"It's nearly the end of the third season, but it's the final arena for this season, at least! How does the Arena celebrate the new year? By having the contestants fight wave upon wave of dragons!"
The 36th episode, written in January of 2024. The teams are…
-Team 1 (Baskerra Hellmane): Mr. Freeze, Giga Mermaid, Xena the Xenomorph Queen, and Thundercracker.
-Team 2 (Kit): Geralt of Rivia, The Good Hunter, Zagreus, and Cayde-6.
-Team 3 (Nighthawk87): Vinus Hawkan (Submitter's OC), Quick Bourne, Amanda, and Shiro Roarx.
-Team 4 (Zduy234): Madeline, Fionna Campbell, Nemona, and Sallie May.
-Team 5 (A Fan): Toriel, Asgore Dreemurr, Lenia Storm (Submitter's OC), and Count Logan.
-Team 6 (Meowth Purright): Chara, Kratos, Y.V., and The Goddess of Explosions.
-Team 7 (SuperDocBoy): Dark Matter (Swordsman), The Rider, The Wanderer, and Kyhra.
-Team 8 (Kitte): Isabelle, King Dedede, Ant Queen, and Giru.
-Team 9 (Snivygreen22): Beryl (Submitter's OC), Draco Centauros, Lucoa, and a Fatalis.
-Team 10 (Buddhe): June Way Ippan Josei, Mangle, and Auntie Vixen (Chochi OC).
-Team 11 (Plebian Garbage): Notsobretheren's Zeraora and Renamon, Gin (Blackfox85 OC), and Busty Bird (Jaeh OC).
-Team 12 (Drake): Verosika Mayday, Basara Nekki, Pickles, and Edward Chris von Mur.
- Accidental Murder: While The Rider is busy fighting a Hellkite Wyvern, her blade accidentally cleaves Gin's head off.
- As Giga Mermaid is taking out many of the Blue Eyes White Dragons and Red Eyes Black Dragons with her Final Smash, she unknowingly crushes Lucoa with her tail.
- When Xena gets tackled by an Undead Dragon, her tail accidentally decapitates Nemona while she was trying to sneak away.
- An Arm and a Leg: When Thundercracker tries to smash Ridley and the Goddess of Explosions with his fists, but Ridley manages to get out of the way in time. And the explosive force from the Goddess of Explosions getting smashed causes both of Thundercracker's arms to get blown off.
- Apologetic Attacker: Ant Queen apologizes to Beryl as they're fighting, feeling she has no other choice but to fight to make the game end quicker.
- Ash Face: Thanks to Vinus making a magic shield to block the explosion caused from Isabelle throwing a bowling ball onto a Hellkite Wyvern's neck as it was about to unleash its flame breath, the most damage he and his remaining teammates get is some singes and ash and soot covering their faces.
- Atop a Mountain of Corpses: The Fatalis spends the first night resting on a mound of Hellkite Wyverns.
- The Goddess of Explosions spends the final night sitting on top of a mound of destroyed Undead Dragons, wanting a better challenge.
- Attack Its Weak Point: To destroy an Undead Dragon, the easiest method the contestants has is to destroy its head.
- Vinus invokes this by telling Shiro to aim for Ridley's mouth, knowing that's been a weak spot for him in several games.
- Attack on the Heart: Ridley kills June Way by stabbing his tail through her heart.
- Back for the Finale: Xena, Thundercracker, Vinus Hawkan, Quick Bourne, Toriel, Asgore Dreemurr, Lenia Storm, Kratos, Isabelle, King Dedede, Ant Queen, Giru, Fatalis and Verosika Mayday all return from previous Arenas, and side-stories in Sallie May's case. Those also returning but not participating as contestants are Ridley and Draka.
- Back for the Dead: But for Giru, he wouldn't make it past the fight with Yiazmat. And Ridley and Draka get killed in their fights, the latter permanently.
- In addition, Cayde-6 and Chara are brought back to life for this, only to die once again.
- Back from the Dead: The goal of Asgore and Toriel is to bring back their dead children Asriel and Chara and possibly the ones Asgore had slain. Although Toriel does win, she gets talked out of reviving Chara, but gets to know that the Souls are happy and that her other child Asriel is still alive.
- Battle Cry: As Zeraora charges at an Undead Dragon, she cries out "FOR MY GIRLFRIEND!" before killing it.
- Big "NO!": Count Logan lets out a "NOOOOOO..." as he's turned to stone by Yiazmat's Stony Breath.
- Zeraora cries one out when her girlfriend Renamon is crushed to death by a Blue Eyes White Dragon.
- Toriel has one when Xena sacrifices herself to save Toriel.
