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* ObliviouslyEvil: Ironically, something she shares with her 'half sister' Fluttercruel: she was raised by six ''[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmares]]'', including Eclipse herself, and follows Eclipse's belief that the denizens of Dark World weren't ponies unless Eclipse, Whisper, or Manacle saw fit to save them, and that the Pantheon and anyone who works for them is evil. On top of that, she's not very sane due to her mother forcing her to see her Special Talent as evil and vile.
* PsychopathicManChild: She's millions of years old, but mentally a very messed up child.
* PsychopathicManChild: She's millions of years old, but mentally a very messed up child.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Ironically, something she shares with her 'half sister' Fluttercruel: she was raised by six ''[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmares]]'', including Eclipse herself, and follows Eclipse's belief that the denizens of Dark World weren't ponies unless Eclipse, Whisper, or Manacle saw fit to save them, and that the Pantheon and anyone who works for them is evil. On top of that, she's not very sane due to her mother forcing her to see her Special Talent as evil and vile.
vile. Justitia and Judicium flat out declare her 'not guilty by reason of insanity' for her crimes, unlike her Dark World counterpart.
* PsychopathicManChild: She's millions of years old, but mentally a very messed up child.
* PsychopathicManChild: She's millions of years old, but mentally a very messed up child.
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** [[spoiler:One of her arguments for why killing the living beings in Dark World isn't murder is that "clay has potential to become a pot, but you aren't destroying pots when you squash clay", effectively saying that they have potential to come alive, but are not alive. Ignoring that all of them ''are'' fully sentient and very much don't want to die.]]
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** [[spoiler:One of her arguments for why killing the living beings in Dark World isn't murder is that "clay has potential to become a pot, but you aren't destroying pots when you squash clay", effectively saying that they have potential to come alive, but are not alive. Ignoring alive--ignoring that all of them ''are'' fully sentient and very much don't want to die.]]
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* PetTheDog: Her treatment of the Doctor after she defeated him was relatively kind by her standards. She transformed him into a baby with a fob watch containing his memories and left him on the doorstep of a warm-hearted, infertile couple who had always wanted children.
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* ShoutOut: His tradition of breaking through Discord's defenses to give him a lump of coal every year is a reference to the Creator/DCComics version of Santa doing the same thing to {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}.
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* UncannyValley: InUniverse. [[spoiler:Everyone is disturbed by how ''similar'' she still is to Twilight.]]
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Their VillainousFriendship allows them to supercharge the Elements of Harmony to create a WorldWreckingWave, which they use at the end of every Dark World timeline to "delete all the NPCs" and force a reset back to the beginning. Normally, the Elements cannot be used without the willingness of [[GodOfGood Fauna Luster]], as they are derived from Her power (and She, who loves every being in creation, would ''never'' allow Herself to be used in such a way), but Paradox and her friends combined the Elements with their own raw dark magic and ThePowerOfHate to pervert them into a tool of destruction instead of restoration. This blows up in their face in the ''Sirens vs Nightmares'' Gaiden story, since it means the Sirens can consume their attack.
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Their VillainousFriendship allows them to supercharge the Elements of Harmony to create a WorldWreckingWave, which they use at the end of every Dark World timeline to "delete all the NPCs" [=NPCs=]" and force a reset back to the beginning. Normally, the Elements cannot be used without the willingness of [[GodOfGood Fauna Luster]], as they are derived from Her power (and She, who loves every being in creation, would ''never'' allow Herself to be used in such a way), but Paradox and her friends combined the Elements with their own raw dark magic and ThePowerOfHate to pervert them into a tool of destruction instead of restoration. This blows up in their face in the ''Sirens vs Nightmares'' Gaiden story, since it means the Sirens can consume their attack.
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Their VillainousFriendship allows them to supercharge the Elements of Harmony to create a WorldWreckingWave, which they use at the end of every Dark World timeline to [[KillEmAll "delete all the NPCs"]] and force a reset back to the beginning. Normally, the Elements cannot be used without the willingness of [[GodOfGood Fauna Luster]], as they are derived from Her power (and She, who loves every being in creation, would ''never'' allow Herself to be used in such a way), but Paradox and her friends combined the Elements with their own raw dark magic and ThePowerOfHate to pervert them into a tool of destruction instead of restoration. This blows up in their face in the ''Sirens vs Nightmares'' Gaiden story, since it means the Sirens can consume their attack.
