Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
“It was a confluence of good and evil. Archie and Betty's love, Hiram's hate. There was creation: I was in the garage, writing; and destruction: the explosion. There was science. Archie had this chunk of palladium on his desk. And magic: Cheryl's curse on the town.”
—Vale Jughead to Vale Ethel
The truth behind Rivervale is finally revealed.
Tropes
- Alternate Universe: It turns out Rivervale is one, set off by the bombing attempt on Archie's house.
- Back from the Dead: Jason Blossom, Dilton Doiley, and Hal Cooper are all alive in this alternate universe.
- The Big Damn Kiss: Vale Betty and Vale Jughead share one of these in order to save the universe(s).
- Tonight, Someone Kisses: Vale Betty and Vale Jughead are seen sharing a kiss in the trailer with Betty in a wedding dress. In the actual episode, however, the kiss isn't romantic but an attempt to save both universes without the key ingredients needed. In the end, it has no impact on the characters or the story.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Several examples.
- Ross Butler returns to play Reggie with Charles Melton wondering "why I look so different."
- Betty is baffled at the story of her alternate self defusing a bomb while in high school.
- Runaway Bride: Inverted. Archie leaves Betty at the altar, as the collision of the universes has started to warp reality and Archie has become the Big Bad of this universe (albeit still for altruistic reasons and killing his friends knowing they come back to life after a while).Betty: Never leave a Cooper woman at the altar.
- Ship Tease: Toni calls Cheryl “babe,” and later the two of them are implied to be on a date in the “endgame” moments of Rivervale.
- Sweetheart Sipping: Archie, Betty and Veronica share this.
- Threesome Subtext: One of the final moments of “Rivervale” shows Archie, Betty and Veronica sharing a booth and a milkshake together in a scene implied to show the characters’ endgames in the Rivervale universe.
- Twin Threesome Fantasy: Sort of. Veronica tries to suggest a threesome between herself with Reggie of Season One and Reggie of Season Two on.
