History Recap / FairyTailPhantomLordArc

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Towards the end of the arc, Jude praises Lucy for leaving Fairy Tail. This happens after Lucy realizes her father's efforts to bring her home had inadvertently caused the guild war with Phantom Lord to happen in the first place.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Despite being welcomed back to the Heartfilia Konzern, Lucy leaves them for good, feeling frustrated by Jude's behavior and preferring to stay with Fairy Tail as her new family.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Despite being welcomed back to the Heartfilia Konzern, Lucy leaves them for good, preferring to stay with Fairy Tail as her new family.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Lucy leaves the Heartfilia Konzern and her family life behind for good, preferring to stay with Fairy Tail as her new family.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jude is right that Lucy's willful actions in running away from home have caused some problems to those around her. On Lucy's side, she's correct that with Jude hiring Phantom Lord to retrieve her unharmed, it indirectly led to the guild war between Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord, nearly getting her friends killed in the process. She also knows that had he not gone that far, they could have worked things out together.

* FromBadToWorse: This is what Fairy Tail goes through. Their guildhall gets seriously damaged by Gajeel. The Shadow Gear team is wounded and Makarov and Fairy Tail declare war on Phantom Lord. Makarov is seriously injured and Fairy Tail retreats. Meanwhile, Lucy gets kidnapped by the Element 4 and before she can escape, she learns that Jude recruited Phantom Lord to retrieve her. Then, Fairy Tail's guildhall gets destroyed and Lucy is captured again. Later, Jose reveals that he intends to hold Lucy until he is able to completely monopolize her family's wealth. If it wasn't for Polryusica healing Makarov, Phantom Lord would have won.

** The confused and horrified look on Lucy's face when she realizes Jude hired Phantom Lord to bring her back unharmed says it all.

** The confused and horrified look on Lucy's face when Jose tells her that Jude hired Phantom Lord to bring her back unharmed says it all.

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Towards the end of the arc. Jude praises Lucy for leaving Fairy Tail. Lucy, on the other hand, is ashamed that her father inadvertently caused the guild war with Phantom Lord to happen in the first place.

* RealityEnsues:
** While well-intentioned, Jude learns the hard way that when your 17-year-old daughter who ran out on you finds out that you hired a guild to find her unharmed to help your business only for them to nearly destroy her guild and hold her for ransom, she will be understandably outraged to the point where she wants nothing more to do with you.
** Instigating a war between two guilds won't exactly give your guild leniency, as the Magic Council has to interrogate Fairy Tail when all is said and done.

** The horrified look on Lucy's face when she learns that Jude has hired Phantom Lord to bring her back unharmed says it all.

** Lucy's understandable reaction when she learns that he's hired Phantom Lord to bring her back home for an ArrangedMarriage is outrage.

** Makarov is understandably furious when the Shadow Gear team gets seriously injured by Gajeel to the point that they decide to start a guild war with Phantom Lord

* WaveMotionGun: The Jupiter Cannon can fire a blast powerful enough to level a guildhall. Fortunately for Fairy Tail, Erza intervenes when it fires.

** Jose has a horrified look on his face when Makarov is about to invoke Fairy Law on his guild.

** Lucy's reaction when she learns that he's hired Phantom Lord to bring her back home for an ArrangedMarriage is outrage.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Jose is willing to both fire a huge cannon and preform a spell that would wipe out the whole town just to destroy Fairy Tail.

* WhatTheHellHero: Jude calls out Lucy on running away to join Fairy Tail without telling him first.

** Lucy goes into a ''major'' one when the Fairy Tail guildhall is destroyed and when she later discovers that her father, Jude, hired Phantom Lord to retrieve her. Fortunately, she snaps out of it by the end of the arc.

** Lucy goes into a ''major'' one when the Fairy Tail guildhall is destroyed and when she later discovers that her father, Jude, hired Phantom Lord to retrieve her. This lasts throughout the whole arc, since her running away inadvertently led to Jude hiring Phantom Lord in the first place.

** Lucy goes into a ''major'' one when the Fairy Tail guildhall is destroyed and when she later discovers that her father, Jude, hired Phantom Lord to retrieve her. This lasts throughout the whole arc and she kept blaming herself nonstop.

* Groin Attack: Lucy does this to Jose to escape his clutches.

%%* HolyHandGrenade: Fairy Law.

%%* MakingASplash: Juvia.

%%* TransformingMecha: The Phantom Lord Headquarters.

%%* WarArc

%%* DishingOutDirt: Sol.