Nightmare Fuel / The Owl House

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Even in the Demon Realm, the scariest ones are your inner demons.

"Well, I've had enough adventure for today. This is clearly not the PG fantasy world I always dreamed about."

—Luz Noceda, "A Lying Witch & A Warden".

The Owl House has been advertised as a "Horror Comedy" series, and it can certainly deliver on the "horror" part.

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In General

• Emperor Belos is one of the most terrifying villains in Disney TV shows ever depicted, and a villain who is rarely, if ever, played for laughs. He towers over everyone with such menace and his voice sounds cold and lifeless. Among witches, he performs magic in a manner that shouldn't be possible and his human appearance is merely a glamour barely hiding a monstrous mud creature within. But the scariest aspect about him is his self-righteous crusader mindset, which makes it impossible for him to be reasoned with as he will dismiss counterarguments as lies and often tries to permanently silence his critics. His genocidal intent against the Boiling Isles, the Body Horror and Inescapable Fate Worse than Death he inflicts upon himself and others, as well as his deceit and manipulations against a population that knows no better, are all played out without an iota of comedy or wackiness in them.

Credits

Season 1

• Luz, Eda, and King are flying away from a massive worm beast with an uncomfortably humanoid visage that looks ready to swallow them whole. This sequence is used to establish the Boiling Isles as a nightmarish Eldritch Location filled with creatures that casually kill and eat each other on a whim.

Season 2

• The new opening in Season 2 replaces the scene of Amity, Willow and Gus with one of Lilith, the Golden Guard and Kikimora. Compared to the downtrodden Lilith and Golden Guard dramatically taking off his mask, Kiki looks utterly furious, her hand-like hair revealing that she has mismatched eyes. This is then followed up by Emperor Belos striking a dramatic pose next to his castle while lightning strikes, lighting up his eyes for a bit.

Season 1

Episode 1 - A Lying Witch and the Warden

• Look closely at the hanger/baby-headed, fork armed lizard thing that Luz picks up after entering the Demon Realm. IT POINTS ITS ARMS AT HER ON ITS OWN! IT'S ALIVE!
• Luz meeting the skin-eating fairy. Afterward, she's apparently wondering if she's dead and in Hell.
  • This becomes creepier when you realize all mythological creatures (and giraffes) are essentially beings that escaped from the Boiling Isles into the human world. Including demons and various stories of monstrous man-eating boogeymen. For all intent and purposes, the Boiling Isles is Hell in the sense of being a source of demonic monsters. And Luz is now living among them.
• One of the things that Luz sees is a bystander getting eaten by a monster shaped like an ice cream cone.
• Eda's wanted poster looks vaguely like the codex for an Aztec goddess of sacrifice.
• Warden Wrath likes to lock people up and torture them simply for being quirky and not fitting in, and the prison is both pretty large and pretty full...
• Eda getting her head chopped off. It doesn't kill her (and she's used to it, too) but it's unsettling to see her severed head held in the Warden's hand like a trophy.
  • Not to mention when her head landed in Luz's hands, Eda's eyes have a blank stare and her tongue lolling out, like she has no life in her before regaining consciousness a moment later.
• While Warden Wrath asking Eda on a date is Played for Laughs, he quickly changes back to his aggressive tone when Luz snarks at him, grabbing her with his arm and not-so-subtly threatening to kill her and King if Eda doesn't comply with his advances. Even creepier is he's still holding her severed head at the time.
• Warden Wrath's face under his plague doctor mask is a gaping mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth, with no visible nose and Black Bead Eyes that give off the impression of evil.

Episode 2 - Witches Before Wizards

• A doorbell that Luz rings is a gaping mouth that tries to eat her arm.
• Eda and King's whole journey trying to catch up with Luz. Initially, King just leads Eda to the Wizard's home... which now, instead of a shining castle, is a crumbling ruin, and they find dozens of copies of the map Luz was given. Then they come to the happy cat village... it's a crumbling ruin once more, and there's only one cat puppet left, who taunts them about Adaghast's plan before turning to dust in Eda's hands. It makes it very clear that while Luz is seeing a cool quest, that is not what is going on and she is very much in danger.
• Luz herself finding out when the staff disintegrates in her hands and then the glamour is wiped away in front of her... and then her gifts from her "allies" turn into magical chains.
• The reveal that Adaghast was really a tentacled demon and everyone Luz has interacted with on her quest is just a puppet of his and he makes a living tricking and eating victims while trapping them in a Lotus-Eater Machine that feeds them dreams of being special.
• Take a look at all the maps Eda finds in Adaghast's "castle". How many poor saps had he tricked into taking those fake quests?
• Eda casually eating the demon after it's been defeated.
• The Boiling Isles are built on a giant corpse.

Episode 3 - I Was a Teenage Abomination

• Willow making masses of vines grow out of control, then they find Luz and almost squish her like a boa constrictor. Realizing this is happening is enough to snap Willow out of her berserk state.
• Principal Bump is surprisingly intimidating, wearing what seems to be a living demon as a mask and establishing himself by attempting to dissect Luz in front of a class of students, including Willow. The tone of voice he uses doesn't help.
• Luz and Willow trying to make their escape, only to be trapped with magical barriers and hunted by more abominations.

Episode 4 - The Intruder

• The nature of the weather in the Boiling Isles is straight nightmarish. The rain is simply painful boiling water and according to Eda, the weather is more like a series of plagues. These phenomenon include gorn-adoes, shale hale, and painbows. Painbows are essentially rainbows that turn you inside out if you look at them!
• Hooty getting attacked by the Snaggleback offscreen.
• Eda’s cursed form not only looks unsettling, but is absolutely mindless and sees Luz and King as nothing but prey.
• According to Snaggleback, Eda's monster form's entire stomach is lined with sharp teeth. Eeeeww!
• The ending of the episode has Eda dreaming of an opened door and some black shadowy figure, the one who cursed her into an owl form, and her asking who it is.

Episode 5 - Covention

• Eda tells Lilith her curse is getting worse; not even her elixir will be able to hold it back for long. It's unknown if this is true or just a way to lower Lilith's guard.
• Lilith is in league with the Emperor to capture Eda in exchange for...something. What's worse is that we have no idea what the Emperor is like, as we only see his representative.
• One can honestly start to see Lilith's point about Eda and how recklessly she uses magic, as Eda places randomized spells as field mines all around the dueling arena in order to help Luz cheat. At one point, Amity almost steps on one that is a Spikes of Doom trap, which could have seriously wounded or even killed her...and the only reason she avoids it is that King falls onto it first, and he only gets saved from grievous bodily harm or death through sheer luck based on what he's currently wearing.

Episode 6 - Hooty's Moving Hassle

• Before the trio gets control of him, Hooty nearly walks off of a cliff under the moon trance.
• His name and appearance may be silly, but there is something genuinely unnerving about Tibbles' sociopathic demeanor. He starts off seemingly nice, gradually lets the facade crumble as he toys with his opponent, and then reveals just how much foresight he's had all along as he gloats about his victory. And even when defeated, he swears he'll have his revenge.
• One can only imagine how King feels seeing his own kind getting hunted down for sport and money.
• The demon hunters have no qualms murdering children, and one of them outright admits that it's something he always wanted to do ever since ''he'' was a child. He had a strange childhood.

Episode 7 - Lost in Language

• Thanks to the mischief of Amity's older brother and sister, the innocent children's book character Otabin is turned into a hulking monster whose idea of "making friends" is kidnapping innocent people and sewing them into a giant book where they'll be turned into illustrations and be trapped in the book forever. The deep, guttural voice he now speaks in really doesn't help.
• Edric and Emira have a subtle unsettling quality to them. While it's clear that they aren't as cool as they seem to be and have a Lack of Empathy toward others, the way they are framed in the episode leaves a lingering question as to whether they aren't aware of how wrong and harmful their actions are and truly believe they're practicing tough love on Amity, or if they are fully aware and are using their charm as a smokescreen to manipulate Luz with, and it's that uncertainty that is frightening.
• The Bat Queen. Mitigated in that she actually isn't bad at all, being a loving mother to her children and a good friend to Eda, but still, when she suddenly pokes her head through that door...YIKES.
  • The designs of the Bat Queen and her babies, which are disembodied heads with bat wings and feet.
• When they first find the basket with the Bat Queen's baby, King seems to honestly be considering eating it,with Luz standing right there!
  • Even Eda seems more bored than disgusted at the thought of cannibal infanticide! "Witches eating babies is sooooo 1693."
  • The reason this page says both baby and babies plural? Luz tickling one the wrong way makes it spit out two other bat babies, and all three start breathing fire!
• Eda pulling out a bowie knife, its blade glinting in the candlelight. Thank goodness it was just for cutting an apple.

Episode 8 - Once Upon a Swap

• Eda-as-King finding all those brainwashed animals in the back of the cafe. They had been pampered for so long, they don't remember how to live on their own.
  • The workers at the cafe won't let any animals leave, and they slowly reduce them to mindlessness with endless pampering and coddling, and if anyone tries to escape, they get fierce. And if you're a teenager, well, be prepared to be forced to work there.
• The teenagers throw water balloons that also contain tentacled monstrosities.
• Lilith wanting to brand Luz-as-Eda with the Emperor's Coven sigil. It's played as horrifically as someone being branded with a hot iron.

Episode 9 - Something Ventured, Someone Framed

• After the incident with Luz in I Was A Teenage Abomination, Principal Bump hired hall monitors that literally sniff out trouble. Their faces are upside-down and their eyes are stitched closed.
• One student from the plant tract nearly gets eaten by a giant plant akin to a Venus flytrap. Willow promptly rescues her though.
• Detention is not something you want in Hexside. There are snakes with human faces that cocoon the troublemakers which brainwashes them into making them behave. Judging by the number of cocoons in the cavern, a lot of students have been in that horrible pit for a long time.
  • Mattholomule says he'd been in detention back at his old school, but clearly, it was different.

Episode 10 - Escape of the Palisman

• Eda wasn't lying to Lilith about the curse. In fact it's foreshadowed when she transforms during the day.
• Eda nearly gets taken away by the demon hunters (reduced to animal control).
• King learns the hard way that Eda's cursed form is not a pet he can control. For long anyway.
• Bat Queen can be very vicious when she is in Mama Bear mode.

Episode 11 - Sense and Insensitivity

• Eda takes a look in the mirror and sees wrinkles, a sign her curse is getting worse.
• Piniet is revealed to have a collection of writers who don't meet his demands in his suitcase. And how does he fit them all in there? By crushing them into living, pocket-sized cubes.

Episode 12 - Adventures In The Elements

• The Slitherbeast has apparently eaten many people over the years, and nearly eats Eda, Emira, and Edric.

Episode 13 - The First Day

• Apparently, there was an old attempt to sort students into their tracks by way of a "Choosy Hat", which ended up trying to EAT THE HEADS OF THE KIDS IT WAS PLACED ON! That poor kid may have even died! Bump shudders just thinking about it.
• Barcus attempted to mix Oracle magic with Potions. This ends up showing the Potions teacher a vision of her death as she screams and her face melts off, leaving behind a skull. She is appropriately horrified!
• The Greater Basilisk! A creature that sucks the magic out of everyone at the schools, such that even Bump and Amity are left incapacitated by it. It even tries to eat Luz!

Episode 15 - Understanding Willow

• Damaging the photo prints of someone's memories damages the person's actual mind. When Amity reflexively sets Willow's memory of them hugging as kids on fire, it spreads. Before Willow forgets who Gus and Luz are, she literally has steam coming out of her ears.
• While amnesiac, Willow assumes that King is a fruit and tries to skin him.
• In Willow's mind, Luz and Amity encounter Willow's "Inner Willow," who has absorbed Amity's fire spell and (in her rage) starts damaging Willow's mind further in an attempt to destroy every trace of Amity from Willow's memories in revenge for what happened to their friendship. Then, she tries to do the same to the real Amity...
  • What's worse is that this Inner Willow has dissociated herself so much from Willow herself that she is well aware that her actions are only going to hurt Willow and do permanent damage to her mind. And she is so consumed with anger that she simply does not care.
• Amity's parents were willing to ruin Willow's chances of getting into Hexside just because they didn't feel that she was a suitable friend for their daughter. Them having that much power is scary enough, but their complete lack of scruples in using it as a blackmail threat against their own child is even more frightening.
  • How they are depicted is also unsettling. Instead of seeing them for ourselves, the two are depicted as profile silhouettes. This makes a very chilling point that a toxic household can come from anywhere, and Abusive Parents can look like anyone...
  • If they forced Amity to break up her friendship with Willow, who knows what else they have forced her to do through the years? Could they be forcing Amity to join the Emperor's Coven, and what Amity truly feared when Luz accidentally humiliated her was her parents' wrath and she was just pretending to fear for her future to not to look weak?

