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• 13 Is Unlucky:
  • Chapter 13 is the chapter where Boscha's luck eventually runs out, to the point she gets killed at the end of it.
  • Peacock has the number 1313 on her eyes, and has seen the Skull Heart corrupt thirteen girls before she mentored Chloe.
• 20% More Awesome: Inverted for Drama. When she's asked what the Boiling Underworld's like, Eda states that it's "like the Boiling Isles, but twenty times more brutal. And with a more rigid caste system."
• Abnormal Ammo: The magiguns' bullets appear to be based on whatever glyph is attached to them: a magigun with an ice glyph would shoot icicles, for example.
• Aborted Arc:
  • After becoming a Pseudo-Abomination, Amity tries her hardest to train her new powers, making great strides in the process. This plot point gets ruined when Amirani reveals she's in complete control of Amity in her Pseudo-Abomination form, meaning she must be turned back to normal ASAP.
  • At the Campfire Car, Hazel encounters Lexi and gives him a proposal, this bring to work together to bring down the Apex, and we never hear the Denizen's answer to this. Nothing comes out of this, as Lexi leaves the story without even a mention of this event.
• Ability Mixing: Luz and Skara have their students do this in "Poglypherization" in order to train them for the titular technique. Of the known combos, there's Plant/Beastkeeping (creates a Planimal), Bard/Construction (makes a flute that controls the Owl House) and Lightning/Fire (Replicated Boscha's Firebolt technique.)
• Accomplice by Inaction:
  • This is more or less the reason behind people's perception of Skara as an extension of Boscha; since when she's not blindlingly following orders, she's standing at the sidelines with a little smile. Skara's guilty of not doing anything to stop Boscha, therefore she's just as bad as her.
  • Alador was the more innocent one of the duo in regards to what happened to Persephone — as Odalia used Mind Magic on him to rape her — but given that he never revealed this at all or spoke up about it sooner makes him just as vile as his wife.
  • This is how Luz sees the Blight twins after Amity gets kidnapped by Amirani, since while she at least tried to stop that from happening, the twins were paralyzed the entire time.
• Action Girl: Many of the female characters can handle themselves in a fight.
• Accidental Public Confession: Amity gets so riled up during her fight with Skara in Chapter 14 that, when Skara brings up what happened at Amity's birthday party, Amity not only confesses she did it, but outright claims she did nothing wrong, painting it as her putting Boscha in her place. Needless to say, a lot of people hear this, and Amity becomes a Broken Pedestal for a lot of people come Act 2.
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • The way the Cars of the Infinity Train work is explained here: rather than being interconnected, they're connected to what a Passenger needs, so it's entirely possible for two people to arrive in one Car but go on to two different Cars when they leave. It's also stated that if a Denizen goes through a door first, they'll return to their Car of origin; Chris, for example, would return to the Mana Academy Car.
  • The forced friendship between between Amity, Skara, and Boscha is also given more focus, both on the way the trio hang around each other (Boscha and Skara being each other's Only Friend while Skara and Amity can't stand each other) to what other people believe of it (That Skara and Boscha are both terrible people, while Amity gets a pass for not associating with them).
  • In the original canon, the Infinity Train doesn't separate the Passengers into different types, but it does here: besides the normal Passenger, there's also the Static Passenger and Hopeless Passenger, which are Passengers who refuse to grow or change despite having the ability to do so.
  • There are only four known glyphs in The Owl House canon, with it being theorized every other glyph is simply a mix between those four. In here, several more are featured, like Explosion and Barrier, and they're given an origin: Azura created them alongside the magic system of the Isles centuries before the story took place.
• Adults Are Useless: If any of the adults in the Boiling Isles were halfway competent, most of the story wouldn't have happened.
  • Principal Bump is a Downplayed example. While he does do something about Boscha's Deadly Prank, the fact he waits until then to do it, as well as fail to properly assess the situation, sends Boscha down a spiral that leads her straight into the road of the Train.
  • Boscha's parents, Amirani and Prometheus, do next to nothing to rein her in, and when she goes missing for a while, they decide to threaten the Blights to find her rather than do anything themselves.
  • Amelia comes at quite possibly the worst time to confront Zenith Fantasy, which also leads to Boscha completely losing it and forcing Chloe to off her.
  • Odalia Blight is as useless as she's ruthless, and she's very ruthless. She doesn't do anything to provide comfort to her husband or Persephone after she forces them to mate, and when Amity gets kidnapped, she has the "brilliant" idea to throw a ball in order to trick the Urodelas into handing her back.
