- Anvilicious: The episode isn't exactly subtle about the cruelty disguised as righteousness that is mass online shaming. Even if the target of the outrage has done something obnoxious, the Disproportionate Retribution they face makes us empathize with them and makes us think twice about mindlessly joining the outrage bandwagon, because there's a living, breathing human being on the other side of the screen.
- Crosses the Line Twice: The production made the @JoPowersWriter twitter account
, with two tweets, the latter being "Unimpressed with the afterlife, so far." - Harsher in Hindsight: This whole episode is a vicious commentary on G.I.F.T culture the Internet has going on, that how death threats and hatred can personally affect their targets, even if it's behind a screen. Just a year later, in Game of Thrones, Blue's actress Faye Marsay, who plays The Waif, got some serious messages on the Internet due to the Hate Sink she was supposed to be on the show, which forced her to quit social media, as the Internet failed to separate her character and her real life out of it.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In this episode, Shaun Li accidentally caused the ADIs genocidal outbreak, killing 400,000 people in the UK. In 2018, Benedict Wong appeared in Avengers: Infinity War, where the antagonist of said movie eventually causes half of the universe's population to vanish.
- Misaimed Fandom: The #DeathTo hashtag on Twitter has a large number of people invoking it towards public figures they dislike. It leaves one to wonder if any of these people actually watched the whole episode. The show's Twitter account seems to be aware of this.
- Moral Event Horizon: Garrett Scholes for certain jets over this once the force triggers his trap and it becomes apparent that he will have the blood of almost 400,000 civilians on his hands, almost to a totalitarian dictator/genocide body count level.
- Spiritual Adaptation:
- The story of this episode sounds like it came right out of the Ghost in the Shell manga series - especially its series adaptation Stand Alone Complex. Some fans would argue that this is more GitS than its 2017 live-action film adaptation.
- Similar to the above, the premise of a Well-Intentioned Extremist using an untraceable, long-distance method of execution to kill people they deem to be evil while actively being hunted by the police is quite similar to the plot Death Note, leading some to joke that the episode is the best Netflix adaptation of the series.
- This could even be the live-action adaptation of the book Prey even if 20th Century Fox own the film rights to the latter, as both this episode and the book are cautionary tales about mechanical flying insects.
- This also could be a TV-version of Untraceable as both the episode and the movie involves people being killed by online voting results.
- Could also be seen as the live action-adaptation of No. 6 due to the anime's similar concept of government-controlled parasitic wasps.
- Strawman Has a Point: One of the reasons why Jo Powers bashes Gwen Marbury is that Marbury killed herself in full view of a group of schoolchildren, for whom this must have been a horrifying experience along with injuring officers who tried to help extinguish her. As vindictive as her tone and intentions are, that specific point is hard to argue against.
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