Recap / The Silverscale Arena S 3 E 12 September 2023

"Once again, outer space is the destination of the combatants, but they have to deal with a horrific world that has been infested with a terrifying plague...the plague of the Necromorphs!"

The 32nd episode, written in September of 2023. The teams are as follows...

-Team 1 (Baskerra Hellmane): Bogarlmons, Rayvis, Rivet, and Interstella (Rick and Morty background character).

-Team 2 (Buddhe): Omni-Man, M'Ress, The Qu, and Darth Vader.

-Team 3 (PFC Alexei): Shard (Submitter's OC), a Xenomorph, Fecto Elfilis, and Derpfestor.

-Team 4 (Meowth Purright): Zim, Parallel Susie, Dark Lord Spike, and Purple King.

-Team 5 (Drake): Huffer, Advenger, Marida Cruz, and Cobray Gordon.

- Team 6 (Snivygreen22): Reisen Udongein Inaba, Rei'sen, Seiran, and Ringo.

- Team 7 (A Fan): Captain Qwark, Lord Dominator, Lop, and Princess Ridley.

- Team 8 (Nighthawk87): Aria T'Loak, Celeste Luvendass, Turles, and Panther Caroso.

- Team 9 (SuperDocBoy): Kanna, Alien Hominid, Sparky, and Cheelai.

- Team 10 (Plebian Garbage): Magnus, Tara (Taranima OC), Kal'tsit, and Vulkan.

- Team 11 (Kitte): XxX (an Impostor), Ant Queen, Giru, and Ash Graven.

- Team 12 (smallboot): Xiana (Submitter's OC), Lum, Ryoko Hakubi, and Birdy Cephon Altera.

