Chapter 100: Brawl Night, Part 2
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The 100th chapter shows everyone competing in the Bonesborough Brawl ready to fight, and huge secrets are revealed.
Tropes that appear in this chapter:
- Alas, Poor Villain: As Emily is Dragged Off to Hell, she calls out for Cross. When she still gets pulled into the Underworld despite his efforts to save her, there are tears in her eyes.
- All Your Colors Combined: B.I.G.'s Combination Attack against Mel, complete with all eight members shouting their attacks which include their respective colors.
- Asshole Victim:
- Skrap gets flung into a house of shark demons who accuse him of wearing "sharkface" due to his shark-themed helmet and is beaten up as a result.
- Emily, who got praised as the Golden Guard, is disgraced when her Secret Identity is exposed and Mel "exacts justice" on her by sending her to the Underworld to rot suffering from nightmares.
- Batman Gambit: Amity decides to have Sam act as her backup during her matches and pass it off as shadow magic. It works up until the finals, where Mel has learned Amity's secret and captures Sam, leading to her revealing Amity's fae identity.
- Been There, Shaped History: Once Mel confesses to being a goddess, she also proudly claims responsibility for causing the most devastating riots in Human history, including Amsterdam, the French Revolutions, the 1938 Chicago Riots, and the LA Riots.
- Big "NO!": Cross shouts one as Emily falls into the Underworld before the hole in the ground she fell into closes up.
- Body Horror: Amity's first attempt to turn Dolly back to normal leads to Dolly coming out so disfigured, it scares Amity, Luz, and Kadabe and warrants an immediate change back into her doll form.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Scab the All-Knowing shows up for the Brawl as per canon after his debut in "Prelude to War: Part 2".
- Dolly and Kadabe are seen for the first times since the end of the Glandus War in "What is it Good For?"
- Call-Back:
- Once again, Hades is referred as a cheapskate. In fact, Luz's encounter with him as a whole is referenced.
- Amity remembers Puck being controlled by the Inner Demon after learning the Inner Demon double-crossed Dolly. This is how she learns how to turn Dolly back to normal.
- Eclipsa confronts Belos, who she mentions had promised to take care of her daughter.
- Calling Your Attacks: BIG as they attack Mel together.Alburno/Red Phoenix: Phoenix Clap!
Venoma/Pink Viper: Poison Orochi!
Skrap/Blue Shark: Boiling Shark!
Thunder/Yellow Tiger: Electric Bolt Strike!
Le'Belle/Green Cricket: Cricket Tunes!
Joana/Orange Bear: Chainsaw Bear Attack!
Scarmeron/Brown Hamster: Uh...Light Beam!
Emily: [with definite regret] Golden Powerful Magic Blast! - The Cavalry: Teams of scouts were sent with BIG to deal with the riots and Mel, but they can barely keep the crowd contained.
- Conversational Troping: Luz near-perfectly namedrops the And I Must Scream trope when she says Dolly didn't deserve her fate.
- Continuity Cavalcade: Several characters from the Boiling Isles appear during the ending songs. In "Nobody's a Nobody", the characters currently on Earth are featured with those residing in Gravity Falls (including Mabel and Stan), New York (the Longs, Team Dragon, and Randy) and California (the Plantar siblings, Sasha, Marco, Janna, and Jackie) are seen with Puck having the last line.
- Crazy-Prepared: Graye sent Cross disguised as a scout along with The Cavalry to provide support for Emily and BIG.
- Crowd Panic: To establish her prowess as a riot starter hellbent on ruling the Isles, Mel brainwashes the crowd into both rioting and attacking the now exposed Amity for being a Fae.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- In every one of their matches, Mel, Trini and D-Josh mop the floor with their opponents. The worst cases come from Trini savagely cutting Luz and throwing her out of the ring, while Mel got Simon to break his own arm and viciously attacked Warden Wrath after defeating him.
- Emily and BIG stand no chance against Mel, who avoids their initial Combination Attack and their following ones before proceeding to utterly humiliate them, even saying that they're Not Worth Killing.
- Deal with the Devil: Between two devils, no less. Belos has a deal with the Horned King that hinges on the Day of Unity succeeding, or else.
- Death Glare: Luz and Boscha shoot a team glare at Hermit D. Fraug when he nearly mentions the trial during Amity's introduction.
- Dénouement Episode: This marks the end of the "Return to the Boiling Isles" arc.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The shark family that attacks Skrap does so because they thought he was wearing "sharkface", which is highly offensive.
- Double Take: Amity has a moment when she hears that Camila suggested Hooty call Lilith to help with Kay while she was out, causing Camila to have one as well.
- Downer Ending: Thanks to Mel, mass chaos has erupted at the Bonesborough Brawl and the audience is manipulated into attacking Amity after the revelation that she's half-fae, which leads to Kitsuni stepping in to help her and Luz. King is snatched by somebody while Edric is knocked out, Donna begins to feel jealous that Nina has taken an interest in Lambi, Nina is injured saving Braxas during the riot, and Emily is sent to the Underworld to suffer her worst nightmares.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Mel banishes Emily to the Underworld to be tortured by her greatest mistakes as her own kind of justice for everything Emily's done.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite what Dolly had done to her and Amity, Luz admits she thinks it isn't right for her to suffer a fate brought upon her by the Inner Demon.
