Western Animation / Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

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Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is an American computer-animated television movie created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro, produced by DreamWorks Animation and Cha Cha Cha Films. It serves as the Grand Finale to the Tales of Arcadia series. The movie premiered on July 21, 2021.

The town of Arcadia Oaks may seem to be an ordinary town, but it lies at the center of magical and extraterrestrial lines that make it a nexus for many battles among otherworldly creatures including trolls, aliens, and wizards.

This time, the fate of the universe is at stake, as the Guardians of Arcadia assemble to fight back against the Arcane Order for control over the magic that binds them all together.

The first trailer debuted on June 15, 2021.

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Tropes in this film include:

• Aesop Amnesia: Justified Trope.
  • Jim undoes the whole franchise all because of Toby dying and even has Toby take up his job; never mind that he's aware that he can’t prevent every tragedy. That being said, many parts of the world were reduced to chaos by the titans' rampages, and Toby, Nari, Nomura, and Strickler weren't the only ones who lost their lives to them; countless innocent people were caught in the conflict and many were lost in the process. If anything, Jim didn't go back in time just to save Toby, but also the future itself because the tragedy the titans have inflicted on everyone was simply too much to handle.
  • Additionally, Jim's been to a place that literally tells him that being a Trollhunter is his "true" destiny. Of course, Blinky once told Jim that while the amulet made Jim the Trollhunter, he made himself a hero. Jim finally accepts himself as a hero and a Trollhunter (with or without the amulet) and, because of Toby's selfless deeds, he ultimately sees that Toby deserves to experience his own life as a hero.
• All for Nothing: Played With. Jim resetting the timeline back to the beginning of Trollhunters effectively undoes the hard-won victory they've achieved over the Titans and the Arcane Order, as well as everybody's victories and Character Development throughout the entire franchise, but Jim retains his knowledge of how future events will turn out and who their future allies will be, meaning that whilst they're starting from square one, there's the chance for Jim to use the lessons of the erased past to make a better future for everybody. On a more humorous note, it also renders the struggles Steve went through giving birth to his and Aja's kids throughout the movie pointless in the end.
• Ambiguous Situation: Despite Jim directing Toby to the canal so he could find the new timeline's amulet, it's never really made clear if he still possesses his rebuilt amulet after time traveling, but due to the head-canon nature of the movie ending with a cliffhanger, it's debatable.
• Animation Bump: Being a single movie as opposed to a series, it has more detailed models and smoother animation than the previous shows.
• Antagonist Title: While the Arcane Order is technically the main antagonist faction, the Titans they use are treated as an omnipotent threat to the world capable of great destruction.
• Anti-Magic:
  • Krel has a device that projects magic-nullifying radiation, which due to its bulk is mounted in Stuart's van. It comes in handy at a few points, though the lack of portability hampers its usefulness and keeps it from making the battle completely one-sided in favor of the protagonists.
  • Jim's Akiridion Magitek armor seems to come with this as a feature, as Jim cuts right through Bellroc's fireball with Excalibur when previously the blade alone couldn't stop the force of the blast. This forces Bellroc to finish the fight with him close-range, where Jim is in his element, contributing to the rest of the fight being a Curb Stomp Cushion in his favor.
• An Arm and a Leg: The Fire Titan gets part of its left forearm blown off. This is at best an inconvenience, failing to do much more than momentarily delay the titan.
• Armor Is Useless: Averted.
  • Jim gets pretty badly banged up by Bellroc in the opening fight scene, lacking the ability to take hits from fantastical opponents like he could with his old Trollhunter Armor, and ends up unconscious and with three bruised ribs for his trouble. Jim getting his magic armor back at the climax — now upgraded into Magitek with Akiridion technology blended into it — serves as the point where the fight starts turning against Bellroc. When she stabs him with her broken magic staff, he's hurt but not lethally incapacitated, allowing him to land the final blow once he recovers.
  • Toby, meanwhile, is forced to discard his armor in order to get free from Douxie's Gravity Screw spell pinning him against Stuart's van, leaving him with no protection when the van is crushed by the falling Hearthstone, giving him fatal injuries.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The titular Titans are mountain-sized elemental abominations.
• Babies Ever After: Seven of them, between Steve and Aja.