Episode 16 - Enchanting Grom Fright

• The titular "Grom" is Grometheus the Fear Bringer, a monster based on the manifestations of its opponent's fears and the "not what Luz expects" part of the episode's description is not only that said monster exists but the Grom royalty are expected to fight it regardless of their actual skill or ability, which is not only considered acceptable but seems to be a requirement of school dances in the Boiling Isles.
  • What’s worse is that, no matter how many times it is defeated, Grom will never be truly killed, as it will just stay dormant until the next year, ready to fight the next Grom King/Queen. And if it wins, the entire Boiling Isles will fall into a living nightmare.
• That one student's attempt to ask Skara to Grom being carried on a stretcher and presenting a beating heart with "Grom" written on it may not be something considered unusual in Hexside, but it's still outright disturbing.
• The reveal at the end of the episode that someone or something has been sending letters to Luz's mom, posing as her, completely without her knowledge. She didn't even realize something was wrong when whoever wrote the letters spelled Luz's name wrong before crossing it out and spelling it correctly. And whoever it is knows enough about where Luz is supposed to be that they can make the letters sound convincing (Reality Check Camp seems like the kind of place that would teach kids about mortgages). The music during this scene makes it worse.
• The original idea for the episode is actually more terrifying than how it actually turned out. Grom was originally still named Prom, except, it was going to be an acronym: P.R.O.M., which meant Perennial Ritual Offering Maiden — it was a ritualistic sacrifice. And what's worse, Luz is smiling in the concept art, blissfully unaware about the monster that's about to eat her.

Episode 17 - Wing It Like Witches

• Grudgby easily qualifies as a Blood Sport. How many kids have gotten injured, or worse, playing the game?
  • Boscha herself is Amity without any redeeming qualities and replaced with sociopathic tendencies; Boscha seems far too eager to embrace the "blood" part of Blood Sport. The sheer enjoyment she gets out of using Luz for target practice using kicks powerful enough to level trees with the intent to severely injure or even kill her is all kinds of disturbing.
    • All the teachers are so invested into grudgby they let Boscha get away with literally anything and Bump basically admits she could murder someone and face no consequences. She literally followed Luz, Willow, and Gus around a whole day making it a living hell for them and no one did anything. Even Amity, who usually can keep her in line, admits that Boscha is out of control during grudgby season.
• Lilith absolutely loses it when she loses her bet with Eda. Whether it’s stress or outright fear has yet to be determined, but it doesn’t paint of good picture of how Belos treats his coven.
  • The last time they met, she wanted Eda to join on her own terms, but now, she tries to outright arrest her and force her to join. Is the emperor becoming impatient?
  • The fact that the emperor has "big plans for the Boiling Isles" that require Eda joining his coven do not bode well.

Episode 18 - Agony of a Witch

• The palace of the Emperor's Coven is the literal heart of the Boiling Isles. The heart itself seems to even be connected to the Emperor.
• Whatever Emperor Belos is up to, he's capturing witches that refused to join covens by the dozen for his plans.
• Emperor Belos does not seem to be in good health and seems to be sustaining himself by eating palismen.
  • Regarding this, Lilith took Owlbert with her. Is Emperor Belos going to eat him?!
• Emperor Belos giving Lilith an Implied Death Threat by telling her that failing to capture Eda would result in her getting booted from his Coven, and what happens to Covenless witches?
• When Eda was being overtaken by her curse, we don't see what happened while she was transformed, but by the time Luz is able to force Eda to drink enough elixir, they've changed rooms and Eda had a hand on the Luz's face. It's unclear how much happened, but Luz looked frightened and we don't know what state Eda was in when that close to her apprentice.
• From the way the Emperor threatens Lilith by having her expelled from the coven if he does not get Eda, it's implied that he kills anyone who doesn't follow his Coven System if the wild witches screaming on the tapestry are any indication.
• After Luz, Willow and Gus pull a series of wacky hijinks to sneak into Emperor's relic collection and steal healing hat, Luz says they need to go before anyone notices....only for the screen to suddenly go black and white and the sound gets distorted as the Emperor calmly informs them he already knows.
  • Their encounter with Lilith, who after being threatened by the Emperor is no longer messing around.
  Luz: If you hurt me, Eda will come after all of you!
  Lilith: (Slasher Smile) That's the idea!
  • Eda does come after them full Mama Bear mode, and it is every bit as terrifying as Luz predicted. It should also be noted that due to the curse, she wasn't even using her full power.
• The reveal that Eda was cursed when she was a child as she slept in her bed, and what's worse is that she was cursed by her sister. The flashback reveals that the silhouette with large eyes was really Lilith with large round glasses.
  • The worst part? Eda apparently relives that memory every time she enters her cursed form, unable to change anything or discover the identity of the person who cursed her.
• Luz has to watch in horror as Eda uses the last of her magic to save her and be transformed into her owl beast form. And then Lilith has her dragged into the castle before telling Luz, "Go back to your world, human. This one is ours."
  • Hell, Lilith is okay with attempting to straight-up MURDER Luz if it means getting her sister.

Episode 19 - Young Blood, Old Souls

• Belos' first appearance in the episode highlights his Icy Blue Eyes.
• As it turns out, witches who defy the Coven system are Taken for Granite, a punishment specifically reserved for the worst criminals. And once the spell is complete, it cannot be broken.
• Eda is supposedly the first case of a witch being Taken for Granite in 30 years, but given this Freeze-Frame Bonus, it's clear that's a bold-faced lie. Belos is petrifying any witch he can find who breaks his laws if he can do it on the sly.
  • On the other hand, it could mean that this is the first public petrification since thirty years ago. How many wild witches has the Emperor petrified behind the scenes?
• Eda's rage towards Lilith for nearly killing Luz and cursing her. Hadn't King interfered, she would most certainly have killed Lilith. And to top it all notch, she was not only in her Owl Beast form, meaning that she would have mauled Lilith to death (something The Lion King fans can guarantee can be horrifying by itself even in Disney animation), but was in complete control of herself this time.
• Luz battling the Emperor himself. Not only is his magic leagues stronger than any witch we've seen, his response to her first attack is to vanish then EMERGE FROM BEHIND HER, as she realizes in horror what just happened...
  Belos: Okay. I'll play.
  • Heck, even the way he emerges is terrifying, as he simply forms there as if he has no flesh and bone beneath that mask and outfit. Of additional note is that he manifests with his head upside down, which then grotesquely rights itself.
  • That monster from the Title Sequence? Belos is able to summon it from nothing to swallow Luz, who burns it from the inside with fire magic.
    • After Luz manages to chip a piece of Belos's mask off he bellows the most unearthly growl imaginable before regaining his composure. Further raising the question as to what exactly he is. Then he warns her that if she tries that again, he will kill her.
• The absolute Death Glare Belos gives Luz after she destroys the portal to the human realm, though she's quick to return it.
• Believe it or not: Luz. She's on a war path and dead serious throughout the entire episode. It's even implied that she was trying to straight up kill Lilith for what she did to Eda. It's a good reminder why you shouldn't mess with the resident Cloudcuckoolander Hero Protagonist.
  Luz: You, you hurt Eda, you put her in chains. Now, I will take you down.
• Luz's actions only delayed the inevitable as the Emperor is seen repairing the door.

Season 2

Episode 1 - Separate Tides

• To encourage their compliance not only does the Golden Guard take King hostage, he dangles Eda & Luz over the Boiling Sea while informing them that even the Sea's steam is enough to cause third-degree burns.
  • More unnerving: throughout the episode, when he speaks, the Golden Guard is calm and chipper. But in this instance, after turning the fight around when Luz and Eda attack him, he's yelling angrily before going back to "normal" a second later.
• Fire-Bees. They’re just as bad as they sound. It’s not just the pain of their stings, but the stings will burn you alive, unless you’re Hooty, who seemingly can take the impact.
• Behind everyone's backs, Lilith's scrying potion reveals that Emperor Belos has successfully rebuilt most of Eda's door to the human world. The Day of Unity is approaching faster than we thought.
  Belos: Knock knock, human.

Episode 2 - Escaping Expulsion

• As it turns out, Amity's necklace that she wears when not at school was yet another thing her mother forced on her. And its purpose? So Odalia can telepathically verbally and emotionally abuse Amity wherever she goes, meaning Amity literally can't go anywhere without having to deal with her mother's negativity. It's bad enough that this sort of thing exists at all, but given the existence of Blight Industries, what if the Blight's sell these things to the public, meaning Amity might not be the only victim? Oh god...
  • It's important to note exactly how the necklace works, communication being completely one-way and only audible to Amity. No one else has any idea what Odalia is saying to her daughter, who can only respond back verbally. Doing so would look like one half of a conversation to bystanders, Amity seeming irrationally angry in response to defy Odalia could easily deny was happening.
• Amity's Fairy Pie is made of actual fairies, which is quite disturbing. Amity has both a dark sense of humor and a dark sense of showing affection.
  • More disturbingly, the fairies' mangled extremities are protruding from the top crust, and are still alive as their muffled screams can be heard from inside the pie!
• This episode greatly establishes that the Blights are enemies you do NOT want to make. Their control over Hexside is like that of a syndicate running a Protection Racket, with the school and everyone in it (including Principal Bump) as collateral. They keep tabs over every student to ensure none of them can threaten them in any way. And if you find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time, they play hardball in their negotiations and blackmail. If you resist and don't do what they say, the results are implied to be so fatal you'd wish you were dead. Plus, Odalia has various connections, and Willow (especially after seeing a memory of Amity being blackmailed by her own parents) finds out the hard way they can and will make you suffer as long as they have leverage.
• Blight Industries' display of products when Luz is "helping". They essentially look like real-world military weaponry, just with an Abomination aesthetic. By the end, she's bruised and disheveled from what has clearly been a dangerous ordeal.
  • The very first one used is a gun that, with one shot, sticks Luz to the wall with purple goo - and that's the lowest setting. Odalia then shows the highest setting: turning it into a green flamethrower. It thankfully isn't aimed at Luz for this demonstration, but she's understandably freaked out when she sees it.
  • Another product is a crossbow... that shoots green bolts strong enough to completely shatter any defensive ice walls Luz puts up. Oh, and the Abomination wielding it also uses a giant hand to hold Luz in place and aim the crossbow at her, making it clear that it could have killed her right then and there if the Blights didn't need her for the rest of the demonstration.
  • And the grand finale? The Abomaton, a giant robotic Abomination. As Odalia puts it, it won't rest until its target is completely eliminated. Despite her glyph mastery, all Luz can do is dodge as the Abomaton morphs its arms into several weapons and is clearly out to kill her.
  • Possibly scariest of all is Odalia herself. She got Luz to help with the demonstration by promising to let her, Gus, and Willow back into Hexside (which she never intended to do). And then she watches with a grin as she actively sentences a child to be murdered by her Abomaton, knowing it won't stop and clearly not intending to stop it. Even Alador agrees this is going overboard. And the kicker: when Amity jumps in, she still doesn't stop it until her profits are threatened, not even caring to call it off when her own daughter is in the line of fire.
  • In the end, the Abomatons are all bought by the Emperor's Coven, simply because the Emperor himself doesn't want any citizens building their own private army.
• Eda's attempt at making a "super-glyph" causes a giant mass of expanding of shifting ice to start spreading through the living room of the Owl House, capturing King inside. Luckily Lilith was able to figure out how to stop it.

Episode 3 - Echoes of the Past

• King's delusions include things like ripping the hearts of his enemies out and eating them.
• Although it turns out to just have been trying to protect King, Jean-Luc is horrifying. It's unclear whether it's a demon or some Mechanical Abomination, never says a word, is able to shift it's flesh and bone-like material into various weapons, and is dangerous enough that Luz, Eda, Lilith, and Hooty together have a hard time defending against it. And there seem to be more like it, just inactive like it goes when they get it out of the temple...
• There's something eerie about the ruins. Even after the danger from Jean-Luc passes, there's still an ominous sense about the place that tells the audience that something happened there.
• While it's thankfully kept offscreen, Hooty detaching himself (or more accurately, his head) from the front door is accompanied by some truly disgusting sound effects, along with Luz, King and Lilith's reactions making clear it looks just bad as it sounds. And then we still get a glimpse of some of his innards being left behind.

