K.O. and Gar have a stakeout at the bodega to see what Shadowy Figure is up to.
Tropes:
- Aesop: As Mr. Gar says, screwing up may be inevitable, but when that happens, you have to learn from it and become better. And the chance to redeem yourself might come around.
- As You Know: K.O. recaps in detail to Enid, Rad, and Gar who Shadowy Figure is for the audience's benefit. Rad promptly lampshades it by pointing out that yeah, they were there.
- Badass Armfold: Shadowy Figure does one after K.O. tricks him into falling off the waterfall.
- Batman Gambit: Shadowy Figure's plan was to trick K.O. into opening the door for him by making him think he was already inside.
- Breaking Speech: Shadowy Figure cruelly taunts K.O. throughout their fight to make him mad, but really gets into this territory when he pins him to the ground. It's an attempt to get K.O. to release T.K.O., but it doesn't work, since K.O. is able to keep his anger under control this time.
- Call-Back:
- Shadowy Figure from "T.K.O." is the one creeping around the Bodega.
- The same mysterious flashback from "We Messed Up", "Know Your Mom" and "Face Your Fears" plays when K.O. asks Mr. Gar why he left P.O.I.N.T.
- The door in the sewer leads to the room with the glorbs from "Do You Have Any More In The Back?"
- Clothing Damage: The only damage that K.O. is able to deal to Shadowy Figure during the fight is when one of his punches tears off part of his scarf.
- Curbstomp Battle: Even though K.O. technically wins the fight against Shadowy Figure due to the latter's Villainous Breakdown, pretty much the entire battle up until then was one of these in Shadowy's favor. K.O. doesn't land any direct hits, with the best "damage" he deals being ripping a piece of Shadowy's scarf off with a punch and knocking him off of him with a brief burst of T.K.O. aura, which doesn't even fully knock him down. Shadowy Figure, meanwhile, was easily able to dodge K.O.'s punches and outmaneuver him, hit him pretty hard at least twice, and at one point pinned him to the ground and gave him a Breaking Speech.
- Deadly Dodging: How K.O. wins his battle against Shadowy Figure despite his massive disadvantage. Shadowy charges right at him, and when K.O. realizes he can't run away because there's a cliff with a waterfall directly behind him, he just ducks and Shadowy Figure goes flying past above his head and over the edge. Even better, the jar of glorbs, which K.O. started fighting Shadowy to protect in the first place, bumps into K.O.'s head when he ducks and goes flying out of Shadowy's pocket, meaning he ultimately didn't even get what he came there for to begin with.
- Graceful Loser: Shadowy Figure, which is surprising considering that he was in an enraged Villainous Breakdown when he was charging towards K.O.. But once K.O. dodges the charge, causing Shadowy to plummet over the cliff, he calms down immediately and just says "Not bad, K.O." with a smirk.
- Knight of Cerebus: Shadowy Figure was already this in his debut episode, but brings it up a notch here when he directly battles K.O. as opposed to just manipulating him like he did before. He shows exactly why he has that -8 power level, as K.O. is hopelessly outmatched during the entire fight and doesn't land a single proper hit, while Shadowy beats K.O. up quite a bit and gives him a cruel Breaking Speech. K.O. only manages to "win" by ducking out of the way when Shadowy directly charges him during his Villainous Breakdown, which results in the latter falling over the edge. The end of the fight and subsequent episodes that feature or mention Shadowy make it clear that K.O. now holds a good amount of fear of him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When K.O. sees Shadowy Figure entering the pipe underneath the plaza, he abandons his post and chases after him, ignoring Gar's instruction to stay put. When K.O. chases him to a door and doesn't see him, he assumes that Shadowy had entered through the door and breaks it down. It turns out that Shadowy Figure wanted K.O. to break down the door, as he couldn't get it open himself, so he could enter it to take all the glorbs.
- Out of Focus: Rad and Enid only show up in the first scene at the start of the episode, with the meat of it focused on K.O., Mr. Gar and Shadowy Figure.
- Playing with Fire: Mr. Gar is able to create blasts of fire from his elbows in order to weld the door to the Glorb Tree shut, and then roast some marshmallows with K.O..
- Punch Catch: K.O. throws one of the most powerful punches he can muster at Shadowy Figure...and the latter catches it and holds it back with just one hand.
- Shout-Out: In the beginning, where Mr. Gar calls for an employee meeting, Enid replies "What's the matter Mistah G?" in a Harley Quinn impression.
- Villainous Breakdown: Shadowy Figure gets one when K.O. successfully suppresses his anger and stops T.K.O. from emerging. When K.O. states that he'll clean up this mess himself, Shadowy angrily says "No, K.O., that won't do at all," and rather than letting K.O. attack him and dodge out of the way of it like he'd been doing the whole fight, Shadowy charges directly at K.O., who's standing on the edge of a cliff...allowing K.O. to "defeat" him by simply ducking out of the way and letting Shadowy fall into the water below.
