kills through sheer weight of numbers (and a conveniently placed Paintball turret) rather than anything approaching accuracy.
89* IronicEcho: Within the space of ten seconds.
90-->'''Stormtrooper 1:''' [''reading from a poster on a door:''] "Welcome to Greendale: you're already accepted"?\
91'''Stormtrooper 2:''' Pfft. Losers.\
92[''The Stormtroopers get shot through the poster by Annie and Abed.'']\
93'''Stormtrooper 1:''' What the?!\
94'''Annie:''' Welcome to Greendale.\
95'''Abed:''' You're already dead.
96* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Parodied. As Jeff hypes up his team for a high-risk paintball mission:
97-->'''Jeff:''' Greendale, it's been a pleasure fighting with you. Some of us won't make it. But there is a place where we will all see each other again... and that place is Denny's.
98* ItsBeenDone: Annie and everyone else consider the idea of a ''Franchise/StarWars'' WholePlotReference played-out.
99* ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing: Pierce, among everyone else, is the one who could write a check for Greendale to repair the damages without blinking an eye. He wins anyway because it's more that City College was trying to humiliate Greendale by turning them into a bunch of paintball savages. As Jeff once put it, Greendale is ''their'' public toilet.
100* JumpingOnAGrenade: After scoffing at the idea of an alliance, Magnitude heroically jumps on a paint grenade to save the rest of the "rebels".
101* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Invoked when the Dean learns his rival planned everything. He claims to suddenly understand the entire plan, "but if you need to explain it to your men, I understand." Spreck obliges, explaining that he set up the contest to destroy Greendale.
102* LaResistance: The remains of the Greendale students.
103* TheLeader: Troy and Jeff squabble over the role, with Troy as a clear Type III and Jeff lampshading his role. They both end up being a DecoyProtagonist.
104* LeeroyJenkins: Vickieeeeee!!!! She goes charging just as Jeff is trying to figure out how to effectively storm the ice-cream truck. He goes with it and charges.
105* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: A {{Downplayed}} example. There are definitely a number of references to ''Franchise/StarWars'' in this episode: Pistol Patty's entrance referencing Darth Vader's, the opening crawl, and Abed playing Han Solo. However it mostly plays off the general idea of ''Franchise/StarWars'': a RagtagBunchOfMisfits fighting TheEmpire.
106%%* MissionBriefing: Done on TheBigBoard.
107%%* MoreDakka: See ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy.
108* MrFanservice: Much like Jeff in [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare "Modern Warfare"]], Troy spends the whole episode in a [[SleevesAreForWimps muscle shirt]].
109* MsFanservice: Take all of the Creator/AlisonBrie fanservice from the previous episode and combine it with ClothingDamage and being covered in paint.
110* MultipleGunshotDeath: Troy gets riddled with bullets from the troopers.
111* NearVillainVictory: Just as Shirley gloats about being the FinalGirl, several Stormtroopers that were hiding shoot her. Then the Dean cheers that he won. Thanks to Pierce, the final Stormtroopers are gunned down.
112* NonIndicativeTitle: Like the previous episode, the episode title refers to a spaghetti Western. ''Unlike'' the previous episode, the actual episode isn't a Western pastiche in the least.
113* NoodleIncident: Leonard is anxious to clarify which Denny's the participants plan to meet up at after the game.
114-->'''Jeff''': We'll figure it out later, Leonard.\
115'''Leonard''': Uh, the one near the 15 exit -- [[PersonaNonGrata I'm banned from there]].
116* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: Pierce shoots the last two White Clones at the end.
117* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Invoked. Abed, having patterned his role this time around [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]], says he's not in the alliance to save Greendale. Apparently, he is OnlyInItForTheMoney.
118* NowOrNeverKiss: Abed and Annie make out after they've both run out of ammo and are about to be eliminated.
119* ObligatoryEarpieceTouch: Troy and Jeff touch their ear while communicating over their earpieces.
120* OhCrap: Troy upon being face-to-face with a squadron of Stormtroopers:
121-->'''Troy:''' I had a dream it would end this way.
122* OldSoldier: Leonard:
123-->"Britta, I've been in a few real wars. This one is actually the most terrifying."
