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Recap / Wakfu S2E19 "A Fistful of Kamas"

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Leaving the Trool Fair behind, the Brotherhood now looks for a ship in order to navigate to the Crimson Claws. While Amalia and Eva leave to spend some time by themselves, the rest of the group (plus Cleome, who hid herself in Ruel's bag) manages to find a ship cheap enough for Ruel's reserve, owned by the octopus captain Black Ink and his (adoptive) daughter Elaine. However, when the local pirates steal Ruel's money and take Elaine prisoner to cover up her father's debts, the old Enutrof becomes determined to make the ruffians pay... even if he has to challenge their boss, the feared Felinor, in his own lair.


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  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Elaine and Black Ink are so desperate for any business that when their initial offer of 1,500 Kamas is refused by Ruel and he starts to walk away Elaine immediately drops it to 1,000 and begs him to reconsider, and they don't make much noise about Ruel's offer of just 400 Kamas.
  • Bait-and-Switch: After Yugo successfully defeats the Sacrier knife thrower, Felinor pulls out a gun and seemingly shoots Yugo, with Ruel letting out a Big "NO!" and calling him monster. Turns out he shot three coins in the middle to challenge Yugo to do the same (Ruel of course still considers Felinor a monster for ruining perfectly good money).
  • Beat Them at Their Own Game: Invoked by Ruel, who challenges Felinor alongside his friends and specifically picks up their specialties save for Cleo: Ruel challenges the Crew's bursar to a money-counting problem, Dally challenges the powerhouse Tibia-breaker to arm wrestling while Yugo challenges the knife thrower in a sharpshooting competition. They end up trouncing the pirates.
  • Berserk Button: As this episode shows, it doesn't matter how big, bad and powerful you are, you simply do not steal Ruel's money while it's still in his possession. Ruel, who normally prefers to not get involved in fighting unless necessary, is ready to take on an entire lair of pirates over his stolen Kama.
  • Brawn Hilda: Tibia-breaker, Felinor's strongest henchwoman, is a huge woman with lots of muscle. She's also The Brute of Felinor's gang.
  • Brick Joke: In the credit sequence, Tibia-breaker is holding Shadowfang (and the fisherman who found her) as the latter introduces herself with her full titles... only to lose interest and throw her aside, asking for Kamas instead.
  • Butt-Monkey: Amalia and Eva, as their private evening goes all wrong...
  • Cannot Tell a Lie: The reason why Dally and Ruel didn't warn Yugo of their plan to smuggle Cleo in Ruel's bag.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: Felinor states that if Ruel's companions lose as much as one challenge they'll have to serve him as fur brushes for a whole year.
  • Death Glare: When Felinor's bodyguards try to stop Ruel, the latter gives a rage-filled stare so intense that the massive brute sheepishly opens him the way in less than a minute.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Even though they were just beaten in their specialties by the Brotherhood, Felinor takes defeat in stride (even more so when Yugo declines joining his crew) and decides to throw a party, inviting them, of course.
  • Extreme Omnivore: The pirate's lunch consist in some disgusting-looking mass of eyeballs, sealife and bubbles. Cleome wins her challenge by devouring several trays worth of the stuff, as everyone in the tavern gazes in horror/disgust.
    Cleome: If you ask me, it needs more salt.
  • Fridge Logic: In-Universe, when the pirates steal the money Ruel was about to give to Black Ink and reminds him that he's still indebted to the neck, Elaine asks how they're supposed to pay their debts if the pirates keep stealing their income and keeping customers away.
  • Graceful Loser: After displaying some rage at being beaten by trickery, Felinor forces Yugo to go through another trial while blindfolded. After he manages to win that too, he becomes admirative and takes defeat in stride.
  • High-Pressure Emotion: Ruel is so furious at the pirates who stole his Kamas that he slowly turns red and you can hear steam whistling like a teapot.
  • Hook Hand: Two nameless pirates in Felinor's lair are having an arm-wrestling competition... with their hook hands.
  • Identical Stranger: The guards to Felinor's room are identical to the Mmmmmmmmmporg, safe for the horns.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: The Sacrier knife thrower manages to land a dagger in the middle of the bullseye and the other two on top of the first. Yugo also scores a perfect bullseye with his beam (while incinerating the daggers), and is later forced to shot three kamas through the center while wearing a blindfold (which doesn't inconvenience the Eliatrop at all, since he's mastered the Wakfu vision).
  • Irony: Amalia and Eva's attempt at a girls-night-out to show up the boys ends up ruined by various factors, while the boys (and Cleome) despite having to confront the local pirate boss ended up having the time of their lives with the only consequence being they seemingly partied throughout the night to the crack of dawn. Compare the sleep-deprived and irritable state of the girls the next morning to the similarly sleep-deprived but happy state of Yugo.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: When Eva complains that Cleo isn't part of the Brotherhood of the Tofu like them, Ruel points out that she forgot to count Adamai, which is also a member (the one who proposed the name, even).
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Tibia-breaker spends the entire episode antagonizing people with her massive bulk. She's overshadowed and curbstomped by a demon-possessed Dally with ease.
  • Moving the Goalposts: When Yugo wins the last challenge, Felinor angrily believes he's been had and forces one final even more difficult challenge on Yugo: successfully shoot three Kamas through the center before they hit the ground while blindfolded.
  • Pirate Parrot: Tibia-breaker has one, which she uses to steal Ruel's satchel of Kama before it can reach Black Ink's ship.
  • Rule of Three: Amalia and Eva's night out at the inn is ruined three times by different, unseen problems (including, in the last case, ruckus indirectly caused by the rest of the Brotherhood).
  • Secret Handshake: When Felinor and Ruel agree on their challenge, they perform a handshake consisting of several odd movements.
  • Shout-Out: The title is an obvious homage to A Fistful of Dollars.
  • Sixth Ranger: Cleome officially joins the Brotherhood of Tofu in this episode, voted by Ruel, Dally and Yugo.
  • Troll: When Eva tells Rubilax to stop talking about Cleome, the latter apologize... and immediately starts to call her name repeatedly.
  • Would Hurt a Child: At one point Felinor seemingly shoots Yugo out of anger for losing, but it turns out he actually shot three coins through the middle to illustrate the next challenge. Ruel of course still treats it as horrific because he shot and ruined three perfectly-good coins.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Amalia and Eva, who already spent an horrible night plagued by mosquito, smell and noise, go to the ship bought by Ruel only to find Cleome there.

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