Season 5, Episode 5
Apocalypse? Now?!
Everyone comes together to find a way to move the Moon before Harmonic Convergence.Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Affably Evil: Zelda feels this way about The Emperor of the Etheric Realm, who enjoys having flawed people around him and gets bored with goodness and happy people.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: The moon's coloration of Red-Yellow-Green depends on her mood. Julia jokes that the guy who invented the stoplight may have been a Lunatic. Actually, yes.
- Blatant Lies: Julia knows Eliot's lying about not remembering what happened while The Monster possessed him, because she remembers everything that happened when its sister possessed her.
- Call-Back: When Natasha demands a shade as payment, Julia and Alice's expressions recall how both know first-hand how it feels to be shadeless.
- Calling Card: One of the security spells has Mayakovsky's literal signature all over it.
- Companion Cube: The Lunatic who explains the ritual to contact the moon sobs as she tells them that it'll destroy the moon rock they use as a component, warning them not to use their favorite one.
- Cozy Catastrophe: Oren Westbrook, Lunatic billionaire, plans to have one of these for himself (a party, in fact) and help the world rebuild following the Harmonic Convergence.
- Detonation Moon: Eliot and Marina trying to simultaneously move the Moon and hold it in place causes it to rip in half, but it does succeed in preventing the Convergence.
- Eye Scream: Members of the Lunatics order have a moon-shaped tattoo. On their eyeballs.
- Fainting: At first it seems that Josh has done this under interrogation, but this is actually Marina's sleep spell.
- Hearing Voices: As in Episode 2, Eliot's hearing voices calling out to him again. He's also seeing things.
- Hurricane of Euphemisms: Margo suggests they use cocaine to stay awake with these.
- Ignored Expert: As we see later, the gang really should have listened to the Lunatic who told them to politely ask the moon to move.Connecting to her and moving her without asking causes serious problems later.
- It's All About Me: The billionaire and Marina both know about the negative effects of the Convergence, but both don't care because they'll profit from it in different ways.
- Lunacy: This episode gets wordplay out of the word "lunatic"; they are magicians who are devoted to the moon as a magical entity...and who are also mentally ill. The plot revolves around figuring out a way to commune with the moon to avert the apocalypse.
- Mistaken Identity: Alice and Julia see Mayakovsky's Calling Card on the moon rock's protective spell and think he recovered from his Mental Time Travel somehow and cast it. It turns out that his daughter was using her father's spell.
- Mutually Assured Destruction: Kady threatens to use battle magic during the Convergence, which would surely kill everyone with her power magnified by its effects. This proves a sufficient distraction to allow Eliot to contact the Moon.
- Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Lunatics (that is, people who worship the moon) in the throes of divine inspiration have been mistaken for insane people...possibly due to the fact that in order to connect with the moon, you have to be "moon-brained" (that is, not having slept for at least five days). Yeah, "mistaken".
- Out of the Frying Pan: Eliot and Marina get into magical tug-of-war with the Moon, breaking it in half. While this does prevent the Convergence, fragments of the Moon now pose an equally life-ending threat to the Earth.
- Poison and Cure Gambit: In a variation, the billionaire made his fortune by developing the code for pop-up ads and then the code to prevent pop-up ads.
- The Reveal: Marina was behind the theft of the Library depository, as part of some unidentified spell she's trying to perform.
- Sense Freak: Zelda notes that Fogg was such a sensualist that the Etheric Realm was the perfect trap for him.
- Sleep Deprivation: In order to be able to talk to the Moon, three people have to stay awake for five days, and magic can't be used or it won't work. Everyone does it to hedge their bets, though Josh falls asleep when they leave him alone for a bit.
- Super Mode: Thanks to a magic surge, Eliot and Marina each have the power to move the moon, something which normally takes three Magicians.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Josh makes muffins that have an organic component to help keep you awake and it is definitely not meth.note
- Take a Third Option: Instead of giving Natasha a shade, the gang just uses Natasha's image to trick Westbrook and his security.
- Worth It: Marina thinks the mass destruction caused by the the Harmonic Convergence is worth it for the magic boost she needs for her plans.
