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Recap / The Silverscale Arena S 1 E 9 August 2021

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"While it's a bit of a quick one due to the creator needing to go on vacation, everybody is still gonna have to put in their A-game, as the air of lust is still there and so is the danger! Oh, there is quite a lot of danger, but also unexpected turns as always!"

The 9th episode, written in August of 2021. The teams are as follows...

-Team 1 (Baskerra Hellmane): Ed, Rachael Saleigh, Ira the Carnotaurus, and Sakaki.

-Team 2 (Maria Felton): Ajani Goldmane, Kass, Keiran Tracy, and Avery (OCs).

-Team 3 (Ruby the Dragon): Aries, Libra, Virgo, and Nova and Voidra (All OCs).

-Team 4 (As K or Hawkestone): Benedict, Doc Thur (Halo OC), Cleopterix, and Zowie (OC).

-Team 5 (Bo Peep the Virgin): Belladonna, Catra, Ankha, and Blaze the Cat.

-Team 6 (Alesia Featherain): Satan Gundam, Zaku, Liro Zero Jager, and Berserk Fury.

-Team 7 (Rakasha): Gromitz the Zinogre, Blue Fang, Luna (Zummeng OC), and Kisha (OC).

-Team 8 (Dr Gemini Belmont III): Dracula, Showa Godzilla, Vermillion, and Serin (OCs).

-Team 9 (Brasshoof): Ridley, Cy the Cyberdemon, Thel'Vadam, and Hans Gruber.

-Team 10 (Fayebunny): Zero, a T-800, Samus, and 2B.

-Team 11 (Ebirah Mariana): Kerbix the Wrecker (OC), Durandal the Zacian, Aegis the Zamazenta, and Anubis the Risen.

-Team 12 (Rosie Loya): The Mask, Hound, Ghostface, and Michael Myers.