- When Toriel tries to tell Baskerra to bring Chara back, she interrupts her with a big "NO! FUCK NO! YOU DON'T WANT THAT!".
- Bizarre Dream Rationalization: Lenia tries to reason that her being in the Arena is just a dream, with Asgore and Toriel, who are just video game characters to her, proving it to her. After escaping Yiazmat, she realizes that this isn't a dream.
- Book Ends: This episode ends the season the same way it began: with the theme revolving around the Chinese New Year, this time involving dragons. Both episodes also feature a different version of Beast Boy on A Fan's team and a member of the Roarx family on Nighthawk87's team.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Ridley's last words before the Fatalis kills him are him complaining "THIS IS BULLSHIT! I get brought back for the season finale just for THIS?!".
- Bring It: As King Dedede tries to smash Giru with his hammer thinking that smashing everyone will let him escape, Ant Queen smacks him into a wall, telling him that she won't let him reach his goal. King Dedede assumes she's issuing him a challenge which he accepts.
- King Dedede: Are you issun' me a challenge?! Cause I'll take it!
Ant Queen: Then, come at me and test your might.
- Thinking that she can take on a Hellkite Wyvern, Veroskia stands her ground and tells it to come at her, only to get burned by its fire breath for her troubles.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: While the cast is able to defeat Yiazmat, 11 of them died in the fight and a 12th left the Arena, taking out a quarter of the contestants right out the gate.
- Brutal Honesty: June Way bluntly tells her teammates in their introduction that she's only interested in saving her own hide, but will allow the others to tag along as long as they don't get in her way.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: After causing an Undead Dragon to crash into the lava, Sallie May turns to Vinus' team and quips that if they think dealing with them is tough, this is just a Tuesday to her.
- Call-Back: Quick, having been in a previous Arena, tells Amanda and Shiro that deaths in it aren't permanent, but he still has nightmares from it.
- Asgore and Toriel begin their Team Introduction recalling how their last Arena went, with Asgore hoping that their experience from that will help them win this one.
- In trying to convince herself that this is all just a dream, Lenia recalls to the 'dream' she had involving a big race, Scott the Woz, and the president of the Confederacy.
- Toriel thinking back to the words that Pinhead told her before the fight with Klown Khidorah makes her realize he hands aren't as clean as she wants them to be and wants to fix her mistakes.
- Draka kills the Fatalis with the same attack he used to kill it in his debut episode.
- The last lines of the episode is Toriel welcoming Xena into her home to try that pie she promised her at the end of the 32nd episode.
- Came Back Wrong: When Draka finally reveals himself, he is covered in scars in glitches, including one that leaves his face stuck in a sneering expression, as a result of being sent to the void in Infinity Pizza.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Baskerra assures Toriel that she's telling the truth about Asriel still being alive by stating that she literally cannot tell a lie.
- Clothing Damage: Much of Verosika's outfit is left smoldering when she tries to take on a Hellkite Wyvern, leaving her nearly nude.
- Toriel's robes are almost completely destroyed during her fight with Draka. They get restored when she's sent back to her house.
- Clip Its Wings: The Fatalis gets its wings scorched off by Toriel's flame pillars.
- Continuity Nod: Isabelle's relationship with Whirl gets referenced when he has a Double Take after realizing that he just talked to Whirl's girlfriend shortly after she leaves.
- Cue the Sun: The skies of the Arena this place takes place in has been choked in smoke caused from all the dragons in it. When Toriel fires her flame beam into the sky, it causes an explosion that clears the smoke, allowing the sun to wash over the Arena.
- Deadly Dodging: When Verosika tries to kill the Fatalis by chucking one half of a burnt tree at him, he ducks, causing the tree to impale a Blue Eyes White Dragon behind him.
- Dem Bones: In addition to the recurring skeletons that come out to attack on the second night, the main dragon enemies of chapter 4 are Undead Dragons created from the merged bones of the Hellkite Wyverns and the replicated Blue Eyes White Dragons and Red Eyes Black Dragons.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Count Logan manages to get the drop on and kills Chara, who has become an embodiment of death, fury, and endless violence, without even knowing just how dangerous he was.
- Diving Save: Making his choice for who he wants to be his final opponent, Draka flings his Ender Knives at Toriel. However, Xena pushes Toriel out of the way, causing her to get struck with the knives instead.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Count Logan smacks away Asgore's hand when he tries to empathize with him, believing that no one else can understand his pain.