• Aerith and Bob: Because of the smorgasbord of different franchises this story crosses over, the names of characters range from normal (Chris, Willow, Gus), to uncommon (Hazel, Luz, Viney), to odd (Boscha, Mattholomule, Phos).
• An Aesop: The message of the story is that no matter what you do against bullies, it won't stop them. All they wish to do is hurt and hurt and inflict pain in an attempt to make them superior. This is a lesson that Chloe needs to learn well before she can remove the Static from her number.
• All Deaths Final: As Luz discovers, Azura never created a glyph that could revive people because they believed nobody should hold such power. Therefore, any character that has died so far ( like Mattholomule) will stay dead.
• Animorphism: While we don't see how she learned it, one of Luz's glyph classes lead Emira to discover this can be done by mixing Illusion and Beastkeeping magic, as she reveals to Viney.
• Answer Cut: In Chapter 8, Lindsay of the Apex questions who would chase after what little remains of the Apex (which is just Grace, Simon and four more children). Cut to the next scene where Chloe of the Vermillion just defeated the Cyber Peacock and got some spiffy new feathers.
• Another Dimension: Outside of the obvious with the Demon Realm and the Train's Cars, the Pokémon World is revealed to be one of these, with Gus and Mattholomule needing to summon Giratina in order to travel to it.
• Apathetic Citizens: Much to Boscha's displeasure, the students at Hexside would rather stand with their mouths agape while one of their most popular classmates is currently fighting for her life against a Mandragora.
• Apple for Teacher: "Poglypherization" has Amity give Luz an apple for her glyph class, but this being the Boiling Isles, there's more than meets the eye: the apple is actually a paperweight, and Luz breaks her teeth as soon as she bites it.
• The Artifact: The Owlbeast curse, the crux of The Owl House, and to an extent Eda and Lilith's characters, gets Demoted to Extra even worse than its holders, being more of an Informed Attribute whenever they do appear.
• Ascended Extra:
  • In the canon series, Boscha and Skara are background characters, with only the former having a prominent role in one episode. In this story, they're the protagonist and deutaragonist, respectively.
  • On the Infinity Train side of things, the children of the Apex that got named (Lucy, Alex, Lindsay, Todd) didn't really get that much focus outside of a few lines. In here, they share the spotlight with Simon and Grace on their side of the story.
• Ascended Fridge Horror:
  • While it's made clear Boscha's a massive bully, we never see the consequences of said bullying unless it relates to the plot. In here, not only do we see that she's bullied a lot of people, but that they're all pissed off and want her to pay for it.
  • Likewise, what happens to those who associate with Boscha is never shown in the main story, especially Skara, who's practically her best friend. In here, it's made blatantly clear Skara's all but stated to be a pariah among her peers, with them being more than eager to use her as stress relief for Boscha's mischief.
  • A more specific example happens in Chapter 11, where not only did the tentacle balloon prank get traced back to Boscha's crew, but that there actually was property damage done to the Isles, like Jerbo's house.
  • Hazel's status as a failed clone of Alrick doesn't get explored much, especially the idea of whether she's identified as a Passenger or a Denizen because of it. The story runs with the idea that, thanks to her unique circumstances, she's a complete paradox that the Train fails to recognize as anything beyond a Denizen.
  • Amity's parents were willing to break her friendship with Willow just to make her associate with high class witches. This story runs with the idea that they, or at least Odalia, wouldn't stop there to get what they want, as Odalia uses Mind Magic to force Alador to rape Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, as an attempt to gain connections to said underworld.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Giant monsters are surprisingly common.
  • While Willow and Skara were getting ready to train with a Mandragora, a Dire Mandragora appears instead, and nearly eats Skara alive before Willow interferes.
  • Emira summons a giant illusion of herself to strike Luz while she, the twins, and Gus are in Azura's former workplace.
  • For the climax of the Blight Ball, Amirani turns into a giant abomination monster after blowing herself up.
  • Zenith Fantasy end up fighting a giant dragon to save some Passengers in Act 1. The dragon and his rider, Emily, return during The Azada Car to try get the Ars Goetia.
  • Mattholomule's group ends up fighting a giant Daiki Chienen after fusing with a Spiritomb.
• Avian Flute: After unlocking her Palisman, Skara begins playing her flute alongside it, bringing this trope to mind.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Boscha has the ability to look into the memories of someone by touch, and both times she uses it (one on Lapis, one on Chloe), what she sees causes her to flip out.
