History Recap / Primal2019E16Vidarr

* BladeOnAStick: With Spear using the much more effective sword in battle against the Chieftain, Mira takes to arming herself with his namesake weapon against Eldar, even mimicking Spear's intimidating warcry against him.

* BroughtDownToBadass: The Chieftain and Eldar lose their armor, weapons and ship attacking Fang and Spear, but are able to improvise impromptu ''planes'' out of some quickly-fashioned rope and a nearby [[GiantFlyer giant bird's nest]], enabling them to counter [[CloseRangeCombatant Fang's]] dangerous presence and come close to killing both Spear and Mira despite their losses.

* CurbStompBattle: When Eldar is knocked off the mast and squares off against Mira and Fang, he draws his axe with a hate-filled glare against them, apparently confident of his chances.A few minutes later, the Chieftain is distracted from fighting Spear when he sees Eldar running for his life from Fang, and is shaken around and almost dismembered with ease once she gets her jaws on him if not for his father's rescue of him. This informs their later strategy, as they go with attacking the trio via a nearby group of giant birds to avoid ever confronting Fang close-range again, having underestimated how powerful she is in a fight.

* GrossUpCloseUp: The shows gives a rather...detailed view of Fang laying her eggs.

* ToothyBird: The Chieftain and Eldar's giant condor mounts sport visible and prominent fangs inside their beaks.

* WhamEpisode: Fang is revealed to be a PregnantBadass from her time with Red and lays three eggs, having finally reclaimed a family after tragically losing her babies in the first episode. The Chieftain and Eldar's hunt for the trio seemingly ends with the latter dying, putting an end to the overarching antagonists of season 2, and the Chieftain's vision of a flaming demon that resembles the figure Mira scratched out to Spear and Fang hints that there are greater threats involved in their tale than Viking slavers.

* ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: The Chieftain and Eldar's intimidating armor also makes them [[ConservationOfNinjitsu tougher to take down than their village]], combined with their surprise attack on the trio's boat. The Chieftain's armor deflects one of Spear's sword blows and confuses the Neanderthal over how his attack was ineffective, despite it working agaisnt the rest of the Vikings before. When Eldar is knocked overboard by Fang, his armor quickly drags him to the bottom, necessitating his father to divest them both of their metallic protection to swim to shore. This winds up making the subsequent fight against the heroes ''far'' more even, despite Fang's inability to assist during that scuffle.

* TheReveal: Fang mated with Red back during "Shadow of Fate" and has been a PregnantBadass ever since, giving birth to three eggs this episode

* WhamEpisode: Fang is revealed to be a PregnantBadass from her time with Red and lays three eggs, having finally reclaimed a family after tragically losing her babies in episode one. The Chieftain and Eldar's hunt for the trio seemingly ends with both dying, putting an end to the overarching antagonists of season 2, and the Chieftain's vision of a flaming demon that resembles the figure Mira scratched out to Spear and Fang hints that there are greater threats involved in their tale than Viking slavers.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Cheiftain boasts a ''massive'' single-bladed axe in battle against Spear, the blade of which is about the length of his entire torso. Despite its size, he's skilled enough with it to keep Spear firmly on the back foot. However, when Spear uses his greater agility to outmanoeuvre him, he switches to DualWielding hand axes against the caveman to make up for his weapon's disadvantages, before switching back to a similar axe when jumping to Eldar's defence against the bigger target of Fang. Spear even attempts to copy his own use of the weapon with a slightly smaller axe, to limited success.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Cheiftain boasts a ''massive'' single-bladed axe in battle against Spear, the blade of which is about the length of his entire torso. Despite its size, he's skilled enough with it to keep Spear firmly on the back foot. However, when Spear uses his greater agility to outmanoeuvre him, he switches to DualWielding hand axes agaisnt the Caveman to make up for his weapon's disadvantages, before switching back to a similar axe when jumping to Elder's defence against the bigger target of Fang. Spear even attempts to copy his own use of the weapon with a slightly smaller axe, to limited success.
* ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: The Chieftain and Eldar's intimidating armour also makes them [[ConservationOfNinjitsu tougher to take down than their village]], combined with their surprise attack on the trio's boat. The Chieftain's armour deflects one of Spear's sword blows and confuses the Neanderthal over how his attack was ineffective, despite it working agaisnt the rest of the Vikings before. When Eldar is knocked overboard by Fang, his armour quickly drags him to the bottom, necessitating his Father to divest them both of their metallic protection to swim to shore. This winds up making the subsequent fight against the heroes ''far'' more even, despite Fang's inability to assist during that scuffle.
* ArmourIsUseless: ''Very much averted'', as the Chieftain fares '''''much''''' better against Spear close-range than the entire rest of his village because his high-quality armour can deflect Spear's sword swings, something which confuses the Caveman over how his attacks are ineffective. It doesn't aid Eldar as well when Fang chomps down on his leg, but on the other hand he can still use the leg afterwards, whereas the other villagers were killed/dismembered en masse whenever Fang got them in her jaws. After Fang chucks him overboard, the Chieftain is forced to discard his and his son's heavier armour in the strong currents to successfully reach the shore, leaving their subsequent Ariel attack on the trio much more even-sided.