- Eviler than Thou: Mel puts Emily in her place, first by utterly humiliating her and her team, then by exposing her and ultimately having her Dragged Off to Hell to be subjected to a Fate Worse than Death, cementing Mel as the far more dangerous antagonist.
- Expy:
- Hermit D. Fraug is an obvious stand-in to Kermit the Frog.
- Tracy Speedemon from Merlin Meadows is another MLP-inspired character, in this case Rainbow Dash.
- Perfect Gell is one to Perfect Cell from Dragon Ball Z, rather the versions from both DevilArtemis and Dragon Ball Z Abridged.
- Driva Nago is one of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV, his only saying "I will crush you" a nod to Drago's famous line and Groot.
- The Punching Toad Brothers are alternate versions of the Frog Brothers from The Cuphead Show!
- Jesse the orphan takes inspiration from Anne-Marie from All Dogs Go to Heaven.
- Pickle-O is just a pickle demon based off of Piccolo from Dragon Ball.
- Fate Worse than Death: Emily gets subjected to this. Rather than be merely killed, she is sent to her own personal hell in the Underworld to be tortured for all eternity.
- Foreshadowing:
- Trini doesn't view Luz as a real cambion, implying the Cambion Theory doesn't apply to her and Belos.
- In response to the chaos Mel is causing, Terra wonders what he would think of her.
- Genre Savvy: Before telling Lambi about her history, Nina says it's better Lambi learned it from her now because the last thing Nina needed is to experience a cliche "Liar Revealed" moment.
- The Ghost:
- Beocrow's mentioned when Camila instructs Hooty to call him to come help Hooty and Acorn with Kay in case they need it.
- Brucy is brought up when Hooty decides to go check on him.
- Given Name Reveal: Cups and Mugs' last names are Holder.
- History Repeats: For the third time, a huge secret about Amity has been made public knowledge by some bitch, which leads to public mustrust like after the petrification ceremony. And like when Felicia outed her as nameless, all of Amity's friends are shown having a Mass "Oh, Crap!" reaction to the bad news.
- I Shall Taunt You: Both D-Josh and Trini do this to Amity during their matches against her. Of course, it blows up in their faces when they decide to insult Luz, resulting in both of their defeats.
- Immortal Apathy: Mel doesn't care about how mortals get hurt due to her actions, only caring about getting them to worship her like in the old days when gods were revered.
- In Spite of a Nail: Scab loses in the first match of the Brawl, as does the Flexocutioner, who's blasted out of the arena.
- Internal Reveal:
- Nina explains her past and bad history with Boscha to Lambi.
- Willow finds out about the Vaggie illusion (and thus, what Vaggie looks like), and in turn, Gus reveals how he killed Michael by accident.
- Boscha, Donna and Lambi hear Maya's voice, but don't actually learn about her.
- Mel admits to Amity that she had Trini orchestrate Lilith and Odalia's affair.
- Everyone learns that Mel is a Fae as well as a goddess, with Luz realizing she's Hades' daughter and the instigator of the riot at the Coven Day parade.
- Mel outs Amity as being a Fae after seeing Sam, along with exposing Emily as the Golden Guard stand-in, to the rest of the Isles.
- Luz and Amity meet Kadabe for the first time and learn that she's been looking after Dolly's doll.
- Dolly confesses to Luz and Amity that she helped the Inner Demon because he promised her eternal youth.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Once Mel tells Amity about her masterminding the affair in the final match, Amity blames her for splitting apart her family. Mel just says that her family was falling apart long before she came into their lives.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Seeing that Mel's far above the kind of people they're used to fighting, Luz decides to hide out in the Human Realm in order to protect Amity from anyone who'd attack her now that her being half-fae is out in the open.
- Lack of Empathy: Edric shows concern for Cups and Mugs over how D-Josh took them down and later Trini when Amity subjects her to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown over her brutal battle against Luz, but he doesn't really comment on the latter at all. Even when he calls out Boscha on when she nearly got Luz killed before, he doesn't actually show Luz any sympathy.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Trini brutally injures Luz in their match, resulting in Amity wailing on her in theirs and leaving her bruised and with a lost tooth. It doubles as payback for drugging Lilith and Odalia so they had an affair and took pictures of it to split up her parents, but Amity doesn't see it as this until Mel told her about it.
- Subverted with Mel. Amity attempts to stab her with the Sword of Adam for the above reasons after learning Mel's a fae. Unfortunately, she learns that since Mel's also the daughter of a death god, it doesn't do anything to her.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Hooty decides to go find Brucy as he hasn't heard from him in a while. The last time Brucy appeared was at the end of the Glandus War like Dolly and Kadabe.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Since Viney and Emira were busy with taking down Firebees and taking Leni/Loona to Dr. Bride, they are completely unaware of what went down at the Brawl.
