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Recap / All Hail King Julien S 05 E 01 The Strife Aquatic

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King Julien: Hold on to your booties kids, I've got something new for you!
There was a king named Julien / Who's kingdom all did hail!
Until he lost his crown / And his peeps were put in jail
By an evil dude named Koto / Causing Julien and Maurice to flee
Clover's hiding out with Sage / And Mort sacrificed his freedom on the way
Now Julien's lost at sea!

Chapter One

King Julien is a king no more. He has lost his crown to Koto and is lost aimlessly at sea in a sub with limited food. Clover and Sage set off on a quest to find Sage's mentor and find a weapon that can help them defeat Koto. It's a whole new show! It's All Hail King Julien: Exiled.

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  • Amusing Injuries: Mort suffers several in his attempts to assassinate Koto. Koto notices and finds it funny, so he hires Mort to be his court jester.
  • Continuity Creep: This entire season is one big 13 part story; each episode will more or less pick up almost immediately where the previous ends.
  • Distinction Without a Difference: Koto prefers not to refer to his captives as "Slaves" or "Prisoners", but instead as "Unpaid Interns".
  • Downer Beginning: The kingdom has already been lost, and nobody really has any idea how to even start doing something about it.
  • Exact Words: Mort is told that "as long as Koto is alive, he is your king." So Mort decides to kill Koto so that Julien will be king again.
  • Heroic BSoD: Julien is extremely broken up about losing his kingdom. He's haunted by visions of his citizens asking him why he abandoned him, and he doesn't even have any drive to try and get his crown back.
    Julien: This monster can't kill a king who's already dead.
  • It's All My Fault:
    • Julien blames himself for the downfall of the kingdom as he invited Koto into the kingdom in the first place.
    • Sage's family knew that Koto would become a tyrannical king if given the chance, but Sage abandoned his place at the throne to pursue his own interests anyway.
  • Mirrors Reflect Everything: Mort attempts to assassinate Koto with a crossbow, but he misses and hits a mirror which reflects his crossbow bolt back at him.
  • Previously on…: From here on out, the regular opening theme is replaced with Julien singing a song summarizing the plot of the previous episode.
  • Sequel Series: The entire Exiled season is listed as a separate show in the Netflix catalog.
  • Trapped-with-Monster Plot: Julien, Maurice and Pancho think there's a monster inside the sub. They hunt it down, and eventually Julien is caught inside a room with it. However, the "monster" turns out to be Ted stowed away.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Clover's reaction upon hearing Sage's story about him and Koto, which essentially boils fall of the Kingdom down to Sage wanting to be a color.

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