* BroughtDownToBadass: The Chieftain and Eldar lose their armour, weapons and ship attacking Fang and Spear, but are able to improvise impromptu ''planes'' out of some quickly-fashioned rope and a nearby [[GiantFlyer giant bird's nest]], enabling them to counter [[CloseRangeCombatant Fang's]] dangerous presence and come close to killing both Spear and Mira despite their losses.

* HighAltitudeBattle: To counter their lack of resources for their second attack on the trio, the Chieftain and Eldar wrangle some [[GiantFlyer giant birds]] from a nearby nest and turn them into mounts against them, using their flight capacity to stay out of reach of Fang, whilst trying to have the birds attack the humans. The eventually results in all four having a mid-air battle atop the birds, as both sides try to force the other off and Spear and Mira are forced to use their comparative agility to avoid being dropped.

** The duo later return atop [[GiantFlyer massive birds]] to compensate for losing most of their armour and weapons, with Eldar's mount snatching Mira skyward in an attempt to drop her to her doom and Spear leaping atop the chieftain's own to follow, with Fang forced to stay behind guarding her eggs.

* ManBitesMan: At the climax of their [[HighAltitudeBattle fighting]], with both men restricted to keeping one hand on their flying mount's reigns to avoid falling off, Spear Seizes the advantage against the chieftain by biting his hand whilst he's punching him with the other, tearing a chunk of it out and forcing him to let go, allowing Spear to push him off with ease.

** The episode is named "Vidarr" after the Aesir god of vengeance, fitting with how the Chieftain and Eldar are pursuing the trio for the loss of their entire village and loved ones, and how the Chieftain is [[RevengeBeforeReason putting his only surviving kin's life at risk]] to achieve vengeance for the departed. Both survivors even repeat the name to each other before wrangling two giant birds of prey to use against the trio, reconfirming their commitment to achieving their retribution before the risky endeavour.

* MightyGlacier: Somewhat. The Chieftain's armour and heavy weapon clearly weigh him down and make him overall slower and less mobile than Spear, but the two of them seem equally matched in speed and strength otherwise. Spear even seizes the advantage against him by using his greater agility to dodge his attacks and kick his helmet clean off his head, forcing the Chieftain to briefly switch to two smaller hand-axes to combat Spear in speed. This gets {{Downplayed}} after he loses his armour and returns for a second attack on the trio, as [[HighAltitudeBattle their situation]] doesn't really allow him much room to manoeuvre around, but he nonetheless comes off as being less agile and adaptable on the moving back of the bird that Spear or Mira, swiftly falling off once Spear forces him to let go of the reigns.
* MusclesAreMeaningful: The Chieftain's brawny physique not only demonstrates he's strong enough to seriously contend with Spear hand-to-hand, but also inform his [[MadeOfIron physical durability]]. When he's dropped from their ariel battle, despite a rough, painful and almost-fatal landing straight through several trees, he's still alive afterwards, whereas Eldar can't stand up to Spear or Fang for long at all, and instantly dies upon his own landing.