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Their VillainousFriendship allows them to supercharge the Elements of Harmony to create a WorldWreckingWave, which they use at the end of every Dark World timeline to [[KillEmAll "delete all the NPCs"]] NPCs" and force a reset back to the beginning. Normally, the Elements cannot be used without the willingness of [[GodOfGood Fauna Luster]], as they are derived from Her power (and She, who loves every being in creation, would ''never'' allow Herself to be used in such a way), but Paradox and her friends combined the Elements with their own raw dark magic and ThePowerOfHate to pervert them into a tool of destruction instead of restoration. This blows up in their face in the ''Sirens vs Nightmares'' Gaiden story, since it means the Sirens can consume their attack.
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* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the fact she exists simultaneously with Twilight (allowing her to basically ENFORCE a StableTimeLoop ending with her becoming Nightmare Purgatory and then Paradox) basically is one of these, violating the laws of cause and effect just by existing. It's implied that this becomes a major reason why Eclipse!Rainbow Dash was ascended to Concepthood and given the power to influence/break time cycles. It also bites her in the flank, as it means, due to being Eclipse Prime, when the original loses, she tied her existence to every other version of herself, and thus there no exists no Nightmare Eclipse who wins.]].
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* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the fact she exists simultaneously with Twilight (allowing her to basically ENFORCE a StableTimeLoop ending with her becoming Nightmare Purgatory and then Paradox) basically is one of these, violating the laws of cause and effect just by existing. It's implied that this becomes a major reason why Eclipse!Rainbow Dash was ascended to Concepthood and [[ObviousRulePatch given the power to influence/break time cycles. cycles]]. It also bites her in the flank, as it means, due to being Eclipse Prime, when the original loses, she tied her existence to every other version of herself, and thus there no exists no Nightmare Eclipse who wins.]].wins in all the multiverse.]]
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* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:As a Nightmare, her worldview operates on this. She believes (or has deluded herself into believing) that all the characters in the Dark World timeline are just factory-programmed robots that exist to follow her scripts, ignoring that they have minds of their own and [[DidntSeeThatComing can even do things she never anticipated]] (such as Derpy becoming the Element of Loyalty), which wouldn't be possible if she was controlling their every action. The only beings she considers "real" are herself, Twilight, Discord, and the iterations of her friends she converted into Nightmares to follow her.]]
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* InsaneTrollLogic: InsaneTrollLogic:
** [[spoiler:As a Nightmare, her worldview operates on this. She believes (or has deluded herself into believing) that all the characters in the Dark World timeline are just factory-programmed robots that exist to follow her scripts, ignoring that they have minds of their own and [[DidntSeeThatComing can even do things she never anticipated]] (such as Derpy becoming the Element of Loyalty), which wouldn't be possible if she was controlling their every action. The only beings she considers "real" are herself, Twilight, Discord, and the iterations of her friends she converted into Nightmares to follow her.]]
** [[spoiler:One of her arguments for why killing the living beings in Dark World isn't murder is that "clay has potential to become a pot, but you aren't destroying pots when you squash clay", effectively saying that they have potential to come alive, but are not alive. Ignoring that all of them ''are'' fully sentient and very much don't want to die.]]
** [[spoiler:As a Nightmare, her worldview operates on this. She believes (or has deluded herself into believing) that all the characters in the Dark World timeline are just factory-programmed robots that exist to follow her scripts, ignoring that they have minds of their own and [[DidntSeeThatComing can even do things she never anticipated]] (such as Derpy becoming the Element of Loyalty), which wouldn't be possible if she was controlling their every action. The only beings she considers "real" are herself, Twilight, Discord, and the iterations of her friends she converted into Nightmares to follow her.]]
** [[spoiler:One of her arguments for why killing the living beings in Dark World isn't murder is that "clay has potential to become a pot, but you aren't destroying pots when you squash clay", effectively saying that they have potential to come alive, but are not alive. Ignoring that all of them ''are'' fully sentient and very much don't want to die.]]
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* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:Every loop of the Dark World timeline has ended with her wiping out all life in that world, forcing that incarnation of Twilight to become a Nightmare like her, and then absorbing the new Nightmare Eclipse to increase her own power. The key to freeing the world isn't defeating Discord (who is now as much a prisoner of Eclipse as Twilight and her friends are), it's finding a way to put down Eclipse for good so that the loop stops, once and for all.]]
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* HappyEndingOverride: HappyEndingOverride:
** [[spoiler:Every loop of the Dark World timeline has ended with her wiping out all life in that world, forcing that incarnation of Twilight to become a Nightmare like her, and then absorbing the new Nightmare Eclipse to increase her own power. The key to freeing the world isn't defeating Discord (who is now as much a prisoner of Eclipse as Twilight and her friends are), it's finding a way to put down Eclipse for good so that the loop stops, once and for all.]]
