Ponyhead returns to St. O's, but pop quizzes about brunch become the least of her worries when Miss Heinous attacks the school.
Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: Saint Olga was physically and emotionally abusive to Meteora, trying to scrub her glowing marks off her and shaming her appearance.
- Asshole Victim: When Meteora/Miss Heinous punches out Saint Olga, it proves to be fatal. Given she abused poor Meteora for years until her adulthood, this counts as good news.
- Ax-Crazy: Meteora has clearly lost it this episode, and is on a rampage to regain more of her lost memories before taking the throne.
- Back for the Dead:
- After being fully regrown and able to use his chainsaw again, Rasticore gets blown up by Meteora at the end of the episode, reducing him to an arm once more. Downplayed though, since he didn't really die.
- St. Olga is reactivated after rusting for long in the school. We get to see a bit of her backstory and how she raised Meteora... and then she kills Olga after getting what she wanted.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The princesses were unable to stop Meteora's rampage. She defeats them all, grows more powerful, successfully recovers her memories and learns she now has a claim to the throne of Mewni.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- When Pony Head stands in front of an angry Meteora, she glows up her horn for battle as the villainess walks towards her direction... and break into another room, ignoring her.
- As a kid, Meteora tells St. Olga about her pretty cheek marks. The robot tells her she knows something that would make her even prettier: forcing her to supress them, which saddens the girl.
- Bodyguard Crush: Rasticore's break-up speech to Meteora when it's "just the two of [them]" suggests they were in a relationship, or at least that Meteora had feelings for him which he didn't fully reciprocate. She blows him up to cradle his arm and nurse him back to health again.
- Brick Joke: Pony Head mockingly calls Princess Arms "Princess Underarms". When she is told Heinous is attacking the school, she is in the middle of shaving her underarms.
- Brutal Honesty: Though it pains Rat Princess to say it, she tells Pony Head to put up with the new rules of the school or leave it.
- Bullying the Dragon: Heinous/Meteora at this point has grown stronger from tapping into her monster heritage, and getting stronger by the minute. She's just looked back on all the abuse St. Olga put her through. And what does her guardian do? She says "You should be thanking me". This doesn't go well.
- Cerebus Retcon: Miss Heinous' name is revealed to be Saint Olga's misunderstanding of King Shastacan's words, when he referencied to baby Meteora as "heinous", and she thought that this was her name.
- Chainsaw Good: Though they have the numbers, a bunch of girls with pillows can't stand against a large brute with a chainsaw.
- Chef of Iron: The school chef is a little girl who gears up for battle against Meteora like all other princesses.
- Decoy Protagonist: Despite what the synopsis might suggest, Pony Head barely has a role in this episode besides the first few minutes, with Meteora taking center stage for the rest of it. Heck, one could even argue that Princess Arms is the real protagonist amongst the rebellious princesses, as she actually leads the others against Meteora while Pony Head stays out of the main battle doing her own, unrelated thing.
- Department of Redundancy Department: According to Princess Arms' quiz, the four pillars of brunch are waffles, eggs, bacon and... more bacon.
- Disproportionate Retribution: During a pillow fight, Pony Head gets hit. With an angry expression, she reacts by hitting the other princess much harder, sending her flying to the wall. They both laugh it off.
- Dying Declaration of Love: Gemini's last words before getting his Heart Drive ripped off by Meteora are basically a love confession.Gemini: If you wanted my heart, all you had to do was ask...
- Freakiness Shame: As a reactivated St. Olga shames Meteora for her tail, she retorts that she finds herself great with it. A recording shows that the robot has abused her into hiding her tail when she was younger.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Meteora is about to battle Pony Head. Cut to black with battle sounds and screams. In the next scene, Meteora has Pony Head's severed horn.
- Go Through Me: The princesses' Plan B involves blocking access to the brunch room by being armed with pillows. Rasticore simply busts through them with his chainsaw.
- Grenade Hot Potato: Princess Arms saves one of the students who was in the vicinity of a discarded grenade, picks it up, and throws it back to Meteora.
- Hate Sink:
- King Shastacan had about thirty seconds of screentime and his first speaking role, and it just confirmed what an absolute bastard he was as he pawned off baby Meteora and called her "Absolutely heinous."
- St. Olga rivals Ludo's parents in terms of abusiveness, and she does nothing but demean and humiliate her surrogate daughter in a condescending, passive-aggressive tone until Meteora finally destroys her.