- Doomy Dooms of Doom: Thundercracker gets inspired by the Arena and wants to make a movie about it, thinking up the title 'Johnny Boyfriend and the Doom Dragons of Doom!' for it. King Dedede shouts to him that the name sucks.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Y.V. teleports himself out of the Arena when it starts almost immediately, Chara gets turned into a human fireball by Count Logan, and Count Logan, Pickles, Ippan Josei, Dark Matter Swordsman, Giru, Draco, Mr. Freeze, Amanda, Busty Bird, and Auntie Vixen are killed by various attacks that Yiazmat uses.
- Renamon suffers a 'BRUH' death by a Blue Eyes White Dragon teleporting above her and squashing her flat.
- Eaten Alive: When Beryl is thrown into the air by Ant Queen, she tries to escape by transforming into a seagull, only to get snatched up by a Hellkite Wyvern.
- Eye Scream: When the Fatalis tries to kill Isabelle, she uses her balloons to get a high up altitude to be out of his reach, and then drops many bowling balls onto his eyes.
- Ridley gets gouged in an eye by Sallie May and has rocks flung into his eyes by Xena.
- Funbag Airbag: When Beryl turns around to see if her teammates are okay, she nearly gets her head buried in Lucoa's chest.
- Flat "What": Toriel's reaction to Lenia saying that her and Asgore are video game characters is her tilting her head and going "pardon?"
- Flechette Storm: In addition to his Dragon Lightning Finish move, Draka kills the Fatalis by throwing a crapton of knives into the Elder Dragon's body. This is also how he kills Xena, though his intended target was Toriel.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: Gin gets an erection from watching Renamon and Zeraora make out and feel each other up. That, and looking at Busty Bird's body.
- Sallie May gets an erection at watching Giga Mermaid slurp at Lucoa's breasts.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Count Logan turns Chara into a flaming human projectile and throws him at Yiazmat, which ultimately does negligible damage.
- Groin Attack: After Ridley taunts the remaining contestants with a "Who else wants some?!", Shiro responds by kicking him in the groin.
- Hammerspace: Isabelle is able to fit a fishing pole, party poppers, and a lot of other things inside the pouches in her belt, which is being justified as "Nintendo toon logic".
- Head Crushing: Zeraora kills the Blue Eyes White Dragon that killed Renamon by piledriving its head into the ground, crushing it like a tin can She later kills an Undead Dragon by slamming her hands on each side of its head, reducing it into dust.
- Ridley is killed by the Fatalis chomping down on his skull, crushing it.
- Horrifying the Horror: Baskerra Hellmane is a Hellhound that had kidnapped numerous people, including children, to participate in her deadly Arenas. But Chara has become so much of an embodiment of death, fury, and violence that even she was having second thoughts about bringing him into the Arena.
- Impromptu Tracheotomy: Sallie May kills a Hellkite Wyvern by stabbing its throat.
- It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: Cayde-6 calls him being trapped underneath Giga Mermaid's breasts the "Best. Possible death. Ever."
- As the Goddess of Explosions finds herself having a blast in the Arena, she calls it the "BEST! GAME! EVER!".
- I Never Told You My Name: As Asgore and Lenia introduce themselves to each other, Lenia calls Asgore by his name, which confuses Asgore since they've never met. Lenia explains it as him and Toriel being famous video game characters to her.
- Internal Reveal: When Toriel first tries to wish Asriel back to life, Baskerra helps her realize that Flowey is her son Asriel.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: As Gin is evading the Good Hunter's attacks, he taunts that she'll have to do better to hit him, and gets beheaded by The Rider mid-taunt.
- Gin: If you want to hit me, you'll have to do better than- SLASH!
- Killed Offscreen: When the narration brings up why Madeline wasn't with Vinus' team, it says that she had already been necrotized by the Undead Dragons.
- Kill It with Fire: Draka is finally destroyed by Toriel's massive flame beam, with not even his regeneration being able to help save him.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When the Fatalis' wings get singed off from Toriel's flame pillars, it flees, knowing that retreat was the best option for him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Immediately after Count Logan kills Chara by turning him into a human projectile aimed at Yiazmat, his adoptive father Asgore attacks him and is then turned to stone by Yiazmat.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: As the other contestants are fighting Yiazmat, Basara is rocking out with a remix of the battle theme that's accompanying this fight.
- Limit Break: The second night begins with Giga Mermaid breaking a Smash Ball, and unleashing several water pillars at the replicated Blue Eyes White Dragons and Red Eyes Black Dragons, taking many of them out.
- Literally Shattered Lives: After Count Logan is turned to stone by Yiazmat, his body falls to the ground and shatters.
- Giru and Draco are unfortunate enough to be struck by both of Yiazmat's White and Stony Breath, shattering when they fall to the ground.
