Episode 2: The Girl with the Pointed Ears

Heather Waybright is forced to protect a mysterious girl with supernatural powers as they begin to realize that nobody, and nowhere, is really safe anymore.

Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:

Content Warning: A version of this appears before the chapter begins, both warning readers about the highly dark content of this chapter and reassuring viewers concerned that this series will remain Darker and Edgier and lose its source material's sense of heart and fun by stating that come Chapter 4, the series will transition into a more episodic, Monster of the Week format. By the time Yyric is possessed by a demon and straight-up strangles his own husband, you start to realize this was entirely warranted.
Demonic Possession: Yyric is seemingly possessed by an entity known as "Him" when he puts on a necklace taken off the corpse of a cultist. This causes his consciousness to slip and his eyes to go red, before he straight-up suffocates his husband and goes on a murderous rampage.
The Expy With No Name: The Agent, a secretive figure from The Stinger who works alone and is never referred to anything but his title. No physical description of him, other than the fact that he is humanoid, has been given either.
Family-Unfriendly Death: Yyric, his eyes corrupted by the Illuminati necklace, moves in to give his husband Matthew a hug... and just keeps squeezing until his husband's ribcage snaps and he slides to the ground, limp. Matthew begging for him to Yyric to stops as his ribs start to cave in only make it worse.
- Doubles with a dose of Fridge Horror when you consider the situation from Matthew's perspective before he is finally put out of his misery. Matthew had no idea that his husband was possessed... as far as he was concerned, his beloved husband who had seconds ago been defending him from Cain's anger was suddenly suffocating him, chanting a manifesto in a voice that was very much not his own.
Multi-Part Episode: The creator stated, in the Content Warning for this episode, that this was the middle entry in a 3-episode opening arc before the series transitioned to a more Disney-esque, Monster of the Week approach.
Police Are Useless: The minute the possessed Yyric starts shooting, Chief Gustafson steals Cain's car (which later turns out to be their last hope of defeating him) and flees. Lieutenant Mccoy averts this, being the first actually competent LAPD senior officer the series has introduced.
R-Rated Opening: A PG-13 version, but (following the Content Warning) the chapter kicks off right away with Matthew Peters' Family-Unfriendly Death. Brutal doesn't even begin to cover it.
The Stinger: A mysterious Man With No Name, having found Sprig's hat and goggles, has after much effort been able to open a portal to Amphibia.
Vagueness Is Coming: Following the opening, when we check back in with Zami and Heather, trapped in the Reddick's basement, she's still trying to warn Heather about what is about to come, muttering variations of "He's coming" feebly over and over again. Seconds later, Zhan Tiri bursts out of the wall.
Villain Opening Scene: While Yyric is not a villain by the time the opening starts, the first scene of the episode depicts his possession by "Him" and subsequent transformation into one half of the Opening Arc's Big Bad Duumvirate.