• A Minor Kidroduction: Chapter 21 opens with a Flashback of Alador and Odalia back when they were still studying at Hexside.

B

• Battle Amongst the Flames: Boscha had a perchant for these:
  • She sets the room she and the Apex are in on fire to make it clear that there's no backing away from the incoming disaster.
  • She tries again when she fights King Lartsa at the Astral Car, but the arena's so wide she only manages to create a Ring of Fire around them, and King Lartsa's Intangibility means he doesn't even need to stay within the circle; he's only there to humor her.
  • Subverted in the Cursed Princess Club Car: despite everything up for a fight, the Denizens don't play along, and Boscha eventually calls off the fire herself.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: Downplayed. Amity enters her own mind and comes into conflict with her inner self over trying to get rid of the Mind Magic plaguing her, but she doesn't actively engage Inner Amity, instead focusing on trying to find the source of the Mind Magic and destroy it.
  • Played Straight during The Cupid Bee Car saga climax, where Amity fights Amirani while the latter is taking over her body as Amitani, the fight continuing even after Prometheus is killed, which causes Amirani to slowly breakdown.
• Bait-and-Switch: Early in Chapter 4, Amity points out that Luz needs to study for all the exams she has to take, then points out she has a classmate who can teach her. Luz then says several things Amity takes as compliments, believing she's talking about herself... only for it to turn out she's talking about Willow.
  • Less comedically, the end of Chapter 6 sets up a Hostage Situation with Amity's family. Next chapter reveals they were just invited for lunch.
• Ballroom Blitz: Needless to say, The Blight Ball and the Cupid Bee Car ball don't go without things going to absolute hell, with Amirani blowing up the Blight mansion and turning into a monster and the fight against Louise and Bort being standout moments.
• Battle in the Rain: In the rewrite of Chapter 13, as requested by Alex, Chloe creates a rainstorm for the remainder of the Chapter until Boscha blows up the Car.
• Beware the Mind Reader: Boscha has the power of Psychometry, letting her see the memories of someone as long as she makes physical contact. And you can bet that she has enough power to make you suffer if she sees something she doesn't like.
• Beam-O-War: One happens between Boa and the Red Lotus Trio in their collective Super Mode in "The Boiling Underworld Car".
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Boscha was verbally and physically broken by Amity, and then set on a training regimen that caused her to snap into the monster she is right now on Amity's birthday.
• Big Damn Reunion: Happens between Luz, the Blight twins, Skara and Amity during the Cupid Bee Car saga. Luz and Skara joyfully hug each other while laughing and spinning for a moment, while Amity hugs her siblings, tearfully telling them how much she missed them before they return the hug.
• Bittersweet Ending: Act 1 ends on this for both sides of the story:
  • Infinity Train: The Mêlée à Trois between the Ruby Sulphur Trio, Red Lotus Trio, and Zenith Fantasy ends with Chloe ultimately killing Boscha when the witch proves to be impossible to reason with, and has gone down such a deep end she's willing to burn the entire Train in return, but there's a "Ray of Hope" Ending in The Heartyard Car, where the Master of Masters explains that Boscha's soul is going to split into Denizens as part of a plan to help her evolve beyond a Static Passenger, a plan that requires Zenith Fantasy and the Red Lotus Trio to make a hesitant Enemy Mine.
  • The Boiling Isles: The tension between Amity and Skara boils over, resulting in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown between the two of them. Skara finally sheds her obliviousness and grows a spine, not only stating she won't let herself be pushed around anymore, but leaving both Hexside and the Boiling Isles for the Boiling Underworld, where she can try become stronger. And while Amity and Skara's relationship is in such a bad state the latter can't stand being near the former, Luz gives Amity a pep talk to convince her to get better, which they both reaffirm while Holding Hands.
• Blade Lock: Phos and Lapis Lazuli lock blades during their fight on "The Boiling Underworld Car".
• Black Market: Chapter 11 reveals that one such market exists, and where else would it be located other than the Boiling Underworld?
• Blithe Spirit: Luz, of course. Skara comments that things have changed since she enrolled in Hexside.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Chapter 3 shows off the injuries Boscha's fire magic puts on the Apex kids with excruciating detail.
• Bluff the Impostor: Camilla manages to get the changeling posing as her daughter by calling her number while they're both on their phones, with the changeling's phone's lack of a response quickly giving them away.
