History Recap / AtopTheFourthWallTheSleepwalker

* MotiveDecay: The Entity's motives are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [once Linkara is freed from its influence, Linkara points out that, despite being reawakened for almost three years, the Entity hasn't done anything except wait for Linkara to come to it. When Linkara finally confronts it on Comicron 2, all it does is attempt to goad him into fighting it, even though there's he can do to stop it. This leads Linkara to realize the truth- the Entity ''needs'' him to keep fighting it so it can have a reason to avoid dwelling on its existential dread.
NoodleIncident: Linkara and [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nella]] rescuing Dr Block and Dr Tease from Mexican prison.

* LoopholeAbuse: Why does the singularity close after Vyce enters it? Because it was designed to contain a data-based life form like the Entity. Or Vyce...

* MotiveDecay: The Entity's motives are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [once Linkara is freed from its influence, as Linkara points out that, despite having returned to life for years now, the Entity hasn't bothered to absorb the people of Earth anymore. Eventually, Linkara realizes this is because the Entity desperately wants Linkara to keep fighting it; without some purpose driving it, the Entity realizes how insignificant its existence is now.
* NoodleIncident: Linkara and [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nella]] rescuing Dr Block and Dr Tease from Mexican prison.
* NotMeThisTime: When Harvey asks 90's Kid and Vyce if the Entity was responsible for Comicron 1's crash, Vyce says no, it was just a coincidence, but that the Entity would have taken it out eventually.

-->'''The Entity, possessing Linkara:''' [[HesBack No,]] [[VerbalTic human]], [[ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal this]] ''[[DemonicPossession is]]'' [[TomatoSurprise a]] [[FromBadToWorse game]] -- [[SuddenlyShouting and it's one I intend to win!]]

-->'''Lord Vyce:''' ''(having just seen the Entity fade from existence thanks to Linkara)'' [[BelievingTheirOwnLies No...no, it's a trick, it's still alive!]] (...) [[VillainousBreakdown I have increased power to the singularity generators! There is no escape now!]] (...) [[OmnicidalManiac In one hour, the singularity will be large enough to engulf the Earth itself!]] The Entity will ''not'' escape this time! [[KnightTemplar Their sacrifice will not be in vain! I will kill the Entity!]] [[MeaningfulEcho Behold the end of this game!]] [[ItsAllAboutMe LORD VYCE WINS!]]

-->'''Lord Vyce:''' You're approaching the event horizon, demon. I will teleport away and leave you to your fate. There is no escape now! Checkmate.\\

* AlasPoorVillain: Rather surprisingly, [[spoiler: the Entity is given a sad send-off near the end of the arc. It's revealed that the Entity that everyone has been fighting is merely a fragment of the original and it has been playing with everyone to distract itself from the fact that, even six years after its initial defeat, it is no closer to discovering its purpose than when Linkara asked his initial question. After grudgingly realizing that it is insignificant in comparison to the vastness of eternity, the Entity allows itself to die, with Linkara gently telling it that he is right there with it]].
* AmbiguouslyEvil: 90's Kid continues to act mysteriously. [[spoiler: It turns out he's not being evil at all; he's formed an EnemyMine with Lord Vyce to stop the Entity for good.]]

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce]] spends the majority of the arc [[spoiler: after the Entity's existence is revealed]] getting to know Linkara's allies, grudgingly acknowledging his past misdeeds, and even showing off a more sympathetic side. [[spoiler: Then the Entity kills itself and Vyce goes insane, believing the creature to still be alive, and expands the singularity in order to consume the Earth in a last ditch effort to destroy his hated enemy.]]
* BatmanGambit: How Linkara eventually manages to defeat [[spoiler: Vyce]] once and for all. [[spoiler: Linkara uses the mobile emitter to create an Entity look-alike hologram that mocks Vyce and tells him that it can escape into another universe using Comicron 2. Vyce, having seen the Entity repair Comicron 2 during the previous battle, is wary of destroying the ship and decides to board Comicron 2 itself. After subduing the false Entity, he flies Comicron 2 toward the singularity and overloads the engines so that it can't fly out. Only then does Linkara reveal that he is on Comicron 1 and the Entity is a fake. With the engines disabled and Linkara refusing to allow him back on Comicron 1, Vyce is left with no way to escape the singularity and is sucked in.]]
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Linkara bluntly tells Harvey he's keeping tabs on his friends in the wake of [[spoiler: 90's Kid's betrayal]].

