Maya, Rico, and Chimi reach the Golden Mountains looking for the Puma Warrior, the last of Maya's prophesied allied.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Amusing Injuries: Picchu, being a big musclebound warrior who Does Not Know His Own Strength, inflicts these on his new friends. Maya accidentally runs into him and hurts her head, Chimi is shaken like a jackhammer when she offers him a handshake, and Rico is punched across the plateau from a light fistbump.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Picchu takes an immediate dislike to Zatz not because the he's a member of the underworld, but because of his looks:Picchu: Picchu no like one-eye pretty boy. Too fancy.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Picchu had a pretty normal (by Barbarian standards) life, until one day his village was attacked by a band of mysterious warriors. Picchu had their leader dead to rights, but spared her when she promised to leave and never return. Instead, she returned the very next day with a bigger army, and slaughtered everyone except Picchu, whom she torments by denying him a warrior's death.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Picchu crushes Chimi's hand and shakes her up and down when she offers him a handshake. Rico tries to avoid being turned into an impromptu metronome by holding out Estefan for Picchu to fistbump, but Picchu sends him tumbling several meters back as if he were hit by a Megaton Punch.Rico: (outraged) You're supposed to just tap it!!
- Do Not Go Gentle: Picchu tells his new friends that despite seeking a warrior's honorable death he doesn't intend to just give up; instead, he's going to keep fighting as hard as he can and for as long as he can.
- Dumb Muscle: The Barbarians may talk in Hulk Speak, but they aren't stupid. Case in point: they're the only tribe who decides to evacuate rather than take their chances and hope that the god of war won't attack them after he's done destroying the Tecas.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Maya and Chimi ogle a shirtless Picchu, and happily watch him bathe under a waterfall. It's implied from their wide-eyed looks when Picchu exits the water that they got a very good look at him.
- Failed a Spot Check: Maya and Zatz have a playful yet quite destructive duel close to the campsite, which predictably draws the attention of Rico, Chimi, and Picchu. However, the two of them remain oblivious to the fact that they have an audience until Rico speaks up.
- The Farmer and the Viper: The unnamed warrior uses the tale of the frog and the scorpion to explain why she returned and slaughtered Picchu's people even though she promised him that he would never see her again.
- Funny Background Event: During Picchu's introductory scenes, Chimi and Rico can be seen having entire conversations through Facial Dialogue in the background while Maya and Picchu are talking in the foreground.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Zatz tells Maya that not all beings of the underworld are monsters, only to immediately transform into a swarm of bats.Maya: You know that is exactly what a monster would do, right?
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Zatz doesn't even bother finding an excuse; he just remarks that he needs to go because Maya and her friends have a lot to talk about and makes a hasty exit after inadvertently revealing to Rico, Chimi, and Picchu that Maya has been lying to them about their quest.
- Love at First Punch: Downplayed in that Maya was already starting to warm up to Zatz after he saved her life in Episode 2 and warned her about Hura and Can in Episode 4, but refused to admit it to him. Here, she drops the façade and treats their sparring match like an extended flirting session, smiling at him throughout and playfully accusing him of having an "unfair advantage" over her when the fight ends in a draw.
- Not Afraid to Die: Maya flat-out asks Picchu if he's a Death Seeker and joined her quest intending to pull a Suicide by Cop. Picchu tells his new friends that he doesn't intend to die; he will fight to the end, whatever that may be. If he survives the quest, that's good; if he has to pull a Heroic Sacrifice so his friends can live, that's also good.
- Not Worth Killing: The warrior lets Picchu live after killing his whole village, taunting him that unlike them he's not worthy of dying a warrior's death and should instead live with the shame of his failure to stop her.
- Punched Across the Room: Rico offers Estefan for Picchu to fistbump, hoping to avoid hurting his squishy human hand. Picchu lightly bumps him and sends him flying backwards across the plateau.
- Revenge Before Reason: Maya knows that her plan to cross the Divine Gate and kill the god of war is crazy, but she's so angry and hurt by her brothers' deaths that she's willing to do anything, even lie to her new friends and potentially lead them to their deaths, if it means avenging her brothers. Zatz calls her out on this, followed by Rico, Chimi, and Picchu when they learn the truth.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The Barbarians' plan for dealing with the war between the Tecas and the god of war is to pack everything up and go as far away as they can. As the Barbarian King tells Maya, they love fighting but they're not stupid enough to fight against the actual God Of War.
- Shameless Fanservice Guy: Picchu has zero qualms undressing in front of a trio of new acquaintances and taking a long bath while they watch.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Picchu shows mercy to the female warrior (implied to be a goddess in disguise) he defeats in the opening battle. In return, she comes back to the village and slaughters everyone.
- Villain Reveals the Secret: Zatz calls Maya out for lying to her friends about destroying the Divine Gate, to which Maya angrily responds that she doesn't care because she must avenge her brothers. Both are unaware that Rico, Chimi, and Picchu are nearby and can hear every word.
