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| 10 | We are of this light\ |
| 11 | Divine\ |
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| 13 | '''Enter one''''']] |
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| 18 | In ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'', no one can hear you [[TearJerker cry]]. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | For real, this show is famed for being merciless when it comes to making the audience tear up. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | !!Season One |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Chapter One]] |
| 28 | * [[Woobie/FinalSpace Woobie]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * The show opens with Gary [[spoiler: floating through space amidst the ruins of a destroyed ''Galaxy One'' with ten minutes of oxygen left in his reserves. The rest of the crew is missing and presumed dead]]-- a hell of a dramatic and depressing way to kick off a series. |
| 31 | -->'''HUE:''' “The outcome was never in our favour, Gary.” |
| 32 | * Gary starts the series off alone aboard a prison ship, completely isolated and driven insane by his loneliness. It's no surprise that when [[spoiler:Mooncake and Avocato]] stumble across the ship [[PleaseDontLeaveMe he comes across as so desperate to keep them there.]] |
| 33 | * The above example makes the first instance of Gary [[spoiler:dying from lack of oxygen]] HarsherInHindsight. |
| 34 | * As he passes out, Gary's loneliness is further compounded by the last thing he sees [[spoiler:[[DisneyDeath (at least for five minutes)]]]]: [[spoiler:happy moments with his father interspersed with his witnessing the latter board a spaceship and it exploding with him inside not long after it leaves Earth.]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Chapter Two]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * Though it's mostly PlayedForLaughs, the motherless alien family Gary accidentally runs into are quite understandably ''freaked out'' when they find out he's using her body. |
| 41 | * Avocato's failed efforts to [[spoiler:free his son complete with him banging on the glass and crying for Little Cato to forgive him.]] |
| 42 | ** And, from the other side of the glass, Little Cato's shock at seeing him again. [[ExplainExplainOhCrap Then his face falls]] when [[spoiler:he realises it's all a trap.]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Chapter Three]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * Gary having to leave Mooncake with the Order of the Twelve, especially afterwards when [[spoiler:he has to watch Mooncake getting sucked into a giant eyeball as the order betrays them.]] |
| 49 | * Once Mooncake wanders into the colosseum and is forced to take on the barrage of the Order's alien beasts, he briefly looks around at the carnage with regret and sadness after killing one of them with his blasts-- despite his huge and finally-proven hype-up as a "planet-killer," he's clearly not happy with how much the label applies to him in truth. |
| 50 | * While trapped in the Lazarus maze Gary has a vision of Quinn reaching out towards him and Avocato tries to talk him down, until he notices his own vision: Little Cato. [[spoiler:He gets over it just in time, but given what he had to do in the last episode, it must have torn him apart inside to leave his son behind again, illusion or not.]] |
| 51 | -->'''Little Cato:''' “Are we going home, Dad?” |
| 52 | * Gary's answer to Avocato? "I don't want to wake up." It really makes you wonder how much Gary's life sucked for so long even ''before'' he got incarcerated in space. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Chapter Four]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | * Gary meets [[spoiler:Quinn]] again after five years... and she doesn't even recognize him. |
| 59 | * "I'm sorry, Quinn. We wait for Gary." |
| 60 | * Gary having to watch [[spoiler:his father's ship explode again towards the end of his hallucinatory flashback.]] |
| 61 | -->'''Gary:''' "Don't make me watch this [...] ''DAAAD!!''" |
| 62 | ** If you listen closely, Gary seems to yell out the last word before it's revealed he's watching his younger self call out for his dad. Yes, that memory is so painful for Gary, it leaves him near speechless. |
| 63 | ** This retroactively makes his use of the name "Mooncake" and his deep desire to go on adventures in space all the more tragic; [[spoiler: in the end, he's just a guy who misses his father and wants to make him proud]]. |
| 64 | * Everyone having [[NotNowKiddo zero faith in KVN]] despite having the means to save everyone. Later on, (hacked) HUE even begins to insult KVN by calling him "a waste of life", [[OutOfCharacterMoment it's one of the few moments in the whole show where KVN is actually saddened by an insult]]. It's all the more cathartic when [[ThrowTheDogABone KVN successfully manages to reboot HUE and save the whole crew, with the crew genuinely thanking him]]. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Chapter Five]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | * Seeing Quinn so heartbroken after [[spoiler:learning that the infinity Guard is corrupt and infiltrated by the Lord Commander.]] This has been her whole life, and it just got tarnished and destroyed in front of her. |
| 70 | ** Doubly so is the crew’s reaction as they try to comfort her, showcasing just how close they’ve gotten through their adventures. |
| 71 | -->'''Avocato:''' “We’re the good guys now.” |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Chapter Six]] |
| 76 | * Avocato's backstory: [[spoiler:He used to be the Lord Commander's second in command, which effectively means he committed genocide and only stopped when the LC ordered him to kill Little Cato. To realise that this gruff cat man has potentially killed millions of species of people/aliens makes his [[CharacterDevelopment transformation after meeting Gary]] all the more powerful, with the line "We're the good guys now."]] |
