History Recap / SolarOppositesS1E3TheQuantumRing

* VillainHasAPoint: The Duke is a ruthless overlord, but he is at least right to call out on Pedro and his friends for indirectly causing a riot that claimed the lives of several people.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The Duke is established as a ruthless overlord of the Wall; he act cordial and reasonable to Pedro, while claiming that he is "[[BlatantLies not a monster]]", before suddenly having his enforcer to behead Pedro for causing a riot that cost the life of one of his enforcers and several others.
** Cherie turns out to be an ActionGirl as she use her knives to fend off the Duke's enforcers.

* VillainHasAPoint: The Duke is a ruthless overlord, but he is at least right to call out on Pedro and his friends for indirectly causing a riot that caused the lives of several people.

** Cherie goes from a NaiveNewcomer to a defensive kinfe-wielder when the fracas in the marketplace demands it.

** Cherie goes from a NaiveNewcomer to a defensive KnifeNut when the fracas in the marketplace demands it.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Two of the magicians threathening Korvo's life are obviously meant to be Creator/PennAndTeller, but neither of them (or to be more accurate, just Penn) has any speaking lines and nobody refers to them by name.
* OffWithHisHead: Pedro is execute without warning by having his head separated with a floss pick.

** Cherie turns out to be an ActionGirl as use her knives to fend off the Duke's enforcers.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The Duke is established as a ruthless overlord of the Wall; he act cordial and reasonable to Pedro, while claiming that he is "[[BlatantLies not a monster]]", before suddenly having his enforcer to behead Pedro for causing a riot that caused the life of one of his enforcers and several others.

* AdultFear: Pedro is worried that his father, a diabetic, has no insulin. He begs his dad to stop eating candy since the man is already well-fed for the day.

* RealityEnsues: Tim explains that many residents of the wall are suffering from malnutrition because Jesse only feeds them candy. There is also no insulin for diabetics or other specialty medications; the residents have to manufacture it. If they're lucky, sometimes she tosses an onion once in a while but there is no protein, and he says he misses vegetables.

Tired of his family never spending time with him, Korvo decides to become a magician so that people will spend time with him. With the combination of his science know-how and sleight of hand, he becomes the greatest magician there ever was. This, however, isn't enough even with his family applauding his act.

Within the Wall, Tim welcomes newcomer Cherie, a Benihana chef that was shrunken for serving shrimp to Yumyulack. They help one young man obtain insulin for his diabetic father.

* EveryoneHAsStandards: Yumyulack doesn't react well when learning that the magicians he killed to save Terry and Korvo were just acting out a part on Korvo's payroll.

Tired of his family never spending time with him, Korvo decides to become a magician so that people will spend time with him. With the combination of his science know-how and sleight of hand, he becomes the greatest magician there ever was. This, however, isn't enough even with his family supporting him.

* FatalMethodActing: In-universe, Korvo paid several magicians to try and kill him. His family thinks he's died for real and host a funeral for him.

%%Tired of his family never spending time with him, Korvo decides to become a magician. With the combination of his science know-how and sleight of hand, he becomes the greatest magician there ever was. This, however,