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• Earpiece Conversation: Simon and Grace have this with One-One on the Spelling Bee Car, and the same is presumably true for the other groups assigned to deal with the Boschazens.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Depends on the character.
  • Boscha has pink hair, which is this trope, but its associated element is Love, not fire. Her Golden Super Mode doesn't fit either, since it turns her blonde.
  • Chloe is a fairly straight example, having red hair and pyrokinetic abilities.
  • Out of Zenith Fantasy, Todd is the only one to play this straight, having Brown hair and controlling the earth. The other members either invert this (Alex is Blonde, but controls water, and Grace is raven-haired despite controlling light) or avert this (Lucy and Lindsay are brunette, and control fire and wind respectively. Simon is Blonde, but controls darkness.)
  • Skara has grey hair, but is eventually given the ability to cast water magic.
  • Amity's a natural brunette, but initially dyes most of her hair green, before dying it completely purple during her stay at the Underworld, none of which fit her actual elemental magic: lightning.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Boscha shows absolute disgust over the Apex coming in and killing denizens and raiding cars, and shows off said disgust by burning children and dislocating arms.
  • Consequently, while nobody likes the Apex, Boscha's brutal treatment of them even after they give her what she wants is so extreme Chris and the Mana Academy students have to interfere before she goes too far.
  • Simon is actually disturbed with how Phos is screaming in agony after being crushed into pieces, to the point he suggests to put the Denizen out of their misery.
  • Chloe is a mainly heroic figure and a pacifist by nature, so she's shocked at Lexi using his papers to slice Boscha's eyes as a pragmatic mood and is horrified that she has to murder Boscha to save the Trian.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Luz retains her canon status as an All-Loving Heroine here, being willing to not only give Skara a chance despite her reputation, but extending that to Boscha despite how much everyone hates her. Even so, The Reveal regarding how Odalia forced Alador to rape Persephone, Skara's mother, and his passivity and silence about the incident for the next decade and a half leaves her feeling nothing but contempt for the Blight parents, especially Odalia.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: The remnants of the Apex travel to one of these in the Archfiends Car, hoping to pass the trials and earn items to make them stronger. More specifically, it's more than likely the Tower of Zot, given how Golbez is around.
• Eldritch Location: There's no other way to describe the Boiling Underworld, a city situated on the stomach of the Titan's corpse, with all the viscera and bones expected.
• Eye Motifs: Eyes are a recurring motif in Boiling Point:
  • Boscha is all about eyes: she has a Third Eye on her forehead, which is her most notable feature, she gets Glowing Eyes of Doom doubling as Red Eyes, Take Warning when she gets serious, and not only does she suffer significant Eye Scream during the Mêlée à Trois, but it's also revealed her Third Eye is her main source of power.
  • Also, when a character changes forms, the most clear indicator is the eyes: Boscha's eyes turn red and her sclera becomes pitch black in her Golden Super Mode and using The Power of Hate respectively, Skara gains pidgeon-like eyes when she becomes a half-Griffin, and Amity gains Exotic Eye Designs as a Pseudo-Abomination.
  • In various times when Amity and Skara were talking, an eye symbol was glowing on their foreheads. It's a sign of Mind Magic.
• Eye Scream: Just like Eye Motifs, this pops up frequently in the story.
  • Boscha's eyes just get badly abused in Chapter 13: her Third Eye gets ripped off by Lucy and then she has her remaining eyes slashed by Lexi.
  • During their fight in Chapter 14, Amity shoves an icicle right through Skara's eye, only for them to proceed to rip it off their socket.
  • While training with Skara at an arena in the Boiling Underworld, Amity ends up remembering how she brutally pierced Skara's eyes with an icicle, and when she's close enough to attack, she hurls the fireball at herself, burning her eye in the process.
  • After the Blight Ball fiasco, Eda and Lilith take a bounty hunting job regarding a pair of cyclops: naturally, they rip off their eyes to get their attention, though Eda clarifies this was Lilith's idea.
• The Easy Way or the Hard Way: During the Azada Car saga, while confronting Hazel at the Dragon Castle Car, Amelia tells them this as a warning to come along quietly to the Apex. Hazel, being Hazel, naturally chooses the hard way.