| 77 | * During the flashback sequence we find out that [[spoiler:the Lord Commander made his top generals kill their first born children to cement their loyalty to him. On Avocato's turn, he killed the two guards holding Little Cato prisoner and turned his gun on the Lord Commander; in response, the Lord Commander then forced Avocato to ''stay'' loyal under threat of murdering his son in prison]]. |
| 78 | -->'''Generals:''' ''(altogether)'' "For eternity! ''For the Lord Commander!!''" [''bam''] |
| 79 | * Finally, there's the death of [[spoiler:Avocato]]. [[spoiler:After going through hell and back to rescue his son so he can finally be the father he never was, Avocato discovers the Lord Commander has attached one of his sticky bombs to his son's back. As it counts down to go off, Avocato grabs it without thinking and rushes it to the other side of the ship, blocking the explosion with his chest. We are then treated to a shot of his broken corpse floating through space, guts on full display as his son watches on, with Little Cato unable to do anything but cry and scream wordlessly.]] |
| 80 | ** [[spoiler:Everything from the tragic music to the reaction of Gary, Quinn, Mooncake, KVN and Little Cato witnessing Avocato's broken body drifting to the planet below is heartbreaking. The credits are played over the silent image of Little Cato kneeling on the ground, in mourning.]] |
| 81 | -->'''Avocato:''' "[[spoiler:[[TakeCareOfTheKids Take care of my boy.]]]]" |
| 82 | ** [[spoiler:There's also the fact that neither father nor son got true closure: Avocato never got the chance to prove to his son how sorry he was, and Little Cato never got to to spend real quality time with his father after three years of imprisonment. Avo's death wasn’t heroic or fair or even comforting in a small way, it was ''very'' real.]] |
| 83 | *** [[spoiler:The song that plays over this scene is ''Enter One'' by Sol Seppy, which was recorded after the death of the artist's husband and can only be described as ''haunting''. Consider these lyrics, especially in the context of the episode: ''After a storm/I want to be brave/and keep you warm/and not fade away/as we float from the shore/into the light...'']] |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Chapter Seven]] |
| 87 | * Gary's recap of the previous episode is much more somber than the last few recaps. [[spoiler:The recap ends with Gary saying that he'll miss Avocato too]]. |
| 88 | * [[spoiler:Nightfall explains to the group that in many timelines, Gary dies in the hands of the Lord Commander. Sad enough. What's heartbreaking? The fact that we see Mooncake's reaction to it. He is so upset that he lays waste to the entire universe and further opens the rift to Final Space out of ''sheer grief''.]] |
| 89 | * [[spoiler:Avocato's death? Also sad enough. Little Cato's reaction? [[TookALevelInCynic He's become distant from the crew]] [[RevengeBeforeReason and desperately vengeful]] against the Lord Commander, to the point of attacking a ship his father's killer isn't even aboard.]] |
| 90 | * When Gary is saving Little Cato from [[spoiler:Nightfall's self-destructing time ship, Cato flickers forward and back in age several times. It's very clear to see that his adult form looks a LOT like Avocato. And though it's very brief due to the urgency of the situation, there's a look of shock on Gary's face when he sees someone who looks almost exactly like his dead friend, about to die as well. That can't have been pleasant.]] |
| 91 | ** Even worse, [[spoiler:Little Cato's tearful admission to Gary about feeling responsible for his father's death.]] |
| 92 | ** It's a more minor Fridge Tearjerker and PlayedForLaughs when KVN breaches the subject, [[spoiler:but when Little Cato hears him offer to be a mother, he hesitates briefly before continuing with "No, [you can't be my hypothetical relative]." If one took this line at face value, Little Cato essentially had to live without a mother during his childhood, and that's ''before'' he lost his dad in the present time.]] |
| 93 | * [[spoiler:After getting pulled out of the ship, Little Cato finally bursts into tears, realizing the only chance of seeing and saving his father again was sucked away partly because of his impulsivity. Despite everything that he's been through, this is still just a kid, a kid who watched his father die in front of him after spending three years waiting for a chance to talk to him again.]] |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Chapter Eight]] |
| 97 | * When Gary is in Bolo’s dimension, he is sent back to a frozen moment of the past, right to [[spoiler:the point where his father, John, died out on his trip to space]]. Worse is that Gary tries to [[spoiler:spend as much time with his father as possible]], but it doesn't stop his inevitable demise from happening. And if that were not enough, turns out [[spoiler:John died closing the space-time rift, and Gary just aided him with the deed. The entire trip was a closed-timeloop.]] |
| 98 | * After witnessing Gary's trip into the moment John died, Little Cato realizes that [[spoiler:he and Gary have both lost their fathers by this point.]] He goes to comfort Gary but then freezes, at a loss of what to do. |
| 99 | -->'''Little Cato:''' [[spoiler:"... [[NotSoDifferentRemark didn't know we were members of the same club."]]]] |
| 100 | * Gary and John's beatdown on Jack is, again, mostly PlayedForLaughs [[spoiler:(though Gary's reasons for instigating it are understandable,]] [[spoiler:keep in mind [[ComedicSociopathy John knew the guy for]] ''[[ComedicSociopathy 29 years]]'').]] [[spoiler:However it's strongly implied (later confirmed in Gary's prime timeline) that this moment, along with his getting caught in the blast radius after John's HeroicSacrifice and possibly even a lifetime's accumulation of resentment towards [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter John]], twisted Jack into the Lord Commander we know and fear in the present.]] |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Chapter Nine]] |