  • Accidental Murder: When Blaze is running from the Death Corps forces, she rams into Sakaki, who's sent careening into a tree, snapping the human's neck.
  • Adaptational Villainy: The Anubis here is described as a "genocidal conquering DICKHEAD", a far cry from how the Egyptian Myths portrayed him as. Then again, it's also stated he's not the real thing, given he's from F-List.
  • Alternate Self: The version of Dracula differentiates himself from the one seen in the first Arena by being based on the one from the Hammer films.
    • On the same team as Dracula, the version of Godzilla seen here is from the Showa films.
    • As stated above, the Anubis that features here.
  • An Arm and a Leg: 2B loses both of her arms to Cleopetrix during their fight.
  • And I Must Scream: It's implied that the person that's being possessed by The Mask just wants to die.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: After battling the Hallowed Jhen Mohran and Dah'ren Mohran, Cy begins recapping the problems that he and Belladonna are facing: Kass is dead, everyone else wants their heads, and he got cancelled on Twitter for 'not having that much of a compelling character arc'.
  • Back from the Dead: Belladonna was resurrected for this after having died in her game, and now has to live with finding out how her old boss really felt about her. Despite dying in the final chapter, she gets revived again when Cy uses his wish to bring her to where Kass lives along with him.
    • Cy was slain by the Doomguy and sent him into the ether before being revived in the Arena. He thanks the Arena for preventing him from being truly gone. And thanks to winning the Arena, he gets to stay alive.
  • Big "NO!": Anubis lets one out when his staff gets cleaved in half by Cleopertix, which allows the fire that was on his fur consume him.
  • Body Horror: When the Mantangos manage to subdue Ajani, fungal growths begin appearing across his whole body before he's converted into a Mantango nest.
  • The Bus Came Back: Ed, Rachael, Catra, Ankha, Ridley, the T-800, and Samus all return from previous Arenas.
    • Bus Crash:...And of them, Rachael gets immediately killed by Vermillion when she throws a spear into her neck, Samus gets crushed by a giant hammer, and the T-800 gets destroyed by Aires in the Bloodbath.
  • The Chew Toy: Cleopetrix and ESPECIALLY the game that she comes from, Raid: Shadow Legends, gets mercilessly picked on at nearly every opportunity that shows itself by the contestants.
  • Co-Dragons: Vermillion and Serin end up falling under Dracula's influence and start serving him at the beginning of the Arena. However, they don't last long into the Arena itself.
  • Cooldown Hug: Ed gives one to Sakaki to calm her down after they witnessed Rachael's death.
  • Continuity Nod: When Ridley notices Belladonna crushing a scorpion, he remembers his bug-mutation from the second Arena.
  • Curse Cut Short: When Ghostface realizes that he had accidentally lit up several other fireworks and the fuse on the one he was holding goes out, he lets out an "Ah, shi-" before he and Luna are sent into the air.
    • When Ridley sees that The Mask's head has grown giant, he yells "Oh, FU-" before he's Swallowed Whole by The Mask and then burped out.
  • Cuteness Proximity: When Aries encounters a Shinehorn, she has to resist the urge to hug it.
  • Dead All Along: When Belladonna goes to talk to Luna, she gives advice telling Belladonna to stop destroying and start creating. Luna then mentions that she's already dead and is about to ascend back to her world. When Belladonna questions this, the butterfly swarm around Luna vanishes, leaving only a skeleton. This leaves Belladonna intrigued and alarmed.
  • Dead Hat Shot: When the Hynerina tears apart Myer's body, the only thing that resurfaces above the water is his mask.
  • Deal with the Devil: Benedict tries to sign his soul away to Blue Fangs so he can find out what happened to the love of his life. Cleopetrix attacks Blue Fangs before the deal can go through.
  • Death by Irony: Sakaki, a Kindhearted Cat Lover, ends up being killed by Blaze, who's a cat.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: After being resurrected and finding out that her Dark Lord thought of her as nothing more than trash, Belladonna is left questioning what to do afterwards. She finds it later serving Cy.
  • Devoured by the Horde: Ghostface meets his end when a group of giant bunny rabbits tear him apart.
  • Destroy the Security Camera: Belladonna ends the first chapter by destroying a monitor that Belladonna was talking through after she makes a comment about how Belladonna shouldn't be a debbie-downer because 'her senpai' didn't notice her.
    • A swarm of locusts attracted by scent of the substance that got poured onto Ankha proceed to eat both it and her skin, reducing her to bones.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Rachael gets a spear through her neck, Samus gets crushed by a giant hammer, Godzilla gets his skull caved in with a mace, Avery gets half of his face sliced off, Aegis gets her head obliterated by a thrown Crazy Hamburger, the T-800 gets torn apart by Aires, Thel'Vadam gets turned into a statue and is then smashed to pieces by Libra, and Kerbex breaks Tracy's spine while they're having sex.