• Everyone Went to School Together: As shown in a flashback, Alador, Odalia, Amirani, and Persephone all went to Hexside together, with Warden Wrath being mentioned as also having gone there.
• Fantastic Caste System: The Boiling Underworld is said to have one of these, which, given it's the stomach of the Titan, is to be expected: Those who are "Strong" basically rule the place, while the "Weak" strive to survive, and they and those declared "Nothing" are served to feed the Strong.
• Family-Friendly Firearms: The magiguns are these, being human firearms that use Abnormal Ammo in the form of glyphs, which are connected to a string.
• Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: Witches that are heavily attuned to Healing magic have this in the form of their blood, as explained by Cat.
• Family Extermination: The reason the only Blights we see are the main family (Amity, her parents, and her twin siblings)? As payback for raping Persephone, Prometheus executed Odalia's remaining family members, and forced her and Alador to watch.
• Family-Unfriendly Death:
  • Boscha is depowered and vaporized by Chloe in her Super Form. Sure, it turns out she was sent to the Heart System afterwards, but she still died.
  • Louise is eaten by a furious Lionheart, and only realizes what's going on while she's in the middle of being burned alive.
• Faux Horrific: During Chapter 4, Luz is initially worried about failing her Bard test because they're told if they fail, The Bat Queen will eat them. When Skara clarifies that this will only send them to Another Dimension where a smaller Bat Queen will lecture them on what they did wrong, Luz says she wishes she'd get eaten alive now.
• Fantastic Underclass: The Boiling Underworld has a rather strict heriarchy based on power, and at the absolute rock bottom of it are the Nothing: these are witches so weak and frail, they typically don't live past childhood, their very forms being devoured by the Underworld in order to end their miserable existence, assuming they're not harvested for organs to feed those above them beforehand. It's possible for a Nothing to become stronger and evolve, however, as Skara was born a Nothing but, through encouragement and help from Boscha, managed to grow up and ascend past the Nothing label.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Amity and Skara do this while reminiscing about what could've been.
• Finger in the Mail: At the end of Chapter 20, Luz sees an open box containing Cat's broken, bloodied glasses, and some of Amelia's hair, leaving little to the imagination as to how their trip to the Boiling Underworld went.
• Field of Blades: "The Field of Keyblades Car" has Boa train everybody in one of these.
• Fiery Lion: A metaphorical example with Boscha's, who likes Playing with Fire and has lion motif. Lionheart, one of her Soul Denizens, is a giant flaming lion made of black flames.
• Fiery Salamander: The creature and its association with fire is featured repeatedly.
  • For starters, there's Boscha, who not only has potent fire powers, but also has the Salamander as a mythological motif.
  • The Boiling Underworld has an Elite Four of powerful warriors known as the Boiling Elementals, and among them is the Boiling Salamander, who has fire powers. Boscha's mother Amirani used to be this before the story.
  • We eventually see the real Salamanders that inspired them during the trip to the Elemental Isles, where they sport armor-like scales, a nigh-unbreakable third eye, and fire powers. Shortly after, we find out Boscha's at least partially a Salamander, hence the shared traits.
• Fighting a Shadow: Instead of fighting the real Apex members, Specter's team ends up fighting illusions created from the Fox Miraculous' Mirage. However, this is to test their strength, as the Apex are only playing along with Hazel's idea because there's no way they can fight back against her.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: The end of Chapter 7 has One-One talk to a passenger. Before their name is revealed, they are depicted as having red hair and a donut holer. Then they reveal themselves to be Chloe of the Vermillion.
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition:
  • Act 2 establishes one in Boscha and Skara, the former having been seemingly born with incredibly potent and versatile fire abilities, while the latter was given water powers for the Blight Ball.
  • Before that, however, there were Lucy and Alex from Zenith Fantasy: the former gaining pyrokinetic abilities from the Cloak of Rubicante, while the latter gained several water-related abilities thanks to the Shield of Cagnazzo.
• Foil: Has its own page.
• Foreshadowing: Luz finds it weird that Warden Wrath is Skara's father. And she's right. He's not her biological father, that would be Adalor.