• Back from the Dead: By the time the Final Battle is finished, Bellroc and Skrael are dead, but so too are Nomura, Strickler, Nari, and Toby, with Archie being sealed in the Chinese trollmarket alongside his father once the bridge entranceway is destroyed by Bellroc's Fire Titan. This is part of what motivates Jim to turn back time to the day he became a Trollhunter, with only himself aware of the "true" past that transpired, so as to ensure that this time around, everybody gets a happier outcome, as well as freeing himself from the responsibilities of being the Trollhunter once and for all, as Toby instead becomes the first human Trollhunter in the new timeline.
• Back to the Early Installment: The film ends when Jim decides to use the Time Stone to travel back all the way to the first episode of the franchise and has Toby venture into the canal where the latter would become the first human Trollhunter instead of Jim, with Jim intending to ensure that everyone gets a better future.
• Behemoth Battle:
  • Varvatos' Humongous Mecha vs the Fire Titan, which ends in the latter's favor.
  • And Nari's Earth Titan vs Skrael's Ice Titan, leading to a Mutual Kill.
• Big Bad: Bellroc turns out to be this by the end of the movie, which is quite fitting as she is the leader of the Arcane Order with Skrael as the Dragon.
• Big Damn Movie: Downplayed. While this movie has some pretty universally apocalyptic stakes, Trollhunters, 3Below, and Wizards often had episodes focusing on world-ending threats.
• Big Good: Taking the role as Nari's main protector, Douxie serves as the most powerful force for good among the heroes and the Arcane Order's main obstacle in their goals.
• Bittersweet Ending: Played With. The movie and the franchise as a whole end this way, with the heroes managing to stop the titans and save the world, but at a massive cost, with several of the heroes already dead and large parts of the world destroyed due to the titans' rampage. Jim realizes that Nari's last words to him were not about the Krohnisfere being used to stop the titans' rampage, but rather being used to right the devastation wrought by the fighting. In order to make sure that everybody gets a happier ending than they got themselves, Jim ends up going back in time to the day he became a Trollhunter, with only himself aware of it, to try and create a better future for everyone. This effectively undoes the entire franchise back to square one, but all of Jim's loved ones are still alive and Jim is planning to use his knowledge of the future to achieve a happier outcome for everyone, now aware of what threats are coming and how to deal with them.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: When Akiridions kiss seven times, it creates a litter of babies that gestate in about a day. Oh, and the males carry them. All of which Steve has the unfortunate pleasure of experiencing when he kisses Aja upon her return to Earth.
• Bookends:
  • The film starts with the united factions attempting to launch an ambush on the two members of the Arcane Order using Nari as bait, with an Akiridion Anti-Magic beam shutting down their magical advantages. In the Final Battle, Toby uses the same beam to de-power Bellroc just as the Fire Titan is meters away from touching the Hearthstone, rendering her powerless and vulnerable to Jim landing the finishing blow on her.
  • The franchise as a whole starts and ends with a boy finding the Trollhunter Amulet in Kanjigar's shattered remains. The first time around it's Jim. The second time, it's Toby.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: After the Arcane Order recaptures Nari, they brainwash her into using her Titan in their scheme before the heroes free her.
• Brought Down to Badass: Jim has lost the amulet and his half-troll form, but he's retained his fighting skills. What's more, Krel lent him his Serrator to fight the Arcane Order during the ambush in the beginning segment, and despite not being as proficient with it as the man himself, Jim shows decent enough skill with switching between the blade and shield modes to take on Bellroc for a few minutes, even if he gets overwhelmed once her magic is working again. Him getting his Trollhunter armor back in time for the final fight more than evens the odds between them, allowing Jim to overwhelm Bellroc once he has the power to actually stand up to her attacks.
• Can't Live Without You: The members of the Arcane Order and their respective Titans seem to be connected in such a way that when one dies, so does the other.
• Cassandra Truth: After being arrested by the MCPD for the damage from the opening fight, Toby tells them everything that's happened in the franchise so far. They don't believe him, despite the presence of a large troll and a talking cat.
• Creation Myth: Blinky reads from Merlin's Grimoire that the Arcane Order created the universe eons ago, using the Titans as their handmaidens in the process of creation. Later on, Bellroc and Skrael tell Douxie (who is in Nari's body) that the world was created as a paradise for all life, but now that humanity has disrupted and abused that balance, they should wipe them out and Restart the World. The insinuation is that the Arcane Order created the cosmos, including the Earth, and was disappointed that it didn't turn out the way it was expected to. Nothing in the movie is said otherwise.