** [[spoiler:Her final defeat ''inverts'' this: as she merged with every Nightmare Purgatory at the moment of their genesis, she effectively tied the fate of all her alternate selves to herself. As such, when she's defeated, no other version of her in the entire multiverse will ever succeed and Amicitia makes sure to nudge every loop of Dark World into splintering into an alternate timeline where Twilight and company defeated her.]]
** [[spoiler:Every loop of the Dark World timeline has ended with her wiping out all life in that world, forcing that incarnation of Twilight to become a Nightmare like her, and then absorbing the new Nightmare Eclipse to increase her own power. The key to freeing the world isn't defeating Discord (who is now as much a prisoner of Eclipse as Twilight and her friends are), it's finding a way to put down Eclipse for good so that the loop stops, once and for all.]]
** [[spoiler:Her final defeat ''inverts'' this: as she merged with every Nightmare Purgatory at the moment of their genesis, she effectively tied the fate of all her alternate selves to herself. As such, when she's defeated, no other version of her in the entire multiverse will ever succeed and Amicitia makes sure to nudge every loop of Dark World into splintering into an alternate timeline where Twilight and company defeated her.]]
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* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:Views the present Twilight (her past self) as a naive child still clinging to 'dolls' that aren't real who needs to wake up to Paradox's twisted worldview. In a bit of irony, Paradox herself is this for Twilight in some ways, as she retains many of the flaws Twilight has overcome and cranked them UpToEleven, something which annoys and frustrates Twilight.]]
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* IHatePastMe: [[spoiler:Views the present Twilight (her past self) as a naive child still clinging to 'dolls' that aren't real who needs to wake up to Paradox's twisted worldview. In a bit of irony, Paradox herself is this for Twilight in some ways, as she retains many of the flaws Twilight has overcome and cranked them UpToEleven, up, something which annoys and frustrates Twilight.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:She manages to be this for the ''[[UpToEleven Dark World timeline!]]'' When the story turns to focus on her, it instantly turns into a ''[[WhamEpisode Wham Arc]]'' and the stakes go from freeing the world to saving ''the universe'' from being erased from existence. The fact she's built up as being ''worse'' than Discord and actually ''lives up to it'' combined with her frightening FauxAffablyEvil personality and the fact she has undoubtedly the largest body count of ''any'' villain in the series (having erased the Dark World timeline and everyone in it enough times to amount to several hundred ''million years'') more than qualifies her for this trope.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:She manages to be this for the ''[[UpToEleven Dark ''Dark World timeline!]]'' timeline!'' When the story turns to focus on her, it instantly turns into a ''[[WhamEpisode Wham Arc]]'' and the stakes go from freeing the world to saving ''the universe'' from being erased from existence. The fact she's built up as being ''worse'' than Discord and actually ''lives up to it'' combined with her frightening FauxAffablyEvil personality and the fact she has undoubtedly the largest body count of ''any'' villain in the series (having erased the Dark World timeline and everyone in it enough times to amount to several hundred ''million years'') more than qualifies her for this trope.]]
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* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:To Twilight. As Apple Pie points out, her personality is closer to Twilight when she started than Twilight now, only more psychopathic and with all her flaws taken UpToEleven.]]
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* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:To Twilight. As Apple Pie points out, her personality is closer to Twilight when she started than Twilight now, only more psychopathic and with all her flaws taken UpToEleven.up to eleven.]]
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* SmugSuper: [[spoiler:Takes Twilight's overconfidence UpToEleven, but at the same time, she is stronger than ''Discord'', so she has every right to be..]]
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* SmugSuper: [[spoiler:Takes Twilight's overconfidence UpToEleven, up to eleven, but at the same time, she is stronger than ''Discord'', so she has every right to be..]]
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* TautologicalTemplar: [[spoiler:Takes Twilight's own ego UpToEleven and firmly believes she's right in her actions and everyone else is too stupid to acknowledge she is.]]
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* TautologicalTemplar: [[spoiler:Takes Twilight's own ego UpToEleven up to eleven and firmly believes she's right in her actions and everyone else is too stupid to acknowledge she is.]]
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* TheDeterminator: After running out of energy, she kept herself alive with nothing more than pure willpower. [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven This is how she survived losing her]] ''[[UpToEleven original Light of Existence]]!'']]
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* TheDeterminator: After running out of energy, she kept herself alive with nothing more than pure willpower. [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven This [[spoiler:This is how she survived losing her]] ''[[UpToEleven original her ''original Light of Existence]]!'']]Existence!'']]
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** It's manipulated everyone thus far, with varying degrees of success. Most notably managing to give an effective BreakingLecture to ''Discord!''
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** It's manipulated everyone thus far, with varying degrees of success. Most notably managing to give an effective BreakingLecture BreakHimByTalking to ''Discord!''