Episode 4 - Keeping Up A-fear-ances

• The episode starts with a lovely flashback where a young Eda tells to her mother and a healer a recurring “nightmare” whenever she was in her Owl Beast form: she was in a dark void, trying to escape a giant barn owl-like monster.
  • The creature's reveal shot has it extend its neck to thrust its head straight towards the young Eda whilst preforming an unnatural 360 spin, all while having an incredibly disturbing◊ smile on it’s face to sell how monstrous and alien it is. Especially so, since Eda is a young girl of comparable size to Luz, she's dwarfed by this thing the first time we see it, and you can hardly blame her for running.
• Gwendolyn's efforts to find a complete cure for Eda obviously were well-meant but it's entirely possible that, like the anti-vaxxers several fans are comparing her to, she could have tried something that made Eda sick or even killed her just because she was so desperate to cure Eda.
• The lengths Eda will go to for apple blood are rather unnerving, to say the least. Gwendolyn even worries that the curse isn't Eda's only issue.
• We get to see Lilith’s cursed form for the first time, and it’s not pretty. She is twice as big as Eda’s cursed form.
  • That doesn’t quite do it justice. The Owl Beast is easily recognizable as Eda, and falls into Ugly Cute territory more often than not. The Raven Beast is way more monstrous, with Lilith’s features being stretched and warped into a horrible angular grimace. Her eyes are narrowed, enraged slits bearing little resemblance to Lilith’s real eyes. Her fangs are longer and yellowed. Her body appears to be covered in long, stringy hair rather than feathers, and her talons are longer and more wicked. She is also more detailed, with visible veins in her massive ears. But the worst part is her "voice". Eda’s form’s vocalizations are fairly natural sounding, or at least standard monster screeches. Lilith’s are deep and gravelly, but also slightly more human. All of this, combined with the fact that she’s larger, stronger, faster, and more vicious than the Owl Beast… Glad she wasn’t the one Luz and King got trapped in a house with.
  • It's implied that the curse draws strength from the host's fear and other negative emotions, which is why the monster terrifies Young Eda and loses strength when she stands up to it. Given that, Lilith's larger size comparable to Eda gives an understanding of how much negative emotions she must be carrying around with her, from Parental Neglect to guilt from cursing Eda to her own insecurities- it's heavily implied that Lilith's monster form is vastly stronger than Eda because it has so much more fuel to power the curse.
• Eda’s transformation is just as creepy as she calls out Gwendolyn and Luz for how the former’s attempts at "natural remedies" nearly killed her, and the fact that Gwendolyn even stole all of her elixirs.
  Luz: Eda, please, try to stay calm.
  Eda: Why? Why should I be calm?! I have a right to be UPSET!
• Gwendolyn confronts the imps that scammed her and it's as terrifying as it is awesome. Her normally upbeat and nurturing voice suddenly turning raspy and venomous, the swarm of fire bees reinforcing her every threat spoken and unspoken, her combination of Glowing Eyes of Doom and Scary Flashlight Face when she makes her presence known... don't fuck with Gwendolyn Clawthorne when her children are involved.
• The end of the episode shows Luz's mother crying over a nature documentary. She's then handed a box of tissues... by someone who looks and sounds like Luz. Whoever wrote those letters didn't just impersonate Luz, they replaced her.
  • Worse, there's no explanation for this. It's made clear that this doppelganger replaced Luz sometime at the start of Season 1, given that no one reported her missing her bus or not attending camp. Luz wasn't on the Emperor's radar then, and hadn't crossed any beings powerful enough to create an exact duplicate of herself convincing enough that not even her own mother can tell the difference. There's no given reason as to why this being, and whoever's behind it, went out of their way to replace Luz, just that something out there has a vested interest in not breaking the illusion that Luz isn't Trapped in Another World.
  • On that note, the Emperor's deal with Luz made it pretty clear that Eda's portal was the only known reliable means of travelling between their worlds, and it was securely under Eda's control for most of the show. Yet this being was somehow able to infiltrate Luz's human life without arousing suspicion, which implies that there are other means of transporting beings from the Boiling Isles... or this thing doesn't have anything to do with the Emperor and his Day of Unity plans.
  • And to top it off: If the shot from the season preview is any indication, Camila is going to find out that not only is there a stranger impersonating her daughter but said daughter has been missing for the entire time the camp ran and several weeks thereafter.
  • Finally Camila's line "Thank you, Luz. You always know what to do." implies this is how she wanted her daughter to be: calm and down-to-earth. The doppelganger not only covered for Luz but gave Camila the daughter she thought she always wanted to have. This is Be Careful What You Wish For in its purest and most disturbing form.

Episode 5 - Through the Looking Glass Ruins

• Amity promises a little girl that she'll read her any book she wants in exchange for giving Amity back her hair tie, said girl excitedly proclaims that now she can summon the "dark lord".
• Glandus High is such a Social Darwinist environment that the students are perfectly willing to desecrate a graveyard to steal an Amplifier Artifact.
• Gus and the Guardian create illusions as Laser-Guided Karma for their views on Illusion Magic. They use Angmar's love of butterflies and Gavin's Daddy Issues. But to defeat Bria they make the statues come alive and bleed from their mouths and eyes, like something out of a horror film, make it look like her magic no longer works, turn her hands to stone and fall apart and finally one of the statues grabs her only to reveal it's a petrified Bria, causing the real Bria to flee in terror. None of this is real and yet they managed to cover a graveyard in an illusion that prevented Bria from seeing all the stone pillars she created and scarred her for life, and some of this is from Gus.

Episode 6 - Hunting Palismen

• The very first scene is a concentrated dose of Nightmare Fuel, considerably upping the stakes and showing just why Emperor Belos is such a frightening threat.
  • With the nine Coven leaders assembled before him, Belos gives them a vision, to serve as "a taste" of what the Day of Unity will bring: the Titan's bones manifesting in the human realm, as the Sun is eclipsed and the sounds of widespread screaming and panic are heard. Belos is seemingly willing to destroy an entire world just to purge wild magic from his ordered empire.
  • It's implied that the entire coven system is merely a means of siphoning off the unusable magic of the coven members in order to gather as much magic as possible for this goal.
  • While addressing his Covens, Belos suddenly suffers a spasm similar to a heart attack, clutching at his chest and having to be led away by the Golden Guard to his private chambers. At first, it seems to be just another sign of his advancing age and frailty — but once alone, he doubles over in agony with his back rippling and surging underneath his robes, and he emerges in silhouette as a monstrous horned creature, howling and snarling like an animal. He's only able to regain his stable form by repeatedly punching a pillar (with an arm made of thick black slime) until he calms down.
  • When the Golden Guard — now revealed to be Belos's nephew — mentions that he's heard of a way to generate more Palismen using wild magic, Belos grips his shoulder and stares at the young man, his faceplate now cracked and oozing with the same dark essence. Very softly and without any warmth, he intones, "Please, be careful. Our family is gone because of wild magic." As his grip tightens and slime begins to pour from his gauntlet, he adds, "I can't let the same happen to you." His tone was threatening.
• There is implied child abuse all over this episode, with how Belos treats Hunter.
• Wherever Belos is in this episode, there are Abomatons close by. Clearly, the Blights are hard at work.
• When Luz sticks a fire glyph to Hunter's back, it works so well that it sends him flying off into the distance. Luz is shown rather horrified and trying to reassure herself that he's fine.
• The fact that Kikimora is trying to kill the Golden Guard, implied to be just so she can be Belos's closest coven member instead of him.
  • This proves that Kikimora is a Not-So-Harmless Villain. Up until that point, she was shown to simply be a Deadpan Snarker and Dirty Coward who instantly complied with Luz's demands under threat of being burned. Now it's shown she has a pet chimera which is essentially a dragon, made of hands, that she can command with simply a whistle.

Episode 7 - Eda's Requiem

• Eda can still perform Bard magic, causing a magical aura to engulf everything within range. But, if she keeps it up for too long, it will start consuming everything in range, including living things and herself.
• While it's Played for Laughs, Hooty eats the Echo Mouse that contains the knowledge that could get Luz home, right in front of her. If he had successfully digested it, all hope would be lost. Luz notes the mouse is traumatized by the experience and needs recovering.
• When Eda's boots kick mud over Darius, he furiously summons Abomination spikes to shred them, and even Eberwolf seems noticeably scared of him despite having been messing with him since they showed up.
• We get to see Darius and Eberwolf's Game Faces when they take off the kid gloves, and it is not pretty. Eberwolf's fangs and claws become outright monstrous, and Darius turns himself into an Abomination!
  Darius: All right... NO MORE PLAYING AROUND!
• It turns out that the Emperor's Coven can use coven sigils to restrain a witch. And Belos wants every wild witch to be forced into a coven before the Day of Unity...
• Despite his comedic moments, there's something very creepy about Darius' ability to basically reshape Abomination goo at will along with being able to outright transform himself into one. It makes it hard to tell if his Abomination magic is so good he's able to do so along with having his hair also be another abomination, or if he really is some kind of Abomination himself.

Episode 8 - Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door

• After what happened with Raine, Eda is so determined not to waste time sleeping before she can get stronger, she's using clothespins to keep her eyes open.
• Hooty can swallow people whole and put them in giant owl pellets to kidnap them. He not only does this to take King to the attic, but snatches Amity from who knows where for his plan in the basement.
  • Gets worse when you consider what owl pellets actually are. Like most birds, owls swallow their prey whole, where it goes to the gizzard (main stomach) and is digested. Rather than sending the indigestible bits - fur, feathers, and bone - through the digestive tract, they're wadded up in the gizzard, then "cast" (vomited) up as compact pellets. In short, Hooty swallowed King and Amity, allowing them to enter his digestive system and essentially purged them in cases of compact vomit. Relatively unharmed though they seemed, it couldn't have been a pleasant experience.
• Though it's Played for Laughs, people with needle phobias will likely be freaked out by the giant syringe Tiny Nose pulls out for King's blood sample.
• In the Owl Beast's memory, we see the being who captured it and created Eda's curse—a sadistic being known as "The Collector", clad in a black cloak covered with crescent moons and stars, from a place that's not the Boiling Isles.
• It's revealed in a flashback that the Owl Beast, triggered by a magic party popper that launches mini-fireworks that he used, had clawed out the eye of Eda's father. Fortunately, we all know from “Keeping Up A-fear-ances” that he’s alive and well, but still traumatic for Eda to relive that moment.
• During Hooty's Freak Out in the climax, if it hadn't been for King's powers, Luz and Amity would have been crushed by a hunk of falling stone.
• Hooty's cookies contain sleeping nettles that immediately put Eda into a nightmare. That is, those cookies have literal Nightmare Fuel in them.
  • Well, not quite; as Eda explains, sleeping nettles don't cause whoever eats it to have nightmares, it just makes their dreams more intense. Unfortunately, because of her curse, Eda's dreams just so happen to involve a terrifying monster.
    Eda: Sleeping nettles don't just put you to sleep; they heighten your dreams! Do you realize who you just stuck me with?!
    Owl Beast: (screech)

Episode 9 - Eclipse Lake

• There's a strong implication that not only did Belos make Hunter, him being something called a "Grimwalker", but that he's a literal ingredient in the Emperor's plans, and while Hunter notices the comment about how it would be a hassle to replace him, the rest flies completely over his head.
  • Shockingly, we see Belos without a mask for the first time, and he...looks incredibly normal. Sure, he's got a streak of what looks like rot going across his face, but aside from that, he looks and sounds like a gentle grandfather-like figure. This veers the whole thing even further into uncanniness, since we know what he's capable of, and due to his said implied plans for Hunter, ironically not unlike Fire Lord Ozai.
    • Looking closer at the streak of rot, it looks like Belos appears to have actual holes in his body where the marking covers it, which is sure to trigger some trypophobia in viewers.
• Although Luz turns out fine by the end of the episode, Amity is fully correct in worrying that a disease that's harmless to witches could have unforeseen side effects in a human whose immune system has never been exposed to it before.
• Hunter threatens to hunt down Luz and the Portal Key with an army of guards unless Amity hands it over to him, with the implication that it’s NOT going to be like Lilith’s last attempted raid.
• When Hooty "catches" a bowl of soup with his head, we can see it starting to burn him.
• Kikimora's Sanity Slippage is unnerving. She blames every problem that her group encounters on Hunter, who, as far as everyone else can tell, isn't there and it's pretty clear that she's not above trying to harm him.
• The female coven member casually throwing Amity down a shaft because she was bored of trying to talk to her.
  • Adding to this, just who Amity is. Upon seeing her for the first time, Hunter was able to recognize her as the youngest Blight, and remember that the family are both in good social standing themselves as well as under the Emperor's direct employment. This leads to two possibilities; the first is that the Emperor has (or believes himself to have) such a firm hold over the Blights that he fully expects that the murder of their youngest child, however rebellious she might be, to be met with no retaliation whatsoever. The second is that the would-be murderer believes she herself has the sort of clout to get away with the murder of, again, the daughter of a powerful, wealthy family.
  • It is very likely that she did not care at all about any repercussions. From her point of view, nobody was ever going to find Amity´s corpse and her parents would never know what happened to her except that she vanished one day without leaving a trace. Which is a very unsettling idea too.
• When Amity is caught by Eda and King when she fell in the shaft, we can see that the only thing that's keeping them from falling is Owlbert being wedged in between the cliffs. Eventually, Owlbert starts cracking, and if Eda hadn't turned into Harpy Eda in time to fly everyone out of the shaft, Owlbert would've broken into pieces, essentially killing him.

Episode 10 - Yesterday's Lie

• Remember the Basilisk from "The First Day" above? As it turns out, they were extinct instead of just Not So Extinct, but the Emperor's Coven brought them back. "Vee" and the others lived their whole lives as experiments for their magic-draining abilities before escaping, and Vee is so terrified of going back that she jumps at the chance to escape, even if it means running to an entirely different world, with barely a second thought.
• Jacob is a Conspiracy Theorist who, after watching conspiracy videos online following a brief encounter with Eda's Owl Beast form, has become obsessed with witches and demons, showing no sympathy to a captured Vee and saying that she'll live the rest of her life in a cage. He even tries to vivisect poor Vee in front of Luz's mom!
• Even though the audience knows that Luz would never be angry without a justifiable reason, her jumpscare at the beginning of the episode - appearing suddenly, clothes ruffled and seemingly trapped inside a reflective surface - can be jarring.
• When Luz let slip that she chose to stay in the Demon Realm, look at it from Camila's perspective, given her extremely limited context and information about the place and Earth's cultural teachings to Camila it must seem like Luz has literally stumbled across and of her own volition decided to stay in Hell itself, and then there's when you consider what this tells Camila about how Luz feels about her life on Earth...
• The In Between, the eerie Void Between the Worlds full of Alien Geometries, is scary enough on its own. But what's even more unsettling than its appearance—a factor that's a Rewatch Bonus for many—is the Voice. It's an eerie whispering that echoes through the In Between, and its whisper of Luz's surname, Noceda, urges Luz to seek out her mom. But the creepiest thing about it is the subtle moments of communication with Luz. This voice, whatever or whoever it is, knows Luz is there with it, and it's implied that, whether Luz consciously hears it or not, it wants to keep her there.
  Luz: Eda? King? Hooty? Can anyone hear me?
  The Voice: Yes.
  (later)
  Luz: Luz Noceda 2.0! Doppelganger! Ugh, why won't you work?!
  The Voice: Stay here.
  • Made even worse in "Oh Titan Where Art Thou" when we find out exactly who that voice was.