* BunnyEarsLawyer / CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: 90's Kid continues to cement himself as this.

** [[spoiler: Jaeris in the second Halloween arc; he's working on a portal that will allow him to go back and fourth between universes.]]
** [[spoiler: The Entity.]]
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: Comicron 1]] is destroyed early on in the storyline and Linkara has to create [[spoiler: a new spaceship]] from the parts of the old. However, once [[spoiler: Vyce]] joins the heroes, he unlocks all of [[spoiler: Comicron 1's]] untapped abilities, including self-repair, making the [[spoiler: spaceship]] stronger then it's ever been before.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: [[spoiler: Jaeris returns the mobile hologram emitter that he stole at the end of the second Halloween arc, and it gets utilized in order to trap Vyce in the singularity and kill him once and for all.]]

** [[spoiler: The Magic Coin and its anti-Outer God enchantments.]]
* ChessMotifs: Linkara is repeatedly seen playing chess with himself. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that this is part of the Entity's possession of him. Also, some of the chess moves that Linkara makes while he's himself parallel elements of the Entity's possession, with him putting the Entity in check once his friends, thinking that Linkara has turned into a WellIntentionedExtremist, start making a move to stop him, while checkmate eventually leads to the Entity being separated from Linkara's body.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Viga and Eliza haven't had much of a part in the bigger storyline after [[spoiler: they helped fight off the ghosts haunting Linkara's house]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Entity (or rather, the last piece that remained of it) was thought to be the BigBad and FinalBoss of the arc, but when Linkara finally manages to prove that it is irrelevant and insignificant, it accepts its own death and fades away. However, Lord Vyce reveals that he is still just as crazy and egotistical as ever and still refuses to believe the Entity is truly, finally dead. He proceeds to [[OmnicidalManiac enlarge the singularity to the point that it will consume the Earth whole]], proving himself as the FinalBoss.]]
* EnemyMine: We finally learn that [[spoiler: 90's Kid has formed an alliance with Lord Vyce to destroy the piece of the Entity that still exists inside Linkara. However, just when it seems Vyce has become more sympathetic, due to having been right about the Entity still living all along, he witnesses it dying for real thanks to Linkara...and ''completely loses his cool'', refusing to accept it's gone and vowing to destroy the Earth in order to "win the game"]].
* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce was right all along that the Entity is still alive. However, it turns out it's just a small and less powerful piece of its former self that was dormant inside Linkara until only recently, and when it commits suicide again, Vyce goes right back to being a WindmillCrusader.]]
* GenreSavvy:
** During the first Halloween arc, Linkara puts the crew on alert because he's expecting Freddy to show up after the review is over.
** During the second Halloween arc, Linkara and Pollo note that they can't pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere because whatever force is causing trouble either won't allow them to leave or will just follow them if they do.

** [[spoiler: At the end of ''Reagan's Raiders'' #1, Lord Vyce is revealed to have regained his old armor with the help of 90's Kid and ambushes Linkara and his allies when they try to interrogate the latter.]]
** [[spoiler: At the end of ''Ultimate Power'' #4, the true BigBad ([[BigBadEnsemble well, one]] [[EvilVersusEvil of them]]) of the arc reveals itself -- the Entity, having been possessing Linkara and manipulating him subconsciously ever since the King of Worms accidentally awoke it.]]
** [[spoiler: At the end of ''Comic Book Quickies'' #7, Comicron 1 rises off the surface of the Moon like a phoenix from the ashes, repairing itself thanks to Vyce giving Nimue access to the Forge.]]
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: How [[spoiler: Vyce]] meets his end. [[spoiler: Not only does he end up getting sucked into the very singularity that he enlarged in order to destroy Linkara's universe, but the singularity closes after he gets sucked in thanks to the fact that he turned himself into an Entity-like creature of living data so many years ago.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: "Freddy Krueger", if he even exists. [[spoiler: Turns out he was just a manifestation of the Entity hiding inside Linkara, and its agenda is to force him to keep playing its own insane game in order to stave off the inevitability of its own death.]]
* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: [[spoiler: Holokara pretends to be the Entity in order to lure Lord Vyce to Comicron 2.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: Why does the singularity close after Vyce enters it? Because it was designed to contain a data-based life form like the Entity. Or Vyce...]]
* MeaningfulRename: 90's Kid claims that he has grown so much over this event he is changing his name to [[spoiler: 90's Dude]]. [[SubvertedTrope Linkara tells him that people will probably still call him 90's Kid.]]
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler: The Entity's motives]] are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [[spoiler: once Linkara is freed from its influence]], as Linkara points out that, despite [[spoiler: having returned to life for years now, the Entity hasn't bothered to absorb the people of Earth anymore]]. Eventually, Linkara realizes this is because [[spoiler: the Entity desperately wants Linkara to keep fighting it; without some purpose driving it, the Entity realizes how insignificant its existence is now]].

