Heroes on Fire

*For the song, see Heroes on Fire (song).*

"**Heroes on Fire**" is the tenth and final episode of Season 2 of *Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts* and the 20th episode overall. It premiered on Netflix with the rest of the season on June 12, 2020. It was written by Bill Wolkoff and directed by Michael Chang.

## Synopsis

With a little help from friends, Kipo breaks the chains of mind control as chaos comes to the coronation. Will she sacrifice it all to save everyone?

## Plot

In a flashback from two days earlier as scenes from "Benson and the Beast", Kipo went to visit her mom in mega monkey form. She gives her a drink of water, which Mulholland was secretly hiding in. Mulholland winks at Kipo before Song drinks him. Inside Song's brain, he sends out electrical waves and manages to free Song from mind control.

Mulholland explains to Song what he did and Song asks him to tell Kipo that mama loves her.

In present day, at the coronation, Scarlemagne pumps pheromones into the audience but it doesn't work. Kipo reveals that she poured Mulholland into the vat of pheromone, who was then able to change the pheromones so that they don't work. Song rips the dome-shaped roof off a building, and Wolf tells the humans to climb inside so the mega monkey can carry them to safety. She does, annd once on the ground, Mandu leads them to a tunnel.

Wolf, Dave, Benson and Mandu fight off the flamingos and Scarlemagne's inner circle. Benson drops his backpack, with Kipo's anchor inside, into the gold and it's lost forever. Kipo realizes she can't transform into the jaguar to fight Scarlemagne. Wolf, Dave, and Benson go to help Kipo fight him but Scarlemagne is putting up a good fight.

Scarlemagne moves a lever to make the liquid gold come out even faster. It starts to flood the building, but Troy rallies the Timbercats to come over to help. Scarlemagne knocks Kipo and her father off the balcony. Wolf urges them to get to higher ground. The Timbercats come over to help and Molly extends her ax hilt down so they can climb up to higher ground. Scarlemagne hops on a flamingo, but gets knocked out. Lio pulls him to safety saying that he won't leave him again.

Kipo realizes that the only way to save everyone is to transform into a Mega Jaguar and knock over the tree that the gold is flowing from to stop the gold from rising any higher. She transforms and her mom comes over to help her.They can't knock it over and The Mega Monkey accidentaly touches the molten gold, Kipo turns into and inhanced Mega Jaguar, They knock over the tree and save everyone.

Kipo's mom comforts Kipo as she can't transform back. Meanwhile, Emilia addresses all of the humans and asks them to join her in her mission to turn all the mutes back into their normal forms to save the earth. The humans cheer. Mandu and Roberto sneak out the back.

“Kipo doesn't know the meaning of the word impossible, and neither should we.”
— Wolf
Wolf appeals to Kipo, trying to get her to transform- she even sings "Heroes on Fire" and Kipo, inside the jaguar, hears it and is able to revert. "Miss me?" she says. They all hug. Her friends realize that they are her real anchor.

Kipo tells her mom that if she can turn back, so can she, and that they will figure it out. The Timbercats invite Kipo and friends back to their village, along with Hugo who is now in a cage.

Roberto and Mandu join them, and Kipo wonders where everyone else is. Roberto explains that Emilia intercepted them in tunnels and convinced everyone else to follow her. Kipo says that they will stop her and they will do it together.

## Credits

* **Written by**
	+ Bill Wolkoff

* **Directed by**
	+ Michael Chang

* **Storyboards by**
	+ James P. Gibson
	+ Ben Li
	+ Sean Song

* **Cast**
	+ Karen Fukuhara as Kipo Oak
	+ Sydney Mikayla as Wolf
	+ Deon Cole as Dave
	+ Coy Stewart as Benson
	+ Dee Bradley Baker as Mandu, Mega Monkey, and Gerard
	+ Sterling K. Brown as Lio Oak
	+ Dan Stevens as Scarlemagne
	+ Michael-Leon Wooley as Tad Mulholland
	+ Jee Young Han as Song Oak
	+ Steve Blum as Yumyan Hammerpaw
	+ Amy Landecker as Emilia

## Transcript

The transcript can be found here: Heroes on Fire/Transcript
## Episode notes

### Trivia.

One of Dave's lines "Benson,this was a bad woman" (in polish "Benson, to zła kobieta była.) refers to the Polish crime film ''Pigs,, directed by Władysław Pasikowski.