• Fusion Dance: Passengers can merge with their reflections in the Chrome Car to gain a Chrome Champion ability. Hazel's the first example of someone getting this technique, with Amanda and the Apex further confirming it.
  • While we don't see her use the merged form, Amelia merges the Turtle and Monkey Miraculous together to get an advantage over Hazel.
  • Through some unknown mean, Daiki Chienen merged with a Spiritomb before the events of The Azada Car. The end result is a giant humanoid Spiritomb that takes over the Sakuragi Institute before Mattholomule's team interferes.
  • This is also revealed to be the reason why Boscha is a Heinz Hybrid, since Azura merged both her baby form and a shrank down Golden Salamander in order to give her the Salamander's traits.

G-H

• Gesundheit: Lucy tells this to Simon when the latters corrects her when she calls a newspaper "papernews".
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: This is how the Mêlée à Trois in Chapter 13 is assembled:
  • The Good: The Red Lotus Trio, who are legendary heroes of the Infinity Train and are primarily heroic individuals.
  • The Bad: Zenith Fantasy, who've long since abandoned their former Apex-like ways, but aren't exactly heroic, mostly fending off for themselves and prioritizing their own survival.
  • The Evil: Boscha, hands down. Not only is she the most violent and volatile of her own ensemble, but she enters the fight mentally unstable, suffering Sanity Slippage the whole way through until eventually, she can't be reasoned with.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: A Golden Salamander is featured in the story, alongside other Salamanders, and its status as the strongest of them convinces Azura to catch it and merge it with the baby Boscha to create a more stable "servant" for the Brae family.
• Great Big Library of Everything: Mana Academy's library is this, having not only books related to magical topics, but also entertainment exclusive to specific works like a compendium of Azura the Good Witch.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: The Amity-Boscha-Skara conflict. While the three girls have varying levels of sympathy, with Amity being the most sympathetic, all of them have some role in the fallout of their relationship.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings:
  • After turning back to normal from becoming a griffin monster, Skara gains a pair of avian wings.
  • Chloe is an odd variation of a good character having evil wings, as she gains demonic wings when using her powers.
  • Hazel gets Dragonfly wings whenever she bothers to grow them.
• Growing Wings: During Chapter 13's climactic fight, both Chloe and Lexi grow a pair of wings, demon and paper wings respectively, to go after the fight against Boscha in the skies.
  • At the Boiling Underworld Car, Hazel grows a pair of dragonfly wings in order to go after her Identical Stranger, Hazel Hughes.
• Guns Akimbo: Lilith and Eda take a pair of magical guns with them for the climax of The Cupid Bee Car. And later, Luz uses one of the same guns against Amirani.
• Gut Punch: Chapter 3 not only features the brutal assault on the Apex, but when the leaders make a deal with Boscha to stop the assault by giving her the box with Phos' shards, Boscha defaces the leaders and gets ready to straight up kill them, only stopping when the Mana Academy students go to their aid, forcing her to leave while delivering a Breaking Speech to the Apex. This very moment makes it clear we're not following a Byronic Hero like in Blossoming Trail, but an utterly deranged Villain Protagonist who'll go to any lengths and cross many lines to get what she wants.
  • The Origin Story Car features The Reveal that Boscha was Made a Slave by Azura and Persephone in order to ensure she wouldn't be a danger to Skara, making her not only subservient, but also making Skara second guess her entire friendship with Boscha as a result.
• Happy Birthday to You!: Hazel sings a single-person variation while she grabs the Horse Miraculous from the cake she was given.
• Hall of Mirrors: The beginning of Act 2 has Zenith Fantasy and Hazel walk through one of these. Along the way, it's discovered that Hazel doesn't have a reflection...
  • The area gets revisited in Act 3, where Hazel takes Specter to it in order to mentally torture him, while implying he used to be part of a similar hall of mirrors.
• Handshake Substitute: Luz does a fist bump with Viney after she, Amity, and Skara arrive at Hexside during "Nothing is the Same."
• Healing Herb: Some of these are sold in the Black Market. Skara gathers some of these in order to create a healing potion for Puddles.
