Looking for a safe place to hide Mooncake, Gary and Avocato fall in the trap of a group of weird alien beings known as the Order of Twelve. As Avocato and Gary try to escape the Lazarus Trap, Mooncake is send to fight in the Deathcropolis arena. Meanwhile, Quinn keeps investigating the quantum gravitational disturbance.
Tropes
- Alien Geometries: The lazarus trap that Stevil traps Avocato and Gary in consists of a building made from dozens of stairs, going in all directions. Even impossible ones.
- Anthropomorphic Food: Gary tries to use the Lazarus Trap’s powers to his advantage by thinking of a cookie. He gets one; a talking cookie with arms and legs. Then he accidently imagines it as a murderous creatures, and makes more of them. Next thing we see is Gary and Avocato being attacked by dozens of anthropomorphic, homicidal cookies with laser eyes and tridents.
- Big Damn Heroes: KVN, of all people, pulls one on Gary and Avocato by saving them from Deathcropolis. And Gary doesn’t even thank him for it.
- Blatant Lies: Tribore denies touching Quinn’s stuff while looking after her home, even though the holographic projection clearly shows him putting on her clothes and makeup.
- Defiant Captive: Little Cato. He even tries to attack Bhero.
- Escape Pod: Quinn is forced to use one when Chuck’s ship is destroyed by the gravitational disturbance.
- Eye Scream: Lord Commander psychically destroys all of Helper Hula’s eyes when she doesn’t answer his question to where Mooncake is.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: The helpers of the Order of Twelve don’t have eyes in their heads, but several mobile eyes floating around their bodies. Stevil can even use his eyes to trap people, like Mooncake.
- Gladiator Games: People that seek shelter from the Order of Twelve on Yardo are instead sacrificed during gladiatorial death battles in an arena called The Deathcropolis. Mooncake ends up in the arena after trying to escape, and proceeds to curbstomp all the creatures he is forced to fight.
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: After Avocato fails to talk Gary out of waking up from the Lazarus trap, he then punches him in the face to get Gary to do so. It works, and the trap setting dissolves around them both.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: In the cold opening, Gary sees the remains of a SAME he named Carl floating near him… ripped in half.
- Hope Spot:
- In the cold opening, Gary receives a radio signal, meaning he may not be alone. Then there’s an explosion….
- Little Cato receives an electronic communication device from an unseen person, who claims to be his ally.
- If My Calculations Are Correct: Said by Quinn when talking to herself about the quantum gravitational disturbance. We don’t get to hear what her calculations implied though since Tribore interrupts her.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: The Lazarus trap’s final trick is to try and lure Gary and Avocato into the lava with images of Quinn and Little Cato respectively. Gary almost falls for it but Avocato snaps him out of it just in time.
- Make My Monster Grow: Stevil can make himself grow gigantic.
- Meaningful Name: The helper of the Order of Twelve who agrees to take care of Mooncake on Yarno is named Stevil. Upon hearing the name, Gary instantly realizes the man cannot be trusted.
- Mushroom Samba: Gary starts getting these hallucinations when he eats a Moonobump. Avocato saves him with an injection.
- Naked People Are Funny: Gary ends up stripped nude by his new robotic arm since he has no full control over it yet. Mooncake quickly gives him a Modesty Towel to cover himself, but when the Galaxy 1 enters the temporal worm it comes undone, once more exposing Gary’s bare butt (much to KVN’s enjoyment). He covers himself again once the ship leaves the worm, but loses the towel again when running to the cookie supply.
- Neck Snap: Nightfall kills a soldier who was about to shoot down the Galaxy 1 this way.
- Our Wormholes Are Different: To escape the Lord Commander’s ships, HUE steers the Galaxy 1 into a temporal worm; a wormhole that actually looks and acts like a gigantic, wormlike creature. The Galaxy 1 is able to enter before it closes its mouth, and the other ships crash into it, exploding on impact.
- Please Put Some Clothes On: Avocato’s response to seeing Gary naked.Avocato: How about covering up that dick situation you got going there, jeez!
- Plug 'n' Play Prosthetics: Downplayed. Gary doesn’t immediately know how to control the new robotic arm he received in the previous episode, and it goes out of control during the recording of his message to Quinn, stripping him naked in the process. He quickly overcomes it though and it doesn’t give him any more trouble for the remainder of the episode.
- Sand In My Eyes: When commander Chuck is driven to tears by Quinn’s insults, he tries to cover it up by claiming it’s because of space pollen.
- Secretly Dying: We learn this episode that the Lord Commander is dying; something he himself knows but keeps a secret from everyone.
- Shoot Out the Lock: When confronted by the Lord Commander in the Deathcropolis, Gary and Avocato shoot the locks of the various doors, thus opening them and unleashing the creatures trapped behind it into the arena.
- Time Travel: Avocato warns Gary that the temporal worm could send them thousands of years back or forward in time, but they have to take this risk. It ends up sending them four days into the future.
- Title Drop: The show’s title, Final Space, is said in-universe for the first time by the Lord Commander.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Once they arrive on Yardo, Gary, Mooncake and Avocato are welcomed by a man named Zargon Tukalishi. He’s immediately killed by another alien, who rips his head and spine off.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: The Lazarus trap has the power to make anything it’s prisoners think of a reality. When Gary remarks that at least they are not sinking into a lake of lava or something, lava starts flowing into the trap immediately.
