Recap / The Owl House S3E3 "Watching and Dreaming"

"You know this can't last forever."

Willow: If you wanna save anyone, you have to wake up!
Luz: How?!
Hunter: Think about it. What's the first thing you do after you wake up from a bad dream?
Amity: You turn on the light.

Original air date: 4/8/2023
Production code: 303

The fate of everything on the Boiling Isles now rests on the shoulders of a human, a cursed witch, and a determined but tiny little King.

The full episode can currently be watched for free on the Official Disney Channel Youtube.^note The video is, unfortunately, region blocked outside of the US, UK, and Australia, precluding the use of a VPN.

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Tropes in this episode include:

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: After spending the whole series being unable to do magic directly, the Titan grants Luz the last of his powers, allowing her to use all forms of magic at will, albeit temporarily.
• Aborted Arc: Due to the Time Skip, Luz is never shown being able to help the Bat Queen learn who her former owner was, as she had promised back in "Escape of the Palisman".
• Accidental Hero: The Collector turning most of the population of the Boiling Isles into puppets and storing them in his floating castle during the Time Skip between seasons two and three ended up protecting all of them when Belos begins covering the Isles in Meat Moss and causing the Titan's corpse to move.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: Amity has apparently become one in the Distant Finale, retrieving works of rare and ancient Boiling Isles literature for Lilith.
• Affectionate Nickname: The Collector calls the Belos-possessed-Raine "Ray-Ray".
• Afterlife Antechamber: The In-Between is revealed to be something like this in addition to a more general world between worlds. Luz goes there after she dies and the Titan notes that if she sinks into its waters, she'll pass on to the afterlife proper and thus really be dead. He further details this by describing the In-Between as being the place "between" a lot of things… including between life and death.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Downplayed. Luz doesn't shed tears as Belos starts melting under the rain. But she turns her head away and takes a few steps back when Belos begs her to save him. She may hate his guts for what he's done, but she feels no joy in seeing a dying man be this pathetic and yet still be unrepentant despite his life being on the line.
• All Deaths Final: While the Collector is near-omnipotent, he finds out the hard way not even his own power can bring the dead back to life. Overall, though, this is averted as Luz does make it back from the Space In-Between thanks to the Titan giving her their power.
• All for Nothing: Belos' last gambit to finish his witch genocide was ultimately thwarted, and Belos succumbed to the boiling rain shortly afterwards. Upon his death, all he had accomplished were raising the Titan's left arm into the sky and killing the Titan's lingering spirit, rendering the glyphs useless. Those were ultimately rectified with the inhabitants adapting to new landscape and King developing his own set of glyphs for Luz to use. Meanwhile, Belos' influence gradually waned away with the Coven System completely abolished and a new university dedicated to Wild Magic built upon the ruins of his castle, ensuring a new generation of witches will thrive and prosper while his witch hunting ways will be relegated to ghost stories and cautionary tales.
• All Your Powers Combined: Luz briefly gaining the last bit of the Titan's power allows her access to all three forms of magic. She can cast spell circles with her finger (or Stringbean) like witches can, she can generate glyphs at will, and she can use a magic scream like King.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • The boiling rain that melts Belos into his sludge form appears to be magically or supernaturally induced, implied to be summoned by either the Titan, Luz, or both, though it's not clear.
  • During the epilogue, Kikimora can be seen working under Matt helping to build a new wing of the museum, it's left unclear whether it's a punishment for all her crimes or she's redeemed herself and is working a "lesser" job to make up for her crimes.
• And I Must Scream: Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hunter seem to be fully aware that they're being puppeteered by the Collector to attack Luz, and they manage to briefly break free from their control to tell Luz how to escape her nightmare, and everyone pretty much everyone who was turned into a puppet by the Collector seems to be aware that they got turned into one, as Amity can be seen slightly twitching her fingers to make a light glyph while stuck in puppet form.
• And Show It to You: Inverted. Rather than rip a heart out of Belos, Luz rips Belos out of a heart.
• And the Adventure Continues: The episode ends with Luz about to go to university in the Boiling Isles.
• Animation Bump:
  • The fight with the Titan-empowered Luz, King, and Eda against Belos is amazingly well-animated, with in-house animation done by Smallbu - who previously worked on Amphibia, and Tom Barkel.
  • FX animation for Belos' fungus-like growth was done by Husain Untoro, alongside Smallbu.
  • Similarly, the epilogue credits sequences has several moments of increased quality—particularly the scenes of Hunter and Willow sliding down a hill together, Lilith transforming into Harpy mode, Darius shaking Alador, Owlbert flying towards Gus, and Eda's final staff spin, to name a few.
• Apologetic Attacker: In Luz's nightmare, a puppeted Amity apologizes to the former before immediately attacking her.
• Aside Glance: Raine questions how long they were knocked out for after Belos took control of the Titan's heart when they see Titan Luz, looking directly at the camera as they do.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • The Collector grows to about the size of a skyscraper, absolutely dwarfing Luz, King, and Eda below, when he decides to play marbles and use them as the marbles.
  • Belos, after merging with the Titan's heart, creates a massive, Titan-esque body around it that dwarfs his castle, with Belos' slime infecting the entire corpse.
• Babies Ever After: The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue reveals that the Slitherbeast had a child at some point in the intervening years.
• Back for the Finale: Tiny Nose, Dell, and Gwen Clawthorne, the Bat Queen and her offspring, the eyeball-eating demon, and Tibbles all make brief appearances. In a meta sense, original composer T.J. Hill also returned to write the final musical track in the series.
• Bad Liar: Finding himself at the mercy of Luz, Belos tries to deceive her by taking on the form of Philip Wittebane as he was in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", thanking her for freeing him from an evil curse. But, having been put on the spot after his plan was foiled, he is very sloppy in his manipulation skills, making obvious pauses as he attempts to think on the fly, looking to the side and being nervous enough to noticeably sweat. Even choosing that version of himself is a mistake, as he was already a conman by that point. Naturally, Luz is unimpressed.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • When Luz is sent back to the world of the living, the scene cuts to a P.O.V. Shot of Gus saying "She's waking up." Then the camera angle changes and we see this is Camila.
  • Belos' final rant has him condemn Luz for her inaction as he's melting away in the boiling rains, claiming that if she lets him die like this, then she'll be just as evil, manipulative and deceitful... as the witches, rather than himself. This reflects how his own delusional viewpoint has rendered it impossible for him to accept his own culpability in his actions, and how he persistently self-rationalises himself as 'good' no matter what, deflecting blame even to his last breath.
  • In Luz's internal monologue about how she can no longer use glyphs with the Titan having finally passed on, she decides that a new chapter of her life is beginning. We then cut to Luz's room with her packing up her things in a box, hinting that she ended up abandoning her dreams of becoming a witch and chose to stay in the Human Realm. We then see that she is visibly older and now appears to be a young adult and has apparently been accepted to a university, presumably a human university. A compilation of photos on a corkboard implies though, that she maintained contact with her friends though mostly stayed in the Human Realm, something which her briefly wistful tone implies. Then we find out she never gave up on her dream of becoming a witch after seeing she enrolled in every major at the University of Wild Magic.
  • She then implies that she hasn't seen her friends in a long time. Then Camila points out she saw them last week. Something which a newer Grom photo foreshadows.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: After a whole season and two specials of teasing the Collector as the final villain of the series, Belos ultimately becomes the real threat, effectively securing his Big Bad position for the entire series. The actual confrontation with the Collector is anything BUT climactic.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Luz, Eda and King are able to make it to the Demon Realm's upper atmosphere without even freezing or suffocating due to the high altitude.
• Bequeathed Power: The Titan, realizing Belos will soon take over his body completely, bequeaths the remainder of his life force to Luz, temporarily granting her his powers so she can stop Belos.
• Berserker Tears:
  • All of the Collected Hexsquad in Luz's illusion cry angrily as they blame Luz for everything that happened during her time on the Boiling Isles.
  • As a result of witnessing Belos kill Luz, both a furious King and the equally livid Eda in her ferocious owl beast form clearly have tears coming out of their eyes as they launch an attack on Belos.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Belos desperately implores Luz to save him as the boiling rain begins dissolving him, trying to convince her that she'll be no better than "those witches" if she lets him die. Luz merely stands by and lets Eda, King, and Raine stomp him to death.
• Beyond Redemption: Belos tries to get Luz to show him mercy after he's been defeated, because as humans they're supposed to be "better" than the witches. Luz doesn't even bother acknowledging him, merely stepping back to let Eda, King, and Raine deliver the final Coup de Grâce.
• Big Damn Kiss:
  • Once Gilbert and Harvey reunite with Willow upon being freed of their puppet mode, they have one of these.
  • Upon reuniting in the Owl House after Belos is defeated, Luz and Amity also share a kiss.
• Big Damn Reunion: After months of being trapped literal worlds apart, Luz finally reunites with Eda, King, and Owlbert. Once everything's said and done, she also has a reunion with Lilith, Hooty, Amity, and Camila while the rest of the Hexsquad and the citizens of the Isles engage in these.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Downplayed, but it's mentioned in the Distant Finale that Luz spent her last few birthdays helping rebuild the Boiling Isles, which is why everybody got together to make her 18th a proper celebration.
• Bishie Sparkle: On Hooty of all creatures after he’s restored to normal.
• Blasphemous Boast: Subtly, but given that Philip grew up a Puritan, the fact that he attaches himself to the Titan's heart in a matter that looks like he's being crucified gives the impression that he's trying to directly liken himself to Jesus. It makes Luz defeating him after being revived particularly fitting.
• Blatant Lies: After being torn from the Titan, Belos' last gambit is trying to convince Luz that he was actually under a curse that forced him to hurt people and that tearing him from the Titan's body has freed him. Tellingly, he sweats nervously and glances off to the right just before telling the lie, making it clear he came up with it on the spot, and then says "Yes, a curse!", as if he's trying to convince himself of it. He also makes sure to add that the curse is just like the one "Luz's mentor" is under, making it even more obvious that he's just trying to guilt her. And besides, the falsehood is especially obvious to Luz, who is one of two people alive who saw him when he was still Philip, meaning she knows that his bigotry against witches predates his ability to use most magic in the first place. Naturally, no one is fooled for a second, with Luz glaring down at him in disgust the whole time, and three of the Boiling Isles' natives proceeding to beat him to death.
• Blind Without 'Em: Played for Drama. Without their glasses, a trapped Raine cannot recognize Harpy Eda from far away, and they immediately begin panicking and yelling at her to stay away until she puts their glasses on their face for them.
• Bloodless Carnage: Averted. In Eda's nightmare, she dreams that she scratched Dell's remaining eye out, which is visibly bleeding. Played straight with Belos' shambling body starting to fall apart into rotting bones covered in slime, though by that point, it's clearly because there's simply not a drop of human blood left in him.
• Body Horror:
