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If Enceladus really has an alien life beneath, hope that it doesn't look like this!
PinCode takes the characters of KikoRiki to space and beyond in the name of science. However, the stakes are also a bit higher, and the crew puts themselves into much riskier and scarier predicaments than before.
  • "Cheerful Mountaineer Hotel" note  has the crew visit what they think is a titular relaxing hotel in the cozy cold island after reading about it from a brochure. When they get to their destination, it turns out that said resort has been abandoned a long time ago, is in very poor condition, and has no power. Pin has left them there for a week, before he could learn of hotel's horrible condition, thinking they'll have a good time, which means that the crew has to somehow find a reliable energy source to survive. In the English dub, Krash even wonders if "Give you all the feels" promise from an invitation card was meant to include "terror".
    Rosa: Hey, I think I found something to eat!
    Dokko: So at least we aren't... going to starve. Wonderful!
    Krash: Mhm. Instead, we'll... Freeze to death!
  • "Bibi's Day" two-parter has Umflier explode due to the malfunction in Bibi's power supply, which took all of the ship's energy, which happened just in time for Dokko's Tesla Coil experiment to trigger the explosion. Bibi is the only one who survives, and we see Barry and Pin's ruined headwear and Chiko's broken glasses. This visibly horrifies Bibi, since his father and the rest of the crew died. He then finds himself in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, which means that the explosion happened at least 3 more times, before Bibi finds a way to prevent it and leave the loop for good.
  • In "A Dance of Frienship", Dokko believes that a titular dance, that went viral the world over will cause The End of the World as We Know It, since the Earth will stop spinning as the result of everybody on the planet performing it at the same time. When Carlin tells him that when an earthquake happened during the dance practice at Zanzibar everybody thought it was a coincidence, he bursts in tears. Carlin tries to calm him down, saying that the earthquake isn't the worst thing that could happen, but Dokko tells him that he is Right for the Wrong Reasons. Cue the 2D segment, that demonstrates what would happen if the dance stopped the planet from spinning, complete with fittingly creepy music and screams of the animals that appear in said segment, that ends with the whole Earth burning down.
    Dokko: And those, who endure the floods and earthquakes won't live long anyway, as together with the rotation, the Earth's magnetic fields will disappear, which protect us from radiation.
  • "Enceladus (Water and Life)" has Wally, Dokko, Krash and Chiko discover an alien life on Enceladus. It looks like a small calamari, and Krash sets off to retrieve it, only for his friends to see another alien life: a gigantic and much more threatening monster (pictured above). The crew barerly escapes the planet alive, as Enceladus starts collapsing. It then turns out to be All Just a Dream Wally had... except Enceladus really was destroyed, and Wally gets to see the aforementioned creature floating among the pieces of ice.
  • In "The Second Sun" the crew barely escaped the Betelgeuse explosion. While it wasn't given much emphasize originally, a later episode, "A Second Before", gives us even more details on how the crew managed to survive that. As the Umflier flies away, Dokko tells Pin that they can't fly faster than the speed of light and won't make it alive. Pin decides to use Sphere-Scope to freeze time for them to think something up, but it accidentally works on Krash and Rosa instead, who are nowhere near as intelligent and are given an incredibly difficult task of saving lives of the whole crew. The two are only able to save the crew with the help of cosmic streams.

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