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Recap / Disenchantment S 5 E 8 The Battle Of Falling Water

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The battle for Dreamland begins as all parties, both good and evil, arrive at the castle for an all-out brawl. While her allies fight of Dagmar's forces, Bean has to face her evil self and prevent her from unlocking the magic in the caves under the castle.

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  • Angst Nuke: Bean's grief at accidentally killing Mora causes her magic to go off and wipe out a lot of both sides.
  • Annoying Arrows: Zog takes a couple arrows to the arm and stomach, it doesn't seem to bother him.
  • Arrows on Fire: Luci uses the flame on his tail to set every arrow Elfo shoots on fire first.
  • Battle Couple: Bunty and Stan fight side by side.
  • Big Badass Battle Sequence: Between an assembled army of elves, fairies, ogres, mermaids, Oona's crew, Mop Girl's rebels, the secret society led by Odval, and Zog with his wife and sons versus Dagmar and her soldiers.
  • Brick Joke: Back in "Bean Goes to Hell", God explained that happy tears filled Heaven's River of Joy. This episode follows up on that by showing where the river goes.
  • Fan Disservice: Vip and Vap strip naked before escaping their cages, resulting in an uncensored full frontal nudity scene with nothing covering their private parts.
  • The Gods Must Be Lazy: God sees the battle but does nothing to stop it. Jerry calls him out on this, but God justifies his choice by pointing out he is sick of people using his name in vain whenever he interferes, and that in real life good does not always win.
  • Gondor Calls for Aid: The elves blow on a conch shell to summon all their allies to assist in the battle for Dreamland.
  • A Good Way to Die: Bad Bean's last words are taunting regular Bean that her own death won't be as cool as getting blasted by lightning and crumbling to dust.
  • Killed Off for Real: After the false start with the decapitation, Bad Bean is finally done in for real.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: Just as Malfus predicted, Bean does kill someone she loves; Mora, although only by accident due to Bad Bean fooling her.
  • Man on Fire: Bunty uses molotov cocktails to set some soldiers on fire.
  • Mook Chivalry: Discussed; when Bean tries to stop Dagmar and her troops all by herself, she claims she can handle them if they come at her one by one.
  • Motivation on a Stick: Big Jo uses a sausage on a stick to motivate Porky into pulling the cart he, Zog and Bean are in.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: Said by Satan as he retreats to his room.
  • Power Crystal: The caves beneath Dreamland are full of them, as this is where the magic must be unleashed.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Luci gives Satan one, pointing out how much Dagmar turned him into a Henpecked Husband and it made him a shadow of his former self.
  • Reduced to Dust: Bad Bean after Bean kills her with a massive discharge of magic lightning.
  • Retirony: Junior kills a gnome just after the little guy stated he is only 1 day away from retirement.
  • The Reveal:
    • God explains that the magic from Dreamland is the result for a perfect mix of holy water from heaven and unholy steam from Hell mixing in the caves under the castle.
    • Dagmar brought Odval to Dreamland, though from where goes unrevealed.
  • Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Bean punctuates crushing Bad Bean's skull by declaring "stomp!" as she does it.
  • Shout-Out: After Bean hears that Mora left the ship Odval suggests she's under the sea singing happily with a crab, because that seems like something mermaids do.
  • Stripped to the Bone: Bean blasts Bad Bean with enough dark lightning to disintegrate her, slowly, with enough time to say "your death will never be this cool" before the flesh melts from her bones. And then her skeleton says "told ya" before Bean stomps on her skull and the bones crumble into dust.
  • Trojan Horse: A group of Elves smuggle their weapons into the castle by pretending to be a clean-up crew.
  • Uniformity Exception: Daryl is among the hooded members of the Secret Society who join the fight, recognizible thanks to the fact even hooded he's still got a name-tag.
  • Wham Shot: Bean tries to stab Bad Bean, only to discover she's been tricked into stabbing Mora, who then dies.

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