Line #46 Recap/ClassS01E07TheMetaphysicalEngineOrWhatQuillDid


1	Ms. Ames leads Quill and a mysterious warrior named Ballon on a quest to recover items required to remove Quill's parasite without killing her.
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4	!!Tropes that appear in the episode
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6	* AndIMustScream: Those in Lorr Hell are statues, which to the shapeshifting Lorr is a particularly terrifying concept.
7	* ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay: Subverted, when Quill and Ballon are in the Cabinet of Souls, a hologram of Coal Hill makes them think they are inside.
8	* BackwardsFiringGun: The gun that is sent to Quill is one, meaning Ballon dies instead when he tries to kill her.
9	* BiggerOnTheInside: The Cabinet of Souls. {{Lampshaded}} by Quill, contributing to the RunningGag in Series/DoctorWho.
10	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The places the Metaphysical Engine can go to only exist because people believe in them. The Governors are somehow planning to use it to remake the world according to their desires, or create a new one.
11	* ContinuityNod:
12	** Quill refers to [[Recap/ClassS01E02TheCoachWithTheDragonTattoo the time she kissed a robot]].
13	** Ballon posed as a Zygon because [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor they're protected on Earth]].
14	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Quill asks incredulously if they're in Arn Heaven; Dorthea says that they're inside the ''idea'' of Arn Heaven.
15	* DueToTheDead: Quill buries Ballon in the cabinet under a Cairn of stones.
16	* EitherOrTitle: The title falls under this two-part structure.
17	* EyeScream: Quill's surgery scene.
18	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Again, Quill's surgery scene.
19	* FetchQuest: Three items from different religious otherworlds are needed to make sure the operation to remove Quill's parasite is a success.
20	* ForegoneConclusion: The last episode ended with Miss Quill arriving at the classroom alive and free, so from the start we know she will succeed and survive the events of this episode.
21	* HardLight: The Headmistress says the school in the Cabinet was just a hologram, but Ballon could tear down music stands, put things on tables, etc.
22	* HealingHands: A variation. Ballon is able to use the flesh of the Lorr God to heal Quill's face after he's removed the Arn.
23	* HolographicDisguise: A variation. Ballon and Quill think they are back at Coal Hill, but it turns out to be a hologram; they are really in the Cabinet of Souls.
24	* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: Quill and Ballon are forced to fight to the death so that one of them can escape from the Cabinet of Souls, as the machine that took them there only has energy to return one.
25	* KillTheGod: The Quill Goddess is killed so her brain can be used.
26	* KillTheOnesYouLove: Quill is forced to kill Ballon thanks to the Governors, after becoming close to him.
27	* LadyOfAdventure: Ms. Ames dresses in a sort of steampunk explorer costume.
28	* LawOfInverseFertility: Ballon and Quill sleeping together once the former impregnates the latter.
29	* MentalWorld: The places the Metaphysical Engine takes people are technically this.
30	* MetaphysicalPlace: The Metaphysical Engine takes the characters to these places, including Arn Heaven, Lorr Hell, the Quill creation myth, and the Rhodian Cabinet of Souls.
31	* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Ms. Quill (a Quill) and Ballon (a Lorr) conceive a child. Although how humanoid it will be is an open question.
32	* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Quill emphasizes this about the Quill Goddess.
33	* PartialTransformation: Ballon turns his hand into a scalpel using the blood of the Lorr God.
34	* PlotCoupon: The Pheromones of Arns, the blood of the Lorr god, and a Quill brain are needed to enable the Arn's removal.
35	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Ballon turns out to be from a culture with very similar attitudes to Quill's.
36	* SadisticChoice: There is only enough power for one person to make it out of the Cabinet of Souls, meaning Ballon and Quill have to fight to the death.
37	* SceneryPorn: The Arn heaven.
38	* {{Shapeshifter}}: Ballon. His race, the Lorr, see ''not'' shapeshifting as like being dead.
39	* ShapeshifterModeLock: Ballon's punishment.
40	* ShapeshifterWeapon: Not really a weapon, but Ballon turns his hand into a scalpel to remove the Arn from Quill.
41	* SurprisePregnancy: At the end of the episode, it turns out Quill is heavily pregnant.
42	* SwissArmyAppendage: Ballon turns his hand into a scalpel to perform surgery on Quill.
43	* SynchronousEpisodes: Takes place at the same time as [[Recap/ClassS01E06Detained "Detained"]], but follows Quill.
44	* ToHellAndBack: One of the locations the group go to is Lorr Hell, to get blood from the Lorr God.
45	* WhamShot: One not present in the previous episode. Quill collapses after telling Charlie that things are going to change, and it's revealed that she's ''pregnant''.
46	* YearInsideHourOutside: They were in the metaphysical engine for a day, but Quill was only gone 45 minutes on Earth. The [[YearOutsideHourInside reverse]] also applies, as while in the cabinet of souls, Quill aged by several months, as shown by her longer hair and increased pregnancy.
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