  • Belos' body continues to decay here, as while a large part of him is trying to suffocate Raine after they are un-puppeted, he is left as a one-armed torso pathetically trying to crawl through his castle, having lost a tooth and much of the flesh around his face to the point where it's very visibly shaped like his skull. After retaking his Philip form following the separation from the Titan's heart, a convenient boiling rainstorm proceeds to burn his skin to reveal the muck-made skeleton underneath. Prior to his death, the only thing left of his body is literally just a skull dripping with green goop.
  • After Luz takes Belos' attack to protect the Collector, her body is slowly corrupted by his Meat Moss essence, until it disintegrates, leaving light orbs behind. From Luz's expression you can tell it is also very painful for her.
• Bookends:
  • Just like in "A Lying Witch and a Warden", Luz defeats her enemy by making a speech that ends in her using Azura's "Now eat this, sucka!" battle cry.
  • Eda makes the same twirling motion with her staff that Luz did in the opening theme.
  • Viewers were first introduced to the concept of coven sigils when an illusion track student was branded during the Covention. Here, that very same boy is shown having his sigil removed thanks to Alador's efforts in the epilogue.
  • Luz introduces the Collector to the Owl House, just like she was in the first episode. She also gives him a recap of some of her first adventures in the Boiling Isles.
  • Just before deciding to stay on the Boiling Isles instead of going to summer camp, Luz gives King a crown to make up for the one that Warden Wrath crushed. Here, King's father also ends up wearing a crown when the Archive House crashes onto his skull.
  • The first episode ended with Luz officially becoming Eda's student. The series ends with her preparing to do the same thing once again, only now it's in a formal school setting rather than the more informal master/apprentice relationship.
  • The first opening has Luz use a light glyph to make an orb of light, while here King shows Luz his new light glyph just a few minutes from the end of the show.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The Collector uses the "Collected" Hexsquad to torment Luz, blaming her for everything that's gone wrong during her time in the Boiling Isles, on the suggestion of the Belos-possessed Raine.
• Breath-Holding Brat: The Collector threatens to hold his breath "for a million years" if the Belos-possessed Raine doesn't want to tell them about their new plans for the main trio (which, given his species, is entirely plausible).
• But Now I Must Go: The Collector, after Belos is defeated and a new portal door is made, decides to leave for the stars to learn more and grow as a person. He does return to create a light show for Luz's 18th birthday, however.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Edric still can't catch a break. He gets pushed over by Boscha when she runs for her teammates, falling flat on his face, and in the epilogue his attempt at showing off beastkeeping magic causes the beast he summoned to immediately latch onto his face.
• Bystander Syndrome:
  • Thanks to the Collector, the Hexsquad (minus Luz) are stuck as puppets until Amity frees herself along with Willow, Gus, and Hunter using a light glyph; even then, they're now too exhausted to use their natural magic, forcing them to sit out the Final Battle. However, with some glyphs provided by Camila, they're able to save the other puppetized citizens while Luz, Eda, King, and Raine go after Belos.
  • The Collector himself also gets this after his Heel–Face Turn. Since his powers are useless against the Titan magic Belos is using, he instead does his part by helping out Camila and the Hexsquad.
• Call-Back:
  • During her forced dream sequence, Luz sees her friends wearing a mishmash of their older outfits. Amity is wearing her old casual outfit, Willow is dressed in her school uniform, Gus is wearing his Grom-suit, and Hunter is in his stripped-down Golden Guard attire from "Hunting Palismen". Luz, meanwhile, is dressed in Belos' old outfit. In Eda's dream' Lilith is wearing her dress from Season 1.
  • "Amity's" attack on Luz starts at the bridge to the Emperor's palace, like in "Agony of a Witch" with Eda.
  • Like in "Eda's Requiem", Raine's prolonged battle against someone trying to capture them has resulted in their signature viola being left broken and discarded on the ground.
  • As Luz's soul sinks into the waters of the In-Between, Luz thinks back on how she didn't know what to say to Eda and King as she was dying and realizes what she should have done was thank them. This alludes to their own words to her during their respective Heroic Sacrifices in "Agony of a Witch" and "King's Tide".
  • The Titan gives Luz a message to give to King: "I loaf you." It's a bread pun, just like in "Really Small Problems" where Luz and King spent the intro slinging bread puns back and forth. He also describes himself as "King and Queen, best of both things" when explaining his relationship to King.
  • Luz reminds Eda of the very first lesson she taught her about magic in "The Intruder" just before they charge towards the Titan's heart in the final battle:
    Luz: Come on Eda, you know where magic comes from.
    Luz, King, and Eda: [in unison] From the heart!
  • As she tears Belos from the Titan's Heart, Luz delivers her own version of Azura's monologue from the very first episode.
    Belos: You can't defeat me!
    Luz: Do not underestimate me, Belos. For I am the Good Witch Luz! Child of the Human Realm! Student of the Demon Realm and warrior of peace! NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!
  • As Belos feebly attempts to claim that his actions were all because of him being cursed by Dark Magic, Luz just gives him a silent stare of contempt, not buying the obvious lie for a second. It evokes Belos' own reaction to her hiding her arm behind her back whilst asking him to 'shake on it' in "King's Tide", seeing through the 'obvious' ruse and silently asking if they think they'd be dumb enough to fall for it. It also evokes the similar contemptuous look Caleb's shade gave Belos in "For the Future", again showing how similar Luz is to his deceased brother's good nature.
  • One of Luz's photos on her board shows King finally getting to have that game of catch, with Eda and Hooty playing with him.
  • Hunter has taken up a career carving palismen, which he previously expressed a desire to do in "Thanks to Them".
  • Back in "Something Ventured, Someone Framed", Gus showed off paperclips to the Human Appreciation Society, here he ends up explaining paperclips to students. He's also shown acting as part of a Human/Demon Realm exchange program, fitting with his stated dream of becoming an ambassador that he first mentioned when bonding with his palisman in "Hunting Palismen".
• Came Back Strong: The Titan grants Luz their remaining power before letting her return to the Demon Realm, bringing her back to life in the form of a Titan/human hybrid with the abilities of both Titans and witches along with a massive increase in power.
• Casting Gag: Eda being the headmaster of a new school is similar to Wendie Malick's role in Young Sheldon, as a university president.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Luz tells the Collector all about her adventures with Eda and King by showing him the memory photos that Willow made last episode while trying to find the teleportation glyph array.
  • The beating heart that has been sitting in the throne room ends up coming to play when Belos realizes that A) it's the Titan's heart and B) Titan magic cancels out the Collector's magic. Realizing he now has the perfect means to kill all the witches and demons without fear of the Collector destroying him, Belos makes a beeline dash for the throne room and successfully possesses the heart, kickstarting the final threat for the Boiling Isles.
• The Chosen One: Of a sort. It turns out the reason Luz picked up glyph magic so quickly is because the Titan was actively sharing them with her in hopes she would help King and stop Belos, making her the true Speaker of the Titan. Inversely, Belos was completely correct in his theory that the Titan was trying to hide glyph magic from him, having been deemed unworthy of them for rather obvious reasons. Interestingly, the Titan didn’t choose Luz because she’s “special” in the strict sense of the word, but simply because of her kindness towards King, who just happens to be the Titan’s son, and they didn’t give her their “blessing” by bringing her back from the dead with a Super Form, until Luz chose herself to save the day.
• Commercial Break Cliffhanger: Averted, as there are no commercial breaks during this episode's initial airing.
• Continuity Cavalcade:
  • When the episode starts airing, it begins with a minute or two of scenes from across the series, and the mindscapes that the Collector traps Luz, Eda, and King in have references to things that happened earlier in the show.
  • The Distant Finale scenes show numerous characters from throughout the show.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The Collector gets angry at Belos-possessed Raine for touching Francois, as King had told him that Luz is the only one allowed to touch him.
  • The Collector's reaction upon seeing Luz perform the ice glyph echo Amity's words when she first saw the light glyph back in "Covention".
  • When Belos' Meat Moss starts covering the Boiling Isles, a rat can be seen pushing Tiny Nose out of a small hole for protection, the exact opposite of what happened back in "The Intruder".
  • During the fight, Luz briefly takes Eda and King into the upper atmosphere allowing them all to see the fully glory of the Boiling Isles, just like they did for her back in "Witches Before Wizards".
  • Upon seeing the Titan's spirit leave Luz, Eda comments that King really does have "tall genes."
  • Luz's voiceover narration starts with her saying "and that's how we..." in the same way she dictated her message to her mom in "Young Blood, Old Souls".
  • Vitimir's hat is still missing the part that Darius cut off during the battle between the coven heads in "King's Tide".
  • As Luz is packing up the stuff in her room while preparing to head to college, the box includes her Grom tiara, Eda's varsity jacket, Adegast's map, and the Tamagotchi she used to text with Amity.
  • One of the photos in the epilogue is the same one of Luz and Amity stargazing on the roof of the Owl House that she used both in her coming-out slideshow and as a reference for her laptop's wallpaper.
  • Matt has actually grown some stubble in after the Time Skip, and is still just as proud of it as he was his fake stubble in the previous episode.
  • Lilith's plans for the expansion of the Bonesborough Library include a note on adding balusters and calling Flora to gloat.
  • Amity's abomination airship has a cat face, just like the one Luz made out of one of the abomination butlers in "Escaping Expulsion". She also appears to have repurposed the gems from her Grom tiara as a hair accessory.
  • The building where Alador's sigil removal experiment is being held is the police precinct Hunter and Luz visited in "Hunting Palismen".
  • Eda's office has the picture of her and Lilith during their grudgby days, a family photo with her, Luz, and King wearing sweaters, and her old wanted poster hanging on the back wall.
• Counterspell: As Luz tries to tear Belos away from the Titan's heart, her eyes glow yellow as she channels the Titan's power. In response, Belos' eyes glow blue and he summons his own insta-cast runes in what is implied to be an effort to counter what she's doing by doing it himself, though he's too late and is ripped off the heart.
• Crapsaccharine World: The Collector's gameboard looks bright and colorful, with most of the landscape consisting of brightly colored puzzle and board game pieces. It's a lot less fun when you're one of their toys though, as Luz, Eda, and King find out the hard way.
• Creator Cameo: Two by the series' creator in the epilogue. Luz's writing scholarship was apparently approved and signed by none other than Dana Terrace, and a witch resembling her is also seen entering Hexside, alongside several other witch-ified members of the crew.
• Crowded-Cast Shot: The final shot of the entire series is group shot of all the attendees of Luz's birthday party (which is made up of most of the recurring cast) waving goodbye to the Collector.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Inverted creepily. Belos crucifies himself to the Titan's heart, symbolizing his Holier Than Thou egotism, blasphemous hypocrisy, and obsession with convincing himself he's the hero.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Once Luz is imbued with the Titan's power and revived, she, Eda, King, and (eventually) Raine are able to drive back Belos' corruption with ease while he can barely offer meaningful resistance. He only avoids being fully-curbed because Luz' Super Mode is only temporary and the heroes have to finish him off while it lasts.
• Curse of The Ancients: Belos calls the Boiling Isles 'perdition', an archaic term for Hell in Christianity.
  Belos: FINALLY! I CAN CLEANSE THIS PERDITION... MYSELF!
