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* BatOutOfHell: The Ropen, a giant bat-like monster in Everfree Forest that Trixie has to fend off to protect the Cutie Mark Crusaders as [[spoiler:its blind, meaning Fluttershy's [[DeathGlare Stare]] has no affect.]]
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** Ditzy, when talking about [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup how she accidentally wrecked city hall with her flank]], says that isn't the only time it's happened, and starts to recount [[DoctorWhoovesAndAssistant another time it's happened]] until she remembers the Doctor told her not to tell anyone about it.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Trixie very nearly crosses it due to Checker's manipulations. Fortunately, she is pulled back by the efforts of her friends, [[spoiler: and pulls herself out completely when she faces off with Checker in her dream.]]
** Checker's manipulations and efforts at sabotage qualify as a more mundane but still effective method of MindRape. Notably, her coat starts graying, implying that Checker is managing to ''Discord her.''
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Trixie gives one in the form of [[LetMeTellYouAStory a story]] [[spoiler: when confronting her old personality (actually a disguised Checker) in a dream]] that ends with her declaring that she will nevergo back to the way she was before.
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* TheAtoner: Trixie becomes determined to make up to Ponyville for the Ursa incident.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Checker's plans are ultimately derailed by, of all things, [[spoiler: Featherweight's photography hobby, which first clues the CMC and Mane Cast into the fact that someone is sabotaging Trixie's efforts at making up for the Ursa.]]
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: Checker's reaction when Trixie manages to counter her DreamWeaver abilities and beat her.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When she's prevented from ruining Trixie's charity show, Checker starts cracking. Then, when Trixie finally fights back against her mind games (albeit in her dream without realizing it's Checker) and successfully beats her, Checker ends up developing fullblown Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome and completely snapping.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When she's prevented from ruining Trixie's charity show, Checker starts cracking. Then, when Trixie finally fights back against her mind games (albeit in her dream without realizing it's Checker) and successfully beats her, Checker ends up developing fullblown Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome and completely snapping.snaps.]]
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* CutSong: Checker Monarch was meant to have a song in chapter 9, but it was cut for time.
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* [[ActionGirl Action Mare]]: Turns out, Rarity knows how to fight [[spoiler: unfortunately for the Diamond Dogs.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Checker Monarch firmly believes this.
** Trixie again when she realizes that the pony playing Tirek in her play is [[spoiler: ''Princess Luna'']].
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* ManipulativeBitch: Checker Monarch. Manipulation is ''[[UpToEleven her Cutie Mark!]]''Mark!]]'' [[spoiler: Which is why Trixie eventually beating her mind games causes her to develop [[VillainousBreakdown Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome]].]]
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* NoodleImplements: Pinkie's planned attempt at cheering Trixie up apparently involved her wearing a large gift package around her body, swim fins, and big sunglasses, and carrying a lot of balloons.
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** [[spoiler: Then it's Checker's turn when, during her second dream attack, Trixie fights back and manages to defeat her.]]
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** She tries again during Trixie's charity play, but is prevented by Twilight.
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** The charity play Trixie puts on with help from her friends [[spoiler: and Princess Luna]] is "Rescue at Midnight Castle", the original G1 ''MyLittlePony'' special.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When she's prevented from ruining Trixie's charity show, Checker starts cracking. Then, when Trixie finally fights back against her mind games (albeit in her dream without realizing it's Checker) and successfully beats her, Checker ends up developing fullblown Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome and completely snapping.]]
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** How Discord broke Twilight and Trixie during his reign could count, as unlike the show Twilight been traumatized by the event and has suffered horrible nightmares about it for a good while afterwards, and Trixie nearly breaks down crying recounting what he did to her.
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** How Discord broke Twilight and Trixie during his reign could count, is depicted this way, as unlike the show Twilight been traumatized by the event and has suffered horrible nightmares about it for a good while afterwards, and Trixie nearly breaks down crying recounting what he did to her.
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** How Discord broke Twilight and Trixie during his reign could count, as unlike the show Twilight been traumatized by the event and has suffered horrible nightmares about it for a good while afterwards, and Trixie nearly breaks down crying recounting what he did to her.
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* EvilIsPetty: Checker, oh so much.
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* EvilIsPetty: Checker, oh so much. It doesn't help that she outright admits to viewing the entire world as her {{Unwitting Pawn}}s.
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** Trixie has yet another one when [[spoiler: Checker infiltrates her dreams.]]
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* PepTalkSong: Pinkie Pie's song, "Things Are Going To Get Better", in chapter 8. Was written in an attempt to emulate Pinkie's singing style in the show.
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** She gets a short reprise in chapter 8.
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* FreudianExcuse: Trixie is implied to have one involving her family.
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* FreudianExcuse: Trixie is implied to have one involving her family. [[spoiler:And about half of it was [[BigBad Checker's]] fault.]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Checker Monarch, who pretty much says her motivations for harming Trixie is jealousy of having the spotlight divided between them. Of course, this is mainly because Checker believes ItsAllAboutMe.]]
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** Lucid Dreaming is also a plot point, as it's how Trixie helps Twilight overcome her nightmares about Discord and Trixie commonly uses it herself. [[spoiler:Checker's words and actions imply she's using Lucid Dreaming to obtain this affect in addition to her dream infiltration spell. She only manages to successfully manipulate Trixie in her dreams by crafting a dream world based off her detailed observations of reality so Trixie can't find AGlitchInTheMatrix to realize its a dream.]]
