"Given that it's almost Halloween, the contestants will be thrown into the scene of a horrifying invasion of Killer Klowns from Outer Space! Who will last the night with these madcap terrors?!"
The 33rd episode, written in October of 2023. The teams are as follows...
-Team 1 (Baskerra Hellmane): The Xenomorph Queen,note Unteka (Mega Snake), a Tanker, and Gedos.
-Team 2 (Buddhe): Carol (Hladilnik OC), Golden Freddy, Erma, and Death.
-Team 3 (Meowth Purright): Marceline, Jabba's Rancor, Darkrai, and Vivian.
-Team 4 (Nighthawk87): Arthas Menethil, Nyarlathotep, Emrakul, and Pinhead.
-Team 5 (A Fan): Toriel, Asgore Dreemurr, Globgor, and Jashin-chan.
-Team 6 (Drake): Caleb, Seras Victoria, Blitz, and Spawn.
-Team 7 (Kitte): Jack Frost, Black Frost, Moxxie, and Millie.
-Team 8 (SuperdocBoy): Alternate Mari, Hat Kid.EXE,note Werewire Kris, and a Starro-controlled Raven.
-Team 9 (Snivygreen22): Marx, Jevil, Robo-Fizzaroli, and Dimentio.
-Team 10 (MajorRajor): Pennywise, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Octavia.
-Team 11 (Plebian Garbage): Dino Cavegirl (OC), a Wendigo, Emperor's Blade, and Demon Lord Dragon Battz.
-Team 12 (BootZ): Sulley, Mike Wazowski, Jack Skellington, and Stitch.
- Accidental Hero: As Freddy is tormenting Asgore and Toriel with his dream powers, the horde of Jack Frost clones ram into the building he was in and take him away, inadvertently saving them from their horrifying deaths.
- Accidental Murder: When Octavia is creating a portal, it causes a tank to appear below some Klowns, which they get into and prepare to fire on Death...with a mallet plugging up the hole. This causes the tank to explode, killing them and Death.
- Achilles' Heel: Many of the Klowns are killed by the contestants popping their noses, causing them to explode. This is also how Pinhead defeats Klown Khidorah.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Freddy realizes that Pinhead is preparing to send him to Hell, he pleads with the Cenobite not to send him back to the literal hellhole. Pinhead just tells him he doesn't have a choice in the matter due to how unrepentant he is.
- Alternate Self: All members of Team 8 are variants of heroes that have been corrupted in one way or another.
- Autobots, Rock Out!: When the big climax begins, Ozzy Osbourne's Hellraiser plays
as Pinhead fights and defeats Klown Khidorah and Freddy. - Ascended Extra: Death, having only appeared at the very end of the 25th episode, is now a proper contestant this time.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The climax has the Klowns, having gotten sick of the contestants kicking their asses, summon Klown Khidorah to kill the remaining contestants. And after Khidorah has killed most of them, Freddy, having taken Arthas' soul grows big enough in size to fight him.
- Attack of the Killer Whatever: The main antagonists of the Arena are the Killer Klowns (who come from outer space).
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: The Emperor's Blade begins his Team Introduction by attempting to attack Battz with his shadow swords, with Battz gripping around the swords and breaking them.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: The episode ends with Toriel and the Xena revealed to have been launched into the vacuum of space, with Toriel asking if she would kind of cake or pie the Xena would like with no problems.
- Big Damn Heroes: The Xenomorph Queen (Xena) saves Toriel's life twice; The first time is in the Bloodbath, just as Toriel is about to get eaten by a Klown's shadow puppet of a T-Rex, she shows up and kills them. The second is when the Emperor’s Blade destroys his weapon in desperation, causing an explosion of light to blind Toriel. He comes very close to killing her, but the Xenomorph Queen stabs him through the chest with the sword inches away from Toriel’s throat.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Globgor, the monster that can change his size to become giant sized, is the first death of the episode.