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• Accidental Murder: In Huffer’s panic in trying to escape the crashing ship, he inadvertently steps on Cobray and Marida.
  • When the Xenomorph attacks the just empowered Zim and Lord Dominator, Zim tests his newfound powers by moving her limbs to make her look like she's dancing like an idiot. And as he cackles during this, he doesn’t realize he's turned her into a ball of acid blood and destroyed body parts until it’s too late.
  • As Ridley is celebrating being turned back to normal, Huffer shows up out of nowhere to complain how this breaks the continuity, startling him and reflexively stabbing his tail through the Autobots' chest, which happens to hit his Spark, killing him.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Lop reveals to Baskerra that her adoptive father, Yasuburo, had died of old age some time ago, which gives Lop's search for Ocho an additional layer to it, as she's now looking for who literally is the last member of either family she has left.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Blood Moon outright pleads for Zim to stop as he jumps into the center of the moon and is about to take it over, with it not being able to take all the stupid and insane thoughts in Zim's head.
  • Zim's last words are him begging for the Tallest to help him as Lop is in the process of bisecting him.
• And the Adventure Continues: The episode ends with Lop heading off to find her sister Ocho, now with the knowledge of what planet she is exactly at.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Shortly after Turles eats a Necromorph’s arm, he lives for only a few minutes longer before he turns into a Necromorph himself.
  • When Omni-Man disappears at the end of the second chapter by diving underground to search where the voices tormenting him are coming from, he finally reappears in the last chapter, but as a Necromorph.
• Animorphism: Downplayed; As the ship is crashing, Shard and the Xenomorph fall into a storage room and causes jars of Basky Bugs to break open, where they bite Lum, and she has bright green fur begin to grow around her body. However, her resistance to the stuff makes that the only change she gets.
  • Chapter 4 ends with Princess Ridley getting bitten by a Basky Bug that turns him back into normal Ridley...and with it, all his memories from the first season come back too.
• Answer Cut: After Lord Dominator escapes a shootout between Shard and Aria and gets her chance to potentially get a suit like Zim had gotten destroyed, she wonders where Zim is,thinking he's screwing up. It cuts to Zim fighting the Darth Vader Necromorph.
• Apologetic Attacker: Xiana apologizes to Lop as she's trying to kill her, feeling that she's not going back to her universe unless she wipes the slate clean, adding that it's Nothing Personal.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The climax has Zim take over the Blood Moon, and has thousands of Necromorphs make up several giant tentacles and a giant body that resembles him where he then tries to kill the remaining contestants.
• Autobots, Rock Out!: Just as Lop comes close to succumbing to Zim's voice clawing inside her head, [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trnfNXURSe4 Kafziel's metal cover of the Force's theme]] plays as Lop remembers that she's fighting for all her loved ones, which clears her mind, and has one final clash with him, where she's ultimately victorious.
• Back from the Dead: Rayvis is revived to participate in this Arena, much to his disappointment as it undid his warrior’s death. And although he dies trying to kill Ridley, he's revived again by Baskerra again when Lop wins the Arena. Speaking of Lop, Baskerra tells her that her robot companion, TD-4, is undergoing repairs as she sends Lop off to find her sister.
• Big Damn Heroes: After Fecto Elfilis causes the part of the ship he and M'Ress are on to break in half, Rivet grabs her hand just as M'Ress was about to get sucked out of the ship. And then when Rivet's grip on the wires begins to slip, Interstella saves them by grabbing Rivet's hand.
  • Just as Vader is about to strike down Lop, Ravis surprise attacks him from behind and nearly breaks his helmet, which allows Lop to escape.
  • When Vader has Ringo in a force choke and is going to kill her, Vulkan shows up to attack him, saving Ringo's life.
  • Captain Qwark outright begs for someone to save his life at the last minute when he's being chased by the Hunter Necromorph, which he gets by Aria throws a flare at its face, distracting it.
• Big "NO!": Reisen shouts this when the voices of the Blood Moon attempt to convince her to join it for the first time.
  • The Blood Moon has this reaction when Zim's vast idiocy and insanity prove too much for even it to handle.
  • Lop has one when Rayvis sacrifices himself to try and stop Ridley.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Ash's response to Rayvis mockingly telling her that she's not good at multitasking.
• Big "WHAT?!": Rivet's and M'Ress’ reactions to Interstella joke about turning them into emergency rations.
• Big "WHY?!": Xiana shouts one in her Team Introduction when Lum's electricity gets the doors to open...and in the process ends up electrocuting everyone else.
• Blood from the Mouth: After Princess Ridley stabs Bogarlmons through her back with his tail, blood begins pooling in her mouth.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: As Ridley is celebrating turning back to normal and getting his memories back, Huffer suddenly shows up to complain about how this breaks the continuity.
