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
Chapter 118 | Chapter 119 | Chapter 120 | Chapter 121 | Chapter 122 | Chapter 123 | Chapter 124 | Chapter 125 | Chapter 126 | Chapter 127 | Chapter 128 | Chapter 129 | Chapter 130 | Chapter 131 | Chapter 132 | Chapter 133 | Chapter 134 | Chapter 135 | Chapter 136 | Chapter 137
Title from: Night of the Comet (1984)
As everyone is trapped to die in Riverdale, Veronica realises how they might be able to survive.
Tropes
- All Your Powers Combined: Veronica uses her power of filtration to take everyone’s powers and transfer them to Cheryl as part of a spell to stop the comet.
- Babies Ever After: Tabitha uses her powers for her and Jughead having kids and growing old together in one minute, so they get to experience their life together, even if they die in a few hours.
- Bittersweet Ending: Every character is in a good place emotionally and ready to make changes in their lives, but they all think they are about to die. Then, they are saved from the comet, but thrown to 1955, are teenagers again and Jughead states that only he remembers their lives before this happened.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Alexandra Cabot shows up to offer Tabitha a chance to turn Pop's into a national chain.
- Mary Andrews comes to visit.
- Character Development:
- Archie learning from his Mom and Betty that he has a hero complex, a trait he has displayed since Season 1 when his Dad was shot, leads to him to finally start to examine why that is and points towards him changing this.
- Betty turns down a promotion to a task force dedicated to intensely hunt murderers. She tells Drake that she wants something positive in her life going forward, which indicates her finally starting to accept that she is a good person and finally letting the unhealthy compulsion for mystery-solving, which developed from her parents' abuse of her, go.
- Veronica finally has a wake-up call when Archie tells her that he is proposing to Betty. She realises that she needs to truly move on from Archie once and for all and that she needs to learn to be on her own and start learning how to have positive relationships with other people. She asks Reggie to be her ‘first official new start friend’ and he accepts.
- Alice acknowledges that she wasn’t a good mother to Betty and Polly and she regrets not being able to protect them.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Discussed. Archie suffers not being able to save everyone from the comet and Betty tries to help him. She tells Mary what’s happening and Mary talks him down. Archie later tells Betty that his Mom thinks he suffers from this trope and Betty smiles with a ‘yeah no kidding’ look in her eyes.
- Fatal Flaw: Archie finally realizes that he has this in a form of a hero complex. While it’s good he wants to protect everyone, it’s also severely unhealthy and self-destructive.
- Glamour: When Kevin asks how the Internet isn't going crazy about a massive comet headed to Earth, he's answered that Percival's spell makes the rest of the world believe that the comet will pass over the town as it has in the past so no help is coming.
- Heirloom Engagement Ring: Archie had a ring from Fred he wanted to give to Betty when proposing, but it was lost when the bomb wrecked his house.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Thanks to Percival's spell, the outside world is unaware of the comet headed toward Riverdale. They also don't realize the "bubble" cutting the town off, so people will unwittingly drive into Riverdale and not get that they're trapped until too late.
- Irony: Alexandra shows up in town to offer Tabitha a fantastic opportunity, completely unaware she's going into ground zero of a comet about to hit, and her "this is the opportunity of a lifetime" talk falls a bit flat.
- Magic Kiss: Cheryl and Veronica, to transfer all of the gang’s powers to Cheryl.
- Offscreen Breakup: Mary and Brooks are getting a divorce.
- Perilous Marriage Proposal: Archie proposes to Betty as the comet hurls towards Riverdale to destroy them all.
- Rejected Marriage Proposal: Betty turns down Archie because of the life/death circumstances, stipulating that she does love him and want to marry him, but when/if they survive the comet. She can also tell that Archie is suffering because he can't do anything to save everyone.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: According to him, Jughead is the only person who realizes Riverdale has been reset to 1955 and remembers what happened before.
- Season Finale: The sixth season’s finale.
- Shout-Out:
- James Dean ‘s death is discussed at the ending. 1955!Betty is shown to be a fan.
- Titanic (1997) - and Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
- Soft Reboot: The finale does this for the show, resetting everything to 1955, making everyone teenagers again, and leaving Jughead as the only person who has any memories of their real past.
- Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Cheryl and Veronica, as it’s planted front and centre in the season finale episode trailer, but of course isn’t romantic. The show even tries to justify it by having Cheryl discuss its offence, much like in the pilot.Cheryl: That’s queerbaiting.Veronica: It’s not queerbaiting, it’s saving the world.
- Tonight, Someone Kisses: Cheryl and Veronica.
- Wham Episode: Cheryl using their combined powers saves them, but sends them all to live in 1955 as teenagers, with no memory of what happened before. Only Jughead knows the truth.Jughead: Somehow the year is 1955, and somehow Archie Andrews and all of his friends, me included, are teenagers again and I'm the only one who remembers what our lives were like BC. Before the comet.
- Wham Line: The final scene has Jughead narrating the comet's destruction "sent us back to a simpler time" as we see Archie get ready for school, seemingly back in Season 1. Then he finds Mary crying as she reads the newspaper.Mary: He died.Archie: Who?Mary: James Dean.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Everyone’s fates sans Jughead, Archie, Betty, Mary and Alice are unknown at the end of the episode.