- Big "NO!": When Pennywise asks his team if they would like to float in their introductions, Freddy and Octavia both shout "NO!" to him.
- Toriel has several moments of screaming these; when she gets a good look at the one who saved her from the Klown's shadow puppet, the Xenomorph Queen (who looks too much like the Queen Vorealien for her liking), when shooting down Asgore's suggestion of sacrificing himself so that Toriel can obtain the wish, and when she’s surrounded by all the kids that died in the Underground in her Freddy-induced nightmare.
- When Jevil asks everyone in the burning circus tent if they’re having fun yet, Spawn responds with a "FUCK. NO."
- Bond One-Liner: After murdering Octavia, Freddy yells out "Who wants fresh turkey!?".
- Boom, Headshot!: Blitz manages to put a bullet into Jashin-chan's forehead by accident. This is also how Blitz finishes Jevil off.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: When talking to Millie about what they could wish for in their Team Introduction, Moxxie considers using it for either a nicer house, a raise, or a security system to keep Blitz out when he tries to film them.
- The Bus Came Back: The Xenomorph Queen, Death, Marceline, Pinhead, Toriel, Blitz, Moxxie, Millie, Pennywise, Freddy Krueger, and Octavia all return from the Arenas and side-stories.
- Call-Back: Overhearing Toriel mention she's had history with the Arenas, Globgor tells them that his wife told him of the one that she was a part of, where she was in constant danger by monster that wanted to eat her. Toriel tells him not to remind her of it, having been a victim of the Vorealiens herself. She also freaks out when first encountering the Xenomorph Queen, getting horrible memories of the Queen Vorealien that ate her.
- The two characters that returned from Episode 24, Toriel and Blitz, both mention their experiences with Frieza, though they don't name him. When Globgor asks Toriel for advice on how to win, she tells him to stay away from megalomaniacs that can turn gold. And Blitzo shoots down Moxxie's idea of working with the other contestants, recalling how last time he worked with someone, he got backstabbed by who he describes as a 'giant purple/white tampon'.
- When Octavia bumps into Jason, Freddy asks her to tell him that he owes him a rematch in their Team Introduction.
- As Nyarlathotep expresses frustration at how he can't break Seras, she shouts that she's her mind played with once, and it won’t happen to her again, referencing her fight with Zorin Blitz.
- Characters Dropping Like Flies: The rate of characters dying in this episode is much faster than in most Arenas, to the point that there’s only 4 chapters, making this the shortest episode in the series.
- Collateral Damage: When Jevil destroys a building by slicing it in two, he also kills HKEX in the process.
- Commonality Connection: The Xenomorph Queen bonds with Asgore and Toriel because they have all lost children in their lives.
- Country Matters: Seras calls Nyarlathotep a cunt as she tells him that he's not going to break her mind.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Despite the contestants' best efforts to stop Klown Khidorah, it doesn't take long for him to get mad and destroy most of the cast quickly, leaving only him, Freddy, and Pinhead.
- Deadly Deferred Conversation: When Asgore, Toriel, and the Xenamorph Queen are holding off hordes of the Klowns, Asgore asks what they'll wish for if they win, to which Toriel asks him to talk about it later. And then Asgore ends up sacrificing himself to save Toriel from a Shadow Cock Demon made by the Klowns.
- Death Glare: When Spawn catches Stitch munching on his cape, he gives the creature the best one he can to get him to knock it off.
- Death of a Child: Erma gets struck by a cotton candy beam, and vanishes into thin air.
- Diving Save: When Asgore notices a shadow puppet of a Cock Demon looming over Toriel, he pushes her out of the way as it descends, and gets eaten by it.
- A Dog Named "Dog": When Toriel realizes that the Xenamorph Queen doesn’t have a name, she decides to give her the name Xena, which is obviously short for Xenomorph. This makes Toriel question if she's inherited her ex's habit of unoriginal naming after giving her the name.