* PapaWolf: Arguably {{Deconstructed}}. The Chieftain cares deeply for his son, and risks his life several times to protect him, but in doing so he wastes opportunities to get his revenge, and makes his further attempts less likely to succeed. He abandons fighting Spear despite having the advantage when he sees Eldar getting savaged by Fang, and when Eldar is knocked into the river and in danger of growing, he immediately dives in to save his at the cost of losing all their armour and remaining weapons on the ship, forcing them to use the native animals nearby to substitute. His willpower to keep fighting is completely broken when Eldar dies in front of him, allowing himself to be swept under by the currents to [[TogetherInDeath join his kin]].
* TheReveal: Fang mated with Red back during ''Shadow of Fate'' and has been a PregnantBadass ever since, giving birth to three eggs this episode
* StrongAndSkilled: The Chieftain shows himself to be quite different than the opponents Spear has faced thus far, skilled enough in facing humanoid enemies to skillfully keep Spear on the back foot despite an unwieldy weapon and making use of his heavier armour to compensate for his lack of mobility. He even [[PunchCatch counters Spear's attempt]] to attack him from above using his greater agility.

** Mira uses her smarts more than physical might to be of use in battle, aware she's no match for either viking in a straight fight. She blocks Eldar's arrows with a shield to give Fang breathing room to smack him off the mast, throws a spear at the Chieftain's unarmored face as a distraction, forcing him to dodge, is capable of steering their ships through the rapids whilst everybody's fighting to avoid a fatal crash, identifies that Eldar is controlling his GiantFlyer mount through its reins and disrupts his control over it by hanging onto them, and is able to calculate her descent enough to drop from her mount to Spear's to take over steering it for him, enabling him to focus on the Chieftain.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Chieftain sees a vision of Rikka's death by Fang's jaws, something he wasn't;t present for, in his campfire before a flaming demon appears before him and he snaps awake from a CatapultNightmare. It's unclear if he had a genuine supernatural experience or was picturing his family's passing at the hands of his enemies.

* DeathByDespair: When the Chieftain sees his son's bloody corpse sprawled before him on a rocky island in the middle of the river, he just collapses and lets the water drag him away and under, though it's hinted that he [[UncertainDoom may be]] NotQuiteDead. Eldar's demise likewise has an element of this, as he seems too distraught by his father's apparent DisneyDeath to properly reach to Spear and Mira advancing on him, though his performance throughout the episode has shown that he's not quite as able close-range as his father.

** Mira uses her smarts more than physical might to be of use in battle, aware she's no match for either viking in a straight fight.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Chieftain faces off in a close-range fight with Spear on their stolen boat with Eldar providing him covering fire against Fang to prevent her from getting involved, forcing Mira and Fang to contend together against Eldar first whilst both men settle their deadly duel.

* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth:After losing almost all their supplies and being without weapons for their second attempt on the trio, when Eldar and Mira's fight has her hanging from their flying mount by holding onto one of the reigns, lacking a knife to cut her loose, Eldar resorts to using his teeth to break her tether instead, which takes long enough that Mira can calculate her angle of descent enough to reach Spear's mount.

** This gets repeated again by the climax, only with both sides of the fighting struggling with each other at varying altitudes due to them squaring off atop a pair of giant birds.

