History Recap / BravestarrS1E2FallenIdol

* AnAesop: If anyone ever lets you down, try and remember them for what they did right instead of what they did wrong.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Jingles Morgan, after shooting down Salaman Bliss in the middle of what was supposed to be a friendly inter-service fighting match between the Space Marshals and the Imperial Guard, manages to gun down Salaman, escape an arena full of members of both organizations, and get transport to New Texas. There's a reason they called him the best.

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Tex Hex tells Jingles he can join their gang if he passes a test and kills [=BraveStarr=]. However, Jingles has no compunction about killing [=BraveStarr=] and never really cared about him in the first place.

Bravestarr receives a terrible message telling him that his former teacher Jingles Morgan is wanted for murder. Morgan winds up on New Texas, and Bravestarr finds himself forced to confront his fallen idol.

* BigDamnHeroes: After Bravestarr wins, Hex orders Thunderstick to blast them both. Just then, Fuzz and Thirty-Thirty pop up out of the ground and Thirty-Thirty lets Sara Jane do the rest.

* BrokenPedestal: Bravestarr's mentor and idol Jingles Morgan turns out to be wanted for murder, which devastates Bravestarr. Throughout the episode, Bravestarr often comments in a mournful tone of voice how much he admired him. Upon Jingles' arrest, he attempts to understand why his idol attempted to kill him (it was a test of his ruthlessness to join Tex Hex's gang), only for Morgan to show how far he has fallen from the beloved JerkWithAHeartOfGold Bravestarr remembers by saying that he never asked for that hero worship.
* ClearTheirName: Averted. Not once during the entire episode does Bravestarr doubt that Jingles really did murder someone. Of course, the fact that Jingles did it in a crowded arena with a couple hundred witnesses would make it really hard to doubt it anyway.
* DisintegratorRay: Bravestarr's mentor Jingles Morgan used this kind of weapon. Bravestarr rightfully called it dangerous, and admired Morgan for his ability to use one properly. This admiration was misplaced; he later discovered that his hero was wanted for murder, having used it to kill someone after losing his temper.

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Tex Hex tells Jingles he can join their gang if he passes a test and kills Bravestarr. However, Jingles has no compunction about killing Bravestarr and never really cared about him in the first place.

* LastSecondChance: Bravestarr refuses to draw first, calling Jingles his hero and pleading with him to surrender peacefully. Jingles hesitates to draw...for a few seconds.
* LoopholeAbuse: Bravestarr tells Thirty-Thirty ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself, and Thirty-Thirty grudgingly lets Bravestarr go ahead alone. Then he tells Fuzz they're going to follow Bravestarr anyway - to "keep an eye on him".

* QuickDraw: Jingles Morgan was the fastest draw at the Academy. But in the final showdown, Bravestarr is just a little bit quicker.

* TunnelKing: Deputy Fuzz's tunnel-digging skill allows him and Thirty-Thirty to follow Bravestarr undetected. He even knows that the impatient techno-steed's idea to speed up the process by firing Sara Jane has "collapse" written all over it, but he can't stop him. Afterwards, he reasserts his authority as the expert.

* LoopholeAbuse: Bravestarr tells Thirty-Thirty this is ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself, and Thirty-Thirty grudgingly lets Bravestarr go ahead alone. Then he tells Fuzz they're going to follow Bravestarr anyway - to "keep an eye on him".

-->'''Tex Hex:''' ''[deadpan]'' Come on in. Door's open.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Morgan's opponent Solomon Bliss did do some UnsportsmanlikeGloating, but that did not justify disintegrating the poor guy.

* LoopholeAbuse: Bravestarr tells Thirty-Thirty this is ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself, and Thirty-Thirty grudgingly lets Bravestarr go ahead alone. Then he tells Fuzz they're going to follow Bravestarr anyway - to "watch his back".

-->'''Thirty-Thirty:''' Not today, Hex! ''*BOOM*''

* BrokenPedestal: Bravestarr's mentor and idol Jingles Morgan turns out to be wanted for murder, which devastates Bravestarr. Throughout the episode, Bravestarr often comments in a mournful tone of voice how much he admired him. Upon Jingle's arrest, he attempts to understand why his idol attempted to kill him (it was a test of his ruthlessness to join Tex Hex's gang), only for Morgan to show how far he has fallen from the beloved JerkWithAHeartOfGold Bravestarr remembers by saying that he never asked for that hero worship.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Inverted. He's a mentor who turned evil.

* BigDamnHeroes: After Bravestarr wins, Hex orders Thunderstick to blast them both. Just then, Fuzz and Thirty-Thirty pop up out of the ground and Thirty-Thirty let's Sara Jane do the rest.

* SoreLoser: Jingles Morgan lost a fighting match and fell off a bridge into mud. People laughed at his defeat, even his victorious opponent (which seems too close to UnsportsmanlikeGloating). In a moment of UncontrollableRage, he grabbed his nearby disintegrator pistol and blasted the opponent with it, killing him.

* TragicVillain: Jingles Morgan was the best of the best, a legend among his peers, practically worshipped by his students — but one impulsive action cost him everything. Worst of all, he's painfully aware that he's destroyed his life, but his pride won't let him turn back.

* DisintegratorRay: Bravestarr's mentor Jingles Morgan used this kind of weapon. Bravestarr rightfully called it dangerous, and admired Morgan for his ability to use one properly. This admiration was misplaced; he later discovered that his hero was wanted for murder, having used to kill someone after losing his temper.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Morgan's opponent Salaman Bliss did do some UnsportsmanlikeGloating, but that did not justify disintegrating the poor guy.

* YouNoTakeCandle: A rare aversion for Deputy Fuzz; when Thirty-Thirty collapses a tunnel the pair are in by being trigger-happy, he snarks at him in clear English, albeit with his standard accent.