| 104 | * With a minute left of oxygen, [[spoiler: HUE assures Gary that he would be remaining with him until the bitter end]]. Talk about UndyingLoyalty. |
| 105 | * The [[spoiler:destruction of Earth is heartbreaking to watch. Despite all of their best efforts, despite all of their sacrifices, the crew of the Galaxy One just barely escape with the anti-matter bomb and their lives, and it's still not enough to properly take on the Lord Commander's forces.]] |
| 106 | ** [[spoiler: And it's a beautiful scene, seeing Gary and Quinn floating upwards as the entirety of New York crumbles around them and the ground cracks to reveal geysers of lava spewing upwards. All set to a [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12NjLhUjyB4 haunting original track]] by the show's composer with lyrics like: "Earthquakes break and shatter the perfect design/Ripped realities of broken minds/Towers rise to meet, and yet it's laughing/Humming, "Oh, it won't be long."]] |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Chapter Ten]] |
| 110 | * The whole episode is basically MurphysLaw with a whole bunch of tearjerkers. |
| 111 | * KVN's [[spoiler:death as he floats by Gary's window and glitches out.]] Yeah. Bet you didn't think you'd cry over this, right? |
| 112 | * Mooncake [[spoiler:getting captured by the Lord Commander when trying to get to KVN, and as he struggles to free himself from the cannon, one of the Lord Commander's henchmen tell Mooncake that the more he struggles, the more energy he'll give off.]] |
| 113 | * Quinn and Gary share one final talk [[spoiler:before she dives further into the blast radius and gets consumed, leaving Gary in tears.]] |
| 114 | -->'''Quinn:''' [[spoiler:Gary? I'm sorry.]] |
| 115 | -->'''Gary:''' [[spoiler:For what?]] |
| 116 | -->'''Quinn:''' [[spoiler:''[brokenly]'' Not telling you sooner.]] |
| 117 | -->'''Gary:''' [[spoiler: You can tell me when you come back.]] |
| 118 | -->'''Quinn:''' [[spoiler:''[starting to cry]'' Gary...]] |
| 119 | -->'''Gary:''' [[spoiler:''[realizing what Quinn is about to do]'' [[LittleNo No, don't.]] [[HeroicSacrifice Don't say it.]]]] |
| 120 | -->'''Quinn:''' [[spoiler:''[calm, but now in tears]''... I'm not coming back.]] |
| 121 | -->'''Gary:''' [[spoiler:''[in horror]'' ''Quinn.'']] |
| 122 | -->'''Quinn:''' [[spoiler:We lost Earth, but I can still save you. Goodbye, Gary.]] [[spoiler:''[opens the casing]'']] [[spoiler:I'll miss you.]] |
| 123 | -->'''Gary:''' [[spoiler:'''''[[SayMyName QUINN!!!]]''''']] [[spoiler:HUE?! HUE, get her back! QUINN!!!]] [[spoiler:HUE, GET HER BACK!!! Quinn....]] |
| 124 | * Tribore calls for help from the resistance, but a little while after they show up, [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle the Lord Commander takes most of them out.]]]] |
| 125 | ** Tribore's ship gets hit and spins out of control. His fate is left unknown. |
| 126 | * Little Cato manages to get inside the Lord Commander's base and is prepared to take his revenge. [[spoiler:However, Gary inadvertently crashes the Galaxy One right where Little Cato and the Lord Commander were, shooting Little Cato out into space. Not only did he not manage to get his revenge, but it's likely that he might die out in space.]] |
| 127 | ** [[spoiler:WordOfGod has confirmed that Little Cato survived unharmed, but how he will escape from drifting in space is unknown.]] |
| 128 | * Season 1's finale ends on a {{Cliffhanger}} as [[spoiler:Gary floats in space, having lost almost everything he cared for, and only HUE in his helmet. What makes matters worse is that he dies from suffocation and meets his dad’s spirit while given a choice to go with him or to go back to the living world. Gary's choice this matter is unrevealed. The only glimmer of hope the audience gets on Gary coming back to life is the anomaly/ tractor beam that opens at the last second.]] |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | |
| 132 | !!Season Two |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder: The Toro Regatta]] |
| 135 | * Gary waking up in a garbage disposal ship to find that the Resistance Army has been annihilated, his friends are missing and that HUE might have been destroyed along with his helmet. He breaks down by the ship's window, lamenting their [[MyGreatestFailure failure to save the Earth]] and him possibly being the SoleSurvivor of the battle. Thankfully, an uploaded HUE proves this isn't the case a few moments later. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder: The Happy Place]] |
| 140 | * The leader of the "Happy Ship" is revealed to have been a fellow human who blames Gary for the Earth's destruction, which subsequently resulted in the deaths of his family. This clearly hits a nerve with Gary, who's already harboring immense guilt for failing to stop the Lord Commander. |
| 141 | * Nightfall makes it clear that in every dimension she visited, it all ends with the Earth's destruction. |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder: The Grand Surrender]] |
| 145 | * Ash's backstory is pretty damn dark. Imagine preparing for and looking forward to a positive milestone for your whole life, then you find out it was not at all what you wished for, and ''then'' you realize the parents you loved and adored can kill you without hesitation and watch all the people you ever loved die in a matter of seconds. And after you lash out at everyone who knew this fact (including your parents), you've just destroyed any ties to your home planet that you once had. [[ABirthdayNotABreak And this trauma all happened in one birthday night.]] |
| 146 | ** It doesn't help that she never managed to save her sister, Harp, as she had hoped; once she got to her [[ThatManIsDead there was almost nothing left of who she used to be]]. |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder: The Other Side]] |