* NotMeThisTime: When Harvey asks 90's Kid and [[spoiler: Vyce]] if [[spoiler: the Entity]] was responsible for Comicron 1's crash, [[spoiler: Vyce]] says no, it was just a coincidence, but that [[spoiler: the Entity]] would have taken it out eventually.

** [[spoiler: The Entity isn't truly gone, having hidden a piece of itself within Linkara before "killing" itself in their last confrontation, with him unaware it's inside him.]]
** [[spoiler: Comicron 1, as it turns out, has the ability to self-repair with the right materials.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Linkara realizes that he and [[spoiler: the Entity fragment]] are both afraid that their lives are insignificant to larger forces beyond their control. The main difference is that Linkara believes we can define our own significance and strives to seek new challenges before his time is over, whereas [[spoiler: the Entity cannot handle the idea that its existence means so little to eternity itself and chooses to die rather than try anything new]].
** [[spoiler: The Entity has been reduced to playing sadistic games to avoid its fear at the meaninglessness of its existence, and when it can't find a reason to continue, it kills itself; Lord Vyce responds by insisting it's still alive and [[OmnicidalManiac trying to destroy the Earth in a trap to catch it]] while showing a lot about his character with the line [[IronicEcho "Behold the end of this game!]] LORD VYCE WINS!"]]
* NotSoSimilar: Linkara seemed to be going down the same path as Lord Vyce, letting his ego and paranoia turn him into a WellIntentionedExtremist, but [[spoiler: it was actually the Entity [[DemonicPossession possessing him]] and using that as an excuse. When the real Linkara is released, he goes back to his old plan of TalkingTheMonsterToDeath while Vyce, who had until that point been portrayed sympathetically, once again refuses to believe it's dead and betrays everyone in order to pursue his delusional crusade, even if it involves [[OmnicidalManiac destroying the Earth or the whole universe]]]].

** [[spoiler: Erin, upon realizing that she's not dealing with Linkara during his rant in "Ultimate Power #4", but an EldritchAbomination.]]
** [[spoiler: Everyone upon learning that Margaret is also possessed.]]
** Vyce has one in the storylines finale [[spoiler:after Linkara reveals that the Entity he thought he was fighting was actually Holokara and that Vyce destroying the engines in order to send Comicron 2 into the singularity means that there is no way for him to steer it back out.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Linkara, [[SanitySlippage though he may be losing the properly part]]. [[spoiler: Or rather, the Entity is using the excuse of Vyce trying to replace it as a cover story to justify Linkara's actions to his allies. If anything, it turns out that ''Vyce'' was the one who was right all along throughout the post-Entity storylines; everyone thought he was just in denial about the Entity's death.]] Then it's double subverted when [[spoiler: Linkara finally defeats the Entity, with everyone else watching via a security feed, and Vyce ''flips out'', utterly refusing to believe it's dead and engaging a network of satellites to create a singularity that will ''swallow the entire Earth'']].
* ProphecyTwist: When Linkara takes the time to analyze the future message, he begins to suspect it's talking about Lord Vyce becoming the new Entity. [[spoiler: Turns out it was actually talking about the Entity being alive inside ''Linkara''.]]
** It also said ''A piece of the world is still missing.'' [[spoiler: It wasn't talking about something in the world missing, but rather that a piece of the Entity is still alive and missing from the rest of it that committed suicide.]]
* PsychologicalHorror / CosmicHorrorStory: Aside from the lack of any signs that [[spoiler: the Entity is actually coming back]], the horror of this storyline comes from Linkara becoming more and more paranoid and unhinged, starting to question himself and his beliefs and how it's affecting his other relationships. The only monsters that are definitely real are [[spoiler: the ghosts]] from the second Halloween mini-arc. [[spoiler: That is, until ''Ultimate Power'' #4...]]

* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Harvey, Pollo, and Linksano were right to worry about Linkara's actions. What they were wrong about is the reason why -- they thought Linkara has been turning into a WellIntentionedExtremist, but in truth, the Entity has taken over his body.]]
* SanitySlippage: Linkara seems to be suffering from this, especially after [[spoiler: the destruction of Comicron 1]], as his paranoia grows and he starts shutting out his friends in his certainty that [[spoiler: either the Entity is coming back or Vyce is going to become it]]. However, it turns out that [[spoiler: a piece of the Entity ''is'' still alive, but it's been possessing Linkara himself the whole time -- and still worse, after they become separate and he's ''finally'' able to defeat it, a watching Vyce loses his last thread of sanity, flying into a rage, refusing to believe it's gone, and trying to ''destroy the Earth'' in his mad desire to win his war against the monster]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Viga is GenreSavvy enough to move out as soon as she hears about [[spoiler: the possibility of ghosts]].
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: As soon as Linkara leaves to join his friends in celebrating the final defeats of both the Entity and Vyce, a piece of paper materializes on his chair, inviting him to the latest Contest of Champions...]]
* ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal: [[spoiler: Midway through yelling at Erin in the video for ''Ultimate Power'' #4, Linkara's voice changes -- into the Entity's.]]
* SheatheYourSword: [[spoiler: Once Linkara figures out the Entity is trying to draw out their "game", he willingly gives up the fight, refusing to prolong it any further even if it means losing his life. Luckily, it turns out the Entity isn't powerful enough to pull the same stunt it did last time and fighting Linkara is the only thing left to give its existence purpose. Without that, it ceases to be.]]
* ShipTease: Downplayed, but Linkara and Viga do seem a bit...closer after [[spoiler: fighting off the ghosts]].

* SuddenlyShouting: [[spoiler:During the WhamLine revealing the Entity controlling Linkara, the Entity shouts "And it's one I intend to win!"]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce is shown in a more sympathetic light come TheReveal that a piece of the Entity was alive inside Linkara, as he laments how his quest to destroy it has cost him everything. Even the Entity itself proves to be really sad and pitiful at the end when Linkara defeats it by refusing to play its game any longer; it struggles to accept its own insignificance and finally fades from view. However, Vyce then subverts this trope ''hard'' by flying into a rage and trying to ''destroy the Earth'' because, as Linkara initially believed, he really ''can't'' accept that the Entity is dead.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: As before, Linkara can't battle the Entity but rather talks to it. Doing so reveals that the Entity is really not trying to fight him but is seeking a new purpose, since the rest of it killed itself to find out what became of gods when they die. Ultimately without a purpose, the Entity fades away on its own.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce]] fills this role for Team Linkara once they learn [[spoiler: that the Entity really ''is'' still alive, having possessed Linkara and lain dormant until the King of Worms accidentally revived it]]. And just when the "evil" part seems to have been dropped, [[spoiler: he witnesses Linkara defeating the Entity -- and loses his composure ''completely'', trying to destroy the Earth because his sheer ego really ''won't'' let him accept that it's dead]].
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:The whole time, Linkara was afraid that Vyce would make himself a being like the Entity--when a piece of the Entity took hold of Linkara.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: The King of Worms, who woke up the dormant Entity while poking around in Linkara's mind.]]

** [[spoiler: While the Entity is veering on one when it reveals itself to Erin, it ''really'' hits the breaking point when Linkara stymies it by refusing to play its game any longer and delivers a blistering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, pointing out how its purpose of devouring reality has been proven meaningless and it's been trying to stave off the inevitable by screwing with him. After raging for a while, it quiets down and sadly accepts its own death, fading from existence in front of him as he does what little he can to comfort it.]]
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this leads to another, even ''bigger'' breakdown from Lord Vyce, who refuses to accept that his nemesis is finally, truly gone and engages a satellite network to create a singularity ''that will destroy the Earth'', proclaiming that he has won the game!]]

* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler: After finding out Linkara is possessed by the Entity, his team begrudgingly join up with 90's Kid and Lord Vyce; when Linkara is freed, he joins them all with not much complaint; after it's over, nobody seems to hold any resentment toward 90's Kid, while they assure Linkara that anything bad he did was really due to the Entity's poisonous influence.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** When hearing about what's happening to Linkara, Erin assumes that it's a case of the "Internet reviewer gets attacked by a character from the comic/movie/video game/whatever they're reviewing trope", in this case, that he fell asleep and is now dealing with [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]]. Pollo quickly corrects her.
** Turns out, Linkara was off on the whole [[ClosedCircle "unable to leave" trope]], since Viga was able to get out without any trouble.