• Heal It with Blood: The blood of a witch attuned with Healing magic can do this, with the most potent being able to reattach limbs and bring small critters back to life. Skara has this type of blood, and it's implications got on Cat's nerves.
• Heal It With Fire: As shown in Amity's sealed memory, one of Boscha's ability was to heal something by breathing fire into it, which she uses to heal Willow's flower. Tellingly, she never once uses this ability in the present, when she's a Villain Protagonist.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Out of all the tracks in Hexside, the Healing track, and Healing magic in general, is considered the hardest one to take, with only the most talented of witches being able to even apply to it.
• Healing Potion: The bulk of Chapter 11's involves Skara trying to create one of these in order to heal the Boscha-made wounds of Puddles, Viney's Griffin companion. However, it has the side effect of turning any non-Griffin entity who drinks it into a half-Griffin... which Skara ends up experiencing firsthand.
• Hollywood Exorcism: A "Hexorcism" is the Boiling Isles equivalent, which involves sealing a rough spirit into a cube to stop their rampage. Mattholomule's family specializes in them, but unfortunately, he doesn't get to live long after his first one.
• Holding Hands: Luz and Amity do this after Skara leaves the Boiling Isles to go to the Underworld and the latter gets a pep talk from the former.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: Luz gives one of these to the Class Pet of the Healing classroom by rubbing their belly.
• Holding Your Shoulder Means Injury:
  • Skara does this after Boscha ends up burning her shoulder.
  • Mattholomule follows suit after being pummeled by Daiki.
• Homeschooled Kids: Gus has apparently become this following the events of the season one finale, though it's only mentioned in passing.
• Hostage Situation: The end of Chapter 6 implies one, but the next chapter subverts it. Amity and Luz go to the former's house to find it trashed, and with a letter that sounds like they're being held hostage. However, once they reach the Boiling Underworld, it turns out the place was in shambles because Amity and Boscha's mothers duke it out, and when they lost, they were taken to the mansion for lunch, with the letter being Prometheus' poor attempt at inviting Amity to come.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: In the Boiling Isles, as the closest thing to a divine entity is the Titan, its name is used as an equivalent: "Oh my Titan!", for example.

I

• It's a Long Story: Amity says this regarding her Battle in the Center of the Mind with Amirani after the climax of The Cupid Bee Car saga.
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Boiling Underworld. And seeing as it's the stomach of a Giant Corpse World, the name's the least of its horrors.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Like in Blossoming Trail, the chapter titles are divided into two to represent the dual nature of the narrative: the first title usually has something to do with what happens on the Boiling Isles, while the second title represents the Car that's going to be visited. If a chapter has a single title, it means that the events are gonna take place mostly or exclusively on one side of the plot.
• Identical Stranger: A plot point. Hazel Hughes, a member of the Apex, is a pinpoint exact replica of Hazel in terms of looks, with her name making her sound related to Amelia. With the chance being too tempting to pass up, Hazel aims to Kill and Replace her to take her place on the Apex, furthering her own goals.
• I Know Your True Name: There's apparently a Car called the True Name Car, which, somehow, has the potential of revealing a person's true name should they cross it. The Red Lotus Trio did so, and now Chloe's real name, Koharu Sakuragi, is common knowledge on the Train.
• Imperfect Ritual: The Day of Unity requires Azura's staff, a circle of all castes drawn on the ground, and the coven heads in their respective circles. While the former two are available, Azura's meddling leaves the coven heads out of commission, forcing the heroes to use an assortment of people of the appropriate caste and channel the spirit of the coven head to act as a substitute.
• Impossible Task: A Passenger that is either considered "static" or "hopeless" have one of these: both have the same goal of getting their numbers to zero so they can leave, but the former's number's glitched as long as they don't work out the issue that makes them unable to change, and the latter doesn't want to change at all.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Willow gets impaled by Amitani during their fight at the climax of the Blight Ball. Luckily, she gets better.
• Innocence Lost: This is the alternate title for Chapter 3, and it sure as hell lives up to it:
  • On the Boiling Isles, Skara eventually breaks down when she and Luz are all alone, revealing herself to be a Stepford Smiler and giving Luz the first hint that Boscha's friendship with Skara might've had further consequences.