| 150 | * Little Cato is revealed to have a device that displays a hologram of Avocato and reads lines of text in his voice. Seeing him use it to simulate a pep talk is a little bittersweet, but when he’s feeling low and making it call him a disappointment... |
| 151 | * Within the time shard, Little Cato believes that Gary, Ash and Fox are dead thanks to his piloting. The rest of the crew have spent the past 60 years trapped in space while he desperately tries to keep them together and find a way to send for help, not knowing that Gary is trying to break through from the other side of the shard. Except it’s not just Gary; [[spoiler:It’s everyone else in the crew. Little Cato is the ONLY one trapped in the anomaly, alone for twelve times the length of Gary’s prison sentence with even less company. He’s definitely GoneMadFromTheIsolation, most of the episode has consisted of his hallucinations, and even after reverting to his proper age he still remembers all of it.]] No wonder he didn’t answer when Gary asked if he was okay. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder: The Notorious Mrs. Goodspeed]] |
| 155 | * Gary's mother became a criminal following his father's death because she wanted nothing to do with them anymore. A flashback reveals that after the funeral, Gary would find her drunk and breaking things in the bedroom. And after she ran away, Gary [[LetThePastBurn burned the house down in retaliation]]. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder: Arachnitects]] |
| 159 | * Gary having a flashback to when caterpillar Mooncake, now a butterfly, was killed by two bullies. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder: The First Times They Met]] |
| 163 | * Nightfall reveals that in every dimension she traveled to, Gary was the one to seal the bridge to Final Space and she was the one drifting in space. This prime timeline (which included the events of the first season) was the only known dimension where the roles were reversed. |
| 164 | ** Even worse, in the timelines where events didn't lead up to sealing the breach, Gary died in some other way, leading to mooncake opening the breach. No matter what Nightfall or anyone does, Final Space is always opened, and Gary always dies one way or another. No wonder she was ready to flat-out kill Mooncake if it meant even the slightest chance of success this time around. |
| 165 | * In the episode, Nightfall tries to cope with the loss of her dimension's Gary by using her memories to play out virtual realities of where she and her Gary first met, dated, and married each other. Nightfall held onto hope that there was one dimension where she could live happily with Gary... but this Gary (the Gary we know) only loves ''his'' Quinn, not her. |
| 166 | ** Since in her timeline Gary didn't get arrested, that means they spent those five years together, maybe even longer depending on when they met. It isn't clear if they actually were married, or if they never got the chance before he died, but regardless, he wasn't just a boyfriend to her, he was someone she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. And now he's gone, and it was because he wanted to save her. |
| 167 | *** And since her universe got destroyed by Invictus and the Titans, it means that his sacrifice was in vain. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder: The Remembered]] |
| 171 | * After the Team Squad obtains the dimensional key from Tera Con Prime in the past, they're told that in order to prevent the universe from collapsing by saving someone in the past, another person must take their place. Little Cato immediately volunteers to do so, but Gary ultimately chooses to remain. |
| 172 | * After shooting the Lord Commander in pure hatred, Gary fails to end him when the Lord Commander's ship arrives. |
| 173 | ** Look at his face when he reunites with Little Cato and tries to be upbeat about the months he spent waiting for the Crimson Light: his lip trembles, and he's struggling to keep a smile. That failure to kill the Lord Commander the second time around, plus the extra months he's stuck in a location alone ''again'', must have really weighed on him in that moment. |
| 174 | * Through time travel, Avocato is saved... unfortunately, his memories are gone. The creators weren't kidding when they said Avocato was dead: he might have been brought back physically, to everyone's delight, but the Avocato we knew from the first season is essentially dead. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder: The Closer You Get]] |
| 178 | * Little Cato becomes bitter towards his father for remembering things not pertaining to him. |
| 179 | * Just as Avocato remembered Little Cato, he gets possessed by Invictus who at the moment was using Gary as a vessel. Invictus then promptly makes him fatally wound Gary while amplifying his jealousy over Gary's relationship with his son, and Little Cato is forced to shoot his possessed father to save Gary. Instead of dying and leaving him alone though, Invictus spirits Avocato away, promising to return to kill Little Cato. As Gary is comatose and Avocato flees the planet, Little Cato has essentially lost both of his father figures ''again''. |
| 180 | -->'''Avocato:''' ''You would choose him over your own father?!'' |
| 181 | -->'''Little Cato:''' Please! If you're in there, stop this! |
| 182 | -->'''Avocato:''' ''I would never father something so weak!'' |
| 183 | -->'''Little Cato:''' Please! ''(he shoots Avocato)'' I'm sorry... |
| 184 | -->'''Avocato:''' '''You're no son of mine!''' |
| 185 | -->'''Little Cato''' I am your son! I am! ''Always will be.'' |
| 186 | -->'''Avocato:''' ''I will '''find''' you and I will '''kill''' you!'' |
| 187 | -->'''Little Cato:''' [[YoureNotMyFather You aren't my father]]. |
| 188 | -->'''Avocato:''' '''''[[InsultBackfire NEITHER IS HE]]!!!''''' |