- Marshmallow Hell: Cayde-6 finds himself trapped underneath Giga Mermaid's breasts while looking for supplies on the first night. Not that he minds at all.
- Cayde-6: Best. Possible death. Ever.
- In the first night, Nemona envelopes her head into Lucoa's breasts, with Verosika joining her after feeling how huge and real they are.
- A Molten Date with Death: Veroskia kills Cayde-6 by kicking him into the lava.
- The Rider dies from accidentally tripping into the lava.
- King Dedede kills Geralt by slamming his jet engine-powered hammer down onto the magma, which causes a plume of lava to emerge beneath Geralt's feet, covering him in it. To finish the job, Dedede throws a Gordo into Geralt's head, pinning him to the lava.
- Ridley sets up a trap where he claws several spots in an area, which makes them glow orange. Then he fires a fireball at it, which causes plumes of lava to shoot up, which engulfs Vinus, Quick, Shiro, and King Dedede.
- This seems to happen when Toriel is pushed into the lava, only for her to then rise from it unharmed, her body having turned into something of an embodiment of fire.
- Motivational Kiss: Just before Ridley emerges out of the rift, Toriel gives Xena a peck on the cheek for luck.
- Mythology Gag: Geralt of Rivia's lines about hating portals references the portal puzzle he had to solve.
- When Nemona mistakes Sallie May for a Pokemon, Sallie questions what that is. To which Fionna assumes that it's some kind of possum.
- No Body Left Behind: Chara is vaporized by Count Logan covering him in dark energy and flinging his body at Yiazmat.
- In chapter 3, Basara and Edward are obliterated by a fireball blasted by a Blue Eyes White Dragon and The Rider is atomized by a Red Eyes Black Dragon.
- In the fight with Ridley, Sallie May gets vaporized by Ridley firing his plasma breath at her at point-blank range, Verosika's body is reduced to ash from getting caught in the middle of a premature plasma explosion, and Vinus, Quick, Shiro, and King Dedede's bodies melt to nothing when they're covered in lava.
- Draka is so thoroughly destroyed by flame beam that his bodies is reduced to ashes, with no way to be able to regenerate from that.
- Non-Gameplay Elimination: Y.V. Rage Quits the Arena by teleporting himself out of it as soon as it begins when he senses how much health Yiazmat has and decides it's not worth fighting.
- Noodle Incident: As Asgore watches as Renamon uses his trident as a sex toy, Asgore compares it to a night at Undyne and Alphys' house.
- Off with His Head!: Zagreus kills a Hellkite Wyvern by beheading it.
- The Rider slices off Gin's head by mistake while she was busy fighting a Hellkite Wyvern.
- Another accidental version of this happens when Xena decapitates Nemona with her tail as she gets tackled by an Undead Dragon.
- Oh, Crap!: Lenia screams "CRAP! XENOMORPH!" when Xena runs into Lenia's team.
- Lenia cries out "Ah, crap!" before she's taken out by the Goddess of Explosions' explosive balls.
- Isabelle's reaction to seeing Ridley is "Oh no! Not him!".
- Thundercracker goes "HOLY SCRAP!" when him smashing the Goddess of Explosions with his fists causes his arms to get blown off.
- The Peeping Tom: Verosika spies on Sallie May having sex with Quick on the final night, and considers giving her a call and making Sallie May a part of her crew based on her performance.
- Precision F-Strike: As Toriel gives a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner about teaching Draka a lesson, she puts massive emphasis on what he'll be dealing with for knowingly getting others killed:
- Toriel: I choose to believe there is good in everybody, but...for some people...they need to be taught a lesson. In your case, if this Arena ends up bringing you back...then I will give you a taste of what happens to those that keep knowingly hurting others. Do you know what that taste is?
Draka: Should I care if you're going to die anyway?
Toriel: ...it's called HELL. Let me give you a sample before you go back to wherever you came from and think about what you've done.
- Reduced to Dust: Zaegrus' body turns to dust when the Fatalis clamps down on it.
- What's left of the bodies of the Blue Eyes White Dragon and Red Eyes Black Dragon replicas when they're launched into the barrier from Giga Mermaid's water pillars.
- Zeraora destroys an Undead Dragon's head to dust by slamming her hands on each side of its skull.
- Returning Big Bad: Previous season 1 antagonist Draka is revealed to have been the one to set up this Arena so that he could defeat its winner in combat and prove he's the greatest warrior in the universe.
- Rump Roast: As King Dedede is unable to hold his breath in the air, he expects that he'll fall into the lava. Instead he falls onto hot solid magma created by Giga Mermaid.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During the battle with Yiazmat, Y.V. teleports himself out of the Arena, with Verosika, Toriel, Asgore, and Lenia choosing to run away from it. Though Verosika uses some succubus magic to help the ones who are stuck fighting it as she leaves.