- Double Take: Asgore has one when he sees the Xenomorph Queen comfort Toriel from the nightmare that she had.
- Dragged into Drag: Blitz has Moxxie wear his 'Moxxine' outfit to try and lure any unsuspecting Klowns or contestants for them to kill.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Pinhead defeats Freddy by using a chain snake to quite literally drag him back to Hell.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the Bloodbath, Globgor and Marx are dissolved by the Klowns' custard pies, the Dino Cavegirl and Carol get turned into cotton candy, Battz gets his head knocked off by a Klown, Death bisects Dimentio, and Alternate Mari gets fried by the Starro-controlled Raven.
- Eaten Alive: Asgore dies by getting eaten by a shadow puppet Cock Demon.
- Extremely Short Timespan: The entire episode takes place around 5 hours at night, the shortest amount an Arena has lasted.
- Eye Scream: When Jack Skellington tries to lure Stitch away from Spawn with a can of whipped cream, Stitch takes the can and mischievously fires several spurts into Jack’s eye sockets.
- Sulley throws Unteka at Klown Khidorah to sink her fangs into his eyes, and manages to bite into one of them.
- Pinhead uses barbed wire to latch onto one of the giant Freddy's eye-sockets, trying to pull the actual Freddy out.
- "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: After Jevil is slammed down to the ground by Pinhead’s chains, Blitz finds him and prepares to put a bullet in his head at point-blank range. To which Jevil decides to make his last words an I Banged Your Mom joke at Blitz's expense.
- Blitz: "I dunno. I kinda got over my whole things with clowns a while back. Besides, he's six inches deep in the ground anyways."
Jevil: "N...No. I'm six inches deep inside YOUR MOM!"
- Fastball Special: During the fight with Klown Khidorah, Sulley throws Unteka right at Khidorah's eyes.
- Fate Worse than Death: Pinhead threatens Baskerra that if she tries to interfere in his plans, he'll subject him to the same tortures she put him through, only without the escape of death.
- Flat "What": Pinhead's reaction to Baskerra telling him to take an elevator to Hell, which she then clarifies that it can take him and his Cenobites from Hell to the mortal realm.
- Flipping the Bird: Freddy attempts to do this to Pinhead as he’s being sent back to Hell, but his body turns to mush when he tries to do this.
- Foreign Cuss Word: After Death finds out he's one of the contestants this time, he utters "Mierda", which is Spanish for "Shit".
- Get It Over With: When Pinhead goes on a speech about how he should have acted sooner and is surprised of Freddy being able to feel anything, Freddy just tells him to finish him the fuck off already, not wanting to listen to him being an 'armchair psychologist'.
- Ghost Town: The setting of the Arena is a town that had its entire population eaten by the Klowns.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: During the Bloodbath, Stitch grabs a few Klowns by the tail and smashes them into other Klowns.
- Groin Attack: During the third hour while fighting some Klowns, Spawn summons chains with jaws at the end of them to grab them, where they all latch onto the family jewels of the Klowns.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Death kills Dimentio in the Bloodbath by splitting him into two with his scythe.
- The Xenomorph Queen kills the Emperor’s Blade by tearing him in half.
- High-Voltage Death: The Starro-controlled Raven is killed when a volt emerging from underground, courtesy of Klown Ghidorah's awakening, strikes her and causes her to explode.
- I'm Okay!: After Unteka surprises Jashin-chan and causes her to fall off the roof of a sushi restaurant, the sound of several bones are heard breaking, but she says "I’m okay...ow."
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Xenomorph Queen saves Toriel from getting killed by the Emperor's Blade by stabbing him through his chest with her tail.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: While Blitz is trying to reassure Moxxie and Millie that his plan will work, he accidentally pulls the trigger on the gun…and manages to hit Jashin-chan in the head with that bullet.
- Impromptu Tracheotomy: Freddy stabs Athras while he’s trying to fight Klown Khidorah, which distracts him long enough to be unable to avoid the acidic pies raining down on him, which melts him.