| 189 | ** When Little Cato shoots Avocato, he sheds BrokenTears, saddened by the fact that he had to shoot his very own father. It's a scene that plays on parental fears, especially if you're a parent that is scared for your kid going through trauma, and it teeter-totters between TearJerker and NightmareFuel. |
| 190 | * Little Cato's [[HeroicBSoD subsequent breakdown]] by Gary's pod in the medical bay, with the backing soundtrack being eerily reminiscent of that in the scene in which Avocato seemingly died in Season 1. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder: The Lost Spy]] |
| 194 | * Sheryl is appointed with stealing plans from John Goodspeed, but inevitably falls for him. When Gary is born, Sheryl's secrets are exposed, and she tells a ''baby Gary'' that she wished he was never born. |
| 195 | * On a more positive note, Gary offering to adopt Little Cato. Even the gang who ordered Cato to kill Gary are crying! |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder: The Setup]] |
| 199 | * Fox is distraught over Clarence's betrayal and is nearly killed by him for his troubles when Clarence stole two of the dimensional keys. Worse, Clarence didn't even intend for the damage to be that severe. |
| 200 | * Ash always knew Clarence was a crooked con man, but she is genuinely crushed that her "Dad" pulled a con on his own adoptive children. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder: Descent into Darkness]] |
| 204 | * Despite rightfully [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out his mother]] for all of the terrible things she had done, Gary nevertheless opts to save her as the planet was about to be absorbed. |
| 205 | * Sheryl mentioning that she had resorted to [[DrowningMySorrows drinking]] heavily after the death of her husband. |
| 206 | * After Gary is finally able to call out his mother, Sheryl's body language changes immediately from her smug arrogance: her eyes fill with tears, she lowers her head as she can't even make eye contact, and she's visibly shrinking away from Gary and Nightfall. Unlike his previous attempt to call her out, she's ''not'' ignoring him nor manipulating him for her own gains; [[ArmorPiercingResponse his words really got to her]]. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder: The Sixth Key]] |
| 210 | * When Bolo reveals that the sixth key was a life, Nightfall volunteers to sacrifice her own. |
| 211 | ** She does this while the rest of the team is busy fighting Invictus so that neither side can interrupt and it breaks Ash, to whom Nightfall had become a sort of mother figure. |
| 212 | * Gary breaking down after Nightfall's sacrifice, distraught that he once again had someone close to him give their life to help his cause. Even sadder are her last words to him before she dies: |
| 213 | -->'''Nightfall:''' Hey, Gary? Always meant to be together, but never meant to be... |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | !!Season 3 |
| 217 | [[folder: ...And Into the Fire]] |
| 218 | * After they had gradually grown to care for each other, AVA is heavily damaged when the ''Crimson Light'' has a run-in with one of the Titans. Even though HUE suggests that she enter his body like before, she regrettably declines as her hardware is broken and the process would take too long. |
| 219 | -->'''HUE:''' I wish I could cry real tears. |
| 220 | -->'''AVA:''' For me? |
| 221 | -->'''HUE:''' For you. For me. For us. |
| 222 | * As if to further show that the third season will be darker than the previous two, the group discover what they first assume to be a robotic being. He explains to them that he was trapped underground because he wanted to find a hole to die in due to him becoming infected by Final Space itself. He requests to be put out of his misery with Ash volunteering. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder: The Hidden Light]] |
| 226 | * When Gary, Quinn, KVN and HUE arrive at Earth and land in Paris, they find the city has been reduced to ruin and corpses floating in the air. It really makes you wonder, is there an Earth left to save? |
| 227 | * It turns out, Nightfall left one last gift for Gary and Quinn. The ship she instructed Kevin to watch over. It's pretty clear that Gary and Quinn have not gotten over what happened to her. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:The Ventrexian]] |
| 231 | * Mooncake does not take it well when he learns Bolo lied about Gary and Quinn dying. |
| 232 | * ''Little Cato isn't Avocato's biological son.'' It turns out, he is the son of the king and queen of Ventrexia that Avocato assassinated under the Lord Commander's orders. Both the Lord Commander and Avocato know the truth would make the boy resent the latter forever. |
| 233 | ** Which makes the fight between Little Cato and the Invictus-possessed Avocato ''even worse'' in hindsight; how much of Avocato's disowning came from his unconsciously jealous feelings about Gary becoming a father figure for Little Cato, and how much of it came from Invictus vaguely telling Little Cato the truth? |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:One Of Us]] |
| 237 | * We now know just how dire Quinn's condition is: being trapped in Final Space for several months has taken such a toll on her that she only has about 30 hours left before she dies from the corruption. And she still doesn't want Gary to know about it... |
| 238 | ** It also means that, even though Quinn's survival hinted that Gary's father could have survived the antimatter bomb and found himself trapped in Final Space just like her, he's most likely long dead by the time the Team Squad entered Final Space. |
| 239 | * Ash loses a second sibling after Fox is taken by Invictus. As if losing Harp wasn't bad enough. |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:All the Moments Lost]] |
| 243 | * Quinn had a sister named Avery who she was tasked with taking care of, but this only led to Avery pushing away until eventually she became separated from her with her fate unknown. |