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* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Her response to her parents holding her in place for the CombinationAttack of six sets of Elements of Harmony, mirroring Discord's original defeat and Odyne!Cruelty's, and making her realize she really isn't any different from Discord. She goes catatonic and doesn't even respond as her CoDragons beg her to help them fight back. It continues as she's confronted by Rota Fortuna and given a BreakingLecture that drives the point in even further that she's done nothing but become a worse version of Discord. By the time its over she's left a broken shadow of herself begging Twilight to finally SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong for good far too late for it to be possible.]]
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* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Her response to her parents holding her in place for the CombinationAttack of six sets of Elements of Harmony, mirroring Discord's original defeat and Odyne!Cruelty's, and making her realize she really isn't any different from Discord. She goes catatonic and doesn't even respond as her CoDragons beg her to help them fight back. It continues as she's confronted by Rota Fortuna and given a BreakingLecture that [[BreakHerByTalking broken by talking]] which drives the point in even further that she's done nothing but become a worse version of Discord. By the time its over she's left a broken shadow of herself begging Twilight to finally SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong for good far too late for it to be possible.]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:As opposed to the other "[[EldritchAbomination Super Nightmares]]", she still looks like a normal, if dark and menacing, Alicorn. However, due to the fact she's a several hundred ''million'' year old insane goddess who's reset the timeline over and over again, as well as her occasional habit of speaking in a VoiceOfTheLegion [[VillainSong when singing]] or pissed off, ''and'' the fact she spends most of the story as a disembodied voice, that just makes her creepier.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:[[ShutUpHannibal As the heroes point out]], she seems incapable of realizing many of the ideas she uses to condemn others and justify her actions could just as easily be used to condemn her. For example, she says the heroes can't be real because they're not ''exactly'' the same as they were a thousand years ago (Applejack is more lady-like, Rarity is more rough and tumble, etc.), Twilight points out that by that logic, a mass murdering, psychopathic, revenge-crazed Nightmare version of Twilight shouldn't exist either. [[IRejectYourReality Paradox just ignores her.]]]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:As opposed to the other "[[EldritchAbomination Super Nightmares]]", she still looks like a normal, if dark and menacing, Alicorn. However, due to the fact she's a several hundred ''million'' year old insane goddess who's reset the timeline over and over again, as well as her occasional habit of speaking in a VoiceOfTheLegion [[VillainSong when singing]] or pissed off, ''and'' the fact she spends most of the story as a disembodied voice, that just makes her creepier.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:[[ShutUpHannibal As the heroes point out]], she seems incapable of realizing many of the ideas she uses to condemn others and justify her actions could just as easily be used to condemn her. For example, she says the heroes can't be real because they're not ''exactly'' the same as they were a thousand years ago (Applejack is more lady-like, Rarity is more rough and tumble, etc.), Twilight points out that by that logic, a mass murdering, psychopathic, revenge-crazed Nightmare version of Twilight shouldn't exist either. [[IRejectYourReality Paradox just ignores her.]]]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:[[ShutUpHannibal As the heroes point out]], she seems incapable of realizing many of the ideas she uses to condemn others and justify her actions could just as easily be used to condemn her. For example, she says the heroes can't be real because they're not ''exactly'' the same as they were a thousand years ago (Applejack is more lady-like, Rarity is more rough and tumble, etc.), Twilight points out that by that logic, a mass murdering, psychopathic, revenge-crazed Nightmare version of Twilight shouldn't exist either. [[IRejectYourReality Paradox just ignores her.]]]]
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* FanNickname: [[spoiler:Nightmare Ouroboros and Nightmare Encore]]
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* TragicDream: The only thing Nightmare Banneret wants is a true Nightmare version of Rarity so they can be together forever. For his sake, Nightmare Eclipse has been searching the multiverse for hundreds of millions of years trying to find a version of Rarity she can corrupt into a true Nightmare, but she'll never find one no matter how hard she looks, because the balance between Rarity's positive traits (generosity) and negative traits (greed) makes it impossible for a true Nightmare version of her to exist.
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* TragicDream: The only thing Nightmare Banneret wants is a true Nightmare version of Rarity so they can finally be together forever.together. For his sake, Nightmare Eclipse has been searching the multiverse for hundreds of millions of years trying to find a version of Rarity she can corrupt into a true Nightmare, but she'll never find one no matter how hard she looks, because the balance between Rarity's positive traits (generosity) and negative traits (greed) makes it impossible for a true Nightmare version of her to exist.
