A recruitment trip to Dryl goes awry thanks to a virus that corrupts Princess Entrapta's robots. When Adora transforms, it infects She-Ra too.
Tropes
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Variant involving the effects of the corrupted chip. Adora wanders into the middle of the lab and yells "I FOUND THE ROBOTS!", predictably drawing said robots to her position.
- Aesop Amnesia: After having her entire robot staff corrupted by the First Ones chip, Entrapta decides to weld the broken chip back together and try again.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Entrapta's robots are normally fine, but with the First One virus infecting them...
- Bait-and-Switch: The episode starts out with a somewhat sinister tone, in a dark castle at night with servants nervously preparing food they hand off to a robot...only for us to finally see Entrapta who turns out to be a bubbly Genki Girl.
- Big Labyrinthine Building: Dryl is so out of hand that Entrapta, the designer, can’t find her way around without her portable tablet. Without this technological assistance she takes numerous wrong turns, goes in circles and winds up getting caught in her own traps.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Entrapta's kitchen staff consists of a big-boned green-haired woman, a slender man, and a shorter woman.
- Brown Note: The infected robots can cause She-Ra pain by screaming.
- Chekhov's Gun: Bow draws special attention to his sonic arrow, so it of course comes in handy against the robots.
- Cut the Juice: When removing the chip proves to be impossible, Bow and Entrapta pull the power to the computer it's plugged into. This fails when the chip turns out to have an internal power source.
- Dare to Be Badass: Bow rallies the kitchen staff to fight the robots.
- Deus Exit Machina: Adora is drugged part way into the episode preventing She-Ra from fighting the robots.
- G-Rated Drug: After changing back to Adora, it appears that whatever the virus did, it caused Adora to act as if she was drunk.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: When his bottle spray fails him, the male chef bashes a robot's head in with the bottle.
- Heroic Bystander: Bow convinces the kitchen staff to help stand up against the robots when they had previously been reluctant to do so because they didn't have powers.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The robots attack anything that makes sound, so Bow shoots the computer the chip is plugged into with a sonic arrow, causing the robots to smash it.
- I Kiss Your Hand: When Bow meets Entrapta, he kisses one of her hair "hands".
- Improbable Weapon User: The kitchen staff fight with thrown utensils, sprays from carbonated bottles, frosting bags and a Rolling Pin of Doom.
- Liquid Courage: Right before the kitchen staff opens the door blocking the rampaging robots from the kitchen, the male chef takes a swig from his bottle (of soda) to reassure himself.
- Magitek: The First One virus infects all the ‘bots and is able to infect the She-Ra sword through the robot she stabbed, and Adora through it.
- Organic Technology: The chip infects the robots with organic-looking tendrils, and it even manages to infect Adora through the sword.
- Portal Cut: Referenced when Glimmer comments that she doesn’t have enough energy to teleport herself, Adora, and Entrapta without leaving some of their legs behind.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: After being corrupted by the virus, She-Ra's irises turn red and she becomes a vicious berserker. When the infected chip is broken, Adora's eyes are shown going from red back to blue.
- Rousing Speech: Bow gives one to the staff of Dryl to help them fight against the robots.
- Shout-Out: The idea of a Mad Scientist moving around on tentacles, the heroes ripping out a huge power cable when things go wrong, with that not helping, the scientist deciding to continue the experiment despite failing... yes, it does sound very familiar.
- Safely Secluded Science Center: What Dryl essentially is, considering the lengths the Squad had to go to get there, the passes regularly get rockslides! Then they discover that the emergency beacon was going off the whole time, which lets them know this lets them know something is going on but not what the threat explicitly is.
- Skewed Priorities: While Entrapta's robots are rampaging around and her staff is under siege, Entrapta herself is more interested in research, which becomes something of a recurring trend for her.
- Trap Door: At the front entrance to the castle no less! At least it just leads to a cage and not a pit of spikes, so that’s nice?
- Pit Trap: Dryl has several of these in the various traps that... "decorate" the area one is right outside the town and there's at least one in the castle itself.
- Volumetric Mouth: At some points, while she's infected with the virus, Adora's mouth takes up her whole face.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Early on, Adora and Glimmer ridicule Bow's Sonic Arrow, mockingly wondering aloud under what circumstances it would ever be useful.
- X-Ray Sparks: When Entrapta gets electrocuted by her own malfunctioning door, we can see flashes of her skeleton.
