History Recap / LuzClawthorneHexsidesNumberOneDelinquentWitchChapter40

* ForWantOfANail: The Bards Against the Throne make an early debut and they have a fifth member who wields a keytar in battle.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Luz. Eda, Kikimora and especially the Golden Guard are flabbergasted to see Lilith is still alive.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As Luz and Belos point out, if Amity goes through with helping to free the Clawthornes, she'll be labeled a criminal herself and it'll prevent her from being able to return home to her family.

* BittersweetEnding: As per canon, Lilith splits the curse between herself and Eda which will affect their magic, Emperor Belos is still going through with "The Day of Unity", and the Clawthornes are now branded fugitives. Additionally, Amity is forced to join them in self-imposed exile but earns Luz's forgiveness, Puck is murdered by Belos, who still has the intact portal but now lacks the key, Anu Bist has been severely injured and Boscha's got a lot of work to do to make up for her actions.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: To reiterate, Lilith's death at rhe Golden Guard's hands raises many questions as to how she survived taking a blast that left a hole in her stomach.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Emperor Belos shows Anu Bist and Puck he's not one to be underestimated as he uses counter spells to have a speed advantage over them through their entire battle.

[[caption-width-right:300:Art by Crosshot: They ''need'' to save her. Otherwise, her fate will be in his hands.]]

-->'''Coven scout:'''What do you think your doing?

* ShatteringTheIllusion: To dispell Belos' illusions, Amity spreads the [[PlayingWithFire fire spells]] in her hand across the room.

** The illusions scene is based off the one between Spidey and Mysterio in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''. Puck being framed as a villain also references the post-credits scene.

* TearsOfRemorse: Amity ends up crying when she apologizes to Luz for witholding everything about her deal with Lilith under the belief she got her into trouble.

* WouldHurtAChild: Emperor Belos unintentionally carries this over from canon: although he may not want to hurt Luz or Amity, he doesn't do much to stop members of his coven from doing the same.

* ApologeticAttacker: Both Amity and Warden Wrath really don't want to fight each other but for the sake of their goals (Wrath's job, Amity saving Luz), they have to. They both do tell each other it's not personal.

* BreakThemByTalking: Along with illusions, Belos applies this to force Amity to stand down telling her that only he knows what's best for Luz and that she's out of her league against him. She refuses to listen and cancels out the illusions.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Following her ReasonYouSuckSpeech, Amity takes full blame for Luz ending up imprisoned and calls herself a horrible girlfriend. Luz, unable to let her final moment with Amity be watching her cry, wipes her tears.

* MakeUpOrBreakUp: At the end of the chapter, Luz decides to make up with Amity, wanting to face the future side by side with her. However, this doesn't give a clear answer about whether that means they got back together...

* KnifeNut: Amity uses abomination knives to try and break the lock on Luz's cage. It doesn't work.

* GivenNameReveal: Dr. Bride's full name is revealed to be Elizabeth Wollstonecraft Bride.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Amber and Derwin-no, the Bards Against the Throne as a whole-debut in the Season 1 finale, "Young Blood, Old Souls", instead of Season 2's "Eda's Requiem".

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Amber and Derwin-no, the Bards Against the Throne as a whole-debuts in the Season 1 finale, "Young Blood, Old Souls", instead of Season 2's "Eda's Requiem".

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Seeing all the petrified witches in the conformatorium's corridor, she asks Lilith if ''she'' would suffer the same fate just for not joining a coven and nothing else. Lilith concedes that she isn't sure and that she can't justify it anymore.

* Dr. Bride's letter to Luz tells her that she'll develop a bile sac and thus, innate magic. The doctor also mentions with no known records of cambions, she'll be doing research on the subject.

* ChekhovsSkill: If you though Amity's use of illusions were a big help against Dolly (and against Warden Wrath here), her ability to recognize and disspell them ''really'' helps her out when fighting against the Emperor.

* BadassBoast: Luz gives one when Webstor allows her to say her final words which leaves everyone speechless.[[note]]'''Luz:''' "I'm… going to survive. To me you're all just scumbags who came to watch some kid get punished for her mother's crimes, which just shows just how corrupt the coven system is. Sure, I'm not innocent. But I didn't do anything to deserve petrification! And neither did my mom! The only difference between us and the rest of you is that we refused to submit to the rule of a tyrant! This whole coven system is all about control. The only reason that my mom is a criminal was because the Emperor's Coven forced her to, because she decided to be her own witch. And that's all that my mom ever wanted for me, to be able to create my own destiny and choose to become my own witch no matter what anyone else says! And that's why… I've decided I won't die today! I'm going to escape and though it may not happen today or tomorrow, I will get stronger… and KICK THAT BITCH-ASS EMPEROR'S ASS! My name is Luz Clawthorne, daughter of Edalyn Clawthorne and the late Camila Noceda… and I ''will'' become the number one badass witch of both worlds!"[[/note]]
* BadBadActing: The first rescue team's plan to get into the conformatorium is to split up and create a distraction to lure the guards away. Anu Bost dresses as a sheep herder whose sheep Puck sets free gets rhe attention of the guards stationed outside the place while Amity pretends to be attacked by a wild witch (Lilith covered in abomination goo putting on a deadpan performance) to knock out the guards at the entrance to claim their uniforms.
* BaddieFlattery: Amity disspells Belos' illusions

* BreakThemByTalking: Along with illusions, Belos applies this to force Amity to stand down.

** Emperor Belos mentions his last battle wirh Anu Bist, which the jackal brought up in "I Ain't Troubled Yet!"

* ChekhovsSkill: If you though Amity's use of illusion were a big help against Dolly (and against Warden Wrath here), her ability to recognize and disspell them ''really'' helps her out when fighting against the Emperor.