• Crystal Ball: The Krohnisfere is an Ancient Artifact that can predict potential futures for those who stare into it, this being because it houses the Time Stone. The TrollDragon Zong-Shi hoarded it and does nothing but stare at it so that he could avoid anything that could lead to his death.
• Darker and Edgier: This movie manages to contain more action and much higher stakes than the previous three Tales of Arcadia series. An assortment of characters die, gruesomely in some cases, and even when the day is saved, it is at the cost of the lives of many friends. Jim however, manages to undo this with the Krohnisfere.
• Dead-Hand Shot: Double subverted. Jim manages to find Toby under the rubble of the primordial Hearthstone, which is just a shot of his unmoving hand. Then it turns out Toby is still alive, but crushed in such a way that he won't be for much longer.
  • Zong-Shi's hand is the only part of his body visible when he gets crushed by falling rubble.
• Death by Looking Up: Zong-Shi looks into the Krohnisfere and sees himself being crushed by debris. Then he looks up and it happens.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Skrael gets taken out by Nari in a Mutual Kill, leading the heroes' final opponent to be Bellroc and the Fire Titan alone.
• Distinction Without a Difference:
  • Blinky assures Toby that the Titans won't destroy the world, they'll just kill all life on it and begin it anew.
    Toby: That's destroying it!
  • Turns out later than this actually will come to pass if only one of the Arcane Order reaches the Hearthstone with their Titans. The world will be consumed by their element alone, meaning no new life can grow in a world that's out of balance.
• Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Blinky originally attributes the Titans needing to come together at Arcadia being because it was the center of the universe. It's later revealed that it's less the location and more because the Titan(s) need to fuse with the Hearthstone underneath the city to remake the world.
  • Aja and Krel pointed out in 3Below that the center of the universe is actually pretty far away from Earth, but it's implied they were merely speaking in the astronomical sense, not primordially.
• Evil Only Has to Win Once: After Nari takes out Skrael at the cost of her life, the heroes discover that Blinky accidentally overlooked information in the book he was reading about the Titans and their purpose, due to the requisite pages being stuck together and him being pressed for time. Whilst if three titans reach the Hearthstone together, they will cleanse the world and allow new life to be born on the remains, if only one titan reaches the Hearthstone alone, the world will instead be consumed by their element alone, which would be an even worse outcome than they originally feared, given the Fire Titan is the only one remaining, meaning the heroes still have to stop Bellroc themselves even without the aid of Nari's Earth Titan to combat her.
• Exact Words: Nari previously stated in Wizards that all three primordial wizards must be present to break the Genesis Seals, hence why Bellroc and Skrael are hunting her down (alive) to begin with. Bellroc later sums it up that the ritual doesn't necessarily require Nari's commitment, just her mere presence, while Bellroc and Skrael do all the committing.
• Family-Friendly Firearms: The police officers who corner Claire, Toby, AAARRRGGHH!!!, Nari, and Archie are all aiming taser guns at them.
• Finale Movie: It's the only movie in the Tales of Arcadia franchise and the Grand Finale where the heroes from the three series all fight together.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing:
  • In order to beat the Arcane Order, the united groups decide to get a future-scrying item called the Krohnisfere from a TrollDragon named Zong-Shi, who is so fearful of death that he peers constantly into the device to see his future and avoid misfortune. During a struggle for the Krohnisfere, it gets temporarily taken away from Zong-Shi, and when he recovers it, the fighting between Bellroc on the Fire Titan and Varvatos piloting a Humongous Mecha styled after Gun Robot in the bay above causes the cavern roof to start collapsing, resulting in Zong-Shi getting a vision of himself getting crushed to death by rubble seconds before he looks up and sees his incoming doom.
  • It's clear that Nari tried to kill Skrael to prevent their Titans from uniting. However, it's almost shocking that Skrael had no qualms stabbing Nari's Earth Titan first, despite knowing fully well that all three Titans are needed to remake the world full of life. It's later revealed that the Titans had to unite with the Heartstone in Arcadia, not with each other, and since Bellroc's Fire Titan is the only one left after Skrael and Nari's Mutual Kill, the Earth will be reborn as a Lethal Lava Land and presumably, Bellroc and Skrael had intentions of disposing of each other plus Nari to take the Heartstone as their own.