- If I Do Not Return: Pony Head to Princess Arms when she thinks Meteora is about to attack her.Pony Head: If I don't make it out of this, I want you to know... I hate you.
- Internal Reveal: Meteora learns that she should have been the queen of Mewni.
- It's All About Me:
- Pony Head believes Heinous is attacking the school to get to her. She even gears up for battle when standing before Meteora... only for her to break into another room, completely ignoring her.
- After Meteora watches several memories highlighting how abusive and demeaning St. Olga treated her, St. Olga gives Meteora crap saying "It wasn't easy for me" and "You should thank me."
- Kick the Dog: Meteora does it by ripping Pony Head's horn off.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: After St. Olga suggest Meteora should thank her for the abusive childhood she endured, Meteora punches her clear across the room and destroys her for good.
- Klingon Promotion: The original headmistress was a robot named St. Olga, who adopted Meteora until she turned on her, deactivated her, and took control of her droids and took over the entire school.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A fully regenerated Rasticore says "missed me?" upon his return. He appears to be saying this at large, rather than at anyone in particular.
- Literal-Minded: Turns out that this is the origin of the name "Miss Heinous": while giving her to St. Olga, King Shastacan calls the baby Meteora "absolutely heinous". Olga assumes that it's her name.
- Married to the Job: Rasticore only stayed with Miss Heinous just until he could get his full form back, and once he does, he intends to resume being a bounty hunter because it's the only thing that matters to him, but Heinous will have none of that and blows him up again.
- Mood Whiplash: Pony Head leaves for a while to call Star to complain about the school's new rules... and then Meteora attacks St O's.
- Motive Misidentification: The princesses think Meteora is still trying to take back the school, with Pony Head believing the villainess to be targeting her in particular. Turns out she just wanted to get to St. Olga and retrieve her lost memories. Having done so, she aims for the throne of Mewni.
- Named After Somebody Famous: The robot who adopted Meteora is named after St. Olga, a Russian saint, but of course, she's nothing like her counterpart.
- No-Sell: Princess Arms throws one of the robot guard's grenade hearts at Meteora. She isn't even scratched. Worth noting, the same grenade is enough to obliterate most of Rasticore's body except his arm.
- One-Winged Angel: Meteora's monstrous traits are shown more in full, and her power has skyrocketed. A grenade exploding point blank does zero to harm her. After destroying St. Olga, Meteora transforms again, growing horns, bulking up, and revealing more monstrous traits. She proceeds to curbstomp all the Princesses by herself.
- Perverted Drooling: As she tries to come on to Rasticore, Meteora is seen smiling with drool coming out of her mouth. Rastcore wipes it away for her.
- Pinned to the Wall: Princess Arms tries to hit Meteora with a stick, but she breaks it in two and uses it to pin the princess to the wall.
- Punched Across the Room: Three times.
- Pony Head hitting back at another princess during a pillow fight, sending her to the wall.
- When Rasticore attacks the princesses with his chainsaw, somehow Princess Arms is sent to the brunch room crashing through the door.
- Meteora finishing off St. Olga by punching her into a wall.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Princess Arms is the leader of the princesses and the only one to put a decent resistance against Meteora, managing to throw an explosive heart at her, as well as punch down one of the rogue guard robots.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: You know the guard robots have turned against the princesses when their yellow eyes turn red, courtesy of Gemini.
- Resignations Not Accepted: Meteora reacts to Rasticore's awkward attempt to leave her employ by using Gemini's heart to blow him up, once again reducing him to just an arm. She then picks up his arm and takes it with her, making it clear that she won't let him go that easily.
- Retcon:
- In "Butterfly Trap", the Box of Truth showed King Shastacan handing Meteora over to a peasant in exchange for Festivia. Here, it is shown that he handed her to St. Olga to be raised in the school. This could be justified under the Box of Truth only showing a holographic dramatization of what could have happened instead of the actual event.
- In "Monster Bash", Meteora's mutation included reptilian features such as a scaly arm and green skin. Here, she starts mostly unchanged, save for her canine teeth, and gains her father's demonic likeness upon mutating further.
- The Reveal: St. Olga is revealed to be the robotic former headmistress of the school, who Meteora eventually replaced. King Shastacan traded Meteora to her, and Olga brainwashed Meteora into forgetting about her past.
- Robotic Reveal: Gemini is a robot like the guards, as revealed when Meteora tears his robotic heart out.
- Scream Discretion Shot:
- As Rasticore slashes through the princesses with the chainsaw, we only see the feathers of the pillows falling and listen to their screams, with only Princess Arms coming out unscathed.
- Later, Arms and other princesses rally behind Pony Head to take on Meteora. She advances towards them and we only listen to their screams. This one is more serious, as it cuts to Meteora outside the school, carrying Pony Head's severed horn.
- Serious Business: The princesses have made up an entire testing regimen for brunch.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end, Rasticore mutters to himself that is now time to leave Meteora. Even when blown up, the arm tries to crawl away, to no avail.
- Skewed Priorities: When Princess Arms organizes a defense against Meteora's invasion, she is irritated to find Pony Head ignoring it and pigging out on food instead. Pony Head only attempts to fight when Meteora approaches.
- Suicide Attack: Turns out the robot guards can be commanded to remove their hearts and use them as grenades, but doing so deactivates them after a short while.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: Downplayed, but the other princesses are somewhat resentful of Pony Head for being better at brunch than them.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Pony Head admits to hating Princess Arms, but teams up with her to save the school from Meteora's attack.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Rasticore ends up disintegrated again, this time by Gemini's exploding heart thrown by Meteora. And like last time, only his right arm remains.
- Threat Backfire: Princess Arms and the others try to halt Meteora by saying that they'll have to go through them to get to the brunch room. An unimpressed Rasticore simply revs up his chainsaw.
- Too Dumb to Live:
- Yes Rasticore, try to reject the woman you just watched rip apart the school with her bare hands. Then again, he wasn't obligated to serve her and was probably trying to be tactful in trying to evade a clearly unhinged woman.
- St. Olga thinks it's appropriate to still act like an abusive mother to Meteora, who deactivated her and took the school from her in the first place. This gets her killed for good.
- Uncertain Doom: Meteora brutally attacks the teenagers and leaves the building holding Ponyhead's severed horn. In a preview for "Bam Ui Pati", a seemingly traumatized Ponyhead has indeed survived but the rest of the princesses (save Spiderbite later in Season 4) are unaccounted for.
- Ungrateful Bitch: After everything Gemini's done for her, Meteora callously tears out his mechanical heart to scornfully dismember/kill Rasticore.
- Villain Episode: Miss Heinous/Meteora is the main character for this episode, while Pony Head and the other students are just on the side and are treated as fodder.
- Vocal Evolution: Rasticore's voice is less guttural here than it was in his debut, being closer in line to his flashback appearance.
- We Can Rule Together: What Meteora has in mind when she tells Rasticore that now it's the two of them. After blowing him up and retrieving his arm, she says they'll take the throne together, though this time not in a romantic way.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Meteora was so badly abused by St. Olga she started to internalize the robot's criticisms and went out of her way to have herself be brainwashed on a regular basis in an effort to better herself according to her mother's standards. It reached a point the brainwashing was the only way Meteora could survive without having a complete breakdown.
- Wham Episode:
- Meteora's whole background is revealed in this episode, showing many of the past events that would shape her "Miss Heinous" identity. She also finally mutates into her true half-Monster, half-Mewman form and plans to take back her rightful position as Mewni's Queen.
- This episode also introduces St. Olga, Meteora's adoptive, abusive robot mother and the namesake of the St. Olga Reform School, which would certainly explain the Mecha-Mooks.
- Woman Scorned: Meteora clearly doesn't take Rasticore's rejection very well, blowing him up in the process. Even worse, she still picks up his dismembered arm and speaks to it affectionately, just like in "Heinous", except this time, in a bit more creepy manor.
- The Worf Effect: Pony Head is decently powerful thanks to her magic, laser-firing horn, but she ends up being no match for Meteora, losing said horn in the process.
- Would Hurt a Child: The princesses are in their early to mid teens and the chef looks like she's the youngest at either 10 years old or younger. Neither Meteora, nor Rasticore, nor even Gemini pull their punches against them.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Meteora decides she has no more use of her minions and takes out Gemini's robot heart and disintegrates Rasticore. She also wrecks St. Olga once she's gotten the information she needs out of her, probably mostly because she was also being reminded of the abuse Olga put her through.
