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Season 1, Episode 1: First Blood


Tropes That Appear In This Episode:

  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Laura asks if Chrissy has a "rosebud" and asks to fell her stomach when she's asking "fussy", accurately predicting that it's because she's on her period.
  • Amazon Chaser: All Satan has to say to Laura is that she bulked up in a good way and finds the creative ways she kills his minions fascinating to watch.
  • Apocalypse Maiden: Chrissy finds out that the reason she was born was to enact the Maximus Dawnus, where all of the realms (including the Physical one) are merged together onto an "Anarchistic-Socialist utopia" that Satan rules.
  • Asshole Victims: The Barbaric Bullies getting blown up by an newly powered-up Chrissy may have been overkill, but considering they were gonna cut Bennigan up and record it (along with Chrissy having her first period), it's easy to not feel too sorry for them. Bennigan himself even lampshades this somewhat.
    Bennigan: (while covered in his bullies' blood and guts) I'm not a proponent of violence, but that was irrefutably cathartic.
  • Barbaric Bully: During Chrissy's First Period Panic, Bennigan is taken into the girl's room by a pair of bullies who intend to record themselves cutting him with a knife.
    Bully 1: Man, this feels like a big escalation from swirlies, man. But we're graduating this year, and so should our violence.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Laura and Satan (in the body of a partly-decapitated chicken) arrive at the abandoned Taco Chateau in the nick of time to save Chrissy from being killed by Unshaven Man and the assassins.
    Laura: Get your hands off my daughter.
    Satan: Our daughter!
    Chrissy: (sarcastically) Oh, great! My parents are here!
    Satan: Hi, honey. I'm a chicken now. (his head lops to the side, he puts it right back)
  • Eldritch Location: The Metaphysical Realm is described as port authority for all of the realms in the universe but "with much, much, much more urine, and fewer bomb threats."
  • Establishing Character Moment:
    • We are introduced to Laura, running through a forest and in labor. She is prepared to kill her unborn child with a magic hammer, only to stop when she realizes that she had given birth to a normal baby girl.
    • Chrissy acts pissed at her mother on her first day of school (establishing their turbulent relationship), gets affectionate with a small centipede in her locker and acts Adorkable when she makes a new friend with Bennigan. Then after her First Period Panic, she uses her emerging Satanic abilities to kill the Barbaric Bullies assaulting Bennigan, showing that while she means well when she uses her powers, it will often be overkill.
  • First Period Panic: The Satanic weirdness starts when Chrissy suffers her first period, which triggers the emergence of her powers. When Satan claims that he found her when she drew first blood, she thinks it was when her period came, only for him to clarify that it was because she killed those bullies right after.
  • Freudian Excuse: One of the Barbaric Bullies hates "nerds" because his mom left his dad for one.
  • Groin Attack: Satan possesses all the assassins and makes them shoot their penises (and a vagina, as stated by a female assassin) off.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Chrissy decides to leave when her mom tells Satan that she's lucky she didn't abort her.
  • Interplay of Sex and Violence: As Laura and Satan fight, they briefly make some sexually charged banter. Chrissy is appropriately disgusted.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Tired of her parents fighting over and ignoring her, and especially upset at Laura telling Satan that "his magic jizz" ruined her life, Chrissy decides "fuck this" and leaves to go the party on her own.
  • Shout-Out:
    • The demons Satan sent to claim Chrissy look like Cenobites from the Hellraiser franchise.
    • The first form Satan takes bares a strong resemblance to Vin Diesel.
    • Satan refers to Chrissy as "Damian" before switching gears when he sees that she's a girl.
  • Silver Bullet: Laura manages to kill one of Satan's minions with one.
  • Skewed Priorities: When Chrissy accidentally creates a black hole above the town, everyone just shrugs it off. Even the local news takes the local teen's party later as bigger news.
  • Would Hurt a Child: The Unshaven Man takes obscene pleasure at the thought of killing an under-aged girl, even if she is the Antichrist.

 
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The Metaphysical Realm is described as port authority for all of the realms in the universe but "with much, much, much more urine, and fewer bomb threats."

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