Of course, the typical "that was actually just a body double" trope... Why can't we, just for once, have these supposed dangers to life itself just get hoisted by their own petards and not have them keep coming back to get beaten again and again... It's even more boring that way.
I can already tell there's gonna come a point in time when the Ice Princess and Iska are in a dire situation and Salinger appears out of fuckin nowhere to save them because "the only one who gets to defeat you two is me."