Episode 11 - Follies at the Coven Day Parade

• Played for Laughs when Luz is making her vlog, trying to assure her mother that the Demon Realm isn't that frightening a place — and looks out the window to witness Hooty outside, stripped to the bone and unable to make anything more than guttural breathing noises, hanging his wet skin on a clothesline before he stares right at the camera. Even later, she's reviewing the footage as if wondering just the heck she saw.
• It turns out that the Emperor actually had Raine's memories altered in order to bring them into compliance. Just how far will he go...
• Terra Snapdragon in general. She is a incredibly ruthless and powerful plant witch; she would have been easily able to kill Kikimora, Luz and Amity (if Belos didn't have other plans) and she makes the tea that keeps Raine brainwashed. What makes it even worse is that she always acts like a kind grandmother.
• When Kikimora finally gets the promotion she wanted, she asks the head of the Plant Coven what she'll get in return. And how does she respond to the little imp? "You get to live."
• The Emperor not only unmasks himself but he also reveals his plans to the public to create a new world order free of wild magic. And whatever it is, it's not going to be good for the Boiling Isles and the Human Realm and their inhabitants, but no one, save for Luz and her friends, know this.

Episode 12 - Elsewhere and Elsewhen

• Luz pokes her head in one of the time pools, and sees a knight declare he will party until he drops, then sees the guy's skeleton in the present day. It's heavily implied the guy died from intoxication.
• Philip's true colors are revealed to be as a cold Manipulative Bastard who will happily throw his allies in the way of danger to get what he wants. The way he is completely nonchalant about it is chilling, as he doesn't even seem to consider sacrificing to be more important than unlocking a puzzle. He outright tells Luz and Lilith afterwards that he's perfectly okay with sacrificing them again if such a situation arises, even attempting to leverage that as a sort of twisted bargain if Luz wants his knowledge of how to make a portal door. It's made clear that Philip not only thinks nothing of leaving many of the Isle's denizens to their deaths if it will benefit him, it's his preferred solution to achieving his goals, showing how Philip only sees the people of the Demon Realm as tools for his goals at best.
  • The scene leading up to The Reveal underscores how there's something off about Philip, with Lilith noting that he's been telling Luz what she wants to hear in order to get her cooperation. She finds herself unsettled by how familiar such manipulation tactics feel. When Luz approaches him writing in his diary, he just finishes the passage that describes how 'he alone survived the encounter,' showing how he's already written off both Luz and Lilith as dead despite them having been nothing but helpful to him up to that point. The entire scene when they're being attacked by the Stone Sleeper plays his Casual Danger Dialogue towards the duo's predicament for horror, showing no interest in their fates and only focused on achieving his goals, not caring whether they live or die as long as he benefits in the end.
  • As Luz approaches him, an inert blue Palisman can be seen in his bag, implicitly belonging to Blue Fang, the brother of the denizens who were harassing Philip when he met Luz and Lilith. Given it's later revealed that Philip is sustaining his life force through absorbing Palisman essence, it gives a further creepy undercurrent to Philip's monopolization and discarding of the people of the Boiling Isles— he needs their Palismen to stay alive, so he's luring gullible individuals into risky situations to benefit himself and stealing their personal belongings afterwards, almost like a sick trophy, making him analogous to a Serial Killer. The lair he retreats to at the episodes end has piles of broken Palismen scattered around it, making it clear Philip has been doing this for a long time, and him digging through them to find one unbroken Palisman to sustain him a little longer makes the location feel like a food larder of some monstrous beast, showing how much Philip has devolved into his worst instincts despite his delusions of being 'better' than the people around him.
  • Also, he has what is quite clearly Blue Fang's fang in his bag, which just adds to the Serial Killer vibes since (unlike the Palisman) there's no practical reason for him to keep it.
• The ending scene shows that Philip has a glyph array as Power Tattoo that is causing Body Horror, and heavily implies that he becomes Belos. His ramblings about witches and their savagery make him sound positively unhinged, while also showing that Politically Correct History is not in effect in this show: Philip has the exact attitude towards witches that you'd expect from a 17th-century British colonist.

Episode 13 - Any Sport in a Storm

• Apparently you can be forced into joining the Emperor’s Coven against your will, and to become a scout you have to go through Training from Hell which not everybody survives. Recruits also usually have their Palismen taken away, and given what Belos does with them...

Episode 14 - Reaching Out

• When Warden Wrath is fed the altered Blabber Serum, he mutates into a massive beast that Alador, a skilled user of Abomination magic, can barely hold him in place before Amity joins in the fight.
• If what Wrath says is true, then it's heavily implied that Belos is indeed planning to make the jump to Earth and Wrath implies that some of the castle staff are having doubts on whether this new place will be friendly to magic users, wild or otherwise.

Episode 15 - Them's the Breaks, Kid

• Luz discovers that some of the doodles in Philip's journal are actually unfinished glyph combos. One turns out to be for petrification, while another summons a flesh arm that nearly attacks Luz before Eda stops it.
• Principal Faust is a Big Red Devil with a flaming tail who can and will expel students over the most minor of infractions. Some of his movements are pretty creepy as well.
• Terra shows that she was Faux Affably Evil even back in the day, having to be talked out of turning several of the kids into mulch.
• Everytime Eda shows her skeleton is pretty disconcerting.
• The Day of Unity has even Darius worried, to the point that he's actually working with Raine to try and sabotage it. It's also confirmed to involve a "Draining Spell", channeled through the head coven witches.

Episode 16 - Hollow Mind

• Belos' mind has two entities within it- a purple-colored child in a wooden mask like Belos' and a monstrous-looking humanoid covered in eyes. While the former seems friendly, it turns out to be the real Inner Belos, and the latter is the anguished souls of the Palismen Belos has consumed over the centuries.
  • The Reveal of their true natures is particularly harrowing. When the beast materialises inside Belos' trap it begs the children to run away from him, it's twisted body now clearly showing the various amalgamated Palismen that make up its tortured form, its overlapping voices sounding akin to crying children as it can only brokenly warn them of the true danger behind them. The camerawork during Luz and Hunter's realization echoes the Vertigo Effect, zooming into their horrified faces as they process the implications and then 'slowly' moving closer to the off-screen childlike Belos, whose terrified sobbing gradually morphs into deranged childish cackling as Inner Belos makes his true malevolence known, far too late to be stopped anymore.
• Belos uses a False Flag Operation to destroy a town he was demonstrating at, claiming that wild witches did it. It doesn't even seem to be necessary, as Belos already staged the attack during his 'demonstration' of the coven system and got his message out to the town. If anything, it seems the Belos doesn't see any reason not to blow up the town because the opportunity was there, reasoning that it will be more effective for his plans if there's more devastation, in a tone of voice that suggests it was almost an afterthought as he was leaving, again selling how little lives actually matter to him. The ruins of this town can be seen on the knee in "Adventures in the Elements", showing the damage Belos has caused over the years in the name of his self-appointed "witch hunt".
  Belos: (To the Golden Guard asking what they should do with their spare explosives) Put on a bigger show.
• In a flashback, when a previous Golden Guard uses a glove to bestow a group of witches with prototype coven sigils, after a few moments Volcanic Veins cover their bodies, their eyes go blank, and they collapse in the snow. When Belos hears that they're still alive, he calls it a failure, implying it was his intention to kill them.
  • Despite that Golden Guard assuring Belos (and the audience) that they're still alive, it's heavily implied that the two of them just left the entire group of witches to freeze to death in the snow.
• The Reveal of how dangerous the modern coven sigils are. Well, let's just say it's a good thing that not only did Amity skip the coven tryouts two episodes prior but also that the Emerald Entrails weren't forced to join the Emperor's Coven.
  • We learn that Belos plans to use his Draining Spell through the sigils. Hunter has a coven sigil, meaning whatever's going to happen to all those innocent people will happen to him, too. Even if he remained obedient and loyal toward Belos, even if he never rebelled, Hunter was never supposed to live past the Day of Unity.
• Belos admits that he's been physically hampered by the entity in his mindscape made up of the hundreds - if not thousands - of Palisman he's devoured over the centuries. With Luz and Hunter's unwitting help, however, he manages to trap and destroy the amalgamation - and now he has control over his curse and is at prime health.
• Hunter is merely the latest in a long, long line of Golden Guards, seemingly meant to replace his brother, and Inner Belos shows no qualms with seemingly killing him, just casually mentioning that he's going to need to make a new one. He's been killing his brother, over and over, for centuries, and thinks nothing of doing it again.
  • When Hunter brokenly begs Belos for a reasonable explanation over the memories he's seen of his "uncle's" darker actions, Belos merely gets an annoyed look before instantly deciding to end Hunter then and there, merely commenting on how much of a shame it is that his latest attempt, so close to the original, also ultimately became a "failure". His utter disinterest in explaining himself to Hunter and the line of broken masks symbolising the past guards make it clear — Belos has killed his 'sibling' so many times that he's gotten used to it by now, able to recognise the signs that Hunter has already started to irrevocably turn against him and deciding that he's not worth the effort to convince that he should remain by his side. Instead, he casually dismisses his entire existence and just tries to almost-literally put him out of his mind, showing how little Hunter's life and individuality really mattered to him. His similarly-casual attempt to kill Luz afterwards makes it clear that Hunter's not just an isolated case either. Just like when he used to go by Philip, Belos' preferred course of action, when dealing with witches or opposition to his plans, is straightforward murder — and after the centuries he's spent studying the native magic, he's now skilled enough that he no longer needs to rely on trickery or the dangers of the isles to get his way, but can instead take direct action and remove the problem with his own hands.
    • The method Belos uses to try to kill Hunter is equally horrifying. The ground under Hunter's feet starts glowing red, and he starts to rapidly sink into it as if it were quicksand. Luz throws him her jacket as a lifeline and tries to drag him back out, but she can't do anything as Hunter sinks down into the sand up to his neck, looking completely and utterly terrified, before she loses her balance and he disappears under the ground. He escapes minutes later, physically unharmed, but that just points to the fact that if he hadn't been able to escape, Hunter's death would not have been quick...
    • Adding to the horror is the fact that Belos was actively pulling Hunter towards the memories of these horrible actions and tries offing him for begging, not even demanding, an explanation for it all. Combined with said previous actions, especially when he snaps at Hunter for going against orders to remain in the castle despite bringing him Titan's Blood, you can get the impression Belos was planning to kill Hunter from the start of the episode for daring to invade his mind. Despite it being a complete accident and Hunter vehemently defending him from Luz's increasingly more founded accusations the whole episode. We knew that Belos was a massive Control Freak, and that Phillip had serious Moral Myopia, but this scene really showcases how bad these traits are in him.
• In Belos' mind, when looking at the corridor of Golden Guard masks, you can see portraits showing how Belos killed them. The few we get a good look at show the deaths weren't pretty.
  • Belos has done this so many times, the Collector even mockingly teases him that he enjoys it, relishing the opportunity to killing his disobedient sibling again and again every time he repeats his 'mistake' of choosing magic over Philip. Belos is even seen giving a small smile before vocally denying it, implying that the Collector's words are true on some level, even if a pathological liar like himself is incapable of admitting any fault on his behalf, no matter how strong the evidence to the contrary is. The glimpses of his childhood with his Brother and the fact that his mask of "Emperor Belos" is shown to be based on a wooden mask Philip's brother carved for him to play with in their youth shows how deeply he cared for him, but him selfishly 'resurrecting' him through the Grimwalkers and then killing him over and over again after he 'disappoints' him, shows just how deeply possessive and unstable that love really was at its core.
    • One of the paintings even shows what looks like the birth of one of the first Grimwalkers, with his arm emerging out the earth.
• A line of portraits depicts the measures Philip took to conceal his identity and become Belos◊. The third portrait shows that the glyphs on his arm aren't tattoos, they are skin carvings. The fourth portrait depicts Belos in front of a sink covering his ear, with his dagger and what appears to be flesh in the bowl; this strongly suggests that he self-mutilated his ears to look like a witch.
  • It's implied that, unlike Luz, Philip has not been trapped in the Boiling Isles, but willingly stayed there searching out the secrets of this magic world so he could better understand how to utterly eradicate it all. His Fantastic Racism is so strong, he implicitly relishes hearing his original name spoken by another human being, selling his absolute disgust towards the denizens of the isles, even after having spent centuries living with them, his mind and will ever-bent upon their total destruction all the while. It's implied that him choosing to extend his lifespan with Palisman essence was a willing choice he made to ensure that he, personally, would be the one to destroy the isles, refusing to pass the duty onto another in case they would fail or let something like his natural ageing stop him from eradicating this world of witches with his own two hands. It's a monstrous testament to his utter commitment towards destroying witchcraft that he willingly implemented such a blasphemous method to achieve his warped vision, taking the natural magics of the isles and twisting it towards serving his corrupted ideals.
• Belos/Philip admits that he's a witch hunter, and he's seemingly planning genocide against the witches and demons of the Isles. When Inner Belos talks to Luz about this, he seems honestly incapable of realizing how monstrous his actions are.
  • When Luz calls him out over his evil, he dismissively notes that you 'can't reason with crazy' before attempting to outright behead her with his arm morphed into a mutated blade. Belos leaves little to no indication of his intentions prior to doing this, no implication that he's ready to outright murder a defenseless teenager in his tone of voice or his expression besides a slight frown before he instantly moves onto attempting to end her for disagreeing with him, showcasing his almost inhuman sociopathy as well as his Control Freak tendencies and sheer absolute intolerance for anything that opposes his views.
  • Luz has lost all her stored glyph papers in the letterman jacket that Hunter accidentally dragged down with him when Belos tried to bury him inside his mindscape, thus leaving her with no way to defend herself against Belos/Philip. Their talk highlights the sheer horror Luz has at realising the depths of Philip's evil and depraved views, with Philip in turn clearly enjoying toying with Luz's emotional breakdown over him revealing the Awful Truth about their "first" encounter and how she helped him, pulling a Circling Monologue the whole time as Luz can do nothing but fruitless try to keep away from him...which is ultimately pointless as not only is there nowhere to run to, Philip can easily alter and control the landscape of his thoughts as will, highlighting how he's playing around with her, like a child with an amusing toy. Alone with the Psycho has never been as horrifying as being alone inside the psycho's mind. Luz is almost to the point of tears when she begs Eda to get her and Hunter out of the mindscape, sounding more like a terrified little girl than she ever has before, and its presented as a very near-miss for both of them when they finally get out.
  • Philip's attempt to outright kill Luz is also a horrifying moment for another reason. He makes it clear to her that he was aware of the Stable Time Loop she perpetuated even if she wasn't, explaining why he's been so hands-off with her and the rest of the Owl House — he needed her alive and free so she could eventually give his younger self the key he needed to advance his genocidal ambitions for the Isles. When Luz confirmed that she's already met Philip in a breakdown over realising his true identity, she confirmed that the loop was closed, and now, Philip has no reason to hold back against her or anybody she cares about, especially since she's aware of his true nature and plans. Their first meeting had him showing uncharacteristic restraint after she succeeded in breaking off a piece of his mask, and now, he's implied he's been looking forward to the moment where she'd close the loop and free him up to treat her like any other witch, despite the fact he seems to enjoy conversing with a fellow human for the first time in a long time.
• After Eda gets him and Luz out, Hunter, realizing he'll be murdered and replaced if he ever returns to Belos, has an incredibly realistic panic attack. The poor kid is suppressing multiple screams, sounds like he's Trying Not to Cry, and rips his cloak off in horror before blindly running off into the woods.
  Hunter: He knows... he... he knows we were in there... (starts hyperventilating) I can't... I can't go back!
• One of the pictures in Belos mind shows the furious Philip watching his brother -- who looks exactly like an older version of Hunter -- holding hands with a pregnant-looking witch he fell in love with. Another picture shows him approaching the couple while holding a knife behind his back. It's pretty obvious what Philip did to his brother.