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* TragicDream: The only thing Nightmare Banneret wants is a true Nightmare version of Rarity so they can be together forever. For his sake, Nightmare Eclipse has been searching the multiverse for hundreds of millions of years trying to find a version of Rarity she can corrupt into a true Nightmare, but she'll never find one no matter how hard she looks, because the balance between Rarity's positive traits (generosity) and negative traits (greed) makes it impossible for a true Nightmare version of her to exist.
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Despite seeing everyone else as [=NPCs=], she herself is so bound by her nature as a Nightmare of revenge that for all she talks about her VillainWorld, she will likely ''never'' actually get to it and if not defeated would likely have ended up repeating the cycle over and over forever...very simular to what she occused everyone else of being.]]
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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
** [[spoiler:Despite seeing everyone else as [=NPCs=], she herself is so bound by her nature as a Nightmare of revenge that for all she talks about her VillainWorld, she will likely ''never'' actually get to it and if not defeated would likely have ended up repeating the cycle over and over forever...verysimular similar to what she occused accused everyone else of being.]]
** [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse has been perpetuating the entire Dark World loop as a gigantic act of revenge against Discord, who is now her favorite punching bag. One of those that contributes to her downfall is Rancor, the Concept of Revenge itself, who stabs Discord with the Concept Killing Spear and removes him from the mortal plane, taking him out of Eclipse's reach. She also wounds Twilight with the spear in such a way that it will stun Eclipse during the final battle.]]
** [[spoiler:Despite seeing everyone else as [=NPCs=], she herself is so bound by her nature as a Nightmare of revenge that for all she talks about her VillainWorld, she will likely ''never'' actually get to it and if not defeated would likely have ended up repeating the cycle over and over forever...very
** [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse has been perpetuating the entire Dark World loop as a gigantic act of revenge against Discord, who is now her favorite punching bag. One of those that contributes to her downfall is Rancor, the Concept of Revenge itself, who stabs Discord with the Concept Killing Spear and removes him from the mortal plane, taking him out of Eclipse's reach. She also wounds Twilight with the spear in such a way that it will stun Eclipse during the final battle.]]
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* {{Asexuality}}: [[spoiler:Nightmare Mirror able to watch Cadence and Shining Armor sleeping together without any issue. According to WordOfGod, this isn't actually due to being a Nightmare but that Applejack is just canonically asexual in this universe.]]
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** Does ''not'' like being compared to [[ArchEnemy Discord]]. [[spoiler:When Discord pulls a NotSoDifferent speech on her, she basically went mouth-frothing mad]].
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:One of her goals is to turn Twilight into this. It's implied that this is also what happened to her, as while she wants revenge on Discord and to take him down, it's been pointed out repeatedly that she's become NotSoDifferent from him. Considering she's a Twilight who went Nightmare and trapped Discord in a GroundhogDayLoop to perpetually torment him, and doesn't care about the Dark World denizens being erased from existence each time, she more than qualifies.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:One of her goals is to turn Twilight into this. It's implied that this is also what happened to her, as while she wants revenge on Discord and to take him down, it's been pointed out repeatedly that she's become NotSoDifferent no different from him. Considering she's a Twilight who went Nightmare and trapped Discord in a GroundhogDayLoop to perpetually torment him, and doesn't care about the Dark World denizens being erased from existence each time, she more than qualifies.]]
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* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:According to her, every single character in Dark World other than Twilight and Discord himself is an unthinking, unfeeling robot that only exists to be used as a tool for Discord's eternal torment. This makes her NotSoDifferent from Fluttercruel, who is so insane that she sincerely believes her victims only exist for her or her father's amusement, like toys or sprites in a video game.]]
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* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:According to her, every single character in Dark World other than Twilight and Discord himself is an unthinking, unfeeling robot that only exists to be used as a tool for Discord's eternal torment. This makes her NotSoDifferent no different from Fluttercruel, who is so insane that she sincerely believes her victims only exist for her or her father's amusement, like toys or sprites in a video game.]]
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** [[spoiler:To Discord, due to becoming [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]. She's a ManipulativeBastard who plays everyone as her pawns to achieve her goal, has the same [[VillainousBreakdown reaction to her plans failing]] as Discord, and her obsession with revenge is compared to Discord's own with chaos. She basically uses the same justification for not caring about the effect she has on the Dark World inhabitants as Discord does, that they don't matter and thus she can do whatever she wants to them. She even ends up using the body ''Discord just left behind'' to manifest physically into the mortal world. Actually calling her this is her biggest BerserkButton]].
** [[spoiler:The similarities become more profound when her parents restrain her for the Elements to defeat her, making her realizes that they're doing it for the ''same exact reason'' Shady and Fluttershy restrained Discord and Odyne!Cruelty. She has several ''more'' realizations as Rota Fortuna gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[VillainousBreakdown She doesn't take it well.]]]]
