When Black Hat gets an important contract to defeat a hero, it's up to Flug to make the team work together. Easier said than done.
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- Actor Allusion: In Spanish, José Antonio Macías (Flug's voice) voices James from Pokémon. When Sunblast throws the trio into the skies, Flug yells "Team Black Hat was defeated again!"
- All for Nothing: Penumbra hired the organization to take down Sunblast, which they do by shrinking him. She decides to give up on blotting out the sun and settles to use Sunblast's powers to find a cure for her condition. Unfortunately, Sunblast attempts to escape and is quickly devoured by Demencia with Penumbra none the wiser. She'd effectively sold her soul for nothing.
- Subverted, as Penumbra’s character blog on Instagram reveal that Sunblast is still alive and was mailed to her address.
- Anti-Hero: Despite his classically heroic motif and good publicity, Sunblast is also a Jerk Jock who would rather let a villain go so he could beat them up again. In fact, getting praise and beating up people he dislikes seem to be the main reasons for his super heroics.
- Anti-Villain: Penumbra is trying to blot out the sun, not out of malicious intent, but because sunlight could kill her. She even tries to explain this to Sunblast, but he's more concerned with beating her up than listening to reason. She even has her own following in Atreno City, consisting of people afflicted with the same condition as her. Penumbra is even willing to give up on blotting the sun altogether when she realizes she could use Sunblast's powers to cure herself.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Happens to Flug while lecturing Demencia.Flug: Come back, you cannot bend rules as if they were [black hat starts bending him with his powers] MY BACK!
- The Bad Guys Win: The Black Hat Organization successfully takes down Sunblast and Penumbra signs away her soul as payment. However, since Sunblast was eaten by Demencia, Penumbra is robbed of her chance to be cured, making Black Hat the sole beneficiary of the group's efforts.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment
- After the crew defeats Sunblast, Black Hat appears to commemorate their work... only to harshly declare their performance mediocre.
- When Flug gives Sunblast to Penumbra, she tells him that she will have a long conversation with him, seemingly going to get revenge on him. In the stinger we see that she literally only had a long conversation about why she started to build her evil machine.
- Behind a Stick: When Sunblast arrived at Hat Island, there is a chair that turns to reveal Flug petting 5.0.5., who is too big to be covered by the chair.
- Behind the Black: Flug was explaining his plan in front of Demencia, yet once she is offscreen, neither Flug nor 5.0.5. see her going directly to wreak havoc in the city.
- Bland-Name Product: In Atreno City you can see some solar-themed stores, like Sunbucks
and Hot Tropic. - Bright Is Not Good: Sunblast is by no means a traditional hero. While he may thwart villains, he only does it for the recognition and enjoyment of beating them up. Rather than have them arrested, he willingly lets them go so he can do it again later.
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Even though they were able to get the mission done just fine, Black Hat still has them all punished because they ended up leading Sunblast to his lair and then tried lying to him about it. Justified, because Black Hat is Top God of Evil.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Demencia utterly trounces Sunblast in a fight and only lost the first time because Flug accidentally shot her with a tranquilizer. The second round is even more one-sided after Flug pushes her Berserk Button by saying Sunblast thought Black Hat and Penumbra made a great couple.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Penumbra's schemes may involve blotting the sun but it's understandable because direct sunlight burns her. She's quite perky and friendly otherwise and has no problem abandoning her goal when an alternative to cure her condition presents itself.
- Darker and Edgier: While in the original shorts Black Hat was definitely evil and had a sort of inhumanity to him, his supervillain bravado and Bad Boss tendencies was more or less Played for Laughs. Here he is portrayed far more menacingly, every scene featuring him showing him doing something eldritch or particularly sinister.
- Deal with the Devil: Penumbra's so desperate to be rid of Sunblast, she enlists the aid of the Black Hat Organization. They dispose of him as promised but the payment comes in the form of signing away her soul.
- Egopolis: Black Hat Organization is based off Hat Island, which likewise has a perpetual top hat-shaped black cloud above it.
- Hero Antagonist: "Hero" is a loose term for Sunblast but he's definitely got the antagonistic role down to pat.
- Idea Bulb: During their emergency escape, Flug is scolding his teammates for not following his plans, which promply gives him a new plan while he was just below some emergency lights.
- Implied Death Threat: Black Hat all but states that Flug had better not fail or the consequences will be severe.Dr. Flug: I won't let you down, Lord Black Hat, sir!
- Leeroy Jenkins: Rather than go along with Flug's plan, Demencia starts causing wanton mayhem to lure out Sunblast, then violently assaults him when he does.
- Meaningful Background Event: As Penumbra is thanking Black Hat for his services and declaring her intent to use the shrunken Sunblast's powers to cure her condition, Sunblast escapes his jar, only to be eaten by Demencia. Flug and 5.0.5. scramble to find a replacement and settle on a lightbulb.
- Monumental Damage: When the Black Hat ship takes off in haste, Flug forgets to open the landing gear, and ends up tearing off the head of Sunblast's statue.
- Noodle Incident: At the beginning, Flug warns 5.0.5 not to clean Black Hat office, or he will turn it inside out again.
- Oh, Crap!: Flug has the mother of all freak-outs when he realizes Sunblast is tailing them to Hat Island, and Black Hat is under the impression the job is finished. He has ample reason to fear for his life.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": He, Demencia and 5.0.5 have a very appropriate one at the end of the episode when confronted by an enraged, looming Black Hat for trying to play him.Demencia: Sooo… what’s the plan, Doc?
Dr. Flug: Run.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": He, Demencia and 5.0.5 have a very appropriate one at the end of the episode when confronted by an enraged, looming Black Hat for trying to play him.
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: When Flug realizes he has a very much not defeated hero on his tail and has to lie to his monster of a boss about it, he's visibly sweating buckets.
- Shout-Out: In Atreno City, besides posters against Sunblast's enemies, there is one promoting Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, one for a Dog Show showing Courage, one for Plank Live, and one for a Jazz jam saying "Getting the Blues".
- Skewed Priorities: During her mayhem, Demencia starts eating one of Sunblast's cheerleaders while another two, while terrified, stand there to film her.
- Slasher Smile: Black Hat gets in plenty of these but his biggest one comes when he has Penumbra sign a contract that could very well have been for her soul.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Downplayed in Penumbra's case but a glimpse of Flug's monitors reveals that she does have supporters of people afflicted with the same condition as her.
- Visual Pun: When they arrive at Atreno, Flug says that to find a hero they have to get on their head while parking their hat-shaped vehicle over Sunblast's statue.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Dr. Flug's dream shows that really wants Black Hat's approval, but given the kind of boss he is, he's unlikely to get it.
- Would Hit a Girl: Sunblast loves beating up villains, even if they're female.