Episode 17 - Edge of the World

• There's only a week left until the Day of Unity and Belos wipes out of all magic-kind.
• When Luz is talking to Bill, trying to get help against Belos and his plans for the Day of Unity, he's supportive at first... and then she realizes that the Titan Trappers worship The Collector, and that Bill's description of a Titan matches King to a tee... After that, when trying to excuse herself and rescue King before it's too late, she and Hooty come across a room full of Titan skulls.
  • Not just any skulls... if the Boiling Isles and Titan Trapper Island are examples of what their species are like fully-grown, then the skulls that the Trappers have collected and ritualistically wear around their community can only belong to infants or young members of their species too weak to properly defend themselves. This entire cult have been hunting down members of King's species around his age and glorifying child murder as a good thing, to the point that he may very well be the Last of His Kind left. We just got done with a episode that revealed Belos/Philip to be a genocidal Witch Hunter, and now we're facing a similar cult that has nearly succeeded in their bloodthirsty quest. And the connection both groups have to the Collector paints a disturbing image of what kind of being they are...
  • Worse when you consider, the Trappers would have stood no chance against the adult Titans... so what took them out? What killed them and left their children defenceless to be hunted down by their brainwashed and crazed cult? Just how powerful is the Collector, that the Titan they're sealed under apparently needed to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to stop their genocide of its species, and only partially succeeded at that?
• Once the Trappers realize that King is a Titan, they waste no time in trying to sacrifice him to free the Collector.
• The ending of the episode heavily implies that, not only is the Boiling Isles itself a member of King's own species, it might actually be King's father! Not only has he grown up atop a member of his deceased species, he may have been living on his father's corpse for most of his life. That's a depressing thought to have, and King is unlikely to sleep easy on the Isles anymore.
• The episode ends with an army of Emperor's Coven Scouts about to assault the Owl House, with nothing to protect it. Now that Luz has unwittingly closed the Stable Time Loop, Belos has no further need of her or anyone else within the Owl House...

Episode 18 - Labyrinth Runners

• If it wasn't for Gus, Graye's plan to trick every multi-track student at Hexside into a Coven before the Day of Unity would have gone off without a hitch. And given what we now know about the Sigils... Graye also tries to force Gus into the Abomination Coven as payback for foiling his plan.
  • Just the fact that Belos is trying to force even child witches into Covens before the Day of Unity. If his personal demonstration of malicious lethal intent towards Luz and Hunter in "Hollow Mind" didn't make it clear, this shows that he clearly intends to make sure that no one escapes, all because of his personal outdated values and sheer inability to see the natural residents of the Boiling isles as anything less than monsters who deserve death, even though he's spent centuries living amongst them, and never once faltered in his convictions.
  • Worse, the looming dread throughout the episode applies not only to the students, but their attackers as well. The draining spell will target everybody with a sigil, meaning the Coven soldiers we see attacking the students — whom are given enough personality to stand out from the normal faceless mooks in the coven — are similarly imperilled by its activation, and are completely ignorant of the consequences of their Blind Obedience. And unlike the students, though they walk away defeated, they still have their sigils by the episodes end, basically being walking dead witches without knowing it. The entire plot of this episode could have been avoided if Hunter had been able to explain the truth, but his credibility is shot with the Coven after "Hollow Mind" and he's still too deeply traumatised by everything he learned in Belos' mind to properly articulate it until the end.
  • It also certainly doesn't hurt that Gus only saw through the illusion of one Coven guard. When they're told to drop the act, it's revealed there's at least a dozen guards surrounding all of the students, and no one was any the wiser. It certainly paints a picture that if they wanted to, the Guard could just be anywhere, watching anyone they wanted, at any time. Are you sure you're really alone?
• Gus turns out to have serious Power Incontinence issues, enough to overlay most of Hexside without even trying or even Graye, Head of the Illusion Coven, being able to dismantle it.
• Belos isn't about to let Hunter go just like that, and has sent out a search party for him. When Hunter learns this, all he can manage is a weak "You don't say...", and as soon as he and Gus have escaped the scouts, his confident facade immediately crumbles as he has another panic attack.
  Hunter: (hyperventilating) Oh, Titan! He's looking for me! He'll know I'm here! I gotta- I gotta run, I gotta hide, I gotta- I gotta-
  • The worst part is, the Emperor's Coven scouts don't know that Belos wants to kill Hunter, and are just relieved to see he's okay. Even Graye, who is much less sympathetic towards Hunter, sees him as just a runaway. The Emperor's Coven is looking for Hunter out of genuine concern, not knowing that if they were to catch him and bring him back home, they'd be leading him to his untimely death.
• When Hunter manages to grab Gus and tries to lead him away from Adrian, Adrian has to stop him before they both escape. He decides to do this by conjuring up a lifelike image of Hunter's abuser who's currently trying to track him down. Adrian probably doesn't know why Belos is trying to locate him, but he certainly knows that his image alone would scare Hunter enough to stop him, and is not afraid to take advantage of this. Really makes you wonder how much the Coven Heads knew about what was really going on behind the scenes for the illustrious Golden Guard...
  Hunter: (voice shaking) Belos?!
• Although it's Played for Laughs, one of the Scouts takes his partner's half-finished statement of telling him to put Hunter to sleep as a cue to "put him out of his misery", and he's rightfully disturbed at the conclusion he jumped to.
• When interrogating Hunter, one of the teachers suggested trading Hunter for Gus. Granted, no one really knew about Hunter's situation, but the terrified whimper he lets out in response should tell them more than enough.
• When Graye tries to interrogate Gus by viewing his memories, it ends up Gone Horribly Right and he's overwhelmed by the memories. Not only does Hunter get a flashback to "Hollow Mind" when he goes to rescue him, by the end of the episode Graye is still virtually catatonic.
  • What Graye did to Gus was essentially Mind Rape. He violated Gus's mind to look at his memories for his own wants and needs. Gus begged him to stop, told him it hurt, and, not only did Graye not stop, he mocked Gus for it and was going to continue even after the Illusion ended. Graye is an adult and Gus is a young child. It resembles a completely different kind of violation.
• Although Hunter ends the episode about to tell the students and teachers of Hexside about the Day of Unity, and the attempt to force the multi-track students into a Coven was foiled, Belos still knows about said students, Hexside is likely no longer safe for Hunter, and there's no clue as to the fate of Luz and the other Owl House residents.
• Aside from a cameo of Luz via photos in the illusion of Gus' room, Luz, King, Hooty, Eda, and Lilith make absolutely no appearances whatsoever in this episode, leaving their fates and current whereabouts completely ambiguous.

Episode 19 - O Titan, Where Art Thou

• King has a dream where he sees the Collector as a Sealed Evil in a Can in the In Between Realm, and the Collector hears him when he calls out...
  • There's also the fact that, while the Collector is clearly not a good a person, they're still confined within a small bubble and have been trapped there for at least a few centuries.
• The empty Owl House is rather haunting when Luz and King enter it, especially since they initially don't know if Eda and Lilith made it out or not.
• Lilith's sycophantic behavior towards King is rather disturbing, especially when she pulls out a dagger made of bone and asks him if he wants dark deeds carried out in his name. Thanks to his Character Development, and the recent attempt to ritually sacrifice him to free the Collector, King is rather unnerved In-Universe too, and even lampshades how she seems unusually predisposed to that kind of behavior when calling her out.
• There's a brief shot of the inside of Hooty's mouth where he eats some fire bees. Not only is the inside of his throat lined with sharp teeth, but there's a second face at the end of it.
• There’s only two days left until the Day of Unity and Belos activates the draining spell to wipe out magic kind. At several points throughout the episode, the heroes witness background characters on a pilgrimage-style journey to the head, leaving some of the locations the heroes visit feeling desolate and abandoned. When the spell activates, if Belos has his way, this will be the state of the Boiling Isles forever, a dead body rotting in the Boiling Seas, bereft of the life that used to live on it and strewn with reminders of their presence and life upon it. The Titan has always been a symbol of life after death, and Belos' plan will single-handedly turn it into a barren corpse in the middle of nowhere, all out of his insane beliefs about witch kind and utter certainty that he's in the moral right to do this.