** [[spoiler:To Discord, due to becoming [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]. She's a ManipulativeBastard who plays everyone as her pawns to achieve her goal, has the same [[VillainousBreakdown reaction to her plans failing]] as Discord, and her obsession with revenge is compared to Discord's own with chaos. She basically uses the same justification for not caring about the effect she has on the Dark World inhabitants as Discord does, that they don't matter and thus she can do whatever she wants to them. She even ends up using the body ''Discord just left behind'' to manifest physically into the mortal world. Actually calling her this is her biggest BerserkButton]].
** [[spoiler:The similarities become more profound when her parents restrain her for the Elements to defeat her, making her realizes that they're doing it for the ''same exact reason'' Shady and Fluttershy restrained Discord and Odyne!Cruelty. She has several ''more'' realizations as Rota Fortuna gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[VillainousBreakdown She doesn't take it well.]]]]
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* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler:A devil (which is what fallen Alicorns are called) who used to be the good and heroic servant of a deity before "[[FallenHero falling from grace]]". Eclipse is an OmnicidalManiac associated with {{Hellfire}} who plays as TheCorrupter to everyone she once called an ally to further her nihilistic agenda. She opposes and tries to tempt her MessianicArchetype past self into following her plans and just like {{Satan}}, her story is one of revenge. This is one of the ways she's become NotSoDifferent from Discord, since ''he'' is also a Satanic archetype for Equestria.]]
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* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler:A devil (which is what fallen Alicorns are called) who used to be the good and heroic servant of a deity before "[[FallenHero falling from grace]]". Eclipse is an OmnicidalManiac associated with {{Hellfire}} who plays as TheCorrupter to everyone she once called an ally to further her nihilistic agenda. She opposes and tries to tempt her MessianicArchetype past self into following her plans and just like {{Satan}}, her story is one of revenge. This is one of the ways she's become NotSoDifferent no different from Discord, since ''he'' is also a Satanic archetype for Equestria.]]
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** [[spoiler:Her ''biggest'' starts when Discord [[BackupFromOtherworld prank-calls her from the afterlife]] and tells her Havoc is going to ''prevent'' her from overwriting Fluttercruel's Draconequusification, meaning Discord ''succeeded'' in getting a loop where she survives. Eclipse proceeds to blow her top and tell him she's going to make Mad Tiara and Screwball suffer ''more'' for it. It worsens as she realizes [[OhCrap she let herself be distracted from Twilight's real plan]], but then her parents (their growth apparently still supercharged) hold her in place and she [[NotSoDifferent realizes they're doing so for the same reason Shady and Fluttershy restrained their children]]. She goes ''catatonic'' in response. After a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rota Fortuna, she's reduced to a defeated, scared little Alicorn begging to escape the same fate she forced on millions and gazillions of Twilights across countless time loops.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Her response to her parents holding her in place for the CombinationAttack of six sets of Elements of Harmony, mirroring Discord's original defeat and Odyne!Cruelty's, and making her realize she really isn't NotSoDifferent from Discord. She goes catatonic and doesn't even respond as her CoDragons beg her to help them fight back. It continues as she's confronted by Rota Fortuna and given a BreakingLecture that drives the point in even further that she's done nothing but become a worse version of Discord. By the time its over she's left a broken shadow of herself begging Twilight to finally SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong for good far too late for it to be possible.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Her response to her parents holding her in place for the CombinationAttack of six sets of Elements of Harmony, mirroring Discord's original defeat and Odyne!Cruelty's, and making her realize she really isn't NotSoDifferent from Discord. She goes catatonic and doesn't even respond as her CoDragons beg her to help them fight back. It continues as she's confronted by Rota Fortuna and given a BreakingLecture that drives the point in even further that she's done nothing but become a worse version of Discord. By the time its over she's left a broken shadow of herself begging Twilight to finally SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong for good far too late for it to be possible.]]