• Bring It: When Bogarlmons says that she'll stress-eat Rayvis, he dares her to take a bite.
  • After Omni-Man breaks free of Vader's force grip, Omni-Man tells him he's made a big mistake, to which Vader wants Omni-Man to teach him how big it was.
    Omni-Man: "I don't think you know how much of a terrible choice you made doing that."
    Darth Vader: "Then educate me."
  • And when Turles says he's considering eliminating his team if they're with the Galactic Patrol:
    Aria T'loak: "Just try and take that chance."
  • The Marker beckons Omni-Man to its location by telling him to come to it if he wants to kill it so badly.
    Come to us...You want us dead? Come get us.
• The Bus Came Back: Interstella, Omni-Man, M'Ress, Reisen Udonigen Inaba, Lord Dominator, Lop, and Ridley all return from previous Arenas. Anakin Skywalker also returns, but now as the infamous Darth Vader.
• Captain's Log: Captain Qwark pretends to make one about his experiences on the planet he's trapped on by talking to a rock pretending it's an audio recorder.
• Cast from Hit Points: Seiran, being surrounded by Ash and several Necromorphs, puts all of her energy into a hammer slam which causes her to fall unconscious, but causes waves of energy balls to come out, which wipes out the Necromorphs. And while Ash is able to avoid the energy balls, the hammer slam also causes a pillar of fire from underneath the ground to emerge, which smashes into and completely burns Ash away before she could react to it.
• Catch and Return: During a fight that Turles had with Tara offscreen, he recalls how she absorbed every ki-blast he fired at her into her mouth, and then fired it all back in one concentrated blast at him, which left his armor smoking.
• Death by Adaptation: Lop's adoptive father Yasaburo is revealed to have died of old age some time ago prior to this episode.
• Defensive "What?": After Purple King destroys the controls to the ship while trying to kill the Hominid, getting looks from Sparky and Cheelai, Purple King’s operator tells them "What? The little guy started it!"
• Disproportionate Retribution: Parallel Susie wishes to disassemble the molecules of the nearest manager and destroy everyone else on her team in their introduction since her being plucked into the Arena wasn’t on her schedule.
• Driven to Suicide: M'Ress is Driven to Madness by the voices of the Blood Moon and walks directly into a lava field.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: During the crash landing of the ship, Kal'tsit gets sucked into the atmosphere, Cobray and Marida are crushed by Huffer, Ant Queen, Ryoko, and Fecto Elfilis are also sucked out and are sent hurtling towards the planet, Bardy gets speared through the head by Xx X, and Parallel Susie is destroyed when Turles throws the 'Business Suit' mech she was in at Bogarlmons and blows it up. When the ship lands, Tara finds Derpfestor having been crushed by some of the rubble.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: When Lop kills Zim, it causes an explosion that destroys the Blood Moon they were on. And a combination of all the excess energy from the explosion along with the insane thoughts Zim had put into the other Brethren Moons, destroys them as well from the inside.
• Eye Scream: As Turles is chasing Reisen trying to kill her, she shoots lasers out of her eyes directly at his eyes, temporarily blinding the Saiyan.
• Flirting Under Fire: When Interstella’s group are attacked by Necromorphs during the third night, Rivet asks her to go out on a date with her when they get out of this situation.
• Game-Breaking Bug: A glitch causes Ringo to be stuck in a T-Pose and keeps slamming into Zim, which comes to an end when Zim flicks her into a volcano.
• Ghost Planet: The cast of the episode crashes onto a Blood Moon, where the only 'living' things outside of them are the Necromorphs, which the moon is infested with.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Lop ultimately defeats and destroys Zim by vertically slicing him in half with her lightsaber.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: As Cheelai is trying to wrestle the controls of the ship away from Sparky, he tells her that they're going to land safely on that active volcano. To which Cheelai points out that the words 'safely' and 'active volcano' don’t mix at all.
• Impaled With Extremeprejudice: Princess Ridley defeats Bogarlmons while she was distracted fighting Huffer and Advenger by stabbing his tail through her back.
  • Darth Vader kills Rei'Sen by stabbing his lightsaber through her chest.
  • The Hunter Necromorph stabs through Celeste with its spear arms while she was distracted by Princess Ridley, and then tears her into pieces.
  • While Reisen is distracted fighting the Omni-Man and Turles Necromorphs, a massive tentacle emerges and stabs her through the back, where it drags her into the core to turn her into a Necromorph.
• Ironic Last Words: When the section of the wall of the ship Ant Queen and Ryoko begins to break apart, Ant Queen bemoans that she knew that this mission was going to be a failure, Ryoko tells her "C’mon! We’re not dead yet!". Then the part of the ship they're on breaks off, and they're sent hurtling to a nearby volcanic region.
• Join or Die: Defied by Darth Vader when he confronts Lop. He tells her to either die with the ship or by his hand. He brings up the possibility of her joining him, but he can sense in Lop's heart that that won’t be an option to her.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: When Celeste foils Princess Ridley's attempt to kill her, she tries to goad him into fighting her, only to get stabbed and then torn apart by the Hunter Necromorph.

  Celeste: "Come out and fight! I know you’re there and-URK!"

  • When Turles and Xiana are fighting a swarm of Necromorphs, Turles suddenly stops firing at them, as he's turning into a Necromorph himself. Xiana, not knowing this, yells at him to keep shooting them with his ki-blasts. Then the Necromorphs manage to break through her shield, stab her, and begin quartering her.
    Xiana: "Hey! Keep firing those blasts! I can't take them all on! Are you listening?! HELLO?! HELL-URK!"
• Kill It with Fire: Ridley kills Kanna by firing a stream of flames at her, which reduces her to ashes.
• Killed Offscreen: As Zim is digging into the core and boasting about how he'll be triumphant, he mentions that he lost his partner, Dominator, to the voices.
  • Omni-Man ended up being turned into a Necromorph sometime between the end of chapter two and the last one.
• Little "No": Ridley's last word as he sees Lop's massive force energy pulse heading straight for him, right before his body is vaporized by it.
• Lucky Seven: Team 7 in this episode has one of the luckiest breaks a team has had in the series; not losing a single member up until the last chapter and has the winner come from their team.
• MacGyvering: Zim manages to make a blaster out of a coffee table, a toaster, and other junk from the ship he and Lord Dominator are currently situated in.
• Marshmallow Hell: Kanna begins her Team Introduction by hugging the Alien Hominid and Sparky right to her bosom over how cute she finds the two of them.
  • After Interstella saves Rivet and M'Ress from getting sucked out, she pulls the both of them into her chest, though the latter two are more focused on trying to land in one piece than anything else.
• A Molten Date with Death: The planet the cast crashes onto is a world filled with lava, and as such many contestants end up dying by being submerged in it.
• Neck Snap: How XxX kills Magnus while he was watching Xiana get quartered and Turles turn into a Necromorph. This is also how Kanna kills her.
• No Body Left Behind: What happens to every contestant that ends up submerging into the lava.
  • Parallel Susie's body crumbles to ashes after she’s destroyed by Turles.
  • Darth Vader and Vulkan are vaporized when Ringo's attacks all converge at the spot that the two were fighting at.
  • Sparky is annihilated by a supercharged blast from the Purple King.
  • Seiran’s body vanishes into sparkles when she's killed by the Hominid.
  • When Ridley kills Rivet while she, Interstella, Lop, and Rayvis are charging at the giant Zim, all that’s left of her is her robot arm.
  • And Ridley's body is vaporized by Lop’s massive pulse of force energy.
• Noodle Incident: When trying to fight Ash alongside Aria onboard the crashing ship, she compares it to a mission on Venus she had.
• Nothing Personal: Xiana tells this to Lop when trying to kill her and Sparky to Reisen after he says that he has to disintegrate her.
• Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: For most of the episode, the main antagonists are the Blood Moon and its Necromorphs, who want to kill everyone and make them all one with it. Then just before the climax, Zim manages to take over the Blood Moon and the Necromorphs, where he becomes the final antagonist of the episode.
• Odd Friendship: Lord Dominator manages to make a friendly, even if only she wants to use him for her advantages, partnership with Zim.
• Off with His Head!: The Hominid is killed by the Omni-Man Necromorph beheads him with its blade arms.
• Oh, Crap!: Shard cries out "Crap!" when his shot aimed at Lord Dominator missed, which attracts Aria's attention and throws a flare in his direction.
  • Aria yells out "Oh, shit!" moments before the giant Zim crushes her with his thumb.
• Pragmatic Villainy: After Turles' failed attempt at killing Tara, he considers leaving her alive just so she can kill the rest of the competition.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When Turles is being chased by Bogarlmons, he grabs Parallel Susie’s 'Business Suit' and tells Bogarlmons "You want something to eat?! You might find this meal a little hard to chew! Bottoms up!" before throwing Parallel Susie's mech at her and superheating it. It doesn’t kill Bogarlmons, but it does kill Parallel Susie.
  • As Purple King is fighting the Parallel Susie and Ant Queen Necromorphs, its operator shouts "This one's going to be a MOUTHFUL!" before crushing the Parallel Susie Necromorph, and "And we'll turn up the heat here!" before burning the Ant Queen Necromorph.
  • After Lop force pushes Spike and the Hunter Necromorph into the maw of the Bogarlmons Necromorph, Rayvis finds an opening on how to destroy it. Pulling out some grenades he had hidden, he tells the monster "Shame this couldn’t continue. Still, I can end this with a bang." before tossing the grenades into its maw, which go off and destroy the monster.
• Profane Last Words: Aria's last words are her crying out "Oh, shit!" before the giant Zim’s thumb crushes her.
  • Interstella's last words are calling Ridley a jackass as she plummets to her death.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When green beams begin tearing apart the Blood Moon, Zim tells Lop this isn't the last she's seen of him, to which she defiantly cries out "Yes...it...IS!" before she slices him in half.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Panther's last words before he's devoured by the Bogarlmons Necromorph.