Episode 20 - Clouds on the Horizon

• The Cold Open has the Collector excitedly rattling on about the games they want to play with Belos once they're finally free, and proposes making a new Grimwalker if they need a third player. Belos refuses however, and tells the Collector he'll only start making a new Grimwalker once the current one — Hunter — is... dealt with, again showing his sheer dispassion for Hunter's existence. He doesn't even refer to him by name, merely as 'the current Grimwalker', and despite this, it's made clear that he's eager to start again with the 'next attempt' once Hunter's gone, showcasing both Belos' ruthless demotion to his own goal over others as well as his sheer inability to understand the role his own evil nature has in pushing the Grimwalkers away from him.
  • Despite having dealt with the amalgamated Palisman monster within his mind, Belos' Body Horror issues still persist, and in fact seem to be on the verge of getting worse. Purging the monster seems only to have granted Belos a quiet state of mind and calmed his fits, as when he lashes out with an extended limb in anger over the Collector teasing him over his fears that the human realm is far too changed for him after the hundreds of years he's been away from it — fears that the viewers are well aware are entirely justified — he sinks to his knees in visible exhaustion, his grotesquely mutated flesh oozing away from the limb and exposing what seems to be blackened bones underneath, formed into what almost looks like a bird's wing bones. The Collector teasing him about how he can barely retain his 'human shape' anymore make it clear — much as Philip would like to delude himself that he's still human underneath all the twisted decay he has wrought upon himself from his own actions, he no longer truly is one, and is a monster in both body and soul now.
  • Though unsaid, it's implied that the Glyph arrays Philip carved into his skin are what help him maintain his human shape as what he 'believes' he actually looks like, rather than the mud monster he's devolved into. The Collector's teasing about how long he's been absent from the human world also makes it clear that Philip has never set foot back there for hundreds of years... and thus unlike Luz, he's unaware that Glyph magic doesn't work away from the Titan's body. Even if Belos does succeed in returning to the Human Realm, what will happen to him on the other side is unlikely to be a pretty sight...
• Darius' initial plan to get Eda into position involves sending Eberwolf's flesh-eating beetles into the crowd as a diversion. Seems alright... until the tiny Abominations he's using as a representation explode. And judging by what Darius says afterward, that's more or less what would have happened. Thank the Titan they didn't go through with his idea.
• When Alador expresses his doubts over Belos's intentions, Odalia decides she has to keep him in line. How does she do this? By threatening their children. It's clear that Odalia doesn't care in the slightest what happens to her family, only about their reputation.
• Eda ends up having to get a Bard Coven sigil for their plans to stop the Day of Unity.
• The last time we see Edric and Emira in this episode (and in Season 2 in general), they were being taken away by their mother's Abomaton 2.0 soldiers after they were caught trying to steal Kikimora's ship. A terrified Amity, who was also captured along with rest of the Hexsquad, could only watch as she calls out her siblings' names, as this is also the last time she'll see the twins before the Day of Unity chaos.
  • What's spine-chilling is that Odalia just smugly tells Amity that Ed and Em are going to be grounded and be imprisoned in their home again, this time with "maximum security". Knowing Odalia, viewers all know that this so-called "security" will be set up by Blight Industries' weaponry, just to make sure the twins have no chance of escaping.
• Odalia reveals that she's known about the Day of Unity from the start, choosing to stay silent and continue providing Abomatons to the Emperor. Despite knowing exactly what the event will do, she simply doesn't care and only thinks about the power and status of her family once it's over.
• When Amity and Alador disown Odalia, she simply doesn't care and shows no signs of regret; she only gets upset when Alador damages her precious Abomatons. This level of callousness is just disturbing.
• Kikimora revealing that Belos is aware of the resistance against him.
• During the fight with Odalia, Kikimora snatches Hunter and flies off to Belos in the hopes of redemption. After the battle is over, the crew prepares to take off in pursuit, only to find that Hunter and Luz had switched places using one of Gus' illusions. Luz is heading straight into Belos' lair once more, but unlike last time, the Emperor has no reason to keep her alive.
• King hears the Collector again. While at first the Collector expresses uncertainty and worry about his "friend" Belos being dishonest, it appears the Collector's time in isolation has not done wonders for his mental health. He's arguing with himself, and he ends the argument with himself by stating he wants to play a "new game" other than Belos' in an all too threatening growl.

Episode 21 - King's Tide

• At least two promo images for this episode feature King's skull with a large crack coming out one eye. It turns out that he got injured when the airship got crashed by the Emperor's Coven. He's otherwise alright, but it's still rather unnerving.
• Principal Bump and the rest of the Hexside students are nowhere to be seen, despite the former's declaration to keep everyone safe. One could imagine what they’re doing before and during the effects of the Day of Unity.
• Now that the draining spell is happening, Belos drops any attempts at seeming like a good guy. First, he casually tosses the Collector's imprisoning mirror off a bridge while happily commenting about betraying them. Then, when Kikimora shows up, he keeps a plain smile as he treats her like a mosquito not even worth killing.
  Belos: Have you as my right hand? I'd sooner cut off my whole arm.
  Kikimora: But... I just want to help!
  Belos: You want to help? (magically shoves her and her Abomatron out the door) Go find a hole to wither away in.
• We get to see Eberwolf unleash his flesh-eating beetles on someone, namely Mason.
• How do the Coven Heads force Darius to stop fighting? Osran summons a ghost to hold Eberwolf in place, and Hettie Cutburn throws a scalpel and holds it mere inches from his throat.
• The way the Draining Spell takes effect. The sigils everyone has been branded with begin to spread into glowing veins along their arm, then all the way to their face, in what is clearly a painful process. As this progresses, they slowly get weaker and weaker, until the entire population of the Boiling Isles has collapsed into a sea of near-catatonic bodies.
  • Eventually the crowd realizes the Draining Spell is nothing good, and people begin screaming and running for the exits... only to find their escape blocked by Abomatons that throw up a shield around the entire plaza. There is no escape. Most of the Isles' population is trapped in place, unable to do anything except scream as their lifeforce is drained away. Not that running away would have made much of a difference...
  • The fact that once the spell is activated, there is no way to turn it off. In the end, it takes King convincing the Collector to stop the spell to save everyone, which they can only do by moving the moon out of the way, ending the eclipse that powers it. Belos really wanted to make absolutely sure that nobody would stand a chance...
• Thanks to the glyphs on his arm, Belos can petrify people just by touching them, which he uses to very nearly turn Luz to stone before she uses some quick thinking. The whole sequence is pretty stomach churning, with Luz doing some fast talking as the stone slowly creeps up her body. It starts to cover her eyes, with still-liquid tears of fear just escaping, before Belos ceases the spell and reverses the change.
  • Belos's behavior during this scene is equally unnerving. Luz is audibly terrified as she begs for her life, while Belos just stares at her with a look of mild contempt or disgust on his face. It's not until she calls him Philip — something she refused to do in "Hollow Mind" — that he smiles and reverses the spell. It's a testament to his sheer pettiness that he's willing to watch a 14-year-old girl slowly and likely painfully die in front of him, all because she won't say his name.
• Upon being branded with a sigil, Belos has all his magic drained and morphs into a twisted, grotesque form similar to the Palisman creature seen in "Hollow Mind". Putting its appearance aside, it's also so lightning-fast it has a creepy effect, and incredibly resilient. If not for the Collector, Luz and the entire group would have been killed then and there.
  • The grotesque form isn't similar to the Palisman creature, it is the Palisman creature. This means in hindsight, the Palismen were trying to force the truth out of Belos throughout Season 2 by assuming this form. And posthumously, they succeeded... at the worst time possible for Luz.
  • Just the fact that, during this Final Battle, there are no adults around to fight him. Belos' manipulations with the Draining Spell have been so absolute, the few adults who can confront him are divided amongst themselves over the outcome of the Day of Unity, and once it activates, it makes them all too weak to fight back. Darius, Raine, Eberwolf, Alador, Lilith and Eda — they're all rendered either helpless from the spell or too isolated and trapped by the actions of their fellow denizens to interfere, leaving nobody to stand in Belos' way but a small group of children, none of whom can meaningfully stand up to him in a direct fight, and who Belos has no qualms with killing. Eda's fears about Luz and the others getting wrapped up in Belos' plans very nearly came true in the the worst possible way and despite her best efforts, there was nothing she or anybody else could do to protect them from him in the end.
• During the battle, Belos sees Hunter, and tries to manipulate him to get him back on his side, morphing his face back into his human one and sounding confused and terrified... until he sees Flapjack in Hunter's hands.
  Belos: Hunter, why are you hurting me? I only wanted to help you!
  Hunter: (terrified) You're... You're lying!
  (Belos sees Flapjack; face morphs back into his monstrous form)
  Belos: (enraged) CALEB?! (screeches)
  • The worst part about said manipulation is, Hunter isn't hurting him. The rest of the kids are directly attacking Philip in whatever manner they can, but Hunter, either as a result of the Draining Spell or some lingering sentiment towards his abuser, is playing a supporting role, using his Flash Step abilities to move the others out of danger and shielding them from debris with his Palisman staff, never even attempting to land a direct hit. The almost genuine sounding fear and hurt in Philip's voice is nothing more than an act he's putting on to either sway Hunter to his side, or twist the knife even deeper, especially since, despite claiming that he only ever wanted to help, Hunter is actively dying because of the Draining Spell and the coven sigil Philip branded him with.
  • Want even more nightmare fuel? When Philip shouts "Caleb," subtitles in digital media erroneously change the phrase to "Kill him!". Even Dana Terrace on Twitter was shocked at that mistake.
    Dana: Retweeting: He says "Caleb", the caption is incorrect, it just left me shocked at how intense it was vs the actual line haha.
• Kikimora shows King to where the Collector had been tossed, and leads him through a cavern filled with cracked skulls and many, many Golden Guard masks, implying there have been far more Guards than the fanbase had previously thought. When King asks where they are, Kikimora simply replies "Where the failures end up." Fans that counted the masks and skulls around the room tallied roughly 52 bodies overall, a testament to the amount of times Philip's insane obsession leaded him to create life and end it out of his mad desire to have his brother back, along with, eventually, his sadistic enjoyment of punishing Caleb's image for his repeated 'betrayals'.
  • Worse, back in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", a desiccated hand with a number tag on it could be seen in the foreground of the cave Philip had made into his lair, clearly belonging to a past failed Grimwalker. Given the implications that Grimwalkers are 'born' in the earth and have to dig their way out, this image implies that Philip failed to successfully create a Grimwalker as many times as he eventually succeeded after 'getting it right'. The 52 bodies left behind in the skull are merely the 'successful' servants that Philip eventually created who lived long enough to 'betray' him, and don't actually represent the grand total of the Grimwalkers that he made in his persistence over the centuries. They also don't represent the numerous denizens that Philip tricked and betrayed to steal their Palismans during his expeditions, or harmed in his public attacks blamed on 'Wild Witches' or killed by testing out the Draining Spell, or had petrified quietly whilst ruling over the Isles, as shown in "Young Blood, Old Souls". Even if the mound of bodies is subtracted from his victims, and disregarding his impending successful genocide of the isles, Philip still amassed a bodycount in the triple digits at least, over his time in the Demon Realm, and if not for him stopping to settle his business with Luz on the way out, he would have gotten away with it all.
• Raine, desperate to save Eda, rips off her rotting arm with the sigil on it. The arm promptly disintegrates from the energy mixed with Eda's curse.
• Everything about the Collector is pure Nightmare Fuel.
  • After being freed, the Collector gets payback for the Emperor's betrayal. It's revealed earlier that, despite being the most powerful magic user on the Boiling Isles, Belos is absolutely terrified of them. This becomes easy to understand after the Collector initiates a game of "tag" with him, and immediately splatters him against the wall with one poke on the head. One wonders how the show maintains a TV Y7 rating.
  • The kids have a chilling and very warranted Mass "Oh, Crap!" at seeing the Big Bad of the series swiftly reduced to little more than slime. Hunter's reaction is especially heart-wrenching, considering that despite all the abuse, that pile of goo is all that's left of the man who raised him.
    • During their escape, the kids all run to the portal to the human realm, but because Belos got smushed right above the doorway, they have to run through his splattered remains to get to the portal. Most of them are too terrified to care, but Hunter has to visibly steel himself before stepping into what remains of his "uncle", and winds up doing it with his eyes closed, looking like he's about to puke. Not only that, but because he had his eyes closed, he doesn't notice a glob of Belos's goop landing on his shoulder before slithering away and hiding in his clothes...
  • The Collector is shown very eager to continue their twisted game of tag with Luz and her friends — in fact, the Collector outright claims they weren't mad at Belos of his betrayal of them now that they were free anyway, which paints a chilling image. Said brutal instantaneous dispatching of Belos possibly wasn't the Collector punishing him for his disloyalty and refusal to honour their 'pinkie swear' framed as a game, it was genuinely an example of how destructive the games the Collector is so enamoured with can get, and an indication of what could happen if the Collector decides to 'play' with them. The Collector not seeing anything wrong with their 'playmate' being smeared across the walls paints a disturbing image of how dangerous they are, given there doesn't seem to be any malicious intent in their motives for playing with others. Things could have gone horribly for the kids if it wasn't for King's intervention.
  • How does the Collector stop the Draining Spell? Move the moon like they're using a touchscreen, demonstrating how insanely powerful they are.
  • The Cliffhanger ends on The Collector being able to use the entire Boiling Isles as their own personal playground— and it doesn't seem like they're happy that King tried to run away.
• The only people to escape from (and likely survive) the Collector's takeover of the Boiling Isles were Luz, Amity, Gus, Willow, and Hunter - now trapped back in the Human Realm and with the portal destroyed & no immediate access to Titan's Blood, no way to return. Everyone else that they know and love, from King to Eda to Lilith is now trapped with the nigh-omnipotent child who has shown no issue with just killing anyone who interrupts their games.
• The credits have a mostly silent shot of the interior of the abandoned shack in the woods, the only sound the pouring rain visible through the open door... until something wet falls from the ceiling and lands on the door handle, causing it to slam shut even without any draft blowing the door. It would seem that the piece of Belos' remains did survive the trip to the human realm after all, and it's slowly starting to get stronger...
  • Philip/Belos was already overwhelming the kids in a fight before, and they were only saved by the Collector's interference, despite Philip being restricted to just his physical abilities from the Draining Spell. Now, he's back on Earth, recuperating from his near-death in solitude, and nobody knows he's there. The kids think he's dead, there are no adult witches with them, and even with lacking the ability to use Glyph Magic outside the Demon Realm, Philip's unnatural monstrous state is more than capable of killing the children once he's strong enough. His plans being ruined, he has nothing to lose by taking out his petty Revenge upon Luz and the kids at a time of his choosing whilst they spend their time on Earth in ignorance to the danger they're in, with such a goal being arguably the only thing Philip has left to focus on after his centuries of planning came to naught in the end. Worse, if the Collector turning Philip into a literal stain on the wall didn't kill him... what can the kids do to put him down for good at this point, especially since Luz is basically de-powered as well?
• After the episode aired, Dana posted a picture of the kids in the human realm resting, all looking exhausted, even Vee. Luz and Hunter are the only ones awake, and both have the same expression of fear, sorrow and anger. The kids did not have the best mental state at the beginning of the episode, but now it's worse than ever. The title of the picture says it all, "What now?"
• Terra takes visible pleasure in Eda having to watch Raine be forced into the Draining Spell and even comments that she should have killed them both when they met years ago, when Eda and Raine were both children.