  • On the Infinity Train, Boscha destroys the Apex: Not only does she reveal herself as a Passenger, flipping the Apex's belief that only Denizens could be inhuman, but she also shows much greater power and cruelty than the Apex has ever shown: by the end of the Chapter, the children are left traumatized, the leaders are defaced, and they collapse after being saved by the work of a Denizen. As if that wasn't enough, next Chapter reveals the entire Apex said screw it and left.
• In the Intermission, Hazel is no longer as cheerful and sweet after learning the truth about her nature. Not only discovering that she's actually a failed clone of Alrick, Amelia's husband, but that Amelia herself has practically abandoned her.
• Amity's innocence just gets thoroughly trampled in Act 2. She learns not only of the disgusting lengths her own mother went to in order to gain power in the Underworld, but also finds out that Skara, the same girl she crippled and drove out of the Boiling Isles, is her half-sister, and this is all while she's stuck as a Pseudo-Abomination under Amirani's control, meaning she's completely helpless while this is all being told to her. And as if that wasn't enough, the Blight Ball ends with her getting possessed by the woman, leading her to beg Luz to shoot her, crippling her and leaving her at death's door before Persephone interferes.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Luz learns that Amity has a crush on her in the first chapter.
  • During the third chapter, Skara learns that the Luz that promised to show her and her friends "true delinquency" wasn't Luz, but actually King in Luz's body.
  • Chapter 7 has Amity along with her family, Luz and Skara learning that Boscha has been missing for over a week.
• Instant Messenger Pigeon: In Chapter 19, Skara uses her Palisman as one of these to deliver a message to the Boiling Isles and back.
• Instant Runes: These serve as Mana Academy's security system: if anybody happens to activate, they are showered by a barrage of Spikes of Doom.
• In Spite of a Nail: Discussed. The author notes that even if Amity's leg wasn't broken from "Wing it Like Witches", she honestly wouldn't have been able to stop Lilith.
  • In a more subtle example, the end of Chapter 5 says Phos has Golden arms, implying they still lost and replaced their original arms like in canon.
• Invisible Writing: The message Skara has her Palisman send to the Boiling Isles has the entire back half written in this, with Amity managing to decipher it using UV light.
• In-Universe Catharsis: Deconstructed. Skara is basically this to all of Boscha's victims in the Boiling Isles, who, with Boscha gone, don't have anybody else to take responsibility for her actions. Not only does being used as a stress reliever tire her out physically or psychologically, but once she reaches her breaking point thanks to Amity, she decides enough is enough and leaves the Boiling Isles before her chain gets pulled yet again.
• It's Quiet… Too Quiet: The Ruby Sulphur Trio, mostly Phos and Boa, say something like this while approaching the Origin Story Car. Naturally, Salamanders appear shortly afterwards.
• It Was a Gift: While it was slightly implied in earlier chapters, "The Origin Story Car" confirms that Skara's flute was a gift given to her by Willow.
• Is This Thing On?: Luz goes "testing, testing, 1, 2, 3" while contacting the newly revived Boscha at the Astral Car.

J-K

• Jail Bake: While Hazel's being kept prisoner in the Mall Car, a guard delivers a cake to her. And when she searches the cake, she finds the Horse Miraculous inside.
• Journey to the Center of the Mind: Chapter 8 has Luz and Skara both enter Amity's Mental World in order to see her memory regarding what she did to turn Boscha into the sociopath she is today. Needless to say, Luz is rather shocked by what she sees.
• The Joy of First Flight: During "Nothing is the Same", Skara pays Amity a visit at the Owl House and, having wings on her back, offers her a flying trip to Hexside. What follows is Amity hopping on and Skara taking her across the seas and into the skies, with Skara using her water magic to summon a water pillar so the two can see each other, right before parting it to reveal an overview of the Boiling Isles.
• Keystone Army: When the Apex find out what Boscha did to Simon and Grace, their leaders at the time, they split apart and run for the hills. They become this again during Act 3 when, right after Hazel and The True Apex are killed, they cease fighting the Red Lotus Trio's army.