- Interrupted Intimacy: Mike ends up walking in on Seras giving Sulley a titjob. He just awkwardly tells Sulley to clean up when he's done.
- Jaw Drop: Mike and Sully go slack-jawed when they see Jack Skellington, who is a legend to them in their universe, on their team in their introduction. Mike and Jack do this when Klown Ghidorah is awakening.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: When Pennywise tells several Klowns that they’ll all float soon enough, one of them gets the idea to make a balloon the size of a jet plane, which entraps Pennywise. As Pennywise is threatening them with what a mistake they’ve made, the Klown lets go of the balloon, causing it to propel it into the force-field, destroying Pennywise.
- Pennywise: "What?! What are you doing?! You can’t trap me in here! I WILL-"
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Mike and Sully are ecstatic to be meeting with Jack Skellington, who to them he and Halloween Town are Shrouded in Myth. Mike even asks him to sign his back.
- Major Injury Underreaction: When Jashin-chan ends up falling to the ground after getting a bullet into her forehead, she lets out a little "Ow." This is justified by how she has received far worse injuries in her series.
- Mêlée à Trois: The final fight of the episode has Klown Khidorah vs Freddy vs Pinhead, who all mutually want to kill each other.
- Monster Clown: Every clown character on both the Klown and contestant side are insane murderers.
- Nightmare Sequence: Freddy uses his dream powers to torment Asgore and Toriel. For the former, he has Asgore kill Frisk for her SOUL, and tells him that he only needs two more SOULs to break the barrier- those of Asriel and Chara, Asgore's dead children. When Asgore refuses to kill them, they close in on him while chanting 'KILL US! FREE US!'. For the latter, it has her being surrounded by all the children that Asgore slaughtered to break the barrier, in addition to Asriel and Chara, who begin to swarm her while asking why she just let them die and allowed it to happen. Fortunately, they’re saved by the swarm of Jack Frost clones ramming into the building Freddy was in and taking him with them.
- No Body Left Behind: Many of the contestants’ bodies get dissolved by the Klowns, mostly by either being turned into cotton candy, or by their custard pies landing on them. And when Klown Khidorah shows up to fight the remaining contestants in the climax he obliterates most of them.
- When HKEX spreads its corruption to a few Klowns, it causes them to crumple into pixels. HKEX's body is destroyed and reduced to pixels after Jevil kills it while destroying a building.
- Pennywise, Blitz, Moxxie, and Millie have their bodies obliterated when they make contact with the barrier.
- Nyarlathotep gets his whole body melted by the Tanker Bug’s acid.
- When the ghostly characters Erma and Vivan die, their bodies vanish into thin air.
- When Klown Ghidorah awakens, volts from the ground crack up, with one striking and vaporizing the Starro-controlled Raven.
- Noodle Incident: As Blitz is destroying several buildings with his new Jevilknife, Moxxie and Millie having to chase him down trying to stop his rampage, Millie wishes she had some tranqs on her, thinking that "It's that one time in Arizona all over again!".
- Off with His Head!: Battz gets his head punched off by a Klown in the Bloodbath.
- Oh, Crap!: When Pinhead pops Klown Khidorah's remaining noses, he screams “EAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!” and then "Uh oh." before he pops.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Before Klown Khidorah sends them flying into the barrier, Moxxie and Blitz both yell out, "Shit! Not again!", though the latter only grumbles it.
- One Free Hit: When Battz comes across a tiny Klown wearing boxing gloves, Battz doesn't believe that the Klown can defeat him, and allows him one shot. The Klown uses this one shot to knock his head clean off his body.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: After Pinhead avoids the flames caused by the fissures the giant Freddy created, he tells the dream demon "What an over-the-top display. Let’s see if I can measure up to your expectations. I warn you. I tend to overachieve."
