Apologetic Attacker: Before shooting the bombed dog, Loid quietly apologizes to the poor boy for having to be involved in one of humanity's stupid conflicts.
Bad Future: Anya's dog friend picks up a devastating future vision that he relays to the girl with his thoughts. At five o'clock, Loid would die via explosion leaving his daughter and wife in despair. Additionally, the explosion would cause enough panic which would instigate absolute war between the two states.
A Bloody Mess: Anya writes a warning for Loid with ketchup on the door. Loid's partner assumes it's blood but Loid correctly identifies it as what it is.
Body Double: Loid disguises himself as the prime minister and drives his own car in order to lead Keith away from the designated route so he can be captured. He even steals the minister's clothes so the bombed dog would target him for his scent.
Booby Trap: The terrorists planted a bomb behind a door that would kill Loid if he opened it. This episode revolves around Anya trying tp prevent this from happening.
Bowdlerize: Loid's death in Doggy's Bad Future is depicted with profuse bleeding from his head. In the anime, his head only has a few bruises.
Break Them by Talking: When the captured terrorists mindlessly chant their desires for war, Sylvia steps in and gives them a good dose of reality by asking if any of them have truly lived through the excruciating and morbid nightmares that come from living through wartime.
Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Agent Twilight taking off his minister disguise while preparing to shoot the armed dog.
Couldn't Find a Pen: To ensure that her dad doesn't open the door that would trigger the bomb, Anya takes a bottle of ketchup and writes "NO!!!" on the door while pointing to the knob and including a picture of a bomb. It works.
Dark and Troubled Past: Sylvia's detailed and specific examples of the horrors about war may suggest that she herself lived through each of those experiences in her youth.
Easily Forgiven: Subverted. While Yor is grateful that Anya is safe and that she apologized for running away, she still intends to seriously scold her daughter once they get home.
Just a Kid: Sylvia bitterly refers to the wannabe terrorists as "pathetic children".
Kick the Dog: Keith literally does this to the shaggy dog after being unable to drag him away.
Kid Hero: Deconstructed hard with Anya. Even though she takes it upon herself to stop the Bad Future from happening, she's severely limited by how much she can accomplish on her own. Such as not being able to tell time to having no idea how to stop a makeshift bomb.
Nightmare Face: Yor used Scary Face on Keith's attack dog. It's super effective (with the face even scaring Anya).
Race Against the Clock: After learning of the upcoming Bad Future from her doggo, Anya leaves her mom with the dog to reach the clock tower before it's too late.
Saw It in a Movie Once: Anya considers deactivating the bomb thanks to seeing it so many times on Spy Wars. But she has second thoughts when she sees that there are multiple black wires instead of a red and blue one.
Scare the Dog: Yor's Nightmare Face targetting the attack dog in the alley makes the latter wince and take to the hills.
War Is Glorious: After Keith's primary goons get captured, a WISE agent interrogates them about their plans and rather than give any useful information, they just chant about how restarting the war will mean death to "the pigs from the west" and Ostanian supremacy.
Wrong Genre Savvy: When Anya tries to prevent the Bad Future the dog predicted, she is quickly confronted with the fact that she doesn't live in a Bondman episode. When she tries to disarm the bomb that was set up in the terrorists' shelter she panics upon realizing that the bomb doesn't have a red or a green cable like it would in her favorite cartoon.
WISE interrogates some captured Berlint University students who are part of a group of terrorists that plan on assassinating a Minister to start a war. Sylvia Sherwood lets them know just what kind of horrors they're getting themselves into.
WISE interrogates some captured Berlint University students who are part of a group of terrorists that plan on assassinating a Minister to start a war. Sylvia Sherwood lets them know just what kind of horrors they're getting themselves into.