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's revealed that the Collector was originally just a lonely child who, unlike his siblings the Archivists, had no interest in "collecting" species from different worlds and just wanted to play and make friends. He was sent to the Demon Realm by his siblings to keep him out of their way under the guise of "playing a game". The Titans originally welcomed the Collector with open arms, but once the Archivists discovered that Titan magic can cancel out theirs, they hunted down the Titans to extinction which the Collector saw as his playmates "disappearing" one by one. And the Collector was trapped in the In-Between by the last Titan, who mistook the Collector for one of his siblings.
• Darkest Hour: Belos manages to take control of the Boiling Isles through his possession of the Titan's heart, spreading his corruption upon the whole land, and seemingly kills Luz, who Disappears into Light like Flapjack did. The Collector has their magic disrupted by the hijacked Titan power in Belos' Meat Moss, and is left powerless to save Eda and King, who are too caught up in their Unstoppable Rage to notice that Belos is about to smash them with his titanic arm.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Befitting as Belos' Good Counterpart, Luz's Super Mode looks like a corrupted version of Azura's witch outfit, with all-black clothing, fangs, clawed limbs, blackened glowing eyes, a wilder hairstyle and horns sticking out through her hat. She's very firmly still an All-Loving Hero despite the intimidating appearance and instead falls into a Cute Monster Girl look through her dorky mannerisms.
• Dawn of an Era: With Belos gone for good, the Isles can rebuild and cleanse off his influence. In the Distant Finale, they've successfully found out how to remove the sigils, getting rid of the last remnants of the Coven system, and the clearing where Belos' palace was is now a giant tree housing a university for studying wild magic.
• Dead Hat Shot: After Luz (temporarily) dies for taking Belos' attack meant for the Collector, the only things that remains of her are her Azura hat and Stringbean in her staff mode. Strangely, her hat shows up back on her head after her revival despite it not being present during her talk with the Titan in the In-Between Realm.
• Death by Irony: Belos ends up being melted by the boiling rain, just like a certain wicked witch. Even more ironic is that Belos longs to return back to the Human Realm and feel the gentle, cool rain after 400 years of being stuck in the Demon Realm, but his refusal to stay in the Human Realm until his witch-hunting goal is complete ensures that he ends up dying in the very place he hated, a prisoner of his own making.
• A Degree in Useless: When Luz shows Camila the list of subjects she plans to study, at the very top of the list is "Ancient Glyphs and Combos". Luz herself is probably the foremost authority on Glyph magic, making her more qualified to teach the class instead of taking it. It also doesn't help that old Glyph magic itself is useless now that the Titan that powered them is gone, though the combo part at least may prove useful if King's Glyphs work on the same principles (he only has the Light Glyph thus far).
• Demonic Possession: Belos, leaving Raine, jumps ship to the Titan's heart.
• Demoted to Extra:
• Detrimental Determination: The Titan notes to Luz that ultimately what renders Belos Beyond Redemption is his own fixation on being the hero in his delusional narrative, necessitating that he has to be put down for the good of all, because he will never change his mind or stop trying to kill witches, and is just crafty and dangerous enough to succeed despite the odds. Even his last words reflect this, and he pathetically begs Luz to help him as she watches him melt away in the boiling rains, trying to guilt-trip her that doing so makes her just as bad as the witches, still unable to see that Luz's Guilt Complex was because she was horrified by her similarities to Belos and the atrocities he'd committed, and persistently claiming that he's better than the 'evil' monsters just because he's human.
• Didn't See That Coming: When Belos finds out from the Collector that King is a Titan, while he manages to keep his composure he's clearly surprised by the revelation.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: As it turns out, the Titan is truly a benevolent figure, who's been watching Luz through all her adventures.
• Discard and Draw: After the glyphs stop working, Luz and Stringbean manage to find a new way of using magic, though this isn't directly shown. King's powers eventually reach a point where he is able to create his own glyphs, but said glyphs are different from the Titan's old ones, meaning that Luz has to start learning them from scratch.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Luz, Eda, and King manage to handle the Collector midway through the episode, leaving Belos, possessing the body of the Titan, as the final threat of the series.
• Disney Death: In a Heroic Sacrifice, Luz gets killed by Belos' slime overtaking her body. She ends up in the In-between Realm, where she's saved from sinking and thus dying for real by the Titan. They then grant Luz some of their power before letting her return to the Demon Realm whole and alive.
• Disappears into Light:
  • When Luz succumbs to Belos' attack, her body disappears into orbs of light, just like with Flapjack, which then travel over the Isles, as if Luz is seeing the realm she's come to love one last time.
  • After the Titan's spirit leaves Luz's body, it flies into the sky and disappears with the spark of a light glyph.
• Distant Finale: The final scenes occur over three years later where Luz graduated from high school in Gravesfield and is going to take every major at the University of Wild Magic in the Boiling Isles. She returns to the Demon Realm (after having been there last week before finals) with Camila and Vee on her 18th birthday for a surprise "King-ceañera".
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Having been given near-godlike power by the Titan, Luz has some trouble properly regulating it at first, sending herself and her friends high into the sky when she takes them to safety in a bubble.
• Doing in the Scientist: It's not directly stated, but it's made clear that Luz finding the Light Glyph in "The Intruder" wasn't a result of her phone's camera recording it, but rather the Titan showing her the symbol though the reflective surface of the phone's screen using the mirror properties of the In Between Realm.
• Downer Beginning: The episode opens with the Hexsquad and Camila getting captured by the Collector, who traps Luz, Eda, and King in nightmares tormented by people they knew, while turning everyone else into puppets.
• Draconic Abomination: When Belos possesses the Titan, the sludge forming around his palace that acts as his head resembles a dragon, even spewing fire from the mouth.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: The Collector is normally powerful enough to effortlessly move celestial bodies with the wave of his finger, but getting infected by some of Belos' goop on his hands, combined with the fact that Titan magic counters his, ends up weakening him enough that he's left struggling to even keep the Archive House from crashing into the Titan's skull.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Belos attempts to guilt trip Luz into saving him by saying she'll be just as evil as the witches if she doesn't and that being human is enough reason to save him. He fails to realize that Luz only fears being evil like Belos, and Belos himself has melted into a decaying corpse that barely resembles anything human anymore.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • The hints about Caleb and Evelyn's past with Philip are never addressed in any form, somewhat intentionally as the Titan, who would have been aware of events thanks to his lingering spirit, doesn't bother explaining Belos' motives as he's simply too far gone to be reasoned with anymore, just a monster that has to be put down rather than pitied. This means that Belos is ironically crushed to death by what is greatly hinted to be the descendant of Caleb and Evelyn's union and neither side realizes it.
  • Belos' backstory in the form of memory portraits in "Hollow Mind" actually shows that Philip was like Luz and the Collector, a young happy child who had to conform to society and was traumatized by the sudden disappearance of someone they were close to. This means if Belos had actually opened up about his past and insecurities to the Collector and Luz, he would have likely been redeemed (though not necessarily forgiven). But because he refuses to open up and insists that his motives are for a higher, abstract purpose (saving humanity from evil), he ends up becoming a flat villain to everyone in the show. Consequently, the tale of the Brothers Wittebane become irrelevant and Belos is never called Philip by anyone even once because by now, Belos is simply a mockery of a human being, full of sound and fury, that needs to be slain.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In the Collector's nightmare, Luz is wearing Belos' old outfit, sans mask, serving as a symbolic representation of Luz's fear that she and Belos aren't so different.
• Due to the Dead: During the epilogue, the members of the Hexsquad are shown to have gotten cardinal tattoos in tribute of Flapjack. Hunter and Willow also briefly visit his grave before heading to Luz's party.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: During Luz's Nightmare Sequence, all of the "Hexsquad's" eyes lack shine, showing that they're miserable and angry at Luz for everything that's happened to them.
• Dying as Yourself: After being separated from the Titan's heart, Belos' goop reconfigures into the human Philip Wittebane, who thanks Luz for "freeing" him from a "terrible curse" that made him do evil things. It's a blatant lie that gets undone when the boiling rain hits human form, burning it and revealing a decaying, muddy skeleton barely clinging onto life. In a sense, this is Belos' true self: a miserable, manipulative monster of Gravesfield inhabiting Philip's corpse.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The characters go through a lot of hardships to do it, but in the end, the Collector is reformed, and the Isles are saved and being purged of Belos' lingering toxins as Alador and his team figure out how to remove people's coven sigils once and for all.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: Glimpsed in the epilogue when Willow and Hunter are sliding down a hill. Hunter loses his balance, so Willow hoists him up by his waist and carries him all the way to the bottom, skidding to a stop at the bottom on her feet with the appreciably taller Hunter off of his in her arms.
• Empathic Environment: Once Belos is stomped to death by King, Eda, and Raine, not only does the boiling rain immediately clear up, but the sky reverts to the brighter pastel shades it had during the Deadwardian era, as if the very world instantly becomes a brighter place with him gone.
• End of an Age: With the Titan's passing, his magic, the Coven System, they all come to an end. The magical inhabitants are all that's left of their maker's legacy.
• Entitled Bastard: As Belos' body falls apart, he essentially demands that Luz save him, despite everything he did to her and her friends.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Played with. The Collector isn't evil, but Belos deliberately misguides the magical youth to think that all King, Eda and Luz need is to be "punished" in order to help them "see the error of their ways". This amounts to trapping them in nightmares of their worst fears (mostly having to do with their friends and family hating them). But once the trio break out of the cruel illusions, the Collector realizes that not only has the experience endeared King further to his adopted family, but it may have possibly made King hate him for psychologically hurting him.
  • Belos, as always, and it ends up sealing his fate. He rants to Luz that letting him die will make her no better than "those witches," still unable to see the witches as people. And his attempts to connect with Luz amounts to their status as humans rather than anything they shared as individuals. What slim chance he had at getting Luz to help him died then and there.
• Exact Words: During his Villainous Breakdown, Belos rants to Luz that the two of them are human and are "better than this". Luz ignores him and backs away, and Eda, King, and Raine all approach him, with Eda remarking "Well we ain't!", before the three non-humans stomp on his remains.
• Exposed to the Elements: Luz, Eda, and King and the Collector don't take the time to change outfits before heading to the Knee, even though all previous episodes taking place there made a point to have characters change into cold weather clothing. While this could be justified if the Collector cast some sort of spell to keep them all warm, no mention of it is made.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Nearly everyone's hair changes slightly after the Time Skip, be it going grayer (Camila), growing a little longer (Vee, Lilith, Gus, Amity), or just getting styled differently. It even became a production joke, as one of Emmy Cicierega's concept ideations for future Raine◊ includes the comment "EVERYBODY IS GETTIN' A MULLET".
• Extra-Long Episode: Even among the previous specials, which were 44 minutes give or take, this one in particular clocks in at 55 minutes in length.
• Eye Am Watching You: Eberwolf wordlessly does this gesture to Terra, Adrian, and Vitimir as they eye Belos' throne, helping to punctuate Darius' much more overt threat in the form of an abomination fist.

F-I

• Face Death with Dignity: After bequeathing his remaining magic to Luz, the Titan calmly lets himself descend into the waters of the In-Between Realm.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: When Luz comes back in her Super Mode, she attempts to have a dramatic flourish while announcing her return, but she trips over her words and ends up looking awkward instead when she realizes she could have done it better.
  Luz: I'm back! I— Wait. Uh... Couldn't keep me away from... Ugh! I still can't think of anything to say!
• Fantastic Fireworks: King mentions at the end of the episode that the Collector was in the area and wanted to do "something special" for Luz's birthday party, which turns out to be a dazzling display of colors and lights for all the partygoers.
• Festering Fungus: When Belos possesses the Titan and spreads his corruption around the entire Isles, the gruesome mass resembles fungi, to symbolize his rotten and corrupted nature.
• Fighting from the Inside:
  • When Amity misquotes "witch's duel", letting Luz figure out that it's not really her, it's implied to be a deliberate resistance against the Collector's control, and she and the others manage to briefly resist their control long enough to tell her how to escape the dream.
  • Raine manages to resist Belos' control for a bit, and even manages to force him out.
• Finger-Twitching Revival: After Luz escapes from her Nightmare Sequence, the action cuts to Amity, Gus, Willow, and Hunter, all lying on the ground as the Collector's puppets... and then Amity's finger twitches. More justified than most examples, as drawing a light glyph with her finger (which she then proceeds to do) is the only way she can free herself fully.
• Finishing Stomp: Belos meets his end at the feet of Eda, King, and Raine, who repeatedly stomp on what remains of his melted body until he's nothing but dead goo.
  King: Ew, it's on my claws!
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: The Wittebane brothers ultimately went out in opposite ways. Caleb died at the hand of his brother in a raging forest fire with his corpse laying on his back. Philip on the other hand met his end under the heat of the boiling rain as Eda, King, and Raine stomped him to death while lying on (what remained of) his stomach.
• Foreshadowing: There are a few hints that what's going on is a dream before Amity's misquote occurs. The Boscha statue suddenly has her old hairstyle again, Bump is one of the statues despite obviously being a puppet already, Luz's friends are wearing some of their previous outfits and none of them have eye-shines, and Hunter's eyes are back to being magenta, when Flapjack's sacrifice had turned them brown two episodes earlier.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: When talking to Luz, the Titan takes the form of an older King with a "dad bod", glyph-covered pajama pants, Eda's "Bad Girl Coven" shirt, and a mini-Hooty sticking out of his eye socket. In his last moments, he becomes a giant, skeletal Titan, a reflection of his true form, albeit scaled down for Luz's benefit.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • When Luz looks down at the petrified people, Boscha somehow has her old hairstyle again, and Principal Bump is with her despite having been turned into a puppet by the Collector already. These are additional hints to her that things are not as they seem.
  • When Philip is melting away and is reduced to a rotting carcass, one can briefly see that Luz is actually looking away. This seems to indicate that she is disappointed in herself for not being able to reason with the fallen emperor, even if he is Beyond Redemption.
  • The Distant Finale shows many photos in the Noceda home explaining what Luz and her loved ones have done, such as Luz and Vee at their high school graduation, Hooty about to snatch some seeds from the barista's hand during a visit to the Human Realm while Luz and Amity — who's sporting a mischievous smile — watch in the background, King playing catch with Eda and Hooty, the Hexsquad (including Vee) attending Grom, Luz and Vee playing either baseball or softball, and Stringbean in an apple costume.
  • Lilith's plans for the library's expansion have notes reminding her to write to Flora so she can gloat about it and that Hooty will be the curator of the new wing once it's completed.
  • The basilisks that escaped with Vee have made a home for themselves at the University of Wild Magic.
  • Tibbles can be seen during the final group shot. Seems he gained enough respect for Luz to be invited to her party.
  • When King creates a shield to protect the Collector from Belos' attack, it uses a glyph array that doesn't match any of the four glyphs Luz has been using throughout the series. In the epilogue, one of them (visible on the right) is shown to be King's version of the light glyph.
• Fusion Dance: The Titan imbues Luz with the last of his power, temporarily transforming her into a human-titan hybrid with the abilities of both, giving her enough strength and magic to defeat Belos.
• Get Out!: As the struggle for control of their own body continues to grow, Raine shouts at Belos, "I said, GET OUT!" once they reach the Emperor's Coven, before whistling to blast Belos off their body.
• Glamour Failure: After being pulled from the heart, Belos reforms into Philip Wittebane, even taking on his old voice, in an attempt to convince Luz that his actions were the result of a curse. When the boiling rain hits him, however, it melts away his false skin and his voice degrade into the deeper one he uses as Belos.
• Glasses of Aging: In the Distant Finale, Gus and Lilith have both taken to wearing glasses. In Lilith's case, it's implied that she was wearing contact-lenses throughout the rest of the show's run-time, as she was seen wearing glasses back when she was a student at Hexside. Since Gus has become a teacher and Lilith is now running a History Museum, they both qualify as Nerd Glasses.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: All over the place in this episode.
  • Belos, his avatar, and the Titan's body when he possesses it all share his glowing blue eyes.
  • Once Luz dies, a vengeful Eda and King manifest these — scarlet and indigo, respectively — as they proceed to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Once Luz comes back and their rage subsides, their eyes go back to normal.
  • Luz's eyes glow bright orange as she channels all her power to tear Belos out of the Titan's heart, and again when the Titan's spirit leaves her body for good.
  • Subverted with the Collector when he asks Matt, Jerbo, and Celine if they want to play grudgby with them. However, considering everything he's done so far, and the unfortunate Nightmare Face he's making, they naturally assume this of him and book it in terror.
• Gollum Made Me Do It: After Luz tears him from the Titan's heart, Belos takes on the form he had when he was Philip and claims that his evil acts were all because of his curse, but he's free of it now. Luz, unsurprisingly, doesn't deign to even respond to such a case of Blatant Lies, simply glaring at him, as the boiling rain comes and starts melting him.
• Good Is Not Dumb: As friendly and tolerant as she may be, Luz isn't fooled by Belos pretending to have been freed from a curse and lets him burn in the scalding storm.
• Good Is Not Soft: Though Luz felt bad for wishing the Collector would violently kill Belos, she decides to simply stand by and let him die, despite his demands for her help. Not satisfied with that, Raine, Eda, and King give him one last beating.
• Grand Finale: The last of three extra-length specials that collectively serve as this for the series.
• Grave-Marking Scene: Hunter and Willow briefly visit Flapjack's grave in the epilogue before leaving to gather everyone for Luz's Surprise Party, with Willow using her plant magic to coat the tombstone in flowers.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Collector's older siblings, the Archivists. They sent their sibling to study the Boiling Isles, and wiped out the Titans, driving King's father to imprison the Collector.
• The Greatest Story Never Told:
  • Bill is seen among the Collector's captives, implying that he and his fellow Titan Trappers came to the Boiling Isles at some point.
  • In-Universe. Despite all the background details hinting at what happened with the Wittebane brothers and the strong hints that Eda is descended from Caleb and Evelyn, a combination of Belos' never-ending denial of his past sins and literally every other individual who might have been able to give an unbiased recounting of events being dead for good means that the heroes never find out about the truth behind Belos' hatred for witches. The Titan himself more or less says to Luz that it wouldn't change the fact that Belos ultimately has to go for the sake of both their worlds, and his true underlying motive is entirely separate from his claims.
• Hard Truth Aesop: Not everyone will respond to kindness and forgiveness; some people truly are Beyond Redemption and your only option is to put them down.
• Headbutt of Love: King and Luz, when they're fighting Belos with the help of Luz's new Titan powers, nuzzle each other affectionately after they use the same Sonic Scream power.
• Heart of the Matter: The source of the Background Magic Field on the Boiling Isles is the still-beating heart of the Titan. Upon realizing this, Belos decides to merge himself with the heart and use its magic to kill all life on the Boiling Isles. After the Titan passes on, the magic goes with him.
• Heel–Face Turn: After thoroughly losing his games and being taught the true meaning of friendship, the Collector joins the heroes against Belos.
• Heel Realization: The Collector gets a massive one when Luz is killed by Belos' infection due to the fact he realizes what Luz meant when she told him that living things weren't toys.
• The Hero Dies: Luz is killed by Belos' infectious breath and Disappears into Light. However, the Titan grants her the last of his remaining strength and brings her back in a Super Mode.
• Heroic Wannabe: The Titan observes that, at the end of the day, Belos is really just a pitiful man desperately trying to convince himself that he's the hero of his own story.
• Heroic Willpower:
  • Amity is implied to have made her "mistake" of challenging Luz to a witch's "battle" instead of a "duel" on purpose, breaks free long enough to tell Luz to use the light glyph to escape, and then manages to scratch one out despite still being a puppet.
  • Raine manages to struggle for control rather well, even forcing the Collector's sticker off their forehead and forcing Belos out of their body. Unfortunately, it's not enough to stop Belos from getting to the Titan's heart.
• Hide and No Seek: The Archivists sending the Collector to the planet that the Boiling Isles are on is implicitly because they wanted him to bother someone else, and the Collector implies that it wasn't the first time that they did something like that either.
• Hijacked by Ganon: After being defeated by the Collector in the season two finale and being a minor threat in comparison to said being's Reality Warping powers, Belos regains his status as main villain following the Collector's defeat and his merging with the Titan's heart, thus becoming the final threat of the series.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Belos' refusal to open up about his insecurities ends up proving to be his downfall in the long run. By rejecting the Collector's offer for redemption on a common ground of loneliness and insecurity, he has necessitated the need of his death for the Boiling Isles to be safe. When Belos is yanked out of the Titan's heart, he discovers too late that Luz will no longer listen to his dying pleas anymore and he's doomed to die a lonely death with no one to blame but himself.
• History Repeats: Somewhat. The memory portraits depicting Philip and Caleb's fatal argument apparently have his brother too reluctant to strike down Philip despite his madness and intent to kill his pregnant wife, ultimately getting fatally stabbed by him in the process. Instead, his distraught wife chased him away in the aftermath, nearly killing him herself. Similarly, Luz, another human who embraced the Isles, refuses to stoop to Belos' level at the end, not striking him down despite his delusional ranting and unwillingness to change, but not saving him either, and instead, it's her loved ones from the Boiling Isles who step in and Make Sure He's Dead. Arguably the biggest difference between the two outcomes is that Belos/Philip is too weak to avoid his fate the second time because of his unnatural existence from lasting beyond his mortal lifespan.
• Hobbling the Giant: During the game of marbles, King pushes himself under the Collector's giant foot so he'll trip, which makes the Collector switch games.
• Hook Hand: In the Distant Finale, Eda has replaced her lost arm with a long hook.
• Hope Spot: When Raine realizes that Belos intends to fuse with the Titan's heart in order to take control of the Boiling Isles, they immediately attempt to stop him. They use their Bard Magic to create a barrier between Belos and the Titan's heart, seemingly successful in stopping Belos just as he jumps towards the heart, only for a small piece of Belos to make it through before the barrier could manifest fully, allowing Belos to regenerate from that piece and merge with the heart. Belos even takes the time to mock Raine for how their efforts to stop him were in vain.
• Hour of Power: The Titan makes it clear to Luz that her power boost upon her revival is temporary, so they have to defeat Belos before it runs out.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Luz struggles to cast a spell circle with the Titan's power at first, until Eda helps guide her through it. Mimicking King's magic scream, on the other hand, comes naturally to her.
• Howl of Sorrow: Played for Drama. After witnessing Luz's death, King unleashes his Super-Scream on Belos with the normally silly "Weh" sound that would accompany it replaced with a grief-fueled snarl.
• Humanizing Tears:
  • Boscha cries after she reunites with and hugs her freed friends.
  • Likewise, while already coming around, you could tell the Collector properly understood life, loss, and friendship when he started to cry, solidifying his Heel–Face Turn.
• Hypocrite: Belos accuses Luz of being as "conniving" as the witches. This is from the man who lied to and manipulated people for hundreds of years (and had just pretended his evil deeds were the result of the "curse" upon his body, in a vain attempt to weasel his way out of Luz's wrath).
• I Choose to Stay:
  • Zigzagged for Luz. In the previous two episodes, she had made clear her intention to leave the Boiling Isles forever once they were safe, believing that to be best for everyone. Following the defeat of Belos, and a pep talk from the Titan along the way, she realizes the error in that thinking. With a new, permanent portal door fashioned by the Collector, she's able to commute between Earth and the Demon Realm at will, attending high school in the Human Realm and university in the Demon Realm.
  • Played straight for Vee, as the photos in the Time Skip make it clear she's become part of the Noceda family and has made a life for herself in the Human Realm, though she's willing to visit the Demon Realm for special occasions like Grom and Luz's surprise party.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Invoked, and then Subverted. Belos rants that Luz allowing him to die will make her no better than the witches, and that as humans they're "better than this". Even in his dying moments, he can't see himself for what he is. Luz in turn allows him to die without doing anything, showing how she won't resort to killing like he did, but also will not help him and he is simply in too much denial to realize he became the very thing he loathes. But Raine, King, and Eda exploit the fact that they are technically not human and all stomp Belos flat to make sure he's really dead.
• Immediate Sequel: The episode begins immediately after the ending of "For the Future".
• I'm Melting!: Belos meets his final end when boiling rain melts away his human form, turning him into a crawling, decaying skeleton before it gets reduced into a skull in a puddle of ooze. The fact that Eda, King, and Raine stomp on him before he finally dies is simply adding salt in the wound.
• Impairment Shot: When Luz, King, and Eda breach the castle, there's a blurry shot from Raine's perspective as they struggle to identify the new arrivals without their glasses.
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: Luz realizes that it's not actually Amity's mind that she's talking to when "Amity" challenges her to a "witch's battle" instead to a witch's duel, a mistake that the real Amity would never make.
• In-Universe Catharsis: Though Luz chooses to simply solemnly let Belos die, King, Raine, and Eda take the opportunity to stomp him into goo, which they agree felt quite satisfying afterward.
• Instant Runes: Titan magic, while still glyph-based, is capable of making said glyphs appear at will, either on themselves or in the air. Luz in her Super Mode is able to conjure glyph arrays around herself to augment her strength, and in his rage King creates a shield with his own nascent glyph magic.
• Internal Reveal:
  • The Collector reveals to the Belos-possessed Raine that King is a Titan.
    • And later when he finds Raine's earring outside of the now assimilated castle, he realizes that Belos was possessing Raine this whole time.
  • When Luz, Eda, and King are showing the Collector Hexside's grudgby field, Luz learns that Lilith was the captain back when she and Eda were on the team.
• Irony:
  • It's pretty much spelled out that Luz is what Belos always pretended to be; the chosen speaker of the Titan's will. He taught her glyph magic at every step of the way in hopes she could stop Belos and in recognition of her good character, while Belos was never anything more than a False Prophet.
  • Belos had the perfect means to destroy all the witches and demons without the need of the Draining Spell or the Collector the whole time with the beating Titan's heart in his throne room, yet never realized that a fully-grown Titan is actually more powerful than the Collector himself until he mentions it. If he had been more open to the world of the Boiling Isles, he might have found this out a lot sooner in his 400-year stay... but then again, he might have not become Belos in the first place.
  • When he possessed the Titan's heart, Belos intended to use his Meat Moss to kill all the witches on the Boiling Isles. But on screen, the only casualty of his genocide is Luz, a human. It doesn't stick, but it speaks volumes that for all his bluster about protecting humans, his machinations killed the one human he knew personally in the process.
  • As Belos is dying in the boiling rain, he tries to get Luz to save him by saying that they're both human and "better" than the witches and demons of the Boiling Isles. Except by the time he says it neither of them are truly human, with Luz having been turned into a human/titan hybrid and him being... whatever the hell he is.
  • How Belos ultimately goes out. He loses to Luz, a human, who defeats him by becoming the ultimate witch using Titan magic. And then dies to Eda, King, and Raine, two witches and a titan, who takes him out in the most human way possible, by stomping him down.
• It's a Long Story: Played straight and inverted. Luz describes what happened after ended up in the Human Realm as a very long story before giving a very brief summary of the past two episodes. Eda on the other hand describes losing her arm as "a shorter story".
• It's All My Fault: The nightmare the Collector places Luz in plays to Luz's Guilt Complex, with all her friends blaming her for their misfortunes. Similarly, Eda's nightmare plays on her guilt over wounding her father. Subverted with King, who is just tormented by the Trappers.
• It Was with You All Along: In a villainous example, until the Collector mentions that his magic doesn't work on Titan magic, and notes how the Titan's heart is still beating, Belos doesn't realize that the heart, which was in his very throne room, would have given him the power to achieve his dark goals.

