As Kid and the self-proclaimed Local Heroes confront a wave of alien invaders, everyone starts to get the hang of their powers. Well, almost everyone.
Tropes:
- Accidental Murder: Rosa sends a bunch of aliens into a silo and throws them into space to "take them home" per Papa G's request to not beat them up any more after being rendered helpless. We later see their frozen corpses in the episode. Papa G prevents her from finding out the consequences by reassuring her they were "sleeping".
- Alien Blood: Corgor the Conqueror's blood is blue.
- All for Nothing: After defeating the invading alien saucer fleet, the team tries to see what to do with the aliens, Rosa tries to crush them after they're beaten but Papa G tells her to give them mercy now that they've been beaten, she unintentionally gets them all killed when she decides to "send them home" by stuffing them inside a silo and tossing it into outer space.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- After the doom portal appears, the scene cuts to another awards ceremony, making it seem like Kid has finally earned a medal.... only for it be revealed that it's actually for Tuna Sandwich.
- The Local Heroes are in a tense stand-off with a tough-looking alien bounty hunter, who slowly reaches to her side where she has a gun holstered... and grabs a sack of money to start haggling for the stones with.
- The Local Heroes find themselves in a similar situation against Corgor the Conqueror, as the massive alien looms over them, demanding the stones... and then he dies from being unable to breathe Earth's atmosphere.
- Beginner's Luck: A few of the Local Heroes' fights against alien invaders end up this way by some level of convenience or dumb luck.
- Zarkon, the first invader, actually gets to beat them all up with ease and take the Cosmic Stones, but his ship hits some cable wires as he was leaving Earth, frying him.
- An evil tentacled alien gives up just before he could kill the team, after learning that the stones have become rings since he has no way to use them anymore.
- A bounty hunter wanted to buy the stones off of the team, and just leaves when Papa G haggles for a price she can't afford.
- Two warring armies kill each other fighting for the stones. The team didn't even need to lift a finger beyond taking cover from the carnage.
- Corgor, a giant fish-like alien, dies via suffocation just seconds after his arrival on Earth.
- Black Comedy: There's a lot of death in this episode. Most of it Played for Laughs.
- Zarkon hits some power lines and is electrocuted to death for an uncomfortably long amount of time.
- Toddler Rosa flat out kills a lot of aliens in this episode, her most notable kill are the saucermen who she stuffs into a silo and tosses towards space to "send them home", which gets them all killed, Papa G has to tell them that they're "sleeping" to not upset her.
- Chekhov's Gun: After overhearing about Papa Engineered Heroics, Chuck takes the tape that recorded the whole thing, looking forward to how it will, in Papa G's words, "destroy Kid" if he ever found out.
- Disposing of a Body: Papa G and the clones get their Hero Medals from burying a massive space alien's body (And in one poor clone's case cutting the corpses to pieces so they fit the hole).
- Documentary Episode: Almost all of the episode is recorded, with different shots and angles of all the heroes being explained by using Papa G's clones. Some of the footage is from Kid's POV.
- Everyone Has Standards: Rosa is aware that the fish alien Corgor died, and is disgusted at the idea of touching it, leaving Papa G to have his clone army bury it (after cutting it to pieces).
- Expy: A few aliens resemble Sci-Fi movie monsters:
- The alien bemoaning the fact about the MacGuffin being rings looked like the creature from It Conquered the World
- The aliens that were planning to eat the heroes bare a resemblance to Xenomorphs.
- Fake Danger Gambit: Kid finally scores a medal after taking on an army of robots. The end of the episode reveals that Papa G faked the attack to help Kid.
- Foreshadowing:
- When Rosa spots the spacemen from earlier who asphyxiated in space, Papa G's the first to sugar-coat the truth and say they're just "napping". This hints at Papa G's tendency to protect other people from harsh truths to spare their feelings, which is shown later when he fakes a win for Kid to make him feel better about not getting a chance to be a hero.
- The "robot army" referring to the MacGuffin as the Rings of Power instead of the Stones of Power, as the other aliens do, is the first hint they're not a genuine threat.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The aliens that abduct Kid's team admit they aren't interested in the Cosmic Stones at all. They just want to eat them. They even prepared a dinner table for the occasion.
- Logical Weakness: The giant fish-like alien dies of suffocation due to trying to fight on land without anything to supply him with water.
- Medals for Everyone: Kid sets this up to award medals for anyone achieving a valorous feat. Rosa manages to rack up tons of them before she grows tired of it. Papa G, Jo, and even Tuna Sandwich get at least one. Ironically, only Kid himself fails to [officially] earn any.
- Motivational Lie: Papa G fakes an attack to get Kid to feel proud of himself.
- Naked People Are Funny: Upon being the first of the people-eater's prisoners to wake up, poor Kid finds himself in his birthday suit.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Tuna Sandwich gets his Hero Medal after saving the The Local Heroes from a doom portal. Said portal caused a camera and electrical outage, so we never see how the fight went down.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: One of Papa G's clones is assigned with cutting up a dead alien, making it easy to carry and bury the pieces in the middle of nowhere. During the award ceremony, the original recognizes that said clone, now traumatized, will require a lot of therapy, expendable or not.
- Shout-Out: Zarkon's Boss Subtitles state they're a "Mean Green Being From Outer Space".