| 244 | * Quinn starts seeing what appears to be her sister but it is implied that it is actually her Final Space poisoning making her hallucinate. Eventually, her condition worsens to the point that the VolcanicVeins have spread up to her face, and she can't hide it from Gary ''or'' the Team Squad anymore. |
| 245 | * Ash spends the episode hesitant to use her powers after the Lord Commander tells her they come from Invictus. As the Galaxy Two is ready to escape, Ash is so consumed by grief and rage, she stays behind and charges through the black hole at Invictus who is on the other side, demanding Fox back and answers as to why he wants her. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Change is Gonna Come]] |
| 249 | * Invictus tries to persuade Ash to join it by telling her Gary will be the cause of Fox's death. Ash is in denial, but a small part of her starts to wonder if it's true. |
| 250 | * Gary offers to share the pain Quinn is feeling while she's undergoing the operation. He almost goes into cardiac arrest as a result. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:The Chamber of Doubt]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | * Ash briefly thought that Nightfall was back only to be slightly disappointed when Quinn informed her she wasn't. |
| 256 | * Ash and Gary's relationship reaches the breaking point: Gary is worried about Ash's sudden change when she returns from Invictus and Ash is annoyed about the constant delays that prevent her from finding Fox. When Ash is separated from the group in Bolo's mind, she encounters Fox but Invictus has possessed him and when Gary tries to save Ash, Invictus manipulates Gary's robot arm to stab Fox in front of Ash. |
| 257 | --> '''Fox:''' Ashy? I just wanted to be a family again... |
| 258 | * Gary is so torn up about Fox's death that he destroys the cookie machine. This may not seem like much, but Gary's love of cookies has been shown several times throughout the show and the fact that he destroyed it shows how [[BreaktheBadass broken he is by this.]] |
| 259 | * Bolo reveals to Ash that Fox was already dead by the time she saw him in his mind: Invictus was using him as a fleshy puppet to force Gary to "kill" him in reference to what he warned Ash about in their initial meeting. While Ash seems to understand, she bitterly laments how everyone else who got possessed by Invictus came out of the ordeal alive, while Fox didn't. The episode closes on Ash sobbing over Fox's lifeless body once Bolo grants her request to see it. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Forgiveness]] |
| 263 | * The crew throw a holographic funeral for Fox. Before his coffin is cast into Final Space, Little Cato admits that, despite the hostility they shared due to their races' war, he would miss the big guy. |
| 264 | * Gary blaming himself for Fox's death, and the subsequent talk and fight with Avocato. [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct Olan Rogers' and Coty Galloway's voice-acting throughout the scene and those that follow is heart-wrenching.]] |
| 265 | -->'''Avocato:''' Look, you did the right thing. You gotta stop beating yourself up, man.\ |
| 266 | '''Gary:''' It's the only thing I'm good at. I just can't- I can't stop...replaying...that moment in my head. [...] ''Please'', just tell me ''something'', so I don't ''feel'' the way I feel right now. |
| 267 | * Gary and Avocato have a clash when Avocato is forced to reveal his role in the deaths of the King and Queen of Ventrexia...and the truth about Little Cato. |
| 268 | -->'''Gary:''' What the hell are you even saying to me right now?! You...''killed'' Little Cato's...parents?\ |
| 269 | '''Avocato:''' ...Yeah.\ |
| 270 | '''Gary:''' You ''killed his parents?!'' No. No, no. No.\ |
| 271 | '''Avocato:''' Gary...listen-\ |
| 272 | '''Gary:''' Please tell me this is a joke, please. ''[[SuddenlyShouting Tell me this is a JOKE! Please!]]''\ |
| 273 | '''Avocato:''' It was war. I had- ''(Gary tackles him to the floor, then punches him in the face)'' Listen to me, Gary!\ |
| 274 | '''Gary:''' ''(tearing up)'' What can you ''possibly'' say, that can make this any better?! |
| 275 | * Gary insisting that Avocato tell Little Cato the truth as well, even knowing it will break his heart, because he knows the longer Avocato waits the harder it will get. |
| 276 | -->'''Gary:''' You think your crime was killing Little Cato's parents, but it wasn't, it ''wasn't''. Your crime was getting into that kid's heart. Because I know he thinks the ''world'' of you. ''(beat, as Avocato starts crying)'' And I really, ''really'' wanna hate you.\ |
| 277 | '''Avocato:''' You ''should.''\ |
| 278 | '''Gary:''' Because I know that kid, man, and I... ''(voice breaks)'' he's my ''son''. And I know this is going to ''destroy'' him.\ |
| 279 | '''Avocato:''' ''(choked up)'' I know... |
| 280 | * After letting out all his anger in the fight with Gary, Avocato is left a tearful, self-loathing mess, insisting that it would have been better if Gary had left him for dead, and that he doesn't deserve his forgiveness. |
| 281 | * Gary finally faces Ash at the end of the episode to apologize for his part in Fox's death. The man is positively stumbling over his words in both guilt over his alleged crimes, and nervousness over being able to so much as hold a conversation with the girl who saw the only bit of family she had left taken away from her and cried out that ''he'' was responsible. Despite this, Gary's sincere desire for atonement shines through, and he has the sense to not ask for clearly unearned forgiveness, but rather for Ash to share some stories about her brother to keep his memory alive, just like with Quinn and Avery. It wraps back around to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] when Ash - taking the hint that Gary really does feel bad and wants to make things right - actually accepts his request and Gary happily sits down and listens. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Hyper Transdimensional Bridge Rising]] |