Season 3

Episode 1 - Thanks To Them

• Whilst overall heartwarming, during the beginning moments of the episode as Camila reassures the kids that they can stay in her house as long as they need to find a way home, and they they're safe now, a cut to the outside of the house has the globule of remaining Belos matter slithering away, seeking a place of refuge to recover. The fact that it didn't bother separating from Hunter during their trek away from the abandoned house implies that, even in such a reduced state, Belos still has enough intelligence to follow the kids and find out where they're staying so he can take revenge on them later. Even with the failure of his centuries-long plan, even with the loss of his human body, Belos still hasn't abandoned his malevolent intentions towards Witches and those who side with them, and he will be settling the score with his unaware targets. Considering that he leaves for the Boiling Isles at the end, he is going to do just that.
• The Time-Passes Montage has a brief moment where Hunter looks at a history book of the historical witch hunters of Gravesfield, sadly contemplating it and then looking into the bathroom mirror, wherein his reflection distorts first into the visage of Caleb, then Belos glaring malevolently at him before settling into Hunter's own face, revealing that his hair has grown longer and unkept during his time on Earth and fixation with finding out who and what he is, now baring an uncanny resemblance to Belos's wilted hairstyle. Hunter has a noticeable Freak Out at seeing how similar he's becoming in appearance to his abusive parental figure and starts slicing his hair shorter in a self-inflicted Traumatic Haircut to lessen the similarities, serving as a reminder that despite his improved living situation and positive relationships, the damage Belos inflicted on the young boy will not be easily healed, if ever.
• Luz's speech about how the hero of the story her class is discussing made things worse takes on a terrifying turn when she declares how it would have been best if the hero never existed when you think about the Psychological Projection aspect of it. She is essentially saying that it would have been best if she had never existed. It's also Tear Jerker enough such that it sounds eerily close to suicidal thoughts, as it would mean that her self-loathing has reached a point where she doesn't just want to make things right in excessively self-sacrificing kinds of ways, but give up everything she has.
  • Even worse, none of her friends nor Camila are aware of her in-class speech to connect the dots with her actions and emotions, and her classmates and teacher who hear it don't have the context to understand what is going on with Luz, with two students thinking it is an anti-literary rant. With them being in the dark, Luz could take drastic actions without them even noticing the prelude to it, such as her decision to forever abandon the Boiling Isles. Though Camila thankfully finds her video diary and with it, her intention to leave the Boiling Isles forever, enabling her to prevent Luz from doing so, we can only imagine what could happen if Luz went through with her decision. And Camila still doesn't know how Luz's mental health has deteriorated to the point of becoming potentially outright suicidal...
• Although we thankfully don't see it, Hunter gets his hand caught in the sewing machine, impaling his finger all the way through. Gets worse when he uses his injured finger to pick up the Belos-goop found in the shack, allowing Belos to infect his body through the cut.
• Camila's nightmare is a series of flashbacks that show that despite being a supportive mother and enjoying Luz's wild spirit even up to the start of the series, she wasn't able to protect her daughter from other people's cruelty and rejection. This leads her to a scene with trying to defend her daughter in the office of an imposing authority figure, who gets her to do a thing that clearly hurt Luz, by playing on her grief after Manny's death and her own trauma from being bullied as a child. While also being a Tear Jerker, the whole scene is haunting, especially for a parent.
• Hunter stays behind when the rest of the gang goes looking for clues on the scroll they found under the old house since he needs to change into something less conspicuous. But then Flapjack finds some goop on the floor, and Hunter sees Belos in the mirror...
  • Even more chilling, in a Freeze-Frame Bonus, viewers can note Belos' reflection watching Hunter even before the boy notices he's there.
• The Hexsquad visits the giraffe exhibit at a zoo. When Willow snaps a picture of one, it opens its mouth to reveal a horrifying, insect-like face within. Looks like Eda was right about giraffes being freaks.
• Masha's recounting of the Wittebane brother's past on Earth is pretty horrifying for the Hexsquad via Dramatic Irony. Caleb was never a true Witch hunter, but rather an orphaned boy trying to care for his younger sibling who pretended to adopt the practice as a means of fitting into the Witch-hating population of Gravesfield when the two of them tried to make a life for themselves there. However, the younger and impressionable Philip truly believed in the tales and stories he was told about the evil of Witches and embraced these practices wholeheartedly. When Caleb was apparently 'spirited away' by a witch to the Boiling Isles, Philip's reaction was to set out to 'rescue' him and implicitly kill the witch who 'took' Caleb away from him. The idea that the negative views and prejudices of the present can poison and corrupt those you know into discarding their better natures and becoming the worst version of themselves is one that still applies to this every day.
  • Whilst Masha notes that their tales either had them reuniting or Philip still forever chasing after his brother, the truth is a horrifying mix of the two. Philip snapped upon being confronted with the idea that his brother wasn't anything like he thought, killed him for his 'betrayal' and then spent centuries trying to re-make his whole existence into one that suited his 'ideal' vision of his brother, only to kill them when they failed to live up to the fantasy, to the point that practically nobody knows who Caleb truly was by the present. This twisted obsession has not lessened in the slightest even after his numerous failures to create the perfect Grimwalker. When Belos possesses Hunter and confronts the Hexsquad, he frames it as him 'uniting' with Caleb to finish their work as Witch Hunters.
  • Perhaps the worst thing about the truth is how 'normal' it is. For all the fantastical elements in the series, Philip's murder of Caleb out of bigoted rejection of his true nature was a very mundane and realistic fate that drives home how ordinary a man Philip truly is, and how the underlying beliefs and emotions that drove him to commit monstrous deeds are ones that are still very applicable to the present day, even in different forms.
• The entire sequence of Belos possessing Hunter is horrifying.
  • Early in the episode, Hunter finds a bit of Belos-goop in the old shack, and picks it up between his fingers... using the finger with the cut from the sewing machine. As the episode progresses, he starts hearing Belos's voice and seeing glowing eyes, and he doesn't seem to know whether he's hallucinating or not. When he and Luz are chasing his visions of Belos through the woods, he takes the bandage off his finger, only to see that the wound on his fingertip is bleeding green goop. Belos got into Hunter's bloodstream through the wound on his finger, and had been growing inside him for days.
  • When Luz proposes they get the Titan's blood themselves, Hunter tells Flapjack to go get the rebus from Amity. Flapjack hesitates... And Belos gets impatient.
    Hunter: (angry) I'll say that again. (eyes glow blue) Get the rebus!
  • The entire scene in the graveyard. Luz, after losing Hunter during the chase through the woods, finds him standing in front of a tomb, his back turned to her. He says that him seeing Belos was just his imagination playing tricks on him again, and that he's looking for his Palisman, who got spooked and flew off, but his tone and the cadence of his voice sounds... off. Luz starts looking around for the Titan's blood, only to find Flapjack hiding behind a gravestone, shivering and peeping in terror. Luz then turns around to see Hunter approaching her, his face hidden in the shadows save for two glowing blue eyes, Hunter's voice overlayed by Belos's as a pair of horns burst out of his skull.
  • Belos clearly enjoys seeing Luz's distress, outright mocking her unwillingness to hurt Hunter, and even briefly dropping his Voice of the Legion to twist the knife extra hard when revealing Luz's deepest secret.
    Belos: See, this is why you're so useful, Luz. You're so desperate to help people… (Belos' voice vanishes, leaving only Hunter's audible) You even helped me meet The Collector.
  • The entire fight scene that follows is made more terrifying by the fact that, while Belos has zero qualms about killing the Hexsquad, the Hexsquad is seriously pulling their punches to avoid hurting Hunter. Belos is well aware of this, and uses it to his advantage. Even in a severely weakened form, using a body that isn't his while its owner is actively fighting back, it's a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • When Luz and the Hexsquad are thrown aside, Flapjack tries to attack Belos by pecking at his horns. Belos, who only looks mildly annoyed at this, grabs Flapjack out of the air, and as the little bird is struggling to pull free, impales him with several spikes. While we only see shadows, the aftermath is Flapjack covered in puncture wounds that leak a neon green substance, barely able to fly. Belos didn't just make Hunter watch as he killed his Palisman, he made the boy do it with his own hands.
    • Belos somehow makes what's already extremely horrible even worse by the fact that he attempts to consume Flapjack while still possessing Hunter. Not only did he force Hunter to mortally wound his beloved Palisman, Belos tried to make him eat it, too.
  • After Hunter briefly wrenches control back and throws the Titan's blood into the lake, Belos screams and dives in after it. However, neither he nor Hunter appear to be making an attempt to swim, and they quickly start sinking to the bottom. Camila dives in after them and pulls them out, and Belos quickly leaves Hunter's body, but Hunter is left barely clinging to life, only healed by Flapjack letting Hunter absorb his lifeforce.
    • Camila tells Vee to call an ambulance, only for Willow and Luz to rightfully point out that human doctors won't know anything about how to treat Demonic Possession, let alone how to treat a Grimwalker. Hunter would have died then and there if it wasn't for Flapjack, and there would have been nothing any of them could have done about it.
  • After he's healed by Flapjack's sacrifice, Hunter is covered in new scars, implying that, if Belos hadn't been forced out when he was, Hunter might have ended up like the deer that is implied to have been a previous host of his.
  • The fact that Belos still hasn't so much as even considered that his delusions are wrong in spite of everything he no doubt saw: the world he lived in is gone and the current one has moved on, yet he still plans to go through with his plans to killing all the Witches on the Boiling Isles, even telling Luz she'll thank him when everything is over.

Episode 2 - For the Future

• By the time the Hexsquad gets there, the entirety of the Boiling Isles has been transformed into what's essentially a brighter version of Weirdmaggeddon. The natural flora is almost choked out by massive, purple trees, rainbows and sparkling stars are floating around everywhere, some of those stars have faces and giggle creepily as they bounce around the landscape, rivers somehow flow uphill to form waterfalls, and half of the Head (which is about the size of a mountain) is just... missing. The Collector's palace, a massive tiara-shaped floating ring, hovers above the Head itself. Reality Is Out to Lunch indeed...
• What happened to the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles is also revealed... namely that the Collector turned them into literal puppets, and uses them as toys to play games with. While some people have managed to escape and go into hiding, a massive amount of people have been captured, including all nine of the Coven Heads. To say nothing about how far to the wayside the surviving inhabitants have fallen — Bonesborough is a ghost town, and while most of Hexside's students managed to avoid capture, their teachers weren't so lucky, leaving Hexside a kids-only refugee shelter run by the older teens, who struggle to keep everyone alive and fed as the world around them rapidly falls apart.
• While it's Played for Laughs, Edric was seriously injured when he fell into an empty well while running away from the Collector's spies. By the time Amity gets back to Hexside, he's still a Bandage Mummy, despite the injury presumably happening months ago.
• As it turns out, just like King, the Collector is also the Last of His Kind... but while the Titans were seemingly benevolent, or at least neutral, the Collectors would try to "preserve" mortal lifeforms through Forced Transformation magic. Of course, the scribbled-out passage about how they would annihilate a world that resisted too much shows that they cared more about feeling superior than actually helping anyone, meaning that, for everything he's done, the Collector is A Lighter Shade of Black compared to the adults of his species.
• Belos is coming undone, both mentally and physically. Not only is he hallucinating Caleb and the Grimwalkers that he murdered, but as he drags his way to his Grimwalker-lab, his limbs start falling off. By the time he gets there, he's missing a hand and both of his legs.
  • The ghosts Belos sees are equally disturbing. The Grimwalkers are all in full Golden Guard getup, but their masks are cracked and their clothes are torn. Caleb himself looks terrible, his ribs and cheekbones protruding like he hasn't eaten in weeks, bags under his eyes that are so dark they almost look black, and the bloodstained knife Belos murdered him with perpetually hanging over his head. The look in his eyes is one of sad, empty resignation, and the only time he moves is when he closes his eyes and hangs his head, exhausted. The fact that it's not 100% clear on whether or not this is a hallucination or not just makes it worse.
  • When Belos reaches the lab, he tries to find a new body by possessing one of his leftover Grimwalkers. However, this Grimwalker is visibly dead by the time Belos gets there — its skin is green-ish, its bones are protruding and the tips of its fingers are starting to rot. Belos dives into the ground to take over its body, but he barely makes it out onto the surface before the Grimwalker's body melts and falls apart under the strain. Most of this is shown through Shadow Discretion Shot, except for a lovely shot of its hand as the skin and flesh melt off its bones.
  • The utter destruction of the Grimwalker's flesh, leaving only exposed cartilage covered in Belos' slimy flesh, and him expressing frustration that it didn't last longer along with the ease by which he possessed it and Hunter, implies that masses of bones covering both the lair and the Titan's skull may not all have been simple decomposition over the years, but also Belos using every last piece of the Grimwalkers to sustain himself and his plans over the years.
  • Said lair also reveals that the small mountain of Grimwalker corpses we saw in "King's Tide" wasn't even the full extent of Philip's attempts to replicate his brother. Multiple angles of the bottom of the pit show that there are enough corpses to line the floor of the cave and stretch out into the far darkness, and when we see Caleb's skeleton laying on a table in the Grimwalker lab proper, there is only an incomplete ribcage left. Philip's mania with reuniting with Caleb has lead to him murdering him and his image more times than can be counted in a single mortal lifespan, and even with the guilt of his actions staring him in the face, wearing the faces of his past victims, all it does is make Belos double down on succeeding in his Final Solution to 'make it right'. Mentally, morally and physically, Philip Wittebane is simply too far gone to be saved anymore.
• Kikimora is actively trying to murder Luz and company, simply to sate her own sadism and further her power at Hexside. While Boscha was a spiteful tyrant, her insecurities make her a saint compared to Kikimora.
• In the Detention Pit, Boscha makes a We Can Rule Together plea to Amity, which noticeably unnerves her and Mattholomule. While that isn't exactly disturbing to us, when Amity tries to walk away, Boscha wraps her arms around her and shouts "I won't let you leave again!" And later, when they start fighting, Boscha grabs onto who she thinks Amity while saying "Gotcha now, Blight!" Her body language and intentions in that scene read off as disturbingly Yandere-like for a Disney Channel show.
  • Even more so, it's not hard to read Boscha and Amity's interaction as an eerie parallel of Philip Wittebane's own idolisation of his brother Caleb, down to resorting to violence when the object of their affection understandably refuses to go along with their wishes.
• After finally cracking under the pressure of being a leader when her whole world feels like it's falling apart, Willow starts suffering from severe Power Incontinence. Plants start growing around her uncontrollably, and Gus and Hunter get caught by vines that grow around them and ensnare them. Willow starts to panic and tries to free them, but her panic makes the plants grow faster than she can tear them away. Eventually both Gus and Hunter disappear under the plant growth, and Willow is left completely alone, slowly being ensnared by her own vines.
  Willow: ...hello?
• After his failure to possess a Grimwalker, Belos ends up coming up behind Odalia ominously... and then possesses the Raine puppet. Shortly after, he takes Raine and attempts to possess the Collector, but thankfully, that fails... but then he just chooses to gaslight him instead. And for their part in the episode, Avi Roque does a frighteningly good job of playing Belos playing Raine.
• The episode ends with Belos successfully manipulating the Collector into turning against Luz and Co. Complete with a Scare Chord as we're left to wonder what the Collector will do to the heroes.
  The Collector: I think I wanna play a new game... [snaps fingers, smash to black]