-->[[spoiler:'''The Entity, possessing Linkara:''' [[HesBack No,]] [[VerbalTic human]], [[ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal this]] ''[[DemonicPossession is]]'' [[TomatoSurprise a]] [[FromBadToWorse game]] -- [[SuddenlyShouting and it's one I intend to win!]]]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Lord Vyce:''' ''(having just seen the Entity fade from existence thanks to Linkara)'' [[BelievingTheirOwnLies No...no, it's a trick, it's still alive!]] (...) [[VillainousBreakdown I have increased power to the singularity generators! There is no escape now!]] (...) [[OmnicidalManiac In one hour, the singularity will be large enough to engulf the Earth itself!]] The Entity will ''not'' escape this time! [[KnightTemplar Their sacrifice will not be in vain! I will kill the Entity!]] [[MeaningfulEcho Behold the end of this game!]] [[ItsAllAboutMe LORD VYCE WINS!]]]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Lord Vyce:''' You're approaching the event horizon, demon. I will teleport away and leave you to your fate. There is no escape now! Checkmate.\\

'''Linkara, aboard Comicron 1:''' And I was bluffing!]]

** [[spoiler: [[ArcWords A piece of the world is still missing.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Lord Vyce back in his armor.]]
** [[spoiler: Linkara taking off his glasses to reveal the Entity's glitched out eyes.]]
*** [[spoiler: Margaret is also under the Entity's possession, as Linkara's allies (and [[TokenEvilTeammate Vyce]]) discover.]]
** [[spoiler: Comicron 1 rising again after having crashed on the Moon the year before.]]

** [[spoiler: 90's Kid gets this royally once Linkara and company learn of his dealings with Vyce.]]
** [[spoiler: Linkara himself gets chewed out over his actions in looking for Vyce, crossing lines the others don't like. While they were right to worry about Linkara, they were also RightForTheWrongReasons, as a piece of the Entity was really hiding in Linkara himself.]]

* BatmanGambit: How Linkara eventually manages to defeat [[spoiler: Vyce]] once and for all. [[spoiler: Linkara uses the mobile hologram emitter to create an Entity look-alike that mocks Vyce and tells him that it can escape into another universe using Comicron 2. Vyce, having seen the Entity repair Comicron 2 during the previous battle, is wary of destroying the ship and decides to board Comicron 2 itself. After subduing the false Entity, he flies Comicron 2 into the singularity and overloads the engines so that it can't fly out. Only then does Linkara reveal that he is on Comicron 1 and the Entity is a fake. With the engines disable and Linkara refusing to allow him back on board Comicron 1, Vyce is left with no way to escape the singularity and is sucked in.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Lord Vyce:''' There is no escape! Checkmate.\\

* DemotedToExtra: Viga and Eliza haven't had much of a part in the bigger storyline after [[spoiler: they helped fight off the ghosts haunting Linkara's house.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Entity (Or rather, the last piece that remained of it) was thought to be the BigBad and FinalBoss of the arc, but when Linkara finally manages to prove that it is irrelevant and insignificant, it accepts its own death and fades away. However, Lord Vyce reveals that he is still just as crazy and egotistical as ever and still refuses to believe The Entity is truly, finally dead. He then proceeds to [[OmnicidalManiac enlarge the singularity to the point that it will consume the Earth whole]], proving himself as the FinalBoss ]]

* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce was right all along the entity is still alive.]] [[spoiler: Though it's just a small and less powerful piece of it's former self that was dormant inside Linkara until only recently and when it commits suicide again he goes right back to being a WindmillCrusader.]]

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: How [[spoiler:Vyce]] meets his end. [[spoiler: Not only does he end up getting sucked into the very singularity that he enlarged in order to destroy Linkara's universe but the singularity closes after he gets sucked in thanks to the fact that he turned himself into an Entity like creature so many years ago.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: This why the singularity closes after Vyce enters it: It was designed to contain a data-based life form like the Entity. Or Vyce...]]
* MeaningfulRename: 90's Kid claims that he has grown so much over this event he is changing his name to [[spoiler :90's Dude]]. [[SubvertedTrope Linkara tells him that people will probably still call him 90's Kid.]]