• Book Burning: A Noodle Incident mentioned by Lexi in Chapter 23 is about Boscha burning the "forbidden knowledge" section of Azada. The rewrite of Chapter 11 shows how this happened.
  • Much later, Lexi Himself nearly has this happen to him when he mocks Hazel over how her master plan has been irrepairably derailed.
  • Ars Goetia ends up on the receiving end of this from Boa and the Red Lotus Trio's combined Kame Hame Hadoken, with the book utterly vaporized as a result.
• Book Ends: The first time Amity tried to apologize to Skara, the latter rejected her apology, causing her to throw a fit and demand why she didn't accept it. Come Chapter 14, and right before Skara leaves for the Boiling Underworld Amity tries once again to apologize, only to be rejected yet again. Unlike last time, however, she stays calm and listens to Skara as she explains why, letting the two leave on somewhat friendlier terms.
• Bottomless Magazines: Justified with the magiguns. None of the characters ever reload them, nor ever seem to run out of ammo, because the glyphs attached to them are the ammo, meaning that as long as the glyph's okay then the magigun can fire indefinitely.
• Bookcase Passage: Boscha and Chris (And Lapis) go through one of these at the Mana Academy in order to look for Phosphophyllite's shards. Boscha's humoring the idea of asking how a crystal ball with no hands could possibly activate the passage, but decides to leave it as is for the moment.
• Both Sides Have a Point: Amity and Skara's argument in Chapter 14. While Skara's right in that Amity beating up Boscha began a series of events that would turn her into her current, psychopathic self, and the Blight never really tried to befriend the duo, Amity's also right because neither Skara nor Boscha gave her any reason to believe they actually wanted to be her friends, which wasn't helped by Skara standing by the sidelines and watching obliviously as things got tense but she did nothing until it was too late.
• Breather Episode: Chapter 4 focuses on Luz and Skara's exams and shows off how the Apex are healing after Boscha's battle. The author even admits that this chapter was going to be lighter, and for good reason given what happened last chapter.
• Bring Help Back: In order to get as much help as possible, Gus and Emira head to the Pokémon World in order to convince the Youkais to help them. They're not willing to join them — particulary with Gus's last visit — but the timely arrival of Specter's broken broach has Gus and Emira insist that it was Azura who killed him (not Hazel).
• "Burly Detective" Syndrome: 'Dyed Greenette' and similar bizarre word choices are used to describe characters when the author doesn't want to use their names.
• Burn the Witch!: One of the many punishments Azura endured was one of these. It didn't work, sadly enough.

C

• The Cameo: Hazel and Tuba appear in Chapter 8, playing an arm wrestling machine.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": In the Boiling Underworld, "fireflies" are red spheres of light with insectoid wings.
• Caged Bird Metaphor: During Act 2, Skara, who has birds as her Animal Motifs and after her brief moment as a griffin monster gets avian wings, is currently trapped in the Boiling Underworld, her original homeworld. There's also a side of Gilded Cage to it, since not only is she living with her mother, but the cell she's staying at is more or less a normal room rather than a prison cell.
• Catch-22 Dilemma: Static Passengers are practically this: they're taken by the Infinity Train in order to work out their issues, but they have some underlying issue that makes them unable or unwilling to change, meaning their number never goes up or down, meaning they can't really work on their issues. Boscha is infuriated by this, since she has a humongous number. Chloe, on the other hand, is known to be frustrated but not as much as Boscha is.
• Captivity Harmonica: Lampshaded. Before leaving Amity to their imprisonment, Prometheus throws a harmonica at them, explaining that no imprisonment is ever complete without one.
• Cathartic Scream: Hazel screams her lungs out after she discovers her true origin.
  • This is such a common venting tactic in the Boiling Isles that they have a place for it: Scream Out Point, which also doubles as a Make-Out Point.
• Campfire Character Exploration: The appropriately named "Campfire Car" features the Ruby Sulphur Trio, Zenith Fantasy, and Red Lotus Trio having some moments like this, with the most important being Boa revealing to Chloe and Chris about Boscha's past.
• Cerebus Retcon:
  • Book 3 of Infinity Train never revealed the source of Hazel's name. In this story, it's the literal, numerical cypher translation of the number designated to her pod, meaning it's not even an actual name.
  • While Amity breaking up her friendship with Willow was already pretty bad, this story makes it worse, as what followed soon after was Amity venting on Boscha by beating her up until she knocked her out, at which point Disaster Dominoes fell down that would lead to Boscha becoming a monster.
