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=== Tropes Exclusive to the DLC ===
* [[All for Nothing]]: After all the trouble the boys go into so that Ms. Chalice can try the Astral Pie and return to life, {{spoiler
* [[Belated Happy Ending]]: The epilogue with end credits shows that {{spoiler|Chalice managed to find another way to come back to life, and she hangs out with the brothers, a reformed Saltbaker, and the DLC island residents}}.
* [[Contrasting Sequel Character]]: The real villain, {{spoiler|Chef Saltbaker}}, serves as this to the Devil. While the Devil has legitimate reasons for wanting the soul contracts from the debtors that had evaded him, {{spoiler|Saltbaker basically sent children to beat up his neighbors}}. They also {{spoiler|reveal they played the Cups and Ms. Chalice for patsies, while the Devil was upfront about the price that the brothers had to pay}}. Also, while the Devil can be beaten, {{spoiler|Saltbaker can be arrested for his crimes}}.
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* [[Equivalent Exchange]]:
** Chalice can temporary come back to life if one of the brothers eats an Astral Cookie. They become a ghost, while she takes their place in the living realm.
** The Astral Pie requires one last ingredient: {{spoiler|a living soul. Saltbaker says that he plans to sacrifice one of the Cups or Chalice to make it. When Chalice finds this out, she refuses to help Saltbaker finish the baking. That, and he plans to use it to take over the astral plane}}.<big>
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Unlike in the main island, these debtors are just minding their own business. They attack in self-defense, while in the case of the Bootlegger Boogie, you're interrupting a brawl between them and ant-cops.</big>
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: Deconstructed by the end of the story. Chef Saltbaker asked the brothers and Chalice to collect the ingredients from his neighbors, who hadn't done anything to warrant that level of home invasion. {{spoiler|It comes out that the antagonists were [[Good All Along]], barring the Bootlegger Bugs. The Astral Pie also requires a living soul to be baked into it. When the brothers and Chalice stop Saltbaker from making the Astral Pie and accidentally destroy his bakery, they agree that one living soul is not worth bringing Chalice back to life. Chalice says that she'll find another way to gain back her limbs.}}
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Chef Saltbaker sends the kids on an errand to collect the ingredients for the Astral Pie, that could bring Chalice back to life permanently, without needing the brothers. {{spoiler|The epilogue shows that he gets arrested for coercing and kidnapping children, attempted murder, destruction of his neighbors' property, and attempted domination of the astral plane. Why were the brothers let off the hook? Because they had helped save the Inkwell Isles from the Devil, and the Judge was a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] that figured out Saltbaker duped them. Saltbaker gets a plea deal where he rebuilds all the damage he indirectly wrought upon the DLC, and spends months doing community service}}.
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