Astra struggles to adapt to life as a mortal, and falls under the influence of Alistair Crowley.
Tropes:
- Affably Evil: Bishop is very friendly and outright admiring towards Sara, whom he calls "The Woman who can't be killed".
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Crowley at the end, when he is locked back into the picture and tries to convince John to let him out again.
- All for Nothing: Sara throwing all of Kayla's captive aliens into the timestream, when it's revealed that Bishop already has what he needs in the spaceship itself: DNA data on the aliens is enough for him.
- And I Must Scream: Crowley gets trapped in the canvas again, but this time John tapes his mouth shut, making this a more literal example.
- Animated Episode: A portion of the episode is animated, after Astra gets turned into a cartoon princess, along with the entire house.
- Asshole Victim: Astra's reason for intending to use her neighbor Robert Truss as a sacrifice for Crowley's ritual is that he's an elitist and possibly racist.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: The rest of the Legends, when transformed, take on very fitting forms.
- Ava becomes a 3-ring binder, fitting her nature for always wanting things organized as well as having limited imagination.
- Zari becomes a glittery cell phone due to her vain, celebrity personality.
- Spooner becomes a fork instead of a spoon because her name means she's only partly spoony.
- Nate is a slab of cheese because he's always acting
cheesy. - Behrad is a candlestick because he's always lighting up weed.
- Beam-O-War: Astra and Crowley engage in some.
- Brought Down to Normal: Constantine is stripped of his magic by the spell used to defeat Crowley.
- The Bus Came Back: Astra returns for the first time since the season premiere.
- Chekhov's Gun: Early in the episode Astra finds her mother's journal, which later turns out contains the key needed to defeat Crowley.
- Comically Missing the Point:Zari: Am I a flip phone?!
- Continuity Nod: Astra still has Hellcoins.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Bishop tries to force Sara’s compliance by making her watch the entire run of Wynonna Earp.Nurse!Ava: Season two’s my favourite.
- Crazy-Prepared:
- Astra's mother made a counterspell for John, in case he ever got out of control.
- The aliens have already had DNA samples taken from them, allowing Bishop to get what he wants even with the aliens now scattered across time.
- Curb-Stomp Cushion: The transformed Legends give Crowley some short trouble before he swiftly disposes of them.
- A Day in the Limelight: Astra is the principal character of this episode.
- Death Is Cheap: Robert Truss comes back to life once Crowley is depowered and locked away again.
- Disney Acid Sequence: The spell that puts Crowley to sleep is presented in this fashion.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- Constantine's repeated dismissal of Astra's requests is like something a deadbeat dad (or even just a neglectful one) would do.
- Crowley's manipulation of Astra is similar to how a cult leader lures in new recruits.
- Evil Laugh: Crowley, after killing Truss and resisting Astra's attempt to seal him back into the picture.
- Fallen Princess: From a prospective demon lord to what's essentially a squatter, is it any wonder Astra wants power again?
- Faux Affably Evil: In contrast to Bishop, Crowley is only friendly as long as he needs to be to manipulate Astra. Once he has the power he craves for, he becomes arrogant and belittling.
- Forced Transformation: Astra transforms the Legends into various objects: Ava a binder, Behrad a candlestick, Spooner a fork, Zari a cellphone and Nate a slab of cheese. They are actually still sentient and far from helpless (Nate for one can still steel up).
- Get Out!: The Legends towards Truss, after he comes back to life.
- Grand Theft Me: With Astra's help, Crowley takes over Constantine's body, with the latter now trapped in Crowley's canvas prison. Astra eventually manages to reverse the spell.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Aleister Crowley was a real-life person, and while both an occultist and quasi-Satanist, never actually committed any crimes, in contrast to the body-snatching power-seeking Evil Sorceror he's portrayed as here.
- Homage: The entire animated sequence is one to Disney and their numerous animated features. The fact Astra turns the Legends into Animate Inanimate Objects homages Beauty and the Beast, with their animated appearance referencing the original film, while their looks in live action referencing the live-action remake. For added measure, Behrad is turned into a talking candle, not quite a candelabra like Lumiere, but close enough.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Crowley points this out to Astra in regard to herself, though she is quick to give it back to him.
- Hypocrite: Astra calls John that during their argument.
- Instant Sedation: Once she learns that Bishop played her, Sara makes short work of her mooks, and snaps Bishop's neck. But then she gets shot in the neck by a tranq dart, and when she wakes up it's like everything's back to normal.
- Jerkass Ball: In order for the episode's plot to work, it was necessary for John Constantine to be completely neglectful and dismissive, ignoring all of Astra's needs to the point where she'd finally turn to Crowley.