  • Amity's remark that Skara was mean, despite evidence to the contrary? When they first met at kids, it was Hate at First Sight on Amity's end, and her view on her was warped since then.
  • Chloe randomly starts the first chapter of Act 2 wishing to have her "romantic dream with Specter". This comes harder to look at when said Specter arrives some cars later.
• Cerebus Syndrome: The story was already pretty dark, featuring a Villain Protagonist who wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty to get what she wants, but Act 2 ups the ante quite a bit, featuring several instances of mental manipulation, one of which leads to Alador raping a former friend of his at Odalia's command, experimentation on children, Hazel's identity crisis and worsening mental health, a deeper exploration of how Boscha came to be, experimentation on children, a mass murder at the Blight Ball, Azura turning out to be Real After All and running what's practically a conversion camp...
• Central Theme: What makes a person "strong"?
• Changeling Tale: Once Camilla tells Azura that she's taking Luz back from Reality Check Camp, Azura orders Mina Loveberry to get a changeling to replace the girl.
• Cooldown: If the fight with the Salamanders is any indication, glyphs attached to a magigun will eventually enter a cooldown if used for too long.
• Coming of Age Story: The story serves as one to Boscha, who journeys through the Train while trying to break away from the toxic Might Makes Right mentality she's been made to believe since she was young.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears:
  • Grace eventually covers Lucy's eyes and ears as the fight between the Apex and Boscha at Mana Academy progresses. Given how much more violent it gets, it was a good call.
  • Eileen does the same with Gus while Luz is reading Skara's letter.
• Crossover: Infinity Train meets The Owl House, with some Massively Multiplayer Crossover thrown into the mix. Chapter 7 also crosses over with Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail by having an alternate version of Chloe Cerise appearing.
• Curse of Babel: The "Silence" glyph is a variant; while the glyph doesn't outright remove a person's ability to speak, it still forces the affected to keep their mouth shut regarding something, lest something bad happens to them. The impostor Luz reveals herself to be affected by one of these after Camilla tries to get her to tell her where's the real Luz.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Boscha barely flinches in her battle against the Apex and sends them packing.
  • Boscha gets a taste of her own medicine when she fights King Lartsa, whose Intangibility means he's impervious to anything she throws at him.
• Cue the Rain: After their Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date goes awry, Amity ends up Tempting Fate and it begins raining shortly after. Since this is also the boiling rain, the witch-human couple have to quickly go for cover.
• Cymbal-Banging Monkey: One of these is created thanks to Hazel's Uproar, which also eventually leads to her defeat.

D

• Darker and Edgier: Not only do we have Boscha and Skara's (And Amity's) false friendship have actual dangerous consequences, but the entire existence of the Boiling Underworld makes the Boiling Isles look harmless in comparison.
• Death Is the Only Option: This is the case for the Heart System. In order for a Static Passenger to be added into it, they have to perish and enter the Denizen reincarnation process, at which point the system will intercept them and split the soul into Soul Denizens.
• Deconstruction Crossover: Like its inspiration, Boiling Point isn't afraid to take apart certain bits and pieces of the show it's based on.
  • Boscha's ability to get away with anything she does means that, when karma finally gets to her and she's suspended, she has no idea how to process what just happened and she eventually blows up, hurting those around her in the process.
  • Boscha and Skara have a genuine friendship here, but this one comes with its own set of problems: chief among them is the fact that, since Boscha has such an intense personality, she's the main thing that comes to mind when people see Skara, which makes her become loathed as a result of her connection to her.
  • Most of the Passengers who wind up on the Infinity Train are normal people with a couple issues. Boscha, meanwhile, not only comes from the Womb Level of a Giant Corpse World, but has enough firepower to melt down a Car: this is such a change from the norm that it catches everybody off-guard.
    • Her number also provides another deconstruction, since being so mentally unstable, her number breaks the scale: it appears as two different numbers before assuming its full length.
  • Furthermore, most people who actually enter the Train simply want to get home, and that's it. While this is true for Boscha too, her desire to be the strongest is so hard wired into her head that it becomes secondary to her goal of becoming the strongest in the Train.
  • Skara is constantly blamed and made to pick up the slack when it comes the things Boscha's done. This has caused her to become the Stepford Smiler, and when Boscha goes missing, she loses one of the few supportive people she has in her life, causing her to break down.
