Leonardo, Good Or Bad?

**Leonardo, Good Or Bad?** is the twenty-first Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the fifty-fifth episode overall.

## Summary

While trying to order a monster, King Leonardo has becomes inexplicably forgiving and calm.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Athena (*no dialogue*)
* Beatrice (*no dialogue*)
* Bitter Rage (*debut*)
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy (*no dialogue*)
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Gamba (*no dialogue*)
* Gene
* Helios & Luna (*no dialogue*)
* Hover (*no dialogue*)
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin (*no dialogue*)
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Milly
* Miss Yuubin (*no dialogue*)
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Mage
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Snowdrop (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead (*no dialogue*)
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins in the Castle Leonardo throne room, where King Leonardo is summoning a new monster through the Monster delivery system. Before the monster can be clearly made out, it lunges toward King Leonardo and implants itself inside of him. The next day, Tommy delivers a bunch of roses to Leonardo's bedroom while loudly complaining about the king. Leonardo hears this and comes in, causing Tommy to recoil in horror at what he might do and accidentally dumps the roses on Leonardo's head. Tommy worries about getting clobbered, but King Leonardo instead gently puts the vase down and forgives Tommy instead. The perplexed turtle has to throw himself into the wall to make sure he is not dreaming as King Leonardo walks away without issue. Tommy wonders if this is a prank, but then King Leonardo returns with a mop and cleans up the mess left behind. Still in disbelief, Tommy grabs the mop from Leonardo, causing him to accidentally step on a rose thorn and then cause the vase to crash onto his head. Despite that, King Leonardo forgives Tommy, causing the snail to lose his mind of this abnormally kind behavior from his king. He decides to take King Leonardo to Dr. Medico's clinic to see if anything has happened to him. Medico insists there is nothing physically wrong with Leonardo, but Tommy refuses to believe it.

As Tommy drives back through Puffy Town with King Leonardo, he spots Leeko and his close friends in the central plaza. He decides to tell them about the situation, hoping they might help in some way. They find the situation incredible at first, but Tommy invites them to try and make the king angry to prove his point. They proceed to attack the Royal Racecar, but Leonardo does not care in the slightest. As this happens, the town notices King Leonardo's condition and joins in doing things that would normally anger him. They all proceed to whack him with mallets and other blunt objects, with Leeko delivering the last and hardest blow. They then recoil in horror when Leonardo responds simply by claiming it was nice. Felix then decides to try to anger Leonardo by tampering with the brakes on the Royal Racecar, and Leonardo drives away at Felix's recommendation. He then crashes into a nearby pond, but still shows no anger. Seeing this, the Puffies accept that King Leonardo really has changed, and decide to return the favor by applauding him.

Later on, Tommy hosts a Channel Lion Out Loud news section where he tells everyone about King Leonardo's change of heart. He demonstrates this by whacking King Leonardo with his hammer, and from there, the king proceeds to give a long impassioned speech about forgiving those who do him wrong, which shocks the entire kingdom. Once he is finished with his speech, Tommy gives him another couple whacks for good measure, which Leonardo still shrugs off. It is shown, however, that the monster inside King Leonardo's head is keeping a meter which seems to indicate how much tolerance King Leonardo is willing to put up with. That night, a party is hosted at Castle Leonardo in celebration of King Leonardo's new passive nature with all of Puffy Town is invited to. Tommy invites everyone to whack King Leonardo with hammers to see for themselves how much Leonardo does not care. Tommy starts to get nervous as the townsfolk deliver even more harmful swings, including Chef Peppermint serving Leonardo a terrible lamb leg dish. King Leonardo eats the meal heartily, though the monster inside him raises the meter another notch as he does so.

While Leonardo is attempting to eat another of Peppermint's questionable dishes, Leeko runs in and bashes Leonardo repeatedly with a hammer, which Leonardo brushes off, though the meter increases much more. Seeing this, Tommy then finally comes to the conclusion that King Leonardo must have been affected by a monster and rushes to the throne room to get confirmation from Nebula Enterprises. Gene confirms to Tommy that King Leonardo cannot get mad no matter what happened, which leads Tommy to finally let go of his restraint and deliver as much pain to King Leonardo as he possibly can in return for the years of abuse he has received from the king. On his way, Tommy accidentally bumps into Milly, Manny, and Leeko, and drops the monster manual he was looking at earlier, which Milly notices and picks up. Meanwhile, Tommy rushes in toward King Leonardo and promises to deliver more pain using his massive mallet for every one he ever received. As he whacks away, Milly runs in to try and stop Tommy, warning him that King Leonardo can only take so much punishment before the monster inside him releases its fury. Moonlight Man warns everyone to stay back as this is about to happen. After repeating "that's okay" several times, the anger limit is reached and King Leonardo lets out a massive cry of rage and starts to chase Leeko in a berserk state. However, King Leonardo slips on a banana peel before getting too far, causing the limit to be exceeded and forcing the monster out of him.

Bitter Rage emerges from King Leonardo's mouth and grows spikes, then proceeds to attack Leeko and the other assembled guests. After narrowly avoiding its launched spike attacks, Leeko vacuum-mouths some of the needles to gain the Needle Copy Ability. Needle Leeko proceeds to try and fight back against the monster, but its explosive needles prove to be too much and Leeko flees. Milly calls for the Shooting Star to give Leeko a hand. Meanwhile, King Leonardo returns to his senses and realizes that Tommy had been whacking him senseless with a hammer. As the fight continues, the monster launches a flurry of homing needles at Leeko, but with the help of the Shooting Star, Leeko manages to avoid them, and then lure them right back toward the monster, impaling it and causing it to explode. While this is happening, King Leonardo proceeds to clobber Tommy repeatedly as payback, but Tommy is strangely glad that Leonardo is back to normal, even as he gets plummeted. The episode ends as the assembled crowd shares a hearty laugh at the whole situation.

## Trivia

* This is the fourth episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Needle Copy Ability.
* This is the second episode where Leonardo’s name or part of his name appears in an episode title. The first is Midnight At Leo’s Castle.
* This is the sixth episode where Tommy cries.
* This is the first episode where a character vomits, or in this case, two characters: Mayor Bay and Snowdrop, when they are listening to Leonardo's speech on Channel Lion Out Loud.
* This episode has the shortest opening sequence.
* This is the thirteenth episode in *The Beginning* series where Milly calls for the Shooting Star.