- Shout-Out: When Toriel is initially wanting to wish Asriel back to life, she tries to avoid a Literal Genie situation by stating she doesn't want him back an undead, Baskerra assures her she won't pull a Pet Sematary on her.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: As Toriel calls out Draka for not caring about the lives he's taken, Draka tells her to save the speech, calling her as selfish as he is.
- Smoke Screen: The Goddess of Explosions calls 'dibs' on taking out Ridley and seemingly vaporizes him with several smoking orbs. But then Ridley emerges from the smoke to tackle her to the ground.
- Smug Snake: Y.V. in his Team Introduction boasts about how he came to the Arena voluntarily and wants to duke it out with Kratos. But when he senses the enormity of health Yiazmat has, he teleports himself out of the Arena immediately.
- Squashed Flat: Renamon dies from having the misfortune of having the Blue Eyes White Dragon teleport on top of and crushing her.
- Lucoa is killed by Giga Mermaid accidentally smashing her tail into her.
- Isabelle dies by getting stomped on by a foot from the Fatalis.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Draka finds himself disappointed that Toriel ended up being her last challenger, thinking that she's "a civilian that should have stayed in the kitchen."
- Take My Hand!: After Asgore is struck by some necrotizing blasts, Toriel tells him to take her hand. Asgore refuses, knowing that it's over for him and uses his final words to tell her to win and show them what she's made of.
- Taken for Granite: Yiazmat kills Count Logan, Giru, and Draco by using his Stony Breath on them, with the latter two being unfortunate enough to also be struck by his White Breath as well.
- Take That!: Count Logan gets called a knockoff of Count Bleck with the nuance of his character having been destroyed.
- Team Killer: Among those destroyed from Sallie May's trap includes Fionna, one of the members of her team.
- Tempting Fate: As lava is pooling around the area that Quick's team is stuck on, he invokes this by asking how things could get any worse, telling his team that he said it ironically. And that's when several undead dragons rise from the lava ready to attack them, with Vinus chewing him out for choosing to tempt fate at all.
- Vinus Hawkan: I don't think it matters if it's ironic or not! NEVER SAY THAT!
- Theme Music Power-Up: When Toriel emerges out of the lava, her body is covered in her own powerful flames, and Karu's orchestral cover of her theme Heartache
accompanies her as she makes Draka pay for everything he has done. - There's No Kill like Overkill: The first dragon sent out to take out the contestants is the infamous Final Fantasy XII Superboss Yiazmat, known for having 50 million HP in its game.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Every returning character except for Toriel is killed yet again.
- This Cannot Be!: As Asgore is getting up from tripping, he spots Chara, one of his dead children, alive in the Arena, goes "No…no way…it can't be…" before getting up and running towards him.
- Toriel is left in utter disbelief when Baskerra tells her that her son Asriel is still alive and she realizes that he is now the flower Flowey.
- This Is Gonna Suck: After hearing something outside their crate roar, Fionna asks her teammates if they're all boned.
- When Vinus recognizes that the dragon that his team is going to have to fight at the start of the Arena is Yiazmat, he winces and goes "Yep. We're in for a bad time.".
- Token Evil Teammate: Count Logan for Team 5, Dark Matter for Team 7, Fatalis for Team 9, and Mangle for Team 10.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Lenia curls into a ball and rolls on the floor when she realizes that the Arena isn't a dream and that she might die in it.
- Wham Line: At the end of the fourth chapter, the penultimate dragon the remaining contestants have to face appears, who turns out to be a face very familiar to this series.
- A pair of claws expanded the thing, yellow gleaming eyes glowing from within. "Guess who's back?" A vicious tone spoke. This new threat may have not been the mastermind behind this draconic attack, but he was the greatest threat to come out. Not only that, but this was something that had not happened in a while.
Namely, an Arena event! What was it this time? The return of a most vengeful combatant. The Cunning God of Death. The space dragon that had remembered every little humiliation this Arena had given him.
This evil went by one name: Ridley.
- For fans of the series since the first season, this line just before he reveals his name to Toriel and Xena, already reveals the one who was responsible for the Arena: A previous antagonist who hasn't been seen since the first season:Draka: This brings back memories... That Fatalis returns...only to be met with a grisly end. DRAGON LIGHTNING FINISH!
- Working with the Ex: Once again Asgore and Toriel are stuck on the same team together.
- Would Hurt a Child: Count Logan kills Chara for what essentially amounts to happening to be in his path.
Your Winner: Toriel (A Fan's pick)
