Line #72 Recap/WanderOverYonderS2E16TheLegendTheBadNeighbors


1	'''The Legend'''
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3	Wander and Sylvia save a group of kids from a Dominator invasion as the kids tell stories about a familiar mythic hero.
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5	!!Tropes appearing in ''The Legend''
6	* ActuallyIAmHim: Wander is "The Hero" that the children are describing, but only Melodie's little sister Angela knows the truth; and that's because she sees Wander and Sylvia in action before boarding the escape ship the pair escorted her family to.
7	* AndCallHimGeorge: Hank's story has Wander as a giant furry monster who hugs Hater so hard it kills him.
8	* {{Animesque}}: David's story is told in this style.
9	* ArtShift: One for each child's story. Hank's is done in childish scribbles on lined paper, Jamie's is done in a loudly-colored comic-book style, David's is a pastiche of early anime, and Melodie's is a simple children's-book illustration style.
10	* AscendedMeme: [[invoked]] Wander being called a "star nomad" in Melodie's story is a reference to {{Fanon}} referring to Wander as such.
11	* CallBack: Wander's guesses for who the legendary hero the children are waiting for are Prince Cashmere, Stella Starbella, and Brad Starlight.
12	* ContinuityNod:
13	** Hank's story is a retelling of the very first episode of ''Wander Over Yonder'', "The Greatest".
14	** David's story seems to be a retelling of the episode "The Party Animal".
15	** Jamie's story is about how Wander defeated Major Threat from "The Good Bad Guy".
16	** The "mustard or mayo" bit is used in Jamie's story, only to be used as weapons by Wander to squirt all over Major Threat.
17	* CreepyChild: Hank describes how "The Hero" squeezed Lord Hater to death, so that he became a pile of bones. Wander and Sylvia are freaked out when they hear this.
18	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: In Melodie's story, Wander's uncontrollable curiosity caused him to accidentally release an ancient evil that corrupted his father into Lord Hater.
19	* EveryoneIsRelated: Melodie's very fanfic of a story has Hater revealed as Wander's father whom he accidentally corrupted and Dominator as Wander's long lost sister who has sworn revenge against him. Cut to much later of her very long story, Emperor Awesome is Wander's half brother, the Evil Sandwich is his cousin, and it seemed that she was about to mention another but she's cut off by Hank. Suffice to say, a very exhausted Wander quietly shakes his head in denial when an equally exhausted Sylvia looks at him in response to this absurd mess.
20	* HumongousMecha: David's story has Sylvia envisioned as a ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}-like'' mecha.
21	* HypocriticalHumor: Melodie dismisses the other kids' stories as fanfiction but her story sounds more like one than any of theirs complete with a very obvious self-insert.
22	* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Parodied when David imagines the Hero of Legend as controlling a giant robot named Silver 7.
23	* LongLostRelative: In Melodie's story, Dominator is Wander's long lost sister whom he's been looking for.
24	* MassOhCrap:
25	** The children when they miss the last evacuation ship.
26	** Wander and Sylvia when they hear the first two stories about Wander.
27	* MultipleHeadCase: Two of the kids, Jamie and Hank, are conjoined PolarOppositeTwins.
28	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Wander in Melodie's story releases SealedEvilInACan which corrupts "his father" into Lord Hater. This causes Melodie's version of Wander to roam the galaxy as TheAtoner.
29	* NarrativeShapeshifting: When Wander mentions some of the heroes that could be "The Hero", he briefly makes himself look like each one.
30	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Hank's story of Wander crushing Lord Hater with a massive bear-hug.
31	* OverlyLongGag:
32	** Wander farting on Major Threat during Jamie's story.
33	** The "Silver 7" song from David's story.
34	* PowerAtAPrice: In Melodie's story, Wander unlocking his inner strength somehow curses him into becoming a werewolf. She {{hand wave}}s that "inner strength can be a curse".
35	* RightForTheWrongReasons: David describes Wander accurately as an AllLovingHero; he says it's because Wander relies on "Silver 7" to fight the bad guys.
36	* SelfInsertFic: Melodie's already fanfic of a story becomes this when she inserts herself as Wander's OneTrueLove, a secret winged princess who happens to be the only one capable of lifting his inner strength werewolf curse. Predictably, the other kids promptly express their chagrin the moment she does this.
37	* ShoutOut:
38	** The bulk of the episode is based on the classic ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story "The Batman Nobody Knows".
39	** The "Silver 7" sequence is a send-up of ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'', with Wander as Jimmy Sparks/Shotaro Kaneda and Sylvia as Gigantor/Tetsujin 28.
40	** Wander's dislike of Jamie's "TotallyRadical Wander" seems similar to [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Dipper Pines's]] hatred of [[ReplacementGoldfish Dippy Fresh]].