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** [[spoiler:Her ''biggest'' starts when Discord [[BackupFromOtherworld prank-calls her from the afterlife]] and tells her Havoc is going to ''prevent'' her from overwriting Fluttercruel's Draconequusification, meaning Discord ''succeeded'' in getting a loop where she survives. Eclipse proceeds to blow her top and tell him she's going to make Mad Tiara and Screwball suffer ''more'' for it. It worsens as she realizes [[OhCrap she let herself be distracted from Twilight's real plan]], but then her parents (their growth apparently still supercharged) hold her in place and she [[NotSoDifferent [[NotSoDifferentRemark realizes they're doing so for the same reason Shady and Fluttershy restrained their children]]. She goes ''catatonic'' in response. After a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rota Fortuna, she's reduced to a defeated, scared little Alicorn begging to escape the same fate she forced on millions and gazillions of Twilights across countless time loops.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Her response to her parents holding her in place for the CombinationAttack of six sets of Elements of Harmony, mirroring Discord's original defeat and Odyne!Cruelty's, and making her realize she really isn'tNotSoDifferent any different from Discord. She goes catatonic and doesn't even respond as her CoDragons beg her to help them fight back. It continues as she's confronted by Rota Fortuna and given a BreakingLecture that drives the point in even further that she's done nothing but become a worse version of Discord. By the time its over she's left a broken shadow of herself begging Twilight to finally SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong for good far too late for it to be possible.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Her response to her parents holding her in place for the CombinationAttack of six sets of Elements of Harmony, mirroring Discord's original defeat and Odyne!Cruelty's, and making her realize she really isn't
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:It's pointed out that by the end, Eclipse has simply become a [[NotSoDifferent worse version of Discord himself]] and was the only reason he even ''did'' the things she hated him for anymore.]]
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:It's pointed out that by the end, Eclipse has simply become a [[NotSoDifferent worse version of Discord himself]] himself and was the only reason he even ''did'' the things she hated him for anymore.]]
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** Nightmare Mirror has one when her plan to convert Main!Applebloom into a Nightmare is about to succeed, realizing by doing so [[NotSoDifferent she's become no better than Nightmare Eclipse.]] It's enough for her to instantly come out of hiding and tell Applebloom to stop.
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** Nightmare Mirror has one when her plan to convert Main!Applebloom into a Nightmare is about to succeed, realizing by doing so [[NotSoDifferent [[NotSoDifferentRemark she's become no better than Nightmare Eclipse.]] It's enough for her to instantly come out of hiding and tell Applebloom to stop.
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* NotSoDifferent: Nightmare Mirror attempts to turn Main!Applebloom into a Nightmare with a piece of the Truth (in addition to the fact it'd be helpful fighting the Rumors). When it's on the verge of succeeding, she sees her reflection on one of her wings change from hers to Nightmare Eclipse's. She realizes that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she's become no better than Eclipse herself and instantly reveals herself to try and stop it.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: She returns to Equestria, only to be usurped by the Sirens and turned into their minion, then discovers her entire motivation had been AllForNothing, as Celestia missed her and still loved her. She then discovers that in the few years she'd been gone, a thousand years have passed and even if she ''hadn't'' accidentally released the Sirens, she would've been outmatched by Discord and Nightmare Eclipse, and Twilight was now far more experienced than her. Worst of all, she realizes she was NotSoDifferent from Nightmare Eclipse, which was exactly what Celestia had feared she'd turn into. All of them thoroughly crushes her ego.
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* BreakTheHaughty: She returns to Equestria, only to be usurped by the Sirens and turned into their minion, then discovers her entire motivation had been AllForNothing, as Celestia missed her and still loved her. She then discovers that in the few years she'd been gone, a thousand years have passed and even if she ''hadn't'' accidentally released the Sirens, she would've been outmatched by Discord and Nightmare Eclipse, and Twilight was now far more experienced than her. Worst of all, she realizes she was NotSoDifferent no different from Nightmare Eclipse, which was exactly what Celestia had feared she'd turn into. All of them thoroughly crushes her ego.
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* NotSoDifferent: She's horrified to discover far she's this to Nightmare Eclipse.
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* LogicalWeakness:
** [[spoiler:She's memorized the timeline and more or less knows every possible outcome...until Rancor and the Benevolent Interloper, two outside elements, enter the picture and completely derail her plan.]]
** [[spoiler:As a Nightmare, her entire existence is based on a negative version of what she embodies and what they corrupted their Elements of Harmony into. This means she and her Gallary of Nightmares ''can't'' beat the Sirens ''period.'']]
** [[spoiler:She's memorized the timeline and more or less knows every possible outcome...until Rancor and the Benevolent Interloper, two outside elements, enter the picture and completely derail her plan.]]
** [[spoiler:As a Nightmare, her entire existence is based on a negative version of what she embodies and what they corrupted their Elements of Harmony into. This means she and her Gallary of Nightmares ''can't'' beat the Sirens ''period.'']]
* ResetButton: [[spoiler:She keeps resetting Dark World in a loop to punish Discord and can do a short term version to turn back time and reverse what just happened.]]
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* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the fact she exists simultaneously with Twilight (allowing her to basically ENFORCE a StableTimeLoop ending with her becoming Nightmare Purgatory and then Paradox) basically is one of these, violating the laws of cause and effect just by existing. It's implied that this becomes a major reason why Eclipse!Rainbow Dash was ascended to Concepthood and given the power to influence/break time cycles]].