  • When Toby is driving Stuart's van with the Anti-Magic beam inside it towards the Fire Titan to aid Jim in taking down Bellroc, flaming debris from the lave-spewing monstrosity partially impacts the van, knocking off the pieces of Toby's armor that were still stuck to the outside of the van by Douxie's Gravity Screw spell, with the camera lingering on his helmet, now aflame. Sure enough, Toby is able to stop Bellroc from completing her spell and causing The End of the World as We Know It, as well as giving Jim the opening he needs to put her down for good, but the angle he's forced to take in order to fire the beam at her means he's too close to the floating Heartstone, which collapses on top of the van and fatally crushes Toby.
• God Is Flawed: Played With. Bellroc, Skrael, and Nari make up the Arcane Order, and they are the three creators of the universe, a parallel to the Holy Trinity from the Bible. Bellroc even gives out a monologue about creating the world as a paradise for life itself and humans "disrespected that balance, abused it," and since she is the leader of the Arcane Order, it's a parallel to where God the Father created the world in Genesis and banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for disobeying Him. However, Nari defected from the Order, and so Bellroc and Skrael recapture her to awaken the Titans and remake the world. Following Nari's death by Skrael and vice-versa, Bellroc is the only member alive, which edges the movie into God Is Evil territory by the final act.
• Giant Wall of Watery Doom: After the Gun Robot mech previously piloted by Varvatos Vex collapses on Stone Carver Bridge, the heavy weight of the mech collapses on the bridge into the bay, creating a tidal wave that would've drowned anyone still on the bridge. Claire gets herself, Jim, and Blinky out from underneath the bridge just in time.
• Grand Finale: The final installment in the Tales of Arcadia franchise, bringing together the protagonists of all three shows for the Final Battle.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: To fix the damage and lives lost during the Arcane Order's rampages, Jim turns back time to the day that he first gained the Trollhunter amulet, with only himself aware of the true "past" that occurred. However, it's stated that Jim will be using his knowledge of future events to make sure that things don't turn out so disastrously for everyone, with Toby taking up the role of the Trollhunter in the new timeline, and Jim being aware of the coming threats to Arcadia and how best to beat them.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Unlike Nomura, Strickler, and Nari's Senseless Sacrifice, Toby manages to help Jim stop Bellroc and the Fire Titan by using Krel's anti-magic blaster and give his friend the opening he needed to finish her off once and for all, at the cost of his own life. This is what motivates Jim to go back in time and save his friends from their fates.
• Homeworld Evacuation: Aja has ships deployed to do this when it appears there's no way to stop the Titans. Since it will take a while for them to arrive, they keep trying to save the world in the meantime. However, with the Arcane Order's goals of not only remaking Earth but also annihilating the universe, this would've been All for Nothing.
• Humongous Mecha: Varvatos Vex pilots one to fight the Fire Titan with. Unfortunately, despite a Hope Spot, he ultimately fails to do more than slow it down and blow half its left forearm off — which just causes it to 'bleed' boiling lava from the stump, arguably making approaching it even more dangerous for the heroes in the climax.
• Idiot Ball: When the group splits up to attack the three titans, they decide to send Douxie, Nomura, and AAARRRGGHH!!! after the Nature Titan to rescue Nari. When it's the middle of the day in that location; i.e., a time when two of that three-man team can be killed just by stepping out of a shadow, and when Nomura has lost the protection from sunlight she would have if she were still bonded to her counterpart in the Darklands. Predictably, such an easily-exploitable weakness results in Nomura's death and the mission is an abysmal failure. Worse still, it was night/overcast at the other two locations, where the pair would not have any trouble with the sun.
• I Got Bigger: Puberty was very kind of Eli, though he lampshades that spending it on an alien world certainly helped.
• Kill the God: Jim slays Bellroc, who created the universe alongside Skrael and Nari, in the climax by slashing her with Excalibur.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: In addition to her magical prows, Bellroc is also proficient in using her magic staff as a spear in close combat, allowing her to hold Jim off when the anti-magic beam blasts her on the train, though she is clearly on the back foot until her magic returns. Once Jim gains his Magitech Trollhunter armor, with the implied ability to allow him to nullify or cut her magic attacks down, Bellroc is able to hold him off for a while in an impromptu duel, but ultimately Jim's greater combat skills win out and he cuts her staff in two.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In the past, Bellroc was the one to kill the original wielder of Excalibur. In the present, she finally meets her ends at the hands of the newest wielder of the blade. Additionally, Bellroc spends most of their interactions mocking Jim for being so powerless and weak without the Trollhunter Amulet empowering him anymore, looking down on him as being a pathetic human who can't do anything without magical aid. When Toby hits her with the Anti-Magic beam, Bellroc is shown to be helpless against the Magitech-powered Jim without her magic, being forced into exactly the same situation Jim was in when she was beating him up prior to the amulet's arrival, and unable to resist as fiercely as he did against a superior opponent, showing herself to be the pathetic and powerless one between them.