J-O

• Journey to Find Oneself: The Collector sees that he has a lot of growing up to do, so he decides to take for the stars to figure things out.
• Karma Houdini: Downplayed with several remaining antagonists.
  • As everyone is being reunited with their families, we see Odalia near Alador, albeit sulking and looking away. Whether or not she received punishment for her part in Belos' plans and cruel betrayal of her family isn't made clear, but we don't see her in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue despite seeing the rest of the Blight family, implying that at the very least she no longer has any power and her family cut ties with her. Word of God confirms that Alador and Odalia got divorced, and their kids (quite understandably) chose to live with their dad.
  • Terra, Adrian, and Vitimir are clearly ready to try replacing Belos and seizing power as emperor, but Darius and Eberwolf warn them about causing trouble in the future. Like Odalia, they don't appear during the epilogue.
  • Kikimora was last seen trying to conquer Hexside and attacking La Résistance. The Time Skip shows her helping with the museum expansion project under Matt's leadership.
  • Played straight with the other half of villainous Coven Heads, as Mason, Osran, and Hettie Cutburn are seen as puppets but don't show up at all before the ending.
• Karmic Death: Belos' final attempt to guilt-trip and manipulate Luz falls completely flat on its face, and he's reduced to pathetically begging her for mercy as his body and Glamour of still being human fall to pieces in the boiling rain (hinted to be summoned by the Titan's lingering spirit, as the clouds appear and rain only on him and disappear instantly once he's gone) ironically referencing his sincere desire for Earth's non-boiling rainfalls. Though he doesn't realize it, it also references the death of the most famous example of a Wicked Witch in pop culture. His immobile remains are then stomped into paste by King, the son of the mythical being he pretended to be a herald for, Eda, greatly hinted to be his brother and Evelyn's descendant, and Raine, one of the coven heads he manipulated and his last possession victim who was permanently damaged by his actions, as Luz, whose humanity has caused him to fixate on her, watches on in silence, visually evoking the similar look of contempt the shade of Caleb had for him in the prior episode.
• Kick the Dog: After the Collector takes off to play his new games with the main trio, the Belos-possessed Raine reaches to open the drawer containing a travelling star and swats Francois right off the dresser just because he can, and especially after the Collector had told him that only King is allowed to touch him.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: As Belos is already dying, King, Raine, and Eda start literally stomping on his body together. This was nominally to Make Sure He's Dead, but mostly just a source of In-Universe Catharsis.
• King Incognito: Belos is shocked to hear the Owl Lady's dog was actually a living Titan all along, but is more interested in using the Titan's heart to possess the Isles themselves, as King's powers haven't developed to the point that possessing him would accomplish anything.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: The Titan Trappers disband since the only living Titan, period, is too young, not to mention the Collector has left and will no longer give Bill boons for killing Titans.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • At some point, Tarak and Bill and possibly the other Trappers were caught by the Collector and turned into puppets by the very deity that they worshipped.
  • Kikimora was really set on ruling the Isles and never being an "underling" again. Come the Time Skip, she's not only assisting in a project that Lilith is leading, she's directly taking orders from Matt.
  • After all the time she had sought to control her family and her business, Odalia ended up divorced and, no doubt, losing her business after using it to help Belos with his genocide plan.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • When convincing the Collector to stand down, Luz says "you know this can't last forever."
  • Upon learning that Lilith was the captain of the grudgby team, Luz says she'd "watch that spin-off".
  • Before the moment mentioned below, Luz exclaims that "they're almost gone!" In-universe, this refers to the Collector, who uses he/they pronouns, but out-of-universe, it serves as a warning that the audience will be leaving soon.
  • Nearly the entire cast, both major and minor, collectively gives a "Bye" to the audience as the last line before the episode, and the show as a whole, ends, although in-universe they're saying it to the Collector.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: Luz tries to teach the value of "kindness and forgiveness" to the Collector, which causes him to nearly die extending the same sentiment to Belos. The Collector asks if he did something wrong, and a fading-away Luz tells him things are "more complicated", but assures him he did nothing wrong.
• Little "No": Raine utters one when they realize Belos intends to possess the Titan's heart.
• Loophole Abuse: Belos begs Luz to save him, saying that humans always need to save each other to show that they're morally better than the "evil" inhabitants of the Boiling Isles. Eda, King, and Raine exploit Belos' claim by killing him for Luz.
• Loving a Shadow: Despite their similarities regarding their backgrounds and desire to be the hero, Belos never truly understands Luz as a person. His obsession with her simply amounts to Luz being a human and therefore morally superior than the witches and demons she befriended, and cannot comprehend why she wouldn't save him despite also being "human."
• The Magic Comes Back: The glyphs stop working after the Titan's spirit passes on, as they were essentially a Language of Magic commanding the Titan's Background Magic Field, and with his spirit gone there's no one to speak the commands to. In the Distant Finale, as King's own Titan powers grow, he starts to develop his own glyphs distinct from his father's, letting Luz rediscover glyph magic.
• The Magic Goes Away: Once the Titan's spirit passes on, the glyphs stop working, as while the "language" still exists there's no one to speak it to now. This doesn't affect the witches as they can use magic even without being connected to the Titan. King, however, being a Titan, is able to revive the glyph magic, but it clearly takes time and isn't the same language as his father.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Papa Titan's reaction when he notices the glowing green hole in his chest, which signifies Belos draining his life force as he possesses his body. However, it could be justified since he is use to this type of pain considering his physical body is, well, dead looking.
  Papa Titan: Ah, dang.
• Man Bites Man: To gain the advantage over Raine when they chase him into the throne room with the Titan's heart, Belos surprises them from behind and bites the hand holding their violin to force them to let it go, suppressing them with half his remaining mass whilst he desperately crawls towards the organ. It underscores what terrible shape Belos is in at this point, that he's too weak to even use his Voluntary Shapeshifting as a weapon anymore.
• Maybe Ever After:
  • Hunter and Willow are shown to still be close to each other in the Distant Finale, are shown visiting Flapjack's grave together, and a background picture shows that they went to Grom together, but it isn't confirmed if they are an Official Couple after multiple moments of Ship Tease between them.
  • Eda and Raine were implied to still have feelings for each other even after they broke up before the start of the series. However, it is not confirmed in the epilogue if they have gotten back together or not.
  • Both of these cases are downplayed, though, as it's all but outright stated that they're together. In the case of Eda/Raine, Word of God pretty much confirms it, stating that they're probably not going to get married because not all romantic relationships result in marriage, but that Raine does move into the Owl House to be with Eda.
• Meaningful Echo:
  • Back in "Witches Before Wizards", Eda told Luz that she'd never accomplish anything if she spends her whole life waiting for someone to declare her a Chosen One and instead needs to choose herself. Here, when Luz expresses doubt in herself when the Titan offers her his power to stop Belos, he tells Luz that he can't give it to her unless she chooses to accept it, capping it off by asking "will you choose yourself?"
  • Azura's "warrior of peace" line has come up several times in the series, and always comes across as rather cheesy. Luz quotes it one final time before ripping Belos off of the Titan's heart, only it's given a much greater sense of dramatic weight when Luz puts her own spin on it.
• Meat Moss: When Belos possesses the Titan, the entire Boiling Isles becomes covered with the organic sludge his body had turned into, with eyes all around and horrific fungal masses sprouting from the gunk, underscoring how Belos' touch only brings rot and decay.
• Mind-Control Eyes:
  • While under the influence of the Collector's Nightmare Sequence, Eda and King both have glowing red and yellow eyes just like the star child himself.
  • The puppeted Hexsquad all have Dull Eyes of Unhappiness when the Collector uses them to torment Luz with her worst nightmare.
• Missing Mom: Odalia is nowhere to be seen after the time skip. According to a Post Hoot by Dana Terrace, she and Alador divorced and the kids live away from her.
• Mortal Wound Reveal: When Luz ends up Taking the Bullet for the Collector, she initially thinks that she managed to avoid getting directly hit by the blast. She assures him that it "missed her", but then she notices him looking in horror at something and then realizes that some of Belos' Meat Moss ended up on her hand and it quickly spreads and engulfs her.
• Motive Decay: After his past is brought up to the forefront in the last two episodes, with hints of lingering guilt regarding Caleb's death and his hatred for Evelyn still raw, the final episode ultimately doesn't address how it motivates Belos now, with the Titan merely summarizing Belos' entire motive in present day as a simple desire to be a hero in his delusions and fearing anything that he cannot control. In the end, after 400 years of living in his delusions, Belos is only continuing his genocidal plan because that's all he knows in his entire life. He burned away his happy memories along with his traumatic ones, leaving behind an empty shell of a man with an irrational hatred of witches and an abstract concept of humanity hell-bent on genocide with nothing else planned beyond that.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Looking closely during her fight with Belos shows that the monstrous-looking harpy Eda has six wings instead of her regular two.
• Murder by Inaction: Assuming she didn't directly summon the rain, Luz ignores Belos' begging and demands for help as he dies. It's unlikely she could have done anything, but her silence shows, even if she couldn't bring herself to do the deed herself, Luz was prepared to leave Belos to die. Slowly.
• My Eyes Are Leaking: When the Collector realizes he can't bring Luz back and is hit hard with the realization of what death means for mortals, he starts sobbing as he begs King and Eda to run so they won't "go missing" too, then reacts in confusion as to what the tears are, having never experienced this kind of grief before.
  Collector: What is this stuff...? Wh- why won't it stop?
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • The Collector never saw their games as a danger to anyone because they thought that if someone got hurt, or even died, then they could simply fix them with their powers as easily as fixing a broken toy, not understanding what death means for mortals or why it should be taken seriously. When they watch Luz die against Belos due to protecting them from Belos' attack, they panic upon realizing that they can't bring her back from the dead, after trying and failing to do so. This makes them realize just what their "games" have been doing to others and why they have all been afraid of them, apologizing for what they did and not wanting anyone else to get hurt.
  • In the moments leading up to the above shocking realization, The Collector has a slightly more subdued one when they come across one of Raine's blackened earings near the castle. You can see the realization dawning on his face that not only did he incidentally give Belos the means to usurp and destroy the Boling Isles, but that Raine may very well have gotten hurt or worse in the process.
• My Greatest Failure: The Titan feels this way about imprisoning the Collector, realizing that even if he did it to protect his son, ultimately he had harmed an innocent person in a blind rage.
• Never My Fault: Belos as usual. He tries to claim to Luz that all the horrible things he did were under the influence of a curse. She doesn't buy it. Nor does Eda, King, and Raine.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In his last gambit to destroy the Boiling Isles, Belos ends up planting the seeds of his own downfall through these various mistakes:
  • Belos' possession of Raine ultimately results in his corrosive presence undoing the Collector's preservation magic, enabling them to regain control and start physically fighting back against him. Because they possess natural magical abilities, unlike Hunter, they're able to expel Belos from them after a short period, but by then he's managed to get them close enough to his old castle and the Titan's heart to crawl the rest of the way on his own. His evident desperation to do so, however, and his need for sneak attacks, makes it clear that if Raine had regained control sooner, Belos would have been helpless before them in his weakened parasitical form.
  • Belos convinces the Collector to personally play with Luz, Eda, and King himself, which gives Belos the window of opportunity to slip away and make a beeline for the Titan's heart. While he does succeed in possessing the heart, he inevitably set the Collector on the path towards redemption as the lack of Belos' toxic influence combined with Luz's great empathy allows the weirdo trio to show the Collector the error of his ways.
  • Arguably the biggest one is when he accidentally killed Luz when he was trying to put down the Collector. By doing so, Luz was able to go to the In-Between Realm where she met the Titan who blessed her with the power to level the playing field.
  • His last appeal for Luz to aid him after he's ripped off the heart is trying to claim that leaving him to die would make her just as bad... as the witches, completely missing the point that what horrified Luz and caused her guilt complex was fearing that she was similar to Belos' own evil actions despite her good intentions. His inability to accept and take accountability for his own evil and always deflecting blame onto witches for it means that he cannot emotionally guilt-trip her because he uses the wrong target to compare her Murder by Inaction to.
• No Ontological Inertia: When Belos is split off from the heart, everything spawned from it is disintegrated into powder, with no visible damage to anything underneath.
• No-Sell: When the boiling rain starts, Belos is slowly melted by it, while Luz is protected by the Titan's magic and doesn't even feel it.
• Not Brainwashed: Belos, after being pulled from the heart, tries to lie to Luz that he has been freed from a spell, but Luz knows better and isn't having it.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Because of Belos taking control of the Titan, he raises the left arm upward and once he's defeated, it remains that way. Papa Titan's spirit passing on for good after supplying Luz with his remaining magic means that Luz can no longer use glyph magic since the Background Magic Field no longer exists but four years later, King grows strong enough to create his own glyphs, so Luz can start learning glyph magic all over again.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Played for Drama as Eda pushes the Collector away while she and King fly into an Unstoppable Rage over Belos killing Luz while the Collector is trying to understand Luz's death.
• Not Quite Dead: It turns out that the reason the Titan's heart has been beating all this time is because his spirit was still present in the In-Between Realm, meaning he's technically not fully dead. Once Belos is defeated, the last of his life that he used to revive Luz to stop the maniacal witch hunter leaves her body and he dies for good. However, this is also why the Background Magic Field functioned at all, and when his body is truly dead, his magic dies with him.
• "Not So Different" Remark: When talking to the Titan, Luz wonders if she and Belos are actually the same, both willing to hurt others for the people they love. As mentioned below, the Titan immediately dismisses the idea as absurd.
• Not So Similar: As mentioned above, the Titan discusses this with Luz about Belos; while, at first glance, they all did poor things for the good of others (the Titan for the Demon Realm, Luz for her family, and Belos for humanity), the Titan brings up that Belos' intentions were never about anybody else and were just to fuel his need to see himself as the hero, while the Titan and Luz really did have good intentions behind what they did and didn't mean to cause such harm.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Titan tells Luz that the mistake she always made with Belos was assuming that he was coming from a place of genuineness in regards to his supposed desire to "save" humanity. In truth, all Belos really cared about was pretending to be the hero of his own delusions to escape his guilt over murdering Caleb.
• Not Worth Killing: Luz discusses how much she hoped the Collector would smash Belos into paste again when they tried to confront him, concerned this makes her as bad as him. The Titan reassures her that even if she does choose to stop him for good, she is still a better person than he can ever be. Ultimately, Luz compromises, not killing Belos after he's rendered defenseless from being ripped away from the Titan's heart, but not saving him either, just letting him collapse from his own toxic body coming undone in the boiling rains despite his pleas for mercy from a fellow human. Whilst this would have ended with him meeting his death one way or another, Eda, King and Raine defy this and make certain that he's gone for good underneath their boots.
• Obliviously Evil: The Collector honestly doesn't get how their actions can be seen as malicious. When Eda points out how the Draining Spell nearly killed almost everyone in the Isles, the Collector compares it to breaking toys, and then just fixing them, not realizing what death means to mortals. It takes Luz being taken over by Belos' slime before he realizes that someone who is killed won't come back.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The Collector slowly becomes worried when he can hear the Boiling Isles breathing, and that spreads to Eda, King, and Luz when the Titan's eye lights up in a familiar shade of blue.
  • Luz, Eda, King, and the Collector have this reaction when they see Belos' infection is spreading across Luz's body.
  • Belos gets this when the boiling rain starts to fall on him, and gets his last one ever when he sees Eda, King, and Raine standing over him to finish him off for good.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Belos has devolved into this, in that he was going to use the Titan's magic to level the Isles and consume all life on it.
• Out-of-Character Alert: What tips Luz off that Amity isn't being hostile of her own free will is when she says "witches' battle" instead of "witches' duel" and misquotes Good Witch Azura.

