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Recap / The Silverscale Arena S 2 E 10 June 2022

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"For the month of June, it's a girl's night out... in the House of the Dead! Zombies on a rampage of blood, mutated freaks bent on destruction, and an evil doctor caught in the middle of it. Which babe will make it to see another dawn and perhaps put a stop to whatever evil scheme is happening?!"

The 17th episode, written in June of 2022. The teams are as follows…

-Team 1 (Baskerra Hellmane): Island Hydra (Hydra: The Lost Island), Ven (yo-lander OC), Starla Shine, and Amy Rose.

-Team 2 (Ruby the dragon): General Yunan, Cricket, Queen Scarlet, and Alexstrasza.

-Team 3 (A Fan): Isabelle, Shantae, Junko Enoshima, and Katara.

-Team 4 (Theodore Esbin): Inez "Outlaw" Temple, Chun-Li, Lust, and Nihilego Lusamine.

-Team 5 (Gordon Schtier): Sunset Shimmer, Raphtalia, Rika Nonaka, and Orihime Inoue.

-Team 6 (Sharon Shark): Dou (Diives OC), Loona, Alicia (Jay Naylor OC), and Starfire.

-Team 7 (Christopher Redwood): King, Mai Shiranui, Blue Mary, and Athena Asamiya.

-Team 8 (Mecha-Horde): Felicia Lake, Avi, Buffjack, and Buff Bunny (All OCs).

-Team 9 (Geekcu-the-Wild): Paige Creed, Jahida McCloud, Geekcu, and Ambar.

-Team 10 (Ebirah Mariana): Tasha, Andromeda Taurus, Zedd Pinkstripe, and Madam Grayfia (All OCs).

-Team 11 (Penny Chambers): Sekhmet, Kaje (OCs), Clair Mallinger, and The Animal.

-Team 12 (Eboness the Eternal): Wendy Corduroy, Zig-Zag, Applejack, and Ibuki.