124* OnlySaneMan: The tag reveals that, for perhaps obvious reasons, the janitor is much less taken with the idea of the paintball war than the rest of the school.
125* OpeningScroll: It's about four sentences long.
126-->"Let's not draw this out."
127* OperationBlank: An increasingly passive-aggressive iteration between Jeff and Troy.
128-->'''Troy:''' Operation Troy's Awesome Plan is living up to its name!\
129'''Jeff:''' Squad B, commencing Operation Actual Operation.
130* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: Jeff and Troy have two different plans on to how to defeat City College. Annie merges them into one.
131* OrangeBlueContrast: The final scene has this colouring all over the place, and it looks awesome. Annie, Abed and Troy have white clothes which have been stained with orange paint from the sprinkles, while Jeff, Britta and Pierce are dressed in blue of various shades.
132* OutrunTheFireball: Outrun The Shower of Paint -- Shirley after pulling the fire alarm.
133* PaintballEpisode: The paintball war from the previous episode continues in this SeriesFinale.
134* ParallelConflictSequence: A standard editing technique from the ''Star Wars'' films is referenced when the scenes cut between Tory's and Jeff's mission.
135* PersonaNonGrata: Leonard was apparently banned from a specific Denny's, though [[NoodleIncident it's never revealed why]].
136* PreAsskickingOneLiner: The end of the game.
137-->'''Stormtrooper:''' Who are you?\
138'''Pierce:''' Your mother's lover. (shoots him)
139* TheQuisling: Pierce offers to give any information about Jeff Winger to Dean Spreck in exchange for not being shot. They turn out to be only things that Pierce made up to make Jeff seem gay, and not anything of real tactical value. [[GoodAllAlong Since he betrays City College in the end, this was probably intentional.]]
140* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The study group and other Greendale students have to band together to fight the City College invasion.
141* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Shirley and Britta each give each other really nasty ones in a deleted scene after Britta catches Shirley trying to 'kill' herself on purpose so that she can go home.
142* RedemptionInTheRain: Troy ''welcomes'' the rain of orange paint from sprinklers with his arms open, smiling happily and looking relieved that the plan worked.
143* RedShirtArmy: Jeff leads a band of scrappy students along with Britta and a few recurring characters against the ice cream truck. They are all summarily taken out except for Britta.
144* RememberTheNewGuy: Paradox, the British student dressed like a hobo who contradicts everybody. Fitting name, as the trope itself is very paradoxical.
145* ResetButton: Unlike the previous paintball story, averted; the tag of the episode features the school janitor looking forward to a long summer of arduously cleaning all the paint away. He is about as thrilled with this as you'd expect.
146* RomanticRain: Annie and Abed (who has been channeling Han Solo) kiss while the orange paint falls on them from the sprinklers.
147* SceneryGorn: They ''really'' trashed the school.
148* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Since Spreck is technically sponsoring the event, he makes it so that if someone gets paint on them, they're out rather than just getting hit by a paintball gun. Which Troy makes the most of by filling the school's sprinkler system with paint and employs a BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame trope.
149* SeasonFinale: The second one.
150* SelfDeprecation:
151** Creator/DanHarmon shows up on an admissions poster and is called a loser.
152** At the end of the episode, Britta suggested that they take Anthro 201 next semester, and Abed said it was too risky because 'sequels are always disappointing'. This can both be a reference to the Star Wars franchise, and the episode itself, which was a sequel to a SequelEpisode.
153* SeriousBusiness:
154** Paintball was ''already'' SeriousBusiness at Greendale, but somehow this episode managed to make it even serious-er.
155** Dean Spreck apparently believes that the City College / Greendale College rivalry is so important that [[DisproportionateRetribution Greendale needs to be utterly destroyed.]]
156* ShipSinking: Annie and Abed have good chemistry throughout the episode, even getting a NowOrNeverKiss, only for Abed to promptly shoot it down once he's finished playing the Han Solo role.
157* ShoutOut:
158** LiteraryAllusionTitle: The episode title is taken from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.
159** There's the ''Franchise/StarWars'' WholePlotReference, of course... Although it's downplayed; apart from Abed taking on the Han Solo role and forcing the issue, there are actually relatively few direct references to any of the ''Star Wars'' movies as everyone else considers the idea hackneyed and played out. The episode as a whole plays out in a more general 'underdog rebels vs. an evil invading [[TheEmpire empire]]' way.