• Logo Joke: The Krohnisfere device (displaying scenes from the film) forms the DreamWorks Animation logo, and Jim steps out of the crescent where the fishing boy would go and holds his sword high.
• Magitek:
  • Camelot has since been upgraded with Akiridion technology, using hard light constructs to cover some of the battle damage and otherwise supplement the castle's defenses.
  • Krel is able to reconstruct the Trollhunter Amulet from the original blueprints with the help of Akaridian technology, though it doesn't actually work until Jim finds a compatible magic stone from Earth. When it does finally work, the Trollhunter Armor is shown to have an Akiridion-like under-armor and one of the shoulders has a circular device similar to the missile launcher on the Gun Robot mecha.
• Militaries Are Useless: A group of armed jets fly to battle the Lava Titan, but are blasted off-screen as Jim, Toby, and Aja watch in horror. Likewise, Akiridion weapons, aside from the Anti-Magic device, are at best a stalling tactic against the magical prowess of the Order.
• Motion-Capture Mecha: The titans are controlled by the Arcane Order puppeteering them from a platform near the head.
• Mutual Kill: Nari, once freed of the Mind Control the others were using to force her to participate in their plan, drives the Earth Titan she's commanding up against Skrael's Ice Titan, eventually managing to consume him and his titan in plant matter even as her titan and herself are frozen and shattered by his ice. Unfortunately, Bellroc's still commanding the Fire Titan and the heroes shortly thereafter discover that if she reaches the Hearthstone alone, the world will instead be consumed by her element alone, forcing them to finish her and her titan before The End of the World as We Know It.
• No Biochemical Barriers: Akiridion reproductive methods, despite differing wildly from the human norm, still work just fine on humans. Steve is able to carry and birth seven Akiridion babies, which come out mostly Akiridion but with human hair.
• No Ontological Inertia: When Bellroc is killed, her Fire Titan and the Hearthstone raised up from underneath Arcadia both collapse into rubble.
• Oh, Crap!: Played for laughs when Steve thinks that kissing Aja has made her pregnant, and then doubly so when he's informed it made him pregnant.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Played With. Everyone believes that Jim is destined to be the next wielder of Excalibur, as he was chosen to be the Trollhunter, but he is unable to unsheathe it from the stone. It turns out that the clue that Nari gave them — the "Ninth Configuration" — meant that The Team has to help him pull it out, meaning that it technically takes The Chosen Many to wield it. This also acts as a contrast to the previous wielder, Arthur, and the fate he suffered in Wizards. Arthur was chosen by a single person and pulled the sword from the stone alone, and eventually, his own personal flaws twisted and corrupted him into The Green Knight. Jim, meanwhile has demonstrated his personal courage and worthiness to his friends and allies before, and they have no problem choosing him as a group to be the next wielder, meaning he is chosen by the people, not for the people like Arthur was.
• Peggy Sue: With the power of the Time Stone, Jim's mind travels back to his past self from the very first episode of the franchise, reliving the events of his life from then on with complete knowledge of what will happen.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted. In the final battle, Bellroc has Jim dead-to-rights and could easily strike him down, but instead offers to let him spend his final moments with his friends before the end of all things. It's clear that it's merely an act of Cruel Mercy just to make Jim give up. Naturally, Jim refuses to surrender, even when there's no hope, which calls the reforged Trollhunter Amulet to him and allows him to fight Bellroc on equal grounds.
• Pulling Themselves Together: At one point, the Ice Titan gets blasted into chunks thanks to a Heroic Sacrifice from Strickler, only to immediately reassemble itself and keep right on marching.
• Remember the New Guy?: The location of the Krohnisfere is in the realm of the TrollDragons, a species of troll who have never been brought up before in the series. Justified because not only do they live far away in China, but they are also disconnected from magic and very secretive.
