Accepting that Gregory is not the droids he was looking for, Rutentuten heads off from Gregory’s mind-space into reality to locate the thwarters of old and visit his appropriately temperatured vengeance on them.

Gregory wrestles with the impulse to try and stop him, but he’s still wracked by embarrassment…and also wondering if his friends are really in danger. Would Rutentuten even be able to recognize them with their current appearance? That’s a definite no for the Professor and Biff, who look completely implausibly changed from what they used to look like. And a very likely no for Mopey, who still looks somewhat like herself…but who does look much younger than she used to, and Rutentuten knows that that’s not how that ‘aging’ thing usually works.

Unfortunately, by the time that Gregory’s train of thought reaches Snuka, it’s already too late to safe him. Snuka, Gregory belatedly realizes, still looks pretty similar to how he’s always looked (aside from still having the same poor character), and thus would be the prime (and likely only) target for Rutentuten’s curse. But is Gregory really to blame here? Gregory thinking of Snuka last, and too late to save him, seems just like the kind of thing that would happen naturally to somebody like Snuka, with that perennial vendetta of the universe against him. It would probably have taken a touch of destiny for Gregory to be able to think of him sooner, and that’s just not where he is with his life right now.

Or perhaps it actually was Gregory’s destiny. First he failed at singing “I need a hero”, and then he failed at being a hero for Snuka…that could look pre-ordained.

More on Monday.