  • 11th-Hour Ranger: While the Magician makes himself known in the first chapter whose searching for his own answers, he doesn't team up with anyone in the cast until the end of the sixth chapter, where he teams up with Paige to take down Dr. Z. And even then, he doesn't show up in the fight until Dr. Z was about to kill her.
  • Accidental Murder: When Shantae activates her flames, it also lights up some gas, which causes two team buses to explode, killing Katara and Raphtalia.
  • A God Am I: Or rather, Dr. Z thinks of himself as the Devil.
  • Alternate Self: The Lusamine seen here is a version of her that had been cursed with the Nihilego continuing to use her as a host.
  • And This Is for...: At the end of King's fight with the Animal shouts out "This is for Mary!" right before breaking one of the Animal's arms.
  • Ascended Extra: Clair Mallinger, a monster from the original Arena, comes back as an actual contestant this time.
  • Badass Boast: Yunan gives one to the Hierophant after Isabelle accidentally causes their underwater fight to go up to the ground by fishing the both of them up:
    Yunan: "You're good! But you're in my turf now! I'm the greatest fighter on both land AND sea!"
  • Battle Amongst the Flames: The Hanged Man setting himself on fire causes the lab that the remaining contestants converge to in the sixth chapter to go aflame.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Isabelle saves Sekhmet from being killed by the UDS-05 by pulling him away with her fishing rod.
    • The Magician saves Paige from being incinerated by a ball of hellfire.
  • Big "NO!": Loona gives a "NO! FUCK NO!" when the Sun’s vines go through her clothes.
    • Dr. Z makes a loud one when Paige and the Magician manage to defeat him.
  • Big "WHAT?!": Scarlet has this reaction when The Magician is able to dodge her fireballs with inhuman speed.
  • Blood Knight: In contrast to most of the other contestants who just want to find a way out, Yunan is having the time of her life fighting the seemingly never-ending horde of zombies.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Isabelle finishes off the UDS-05 by shooting it in the head at point-blank range.
    • One of Starla's arrows lands right into Jahida's head.
  • Bottomless Magazines: Justified, as The Magician gives Paige a shotgun that has infinite ammo.
  • The Bus Came Back: Ven, Cricket, Isabelle, Shantae, Loona, Starfire, Paige Creed, Wendy, and Zig-Zag all return from previous Arenas. Madam Gracia also comes back, but now her name is spelt as Madam Grayfia.
  • Car Fu: A giant zombie manages to lift up a team bus and throw it at Buffjack, killing her.
    • Temperance throws several ruined cars at Yunan attempting to crush her, but she's able to avoid it. The same however couldn't be said of Buff Bunny, who was inside one of those cars, and is killed when the one that she was in gets thrown at Yunan.
  • Call-Back: In Loona's introduction, she recalls how her dad has gotten more distant ever since his disastrous date in the Lust District.
  • Clothing Damage: Sunset Shimmer, Amy Rose, and Starla Shine get their clothing destroyed by some ax wielding zombies in the Bloodbath.
  • The Chew Toy: Starla Shine gets put through the wringer in this, being humiliated in some fashion in nearly every scene she's in.
  • David vs. Goliath: The first half of the fight in the final chapter has Paige, only armed with a shotgun, against Dr. Z, who now has godlike powers. And while Dr. Z manages to get the upper hand on her, it doesn't last for long when the Magician joins the fight.
  • Devoured by the Horde: The Hydra becomes the first casualty when a swarm of zombies manage to overwhelm her.
  • Disney Villain Death: King dies when the Lovers overwhelm her and cause her to fall off the guard rails.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Both Tasha and Buffjack attempt to have sex with Chun-Li and Paige respectively while everyone's heading to the mansion during the Bloodbath. This does not end well for either of them.
    • Paige throughout the story keeps thinking about either one of the cocks that one of the hermaphrodites have or the one that the Magician has. She never gets to have sex with any of them however.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Hydra gets eaten by a horde of zombies, Katara, Raphtalia, and Felicia Lake end up getting killed when their team buses explode with them in it, Tasha gets her head split in half by the Chariot zombie, and Buffjack’s head gets crushed when a bus gets thrown at her and into a wall.
    • Cricket randomly dies near the end of the second chapter after accidentally running into some power-lines.
    • Junko Enoshima ends up suffering a random BRUH death at the end of the third day.
  • Eaten Alive: Since this is an Arena filled to the brim with zombies and other monsters, several characters meet their end in this way.
    • When Mai comes across the Animal, she has already torn into Ambar and had just killed Blue Mary, intending to do the same to her.
    • Applejack and Claire both end up falling victim to a cock demon.
    • Outlaw ends up stumbling upon the Tower in the process of already eating Orihime and Rika.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Zig-Zag doesn't seem to be fond of vore, if her comment after witnessing Applejack get eaten by a Cock Demon is any indication:
    Zig-Zag: "Cocks and vore and I am only into ONE of those!"
  • Exactly What I Aimed At: After Lust fires a fireball at Isabelle and Geecku which forces them to dodge, she then fires a second one that seemingly misses the both of them. Except it turned out that she aimed for the pipes behind the two of them, which then explodes and kills them.
  • Fastball Special: The finishing blow that Paige and the Magician deal onto Dr. Z is the Magician grow green flames around Paige's body then throwing her at Dr. Z, which gets her close enough to shoot point-blank at Dr Z’s chest.
  • Final Girl: Paige Creed.
  • Flipping the Bird: Sunset gives the Magician the middle finger while leaving the scene of their brief encounter.
  • Heroic BSoD: The Magician goes through a massive one when Paige shows him notes that show that he’s just a pawn for Dr. Z who's doomed to die over and over again.
  • Heteronormative Crusader: Starla Shine attempts to kill Wendy and Ven for having lesbian sex, but her attempt is stopped when Ven just throws a chunk of a pipe at her.
  • High-Voltage Death: The UDS-05 dies when Pinstripe uses its own wires to fry the monster.
    • Cricket dies when she accidentally runs into some power-lines.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Pinkstripe uses the UDS-05's own wires to electrocute it and fry itself.