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• Parting-Words Regret: Downplayed. In Luz's last moments before she is consumed by Belos' corruption, she sadly tells Eda and King that she'll be separated from them once more, and that, while she should be used to it by now, she still doesn't know what to say. As her soul sinks into the waters of the In-Between Realm, she realizes what she really wanted to say:
  Luz: Oh. I know what I should've said....I should've thanked them....
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Eda, King, and Raine aren't satisfied letting Belos die from his own decay, and so give him a last beating as a parting gift. Luz doesn't partake, but doesn't admonish them in the slightest.
• Pitiful Worms: A non-malicious, just Innocently Insensitive variant. The Collector doesn't get why King would choose "itty-bitty spiders" (Luz and Eda) over them.
• Please Wake Up: Not understanding what death is, after Luz's Heroic Sacrifice, the Collector looks around wondering where she went and becomes frightened when he finds his powers can't bring her back.
• Poor Communication Kills: As it turns out, the reason the Collector was imprisoned was that King's father thought that he was complicit in the Archivists attacking the other Titans, and was simply trying to protect his son from him.
• Possessing a Dead Body: Well, mostly dead. Belos realizes that the Titan's still-beating heart means he can possess the Boiling Isles itself. As his corruption spreads throughout the land, he's able to manipulate the mostly-skeletal Titan — partially tilting the head to shoot a Death Glare at Luz, opening the skull's jaws to roar, and raising its left arm skyward — before he's pulled from the heart.
• Possession Burnout: Belos' possession of Raine implicitly puts so much stress on them that it overloads the Collector's puppet magic, breaking the spell and returning Raine to their mortal form. After that, as with Hunter, Raine is left with scarring in the places where Belos' goop leaks from their skin. Raine fares better than Hunter in this regard, however, having the strength to force Belos out before the damage becomes too severe.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Luz's Super Mode grows her hair out from its usual short crop to an unruly mane that grows past her shoulders. Raine even notes how she looks "fluffier".
• The Power of Apathy: Part of the Titan's advice to Luz is to stop trying to understand Belos as anything like her. Her own faults don't obligate her to sympathize with Belos because he never had one good intention to start with. Luz's final test of character, as Belos tries to guilt trip her into saving his life, is to steel herself and let him die.
• The Power of Friendship: Ultimately, this is how Luz deals with the Collector. Instead of defeating him in some sort of challenge, she teaches him what real friendship is, and it's enough to make him quit his antics.
• Pretend to Be Brainwashed: After Belos is torn out of control of the Titan's body, he turns back into his young Philip look and tries to act like he was being possessed but is now good again. However, Luz doesn't fall for it and simply lets him melt and die beneath the Isles' boiling rain, followed by Eda, King, and Raine stomping his remains with glee.
• Pubescent Braces: In the Distant Finale, Hunter is introduced carving a palisman for an older Braxas, implied to be a teenager both by his height and the braces on the fanged maw that is his face.
• Race Against the Clock: Just before sending Luz back to the living world, the Titan warns her that Belos must be stopped before he engulfs the Boiling Isles entirely, as he will be unstoppable after that happens.
• Rasputinian Death: After spending a good deal of time basically decaying, once Belos is ripped from the Titan's heart he tries to pretend that he's "cured of his curse" to Luz, before the boiling rain hits and melts him into a puddle, with King, Eda, and Raine stomping him to make sure he's gone for good.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Luz's nightmare, each of the Collected Hexsquad berates Luz for her actions in helping Belos rise to power, each one more scathing than the last.
  "Amity": This is all your doing. You helped Belos meet The Collector. Your actions led to THIS. You've been the real villain this whole time!
  (...)
  "Willow": You know Luz? My life changed after I met you. I finally believed that there was this big, bright future ahead of myself. But that didn't last long, did it? You destroyed my home and any chance I had at happiness. I have no future now. NONE OF US DO!!!
  (...)
  "Gus": Look everyone! It's good ol' Luz! And she might just be the biggest Hypocrite ever! Everyone helped you get back to your mom. Meanwhile, because of you, I'll never see my dad again.
  (...)
  "Hunter": I've always just...followed orders. I never thought about making friends or going to school. Then I met Flapjack. He was more than a palisman, he was my best friend. And then I lost him, helping you! But you still get to have your own palisman?! WHY LUZ? WHY DO YOU GET TO HAVE IT ALL?
• Redemption Equals Life: The Collector opens up to his insecurities and loneliness to Luz, Eda, and King, and learns the true value of kindness and forgiveness as well as cherished nature of mortal life. His redemption allows him to be truly free with friends without needing to sacrifice his god-like powers. Belos, in contrast, refuses to open himself up for redemption, and ends up dying a pathetic, lonely death with no forgiveness from anyone.
• Redemption in the Rain: Played With. Rain clouds immediately appear overhead whilst Belos is making his last pathetic appeal to Luz to help him, claiming that his actions were because he'd been cursed by dark magic and he's free of it now. The rain then starts falling on both of them, but because it's the native boiling rains of the Demon Realm, it's harmful to Belos and strips off his glamour of the human Philip like it was paint, steadily melting him down into a sludge-covered skeleton, whereas Luz is protected by the native magic of the Titan in her Super Mode. This shows how Belos' claims of being 'redeemed' are only paper-thin lies and he is being punished for the sins he has committed, whereas Luz now has the strength of will to ignore his manipulations and claims of them being the same, and leave him to his deserved ending. The clouds vanishing immediately afterwards imply they were magically summoned, either by Luz or the lingering spirit of the Titan within her.
• Redemption Rejection: After Luz teaches the Collector about forgiveness, they come to the mistaken conclusion that all Belos needs to stop being evil is a gift of kindness. Belos himself looks utterly baffled to see the Collector attempt to give him a Cooldown Hug, and tries to blast him when his back is turned. As the Collector cries that it didn't work, Luz tells him he did the right thing but the situation here with Belos is more complicated.
• Regional Redecoration: Belos' brief possession of the Titan's heart allows him to control its body. By the time he's finally stopped, the left arm (which previously lay flat in the Boiling Sea) is reaching for the sky and remains that way by the time of the epilogue.
• Religious Horror: Subtly. When Belos attaches to the Titan's heart, he looks like he just crucified himself to it in what can only be described as a warped and horrific parody of Christ's sacrifice, highlighting his Small Name, Big Ego, blasphemy, failure, and hypocrisy; he wants to be like Jesus, but is ultimately a False Prophet, sinner, and overall monster running from guilt. Fittingly, he's defeated by Luz, who died and was returned to life by a god-like figure, but most importantly, it's her humility and all-loving personality that make her closer to Jesus than Belos ever will be.
• Reunion Kiss: Once Eda sees Luz and King after waking up from her dream, she starts peppering her kids' heads with kisses and later does the same with Raine when she finds them in the castle. There's also the two previously listed Big Damn Kisses.
• The Reveal:
  • The Collector's siblings, the Archivists, sent the Collector to study Titans after being annoyed by them. Realizing the threat the Titans posed, the Archivists made the infant Titans disappear, which is why Papa Titan sealed the Collector away in their tablet, having mistaken him as the culprit.
  • The Titan's spirit is indeed still around, having been watching over King from the In-Between Realm.
• Rockers Smash Guitars: Justified when Raine smashes their instrument. Due to their other arm being held back by Belos' slime, this is all they are able to do to generate the magic needed to keep Belos from the heart of the Titan by forming a barrier. Which unfortunately fails to work, as a tiny bit of goop gets through, which is all Belos needs to possess the heart.
• Sacrificial Revival Spell: As he and Luz are in the In-Between Realm, the Titan gives Luz what is left of his power and life force to send her back to stop Belos, at the cost of finally sinking below the waters himself, which he said earlier would mean true death.
• Scars Are Forever: Similar to Hunter, Raine is left with faded skin in the areas where Belos' slime covered their body, mainly tear-like markings coming from their eyes.
• Series Continuity Error:
  • The Collector states that his magic doesn't affect King... but King was still shown being trapped in an illusion of the Collector's making.
  • Luz struggles to summon up a spell circle after gaining the Titan's powers, even though she previously had zero trouble doing so (Magic Misfires aside) during her "Freaky Friday" Flip with Eda in "Once Upon a Swap".
• Ship Tease: During the epilogue, Darius briefly shakes Alador after his Coven Sigil removal method is proven to work, they look deeply into each others' eyes, then Darius quickly backs away with a slight blush on his face.
• Shout-Out:
  • When the Collector begins playing games with Luz, King, and Eda, they are seen chasing Luz through a maze via a massive version of their head which is constantly opening and closing its mouth, mirroring Pac-Man, further enforced with a Sudden Video-Game Moment which shows graphics similar to the original game. Later on, he starts what is clearly an oversized game of Jenga, with Luz, Eda, and King precariously balancing atop the pieces.
  • The shot of the Titan rescuing Luz from sinking into the bottom of the In-Between Realm is framed similarly to the shot of Frodo saving Sam from drowning in The Fellowship of the Ring.
  • Luz's death and resurrection follow the exact same beats as Anne Boonchuy's a year earlier (two years in-universe); She is killed by the main villain in their One-Winged Angel form, is sent to an Afterlife Antechamber where she has a chat with a divine entity which acts rather casual and friendly, who then sends her back to the living. The only real differences are that 1) Anne died from her Super Mode burning her out, while Luz gains a super mode after being resurrected and suffers no ill effects once it wears off; 2) the "original" Anne really does die for good and it's a clone of her, with an exact duplicate of all her memories that were "backed up" before she died, that takes her place, whereas Luz is properly brought Back from the Dead; and 3) the Titan, while powerful, is very much a living entity that can die, whereas the Three Stones Deity is not.