41	* ShroudedInMyth: Apparently Wander, judging by the kids' wildly-varying stories about "The Hero".
42	* StrayingBaby: Angela returned to her house at the start of the episode to retrieve her Sylvia plushie. Her friends come to find her, which means the escape pods leave without them.
43	* TakeThat: Jamie's version of Wander is a criticism of series whose main characters are intentionally immature, gross, and rude for the sake of making kids laugh. In particular, the art style slightly shifts to a more hard-lined animation reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', a series abundant in these traits.
44	* TakeThatAudience: Melodie's story is a parody of WOY fan-fiction and the wild fandom speculation regarding Wander's back-story (especially taking the piss out of the popular "Star Nomad" fanon and the idea that Wander is secretly related to one or more of the villains).
45	* ToiletHumour: Jamie's story paints Wander as constantly farting.
46	* TotallyRadical: Jamie's story imagines Wander as an edgy, loudly-colored, guitar-surfing punk who defeated Major Threat by teasing and humiliating him.
47	* WeNeedADistraction: Wander distracts Dominator's Lavabots so that the kids can get back in their escape pod.
48	* WouldHurtAChild: The Lavabots would, if they got the chance.
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51	'''The Bad Neighbors'''
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53	As they hide out on planet Suburbicon V, Peepers desperately tries to come up with a plan to save the galaxy from Dominator, while Hater obsesses over their jerky new neighbor: Emperor Awesome.
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55	!!Tropes appearing in ''The Bad Neighbors''
56	* AintTooProudToBeg: Peepers keeps asking for Hater's help in coming up with a plan to stop Dominator. This is ''Peepers'', who knows his boss is an unreliable ManChild.
57	* {{Anticlimax}}: The big plan Peepers was trying to show to Hater turns out to be a Mouse Trap-esque RubeGoldbergMachine.
58	* ContinuityNod:
59	** Hater is shown walking Captain Tim and using him to urinate acid on Awesome's lawn.
60	** A musical reprise of "That's How We'll Get Her" plays when Peepers finally comes up with a plan.
61	** All the villains that were captured by Dominator in the last episode are shown to have escaped and attend Awesome's barbeque.
62	* EscalatingWar: Hater gets into one with Awesome.
63	* ExhaustedEyeBags:
64	** Peepers has this due to the stress of having to come up with a plan to defeat Lord Dominator and save the galaxy.
65	** Lord Hater has these when he spends all evening trying to zap all the leaves that are landing on his lawn.
66	* LameRhymeDodge: When Peepers accuses Hater of trying to dodge the issue of Lord Dominator by starting a feud with Emperor Awesome, Hater retorts "I just ''refuse'' to be publicly humiliated by [[FreudianSlip Dominator]]... I mean, Domi-neighbor... our dumb neighbor!"
67	* LaughTrack: The episode is accompanied by the sounds of a live audience, complete with laughs, cheers and "aww"s.
68	* LoudOfWar: Emperor Awesome plays his music too loud, so Hater plays his even louder, and so on until Hater's speakers explode.
69	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Peepers' montage of preparing the perfect barbecue.
70	* MundaneUtility: Hater uses Captain Tim's destructive nature to mess up Awesome's lawn.
71	* OutOfGenreExperience: This episode turns the show into a parody of suburban life {{sitcom}}s, complete with sounds of a live studio audience.
72	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peepers delivers a brutal one to Hater near the end, calling him out on more concerned with one-upping Awesome than defeating Dominator.
73	* RunningGag: Hater walking in and out of Peepers' war councils due to Emperor Awesome distracting him.
74	* SkewedPriorities: Once again, Hater lets a petty rivalry distract him from the bigger picture. As Peepers points out, they need to stop Dominator before she destroys the galaxy and come up with a plan while in hiding. It's justified as Hater is using this petty rivalry to distract from how he doesn't want to face Dominator again.
75	* StartMyOwn: How Peepers helps Hater outdo Awesome once and for all; setting up a barbecue to steal away the visitors to Awesome's.
76	* SureLetsGoWithThat: This is Hater's response when Peepers assumes Hater was trying to build up his confidence by scoring a small win against Emperor Awesome.
77	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Both Awesome and Hater insist that they're totally not hiding from Lord Dominator.
78	* UnexplainedRecovery: It's not explained how Emperor Awesome or any of the villain escaped the prison cells on Dominator's ship--or even survived the ship freezing over.
79	* VillainEpisode: The action of this episode focuses on Hater and Awesome's rivalry, and Wander and Sylvia aren't even mentioned.
80	* VillainousBreakdown:
81	** Emperor Awesome is so traumatized by Lord Dominator that he cannot even bring himself to say her name.
82	** Peepers has a minor one after showing off his "brilliant" plan, bursting into tears when he realizes how terrible it is.
83	--->'''Peepers:''' A net? ''A net?! She shoots '''lava'''!''

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