* MightyGlacier: Somewhat. The Chieftain's armour and heavy weapon clearly weigh him down and make him overall slower and less mobile than Spear, but the two of them seem equally matched in speed and strength otherwise. Spear even seizes the advantage against him by using his greater agility to dodge his attacks and kick his helmet clean off his head, forcing the Chieftain to briefly switch to two smaller hand-axes to combat Spear in speed.
* OhCrap: To underscore [[ConservationOfNinjutsu just how dangerous the Chieftain is]], Spear has a noticeable look of shock at his fighting skills on his face several times as they face off, despite having remained confident of his victory when facing down his entire village before.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Eldar stands atop their mast and peppers Fang with arrows to keep her away from his father's close-range assault on their enemies. Mira uses [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a shield]] on the boat to grant Fang enough breathing room to smack the mast and knock him down to ground level to face off with the two of them, upon which he [[CurbStompBattle fares poorly]] going two-on-one with a massive beast close-range, swiftly getting overpowered and requiring his father to halt his attack on Spear to save him.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Mid-way through the episode, the trio have to make camp to repair their boat after it got damaged in the fighting, with Fang shortly thereafter revealing that she's actually been pregnant ever since her time with Red, and giving birth to three eggs in a temporary nest. The episode ends with Eldar getting knocked off his GiantFlyer steed by Spear and landing messily on a boulder in the middle of a river before his father's horrified tase.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Eldar stands atop their mast and peppers Fang with arrows to keep her away from his father's close-range assault on their enemies. Mira uses [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a shield]] on the boat to grant Fang enough breathing room to smack the mast and knock him down to ground level to face off with the two of them, upon which he fares poorly going two-on-one with a massive beast close-range, swiftly getting overpowered and requiring his father to halt his attack on Spear to save him.
* DeathByDespair: When the Chieftain sees his son's bloody corpse sprawled before him on a rocky island in the middle of the river, he just collapses and lets the water drag him away and under, though it's hinted that he [[UncertainDoom may be]] NotQuitedead. Eldar's demise likewise has an element of this, as he seems too distraught by his father's apparent DisneyDeath to properly reach to Spear and Mira advancing on him, though his performance throughout the episode has shown that he's not quite as able close-range as his father.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Chieftain's eyes are framed this way a few times, showing how driven he is [[RevengeBeforeReason by his anger towards the trio]] for what they've taken from him, notably when he rests by his campfire and sees the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane vision]] of Rikka's death and the flaming demon appear.

* ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: The Chieftain and Eldar's intimidating armour also makes them [[ConservationOfNinjitsu tougher to take down than their village]], combined with their surprise attack on the trio's boat. The Chieftain's armour deflects one of Spear's sword blows and confuses the Neanderthal over how his attack was ineffective, despite it working agaisnt the rest of the Vikings before.
* ArmourIsUseless: ''Very much averted'', as the Chieftain fares '''''much''''' better against Spear close-range than the entire rest of his village because his high-quality armour can deflect Spear's sword swings, something which confuses the Caveman over how his attacks are ineffective. It doesn't aid Eldar as well when Fang chomps down on his leg, but on the other hand he can still use the leg afterwards, whereas the other villagers were killed/dismembered en masse whenever Fang got them in her jaws. After Fang chucks him overboard, the Chieftain is forced to discard his and his son's heavier armour in the strong currents to successfully reach the shore, leaving their subsequent Ariel attack on the trio much more even-sided

* AnAxeToGrind: The Cheiftain boasts a ''massive'' single-bladed axe in battle against Spear, the blade of which is about the length of his entire torso. Despite its size, he's skilled enough with it to keep Spear firmly on the back foot. However, when Spear uses his greater agility to outmanoeuvre him, he switches to DuelWielding hand axes agaisnt the Caveman to make up for his weapon's disadvantages, before switching back to a similar axe when jumping to Elder's defence against the bigger target of Fang. Spear even attempts to copy his own use of the weapon with a slightly smaller axe, to limited success.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Cheiftain boasts a ''massive'' single-bladed axe in battle against Spear, the blade of which is about the length of his entire torso. Despite its size, he's skilled enough with it to keep Spear firmly on the back foot.

* ArmourIsUseless: ''Very much averted'', as the Chieftain fares '''''much''''' better against Spear close-range than the entire rest of his village because his high-quality armour can deflect Spear's sword swings, something which confuses the Caveman over how his attacks are ineffective. It doesn't aid Eldar as well when Fang chomps down on his leg, but on the other hand he can still use the leg afterwards, whereas the other villagers were killed/dismembered en masse whenever Fang got them in her jaws

* MeaningfulName: The episode is named "Vidarr" after the Aesir god of vengeance, fitting with how the Chieftain and Eldar are pursuing the trio for the loss of their entire village and loved ones, and how the Chieftain is [[RevengeBeforeReason putting his only surviving kin's life at risk]] to achieve vengeance for the departed. Both survivors even repeat the name to each other before wrangling two giant birds of prey to use against the trio, reconfirming their commitment to achieving their retribution before the risky endeavour.
* MightyGlacier: Somewhat. The Chieftain's armour and heavy weapon clearly weigh him down and make him overall slower and less mobile than Spear, but the two of them seem equally matched in speed and strength otherwise.