** [[spoiler: 90s Kid gets this royally once Linkara and company learn of his dealings with Vyce.]]

* BatmanGambit: How Linkara eventually manages to defeat [[spoiler:Vyce]] once and for all. [[spoiler:Linkara uses the mobile hologram emitter to create an Entity look-alike that mocks Vyce and tells him that it can escape into another universe using Comicron 2. Vyce, having seen the Entity repair Comicron 2 during the previous battle, is wary of destroying the ship and decides to go on-board Comicron 2 itself. After subduing "the Entity" he flies Comicron 2 into the singularity and overloads the engines so that the Entity can't fly out. Only then does Linkara reveal that he is on Comicron 1 and that the Entity is a fake. Refusing to allow Vyce back on-board Comicron 1, and with the engines disabled, Vyce is left with no way to escape the singularity and is sucked in.]]

* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Comicron 1]] is destroyed early on in the storyline and Linkara has to create [[spoiler:a new spaceship]] out of the parts from the old. However once [[spoiler:Vyce]] joins the heroes side he unlocks all of [[spoiler:Comicron 1's]] untapped abilities including its ability to self repair itself making the [[spoiler:spaceship]] stronger then its ever been before.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: [[spoiler: Jaeris returns the Mobile hologram emitter that he took in a SequelHook at the end of the Holokara arc at the end of the second Halloween arc which gets utilized in order to trap Vyce in the singularity and kill him once and for all.]]

** Linkara puts the crew on alert because it's Halloween and is expecting Freddy to show up after the review is over.
** Linkara and Pollo note that they can't pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere because whatever force is causing trouble either won't allow them to leave or will just follow them if they do.
* HalloweenEpisode: This arc starts just before Halloween 2015, includes Halloween 2016 as a sub-arc, and finishes soon before Halloween 2017.

* MeaningfulRename: 90's Kid claims that he has grown so much over this event he is changing his name to [[spoiler:90's Dude.]] [[SubvertedTrope Linkara tells him people will probably still call him 90's Kid.]]
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler: The Entity's motives]] are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [[spoiler: once Linkara is freed by the Entity's influence]] as Linkara points out that, despite [[spoiler: having returned to life for years now, the Entity hasn't bothered to absorb the people of Earth anymore]]. Eventually, Linkara realizes this is because [[spoiler: the Entity desperately wants Linkara to keep fighting it; without some purpose driving it, the Entity realizes how insignificant its existence is now]].

** [[spoiler: The Entity has been reduced to playing sadistic games to avoid it's fear at the meaninglessness of it's existence, when it can't find a reason to continue it kills itself, when Lord Vyce sees it kill itself he responds by insisting it's still alive and [[OmnicidalManiac trying to destroy the earth in a trap to catch it]] while showing a lot about his character with the line [[IronicEcho "Behold the end of this game!]] LORD VYCE WINS!]]
* NotSoSimilar: Linkara seemed to be going down the same path as Lord Vyce letting his ego and paranoia turn him into a WellIntentionedExtremist [[spoiler: it was actually the entity [[DemonicPossession possessing him]] and using that as an excuse. When the real Linkara is released he goes back to his old plan of TalkingTheMonsterToDeath while Vyce, who had until that point been portrayed sympathetically, once again refuses to belive it's dead and betrays everyone in order to pursue his delusional crusade even if it involves [[OmnicidalManiac destroying the earth.]]]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce]] fills this role for Team Linkara once they learn [[spoiler: that the Entity really ''is'' still alive, having been possessing Linkara and lain dormant until the King of Worms accidentally revived it]]. And just when the "evil" part seems to have been dropped, [[spoiler: he witnesses Linkara defeating the Entity -- and loses his composure ''completely'', trying to destroy the Earth because his sheer ego really ''won't'' let him accept that it's dead]].

* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler: After finding out Linkara is possessed by the Entity his team begrudgingly join up with 90's Kid and Lord Vyce, when Linkara is freed he joins them all with not much complaint, after it's over nobody seems to hold any resentment for 90's Kid while they assure Linkara that anything bad he did was really the entity doing them.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''The Entity, possessing Linkara:''' [[HesBack No,]] [[VerbalTic human]], [[ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal this]] ''[[DemonicPossession is]]'' [[TomatoSurprise a]] [[FromBadToWorse game]]--[[SuddenlyShouting and it's one I intend to win!]]]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Lord Vyce:''' ''(having just seen the Entity fade from existence thanks to Linkara)'' [[BelievingTheirOwnLies No...no, it's a trick, it's still alive!]] (...) [[VillainousBreakdown I have increased power to the singularity generators! There is no escape now!]] (...) [[OmnicidalManiac In one hour, the singularity will be large enough to engulf the Earth itself!]] The Entity will ''not'' escape this time! [[KnightTemplar Their sacrifice will not be in vain! I will kill the Entity! Behold the end of this game! LORD VYCE WINS!]]]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Lord Vyce''': Checkmate.\\
'''The Entity''': Oh, Vyce, you're so slow on the uptake. We're not playing chess, ''(reveals itself as fake)'' we're playing poker!\\
'''Linkara, aboard Comicron 1''': And I was bluffing!]]