| 285 | * Clarence is living in squalor and heavy regret following his betrayal of the Team Squad. And when he finds out about [[spoiler: Fox's death]], he genuinely starts crying. |
| 286 | * [[spoiler: At the cost of his own life, Clarence finally redeems himself by opening the bridge.]] |
| 287 | * Gary is revealed to be [[spoiler: dying via Final Space poisoning just like Quinn was.]] |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Until the Sky Falls]] |
| 291 | * The Lord Commander [[spoiler: successfully merges with the incubating Titan, shattering the Earth in the process and causing a chain reaction that destroys the KVN Net. Meaning that Kevin Van Newton's HeroicSacrifice and the Team Squad's decision to stay behind to activate the Net were ultimately for nothing.]] |
| 292 | * Kevin's [[spoiler:last word are absolutely heartbreaking, {{Creator/Tom Kenny}}'s stellar deliver of it just makes it hurt more.]] |
| 293 | -->[[spoiler:Salvation Comes, In The Blink Of An Eye."]] |
| 294 | [[/folder]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | [[folder:The Dead Speak]] |
| 297 | * The Lord Commander [[spoiler: kills Bolo. He gives a final speech to the Team Squad before he is beheaded.]] |
| 298 | * After Ash successfully exorcises Invictus from a Zombie Gary, he explains that in each timeline, a Gary would sacrifice themselves and end up in Final Space. When meeting whom he assumed was "his" Quinn, he is heartbroken to realize that she never came back for him. |
| 299 | ** Seeing the Zombie Gary's true self is a tear-jerking moment in itself: he used to be just like "our" Gary, and without Invictus' influence keeping him alive, he dies in a matter of minutes, scared and alone. And since he was [[DeadAllAlong already dead]] before Invictus possessed him, there's nothing the Team Squad can do to save him. Quinn at least makes sure he dies in peace by comforting him in his final moments but seeing Gary, even if he's not the "main" Gary, like this is still heartbreaking. |
| 300 | ** There's also the fact that in every single one of those timelines, NONE of their Quinns came back for them, unlike what our Gary did to save his Quinn… and that’s even assuming that their Quinn’s even survived like Gary did. |
| 301 | *** All of those Quinns could very well have ''tried'' to rescue their Garys...and either died attempting to free Bolo, or they never knew he existed and spent however long their lives lasted trying futilely to save their Gary. And he would never know if she had given up on him or not. |
| 302 | ** It gets worse when you remember that Nightfall said that in plenty of timelines, Gary dies ''outside'' of Final Space. Since "''every timeline flows into Final Space''", and given the sheer number of undead Garys in Final Space, that means those Garys that died outside must've still been claimed by Invictus when he conquered their universes. All Garys except ours sacrificed their lives for their causes, but no matter how it happened, ''none'' of them got to rest knowing they had saved their loved ones in any way, because for them to be there, it meant Invictus had to have won. |
| 303 | ** The sheer fact that ''dying does not save you from Invictus'' is both heartbreaking and terrifying. There's no closure, no peace, no freedom. Invictus ripped each Gary, and all it's countless other puppets, from the afterlife and forced them to become it's slaves. |
| 304 | * As the episode goes on, the Final Space poisoning is worsening among the Team Squad members. |
| 305 | ** As they're fleeing the Lord Commander and Invictus' battle, Avocato is notably snippy and argumentative with Quinn throughout the episode, which she eventually calls him out on as they're gunning their way through a horde of zombified Garys. He then proceeds to tear into Quinn for her MartyrWithoutACause tendencies, which have been at least part of the reason that they've remained behind in Final Space for what ultimately turned out to be a fruitless endeavor after the KVN Net was wiped out, before soberly revealing the ''real'' reason he's so upset- both he and Little Cato have Final Space poisoning as well. And it's not just them- ''all'' the Team Squad has the sickness, which is just confirmed in a subsequent scene where Gary and Little Cato check on each other's conditions. The entire Squad has been killing themselves to stay and help Quinn's self-imposed mission to kill the Titans and stop Invictus, and she was the only one who didn't know. It's even more sobering, because, thanks to the Implant, Quinn is the only person who's guaranteed to survive, whilst the rest of them die for her cause. Quinn's horrified reaction to the news makes it clear she never realized the full ramifications of what her decision to stay would cost for the team. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:The Leaving]] |
| 309 | * Despite it initially being believed that Ash came to forgive Gary for indirectly killing Fox, Ash learning that Avocato killed Little Cato's birth parents was the final straw for her causing whatever lingering resentment she had for Gary to bubble to the surface. |
| 310 | * She even turns on Quinn, saying she hoped that there was some trace of Nightfall in her, but since Quinn isn't really Nightfall, she now sees her as just another opponent. You can see the heartbreak in Quinn's eyes as she says this. |
| 311 | * Poor Little Cato is pushed through a series of mistreatment throughout the episode: he unwittingly interrupts Gary and Quinn's intimate moment and then decides to ask his father about his mother. Avocato, however, lies explaining that she died in childbirth. But when Ash learns the truth, she relays it to Little Cato, and before he could even process it, she escapes into space with him. |
