Crushed over big changes to the team, Kid goes through an emotional and root beer float-stuffed journey as Jo launches a new strategy against Erodius.
Tropes:
- Armor-Piercing Response: Flo finally and furiously calls out on Queen Xhan's Toxic Friend Influence on Jo while training her to become an effective leader. Xhan assures her that Jo will win and come back, but Flo delivers this rebuttal.Flo: Is that what you told the Survivors Five?! Because they didn't come back.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Fantos interrupts Krosh's betrayal of Jo and successfully acquires all of the Cosmic Stones. He also gets to "meet" Erodius in person and gloats to Kid about his victory.
- Double-Meaning Title: The title refers to Jo's devastating loss against Fantos and Erodius, as well as said loss caused by Krosh.
- Drunk on Milk: Kid goes through some G-Rated drunkenness after pigging out on ice cream and root beer. Eventually, Flo and Hamburg attempt to cut him off, resulting in him lashing out at them.
- Easily Forgiven: After Kid recovers from his Five Stages of Grief, he tells Queen Xhan that he's not mad for her making Jo break up the Local Heroes. However, this is subverted with Jo herself as Kid is hostile and spiteful towards her until he sees that Fantos has captured her.
- Evil Is Petty: It turns out Krosh still has a grudge about losing to Jo in the Fight Hole, revealing that she enjoys being champion despite spending her entire time in there. She wants to regain her title by betraying Jo and taking all of the Cosmic Stones, but Fantos arrives on Erodius to crush that plan.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: As Jo resolves to do a second, more strategic attack on Erodius, Krosh and her doubles huddle up, looking at each other with sinister smiles.
- Five Stages of Grief: Kid falls into seven stages after Jo decides to take the fight against Erodius on her own, with Krosh in tow.
- Shock and Denial: He is still stunned about Jo's treatment of him and quickly believes she will come back to admit she is wrong.
- Pain/Guilt: He soon blames himself for the events leading to Jo's decision, all while drowning his sorrows in ice cream soda.
- Anger and Bargaining: He then gorges himself on more ice cream and root beer until he gets into a fight with Flo and Hamburg, begging for one more glass.
- Depression/Loneliness: He leaves the diner and spends some time on the roof to calm down.
- Acceptance: He comes down from the roof and volunteers in cleaning up the mess he made, starting to accept what has occured.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Jo learns the hard way how absolutely difficult it is fighting a giant, sentient planet by herself, especially a hostile one that has the same powers as the 13 Cosmic Stones.
- Hourglass Plot: Similar to "Kid Cosmic And The Epic Fail", Jo (along with Krosh) takes on an interstellar threat by herself. And just like the end of that same episode, she suffers a devastating loss and loses all of the Cosmic Stones.
- I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!: Kid Cosmic drowns his sorrows in root beer floats and gets confrontational when Flo and Hamburg try to cut him off.
- It Can Think: In the past Erodius has just appeared to be a lifeless rock that just drifts aimlessly throughout space. When the regulars start to attack it, however, it starts to fight back with the same powers as the Cosmic Stones.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Jo has become bossier towards her friends since Xhan trained her but, while her saying Kid "sucks" as a hero was a step too far, his inexperience was the very reason why he entrusted Jo as the leader of the Local Heroes in the first place.
- No Body Left Behind: Fantos vaporizes Krosh near the end of the episode.
- One-Man Army: Defied somewhat. Jo decides to face Erodius alone, but takes Krosh with her. While keeping her Portal Stone, she has Krosh handle the rest of them by splitting up into three and divide the shares.
- Shout-Out: Papa G and Flo share Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
- Was It Really Worth It?: Flo calls out her daughter if doing whatever it takes, no matter the cost, means distancing herself from her friends after the adventures they have done together.