  • Hypocritical Humor: When Mai and Blue Mary get into an argument over the validity of Mai and Andy's engagement considering it was said while they were both drunk, Mai tries to defend herself by saying that it's coming from the one who fangirls over Terry anytime she gets, which leads the others into immediately call her out as projecting.
  • If We Get Through This…: Zig-Zag offers to Applejack that if they survive this, she wants her head to get acquainted with Applejack’s thighs. Applejack politely declines.
  • Impaled With Extremeprejudice: Graycia gets killed from several rods thrown into her body by the Hanged Man.
  • Impromptu Tracheotomy: One of Starla's arrows manages to hit Loona in the throat, with Loona only surviving for seconds before she expires from her injury.
  • Improbably Female Cast: Enforced, as the theme for this Arena is an all-girls cast, with the only males that appear are Dr. Z and The Magician.
  • In Love with Your Carnage: Loona finds Dou making mountains of zombie corpses kinda sexy.
  • Killed Offscreen: During Mai's flashback in the second chapter, she comes across Amber's corpse, having been hollowed out by the Animal.
    • When Alicia meets up with Loona again in the third chapter, she’s running away from Death, who is holding Kaje's corpse.
    • When the Animal and the Hanged Man barge into the lab that Paige, Jahida, and Yunan, they come with Alicia's tail and the impaled corpse of Dou respectively.
  • In the beginning of Paige’s confrontation with Dr. Z, he recalls how Yunan had found him and he annihilated her.
  • Kill It with Fire: Scarlet kills Amy by firing a stream of fireballs at her.
    • Alexstraza kills Justice by hitting it with her flames at full power.
  • Kill Steal: Scarlet gets pissed at the Hanged Man for killing Graycia before she could.
  • Mad Scientist: Dr Z., the scientist who had made all the zombie experiments that the cast has to deal with.
  • Moment Killer: Starla interrupts a session between Wendy and Ven, not wanting lesbians around in her presence.
  • The Multiverse: Paige discovers some notes that mention that Dr. Z has managed to discover the Multiverse and is building a portal called "The Gate" to access the other worlds. And during the beginning of their confrontation, Dr. Z monologues that he plans to kill those he deems 'the undesirables'.
  • Murder by Mistake: Shantae ends up killing Zig-Zag by accident when her flames hit her while Shantae's trying to aim for the Hanged Man.
    • And when Starla attempts to kill the Hanged Man herself, she ends up hitting Starfire instead.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During Dr. Z's fight with Paige and the Magician, his machinations caused all the remaining zombies around the mansion to be eradicated
  • Oh, Crap!: When Isabelle realizes that the pipes behind her are about to blow up, she makes a sign reading "Yipe!" moments before she's blown up.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Yunan's fight with Death and how she managed to take off his head in their fight.
  • Off with His Head!: When Yunan meets up with Paige and Jahida in the sixth chapter, she appears alongside with the decapitated body of Death.
  • One-Winged Angel: By the time Paige meets up with Dr. Z, he had managed to turn himself into a semi-demonic being with great power.
  • No, You: When the Magician meets up with the last three survivors, he mentions that Dr. Z promised that he would give him answers to his power and fate if he destroyed the 'inferior beings'. To which Starla retorts that HE's the inferior one.
  • Palette Swap: The narration makes a dig at Starla's appearance, noting she looks exactly like Rarity but with a garish outfit on and a bow and arrow.
  • Paper People: During the Temperance's fight with Yunan, the monster rolls into a ball and comedically flattens Yunan.
  • The Peeping Tom: Loona spies on Wendy and Ven having sex in the 5th chapter.
  • Reduced to Dust: The machine that Dr. Z traps a majority of the remaining survivors in the sixth chapter saps them of all their energy to the point that all that's left of them is a pile of ashes.
  • Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Avi has Jahida and Paige strip down to the nude since she feels that the clothes will only slow her down, though Avi just tears the former's clothes off of her.
  • Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: The sixth chapter wipes out almost the entire remaining cast, leaving only Paige, Yunan, and the Magician left.
  • Shout-Out: Chun-Li upon meeting Outlaw in their introductions asks if she's from the Marvel universe, stating she’s seen it several times before.
    • When Wendy and Ven wonder what other zombies they have to deal with while fighting zombies that have flamethrowers, Ven thinks of zombies that can open doors, only to remember that that's raptors.
  • Skewed Priorities: Tasha and Buffjack try to have sex with Chun-Li and Paige respectively in the middle of zombie-infested territory during the Bloodbath. This gets them both killed when a zombie is able to attack them while they're distracted.
  • Taking the Bullet: The Magician blocks the ball of hellfire that was intended for Paige with his body. He's singed from it but recovers quickly.
  • Team Killer: When Shantae accidentally activates her flame powers and sets some gas ablaze, it blows up her team bus, which kills Katara who was unable to escape it from being knocked unconscious.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Every returnee except for Paige gets killed once again.
  • Together in Death: Wendy and Ven hold hands as the Sun drags them down to their doom.
  • Troubled Fetal Position: Alicina starts her introduction in this pose while trying to wrap her head over the situation she’s found herself in.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Shantae accidentally using her flames right near some gas gets two people killed.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Dr. Z has one when Paige and the Magician manages to stop his plans for good.
  • We ARE Struggling Together: Scarlet gets into an argument with and threatens to kill Alexstraza in their team introduction.
  • What Measure Isa Non Human: Yunan expresses joy at killing the zombies since she gets to live out her fantasy of a guilt-free extermination war.
  • Zombie Apocalypse: The cast of the Arena find themselves in a mansion that has zombies roaming around everywhere.


Your Winner: Paige Creed (Geekcu-the-Wild's pick)

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