    • On top of that, when The Collector tries to stop King and Eda from fighting Belos, he says, "I'm sorry for everything!" while tears form in his eyes. Sound familiar?
    • As part of a Freeze-Frame Bonus, one of the essays on Luz's billboard has a sticker on it that looks like Polly Plantar.
  • After a Disney Death, Luz ends up in what is explicitly named the "In-Between Realm", where a mentor figure presents returning to the land of the living as a choice that she doesn't have to take.
  • Belos' final demise is water melting him down into a puddle, just like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Even more poetic is that the only reason why Wicked Witch melts from water is because she's extremely old and dry, just like Belos.
  • In the outro, King makes the same pose that Grunkle Stan makes in the intro of Gravity Falls.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Averted and then played straight. As Belos is dying from the boiling rain, he rants that Luz will be just as evil as "those witches" when she refuses to do anything to save him. Luz (despite normally being one to rebuke her enemies) doesn't even bother dignifying him with a response as she knows it would just be a waste of breath. But as he continues about how they're better than the denizens of the Boiling Isles due to being human, Eda responds "well, we ain't!" before proceeding to stomp him to death alongside King and Raine.
• Smooch of Victory: Luz and Amity share one when reuniting at the Owl House after Belos is defeated.
• So Proud of You: Eda sports the biggest, proudest teacherly smile when Luz recounts the Owl Lady's first lesson about where magic comes from in order to strike at Belos' weak point.
• Something Only They Would Say: King and Eda realize that Luz has come Back from the Dead when she tries to sound cool upon her Big Damn Heroes moment, only to worry that she messed it up and bemoan that it wasn't as cool as she would have liked.
• Sparing Them the Dirty Work: Eda, King, and Raine spare Luz the task of finishing off Belos for good; in a twist this was completely unnecessary as Belos' necrotic, decaying form was finally catching up to him and he only had minutes left to live at best no matter what anyone did, something Luz was more than willing to just let happen, so what they did was purely out self-satisfaction and outright contempt for the monster that desecrated and nearly destroyed everything they cared about.
• Sphere of Power: In her Super Mode, Luz is able to summon a glyph sphere that she uses to travel at high speeds and crash through Belos' Titan form to reach the heart within.
• Spotting the Thread: After Amity deliberately misquotes her own words from "Covention", Luz determines that her friends are essentially facsimiles of the real thing and declares that they won't attack her. She's proven right seconds later.
• Super Mode: Luz gets an Hour of Power from the Titan reviving her with the last of its magic. Not only does she become half-Titan and by far the most powerful witch to ever live, but she can finally cast spell circles like all of her friends, though it doesn't last more then a few minutes, just long enough to defeat Belos once and for all.
• Super-Scream: Alongside King, Luz gets her own Titan scream from the Titan when he bequeaths his power to her and uses it in conjunction with his scream.
• Surprise Party: The episode (and the series as a whole) ends with everyone gathering together at the Owl House to throw Luz a surprise 18th birthday party (and belated quinceañera).
• Symbiotic Possession: Luz's Came Back Strong moment comes from the Titan giving her the last of his life to save the Isles, merging the two into a hybrid form. When Belos is defeated, the Titan's spirit leaves her body and Disappears into Light, leaving just Luz the human behind.
• Symbolic Baptism: Luz is drowned in the waters of the In-Between Realm after being killed by Belos, where the Titan (the closest thing to a capital G god in the setting) pulls her back to the surface and helps to wash away the guilt over what she views as her sins before bringing her back as a better person. For bonus points, part of the reason why he chose to help her in the first place is because she was one of the first people to accept his son.
• Symbolic Serene Submersion: Luz's soul sinks into the waters of the In-Between Realm after her death, sadly thinking over what her last words to Eda and King should have been before Papa Titan pulls her back to the surface.
• Symbolism:
  • Belos spoke fondly of the green grass of his native Earth, in contrast to the red grass of the Boiling Isles. During his assimilation of the Titan's body, the green fungal masses sprouting everywhere resemble green grass when viewed from a distance, and when Luz's Super Mode allows her to blast them away, it's accompanied by rampant growth of the native red grass in their place, symbolizing how the land itself is fighting back against Belos' influence through Luz.
    • Linked to this, when Belos pins himself to the Titan's heart and begins spreading over it, he does so via crucifixion, symbolizing him as a Holier Than Thou sinner and False Prophet trying to emulate Christ in a shallow and superficial manner while and only succeeding in creating a sick mockery of Him. Conversely, Luz dies and is resurrected by a benevolent higher power to save the world, driving home that she's more Christ-like than Belos ever was. The fact that the episode was first released on the day before Easter further drives the point home.
  • Belos' corruptive presence and constant Body Horror evoking rot and decay reaches its apex with his One-Winged Angel form, becoming almost literally a living cancerous mass eating into the body of the Titan. This metaphorically resembles the same terminal illness that killed Manny, with the effect he has on the Titan's spiritual form in the In-Between Realm even resembling a terminal heart cancer.
    The Titan: I thought I'd have more time...
  • The scene with Belos' death is fraught with this. Belos resumes his Philip Wittebane persona to appeal to Luz-slash-Titan and look like he's reformed. But as the boiling rains start to pour on him, his Philip form gradually (and horrifically) melts away, as though reflecting that his "reformation" is transparently an illusion while his true nature is showing. Likewise, Luz's silence at his empty words and judgmental glare reflects the shade of Caleb's specter, symbolizing how Belos cannot hide from his judgment for his sins no matter how much he denies reality.
  • The Philip Wittebane form Belos assumes is his bearded self from the Deadwardian era, unblemished and perfectly at his prime with no broken nose from Lilith. This symbolizes how Belos still believes himself to be good and incorruptible, thus learning nothing, excusing his evil actions as part of a dark curse that controls his actions. It's also the least convincing guise Belos puts on due to this Philip form being associated with lying and fake injuries.
    • His Philip form also still wears gloves, as though reflecting that even when he's trying to come off as innocent, he still won't trust anyone to truly know him better. If anything, it signifies how untrustworthy he is.
  • Towards the end of his pitiful diatribe, there's only a weak and ugly creature that used to be Philip Wittebane, guilt-tripping Luz with how letting him die will make her "just as bad, just as conniving, just as evil, and just as unforgivable", but Luz is unfazed nonetheless, as though he represents her nagging inner-doubt, but Luz has grown too strong to listen to it.
  • There's a notable contrast between the states Luz and Belos are in when the boiling rains start to pour. Belos is but a dying, barely human facsimile of himself clearly vulnerable to the boiling rain, as though reflecting that not only is the Boiling Isles rejecting him, but his refusal to change has come at the price that he never grew strong. In contrast, Luz's immunity to the boiling rain is attributed to her being open-minded enough to bond with the Titan's magic. This signifies how Luz has earned the right to live on the Boiling Isles and be able to survive all its perils, thanks in no small part to improving upon herself and exercising her adaptability.
  • Upon Belos's death at the hands of Eda, King and Raine, the skies clear up and return to the brighter pastel hues they had in the Deadwardian era, seen in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", showing how the world is starting to revert back to the way it was before he started influencing it.
  • Throughout his "reign" over the Boiling Isles, the Collector has favored keeping its inhabitants around as puppets, all the while reflecting his viewpoint on how mortals are just play things to do as he pleases. After the events of the story, he comes out of the experience with an understanding that mortals are people, coinciding with his resolve to change the puppetized denizens back to their original forms.
  • As everyone starts to rebuild the Boiling Isles, Steve's faction gestures at the former Emperor's coven to come to their side. The next shot is their discarded masks, as though making a point that Belos' grasp and influence on the Boiling Isles is dying with him.
    • Unto itself, the former Emperor's coven struggles to lift a felled tree before them, but it's only once Steve and his friends come along from the other side and use their magic that the tree moves. The next shot shows the tree completely moved out of the way as Belos' soldiers have discarded their masks and joined Steve's "side". Without Belos to enforce the coven system, the "us-vs-them" viewpoint he brought upon the Boiling Isles is clearly weakening.
  • The hospital where Alador has engineered his coven-debranding machine is built from the shell of a police precinct, showing that a place of healing can grow from the ruins of an authoritarian regime.
  • During the Distant Finale, a remix of the show's ending theme plays. However, the opening theme is mixed in once Alador is shown to have created a device to remove sigils, as it represents the Dawn of an Era free of Belos' corruption.
• Sympathy for the Devil: The Titan himself gently but firmly defies this towards Belos, reassuring Luz that even if she wanted to see him smashed to pieces under the Collector's hands again, and chooses to end his threat towards her loved ones permanently, she'll never be as bad as he is. He furthermore deconstructs Belos' fixation on him and Luz being 'fellow humans', pointing out that Luz genuinely cares about others, whilst Belos only cares about maintaining his delusions of being the hero no matter whom he has to hurt. He even declines to elaborate on the full truth of the Wittebane brothers' past to her, more or less saying that it no longer has any bearing on Belos' actions, and he's continuing his quest for total witch genocide because that's all he knows how to do anymore.
• Synchronization: After Luz is killed shielding the Collector from Belos' attack, Stringbean converts to staff form, seemingly inert. When Luz is revived, Stringbean becomes animate again to return to her.