  • Amity, Boscha, and Skara's arranged friendship has more consequences here: not only does each of them have a role in it (Skara being oblivious to everything, Boscha keeping her social darwinist mentality, and Amity just straight up wanting nothing to do with either of them) but things eventually boil over, to the point Amity beats up Boscha in order to have some catharsis and the Urodelas and Blights come to hate each other as a result.
  • The story tackles what would happen if the Train picked up a Passenger that wasn't particularly well liked back at their home. Long story short, nobody cares; barely anybody notices Boscha going missing, and those who do only actually care because they want her to pay for what she did. The only people who seem to be legitimately worried for her are Luz, who's an All-Loving Heroine, Skara, who's her Only Friend, and her parents, who aren't winning any Parent of the Year awards.
• Detention Episode: Chapter 11 has Skara sent to detention because of the tentacles balloon plan she and her friends did with Boscha. Of course, not only was Skara the ''only'' one sent to detention, but it doesn't take long before a certain trio of troublemakers catches her...
• Demoted to Extra: If the original title didn't give you a hint, the tenants of "The Owl House" are the main characters of the show. In here, most of them are reduced to background characters.
  • Downplayed with Luz. She plays a role in both canon and this story, but she's the main character in the former, while she's a supporting character in here.
  • A notable example is the group of Luz, Willow, and Gus. In the canon show, these three are the most prominent group featured, while in here, only Luz retains some of her relevance: Willow is reduced to a background character, and Gus is nowhere to be seen.
• Dispel Magic: Skara comes across a glyph that can do just this when she takes over Luz's glyph research temporarily, discovering it can not only dispel active magic, but also cancel the activation of a glyph placed alongside it.
• Double-Meaning Title: "Boiling Point" represents Boscha's original home being the Boiling Isles and the point where the story begins, while also meaning how she got on the train because she reached her Rage Breaking Point.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Boscha, who's light skinned, does horrible things after horrible things and gets away with them, while her companion Skara, who's dark skinned, is constantly called out for her mistakes and forced to make up for said mistakes.
• Double Standard: In Chapter 6, Skara brings up this point: between Amity, Boscha and Skara, Amity was the only one who gets redeemed whereas Boscha and Skara are looked down as bullies even though Amity herself was a bit of a bully in the past and was the one that made Boscha into the "Apex" she is today.
• Dramatic Ammo Depletion: A variation. Luz's magigun enters a cooldown in the middle of her group's fight against the Salamanders, with the human girl even asking why a magic gun attached to glyphs would need a cooldown.
• Dramatic Thunder: Thunder blares when Malfus informs Skara about a book uprising taking place at the library, with it soon turning out to be the result of Amity's powers.
• The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: Inverted, Boscha assumes that the Cursed Princesses are making her do a 'pretend' tea party...only to be horrified to learn that it's a real one. Chapter 8 eventually reveals why this is the case.
• Duels Decide Everything:
  • Boscha challenges King Lartsa to a duel when the astral monarch refuses to teach her Astral Magic; if she wins, he teaches her how to do the magic, unworthy status be damned. Boscha loses.
  • The Hostage Situation also happens to have been this: rather than actually being kidnapped, Amity's mother, Odalia, was challenged to a duel by Boscha's mother, Amirani. And when she lost, the entire family was forced to go to the Urodela Mansion for lunch.
  • During "The Boiling Underworld Car", Boa has each of the teams face off against a set of four Power Armor entities to earn the right to wield Keyblades. Boa herself faces off against Chloe, and eventually the rest of the Red Lotus Trio.
• Due to the Dead: After Mattholomule kicks the bucket during the Azada Car saga, Luz decides to hold a funeral for him. When Amity tells Luz she doesn't need to do this if she's not comfortable, Luz replies that she feels like it's the least she can do after Mattholomule helped her get the courage to reveal the truth about the start of their relationship.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: The Boiling Underworld is located in the stomach of the Titan's corpse, so the Might Makes Right mentality that takes up the Boiling Isles is not only more common, but mandatory. The inhabitants, or at least the Urodelas, also have no issue eating organs from deceased people who were either "Weak" or "Nothing", believing that the only purpose those who can't survive the Boiling Underworld have is to sustain those who are.
• Disturbed Doves: The rewrite of Chapter 14 adds a moment when a bunch of baby Griffins fly away in response to Amity's scream, which both Skara and Principal Bump hear.
• Duck!: Discussed. During "The Spelling Bee Car", while explaining the rules of the Spelling Bee, Nico brings up the word as an example of easily confused words: once she brings it up, Zenith Fantasy duck for cover, while the Red Lotus Trio looks for actual ducks.