When Julie joins a new organisation, Ben investigates and discovers a dark secret at the heart.
- Belief Makes You Stupid: The Flame Keepers Circle, mistaking Vilgax for Diagon, listen to everything he says without question and refuse to listen when Ben tries to tell them the truth. Even when one of the Esoterica starts to consider if Ben is right, Conduit Edwards tells him that they don't doubt their deity.
- Bullying a Dragon: The Carny hosting Vilgax tries to take down the clearly inhuman Esoterica. It goes as well as you’d expect.
- The Bus Came Back: Vilgax makes his return in Ultimate Alien here.
- Cassandra Truth: Julie is the only member of the FKC to believe that Vilgax is not Diagon.
- Contrived Coincidence: Vilgax’s true form, which he happens to be stuck in, makes him resemble the cult’s deity Diagon. Vilgax even lampshades how much of a fortuitous coincidence it is.
- God Guise: Vilgax has been taken in by the eponymous Flame Keeper’s Circle, who worship a squid-like being named Diagon, making Vilgax an easy impersonator.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Vilgax, Conqueror of 10 Worlds, is now a sideshow attraction, while his empire fell apart in the months he was believed dead.
- Jerkass Ball: Julie doesn’t apologize for joining a cult or rudely dismissing Ben’s misgivings. Even when she admits that she was wrong about Vilgax, she still claims that Ben's beliefs about withholding alien technology is wrong.
- Noodle Incident: Ben and Kevin claim that introducing advanced technology to planets that don’t understand it was outlawed due to it leading to disaster. No details are given about what happened in the past to result in such a rule, but
Word of God has hinted that the Tetramands are stuck in strictly Bronze Age level tech as a result of such a case. - Villain with Good Publicity: The Flame Keepers’ Circle and its leader Conduit Edwards pose as philanthropists to the general public.