    • Kisha is mentioned as having died when she ran into an ant-hill face first.
    • Zowlie ends up choking on the chicken that she picked up during the Replenishment.
  • Dual Boss: In the beginning of the 5th chapter, the remaining contestants have to face off against the Hallowed Jhen Mohran and the Dah'ren Mohran.
  • Exact Words: When Ridley attacks Durandal and manages to take her sword, she's left in shock since only the pure can hold it. Ridley points out that she might be right, so long as it didn't say anything about it being pure 'good'.
  • Fan Disservice: Tracy ends up having a rough sex session with Kerbex...which then gets too rough when Tracy's spine breaks and he dies.
  • Fatal Fireworks: Attempted by Ghostface when he tries to kill Hans with a firework only to get interrupted by Luna. By the time they both realize that multiple fireworks were lit up, they're both sent into the air. They both survive, but while Luna manages to land gracefully, Ghostface lands face-first into some mud.
    • In the fight with the Hallowed Jhen Mohran and the Dah'ren Mohran, Blaze lights up some fireworks that were in its stomach, which then go off, killing the beast, but also herself with it.
  • Game-Breaking Bug: In-Universe. When Ridley flies in holding Durandal's sword, he threatens to kill everyone before his body starts suddenly glitching out. It stops when Zowlie takes the sword and kills him with it.
  • Gender Bender: Belladonna turns Kass into a woman as both a gift of her devotion and her magic. It's temporary, but it's clearly a pleasure to both Kass, Belladonna, and Cy.
  • Groin Attack: When The Mask confronts Myers, he tries to smash in Myer's groin, only for Myers to show no reaction and breaks The Mask's leg in retaliation.
    • During the Replenishment, Belladonna slices Kerbex's dick off, which causes her heads to burst into flames since it was the source of her power.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: The T-800 gets torn in half by Aries before she slams her front claw into his head.
    • Zero only has the upper part of his body remaining after the fight with the Dah'Ren Mohran.
  • High-Voltage Death: After 2B loses her arms during her fight with Cleopetrix over a chasm of water, an Electrophorus rises from the chasm and unleashes a shock to 2B's exposed wiring, which fries her.
  • Humongous Mecha: Alesia's team all consists of giant robots, two from the Gundam series and two from the Zoids series.
  • I Have a Family: When Kass runs into Cy for the first time, he begs the Cyberdemon not to ravage him, saying he has a wife and two kids.
  • Impaled With Extremeprejudice: Vermillion gets a stake through her back, when then reduces her to a smoldering skeleton.
    • Ed ends up as the first victim of the Dah'ren Mohran when its horn impales Ed's gut and drags him into the sand.
    • Kass gets shanked by Cleopetrix and is thrown into the cannonfire of Zero's ship.
  • Interrupted Intimacy: Belladonna ends up walking in on Kass giving a blowjob to Cy and asks if she can join them. She's welcomed.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: During the Bloodbath, Rachael gets killed while she's yelling at Sakaki to stop petting her, Samus gets crushed by a hammer while yelling at Ridley, and Aegis's head gets smashed in while she's boasting about her defense.
    • Satan Gundam gets his head chomped off by the Bloodbath Diablos while he's boasting about his power.
    • Ed gets dragged into the sand when he was about to tell the audience that he'll see them next episode again.
  • Killed Offscreen: Vermillion ends up bringing Libra's corpse to Dracula, who had died from choking on her blood and being dunked into an oil spill.
    • In the beginning of the final chapter, Cleopetrix manages to kill Belladonna by causing her to run into the barrier.
  • Killer Rabbit: A group of giant rabbits from the film Night of the Lepus appear on the first night and devour Ghostface.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Upon Ghostface seeing Michael Myers on his team, he begins to fanboy over him until he wisely decides to keep his distance.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: During the Bloodbath, Vermillion kills Rachael by stabbing her with a spear. Later on in the story, Ed, one of Rachael's teammates, kills Vermillion by throwing a stake into her chest.
  • Lethal Joke Character: Despite spending the whole story being mocked by everyone, Cleopetrix manages to become the final contestant that Cy has to fight. And not only that, she manages to put up a decent fight against him, even almost killing him near the beginning.
  • Mercy Kill: When Blaze finds some Dreadpedes attempting to breed Benedict, he asks for help, which Blaze gives him by burning both the Dreadpaedes and him.
  • Neck Snap: When Blaze runs into Sakaki, she's sent into a tree, which then breaks her neck, killing her.
