Season 1, Episode 10: Ty's Tail Tale
Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Beware My Stinger Tail: After his curse is removed, Tyrannis grows a scorpion tail just like Shlub's. At first he wants it removed, but when he stings Asskill with it to get him to give back the livestock he stole, Tyrannis begins to get Drunk with Power and threaten others with the tail to get them to obey.
- The Corrupter: Tyrannis goes drunk with power once he sees the authority the threat of his scorpion tail grants him, illustrated by his own reflection tempting him. When Shlub confronts him on his actions, Tyrannis tries goading him into giving into his worse impulses as well.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: The curse put on Tyrannis was to be born deformed. As the child of Shlub, being born with no tail counts as deformed. Shlub even calls his son handsome upon first seeing him with the tail and explicitly says his son looks less freakish to him now that he has it.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Tyrannis's tail/reflection speaks to him in a notably deeper voice than his own.
- Exact Words: Deliria warns Stupendous and Hippocampus not to ride the Pegasus. When they find it, they decide to free it, since Deliria never said anything about setting it free. Then they decide that since it's free now, they can go ahead and ride it.
- Freudian Excuse: Shlub is such an unflappable Mellow Fellow that raises his kids through hands-off parenting because he wants to be the exact opposite of his father, a literally and figuratively monstrous Control Freak.
- Hellish Horse: The unicorns and the Pegasus are depicted as monstrous creatures that act as bees and attack and kill humans.
- Impossibly Delicious Food: A Pegasus is depicted here as a horrible monster that's the hive queen of a horde of man-eating unicorns, but its milk is so delicious that after experiencing its horror Stupendous immediately agrees that it's Worth It.
- Irony: Shlub's father cursed the unborn Tyrannis to be deformed, which for a child born to a monster means being born a perfectly normal human. Tyrannis is shocked that getting the curse removed makes him grow a scorpion tail.
- Keystone Army: Once Deliria takes out the Pegasus, all the unicorns that share a Hive Mind with it immediately stop moving and collapse.
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: Tyrannis' reflection starts encouraging him to use his new tail to intimidate others and gain power. Schlub Hangs A Lampshade after overhearing him by warning him that talking to his reflection is a sign that he's gone off the deep end.
- One Dose Fits All: Averted with the unicorn venom. Stupendous regains movement enough to fight and kill after hours at most. Hippocampus explicitly says that the difference in size between the two means that he'll need a week to be able to shake his head.
- Our Humans Are Different: Deliria discusses with Tyrannis how all of humanity is descended from gods and monsters.
- Our Unicorns Are Different: Unicorns in this episode are depicted as carnivorous creatures that are born from a Pegasus that acts as the queen bee in a hive by laying eggs. In fact, their whole cave looks like the inside of a beehive.
- Shown Their Work: A lot of ancient depictions of unicorns depict them as vicious animals that kill humans without mercy. Unicorns Prefer Virgins was born of a belief that virgins were the only humans pure enough to not anger them.