T-Z

• Taken for Granite: Within the illusion Collector trapped her in, Luz finds the petrified forms of Principal Bump, Derwin, Matt, Boscha, and Morton, as well as numerous other witches.
• Taking the Bullet: Luz shields the Collector from Belos trying to attack him while his back is turned, at the cost of her life (temporarily).
• Talking the Monster to Death:
  • After the Collector throws a tantrum for losing majority of their games and starts spilling their life story, Luz immediately talks to the Collector and show them why her adventures with King and Eda are more than just games, eventually teaching them values of kindness and forgiveness.
  • After learning the lessons from Luz, the Collector attempts to stop Belos by offering him kindness and forgiveness after a great display of their powerful magic, going as far as hugging the giant monster's nostril. Everyone, including Belos, is dumbfounded by this gesture. But it doesn't work since the Collector is only copying what Luz did without understanding who Belos is.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: When they see that the Collector can't understand why abducting people and forcing them to play their games — no matter how dangerous — could be considered mean, Luz, King and Eda turn the tables by stinging their tongue, tripping them, and pushing a tower of blocks on them. The Collector goes from annoyed, to frustrated, to embarrassed, to quiet and sad as they eventually realize that it's not much fun to be the butt of someone else's joke.
• Tears from a Stone: Puppet Camila cries when the light orbs that were Luz pass by, seemingly able to sense what it means.
• Tears of Joy:
  • Luz, Eda, and King are all visibly crying during their happy Big Damn Reunion.
  • Eda and King's Berserker Tears turn into these when Luz comes back from the dead.
  • Boscha unashamedly lets some of her own fall upon reuniting with Amelia and Cat.
  • Luz has these at the end during the Collector's fireworks display.
• Thanking the Viewer:
  • The very last shot of the series has all the heroes waving goodbye to the Collector, and by extension the audience.
  • When the episode first aired, it was proceeded by a two-minute clip show of numerous scenes from across the series, with text over the images thanking the fans for being there throughout all the magical adventures, and for joining the cast again for "one last flight home". Some of the clips also reference this, like Willow saying "thanks for the memories" from "Thanks to Them", the final one being Luz saying "I love you guys" before slamming Hooty shut.
• Theme Naming: According to Dana Terrace, the Palisman Hunter has after the Time Skip is named "Waffle" (as a counterpart to the deceased Flapjack, who is also named after a breakfast food).
• Themed Tattoos: At some point during the Time Skip, Luz, Amity, Hunter, Willow, and Gus all got Flapjack tattoos as a remembrance of him.
• Theme Music Power-Up: The final battle against Titan Belos is underscored by a symphonic rock rendition of the opening theme.
• This Was His True Form:
  • Belos turns back into his Philip persona from when he was properly human when defeated, claiming he was cursed to act the way he did. Then the boiling rain comes, burning him and exposing his actual true form as he reverts to a slimy, skeletal mess.
  • The last we see of the Titan in the In-Between Realm is not his almost-human sized "dad" form but a colossal demonic skeleton that resembles the Titan's corporeal body making up the Boiling Isles. It is hinted he was using some sort of Glamour to better converse with Luz.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: A part of Luz's angst about whether or not she is any better than Belos comes from the realization that she wanted Belos to die, she wanted the Collector to blast him into a million pieces. Later after his defeat, while Luz does nothing to help Belos, she also doesn't finish him off either, although she does summon boiling rain to break what remains of his body apart, and keep him too weak to do anything but to finally succumb to his decaying form. However, while Luz is content to just leave Belos to the fate he created for himself, Eda, King, and Raine have other ideas.^note It's worth noting that Belos would still have died even if they'd left him alone.
• Throat Light: Upon attempting a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on Belos after he killed Luz, Harpy Eda and King both assume more monstrous forms with glowing mouths — Eda's glowing red and King's glowing blue.
• Throne Room Throwdown: Raine briefly faces off against Belos in his old throne room while trying to keep him from possessing the Titan's heart. Luz, King, and Eda later team up with them to stop him for good during the climax, and the room is reduced to ruins just before he finally meets his end.
• Title Theme Drop: Both the opening and ending themes show up at a few points in the episode's soundtrack, with the former even being repurposed for a Theme Music Power-Up during the final battle.
• Torment by Annoyance: Vitimir, apparently just to be petty after getting scared off by Darius and Eberwolf, pokes the throne with a finger. Darius responds by blasting the spot he poked with abomination goo, melting it.
• Tranquil Fury: In response to Belos' transparently false claims of innocence, Luz gives him a cold stare that makes it clear she's done with his nonsense.
• Traveling at the Speed of Plot: Raine manages to force Belos out when they reach the castle, and Belos is forced to crawl the distance to the throne room. Despite being injured, Raine clearly moves a fair bit faster than Belos can crawl, and Belos had at best had a slight lead from Raine having to catch their breath. Nevertheless, Belos beats Raine there by a slight margin, waiting to ambush Raine when they arrive.
  • Possibly justified, as Belos attacks them in the throne room by seeping up from the floor, making it probably that he was able to move through the stones to travel faster while Raine had to use the normal hallways and stairs.
• Truly Single Parent: Confirmed by the Titan, who claims that — to quote King — "I am king and Queen! Best of both things!" Under the circumstances, however, being called King's dad is fine with him.
• Twirl of Love: One between rekindled teacher and student. When Amity arrives at the library in the epilogue, she jumps into Lilith's arms and the historian spins around before setting her pupil down.
• Undignified Death: Belos ultimately meets his end melted in the boiling rain, fruitlessly begging Luz for mercy before he is stomped into paste by Eda, King, and Raine.
• The Un-Reveal:
  • We never delve any further into the history of Philip and Caleb, and whether or not the spirits of him and the Grimwalkers were the real deal.
  • The fates of the loyalist Coven Heads in the new order is unclear. All we see of them after the battle is over is Darius and Eberwolf keeping Terra, Vitimir, and Graye from seizing the throne for themselves.
  • It's unclear how the new portal door was made. It's implied by the pattern and the fact that the Collector's voice rings out when Owlbert opens it that he had a hand in making it, but there's no confirmation. We also have no idea how the original portal door was made and where it came from.
  • Luz says that she and Stringbean found a way to use magic without glyphs, but we never see any details on the new method. Though at least on this one we can make some educated guesses thanks to seeing how Hunter used Flapjack in the past.
  • There's apparently a Human Realm/Demon Realm exchange program, but while Gus is shown showing some witch kids a paperclip, it's unclear if this means that more humans know about the Isles now.
  • Masha is absent during Luz's party, so it's unclear if they and Vee got together, and if they know about the Demon Realm or not.
  • King's developing his own glyphs, but we only see the new light glyph.
  • The mysteries of the Owl Beast remain unknown, in fact, if anything there are now even more mysteries given Eda was able to access a One-Winged Angel form equal to King's power.
  • Similarly, the Titan's A Form You Are Comfortable With has a mini-Hooty sticking out of his eye, which gets referenced when he notes how he was keeping an eye on King, but it's unclear if there's a direct connection or not.
  • The mystery of the Bat Queen's original owner, which Luz promised to help her uncover back in "Escape of the Palisman", goes unanswered.
  • It's unclear what the leadership of the Isles is now that Belos is gone.
  • We have no idea what was the agenda behind Belos bringing back the basilisks outside of studying their ability to drain magic.
• Unstoppable Rage: After seeing Luz's death, King and Eda both enter a One-Winged Angel form and attack Belos relentlessly. Eda even tells the Collector to get away from her since she doesn't think she will be able to control herself in her state of mind.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • The Archivists; according to the Collector, they were the ones who sent him to the Demon Realm in the first place, implicitly as a means to let someone else deal with him. This action eventually caused the Archivists to wipe out the Titans upon discovering their power could counteract the Archivists'. As mentioned above, Papa Titan assumed that the Collector was complicit in said genocide and sealed them away, where Belos eventually discovered them, thus setting the series' main conflict in motion.
  • The Collector himself casually mentions to the Belos-possessed Raine that his powers don't work on King and King is a Titan. Then he reminds Belos about the beating heart in the throne room of his former castle and that a full-grown Titan would be practically unstoppable. Belos, who has been previously scared shitless of the Collector's powers for centuries, simply smiles at the gullibility of the Collector for giving him everything he needs to know to destroy the Boiling Isles unchallenged.
• Victory by Endurance: The confrontation with the Collector only amounts to Luz and company enduring the torture of the Collector's games and outwitting him each time. Eventually, the Collector realizes it isn't fun and gives up, allowing Luz to talk him down.
• Villainous Breakdown: Belos furthers his in this episode, as he just barely manages to get to the Titan's heart with the way he's decaying. When the revived Luz defeats him, he's clearly panicking, and when the boiling rain hits and his guise as "Philip" starts breaking down as Luz just stares at his horrible attempt to claim that he did all of his crimes because of a curse, he's reduced to a puddle, ranting at Luz before Raine, King, and Eda squash him for good.
• Villains Want Mercy: In his final moments, Belos takes his Wittebane form and begs for forgiveness as he attempts to pass off his actions as a terrible curse that Luz has now freed him from. Luz has absolutely none of it and gives him a Death Glare as the boiling rain melts him down.
  Philip/Belos: Luz. Luz, I'm-I'm free. Thank goodness you saved me from-from that horrible curse. Yes, I was cursed with a terrible, terrible sickness by-by dark magic, just like your mentor. It forced me to do all those horrible things, but-but now I'm free. (Is hit by boiling rain and cries out in pain) Quick-Quickly now! Don't you want to make peace, Luz? [...] Don't just stand there! You'll be just as bad, just as conniving, just as evil, and just as unforgivable as those witches! We're human! We're better than this!
• The Virus: After infecting the Titan's heart, Belos starts spreading all over the Boiling Isles, engulfing everything he touches. He gives a small part of it to the Collector's hands, just enough to prevent the Collector from using his full powers.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: After the Time Skip, Lilith demonstrates that she's acquired her own harpy form.
• Waist-Deep Ocean: After Luz is killed, her soul is shown submerging and sinking into the black "water" of the In-Between Realm until the Titan reaches in and pulls her out. She then stands ankle-deep in it, though she starts sinking again when she realizes she died. After the Titan gives her the last of his life-force, he transforms into a colossal skeleton and proceeds to sink completely while Luz is resurrected.
• Weakened by the Light: Amity discovers, and teaches Luz, that the one guaranteed way to break the Collector's spell is a Light glyph. Later, the Collector admits that any glyph would probably work, since his magic doesn't play well with Titans.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Titan magic is so inimical to Collector magic that just a single glyph will break the Collector's spells. You can see why the other Collectors would want to wipe out all of Titankind. On the other hand, it's a lot faster if the Collector frees his victims himself.
• We Are Not Going Through That Again: After The Boiling Isles was saved, everyone started to rebuild the isles, but Terra, Adrian, and Vitimir were preparing to cause trouble by taking over the throne, then Darius shot some Abomination goo to stop them from doing so to avoid a repeat of the trouble that the island received for the last 50 years.
• We Need a Distraction: Upon learning that the Titan's power eclipses that of the Collector, Belos encourages the Collector to "play" with Luz, Eda, and King, allowing him time to reach the Titan's heart.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: While the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue shows us what almost all the major and side characters are doing, we don't see what has happened to Odalia after Amity and Alador reunite or what became of the six Coven Heads who sided with Belos. We also don't get any hints at what became of Masha, Jacob, or any other human characters.
• What Is This Feeling?: When Luz Disappears into Light, the Collector burst into tears, and doesn't even realize why he's feeling this way, having never felt grief like this before.
• When I Was Your Age...: During the trip to Hexside, Eda complains about how the school has so many different sports teams, and that when she attended all they had was Grudgby and they made the most of it.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: In the Distant Finale, Owlbert's flight shows us what almost every named character in the show, and some who weren't named, are currently doing, to make a long story short, they have all living their well earned happy ending minus one or two exceptions who are instead getting some much deserved Laser-Guided Karma.
• Whole-Plot Reference: Given the closeness of the two development teams, "whole plot parallels" might be more accurate, but the third act follows the same plot beats as "The Hardest Thing", Amphibia's series finale; The villain attains a One-Winged Angel form made from a landmark that has been in the background throughout the series (the Titan's corpse, the Moon), and The Hero Dies fighting them. They wake up in an Afterlife Antechamber, where a godlike entity (the Titan, the Three Stones Deity) wearing A Form You Are Comfortable With chats with them in a remarkably casual way, before sending them back to the world of the living with a Super Mode. They use said Super Mode to defeat the villain, who spends their final moments begging from help from someone who've they manipulated before (Belos with Luz, the Core with Andrias), but they have thrown off their influence and stoically lets them die. Both episodes end with a Distant Finale showing what the main characters are up to years after the final battle. The only differences are that Luz gained her Super Mode upon being resurrected, whereas Anne died from hers; that the original Anne really does die and stay dead in the end, while the Anne we see from then on is a clone with all of her memories, whereas Luz truly is properly resurrected; and that the Owl House ending takes place only four years in the future, on Luz' 18th birthday, with the portal between worlds kept open, while the Amphibia ending is a whole decade later, on Anne's 24th birthday, with the worlds separated.
• Wingding Eyes: In what is likely the only instance of this trope in the show, Luz and Eda get spiral eyes of dizziness when the Collector knocks their marbles together.
• Worf Had the Flu: Being possessed by Belos does a number on Raine, and while they're in much better shape than Hunter was, they're still clearly injured and thus Belos is able to get the better of them in the throne room, allowing him to make it to the heart by the skin of his teeth.
• World-Healing Wave: When Luz casts spells when fighting against Belos' Meat Moss, it forces the corruptive rot back and causes the red grass of the Isles to grow in its place.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After Luz separates him from the Titan's heart, Belos adopts his Philip appearance and tries to claim to Luz that she just saved him from a horrible curse that caused him to do all his evil actions. Luz knows better than to even look at him, and all it takes is some boiling rain to reduce him to a raving pile of goop that Eda, King, and Raine finish off.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Belos continues doing this in this episode. At first, he tries to have the Collector trap the Owl trio in a Nightmare Sequence, and when that fails he gets the Collector to play his dangerous games with them while he goes after the Titan's heart to possess it, and when he's forced out by Luz he desperately tries to trick her into thinking that all his heinous actions were a curse, which fails even before the Boiling Rain hits him and causes his form to decay and melt away his guise of his pre-corruption self.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When speaking with the Titan, he assures Luz that she's better than Belos is, as while she may have caused others harm, like when she helped him find the light glyph, she was ultimately trying to help her loved ones, while Belos just wants to live the fantasy of being the hero without actually caring about those around him. When he offers her his power, she is hesitant, but he assures her that she's a "good witch" and that it's up to her to "choose herself".
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Despite Raine's valiant efforts, just a tiny bit of Belos' goo manages to reach the Titan's heart before their barrier spell activates, allowing Belos to possess it. Belos even mocks them for coming so close but being unable to stop him.

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