Adora, Bow, and Swift Wind arrive on Beast Island and make a shocking discovery. Glimmer heads to the Crystal Castle to talk to Light Hope.
Tropes
- Big Damn Heroes: Entrapta saves the crew from the Pookahs shortly before the episode ends.
- The Bus Came Back: Entrapta returns, having survived being sent to Beast Island.
- Continuity Nod: Entrapta stole King Micah's food... but only the tiny ones.
- Deadly Environment Prison: Describes Beast Island to a T, every mention in the early seasons causes people to cringe in fear, and here it lives up to the reputation. Played With, since there's almost no infrastructure on the Island itself apart from First Ones tech and any walls that exist are more in the mind, than physical, though the vines apparently act as vectors for this illusion. This is leaving aside the horrible fauna, see below.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: People overcome by the island's will-draining signal develop these as they fall into apathy.
- Eldritch Location: Beast Island apparently warps a person's sense of time.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Beast Island is filled with all manner of unpleasantly named creatures, all of which have razor-sharp body parts and a taste for meat. Also, the vines that sap your will and absorb you into the island.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: King Micah has been on Beast Island for so long that the years have blurred together. He spends most of the episode thinking Glimmer's still a little girl and it isn't until they're being chased by the Pookahs for him to realize she's now a young woman.
- Giant Equals Invincible: The beetle creature that attacks the heroes is the size of a small building, and nothing they can throw at it seems to do any more than annoy it. Micah eventually manages to drive it off more through intimidation than brute force.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: King Micah has gone a little loopy from years on Beast Island all on his own with no-one to talk to.
- Good-Times Montage: As Adora begins to succumb to the vines, she starts having flashbacks of her and Glimmer's friendship deteriorating throughout the season... before being reminded of her promise to Angella to look out for her and remembering all the good, fun times they had together as friends. This triggers her Heroic Second Wind, in which she saves her friends and vows to be "the hero she deserves".
- It's Quiet… Too Quiet: The noisy wildlife on Beast Island go completely silent when particularly dangerous predators, like the Pookahs, are around.Swift Wind: No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no, silence is always for a bad reason!
- Mini-Mecha: Entrapta built a mecha out of technology she scrounged on Beast Island, showing that she not only survived but thrived on the island.
- Non-Indicative Name: The razor-fins have razor-sharp... teeth. Adora isn't sure why they were named as such.
- No One Could Survive That!: Apparently the will-killing signal gets stronger the closer you get to the center of the island, so Micah is reasonably convinced Entrapta hasn't survived. She has. In fact, she doesn't notice it at all. She's too fired up at all the First Ones tech around her to get depressed.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Light Hope decides to share her information about the "Heart of Etheria" project to Glimmer realizing that she is willing to kickstart the project compared to Adora.
- Retcon: In her titular episode, Light Hope shows holograms of multiple princesses that Adora/She-Ra must come into contact with so that Etheria can be balanced. But in this episode, she states that only five of them (Glimmer, Perfuma, Mermista, Frosta and Scorpia) are needed. This has some
Fridge Logic implications for prior seasons, since after the first season, she had never informed Adora that all she needs to do is connect Scorpia and the Black Garnet to balance Etheria.- Possibly not a Retcon if the Horde has been destroying runestones, following up on their plan from season 1 but going after easier targets. (Mermista's runestone having presumably been relocated some time ago, since the Horde's attack on her home did not cause her to lose her powers.) This would mean that only five now remain.
- Saying Too Much: In an effort to help Micah resist the will-killing signal, Adora tells him that Glimmer will need his help to be Queen. This reveals to Micah that his wife is gone, and the shock of that information immediately breaks his will to resist.
- Shared Family Quirks: King Micah has the same reaction as Glimmer when meeting Swift Wind, gushing about how he talks and has wings