| 312 | * What would out-of-context be a heartwarming moment - Avocato telling Little Cato about his MissingMom - is instead this with the knowledge that the former is lying through his teeth the entire time. Avocato is clearly hating himself with every word, especially when Little Cato [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging hugs him after being told his mother died in childbirth and thanks him for being his dad]]. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:The Devil's Den]] |
| 316 | * Little Cato finally learns the truth about his parents and is naturally devastated by it, collapsing to the ground as the realization that his entire life was a lie washes over him. |
| 317 | -->'''Little Cato:''' ''Did you really do it?! Did you kill my parents?!''\ |
| 318 | '''Ash:''' From your mouth! Tell your ''son'' what. You. ''Did.''\ |
| 319 | '''Avocato:''' ...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.\ |
| 320 | '''Little Cato:''' ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Did?! You?! DO IT?!]]''\ |
| 321 | '''Avocato:''' .........[[AwfulTruth Yes.]] |
| 322 | * Realizing that Ash is past the point of being swayed back to the crew, Gary simply apologizes for failing her. You can even see Ash let out a small gasp in surprise and acknowledgement before [[RedemptionRejection she doubles down on attacking them and]] [[ThenLetMeBeEvil getting somehow even worse from there.]] |
| 323 | * Ash's MotiveRant to Gary, furiously ranting about how happy she had been with Clarence and Fox, and how Gary and the Team Squad took it all away from her. |
| 324 | * Ash's entire arc this season was pure tragedy. First she's roped into Invictus' plot because of her powers. Nightfall, who was like a big sister to her, sacrifices herself to save Quinn, and Ash's attempts to bond with her fall flat due to the irreconciled differences between her and Nightfall. Then she's ForcedToWatch as her adoptive brother is killed by a man she trusted. Then her adoptive father sacrifices himself for her and her friends, only for his sacrifice to [[SenselessSacrifice rendered pointless]] by Quinn's selfish obsession with stopping the Titans. Finally, she finds out that Avocato murdered the birth parents of Little Cato, the only member of the Team Squad she truly trusted anymore. All the pain and anger becomes too much for her, and she ends up falling right into Invictus' hands, [[JustAsPlanned just as it had planned]]. |
| 325 | * When Ash tries to prevent the Team Squad from leaving Final Space, Mooncake rushes out to fight her…only to be quickly overpowered and captured. She then [[KickTheDog tortures him,]] claiming that this is [[RevengeByProxy revenge for Gary killing Fox]], before draining his powers, most likely killing the little alien. Gary's crying out for Mooncake while Quinn gives the order to leave says it all. |
| 326 | ** And if that didn't kill Mooncake, then there's a good chance that Invictus being freed did, along with Ash, as the last shot we see of them is the both of them being engulfed in his energy. |
| 327 | * In mix of FridgeHorror and sadness, Gary's last line of the episode hits hard, because in a way, ''he is right.'' Everything the Team Squad did (such as Gary and the others entering Final Space, Quinn refusing to leave, etc) ultimately resulted in Ash falling under Invictus' control, Mooncake being captured and drained, and Invictus being freed. |
| 328 | --> '''Gary:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God…What have we done?]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | !!Other |
| 334 | * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalSpace/comments/c34uht/hey_everyone_olan_here_so_the_title_sequence_for/ The unused opening title sequence for season one]], scrapped due to ExecutiveMeddling, but later used for Season 3. Instead of depicting the full cast, it shows a lone Gary hurtling helplessly through space to a soberer, more ballad-like incarnation of the ThemeTune, to which it supplies the following lyrics: |
| 335 | -->''The darkness makes me feel so small'' |
| 336 | -->''Count the stars as they fall!'' |
| 337 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4MGJI2zeRs trailer for Season 3]] pulls no punches when it comes to letting us know that this season will be even darker than the previous two. In particular, the moment when [[FireForgedFriends Gary and Avocato]] are ''brutally fighting each other'' for unknown reasons is hard to watch. |
| 338 | * According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFg3ljZF2kA&feature=youtu.be this video]] from Olan Rogers, the series has officially come to an end after Season 3; TooGoodToLast, indeed. |
| 339 | * Around the fourth anniversary of the series, Olan Rogers posted [[https://twitter.com/FinalSpace/status/1497753977005346819 an audio clip of some scrapped dialog from the final episode]]. Just in case you needed some more Little Cato angst. |
| 340 | -->'''Little Cato:''' Get off me! ''You killed my parents!!'' Get away from me!\ |
| 341 | '''Avocato:''' I'm sorry... Son--\ |
| 342 | '''Little Cato:''' DON'T ''EVER'' CALL ME THAT!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!\ |
| 343 | '''Avocato:''' ''(desperate)'' Please, son, please let me explain--\ |
| 344 | '''Little Cato:''' ''I HATE you!!''\ |
| 345 | ---\ |
| 346 | '''Gary:''' Little Cato! Are you hurt?\ |
| 347 | '''Little Cato:''' You're not here... This...this isn't happening...\ |
| 348 | '''Gary:''' Hey!\ |
| 349 | '''Little Cato:''' ''You're not here...''\ |
| 350 | '''Gary:''' HEY!\ |
| 351 | '''Little Cato:''' ''This isn't happening, okay...''\ |
| 352 | '''Gary:''' It's me! It's Gary! I'm here!\ |
| 353 | '''Little Cato:''' Everybody stop. Everybody, stop. ''(crying)'' I'm alone. No, I'm alone... Stop...\ |
| 354 | '''Gary:''' Son...\ |
| 355 | '''Little Cato:''' ''(weakly)'' Stop...\ |
| 356 | '''Gary:''' You're not alone.\ |
| 357 | '''Little Cato:''' ...Is it really you?\ |
| 358 | '''Gary:''' Of course it is! We came to get you. |
| 359 |
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