Catharsis Factor: After all the crap Benedict pulled, his comeuppance is immensely satisfying. Meggy makes sure the Phoenix Egg's power revives Auri and not give Benedict his old body back. Then, after an intense battle, they manage to use Whisk's gas gun to make Benedict imagine Auri as Aloysius Bori—who, it turns out, he's deathly afraid of despite successfully killing him. He tries to flee, but his throne blows up in the process—with him in it. And to top it all off, he finds Aloysius himself in the afterlife, more than ready to pay him back for his bad deeds.
Complete Monster: Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch is the leader of the Port Aurora Crime Syndicate. Once a powerful crime boss, Benedict attempted to steal the Phoenix Egg to use its ashes to become immortal and make a criminal empire that will last forever, uncaring that this will cause death and ruin to come to Port Aurora. Benedict is stopped and sealed inside an egg shaped body by Sheriff Aloysius Bori, but only after mortally wounding the latter. Returning 100 years later, Benedict forms a crime syndicate to help him with his plans, while also ordering the Spud Buds to kill Aloysius' grandson, Auri Bori, just to spite his deceased Arch-Enemy. When Meggy and Auri interfere with his plans, Benedict has the Funky Fource frame them for attempting to assassinate Mayora Bora, before attempting to kill the duo with a bomb. Upon taking over Port Aurora's lighthouse, causing pain to several children in the process, Benedict has his minions rampage throughout the island, uncaring if anyone gets killed in the process. When confronted by Meggy and Auri, Benedict manages to kill Auri by attempting to shoot Meggy with a laser, forcing Auri to sacrifice himself to save her, before proceeding to gloat about it and attempts to use the Phoenix Egg to restore himself to his original form and resurrect his criminal empire.
Basically the entirety of the “If Friday Night Funkin' Was 3D” in regards to the Funky Fource. The short treated them as silly villains of the week; the actual series, on the other hand...
Speaking of the Funky Fource, Auri has a Broken Pedestal moment with them, and Meggy would later go through a similar experience with One-Shot Wren in "Western Spaghetti".
Hype Aversion: Much like Meta Runner (albeit to a lesser extent), the sheer amount of promotion and praise that has received in the SMG4 channel has turned off those who are uninterested from wanting to watch it. Not helping is that Meggy was supposed to be out of the SMG4 channel at the time Glitch channel's was uploading episodes.
Most of the information about this series was guessed by fans long before it was all revealed, the biggest being that Meggy was to be the protagonist considering the heavy hints she was getting this series.
The then-unnamed Whisk was shown in the Glitch channel's initial banner and introduction trailer, and was expected to be in this series due to the environment she was in being similar to the environment in Meggy's teaser, though many expected her to be the protagonist instead of Meggy.
People have correctly guessed that the purpose in life that Meggy will find is to help people in need.
Jerkass Woobie: The Funky Fource. They're terrifying villains, to be sure, and they did brainwash Meggy to almost assasinate the mayor. But they gave up the hero life because they were devastated by the death of their fifth member Joe Fresh, keeping his ashes as a memento, much like Auri did with his "Pop-Pop". Then we find out that the only reason they were working for Benedict was because he promised to provide for Joe's family, though whether he even intended to keep that promise remains to be seen.
Magnificent Bastard: Whisk is a feline thief who wears a mask to cover up her shyness, and is working for Benedict to clear her debts. While she originally stole to get by, she later got addicted to heists and became a full time criminal. She steals Meggy’s luggage and uses it to blackmail Meggy into working with her to steal from Froy and Doy Maloy, claiming she’d stop stealing for others, but not that she’d stop stealing entirely. Proven to be a quick thinker, she uses a wig as a substitute for her gun being missing to knock out Doy, and then imitates his voice on the phone to make it seem nothing went wrong. After the heist, she honors her deal with Meggy, giving her stuff back as promised, but is arrested by Auri. She is broken out by Benedict later, and helps him get into power, stealing the sheriff’s badge for him. She faces Meggy on top of the tower, repeatedly offering her to leave, being reluctant to kill her due to respecting her. She almost beats Meggy, but ends up losing; however, she would continue her life of crime and face no punishment.
Moral Event Horizon: Benedict crossed it before the series even began, as 100 years in the past, he killed the former sheriff of Port Aurora, Aloysius Bori. If that didn’t convince you, what he does to children (repeatedly slamming some into a barrier in order to get the Phoenix Egg and temporarily killing Auri Bori) should convince you. Even if you still aren’t convinced, his goal would’ve completely destroyed Port Aurora, as it would’ve caused 100 years of death and ruin, and it would’ve resulted in everyone on the island dying.
The show manages to avoid this for four episodes straight. However, it finally dives into this in Episode 5 thanks to the Funky Fource. You think at first from their gimmick that they're just the kind of goofy antagonists you've come to expect from a show like this. Then we find out that they planned to brainwash Meggy into becoming a villain out to assasinate the mayor, so that they can defeat her and receive all the glory—and there's some implications that they would step in after the assasination was done, not before. To make this conditioning easier, the food they provided her in their pampering of her was drugged. This combined with the massage they gave her provided a dangerous dose of drowsiness. Their manipulation tactics were nothing to sneeze at either, evidenced by how they successfully drove Auri away, making Meggy easy pickings. Worst of all was the brainwashing itself—judging from the drilling sounds and Meggy's screaming, it feels more like a straight-up lobotomy. Needless to say, the deputy has his work cut out for him.
It gets even worse in the next episode, where not only do the Funky Fource turn the entire town against Meggy and Auri when they thwart their plans, but Benedict - the leader of the Port Aurora Crime Syndicate frees all his minions and locks Auri and Meggy in a cage with explosives outside set to blow. We don't see if Meggy and Auri escape, but Benedict looks on, satisfied with the explosion. Dang.
Benedict outrights kills himself rather than let Auri arrest him.
Special Effect Failure: The thumbnail for Episode 4 has the lighting done in such a way as to make it look like Meggy has a rather large bulge in her shorts. This has become an endless source of Vulgar Humour for the fandom.
Strawman Has a Point: While it may seem callous for him to dismiss Auri's safety in the grand scheme of things by saying Meggy can't save Auri and the egg at the same time, the Lighthouse Guard's purpose is to guard the Phoenix Egg inside the lighthouse and the egg is the key to Benedict's plans, and as Meggy concludes, rescuing the egg is the key to saving the island, including Auri when he dies.
Suspiciously Similar Song: The beginning of "Meggy's Fury" might remind you of "Splattack", one of the main theme tunes from the Splatoon series. Not that surprising, considering Meggy's origins.
Auri's Broken Pedestal moment after finding out that the Funky Fource plan assassinate the Mayor by brainwashing Meggy and having her get blamed for the Mayor's death.
The Mayor's death via him blocking the Funky Fource's "special move" with his bus. Meggy and Auri sum up his heroic act best.
Auri: The mayor! He...he...
Meggy: ...did his duty, Auri. Now we have to do ours...
Luckily, Auri is revived after Meggy uses the Phoenix Egg, and he then gains the confidence he needs to defeat Benedict and finally prove to be a good sheriff.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The conflict with the Funky Fource and Benedict on whether the latter had any intention of providing for Joe Fresh's family like he promised once he returned to his full glory was left unresolved after a decent amount of buildup.