• Regained Memories Sequence: After Ridley is turned back to normal, he also gets back all the memories of his failures in the Arenas of the first season and his big plan in Infinity Pizza that ended with him getting amnesia in the first place. With these memories back, he plans on making everyone suffer like he did.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Parallel Susie attempts to escape the crashing ship by flying away with her ‘Business Suit’ mech, only for it to be caught by Turles and is destroyed by him.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Rivet, getting sick of feeling like the aphrodisiac is affecting her all the time, strips down, leaving her completely naked. She then comments that she doesn't fell embarrassed, and in fact feels kinda free.
• Shout-Out: Huffer’s "BUT [insert name here]!" bit is a reference to the "BUT JOBBY!" Running Gag from Jobby the Hong's review series.
  • When Cheelai is panicking trying to shoot the Alien Hominid, she yells out "He's in the walls...HE'S IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!".
  • After Purple King boasts that Reisen's power is nothing compared to its own, its operator says "Now…it's RABBIT SEASON!".
• Skewed Priorities: Seiran is left aghast at Ringo eating a dango while the ship they're on is falling and going to crash. Ringo justifies it as having her last meal.
• Squashed Flat:
  • The giant Zim in the climax kills Aria by smashing her into paste with his giant thumb.
• Taking You with Me: Rayvis attempts this by grabbing Ridley and tackling him to the ground, which they smash through and are sent falling into an abyss. But since Ridley has wings and can fly, this doesn't work out.
• Team Killer: When trying to escape the crashing ship, Huffer ends up stomping on Cobray and Marida.
  • Ridley spends the climax prioritizing trying to kill Lop due to his hatred of bunny creatures, only for it to fail thanks to Rayvis interfering and he gets vaporized by Lop's massive pulse of force energy.
• Tempting Fate: When the Purple King is trying to crush Zim with its comping arm, Zim pries the arms open and boasts that he is uncrushable and doesn't feel a thing. Then the arm clenches down on him again, which crushes his squeedlyspooch.
  • After Ryoko punches through one of the ship’s walls, she confidently says that it'll be smooth sailing from here on out. Shortly after this the section of the ship she's in breaks apart and she's sent hurtling towards her death.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Because several of the contestants that die are reanimated into Necromorphs, they are killed twice in the episode. In addition, every returnee except for Lop dies once again.
• Third Time's The Charm: Lop’s third attempt in the Arena, and is the winner of the episode.
• This Cannot Be!: As Qu is defeated by Lop and Rayvis and trapped in Advenger, which is falling into a lava ravine, his last words are him finding it illogical at how he could have lost.
  • When the Blood Moon wraps its tentacles around Zim and begins to feed on his thoughts, only to suddenly panic when Zim’s thoughts prove too much for it to handle.
    What...what is this?! No...NO! THIS IS ALL WRONG! NEED TO STOP...need...need...
• This Isfor Emphasis Bitch: As Ash is struggling in her fight with Lum, Ash tells herself "I'm not weak...I'm not WEAK! I'm not helpless! I CAN BEAT YOU, BITCH!".
  • As Rivet is killed and Interstella, Lop, and Rayvis turn to see who just murdered her, Ridley announces his presence with "What’s up, bitches?! I'M BAAAAACK!"
  • And after Ridley flies out of the chasm that Rayvis had thrown them into, he yells out to Lop "ROUND 2, BITCH!"
• This Is Gonna Suck: Sparky's last words before he's annihilated by Purple King's blast.
• Token Good Teammate: M'Ress for Team 2, Shard for Team 3, Lop for Team 7, and Kal'tsit for Team 10.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: When the mind of the Blood Moon grabs Zim with its tentacles and attempts to feed on his thoughts, it quickly realizes that Zim's mind is so stupid and insane that it can't handle it, which allows Zim to take over the moon and its Necromorphs.
• Unhand Them, Villain!: When Ridley is holding Interstella over a great height, Lop demands that he let her go. Ridley finds that to be a great idea and does just that- by dropping her from that height to her death.

  Interstella: "THAT’S NOT WHAT SHE MEANT, YOU JACKAAAAAAAASS!

• The Unreveal: While Baskerra does reveal to Lop where Ocho is located, we the audience don't get to hear it, as Baskerra whispers the planet she's on into Lop's ear.
• We ARE Struggling Together: Just about every team fights with each other in some capacity in their introductions.
• We Will Meet Again: After Vulkan nearly kills Tara, she balloons herself to great size, she tells him that she has people to transform and a world to make hers, then adds that she'll get to him later before deflating away.
• Worf Had the Flu: Before Omni-Man can think of slaughtering the whole cast by himself, the voices of the Blood Moon get into his head, which drives him mad enough until he dives underground to try to kill what's making the voices. When he reemerges in the final chapter, he's been turned into a Necromorph.
• You Have Failed Me: When Princess Ridley is introduced, it's mentioned that he had his Space Pirates slaughtered and/or Thrown Out the Airlock for failing to get the Super Crown off him.

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