- Make Way for the New Villains: Mel establishes herself as a dangerous adversary for the heroes by getting rid of former Arc Villainess Emily, demonstrating her power by sending Emily to the Underworld.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": All of Luz's friends react in shock and concern after seeing Mel out Amity as a fae and causing the riot at the Brawl.
- Named by the Adaptation: The purple nurse demon first seen in "Wing It Like Witches" is dubbed Aries Hornston.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: As payback for injuring Luz, Amity cuts Trini's hair, then traps her in abomination matter strengthened by Sam to punch her in the face until she knocks out a tooth and sends her out of the ring.
- No-Sell: Amity tries to stab Mel with her sword to finish her, but being a death god's kid means she's immune to iron. When BIG fires off their Combination Attack at her, she easily dodges it with no indication that it even made contact.
- Not Worth Killing: Mel spares all of BIG after curb-stomping every single one of their members, saying this in-vertabim.
- Only One Finds It Fun: Only one person on the Boiling Isles would be psychotic enough to enjoy Mel's anarchy who wasn't part of her gang, and that's Terra. She gives Mel props for doing what she does, and gleefully wonders how Belos would respond to everything.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For the first time ever, Luz knows she can't win a fight and decides it would be smarter to disappear and lay low than to take on a god with no chances of surviving.
- Point of Divergence: For the second half of "Reaching Out", Luz faces Scab the All-Knowing in the first match of the Bonesborough Brawl while Amity faces Goregon and the Flexocutioner is Mel's opponent. Warden Wrath isn't mentioned to have been demoted, and isn't prodded for information on the Day of Unity since Eda's not around and actually gets to fight, only to lose. Amity makes it to the finals, but doesn't pull out the win.
- Precision F-Strike: Nina lets one out when she sees Goregon competing in the Brawl.
- The Reveal:
- After the Scarfish incident, Roxy started training in Construction Creation, a fighting style that enables her to create a stone statue of herself known as "Giga-Rox".
- Goregon was bailed out of prison by Arthur and Destiny to sponsor Blight Industries in the Brawl.
- The skeletons sitting at Kadabe's table were fakes.
- Trini knows that Belos is a cambion, but she doesn't really consider him or Luz as such because they don't have demon heritage like her.
- Mel is revealed to be Hades and Maleficent's daughter, and she somehow knows about Luz's encounter with her dad.
- Mel somehow learned that Emily was the Golden Guard.
- Eclipsa left Meteora in Philip's care before she was crsyatalized.
- Leni is actually a hellhound, her real name is Loona, and Blazer was the one who stabbed her.
- Say My Name: Emily shouts Cross's name as she's Dragged Off to Hell.
- Sell-Out
- Shameful Strip: During her song, Mel strips Emily of the Golden Guard uniform, leaving her wearing nothing but the black onesie she had on underneath.
- Shared Family Quirks: Mel tends to talk fast not unlike her father, Hades.
- Shout-Out:
- D-Josh's fight against the Holder Brothers is based off the genie boss battle from Cuphead.
- Leni turns out to be Loona the hellhound from Helluva Boss.
- The song Mel performs is the reprise to "Prince Ali".
- The song parodies in the end are "I Love The World" from the Discovery Channel campaign, and "Nobody's A Nobody".
- Swapped Roles: Luz was once the Hot-Blooded girl who'd jump at the opportunity to fight for someone she cared about and Amity would hold her back. Now Luz has to hold Amity back as she tries to go find Edric and forgetting that she is now considered a threat.
- Title Sequence: As part of the celebration, the 100th chapter includes the latest intro sequence for the arc.
- The Un-Reveal:
- Who were the two shadowy figures, and why were they interested in Luz, Amity, Simon, and Nina?
- In the last chapter, Serpentina and Eustace are helping Jackson with something. Does that mean they're the ones who stole Donna's keyblade, and kidnapped King and Edric?
- What deal did Belos strike with the Horned King that has to do with the Day of Unity's success?
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Kadabe told Amity about the use of shadow magic: this gave her and Sam the idea to have Sam help her in fights which led to Mel catching them. As such, Kadabe's responsible for Amity being exposed as part-fae.
- Villain Reveals the Secret: Once Sam is captured, Mel announces to the crowd (more specifically Edric) that Amity's half-Fae. Because the Brawl's being broadcast to the entirety of the Isles, this results in everybody learning the truth.
- Wham Episode: The Bonesborough Brawl ends with no winner as Mel, revealing herself as a half-Fae, half-goddess hybrid, exposes Amity as a Fae and Emily as the Golden Guard, brainwashes the crowd into rioting, and sends Emily to the Underworld. King and Edric are taken by unknown individuals with Edric getting knocked out, someone steals Donna's key, Amity turns Dolly back to normal at Kadabe's request, and Kitsuni and Mai arrive to aid Luz and Amity. Eclipsa meets with Belos at his castle as he orders a lockdown until Mel is dealt with, and Leni is revealed to be Loona.
- What Does She See in Him?: Gender-Inverted and played with. Everyone questions (some directly) Edric on why he would associate with Mel and her friends even though they're clearly menaces, unaware that Mel's control over him has grown too powerful.