  • No, You: Cleopetrix spends most of the story having her game mocked by everyone. So during one of her later encounters with Cy, all she can come up with is that his game is hot garbage and hers is perfection, to which Cy only bothers to tell her about the Terror Birds that are about to attack her.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Cy's decision to not kill Cleopetrix when he has the opportunity to several times nearly bites him in the last chapter when she kills Belladonna and ends up as the last contestant Cy has to face.
  • Off with His Head!: Each member of Alesia's team suffers this fate, along with a few others:
    • The Berserk Fury is the first to lose his head when the Beast of the Yellow Night slashes across his neck, lopping it off.
    • The Bloodbath Diablos introduces itself by biting off Liger's head. It then also bites off Satan Gundam's head while he's fighting it.
    • And Zaku gets his ripped off by a group of Lepers.
    • Hound gets beheaded during the fight with the Hallowed Jhen Mohran and the Dah'ren Mohran.
    • This happens to the Jhen Mohran itself when the fireworks in its stomach go off, launching its head away.
    • Dracula tears off a weakened Zero's head during the Replenishment.
  • One-Winged Angel: Zero transforms into his Absolute Zero form to fight the Dah'Ren Mohran late into the battle. However it doesn't last long, as Cy shoots his Demo-blaster at the both of them, killing the Dah'Ren Mohran and leaving Zero only as a torso.
  • Out with a Bang: During the Bloodbath, Kerbex catches Avery and begins plowing into him. However, Kerbex ends up being too rough on Avery and he dies from a broken spine.
  • The Power of Hate: When Cleopetrix manages to stab Cy in the brain, it seemingly kills him. Unfortunately for Cleopetrix, she missed the part of the demon's brain that generates hatred. And he is generating a lot of hatred right at this point...
  • Running Gag: Anytime Cleopetrix tries to talk about her game Raid: Shadow Legends it always gets mocked by the contestant she brings it up to.
  • Sanity Slippage: Durandal's mental stability begins to falter late into the game after her sword gets taken from her.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The Bloodbath Diablos' roar ends up being so loud that Gromitz immediately retreats from the creature.
  • Shout-Out: During the 5th day, The Mask takes the initiative to post Ed's nudes all over Twitter.com.
  • Stripped to the Bone: This happens to Vermillion when she gets a stake through her back.
    • It later happens to Anubis when Cleopetrix slices his staff in half, allowing the fire to burn him.
    • The fate of Ankha when a swarm of locusts eat the substance that's on her back, and in turn, her flesh.
  • Swallowed Whole: When The Mask notices Ridley, he shouts "HAPPY VORE DAY!" at him and fires fireworks to distract him. When Ridley realizes what's about to happen, The Mask's head grows giant and eats Ridley in one before burping him out.
    • Ira and Blaze get eaten by the Hallowed Jhen Mohran, and end up lighting up several fireworks in its stomach, which then explode.
  • Taken for Granite: When Libra throws a Basilisk-shaped staff at Thel'Vadam, it looks him in the eyes, which then turns him to a statue. Libra then smashes the statue into pieces with her tail.
  • Take That!: Raid: Shadow Legends gets repeatedly mocked by a good chunk of the roster, stating that they either don't care about the game or outright mock it. Said mockery only occurs whenever Cleopetrix brings it up (which is a LOT).
  • Taking You with Me: Blaze does an accidental version of this when she lights up her finger in the Hallowed Jhen Mohran's stomach, she lights up several fireworks that were in its stomach, which then blows up her, Ira, and the Jhen Mohran.
  • Tempting Fate: When Aigis is boasting about how her defense is unbeatable, that's when she gets killed by a Crazy Hamburger thrown by Satan Gundam.
    • When Ankha gets some substance of food poured onto her by Cy, she asks "This can't get any worse, and it?", only for a swarm of locusts to come and devour her.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: None of the returnees manage to win in the Arena this time.
  • This Cannot Be!: Cleopetrix is understandably taken aback when Cy manages to get back up and start fighting her despite being stabbed in the brain.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: When Luna realizes that several lit fireworks are under her skirt, her only response is "Oh...this might hurt."
    • When Blaze accidentally lights up some fireworks in the Jhen Mohran's stomach, she can only say "Bugger me" before they go off.
  • We ARE Struggling Together: The Cyberdemon wastes no time attacking his original teammates and sends them flying out the doors. All this before he regains his senses.
    • Zero attacks the T-800 when he points his gun at Samus in the introductions.
  • Your Head Asplode: Aigis's head gets obliterated by a Crazy Hamburger that got thrown at her by Satan Gundam.


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