  • Azura revives a bunch of witches in order to fight back The Cavalry of the Boiling Isles, but once the Day of Unity comes to pass and she's left without magic, Azura can only watch as the undead dissolve into nothing.
• Kill and Replace: The crutch of Hazel's plan; There's an Identical Stranger to her on the Apex called Hazel Hughes, whose name and looks are perfect for her to blend in, so she planned to kill her and take her place so she could further her own goals for the Apex.
• Kissing In A Tree: Amity teases Skara this way after she confesses her love for Boscha after their talk.

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• Ladies and Germs: Amity says a variant during The Origin Story Car saga:

  Amity: Ladies and Edric!

  Edric: *gasps* That's me!

• Late-Arrival Spoiler:
  • Since it's set after "Wing It Like Witches", then it's no surprise that Amity is crushing on Luz.
  • Luz chipping a piece of Emperor Belos' helm is spoiled right at the start of Chapter 4 as it takes place one week after the Seaosn 1 finale.
  • Eda and Lilith are observing Luz take her Bard Exam, spoiling Lilith's Heel–Face Turn. Moreover, Chapter 7 reveals how Lilith split the Owl Curse between her and her sister, and Eda practicing runes. Both of this happened in the Season 1 finale.
  • The Apex's existence isn't keep a secret at all, and neither is One-One's status as the true conductor.
  • Amelia being the false Conductor and creator of the Apex is just dropped without any fanfare.
• Leave No Survivors: This is what Azura did to the Titans after Mina tricked her into thinking they weren't planning to keep their end of the deal with her, exterminating all of them and even using one of their corpses to create the Boiling Isles.
• Letting Her Hair Down: Two very notable examples:
  • The first time Boscha goes into her Golden Super Mode, she removes her braid and lets her hair down before transforming.
  • Near the end of Act 1, right before she leaves the Boiling Isles, Skara follows suit by letting her hair free as she's packing up to leave.
• Life/Death Juxtaposition: Act 1 ends on one of these, since while Skara leaves the Boiling Isles to go to the Boiling Underworld in order to get stronger so nobody will use her as a stress reliever anymore, Boscha is killed by Chloe once she becomes impossible to reason with, winding up Only Mostly Dead while her soul is split into Denizens to try help her evolve past being a Static Passenger.
• Look Behind You: Played for Laughs in Chapter 11. When Skara is spotted with the Healing Potion meant for Puddles, she tries to pull this trick on the Potions teacher and Principal Bump to escape. Not only are neither of them fooled by it, but the Potions teacher outright wonders if it's ever worked before.
• Love Confession: Skara tells Boscha that she loves her during "I Love You", and despite what Boscha thinks, Skara means romantically.
• Long-Lost Relative: Played for Drama. Act 2 reveals that Alador raped Skara's mother, Persephone, in order to give birth to her so Odalia could use her to gain connections to the Underworld. The drama comes from the fact that Amity and Skara learn about this not only after their relationship hit rock bottom due to their fight at Hexside, but while they're both in quite possibly the worst moment to learn about this: Skara's currently trapped in the Boiling Underworld alongside her mother, while Amity's being bombarded with Awful Truth after Awful Truth regarding everything she though she knew, while she's being kidnapped by Amirani.
• Lotus Position: The Ruby Sulphur Trio do this pose while meditating when they return to the Astral Car. Amelia is quick to join them soon after.

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• Made a Slave: There's a specific type of glyph, known as a Servitude glyph, and it's considered part of Mind Magic, and thus part of The Dark Arts. Shortly after, we find out one of those affected by it was Boscha.
• Making a Splash: While nowhere near as prevalent as ice magic, water magic is featured, and Skara even uses some of it during her and Amity's flight to make a pillar to fly up through.
  • Alex of Zenith Fantasy also has minor water powers, courtesy of his item, the Shield of Cagnazzo.
• Magical Library: Two notable examples, one from each side of the story.
  • On the Infinity Train, there's the library at Mana Academy, which holds not only a collection of all sorts of magical topics, but even has a Bookcase Passage that leads to a place that houses a site where magical objects are kept safe.
  • On the Boiling Isles, the library Amity volunteered at is very much the same: it has all sorts of magical books and even a Bookcase Passage. The difference comes to where said passage leads to: the former workplace of Azura the Good Witch.