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* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the fact she exists simultaneously with Twilight (allowing her to basically ENFORCE a StableTimeLoop ending with her becoming Nightmare Purgatory and then Paradox) basically is one of these, violating the laws of cause and effect just by existing. It's implied that this becomes a major reason why Eclipse!Rainbow Dash was ascended to Concepthood and given the power to influence/break time cycles]].cycles. It also bites her in the flank, as it means, due to being Eclipse Prime, when the original loses, she tied her existence to every other version of herself, and thus there no exists no Nightmare Eclipse who wins.]].
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* UniquenessValue: [[spoiler:She believes only one 'real' version of a being can exist period and all other ones don't matter.]]
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* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler:She may have created the GroundhogDayLoop for the purpose of torturing Discord, but she doesn't realize she's trapped herself in it too, because no amount of suffering she forces him to endure will ever be enough for her.]]
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* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler:She may have created the GroundhogDayLoop for the purpose of torturing Discord, but she doesn't realize she's trapped herself in it too, because no amount of suffering she forces him to endure swallow will ever be enough for her.]]]]
-->'''Discord:''' [[spoiler:...you're trapped like me. You're never going to be satisfied. No matter how many times you put me through the meat grinder. It's never going to keep a smile on your face for more than a nanosecond. You're just like me.]]
-->'''Discord:''' [[spoiler:...you're trapped like me. You're never going to be satisfied. No matter how many times you put me through the meat grinder. It's never going to keep a smile on your face for more than a nanosecond. You're just like me.]]
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* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler:She may have created the GroundhogDayLoop for the purpose of torturing Discord, but she doesn't realize she's trapped herself in it too, because no amount of suffering she forces him to endure will ever be enough for her.]]
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Their VillainousFriendship allows them to supercharge the Elements of Harmony to create a WorldWreckingWave, which they use at the end of every Dark World timeline to [[KillEmAll "delete all the NPCs"]] and force a reset back to the beginning. Normally, the Elements cannot be used without the willingness of [[GodOfGood Fauna Luster]], as they are derived from Her power (and She, who loves every being in creation, would ''never'' allow Herself to be used in such a way), but Paradox and her friends combined the Elements with their own raw dark magic and ThePowerOfHate to pervert them into a tool of destruction instead of restoration.
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Their VillainousFriendship allows them to supercharge the Elements of Harmony to create a WorldWreckingWave, which they use at the end of every Dark World timeline to [[KillEmAll "delete all the NPCs"]] and force a reset back to the beginning. Normally, the Elements cannot be used without the willingness of [[GodOfGood Fauna Luster]], as they are derived from Her power (and She, who loves every being in creation, would ''never'' allow Herself to be used in such a way), but Paradox and her friends combined the Elements with their own raw dark magic and ThePowerOfHate to pervert them into a tool of destruction instead of restoration. This blows up in their face in the ''Sirens vs Nightmares'' Gaiden story, since it means the Sirens can consume their attack.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Mirror sacrificed herself to save the main universe Applejack from one of Nyarlathotrot's attacks, and to fuse with her to transform her into Veritas so she could defeat him.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Apparently a group of Nightmares is specifically called a Gallary.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Apparently a group of Nightmares is specifically called a Gallary.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Mirror sacrificed herself to save the main universe Applejack from one of Nyarlathotrot's attacks, and to fuse with her to transform her into Veritas so she could defeat him.
him. While she ''is'' separated and reincarnated, the original is gone for good.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Apparently a group of Nightmares is specifically called aGallary.Galley.
* KillingYourAlternateSelf: They've done this so many times they've lost count. It's estimated to be in the millions.
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* KillingYourAlternateSelf: They've done this so many times they've lost count. It's estimated to be in the millions.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:She was put through the same situation as Twilight presently is, and has every right to be furious at Discord. However, it's pointed out what she did to punish him made her ''worse'' than he ever was, and it's been pointed out she ''could'' have defeated him and saved the future without it but didn't.]]
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* BlasphemousBoast: She boasts that she's given Princess Celestia a teacher's greatest joy by surpassing her. [[spoiler:Forgetting that Celestia is among those in Dark World she's erased, brought back, and erased again a few zillion times.]]
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* BlasphemousBoast: She boasts that she's given Princess Celestia a teacher's greatest joy by surpassing her. [[spoiler:Forgetting or ignoring that Celestia is among those in Dark World she's erased, brought back, and erased again a few zillion times.]]
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* BlasphemousBoast: She boasts that she's given Princess Celestia a teacher's greatest joy by surpassing her. [[spoiler:Forgetting that Celestia is among those in Dark World she's erased, brought back, and erased again a few zillion times.]]
