Full Recap
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Tropes:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Hop Pop stumbles upon Leif's secret room after getting lost while looking for the bathroom.
- Batman Gambit: Andrias' forces capture Tritonio's gang by hiding in a caravan and waiting for the gang to ambush. Once they break into the caravan, they have enough time to register that it's a trap before being dragged inside and carted off.
- Big Damn Heroes: Tritonio shoots the robot judge through the eye just as it's about to crush Jojo Potato.
- Blatant Lies: When the heroes remark on Tritonio's change of heart, he's clearly embarrassed and claims he just happened to be passing through and that his arrow just accidentally fired at the judge robot.
- The Bus Came Back: Tritonio returns after he was last seen being arrested in "Combat Camp".
- Changed My Mind, Kid: Tritonio clearly cares for his people, and comes back to rescue them in the end.
- Cool Sword: Anne resumes wielding Tritonio's family sword in this episode, in contrast to the chipped sword she looted from Toad Tower she'd been using previously, and the blade is shown glowing blue when she throws it at Tritonio's head to get his attention. It's unclear where exactly she'd been keeping it before this point, presumably somewhere on the Plantar farm, and resumed using it because the resistance needed every available weapon they could get.
- Door-Closes Ending: The episode ends with the door to Leif's room closing once Sprig leaves.
- Dramatic Irony: Viewers would instantly recognize the seemingly blank red paper after witnessing Leif's coded message system in "The Core & The King", but the protagonists have no way of knowing about this and assume it's just a blank piece of paper.
- Emotional Powers: Anne's Calamity Gem abilities were always this, but notably, the 'family sword' she got from Tritonio also glows a soft shade of the same blue when she gets mad at Tritonio choosing to stick to his No Honor Among Thieves methodology, despite obviously caring about his gang and wanting to rescue them. This implies that the blade is somehow channelling Anne's Calamity powers into it when she gets emotional, though it's unconfirmed for now, as nobody seems to notice the sword glowing when it happens.
- Failed a Spot Check: Anne, Sprig and Tritonio all collectively fail one when none of them notice the 'family sword' Anne's using briefly glow blue when she chucks it past Tritonio's head in anger after he decides to abandon his captured gang, despite his obvious regret. Granted, it is glowing fairly subtly, but it visibly changed color right as Tritonio's looking a it and he doesn't bring it up at all.
- Fastball Special: The robot judge is defeated when Tritonio launches Jojo Potato at it. Jojo pulls half-a-dozen knives from nowhere, starts spinning rapidly, and pierces straight through the judge's torso like a drill.
- Foreshadowing: Whatever secret message is in encoded on the red paper the protagonists discovered will likely play a part in the Grand Finale, as shown by the fact that Sprig placed it in his pocket rather than leave it in the secret room. A promotional poster
◊ of the finale prominently depicts him holding the envelope it was kept in, hinting as to its importance. - Gut Feeling: Implied to be why Sprig holds onto the red paper. He visibly considers discarding it, but pockets it for safe-keeping instead.
- Honor Among Thieves: Tritonio tries to live by No Honor Among Thieves, but it's clear he's become too attached to his gang to actually follow through with it, and in the end he saves his band, Anne, and Sprig.
- Ironic Nickname: Lampshaded; Sprig asks why the hulking "Little Louise" is called that when she's not little at all, and she simply responds "That's the joke". Sprig still doesn't get it.
- I Was Just Passing Through: Said by Tritonio word-for-word after Anne pointedly asks what happened to his "no attachments" rule.
- Kangaroo Court: The members of Tritonio's gang are tried in one, complete with a gigantic robot judge. The judge declaring them guilty and sentencing them to death is all we see of whatever trial took place there, but is strongly implied to have been the entire trial.
- Meaningful Rename: Implied. The door to Leif's old room that is unlocked with the family tone containing the information about the Calamity Box noticeably has the stylized 'L' on the door reversed to make a 'P' for Plantar, highlighted by the lighter positioning on the door showing how it was originally meant to look, implying that Leif might have changed her family name to prevent Andrias from tracking down her family before she took the box with her to Earth and did her best to obscure any relationship they had to her.
- Never Be Hurt Again: Tritonio's Freudian Excuse. As a kid with no parents, Tritonio thought he could trust a group of kid thieves, only for them to backstab him once he outlived his usefulness. For this reason he promised himself to never get attached to anyone. This explains why he was willing to let Anne, Sprig and Polly get arrested after they had successfully gotten him the Tiger Moth's Eye.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Anne quips, "Permission to approach the bench!" as she crashes the Kangaroo Court before they can execute Tritonio's gang.
- The Reveal: The end of the episode implies that Leif wrote the book with the information about the Calamity Box, and that she was indeed a Plantar — furthermore, she's greatly implied to have changed the family name to Plantar in order to protect her family line left behind in Amphibia from Andrias' Wrath against her. The book opens a door to a small room with her cloak in it, though no one realizes that the seemingly blank letter with the cloak most likely has invisible writing on it.
- Shout-Out: The title is a reference to Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Appropriately, Tritonio's group all wear green tights. They also have Expies of Little John and Friar Tuck.
- Jojo Potato's name is a reference to Jojo Rabbit and is voiced by Archie Yates who was in said film.
- Signs of Disrepair: Uncommented by the characters, the door to Lief's room has the cursive looped "L" turned upside down to look like a "P" for Plantar. There's an outlined lighter spot where the letter used to be to really draw attention to it.
- Unperson: It's implied that Leif did this to herself in order to prevent Andrias from finding her family and taking his revenge on them for her betrayal. The door to her room noticeably has the 'L' that denoted her name reversed to make a 'P' for Plantar, implying that Leif did her best to cut all ties she had to her surviving immediate family so they wouldn't be targeted after she did what she needed to to protect Amphibia from the impending calamity she foresaw.
- The Unreveal: It's not revealed where Tritonio actually got his 'family' sword from, nor why it tends to softly glow the same blue as Anne's Super Mode and associated gem at times. Given he's revealed to be an orphan in this episode, it most certainly wasn't an actual heirloom, but its origins and intended purpose are still currently a mystery. On a less serious note, it's not revealed where Anne's been keeping the blade up to this point, nor why she chose to use the more chipped blades scavenged from Toad warriors as her primary weapon during Season 2, rather than taking the blade with her on the dangerous trip to Newtopia.
- Would Hurt a Child: The judge robot bluntly exclaims "No amnesty for minors!" before winding up to crush Jojo Potato with its hammer. Thankfully, Tritonio intervenes before it can do so.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Anne and Sprig encounter Tritonio's group when the youngest of them pretends to be injured in order to distract some of Andrias's solders. Tritonio himself is also shown doing this as a child while the group of children he was with robbed someone.
