History Recap / GargoylesS2Walkabout

** Fox informed her father Halcyon Renard in [[Recap/GargoylesS2Outfoxed "Outfoxed"]] that she was pregnant. She is shown to be visibly pregnant in this episode. Also, Anastasia, who was mentioned in that prior episode, makes her first on screen appearance here.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Matrix has very alien thought processes, prioritizing order above everything else. Dingo is able to convince it to end it's destructive rampage by introducing the concept of "law and order."

* HeelFaceTurn: Dingo decides to be stop criminal activity and becoming a real hero instead of pretending to be one.

* {{Irony}}: Dingo is shown at the start of this episode to begin a walkabout seeking to atone for his past (granted he is also working with Fox on the Matrix, however his desire for redemption is proven genuine), but Goliath and Elisa mistakenly assume that he has malign intentions.

* EldritchLocation: [[HollywoodDreamtime The Dreamtime]] is portrayed as a DreamLand where thoughts and wishes are made real. Since the Matrix's mind works too fast for normal people to reason with, Dingo and Goliath are astral projected in the Dreamtime to fight with it before managing to convince it not to assimilate the planet.

Fox returns in "[[Recap/GargoylesS2TheGathering The Gathering]]".

** Fox informed her father Halcyon Renard in [[Recap/GargoylesS2Outfoxed "Outfoxed"]]that she was pregnant. She is shown to be visibly pregnant in this episode. Also, Anastasia, who was mentioned in that prior episode, makes her first on screen appearance here.

** The animators seem to have made a bit of a reference to the ''Literature/WheresWally''/''Wheres Waldo?'' series of children's picture books as alluded under Freeze frame bonus above.

* EldritchLocation: The Dreamtime is portrayed as a DreamLand where thoughts and wishes are made real. Since the Matrix's mind works too fast for normal people to reason with, Dingo and Goliath are astral projected in the Dreamtime to fight with it before managing to convince it not to assimilate the planet.

* HopeSpot: Anastasia provided a disk containing a breakdown program that would supposedly revert the Matrix to a harmless organism again. It failed.

** Back in [[Recap/GargoylesS2Grief "Grief"]], Hyena makes a mention of Coyote leaving the group. It is here that we learn what he is has been up to.

** The animators seem to have made a bit of a reference to the ''Literature/WheresWally''/''Wheres Waldo?'' series of children's picture books as allude under Freeze frame bonus above.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Matrix was made to create order out of chaos. In time, it decided the whole world was chaotic and attempts to create order by covering everything in billions of nanomachines.

* TemptingFate: Anastasia warns Fox that the Matrix is evolving too fast and can present a serious danger. Fox waves it off, confident the magnetic field chamber will keep it contained. Soon after that, it begins to break out of its holdings...

* GreyGoo: The scenario in a nutshell. Anastasia even name-drops it when describing just what the unrestrained Matrix will do the world.

* NearVillainVictory: After Goliath and Dingo managed to stop the Matrix from turning the world into one giant metallic sphere. When they return to real time, it was revealed the safe haven everyone else was at was mere moments away from being engulfed in liquid metal.

* BecomingTheMask: In the Pack's first appearance, they pretended to be actors playing heroes. Dingo eventually finds he wants to be a real hero, and at the end of the episode, that's exactly what he's become.

* RealityWarper: In the dreamtime, things are as you wish them to be. This enables Goliath and Dingo to perform feats such as throwing {{fireball}}s, generating spirit gargoyles, and creating solid cages. Unfortunately, the Matrix can do this as well, and it can think just as fast than they can.

* '''Story Arc''': Avalon Mystic Tour

* TheAtoner: Dingo starts this episode looking for a RedemptionQuest in order to clean his slate. He decides that becoming Australia's superhero could do the trick.
* BecomingTheMask: In the Pack's first appearance, they pretended to be actors playing heroes. Dingo actually wants to be a real hero.

* RealityWarper: In the dreamtime, things are as you wish them to be. This enables Goliath and Dingo to perform feats such as throwing {{fireball}}s, generating spirit gargoyles, and creating solid cages. Unfortunately, the Matrix can do this as well, and it can think fast than they can.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Dingo ultimately convinces the Matrix to stop by suggesting that it create "law and order" instead of order alone.
* TemptingFate: Anastasia warns Fox that the Matrix is evolving too fast and can present a serious danger. Fox waves it off, confident the magnetic field chamber will keep it contained. Soon after that, it begins to break out of its holdings...

* '''Characters''': Goliath, Elisa, Angela, Fox, Dingo, Anastasia Renard, the Shaman

The tourists find themselves in Australia, where they encounter Dingo. After a bit of a scuffle, they had to postpone when a wave of liquid metal began to overtake the land, terraforming it. They also discover a pregnant Fox and her mother, Anastasia Renard, were also there at the Xanatos Australian testing site, which was the cause of the liquid metal wave from before. It turns out it is a nanomachine colony known as the Matrix that got out of their control and is now trying to terraform the entire planet to "give the world order".

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Fox and Anastasia's scientific solution of attempting to directly install a breakdown program into the Matrix failed. Against an unstoppable wave of nanomachines, what else can be done? The Shaman simply says the only thing left to do is to talk to it in the Dreamtime and convince it of its error. Dingo wasn't amused, but their options were severely limited.

* NearVillainVictory: After Goliath and Dingo managed to stop the Matrix from turning the world into one giant metallic sphere. When they return to real time, it was revealed the safe haven everyone else was at was mere moments away from being engulfed in liquid metal.

* NearVillainVictory: