The Final Battle between David and Farouk, and David learns some truths about himself.
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- The Bad Guy Wins: Division 3 lets Amahl Farouk go after he sells out David.
- Didn't Think This Through: That's right. These idiots at Division 3 (Cary, Kerry, and Syd included) thought it was a good idea to imprison a Physical God and try to kill or lobotomize him. Before this, David had no reason to hate them, but now, he has a very good one. To make it worse, not only did they let Farouk, the man who Mind Raped David as well as practically the whole cast and killed (kinda) David's sister, go free, but they made this clear to David by making him part of the trial.
- Downer Ending: Where to begin? the Shadow King wins, David's mental state is worse than we've ever seen before and he no longer has any Morality Chains, David's relationship with all his friends has been destroyed (even Syd), Syd genuinely attempted to kill David, The End of the World as We Know It is pretty much a Foregone Conclusion, and we're following the guy who's gonna cause it.
- Evil All Along: The episode suggests that David never was a particularly good person to begin with and that his crappy life led him to create a delusion in which he saw himself as better than he actually was. Then again, he was possessed by Farouk his whole life, so it's impossible to be sure. This episode also reveals that he has multiple personality disorder with his schizophrenia. Not insane per se, but he starts showing Sanity Slippage towards the end...
- Freudian Trio: The three Davids that appear in his head make up a perfect one, with the "real" David being the Ego.
- A God Am I: One of the alter Davids argues he's one.
- Good Shapeshifting, Evil Shapeshifting: David and Amahl Farouk engage in a psychic duel that allows their mental projections to clash in the form of a Shapeshifter Showdown. David takes more natural forms like rhinos, sharks, and dinosaurs, while Farouk's shapes are often mechanical or mythical, though both are distinguished by colour: David's projection is green, while Farouk's is a fiery orange. Most tellingly, Farouk cheats by becoming Syd, then taking advantage of David's surprise to become a giant spider-person and wrap him up in its web. In the final clash, David becomes a soldier armed with a flamethrower, while Farouk becomes a flame-breathing giant, resulting in a Beam-O-War.
- Mind Rape: Let's not mince words. This is what David does to Syd when he makes her forget.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Division 3 putting David on trial for future crimes and letting the Shadow King off the hook doesn't put David into a cooperating disposition and, combined with his inability to deal with what he did to Syd, lead up to his decision to pull Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Zig-zagged. By the end of this season, the characters originally set up as the protagonist, love interest, and villain are all accused of, or seen on-screen, committing some kind of violation of consent. For David, whose transgression is the least severe, this is shown as evidence of a Face–Heel Turn and contributes to his "arrest" toward the end of the episode. For the Shadow King, the accusation of much less ambiguous rape seems to be forgotten by this point and doesn't get in the way of his Enemy Mine collaboration with Division. Syd's raping of her mother's boyfriend also isn't even called back to. That said, the main factor in the decisions of most of the other characters comes from how potentially dangerous David is and how willing he was to use his powers to alter the memories of a team member.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Seems David is still on the path to the Bad Future Future!Syd wanted to prevent.
- Ship Tease: The first thing David does after escaping his trial is break out Lenny, who seems pretty happy to hear that Syd won't be joining them.
- Shout-Out: David is put on trial for future crimes.
- Tempting Fate: "The field should hold." No, Cary. It won't.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: What Division 3 ends up causing to David.