- Jerkass Realization: John acknowledges that Astra had a very valid reason to feel abandoned by him.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Sara agrees with an Ava clone that Season 2 of Wynonna Earp is a big improvement where the show figured out what it wanted to be and leaned hard into that, also a very common refrain about Legends itself.
- Lower-Deck Episode: Roughly the first half of the episode shows what Astra's been up to during the Legends' previous missions. This is evidenced by John (with Zari in one occasion) repeatedly popping in on Astra with a different outfit he's wearing in each episode.
- Manipulative Bastard:
- Crowley twists Astra's mind with promises of power to fuel his own.
- Nurse Ava manipulated Sara into thinking that she wants to help her escape.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The reason Astra locks John into the picture is him basically ignoring her up until this point.
- Monster of the Week: Although Bishop is set up as a Big Bad for Sara, the rest of the Legends have to deal with a now-free Aleister Crowley.
- Motive Rant: Astra has one towards John.
- Mundane Utility: Constantine doesn't own a washing machine, instead his clothes are enchanted to clean themselves.
- Musical Episode: Only the animated sequence.
- Mythology Gag: In the comics, Crowley's soul posessed a simulacrum of John's body as part of a complicated scam on his part.
- Neck Snap: How Sara seemingly kills Bishop. It doesn't stick.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Both John's negligence of Astra's plight and Astra falling for Crowley's manipulations result in the former losing his powers.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Not only did Crowley not kill Astra when he had the chance, but he trapped her in the attic...right where Constantine's canvas is placed. Also, his idea to turn her into a Disney Princess version of herself gave her the musical abilites she needed to cast her mother's song-spell to defeat him.
- One-Winged Angel: The animated Crowley transforms into a giant devil-like figure during the fight with Astra.
- Parody Assistance: Some former Disney animators contributed to the animated sequence.
- Plot Hole: Constantine's final spell destroys any magic in the mansion, robbing both himself and Astra of their powers. However, both Behrad and Zari are also in the mansion, but from all indication their Totems were unaffected. Nobody thinks about why that is.
- P.O.V. Sequel: The opening section is set during the previous episodes where Astra was absent (including scenes clearly set shortly after "Meat, the Legends" and "The Ex-Factor"), catching up with the present shortly before the Legends arrive after the events of the previous episode.
- Power at a Price: The soul of a living being, in Astra's case. She almost goes through with it by killing her neighbour Robert Truss, but decides against it at the last second, only for Crowley to kill him himself.
- Power High: Astra gets a taste for magic quite quickly, wanting to become more powerful, no matter the price.
- The Reveal: Sara’s kidnapper is called Bishop, and he's the creator of the Ava clones.
- Rump Roast: Behrad-as-a-candlestick fries Crowley's rear end at one point.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Painting, in Crowley's case.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Astra is understandibly annoyed at John's and Zari's constant clinging on each other.
- Sole Survivor: Bishop is the only survivor of a human-made Apocalypse on his Earth.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- Astra grew up in Hell, where she had to manipulate and control people to get what she wanted. Once topside, those skills don't translate well for her. Therefore, she is now struggling on Earth, where she has to get a job and pay for groceries and the electric bill and cab fare, things which she has no experience doing.
- Though Astra is in a grown-up body, in 2020/2021 her records show her to only be 15. As such, she has no property to herself, no money, and, thanks to child labor laws, is unable to apply for a proper job.
- Constatine is constantly traveling and on the move, thus never bothers with upkeep on his mansion. As such, the bills don't get paid and the plumbing ends up breaking down due to neglect.
- Constantine is not only in a new relationship, but is also helping the Legends search for Sara. So, he doesn't focus on helping Astra the way he used to, to the point where she feels ignored by him.
- Sara attempts to reach an Ava clone in hopes that she is like her Ava and can help her. However, it turns out that she's completely loyal to her creator Bishop.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: Due to the two timeframes being used, the plot thread for Sara (which happens basically lineally and in the present) doesn't intersect with Astra's (which has time skips and partially happened in the past).
- Visionary Villain: Bishop is from a future where Earth has been devastated and humanity extinct, so he intends to recreate the human race with alien DNA to make them more powerful.
- We Can Rule Together: Crowley, in his desperation after being locked back into the picture, tries to sway John at the end with promises of power.
- We Have Reserves: Nurse Ava has this opinion about herself, when Sara threatens to kill her.
- Wham Episode: John sacrifices his powers to save everyone and Sara learns that Bishop's plan is to recreate the human race using alien DNA to save Earth.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- John gets this from Astra for not being helpful with her adjustment to human life.
- Later, the Legends do this when they learn that she is planning on killing someone to gain power to make her life easier.