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** Lucid Dreaming is also a plot point, as it's how Trixie helps Twilight overcome her nightmares about Discord and Trixie commonly uses it herself. [[spoiler:Checker's words and actions imply she's using Lucid Dreaming to obtain this affect in addition to her dream infiltration spell. She only manages to successfully manipulate Trixie in her dreams by crafting a dream world based off her detailed observations of reality so Trixie can't find AGlitchInTheMatrix to realize its a dream.]]
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** [[spoiler: There's a more subtle example later when she infiltrates Trixie's dreams and {{Hannibal Lecture}}s her about how the town will never accept her. Trixie is left so traumatized that the next day she's barely able to bring herself to go on stage for her public apology.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: Twilight has yet to come across a situation she doesn't have a book for.
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* DreamWeaver: Checker Monarch is capable of doing this. See MindRape.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Trixie begins the fic like this, having lost everything she owned as well as having had ''something'' truamatic happen to her since then. [[spoiler: Specifically, having Checker (supposedly speaking on behalf of their father) disowning Trixie and kicking them out of the house.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: Trixie begins the fic like this, having lost everything she owned as well as having had ''something'' truamatic happen to her since then. [[spoiler: Specifically, having Checker (supposedly speaking on behalf of their father) disowning Trixie and kicking them her out of the house.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Trixie's father appears to have been of the emotional variety [[spoiler: though Checker may have been making it seem worse than it was.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: Trixie begins the fic like this, having lost everything she owned as well as having had ''something'' truamatic happen to her since then. [[spoiler: Specifically, having Checker (supposedly speaking on behalf of their father) disowning Trixie and kicking them out of the house.]]
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* ProducePelting: A disguised Checker does this to Trixie during her attempted public apology to Ponyville.
* PunchClockVillain: Helping Hoof, Checker's butler, only helps her with her schemes because he works for her. [[spoiler: And he seems perfectly willing to keep information from her.]]
* PunchClockVillain: Helping Hoof, Checker's butler, only helps her with her schemes because he works for her. [[spoiler: And he seems perfectly willing to keep information from her.]]
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** Someone mentioning the Smartypants incident around Trixie and Twilight, only for the latter to shut them up.
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* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Vile Villain Saccharine Fan Fic]]: This was {{Word Of God}}'s intention with [[BigBad Checker Monarch]], to keep with the show's tradition of having disproportionately dark major villains.
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* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Vile Villain Saccharine Fan Fic]]: This Checker Monarch. She was {{Word Of God}}'s based off real life {{Sociopath}}s but in a fan fic written with the intention with [[BigBad Checker Monarch]], of maintaining OriginalFlavor. The author did this intentionally due to keep with the show's tradition habit of having major villains be disproportionately dark major villains. dark.
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** She has another one, this one played for drama, when she merely sees Checker Monarch's name written down on the tag of an article of clothing, causing her to [[DeerInTheHeadlights freeze up in]] [[HeroicBSOD catatonic terror]].
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* FatalFlaw: Checker Monarch's [[EvilCannotComprehendGood inability to anticipate empathy]]. [[spoiler:Her otherwise good plan to have Trixie run out of town and rob her of what little self-confidence she has left hinged on Rainbow Dash kicking her out...then Dash saw her in a CornerOfAngst.]]
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* FatalFlaw: Checker Monarch's [[EvilCannotComprehendGood inability to anticipate empathy]]. [[spoiler:Her otherwise good plan to have Trixie run out of town and rob her of what little self-confidence she has left hinged on Rainbow Dash kicking her out...then Dash saw her in a CornerOfAngst.CornerOfWoe.]]
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Kendell2 also made a short fic set in the same universe called [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8146409/1/Perfect_Companions Perfect Companions]] which deals with how the Mane Cast got their pets.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Checker, being TheSociopath, has this, but it's also clear that [[EvilCannotComprehendGood it also blinds her to certain flaws in her plans.]]
** Trixie's words imply she ''forced'' herself to have this due to her childhood [[spoiler:though mainly Checker's lies]], but is regaining her sense of empathy now that she sees it was stupid to suppress it in the first place.
--> '''Trixie''': Of all the days for me to start actually caring about somepony else's well being…
** Trixie's words imply she ''forced'' herself to have this due to her childhood [[spoiler:though mainly Checker's lies]], but is regaining her sense of empathy now that she sees it was stupid to suppress it in the first place.
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* FatalFlaw: Checker Monarch's [[EvilCannotComprehendGood inability to anticipate empathy]]. [[spoiler:Her otherwise good plan to have Trixie run out of town and rob her of what little self-confidence she has left hinged on Rainbow Dash kicking her out...then Dash saw her in a CornerOfAngst.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Essentially why Checker Monarch decided to start picking on Trixie again.
* ForTheEvulz: Essentially why Checker Monarch decided to start picking on Trixie again.
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* MindRape: [[spoiler:Checker Monarch subjects Rainbow Dash to this via a dream infiltration spell, giving her horrible nightmares involving Trixie to turn her against her. And it ''almost'' works. This act [[EvenEvilHasStandards even horrifies the Diamond Dogs.]]]]
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* SoreLoser: Checker Monarch, [[spoiler: and she has been since she and Trixie were kids.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Trixie's father appears to have been of the emotional variety [[spoiler: though Checker may have been making it seem worse than it was.]]
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Trixie forms one with the Cutie Mark Crusaders after she saves them from a Ropen in the Everfree Forest (though Sweetie Belle already liked her before then).
