Elodie enlists K.O. to figure out what to do about Chip Damage.
Tropes:
- An Aesop: Ideal Heroes don't exist, so people should look up to those around them while accepting their flaws.
- Boss Subtitles: "Elodie: Loves Being in Charge".
- Cat Up a Tree: The first simulation used to test the reprogrammed Chip. He attempts to eat the cat. Later, Chip saves a cat and an old lady stuck in a tree.
- Chair Reveal: Elodie Jump Scares K.O when she turns her office chair around, revealing a decommissioned Chip Damage with his half-decapitated head hanging askew.
- Chirping Crickets: When Chip dissolves his hologram form, the crowd falls into silence except for someone coughing in the audience.
- Commonality Connection: While K.O. is at first reluctant to help Elodie restore Chip Damage due to everything that happened with him last time, she convinces him by revealing that she looked up to Chip just as much as he did, and that they in fact had many conversations online (on a forum K.O. was on and Elodie ran) in the past about their mutual adoration for him. They bond more over the course of the episode during their attempts to reprogram him as the hero they both always saw him as.
- Gasp!: K.O & Elodie’s reaction when Chip gets ready to start his speech.
- Helping Granny Cross the Street: The second simulation. Chip attempts to do this by throwing Granny across the street.
- Hidden Depths: It turns out that Elodie admired and looked up to Chip Damage just as much as K.O. did. In fact, the owner/leader of a Chip Damage forum that K.O. was also on—with whom he had numerous conversations on the forum bonding over their mutual love for him—was her all along.
- Malaproper: While trying to say he’s “ambivalent” about Chip Damage, K.O says he’s “ambient” instead.
- Malicious Misnaming: Enid calls Point Prep “Pointless Prep.”
- Morality Dial: Chip has a switch that varies how much of his decision come from his own will versus following orders. At half-freewill, Chip misunderstands how to do basic heroic actions. With no freewill, going off traits Elodie and K.O. consider heroic, he is a dangerous Literal Genie. At 100% freewill, he admits he is a fraud and deactivates himself.
- Sequel Episode: The episode follows up on Chip Damage's destruction in "Final Exams".
- Tomato in the Mirror: Chip turns out to have possessed consciousness, but was unaware that he is a robot mostly controlled by others.
- A Twinkle in the Sky: The reprogrammed Chip Damage “helps” a citizen take a vacation by launching them into the sky.
- Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Despite simulations with Chip going awfully, Elodie decides to test him with new settings in public, which is equally disastrous.
- What You Are in the Dark: Once Chip is given complete control of himself, he immediately confesses to the public that his persona was an illusion.
