A delusion starts like any other idea .. But ends in disaster.
Tropes:
- Age-Inappropriate Dress: David is wearing boy's period clothing in the spectral dining room where he confronts Farouk, not technically Adults Dressed as Children since he isn't in disguise.
- And I Must Scream: Admiral Fukyama keeps Ptomomy technically alive...inside a computer inhabited only by a mysterious old woman.
- Burn the Witch!: during the informational non-story sequences
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Inverted. The characters from the story come under attack from a creature previously used as a visual representation of the concept of delusion in informative sequences addressed to the audience.
- Jerkass Gods: Seems to be how the Shadow King sees himself combined with Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
- New Media Are Evil: Old style horror comics specifically, in the "documentary" style parts of the epidode
- Our Monsters Are Weird: The delusion monster turns out not to be symbolic but an actual psychic parasite
- Visual Pun: Amahl Farouk literally puts David at the kids table.
- Witch Hunt: against the enigmatic Admiral Fukyama