* AnAxeToGrind: Eldar boasts a ''massive'' single-bladed axe in battle against Spear, the blade of which is about the length of his entire torso. Despite its size, he's skilled enough with it to keep Spear firmly on the back foot.
* ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: Eldar and his son's intimidating armour also makes them [[ConservationOfNinjitsu tougher to take down than their village]], combined with their surprise attack on the trio's boat. Eldar's armour deflects one of Spear's sword blows and confuses the Neanderthal over how his attack was ineffective, despite it working agaisnt the rest of the Vikings before.
* ArmourIsUseless: ''Very much averted'', as Eldar fares '''''much''''' better against Spear close-range than the entire rest of his village because his high-quality armour can deflect Spear's sword swings, something which confuses the Caveman over how his attacks are ineffective.
* BladeOnAStick: With Spear using the much more effective sword in battle against Eldar, Mira takes to arming herself with his namesake weapon against Eldar's son, even mimicking Spear's intimidating warcry against him.
* IHaveTheHighGround: Eldar's son stands atop their mast and peppers Fang with arrows to keep her away from his father's close-range assault on their enemies. Mira uses [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a shield]] on the boat to grant Fang enough breathing room to smack the mast and knock him down to ground level to face off with the two of them.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Eldar faces off in a close-range fight with Spear on their stolen boat with his son providing him covering fire against Fang to prevent her from getting involved, forcing Mira and Fang to contend together against the son first whilst both men settle their deadly duel.
* MeaningfulName: The episode is named "Vidarr" after the Aesir god of vengeance, fitting with how Eldar and his son are pursuing the trio for the loss of their entire village and loved ones, and how Eldar is [[RevengeBeforeReason putting his only surviving kin's life at risk]] to achieve vengeance for the departed.
* MightyGlacier: Somewhat. Eldar's armour and heavy weapon clearly weigh him down and make him overall slower and less mobile than Spear, but the two of them seem equally matched in speed and strength otherwise.
* OhCrap: To underscore [[ConservationOfNinjutsu just how dangerous Eldar is]], Spear has a noticeable look of shock at his fighting skills on his face several times as they face off, despite having remained confident of his victory when facing down his entire village before.
* StrongAndSkilled: Eldar shows himself to be quite different than the opponents Spear has faced thus far, skilled enough in facing humanoid enemies to skillfully keep Spear on the back foot despite an unwieldy weapon and making use of his heavier armour to compensate for his lack of mobility. He even [[PunchCatch counters Spear's attempt]] to attack him from above using his greater agility.

* ArmourIsUseless: ''Very much averted'', as Eldar '''''much''''' better against Spear close-range than the entire rest of his village because his high-quality armour can deflect Spear's sword swings, something which confuses the Caveman over how his attacks are ineffective.

* MeaningfulName: The episode is named "Vidarr" after the Aesier god of vengeance, fitting with how Eldar and his son are pursuing the trio for the loss of their entire village and loved ones, and how Eldar is [[RevengeBeforeReason putting his only surviving kin's life at risk]] to achieve vengeance for the departed.

* ArmourIsUseless: ''Nope''. Eldar fares ''much'' better against Spear close-range than the entire rest of his village because his high-quality armour can deflect Spear's sword swings, something which confuses the Caveman over how his attacks are ineffective.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Eldar faces off in a close-range fight with Spear on their stolen boat with his son providing him covering fire against Fang to prevent her getting involved, forcing Mira and Fang to contend together against the son first whilst both men settle their deadly duel.

* OhCrap: To underscore [[ConservationOfNinjutsu how dangerous Elder is]], Spear has a noticeable look of shock at his fighting skills on his face several times as they face off, despite having remained confident of his victory when facing down his entire village before.
* StrongAndSkilled: Eldar shows himself to be quite different than the opponents Spear has faced thus far, skilled enough in facing humanoid enemies to skilfully keep Spear on the back foot despite an unwieldy weapon and making use of his heavier armour to compensate for his lack of mobility. He even [[PunchCatch counters Spear's attempt]] to attack him from above using his greater agility.

* AnAxeToGrind: Eldar boasts a ''massive'' single-bladed axe in battle against Spear, the bad of which is about the length of his entire torso. Despite it's size, he's skilled enough with it to keep Spear firmly on the back foot.