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* ShockingSwerve: Ho Cheng turning out to be [[spoiler:a demonic, squid-like BrainMonster]] and the reveal that numerous helpful characters (like [[spoiler:George the Beggar, the Bear, Brother Charles, and the Pretty Good Sabatier]]) were nothing but personas assumed by Giovanne.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The cruelty and inhumanity of child labor, as well as wage slavery. When Shou Cow made it clear that he and the Secret Society of Freedom were really only concerned with rescuing the twins from a sweatshop, saying that they can't save the whole world, he's called out on this viewpoint by Professor Ledeaux.
--> '''Professor Ledeaux:''' It is the duty of every adult to protect the young and innocent, and you will not stop me from trying to free those children. If you call yourself freedom fighters, you should be fighting for all those who need your help, not the chosen few. Can't you see?
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"Free reign" is an eggcorn.


* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad The Empress Dowager]] of China is [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a wicked tyrant]] who lives in lavish luxury while her oppressed, poverty-stricken people starve and are terrorized by her soldiers and [[EunuchsAreEvil eunuchs]]. When two children who were prophesied to bring about her downfall are born, the Empress orders them killed, has their doctor imprisoned and tortured, and turns their fathers into inanimate--[[AndIMustScream but still aware]]--[[TakenForGranite statues]], because death would be "too easy", as a punishment for the "defiant act" of bringing her would-be usurpers into the world. After learning that the children were secretly smuggled to France, the Empress gives her eunuchs free reign to destroy anything that gets in their way in their mission to slay the twins. When the twins make it to China, the Empress deploys her armies against them, and allows the soldiers to raze villages and summarily execute people in an attempt to flush the children and their allies out. The Empress regularly threatened her servants with death and mutilation, had planned on murdering her EvilSorcerer on the unfounded suspicion that he was disloyal, and foregoes executing her incompetent head eunuch in favor of demoting him, because the eunuch spending the rest of his life haunted by his disgrace is a far [[CruelMercy crueler]] and more amusing punishment than death.

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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad The Empress Dowager]] of China is [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a wicked tyrant]] who lives in lavish luxury while her oppressed, poverty-stricken people starve and are terrorized by her soldiers and [[EunuchsAreEvil eunuchs]]. When two children who were prophesied to bring about her downfall are born, the Empress orders them killed, has their doctor imprisoned and tortured, and turns their fathers into inanimate--[[AndIMustScream but still aware]]--[[TakenForGranite statues]], because death would be "too easy", as a punishment for the "defiant act" of bringing her would-be usurpers into the world. After learning that the children were secretly smuggled to France, the Empress gives her eunuchs free reign rein to destroy anything that gets in their way in their mission to slay the twins. When the twins make it to China, the Empress deploys her armies against them, and allows the soldiers to raze villages and summarily execute people in an attempt to flush the children and their allies out. The Empress regularly threatened her servants with death and mutilation, had planned on murdering her EvilSorcerer on the unfounded suspicion that he was disloyal, and foregoes executing her incompetent head eunuch in favor of demoting him, because the eunuch spending the rest of his life haunted by his disgrace is a far [[CruelMercy crueler]] and more amusing punishment than death.

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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad The Empress Dowager]] of China is [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a wicked tyrant]] who lives in lavish luxury while her oppressed, poverty-stricken people starve and are terrorized by her soldiers and [[EunuchsAreEvil eunuchs]]. When two children who were prophesied to bring about her downfall are born, the Empress orders them killed, has their doctor imprisoned and tortured, and turns their fathers into inanimate--[[AndIMustScream but still aware]]--[[TakenForGranite statues]], because death would be "too easy", as a punishment for the "defiant act" of bringing her would-be usurpers into the world. After learning that the children were secretly smuggled to France, the Empress gives her eunuchs free reign to destroy anything that gets in their way in their mission to slay the twins. When the twins make it to China, the Empress deploys her armies against them, and allows the soldiers to raze villages and summarily execute people in an attempt to flush the children and their allies out. The Empress regularly threatened her servants with death and mutilation, had planned on murdering her EvilSorcerer on the unfounded suspicion that he was disloyal, and foregoes executing her incompetent head eunuch in favor of demoting him, because the eunuch spending the rest of his life haunted by his disgrace is a far [[CruelMercy crueler]] and more amusing punishment than death.

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* ArcFatigue: It takes over half of the series for the twins to get to Martin in Marseilles.
* {{Narm}}: The music that plays during the battle scenes in the last few episodes is weirdly whimsical instead of epic, and sounds like it came from an arcade game or something similar.

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* ArcFatigue: It takes over half of the series for the twins to get to Martin in Marseilles.
Marseilles, mostly because they kept getting mugged, enslaved, and subjected to MissedHimByThatMuch.
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The music that plays during the battle scenes in the last few episodes is weirdly whimsical instead of epic, and sounds like it came from an arcade game or something similar.similar.
** One of Po Dung's lieutenants is named Xi Min (say it fast).

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* AngstWhatAngst: Nobody seems all that broken up over [[spoiler:Paulette]] and [[spoiler:Ho Quan]] being lost at sea in "Voyage into Danger." The [[spoiler:former]] turned out to still be alive, but still...



* AngstWhatAngst: Nobody seems all that broken up over [[spoiler:Paulette]] and [[spoiler:Ho Quan]] being lost at sea in "Voyage into Danger." The [[spoiler:former]] turned out to still be alive, but still...
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* ArcFatigue: It takes over half of the series for the twins to get to Martin in Marseilles.
* AngstWhatAngst: Nobody seems all that broken up over [[spoiler:Paulette]] and [[spoiler:Ho Quan]] being lost at sea in "Voyage into Danger." The [[spoiler:former]] turned out to still be alive, but still...
* {{Narm}}: The music that plays during the battle scenes in the last few episodes is weirdly whimsical instead of epic, and sounds like it came from an arcade game or something similar.
* ShockingSwerve: Ho Cheng turning out to be [[spoiler:a demonic, squid-like BrainMonster]] and the reveal that numerous helpful characters (like [[spoiler:George the Beggar, the Bear, Brother Charles, and the Pretty Good Sabatier]]) were nothing but personas assumed by Giovanne.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The cruelty and inhumanity of child labor, as well as wage slavery. When Shou Cow made it clear that he and the Secret Society of Freedom were really only concerned with rescuing the twins from a sweatshop, saying that they can't save the whole world, he's called out on this viewpoint by Professor Ledeaux.
--> '''Professor Ledeaux:''' It is the duty of every adult to protect the young and innocent, and you will not stop me from trying to free those children. If you call yourself freedom fighters, you should be fighting for all those who need your help, not the chosen few. Can't you see?

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