History Recap / HildaS3E8

* PleaseWakeUp: After Frida is blasted back by the Fairy Mound while opening a portal to Fairy Country, David and Anders try to wake Frida up. For a brief moment, Frida opens her eyes and raises her head before collapsing again. So they head to Astrid for help and Astrid tells David that she just needs to rest. The next day, Frida recovers and does wake up.

* * {{Foreshadowing}}: There a few hints that the little girl looking for her parents Hilda has met is actually her mother reverted back to her ten year old self without her adult memories:

* SilenceIsGolden: In the final minutes of the episode, where the characters gather for the bird parade, apart from laughs and cheers, the only dialogue spoken in this scene are from the Great Raven asking Hilda what he has missed and Frida calling Hilda over. The rest of the scene is just music indicating that this is while this is the end of the series.

* TheFairFolk: The Fairy Entity is a towering but hunched figure in a dark blue cloak with a glowing circle for a face, black skeletal hands, and a disorienting voice, which arranges inviolable bargains in accordance with its own inscrutable traditions. (Astrid accuses it of not even getting anything it really wants out of them, simply doing it because it's stuck in a routine.) It is also the Fairy Isle's FisherKing, and the ailments of its age manifest in the rot and decay that spreads from its home cave.

* EldritchAbomination: The Fairy Entity is this. It is a towering figure in a dark blue cloak, that has a glowing circle for a face and black skeletal hands, speaks in a creepily disoriented voice, and causes rot near itself.

* PensieveFlashback: The flashback of how Phinium and Astrid met Lydia, how Johanna was born and how her parents were forced to make their deal with the Fairy Entity is presented in this manner, with the present day Hilda, Johanna, Astrid, Phinium and Lydia seeing all these events magically play out in front of them.

* ComicallyAngryFace: Astrid as a kid made one when Phinium exposed himself to Lydia.

* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Part of Hilda's reasoning for escaping from the Fairy Country is that it's static: there's simply ''nothing'' to do that hasn't been done, and that isn't living. Hilda feels so strongly about this that, even when it appears Johanna is willing to stay, she refuses to, despite how much it hurts.
* PensieveFlashback: The flashback of of how Phinium and Astrid met Lydia, how Johanna was born and how her parents were forced to make their deal with the Fairy Entity is presented in this manner, with the present day Hilda, Johanna, Astrid, Phinium and Lydia seeing all these events magically play out in front of them.

** The reason why Johanna can’t properly recall her childhood is because most of her memories about it was suppressed by Astrid with fairy magic, after she witnessed her parents’ departure. And the reason for ''that'' is because the Fairy Entity demanded Johanna in exchange for curing her, but they ultimately gave themself to give her a normal life.
*** The incident with fairy mound Johanna mentioned in "The Fairy Mound" turned out be the night her parents left her, which she witnessed.

* TimePassageBeard: Anders was clean shaven when we last saw him in "Chapter 5: The Job", but has a beard when Hilda finds him in Fairy Country, proving he's been there for some time.

* Johanna as kid has several of this, whenever her parents’ disappearance is brought up.
* Hilda has this when her mother collapses from her returned sickness since Hilda bringing her back to the human world broke the bargain.

* BrokenTears: Hilda has this when her mother collapses from her returned sickness since Hilda bringing her back to the human world broke the bargain.

* ItsAllMyFault: Hilda says it when she assumes her mother has died from her childhood sickness, because Hilda convinced her to return to the human world. Upon being revived, Johanna assures her that it's only a little bit her fault... and mostly her father's.

* PensieveFlashback: The flashback of how Phinium and Astrid met Lydia, how Johanna was born and how her parents were forced to make their deal with the Fairy Entity is presented in this manner, with the present day Hilda, Johanna, Astrid, Phinium and Lydia seeing all these events magically play out in front of them.

** For Johanna, the ''real'' reason why she couldn't remember anything about the Fairy Mound, or her childhood, was because Astrid locked her ''10 years'' of memories away, as a misguided attempt to save her from the heartbreak of her parents saving her from the Fairy Entity. The reason behind ''that'' was because they begged the Entity to cure Johanna of a strange illness in exchange for surrendering her 10 years later. To avoid that event, they both filled in for her so she can have a normal life.
** For Hilda, by knowing the truth about the Fairy Country, she learns that her mom was born from a human mother and a fairy father, while Aunt Astrid is a fairy herself, meaning that Hilda is ''part-fairy''.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: When Hilda and Johanna attempt to jump over the chasm Fairy Entity has created, only for the ground to crumble under their weight, Johanna manages to obtain the fairies' ability to fly, allowing her and Hilda to cross the gap. Unfortunately, Hilda does not, as she discovers when she lets go of Johanna's hand and drops like a stone. Johanna's parents swoop in to grab her.

* BatmanGambit: Seeing the Fairy Entity loving to make deals on people's lives, Victoria van Gale offers it to stay in the Fairy Country in Astrid's place so she can return to her family, which Entity accepts without knowing that Victoria is more than willing to remain there.

* DemBones: Despite having been reduced to a skull, Victoria van Gale's nisse is still alive.