** [[spoiler: 90s Kid gets this royally once Linkara and co. learn of his dealings with Vyce.]]

After reviewing Power Man and Iron Fist #79, several months after giving Pollo a new voice, an unknown woman is seen sneaking around Linkara's apartment trying to find the Magic Coin but gets driven off when Linkara and Pollo show up.

A week later while finishing up his review of Nightmares on Elm Street #1-2 Linkara is interrupted by someone knocking on his door and goes to answer it, only to discover a giant eye staring at him. This is just the beginning of things as he soon begins seeing and hearing things which disappear as soon as he turns away. Thoroughly unsettled Linkara decides to work on his next review while a [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet clawed glove]] reaches towards him....

* ChekhovsGun:

** [[spoiler: The Mobile hologram emitter that Jaeris returned at the end of the second Halloween arc finally gets utilised in order to trap Vyce in the singularity and kill him once and for all.]]

* BatmanGambit: How Linkara eventually manages to defeat [[spoiler:Vyce]] once and for all. [[spoiler:Linkara uses the mobile hologram emitter to create an Entity look alike that mocks Vyce and tells him that it can escape into another universe using Comicron 2. Vyce, having seen the Entity repair Comicron 2 during the previous battle, is wary of destroying the ship and decides to go on-board Comicron 2 itself. After subduing "the Entity" he fly's Comicron 2 into the singularity and overloads the engines so that the Entity can't fly out. Only then does Linkara reveal that he is on Comicron 1 and that the Entity is a fake. Refusing to allow Vyce back on-board Comicron 1, and with the engines disabled, Vyce is left with no way to escape the singularity and is sucked in.]]

** [[spoiler: Mobile hologram emitter.]]

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Vyce]] spends the majority of the arc [[spoiler:after the Entity's existence is revealed]] getting to know Linkara's allies, begrudgenly acknowledging his past misdeeds and, even showing off a more sympathetic side. [[spoiler:Then the Entity kills itself and Vyce goes insane, believing the creature to still be alive, and expands the singularity in order to destroy Earth in a last ditch effort to destroy its greatest enemy.]]
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Linkara bluntly tells Harvey he's keeping tabs on his friends in wake of [[spoiler: 90's Kid's betrayal]].

* ChekhovsGun: The coded message 90's Kid brought back from the future finally returns, and its true meaning is revealed.

* CrazyPrepared: Viga already owns a cyclotron and a particle condenser because [[SeenItAll she's an internet reviewer.]]

* EnemyMine: We finally learn that [[spoiler: 90's Kid has formed an alliance with Lord Vyce to destroy the piece of the Entity that still exists inside Linkara. However, just when it seems Vyce has become more sympathetic, due to having been right about the Entity still living all along, he witnesses it dying for real thanks to Linkara...and ''completely loses his cool'', refusing to accept it's gone and vowing to destroy Earth in order to "win the game"]].

* ActionGirl: This arc get's to show off how badass Viga and Erin are.
* AlasPoorVillain: Rather surprisingly [[spoiler:the Entity is given a rather sad send off near the end of the arc. It's revealed that the Entity that everyone has been fighting is merely a fragment of the original and it has been playing with everyone to distract itself from the fact that, even six years after its initial defeat, it is no closer to discovering its purpose then when Linkara asked his initial question. After grudgingly realizing that it is insignificant in comparison to the vastness of eternity the Entity allows itself to die with Linkara gently telling it that he is right there with it.]]

* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:The Entity's motives]] are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [[spoiler:once Linkara is freed by the Entity's influence]] as Linkara points out that, despite [[spoiler: having returned to life for years now, the Entity hasn't bothered to absorb the people of Earth anymore]]. Eventually Linkara realizes that the reason is because [[spoiler:the Entity desperately wants Linkara to continue fighting it since, without some purpose driving it, the Entity realizes how insignificant its existence is now.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Linkara realises that [[spoiler:the Entity fragment]] and himself are both afraid that they're lives are insignificant to larger forces beyond their control. The main difference is that Linkara seems to reconcile this about his life and still strives to seek new challenges before his time is over [[spoiler:the Entity cannot handle the idea that its existence means so little to eternity itself and choices to die.]]