• Restart the World: Apparently the Arcane Order made the world in the first place using the Titans, and Bellroc and Skrael plan to wipe it clean and remake it due to their hatred of humanity by having the Titans fuse in Arcadia. It's later revealed that the Titans don't need to unite with each other, but rather the Hearthstone under the city instead, and since Bellroc's Titan is the only one left at that point, doing so would make the world a Lethal Lava Land.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Strickler's Suicide Attack on Skrael's Ice Titan is ultimately pointless, as it just reforms itself moments later.
• Shout-Out:
  • Understandably, given who directed the franchise, but when Bellroc drives the Fire Titan into the Chinese bay area, Varvatos shows up to fight her piloting an Anti-Titan countermeasure, and the resulting clash is basically straight out of Pacific Rim. There's even a shot beforehand where Chinese fighter jets fly into a cloud bank to fight the Titan and get knocked out of the sky that's almost exactly like the opening sequence in the said film where a Kaiju tears its way through the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • The Time Stone is a glowing-green Mineral MacGuffin with incredibly powerful, vaguely defined Time Master powers that are harnessed using an Amulet of Concentrated Awesome, not unlike the Time Stone from a certain other action-packed Science-Fantasy multi-crossover franchise.
• Sword of Plot Advancement: Using an Akiridian recreation of the Amulet and Excalibur's Heartstone, the team is able to recreate Jim's armor, Excalibur becoming the new Sword of Daylight.
• Synchronization: The Titans and their respective Arcane Order controllers seem to share pain sensations between them, as Skrael and Nari each react as if they themselves were being stabbed when their titans impale each other, and Nari growing plants within the Ice Titan also causes plant matter to consume Skrael from within. This is not shown to happen when the titans are damaged through non-magical means — Bellroc isn't affected by the Fire Titan losing an arm to Gun Robot, and Skrael is able to reform the Ice Titan when it's blasted apart by normal explosives — suggesting that it has to be magic (or each other, specifically) for them to be harmed.
• That's No Moon: The Ice Titan is briefly mistaken for an iceberg before it starts moving.
• Tired of Running: The film starts because Nari is tired of running from the rest of the Order, so the heroes put together a plan to face them.
• Trailers Always Spoil: The second trailer shows Jim pulling Excalibur from the stone and wielding it.
• Triumphant Reprise: "None Shall Live" returns to punctuate Jim getting his Heroic Second Wind in the final fight against Bellroc, and successfully summoning the Trollhunter amulet, this time empowered by the gem from Excalibur, forming a new set of Trollerhunter armor that blends Akiridion technology with his old magic armor. The framing and the amulet going supersonic to reach him even call back to the time Jim summoned the amulet to save Claire from the goblins.
• Vine Tentacles: The Earth Titan has several thick strands of vines that it uses to snatch people with and prevent them from getting to Nari.
• Voices Are Mental: When Douxie switches bodies with Nari to prevent the Arcane Order from taking her, Nari speaks with her voice coming out of Douxie's body and vice-versa.
• Weirdness Magnet: It's lampshaded how Arcadia seems to draw supernatural and/or alien phenomena like crazy.
• Where It All Began: Literally. In addition to the final fight taking place in Arcadia, Jim decides to use the time stone from the Krohnisfere to turn back time to the day he first found the Trollhunter amulet, re-doing the opening scenes of the first episode and effectively resetting the entire franchise up to that point. However, Jim plans to use his knowledge of the future to achieve a better ending for everybody on this second attempt, starting by directing Toby to become the first human Trollhunter instead of himself.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Douxie manages to free Nari from her mind control, and she uses the Titan to stop Skrael. He's Forced to Watch her pulling a Mutual Kill on the Ice Titan so as to stop the apocalypse.
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: After Nari manages to destroy Skrael and the Ice Titan at the cost of her life, the heroes assume that they've managed to avert the Arcane Order's plans, only to discover that Bellroc is still commanding the Fire Titan onwards towards Arcadia. Reading the book again, they discover that there were actually two pages stuck together that obscured vital information — when the three titans reach the Hearthstone together, they will cleanse the world and allow new life to be born on the remains, but if one titan reaches the Hearthstone alone, the world will instead be consumed by their element alone, necessitating that they stop the Fire Titan before an even worse apocalypse happens. Turns out it's even worse than that as, back in Wizards, it's revealed in a few dialogues that the Arcane Order plan to destroy the entire universe, and then remake the world as they see fit.

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