** King kept a light spell tucked into his collar to snap Eda back to her senses.

* CurbStompBattle: Where to start? First, the rescue party takes out several coven guards in order to sneak in to the Conformatorium, then Lilith and King take on Warden Wrath, Kikimora and a thrown off Golden Guard in a fight and win, Belos' preparedness helps him mop the floor with Puck and Anu Bist, and the B.A.T.T.'s keep any approaching guards at bay as they free the Clawthornes.

* DeadSerious: Belos makes it clear in killing Puck that the fae have no place in the Boiling Isles and he'll make sure any more of them come.

** Then he [[InvokedTrope invokes]] Amity's fear of her parents by saying they won't be happy with her disgracing their family name.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: To infiltrate the conformatorium, Amity and Lilith use stolen coven scout uniforms.

* InternalReveal: Everyone at or watching the petrification ceremony (everyone who isn't Willow, Viney, Boscha and Ms. Traveler) sees Luz in her cambion state for the first time.

** Lilith manages to get payback on the Golden Guard by knocking him out in a rematch.
** Nicole is gagged by Cat and puked on by an airsick King with the crowd recording it.

* MuggedForDisguise: To infiltrate the Conformatorium, Amity and Lilith steal some coven scout uniforms to enter under the excuse of delivering King into custody.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Puck's body disintegrates into ashes as Belos kills him.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: To reiterate, Lilith's death at rhe Golden Guard's hands raises many questions as to how she survived.

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: The Emperor's Coven doesn't discriminate against witches with drarfism, noted when a guard questiones a disguised Amity if she's a little short to be a guard only to be reprimanded by his partner.
* ThePowerOfLove: This is Amity's motivation for freeing the Clawthornes, with Luz saying she must truly care about her to face the Emperor.

* RayOfHopeEnding: Despite how everything's turned out, Eda tells Lilith she'll properly forgive her one day, Luz learns she'll be able to create her own natural magic soon, and she & Amity agree to face the future together, no matter what.

** Mattholomule has taken quite a beating from Bria since we last saw him.

* UncertainDoom: No one is certain whether or not Anu Bist escaped the Emperor's castle. The girls believe he got out because they refuse to consider the alternative outcome.

* VillainRespect: Kikimora gives hers towards Hunter for killing Lilith. Belos gives his to Amity after seeing how powerful her magic is, saying she'll be more powerful than Eda and Lilith combined one day.

* BadassBoast: Luz gives one when Webstor allows her to say her final words which leaves everyone speechless.
-->'''Luz:''' "I'm… going to survive. To me you're all just scumbags who came to watch some kid get punished for her mother's crimes, which just shows just how corrupt the coven system is. Sure, I'm not innocent. But I didn't do anything to deserve petrification! And neither did my mom! The only difference between us and the rest of you is that we refused to submit to the rule of a tyrant! This whole coven system is all about control. The only reason that my mom is a criminal was because the Emperor's Coven forced her to, because she decided to be her own witch. And that's all that my mom ever wanted for me, to be able to create my own destiny and choose to become my own witch no matter what anyone else says! And that's why… I've decided I won't die today! I'm going to escape and though it may not happen today or tomorrow, I will get stronger… and KICK THAT BITCH-ASS EMPEROR'S ASS! My name is Luz Clawthorne, daughter of Edalyn Clawthorne and the late Camila Noceda… and I ''will'' become the number one badass witch of both worlds!"
* BadBadActing: The first rescue team's plan to get into the conformatorium is to split up and create a distraction to lure the guards away. Anu Bost dresses as a sheep herder whose sheep Puck sets free gets the attention of the guards stationed outside the place while Amity pretends to be attacked by a wild witch (Lilith covered in abomination goo putting on a deadpan performance) to knock out the guards at the entrance to claim their uniforms.

* ChekhovsSkill: If you thought Amity's use of illusion were a big help against Dolly, her ability to recognize and disspell them ''really'' helps her out fighting against the Emperor.

* CringeComedy: Warden Wrath is labeled "cringe incarnate",

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Having been impaled at Belos' hands, Puck accepts his fate saying "death is the

* GoOutWithASmile: Puck decides to maintain a smile as his body fades.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat
* NotAfraidToDie

* PrecisionFStrike: Overwhelmed by Luz telling her to escape and leave her to die, Amity cusses out the Emperor's Coven for their treatment towards wild witches and declares she's done hoping to join them.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Puck shapeshifts into a dragon as a last resort to take on the Emperor.
* VillainRespect: Kikimora towards Hunter for killing Lilith, Belos towards Amity for her powerful magic.

* ZeroApprovalGambit

* BadBadActing: The first rescue team's plan to get into the conformatorium is to split up and create a distraction to lure the guards away. Anu Bost dresses as a sheep herder whose sheep Puck sets free gets rhe attention of the guards stationed outside the place while Amity pretends to be attacked by a wild witch (Lilith covered in abomination goo putting on a deadpan performance) to knock out the guards at the entrance to claim their uniforms.

* ChekhovsSkill: If you though Amity's use of illusion were a big help against Dolly, her ability to recognize and disspell them ''really'' helps her out fighting against the Emperor.

[[caption-width-right:300:Art by Crosshot]]

* BaddieFlattery

%%* FaceDeathWithDignity

* HowIsThatEvenPossible

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing there really is a fae in Bonesborough, Boscha says part of this when she realizes Luz and Amity were telling the truth.

%%* NoOneCouldSurviveThat
%%* NotAfraidToDie

%%* PrecisionFStrike
%%* RayOfHopeEnding
%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

* VillainRespect: Kikimora towards Hunter, Belos towards Amity.

* HowIsThatEvenPossible

* TheGhost: Jerbo, Camila, Dr. Bride and Hooty.

* DressingAsTheEnemy