The Secret Saturdays come to Bellwood to investigate a rash of Chupacabra attacks.
Tropes in this episode
- Back from the Dead: Argost. Oh, don't act surprised.
- Brought Down to Normal: Zak's is reversed thanks to residual Kur energy, albeit weaker than before.
- Came Back Strong: When Dr. Animo brings Argost back to life in the crossover, he's been turned into a Cryptid chimera capable of taking Zak, Ben, Rook, and an army of Plumbers in a fight.
- Crossover: With The Secret Saturdays.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Turns out Zak isn't much of a match for an intelligent, superpowered hybrid monster.
- Flanderization: In their show, Doc and Drew's disagreements about science and magic are generally civil. Doc is fully aware the existence and effectiveness of magic; he mostly takes issue with jumping to mystic conclusions before the scientific explanations have been ruled out. Here he scoffs as Drew for even trying a magical solution to a problem he hasn't been able to solve with science.
- Genius Bruiser: Fiskerton demonstrates an understanding of quantum physics and then trounces Munya in a fight, all in the span of one scene.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: Zak briefly laments that his world-saving goes unnoticed since cryptids must remain a secret, but recognizes that it's better they stay that way given how people like Dr. Animo would exploit them.
- Idiot Ball: In his own series, Argost is highly cautious, and spent six months recovering and preparing himself after being beaten the first time. Here, the first thing he does after being revived is to randomly attack Undertown, immediately drawing attention to himself. Even Animo points out that was a bad idea.
- Hand Wave: Animo and Argost's Villain Team-Up is said to have happened due to the latter being prepared for his death, and hiring the former to resurrect him.
- Hybrid Monster: Dr. Animo blends a bunch of cryptids into dragon-esque cyborgs. Argost is likewise given a few improvements.
- Killed Off for Real: Ben straight up kills Argost, which is odd for a kid's show that usually adheres to Thou Shalt Not Kill. Guess it's okay if they were dead at the beginning of the episode.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Hope you finished season 2 of The Secret Saturdays, or you're in for some surprises.
- Latex Perfection: Averted. Argost's mask is so obviously fake, it's baffling that anyone could have ever thought that it was his actual face.
- Mistaken Identity: The Saturdays briefly confuse Shocksquatch for an actual sasquatch.
- Mythology Gag:
- Ben's remarks about Zak's telepathy might be a reference to the fact that Ben has two aliens that have a natural capacity for telepathy (Ghostfreak and AMPhibian) that Ben hasn't bothered to learn how to use.
- Argost says that his resurrection was supposed to take six months, the same length of time as the time span between season one and two of The Secret Saturdays.
- Noodle Incident: Doc and Drew worked with Max in the past. All There in the Manual was that they worked together on the Bellwood Project, a top secret project to develop backstories that the government denies, even now.
- Power Echoes: Zak's telepathy.
- Punctuated Pounding: Fiskerton pounds Munya back and forth on one of his webs like a paddle-ball.
- Retcon: Turns out Zak's powers weren't really gone in the series finale; thanks to "residual energy" they came back a few months later, although much weaker.
- Running Gag: Ben's obvious crush on Drew reappears several times, which annoys Zak.
- Stacy's Mom: Ben is immediately smitten by Drew. Her son Zak doesn't approve of this.
- Taken for Granite: The victims of the life-draining cyborg chupacabras are turned to stone, though it's only skin deep and they are alive beneath that.
- Technobabble: The explanation for how Zak retained his powers and Argost was susceptible to resurrection.
- Time Skip: It's mentioned that three years have passed for the Saturdays since their last episode, just like in real-life.
- You Don't Look Like You: The transition from The Secret Saturdays to Ben 10 Omniverse came with a rather noticeable change in style, far too much to excuse it as being merely a timeskip.
- Special mention goes to Drew's fire sword. It looks and behaves like a piece of technology mimicking the effects of Doc's power glove, rather than a mystical Tibetan artifact that produces fire.
- Heck, special mention to Drew herself. She went from looking like an attractive but mature adult old enough to have a child to looking almost as young as her son.