* SanitySlippage: Linkara seems to be suffering from this, especially after [[spoiler: the destruction of Comicron 1]], as his paranoia grows and he starts shutting out his friends in his certainty that [[spoiler: either the Entity is coming back or Vyce is going to become it]]. However, it turns out that [[spoiler: the Entity ''is'' still alive, but it's been possessing Linkara himself the whole time -- and still worse, after they become separate and he's ''finally'' able to defeat it, a watching Vyce loses his last thread of sanity, flying into a rage, refusing to believe it's gone, and trying to ''destroy the Earth'' in his mad desire to win his war against the monster]].

* SheatheYourSword: [[spoiler: Once Linkara finds out the Entity is trying to draw out the "game" between itself and him. Linkara willingly gives up the fight, refusing to prolong it any further even if it means giving up his life. Luckily it turns out the Entity isn't powerful enough to pull the same stunt it did last time and fighting Linkara gives it purpose to it's existence. Without it, it ceases to be.]]
* ShipTease: Downplayed, but Linkara and Viga do seem a bit....closer after [[spoiler: fighting off the ghosts]].

* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler: Lord Vyce is shown in a more sympathetic light come TheReveal that a piece of the Entity was alive inside Linkara, as he laments how his quest to destroy it has cost him everything. Even the Entity itself proves to be really sad and pitiful at the end when Linkara defeats it by refusing to play its game any longer; it struggles to accept its own insignificance and finally fades from view. However, Vyce then subverts this trope ''hard'' by flying into a rage and trying to ''destroy the Earth'' because he really ''can't'' accept that the Entity is dead.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: As before Linkra can't battle the Entity but rather talks to it. Doing so reveals that the Entity is really not trying to fight him but seeking a purpose when most of it having killed itself to find out what became of gods when they die. Ultimately without a purpose, the Entity fades off on it's own.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Rather surprisingly [[spoiler:the Entity is given a rather sad send off near the end of the arc. It's revealed that the Entity that everyone has been fighting is merely a fragment of the original and it has been playing with everyone to distract itself from the fact that, even six years after it's initial defeat, it is no closer to discovering its purpose then when Linkara asked his initial question. After grudgingly realising that it is insignificant in comparison to the vastness of eternity the Entity allows itself to die with Linkara gently telling it that he is right there with it.]]

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Vyce]] spends the majority of the arc [[spoiler:after the Entity's existence is revealed]] getting to know Linkara's allies, begrudgenly acknowledging his past misdeeds and, even showing off a more sympathetic side. [[spoiler:Then the Entity kills itself and Vyce goes insane, believing the creature to still be alive, and expands the singularity in order to destroy earth in a last ditch effort to destroy it's greatest enemy.]]

* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:The Entity's motives]] are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [[spoiler:once Linkara is freed by the Entity's influence]] as Linkara points out that, despite [[spoiler: having returned to life for years now, the Entity hasn't bothered to absorb the people of earth anymore]]. Eventually Linkara realises that the reason is because [[spoiler:the Entity desperately wants Linkara to continue fighting it since, without some purpose driving it, the Entity realises how insignificant it's existence is now.]]

** When hearing about what's happening to Linkara, Erin assumes that it's a case of the "Internet reviewer gets attacked by a character from the comic/movie/video game/ whatever they're reviewing trope", in this case, that he fell asleep and is now dealing with [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]]. Pollo quickly corrects her.

* MoticeDecay: [[spoiler:The Entity's motives]] are acknowledged by the crew as being bizarre [[spoiler:once Linkara is freed by the Entity's influence]] as Linkara points out that, despite [[spoiler: having returned to life for years now, the Entity hasn't bothered to absorb the people of earth anymore]]. Eventually Linkara realises that the reason is because [[spoiler:the Entity desperately wants Linkara to continue fighting it since, without some purpose driving it, the Entity realises how insignificant it's existence is now.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Linkara realises that [[spoiler:the Entity fragment]] and himself are both afraid that they're lives are insignificant to larger forces beyond their control. The main difference is that Linkara seems to reconcile this about his life and still strives to do good before his time is over whereas [[spoiler:the Entity cannot handle the idea that an Elder Gods existence means so little to eternity itself and choices to die.]]