160** A subtler ''Star Wars'' shout out is the fact that the City College soldiers call each other "White Clones". The Stormtroopers are dressed in white, and are all clones.
161** To war movies. Britta sees people getting "killed" in slow motion like ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''. Troy poses like Creator/WillemDafoe in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''.
162** "Welcome to Greendale. [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar You're already dead"]].
163** Both Jeff's plan and Troy's refer to the climaxes of films: Troy's is to ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' (Holy water in the sprinklers killing vampires), and Jeff's is to the classic Western ''Film/TheWildBunch'' (where the climax involves charging a machine-gun nest)
164** Dean Spreck's intercom speech (this page's quote, in fact) is a nod to the female radio DJ from ''Film/TheWarriors'' who provided both coded messages to New York's gangs and plot summary to the audience, complete with a replicated close shot of the lower half of Spreck's face speaking into a microphone. His cadence is even similar.
165* ShutUpGunshot: Annie uses this trope to make herself heard during a heated debate.
166* SkewedPriorities: "Dammit, Shirley! Forget about your newborn baby and focus on the people who need you!"
167* SoreLoser: Jeff does not react well to being the first person eliminated in the final battle, stomping off in a huff immediately after.
168* SpecialEditionTitle: ''Franchise/StarWars'' themed!
169* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: Everyone is celebrating Shirley's victory until a bullet strikes her InTheBack.
170* TelepathicSprinklers: Shirley tips the fire alarm and the sprinklers turn on all over the place.
171* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: The only rule of this year's paintball game is that one person will win the $100000 grand prize.
172* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Troy is taken out by a squad of enemy mooks who serve him an extended MultipleGunshotDeath.
173* TookALevelInBadass:
174** Vicki was scared to leave the fort in the previous episode. Here, she was the first to charge the ice cream truck.
175** Britta, usually the GranolaGirl ButtMonkey of the group, does most of the shooting in Shirley's final assault on the ice cream truck, and is the one who takes out the "machine gunner".
176** Inverted with Jeff. After winning the first season PaintballEpisode, he is next to useless throughout the entire A Fistful of Paintballs/For a Few Paintballs More two-parter. He doesn't unambiguously manage to shoot anyone, and the only possible kills he makes onscreen are in the charge on the gatling gun, where he fires wildly with Chang's automatic paintball gun, and a few mooks get hit. Even then they might have been shot by one of the others.
177* ToppledStatue: The paintball troops pull down the statue of Luis Guzman on the campus.
178* TrashTheSet: Whatever didn't get wrecked the last episode gets properly destroyed here.
179%%* TheUnfought: Dean Spreck.
180* WaistcoatOfStyle: Abed makes Star-Burns give his vest up to so Abed can better look like ''Franchise/StarWars'''s Han Solo. He gives it to Annie at the end as a memento of their paintball partnership, only for her to realize that Star-Burns stinks.
181-->'''Abed:''' He uses some kind of crystal instead of deodorant.
182* WeNeedADistraction: Troy and his group successfully lure troopers off the ice cream truck so Jeff's group has better chances at attacking it.
183* WhamLine:
184-->'''Pierce:''' No thanks, I'm done with you guys.
185* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Star-Burns is shown as part of Troy's team, but vanishes partway through the operation with no explanation due to his 'death' scene being cut.
186* WhatTheHellHero: Pierce calls the group out on their treatment of him.
187* WoundedGazelleGambit: Pierce. It's ambiguous whose side he'll be on all episode, and then when he's left alone with a Stormtrooper, "HHNNNNNNNG!"
188* YouAreAlreadyDead: Almost word-for-word to a couple of City College soldiers.
189-->'''Soldier 1:''' Welcome to Greendale, you're already accepted?\
190'''Soldier 2:''' ''(laughs)'' Losers.\
191'''Annie:''' ''(after both have been shot'') [[IronicEcho Welcome to Greendale.]]\
192'''Abed:''' You're already dead.
193* YourMom: Pierce's PreAsskickingOneLiner before taking out the last two enemy soldiers: "I'm your mother's lover."
194%%* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Twice. One during the paintball game, and one at the end of the episode.

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