Beware The Wrath of an Obsessive Fan
Directed by: Roy Burdine
Written by: Jesse Porter
The Crown of Souls has been reassembled, yet it still doesn't appear to be doing anything.As the Wee Compendium of Factes and Funne had information on the Crown of Souls, Dulcinea suggests that book's author, Miguel A. Andante, may have the information they need to use the Crown properly, but she becomes a little obsessive in the presence of her biggest idol.
Meanwhile, tired of constantly being defeated by Puss in Boots, the thieves decide to put a bounty out on him, bringing assassins from all over to do battle with Puss.
Tropes:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Puss is initially excited to find he's become a big enough name that the thieves have put a bounty on him, but quickly realizes the sudden influx of assassins is a bit much for him.
- Break the Cutie: Dulcinea has lived her life by the "Wee Compendium of Factes and Funne" and worshiped its author to the point of Precocious Crush, so finding out the author is actually a woman, and also very bitter about the book is hard for her to take. Then Miguela insults her for basing her life around it a few too many times...
- Broken Pedestal: If Miguela being a rather bitter person wasn't enough, she doesn't even know anything about the Crown of Souls, that passage in the book she outright plagiarized from another book in order to pad out the length.
- Contrived Coincidence: Miguela only sold one copy of the Wee Compenium of Factes and Funne, meaning that Dulcinea's precious book also happens to be the only existing copy of it in circulation.
- Freak Out: Dulcinea spends most of the episode completely out of her mind after her worldview gets turned upside down. Her usual desire to do good by everyone turns downright creepy and obsessive, to say the least. And that's not even mentioning the kidnapping...
- Hope Spot: When she first ties up Miguela, Dulcinea is initially full of guilt to the point where Miguela is able to talk her out of it... until Miguela makes this mistake of insulting her again before she actually finishes doing it. Cue the rest of the episode...
- Jerkass Has a Point: To the point where it's hard to tell which between Miguela or Dulcinea is supposed to be sympathetic - which, given the show's usual humor and the Misery references, is probably the whole joke. Miguela is nasty, blows off Dulcinea's request for aid against the Bloodwolf and repeatedly insults Dulcinea and the thing she based her whole life on, but Dulcinea did break into her house and refuse to leave her alone, and it's her right to feel any way she wants to about her own books.
- Laughing Mad: Dulcinea after her Freak Out, including a scene that ends with her just giggling over, and over, and over...
- Loony Fan: Let's just say Dulcinea's usual sensibility goes out of the window where the author of the book is concerned. Even before she snaps and starts believing they're best friends, and that it's her destiny to make Miguela write a sequel...
- Madness Mantra: "The wisdom of the book" becomes Dulcinea's after in her Break the Cutie stint. Miguela eventually uses it herself to make her snap out of it.
- Moustache de Plume: Miguel A. Andante is actually a woman named Miguela Andante; there was a typo in the printing of her name.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero / Hope Spot: When Dulcinea first snaps and ties Miguela to a chair, she actually snaps out of it right away. Miguela almost convinces her to forget the whole thing... that is, until she starts insulting her "stupid book and stupid fans" while Dulcinea is still untying her. Then comes the Death Glare and the Misery references...
- Oh, Crap!: Miguela gets a beautiful one when she realizes that breaking the cutie has consequences...
- "Oh Fiddlefuff..."
- Old Shame: In-Universe, The Wee Compendium of Factes and Funne is this to Miguela; she only wrote it to make a quick buck, but the book was such a failure only one copy was ever sold, ruining her career.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Dulcinea's subplot to Misery.