- Premortem One Liner: Dimentio says "And now, the curtain closes!" when he thinks he's about to kill Death, only for Death to vanish and then kill him instead, turning his one-liner into his last words.
- When he makes his first move in the fight with Klown Khidorah, he says "My favorite part of any game...sudden DEATH!" before stabbing his claw through Athras' throat.
- Just before Freddy has been fully sent to Hell, Pinhead tells the dream demon "Welcome BACK to Hell."
- Profane Last Words: Before Freddy is completely sent back to Hell, his last words to Pinhead are "FUCK YOUUUUUAAAAAAAAARGH!" as his body is reduced to mush.
- Shout-Out: After Caleb gets Seras' and Blitz's attention by firing his sawed-off shotgun in the air, he threatens if either of them wants to try out his boomstick.
- Caleb, frustrated that he can't seem to kill Jason, considers throwing Jason down a well to leave him to rot in.
- As one of the Klowns is melting from the Tanker Bug's acid, it screams "WHAT A WOOOOOORLD!".
- Sound-Only Death: All that's seen of Octavia’s death is her screaming, blood pooling past the door, her feathers flying through the windows, and the shadow of Freddy's bloodied claw to indicate who murdered her.
- The Stinger: After Baskerra sends Pinhead away to find his now freed Cenobites and tells the audience to have a good Halloween, there's one more scene where it turns out Toriel and Xena survived getting launched into the barrier, but are now stuck in space. While in space, Toriel asks Xena if she would like cake or pie.
- Strolling Through the Chaos: During all the mayhem of the Bloodbath, Nyarlathotep calmly walks through it, making note of the Klowns.
- Team Killer: Freddy murders his 'teammate' Octavia in the third chapter.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Marceline, Blitz, Moxxie, Millie, Pennywise, and Freddy Krueger die once again in an Arena.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Before they're thrown to the barrier, Toriel woefully admits she should have seen this failure coming while Blitz just mumbles "Shit, not again."
- Token Evil Teammate: Black Frost for Team 7.
- Token Good Teammate: Octavia for Team 9.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Mike begins his Team Introduction by trying to get Sulley to recap what they did last night to figure out how they ended up in the Arena.
- Who Writes This Crap?!: After Blitz gets Moxxie into his 'Moxxine' disguise, he has him read out a script he wrote to lure any contestants or Killer Klowns for them to kill. But when Moxxie gets to the last few words, he breaks out of character to scold his boss for how unbelievable the dialouge is.
- Moxxie: Oh dear, it appears that I, a helpless female in her early 20s, am completely lost in this city. I sure do hope that some big strapping man or Klown comes by to rescue me and doesn't have the urge to...completely...destroy...my... (Turns to Blitz) Sir, who in hell is going to believe this?!
Blitz: I'm paying you to act, not to ask! Now stick to the script Moxxie!
- Why Won't You Die?: When Robo-Fizzaroli scares Octavia while she's trying to hide in an alley, she grabs a garbage can and bludgeons the robot with it, crying out "WHY! WON'T! YOU! DIE?!" with each slam. After crying this out, she realizes that she actually destroyed the robot.
- Caleb asks the same thing when Jason won't die despite pumping him full of lead.
- The Worf Barrage: Played for Laughs where when Jashin-chan tries to escape from the crate in her Team Introduction, she attempts to use her ultimate attack, the Dropkick, to bust the doors open. All that happens is that she anti-climatically bangs on the doors and causes her tail to bend like an accordion.
- Working with the Ex: Toriel finds that she has her ex on the same team as her, with some awkwardness coming from this at the beginning of their Team Introduction.
- Worth It: After Blitz, Moxxie, and Millie nearly die while killing several Killer Klowns and Jason that they had attracted, Blitz says it was worth it just to put his 'Moxxine' plan in motion.
- Your Head Asplode: Moxxie kills the Wendigo and Jason by unloading bullets into their heads, reducing them to salsa.
Your Winner: Pinhead (Nighthawk87's pick)