• Massively Multiplayer Crossover: Besides the obvious ones, there's Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Mahou Shoujo of the End, Kill la Kill, Sword Art Online, The Cursed Princess Club, Final Fantasy IV, The Familiar of Zero, Undertale, Duck Hunt, and Kingdom Hearts. And that's just Act 1!
• Made of Iron: Soul Denizens are a Justified example: they're ridiculously tough to hurt without Keyblades, but this is done so they're not accidentally destroyed and have the passenger return wrong.
• Make-Out Point: The Boiling Isles has a parody of this known as Scream Out Point, where couples scream to vent and make out afterwards.
• Magic Potion: Since the story follows a student in the Potions track, these kinds of potions get some focus.
  • The story begins thanks to one of these: Boscha creates a potion to revive a Mandragora she killed, and tricks Amity into unleashing her. The aftermath of this act sends Boscha to the Train.
  • Later, during the Cursed Princess Club Car, Boscha and the club decide to try brewing a potion in order to bond with her. We don't get to see what potion they picked, or if they even finished it, though.
  • Later, in Chapter 11, Skara and Eileen work together to make a potion to heal Puddles' wounds by Viney's "request". Skara's forced to drink it in order to try avoid Principal Bump tracing it back to Viney, and this has an interesting side effect...
• Marry Them All: Defied. Back before Amity was born, Odalia tried to convince Persephone, Skara's mother, to become Alador's second wife as a means to cheer him up. However, Persephone saw right through Odalia's crap and rejected the proposal. Unfortunately, Odalia wasn't gonna take no for an answer...
• Mêlée à Trois: Between the Ruby Sulphur Trio, Zenith Fantasy, and the Red Lotus Trio in Chapter 13.
• Memorial Photo: One of these is used for Mattholomule's funeral, though the one they get is the one where he photobombed Boscha's Grom picture, as the other potential photos belong to Hexside.
• Meta Twist: One regarding a Fandom-Specific Plot related to Lumity: the first chapter makes it clear that Boscha can see right through Amity's Gibberish of Love and that she has a crush on Luz. Given how Boscha acts both in canon, and especially in this story, you'd expect the rest of the plot to unfold as it normally does, with Boscha hurting or kidnapping Luz to spite Amity. Instead, Boscha sends Luz a letter not only revealing Amity's feelings for her, but outright asking her to date Amity so she can stop acting like a lovestruck fool, leading to their Relationship Upgrade.
  • Another common Fandom-Specific Plot is that Amity's the result of an affair Alador had with another woman, turning Odalia into a Resentful Guardian who gives Amity impossibly high standards to make Alador pay. In this story, there is and affair, and Alador is related to it, but Amity isn't the result of it, Skara is. And Odalia was not only aware of the affair, but started it and tried to take advantage of it by using the resulting Child by Rape as a bargaining chip to gain connections to the Underworld.
• Mind Manipulation: Mind Magic, one of the forbidden types of magic, is basically this in a nutshell. From what we've seen it do, it can force the affected to only remember specific moments to accentuate the negative or otherwise, or cause someone to forget their previous life.
• Missing Reflection: This is proof that someone has successfully fused with their reflection, as shown by Hazel, the Master of Masters, and Amanda.
• Music Magic: Naturally, the Bard track at Hexside studies this, with one of their exams involving playing an instrument in order to cast magic to feed The Bat Queen. Of the known students, Skara's a Magical Flutist, while Luz tries playing a violin. Keyword being tries.
• Merged Reality: Just like in canon, the Day of Unity is this. Unlike in canon, Belos reason to do this is to allow Azura to finally die.
• Ma'am Shock: Hazel is surprised when The Apex call her "ma'am" while they're trying to fuse with their reflections in the Chrome Car.
  • Willow gets a moment like this when Edric says "after you, ma'am" while they're heading to meet her mother.
• Magic Staff: Alongside Eda and Lilith's staff, Skara gains a mix between this and a flute later in Act 2, offscreen.
  • In a much more unorthodox example, Emperor Belos turns out to be Azura's staff, given life to act as her enforcer in the Boiling Isles.

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