Episode 3 - Watching and Dreaming

• We've gotten a promo for the final episode, and it's quite unsettling:
  • The Collector is terrifying in this promo, expressing their Tranquil Fury via Dissonant Serenity. Their use of their power also becomes MUCH more frightful and violent.
  • The heroes appear to be trapped in their worst nightmares.
  • We then see a completely, ferally BERSERK King and Owl Beast Eda with Glowing Eyes of Doom as well as a Throat Light for each, there's also the barely note worthy detail that King is crying as he charges, hinting that something terrible has happened to what their reactions heavily imply to be Luz. After going through the Trauma Conga Line that the series became for them since 'Edge of the World' they seem to have finally hit their biggest Rage Breaking Point since 'Agony of a Witch' only unlike Luz, their rage is absolutely NOT Tranquil.
    • In the episode proper, it gets worse. Not only is Luz gone, but as King lashes out and attacks Belos, the sound he makes when he uses his powers changes. It's not the cutesy "weh!" that we've gotten used to. It's an angry, feral shout. It's immediately followed by an even more animalistic roar as tears roll down his cheeks and blue energy crackles out of his mouth. While Eda still had some capacity for words, King didn't. His sister was gone. He was ready to tear Belos to shreds even if it killed him.
• Luz, Eda, and King being tortured by the collected versions of their loved ones (and the Titan Trappers).
  • Luz gets placed in the role of Belos, in a version of events where he won. As she wanders through the castle, the stained glass windows showing Belos ruling over the Isles now show her figure instead, and as she steps outside and looks down into the castle's moat, she sees practically the entire population of the Isles down there, petrified in stone with their final moments seemingly spent clinging to each other and trying to flee — before being confronted by and forced to fight Amity. She's then confronted by each of her friends in turn, and each one is more harrowing than the last.
    Amity: Don't you remember? This is all your doing. You helped Belos meet the Collector. Your actions lead to this. You've been the REAL villain this whole time!
    • First there's Willow, who Luz finds kneeling in a dark, twisted version of her own mindscape. Luz tries to ask her what's going on, but Willow cuts her off by spitting her worst fears right back into her face.
      Willow: Y'know, Luz, my life changed after I met you. I finally believed that there was this big, bright future ahead of myself. (sighs) But that didn't last long, did it? You destroyed my home, and any chance I had at happiness. I have no future now. NONE OF US DO!
    • After fleeing from Willow, Luz ends up on a stage in Hexside's auditorium, with the entire student body, their eyes shrouded in shadow, watching her. Gus, filling the role of announcer he had during Grom, proceeds to mock her in front of everyone.
      Gus: Look, everyone! It's good ol' Luz. (crowd cheers) And she just might be the biggest hypocrite EVER! (crowd boos)
      Luz: Wh-what?
      Gus: (tearing up) Everyone helped you get back to your mom! Meanwhile, because of you, I'll never see my dad again!
      Luz: Gus, no! I-I swear, we'll get him back! We'll get everyone back, I won't stop 'till we do!
      (As she speaks, Gus approaches her from behind, sporting a terrifying Death Glare)
      Gus: Tell that to him! (shoves her off the stage)
    • Finally, Luz is confronted by Hunter on the roof of Belos's castle, the Titan's skull in the background replaced by a gigantic, broken statue of Flapjack. Zeno Robinson's performance really shines here, as the sheer amount of rage and pain in Hunter's voice is almost palpable.
      Hunter: I've always just... followed orders. I never thought about making friends, or... going to school. Then I met Flapjack. He was more than a Palisman. He was my best friend. And then I lost him, helping YOU. But you still get to have your own Palisman?! (falls to his knees) WHY, Luz?! Why do you get to have it all?!
  • Eda wakes up in the Conformatorium, and uses her harpy form to break out and go look for her kids, only to get shot out of the sky by a giant net. Lilith and Gwen appear, and while she tries to get them to help her, Lilith simply states that wild beasts should be imprisoned. Cissy Jones chillingly channeling her Season One coldness and cruelty. As Eda is trying to plead with them, they suddenly step aside, and Dell Clawthorne, his remaining eye torn out and bleeding, blindly stumbles towards her.
    Dell: Why, Eda? I forgave you!
  • King wakes up in the Titan Trapper hideout, and is confronted by Bill, whose eyes are deep, inky black voids. As Bill approaches, he taunts King by pointing out the skulls of his murdered siblings, and then gestures to an empty spot on the altar, ready-made to fit King's skull.
    Bill: Nice, right?
    King: (screams) Bill! You crazy jerk, how'd I get here?
    Bill: I brought you here. I wanted to show you our new collection.
    [An entire pile of bones is shown behind King.]
    Bill: What's wrong? Don't you recognize your siblings? But don't worry, we saved the best spot for you.
• Just the fact that Bill and Tarak are the Collector's puppets. Either they came to the Collector in an attempt to worship their "Grand Huntsman" and he turned them into puppets, or he went to them, meaning that even those outside of the Isles themselves aren't safe.
• The Collector honestly doesn't get what death means to mortals, thinking that he can simply bring back anyone who dies like a broken toy. Him demonstrating this by ripping the head off a doll shaped like himself and then repairing it just drives it home.
  • This also means that he really didn't understand what the outcome of the draining spell would be. Belos planned to manipulate a gullible child into helping him kill an entire race out of the mistaken belief they could be 'fixed' afterwards if needed, and then intended to leave him alone in the darkened ruins to stew in his mistake for untold millennia onwards out of sheer Fantastic Racism towards him, despite all the aid the child lent him and his sincere belief they were friends.
  • The fact that he's been watching Belos make and repeatedly kill the Grimwalkers certainly didn't help either. Who knows what other horrors Belos exposed him to, and how they affected him?
  • Doubles as a Tearjerker when he gets slapped in the face by the reality of what death means to mortals, when Luz takes a bullet for him and dies to Belos's infection.
• Even after the Collector shows their past to Luz, Eda and King, we never get to know for sure what happened to their siblings. They could have been mutually killed by the Titans... or they may have just left the planet after they believed to have exterminated the Titans, as the Collector doesn't think that they cared at all about them. If that's the case, then the Archivists are most likely going about their usual business on other planets, kidnapping alien specimens and putting them on display on a museum/archive of sorts. Even more worryingly, they could decide to come back to the Demon Realm planet at any time, thus finding out about King's survival and putting everyone in grave danger.
• As Belos heads towards the Titan's heart, the Collector's mark on Raine's foreheads falls off, with the clear implication that his Possession Burnout caused it, and that Raine would probably be dead already if it hadn't lasted as long as it did.
  • When Raine first tries to resist the possession, there's a struggle for control that's painful. Raine gets tossed around, their arm twisting before they're forced down to their hands and knees with green blood/slime seeping from their eyes and portions of their skin until Belos regains full control. If even part of the same happened on the trip from the Archive to the Heart, it's a miracle they had any strength left to fight.
• The Collector inadvertently gives Belos the idea to possess the Titan's heart, and despite Raine's best efforts to stop him, he succeeds, covering the Isles in Meat Moss and forming a giant Kaiju-sized form around the palace that he uses to fire blasts of energy, planning on personally wiping out every witch and demon. The fact that what the Boiling Isles becomes looks like it came straight from the Cthulhu Mythos or the imagination of Junji Ito doesn't help at all. And while he doesn't say much in this form, he is given a voice to match it:
  Belos: Finally! I can cleanse this perdition MYSELF!
  • And 'Meat Moss' isn't a euphemism here: Belos' infection goes from looking like goo to an overfed, hyper-aggressive lichen. After so many centuries, he's truly become the epitome of the cancerous rot on the Boiling Isles that he's always been.
  • Not just that. He makes the body of the Titan move, raising one of its arms all the way up into the sky. This might not sound impressive, but the Titan is the size of a country, and that arm alone held multiple large towns, including the town of Latissa. Just raising that arm would have likely killed a lot of the witches who remained there.
  • The way the Owl House gang and the Collector learn about this is equally horrifying. While Luz is teaching the Collector about how kindness and forgiveness go a long way towards making friends, the Collector suddenly hears a deep rumble. The four of them go quiet as the trees in the distance start to sway, and right as Belos's eye lights up the Titan's skull, the Collector realizes what that rumbling sound was.
    The Collector: ...Breathing.
  • The effect is not limited to the physical world, either; as Belos assimilates the Boiling Isles, the Titan's spirit in the In Between grows a hole in his chest, from which more Meat Moss begins to grow. Belos is not just corrupting the Titan's corpse: he's corrupting his very soul.
• Belos tries to blast the Collector with his corruption beam, but Luz flies in and takes the hit instead. The corruption burrows into her body like an infection, crawling up her arm to consume the rest of her body from the inside out, and dissolving her into tiny balls of light. And from the sounds Luz made while it was happening, we can tell it wasn't painless either.
• Belos had ample opportunity to kill Raine in the time after taking over the heart. Instead, he left them pinned within the growing corruption, injured, blind, and terrified, as if he decided to punish them for resisting by leaving them to die slowly. What's worse is that everything Belos (and The Collector) did to them was damaging enough that they panic when Eda starts running towards them and they can't tell it's her.
• We get a reminder that the rains on the Isles are boiling hot when Belos tries to trick Luz one final time. The falling rains melt away the skin of his illusory form, leaving him a skinless, hairless, rotting skeleton, desperately crawling towards Luz and clinging to her ankles as the rest of him falls apart. By the time Eda, Raine and King brush past Luz and stomp him to death, he's reduced to a jawless skull, sitting in a puddle of necrotic, liquefied flesh.
  • The only thing more chilling is Luz's response: a Death Glare without even moving, and a complete and utter apathy towards Belos and his false pleas for mercy. Even when the trio swoop in to firmly curbstomp him into a fine paste along the ground, Luz never moves an inch or changes her expression. She effectively sentenced him to death without having to so much as say a word after how far he had gone, and being in the Titan form, it makes even her look like the culmination of the Demon Realm itself passing final judgment for his sins.

Other

• In the short "Paint Scare", Luz and King are painting nature in the woods. King notices a bush with eyes in Luz's painting. She looks at the scenery to see what it actually was and when she looks back the figure has moved closer without her painting anything. Luz dismisses it as her imagination getting the best of her and tries to focus on painting only what she sees. When King makes her look back at what she's painted, it's a picture of a creepy black creature holding a sign saying "I'M BEHIND YOU!" She and King turn around and scream as the creature attacks them. The screen goes black. It then cuts to them terrified and drawing under a blanket at home. The screen pans out to show the monster in the forest is now painting them.

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