** After spending entire series going through a lot of physiological trauma and having a few [[NearDeathExperience near-death experiences]], Johanna is finally reunited with her long-lost parents, has regained her erased childhood memories and discovers they actually had to leave her for her own good rather than malice. Even when separated from them again, Johanna at least knows they're alive and watching her.

* EldritchAbomination: The Fairy Entity is this. It is a towering figure in a dark blue cloak, that has a glowing circle for face and black skeletal hands, speaks in a creepily disoriented voice and causes rot near itself.

* FountainOfYouth: According to Astrid, one of the Fairy Country’s properties is that it shows a person what they seek the most, but nothing is meant to change. This explains why when Johanna first arrived as kid and has temporarily lost her adult memories, while her parents still look young despite being around Astrid’s age.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When Johanna first arrived at the Fairy Isle, not only she temporarily transformed into her ten-year-old self, but also has lost all of her memories after the night her parents left. Thus, she believes she’s searching for them instead of Hilda, while neither of girls recognized each other when they did reunite.

* MoodWhiplash: Happens twice: first time is when Johanna wakes up after being thought dead by everyone, and second time everybody sadly returns to Astrid’s house, only for her to reappear there.

* SadisticChoice: Whenever the people try to bargain with the Fairy Entity, it usually doesn’t go well: when Phinium and Lydia asked it to cure Johanna, it demanded the girl’s custody, with the couple later trading places with her. In present, it returned to Johanna her childhood sickness once her reunion with her parents broke it, with Astrid nearly trading '''her life''' instead.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Johanna refuses to allow Tontu and Alfur to accompany her to rescue Hilda from the Fairy Country for to letting her escape in the first place. Being possibly the most emotional and dramatic ''Hilda'' episode ever, their comedic antics would not have fit at all anyway.

* TheCameo: A lot of characters from past episodes show up in the final minutes, among them Wood Man, the Lost Clan, the Marra, Tildy, Peter Ostenfeld, the Rat King, Gil Jones, Trevor and his friends, Kaisa, Gerda Gustav, Ms. Hallgrim, Baba and Trylla, Frida’s parents, David’s parents, Louise and Raven Leader.

* TheCameo: A lot of characters from past episodes show up in the final minutes, among them Wood Man, the Marra, Tildy, Peter Ostenfeld, the Rat King, Gil Jones, Trevor and his friends, Kaisa, Gerda Gustav, Baba and Trylla, Louise and Raven Leader.

* FountainOfYouth: According to Astrid, one of the Fairy Country’s properties is that it shows person what they seek the most but nothing is meant to change. This explains why Johanna first arrived as teen and has temporarily lost her adult memories, while her parents still look young despite being around Astrid’s age.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When Johanna first arrived at the Fairy Isle, not only she temporarily transformed into her ten-year-old self, but also has lost all of her memories after the night her parents abandoned. Thus, she believes she’s searching for them instead of Hilda, while neither of girls recognized each other when did reunite.

* FountainOfYouth: For some reason, Johanna is reverted back to her ten-years old self upon first entering the Fairy Country and also [[LaserGuidedAmnesia has lost her memories of everything that's happened to her after the night her parents disappeared at said age.]] Therefore, she believes she is there searching for ''them'' instead of Hilda. But despite no longer recognizing her daughter when she ''does'' get reunited with her, she gladly accepts her proposal to team up to find their parents and the two form a close bond as travelling companions pretty quick. Astrid later explains it as a property of the Fairy Country, which is also why Johanna's parents are still young despite being around Astrid's age.

* EldritchAbomination: The Fairy Entity is this. It is a glowing towering figure in a blue cloak with a glowing face and black skeletal hands, speaks in a creepily disoriented voice and causes rot near itself.

* IllGirl: It’s revealed that not long after her birth, Johanna fell terribly ill by an unknown disease (it’s implied it’s because she’s an half-human/half-fairy hybrid) that would kill her if not for her parents making a DealWithTheDevil with the Fairy Entity. After managing to escape from the Fairy Isle in the climax, her childhood sickness returns due to the contract being broken, but she’s saved by Astrid and Victoria.

* SadisticChoice: Whenever the people try to bargain with the Fairy Entity, it usually don’t go well: when Phinium and Lydia asked it to cure Johanna, it demanded the girl’s custody, with the couple later trading places with her. In present, it returned to Johanna her childhood sickness once her reunion with her parents broke it, with Astrid nearly trading '''her life''' instead.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Johanna refuses to allow Tontu and Alfur to accompany her on her journey to rescue Hilda from the Fairy Country due to letting her escape in the first place. Being possibly the most emotional and dramatic ''Hilda'' episode ever, their comedic antics would not have fit at all anyway.

* UnevenHybrid: With Johanna revealed to be half-fairy, Hilda is respectively a 1/4 fairy. This also explains her unordinary blue hair color she inherited from her grandfather.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Because the Fairy Entity accepts Victoria’s deal to save Johanna and Astrid in exchange of herself being permanently stuck in the Fairy Isle, they banish Astrid into the human world for the rest of her life. She doesn’t mind, though, as at least she has a place to call home and a family to take care of, and she knows that her brother and his wife will keep watching them from the Fairy Isle.