History Recap / LukeCage2016S2E5AllSouledOut

* BreatherEpisode: Everyone's focused on completely unrelated issues. Mariah is getting ready to open her new Shirley Chisholm complex. Misty is getting her new arm. And Luke is being sued by Cockroach. Which means none of them are prepared for when Bushmaster pulls his severed heads stunt.

* CelebrityParadox: Film/{{Robocop}} is mentioned by Cockroach. Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters and and Creator/RayWise (Leon Nash) played Hugh Jones in Series/AgentCarter, Jesse D. Goins (Joe Cox) played Theo in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* TheScottishTrope: One of the guests at the party asks Luke if he is stronger than "[[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the green monster]]". This is then lampshaded when his friend tells him that's not his name, in what appears to be a playful poke at how the Netflix series tend to do this.

* CelebrityParadox: Film/{{Robocop}} is mentioned by Cockroach. Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters and and Creator/RayWise (Leon Nash) played Hugh Jones in Series/AgentCarter, Jesse D. Goins (Joe Cox) played Theo in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* CelebrityParadox: Film/{{Robocop}} is mentioned by Cockroach. Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters and and Creator/RayWise (Leon Nash) played Hugh Jones in Series/AgentCarter, and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* CelebrityParadox: Film/{{Robocop}} is mentioned by Cockroach. Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters in Series/AgentCarter and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* CelebrityParadox: Film/Robocop is mentioned by Cockroach. Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters in Series/AgentCarter and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* CelebrityParadox: Robocop is mentioned by Cockroach. Creator/KurtwoodSmith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters in Series/AgentCarter and Creator/MiguelFerrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* CelebrityParadox: Robocop is mentioned by Cockroach. Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker) played Vernon Masters in Series/AgentCarter and Miguel Ferrer (Bob Morton) played Vice President Rodriguez in Film/IronMan3.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Scarfe passes his proposal to frame a fraudster as this. When Misty looks disgusted, he laughs it off as a joke.

* RealityEnsues:
** Regarding the possibility of Luke having an NFL career, the Jets scout tells him that since Luke wasn't born with his abilities, the other teams would see it as cheating and there's no way Roger Goodell will allow a team to sign him.
** Earlier, Misty claimed that she would smooth everything over with the police for Luke's assault of Cockroach. There is, however, nothing that she can do about Cockroach himself suing him in civil court.
** Luke warns Piranha of the possibility of bullets ricocheting off him and injuring the party guests.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The drunken guests at Piranha's party think it's hilarious to break bottles on Luke's head and shoot him with guns to watch the bullets bounce. Shades goes to the party to babysit Piranha, telling Mariah that he doesn't trust Piranha to keep his mouth shut while plastered.
* AssholeVictim: Cockroach, both in the flashbacks as well as in present day. In the flashbacks, he got framed by Scarfe for a murder he didn't commit (but he murdered several other people) and in the present day, Bushmaster decapitates him and mounts his head at Mariah's new clinic as a warning. This is right after Cockroach put his girlfriend Drea back in the hospital.

** Regarding the possibility of Luke having an NFL career, the Jets scout tells him that since Luke wasn't born with his abilities, the other teams would see it as cheating and there's no way the league would allow the team to sign him.

* AbsenteeActor: Bushmaster is not in this episode, with all the screentime focused on Luke, Misty, Mariah and Shades and their problems. Which makes the reveal of the severed heads even more shocking, as the others have become so preoccupied with other problems that he's been able to take them off guard.

* AbsenteeActor: Bushmaster is not in this episode, with all the screentime focused on Luke, Misty, Mariah and Shades and their problems. Which makes the reveal of the severed heads even more shocking, as the others have become so preoccupied with other problems that this is the one thing they don't expect.

* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Misty recounts when she and Scarfe arrested Dontrell, in which it becomes apparent to Misty in hindsight how he planted the murder weapon to secure the conviction.

** Misty takes a judas bullet in order to frame Cockroach but backs down once she's about to plant the bullet.

** Regarding the possibility of Luke having an NFL career, a Jets scout tells him that since Luke wasn't born with his abilities, the other teams would see it as cheating and there's no way the league would allow the team to sign him.

* AbsenteeActor: Bushmaster is not in this episode, with all the screentime focused on Luke, Misty, Mariah and Shades. This makes the reveal of the severed heads even more shocking.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The drunken guests at Piranha's party think it's hilarious to break bottles on Luke's head and shoot him with guns to watch the bullets bounce. Shades goes to the party, specifically saying that he doesn't trust Piranha to keep his mouth shut while plastered.
* AssholeVictim: Cockroach, both in the flashbacks as well as in present day. In the flashbacks, he got framed by Scarfe for a murder he didn't commit (but he murdered several other people) and in the present day, Bushmaster decapitates him and mounts his head at Mariah's new clinic as a warning.
* BreatherEpisode: Everyone's focused on completely unrelated issues - Mariah getting ready to open her new Shirley Chisholm complex, Misty getting her new arm, and Luke getting sued by Cockroach - which means none of them are prepared for when Bushmaster pulls his severed heads stunt.

* IDontPayYouToThink: Shades to his underlings when they fail to find info on Bushmaster.

** Earlier, Misty claimed that she would smooth everything over with the police for Luke's assault of Cockroach. There is, however, nothing that she can do about Cockroach himself pressing charges.

-->'''Foggy:''' Given my history on the subject, [[ICantBelieveImSayingThis I can't believe I'm even gonna say this]], but...if you're gonna fight crime, have you considered wearing a mask?

* VisionaryVillain: Mariah makes several speeches about planning to improve Harlem with her new social project throughout the episode.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The drunken guests at Piranha's party think it's a good idea to break bottles on Luke's head and shoot him with guns to watch the bullets bounce. Shades goes to the party, specifically saying that he doesn't trust Piranha to keep his mouth shut while plastered.

* TheScottishTrope: One of the guests at the party asks Luke if he is stronger than "[[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the green guy]]". This is then lampshaded when his friend tells him that's not his name, in what appears to be a playful poke at how the Netflix series tend to do this.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The drunken guests at Piranha's party think it's a good idea to break bottles in Luke's head and shoot him with guns to watch the bullets bounce. Shades goes to the party, specifically saying that he doesn't trust Piranha to keep his mouth shut while plastered.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The drunken guests at Piranha's party think it's a good idea to break bottles in Luke's head and shoot him with guns to watch the bullets bounce. Shades goes to the party specifically because he doesn't trust a drunken Piranha not to brag about the illegal move that he just made for Mariah.

* ContinuityNod: When conversing at the arbitration, Foggy uneasily brings up the fact that Matt wore a mask when fighting crime, and suggests that Luke might consider doing the same thing.

* OffWithHisHEad: Bushmaster decapitated Cockroach, Mariah's bodyguard/goon Ray Ray, and Mark Higgins

** Luke warns Piranha of the posibility of bullets ricocheting off him and injuring the party guests.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Scarfe passes his proposal to frame a fraudster as this.

* DecapitationPresentation: Cockroach, Andre Jackson, and Higgins' heads are mounted on posts for Mariah at the Shirley Chisholm complex, a message from Bushmaster.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Piranha, when taken by the Jamaicans.

* UndisclosedFunds: {{Averted}} in a bit of a bait-and-switch, as Luke was passed a closed note with a figure written on it, typical of this trope, to make his assault charge against Cockroach go away. The next shot reveals it to be $100,000.