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** The Mane Six, CMC, and Derpy (who Trixie befriended as well) show just how much they care about her by [[spoiler:braving a dangerous storm to save Trixie.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In chapter 11, Helping Hoof finally has enough of Checker's crap and helps expose her.]]
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** [[spoiler: Checker gets another one in chapter 11 when she realizes she's been OutGambitted.]]
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** Her part of "The World I Want To Be In" in chapter 11 also counts.
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* BigNO: "Tirek" at the end of Trixie's play, and Checker when [[spoiler: her plans are exposed]]. Pinkie lampshades it both times.
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** In the same chapter, Paraderpy, artist for the covers of the chapters, is mentioned as the artist for the large poster made for Checker's speech. Checker mentions he does good work, and [[AllAboutMe congratulates herself for being smart enough to hire the pony who hired him.]]
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** In the same chapter, Paraderpy, artist for the covers of the chapters, is mentioned as the artist for the large poster made for Checker's speech. Checker mentions he does good work, and [[AllAboutMe [[ItsAllAboutMe congratulates herself for being smart enough to hire the pony who hired him.]]
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* ILied: [[spoiler: Checker said she'd leave Trixie's friends alone if she agreed to go into exile. Naturally, Checker decides to go after them anyway.]]
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** The Diamond Dogs are shown to be working for Checker Monarch only for the eventual payday and fear of her. [[spoiler:At least, until Rarity offers to pay them gems regularly, as well as telling them she planned to build her mall over the quarry they've made their home.]]
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* ChekhovsArmory: Pretty much everything that happens around the middle of chapter 11 helps set up the EngineeredPublicConfession near the end.
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* ChekhovsArmory: Pretty much everything that happens around the middle of chapter 11 helps set up the EngineeredPublicConfession near the end. And many of those things where introduced previously in the story, mostly [[spoiler:during Trixie's charity play.]]
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* BatmanGambit: The below-mentioned EngineeredPublicConfession is built around Trixie knowing exactly how Checker will act.
* ChekhovsArmory: Pretty much everything that happens around the middle of chapter 11 helps set up the EngineeredPublicConfession near the end.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gun Stallion]]: Helping Hoof starts out as merely Checker's butler, but ends up playing an important role in the story.
* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gun Stallion]]: Helping Hoof starts out as merely Checker's butler, but ends up playing an important role in the story.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In chapter 11, Helping Hoof finally has enough of Checker's crap and helps expose her.]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted. The Mane Six and Trixie set up a scheme to get Checker to confess to her crimes in front of all of Ponyville, only for Checker to anticipate this and destroy their hidden microphones. But then Helping Hoof betrays her and plants another microphone on himself, helping the plan succeed.]]
** Diamond Tiara may be a bully -- and proud of it -- but even she is sickened when it's revealed that Checker [[spoiler: has been ruining her own sister's life.]]
* IronicEcho: "Checkmate."
* MamaBear: Do ''not'' harm Helena's grandchildren.
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* MookFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Both Helping Hoof and the Diamond Dogs both turn on Checker in chapter 11, for different reasons.]]
* MultiPartEpisode: "Checkmate", the finaltwo three chapters, which were based off of the actual two part episodes of the series proper (though some previous chapters were split in two parts due to text limits, including part one of "Checkmate").
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** Helping Hoof's section of the group song in chapter 11 basically boils down to this.
** [[spoiler: It's because of this that Rarity is able to bribe them into changing their loyalties near the end. Of course, the fact that she revealed that Checker was going to betray them anyway helped.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: When Checker's plans are exposed, her servants decide to abandon her. Unfortunately, Helena overheard them discussing their involvement, and decides not to let them get away with hurting Trixie.]]
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* 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.]]
* TheSociopath: Checker Monarch, who was modeled after one - and it shows.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Checker's initial 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.]]
** Her post-VillainousBreakdown plans are ruined by [[spoiler: Helping Hoof betraying her]], something [[DidntSeeThatComing she didn't think was possible]].
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** She gets ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' after her VillainousBreakdown.
** Her post-VillainousBreakdown plans are ruined by [[spoiler: Helping Hoof betraying her]], something [[DidntSeeThatComing she didn't think was possible]].
* TheSociopath: Checker Monarch, who was modeled after one
** She gets ''[[UpToEleven worse]]'' after her VillainousBreakdown.
** [[spoiler: Also her reaction to Helping Hoof betraying her and enabling her EngineeredPublicConfession.]]
** [[spoiler: And what little sanity she has left flies out the window following her EngineeredPublicConfession.]]
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* TheCameo: [[spoiler:In chapter 11, [[Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries Golden Tiara]] makes an appearance as Diamond Tiara's mother, the author even getting permission from Alexwarlorn to use her.]]
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** Helping Hoof's father forced him to act exactly the way he thought he should act, never letting him do what he wanted. As a result, [[spoiler:he never got his cutie mark.]] Because of this, he called him worthless and belittled him, driving him to work for Checker.
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* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Helping Hoof agreed to work for Checker in exchange for her helping him make his father proud by faking earning a job and Cutie Mark, but Checker won't let him leave; threatening to ruin him if he does so. He even calls it a 'deal with the draconequus'.]]
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* ShadowArchetype: Checker is this to Trixie, representing everything she was as the Great and Powerful Trixie taken to its logical extreme. [[spoiler:This is shown most directly when Checker assumes the form of the Great and Powerful Trixie in Trixie's dream. In the end, it's only by accepting she ''was'' really like that and that she's changed that she managed to defeat Checker and finally be happy with herself.]]
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* DeathGlare: Besides Fluttershy's Stare, Checker Monarch seems to have a near-constant one going, leaving everyone who makes eye contact with her unnerved at the least and terrified at most. In chapter 10, there is a Stare-Off between Checker and a [[BewareTheNiceOnes rather]] [[TranquilFury angry]] Fluttershy. [[spoiler:Checker loses, being left shuddering and filled with instinctual fear of the pegasus]].
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** Pinkie Pie doesn't make [[{{Cupcakes}} cupcakes]] where audiences can see anymore, and angrily mutters about wanting to sue someone for defamation of character.
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* CrazyPrepared: Twilight has yet to come across a situation she doesn't have a book for.
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* AGlitchInTheMatrix: The key to the Lucid Dreaming technique Trixie teaches Twilight is finding something in the dream that doesn't make sense and use that as proof that it's a dream, which gives you power over the dream.
* ChildhoodFriends: Turns out that Trixie and Helping Hoof (Checker's servant) were friends when they were foals... or they would have been, if Helping Hoof's father had allowed him to ''have'' any friends.
* CoolOldLady: Trixie's grandmother Helena, from what little we've seen of her.
* DarkSecret: Helping Hoof turns out to [[spoiler: still be a blank flank, having never managed to find his special talent.]]
* DramaticThunder: There just happens to be a thunderstorm going on when Checker comes into Sugarcube Corner to confront Trixie and introduce herself to the Mane Six.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Trixie's reaction when she realizes that Helping Hoof is aiding Checker in ruining her, albeit unwillingly.]]
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** 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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** Checker's manipulations and efforts at sabotage sabotaging Trixie qualify as a more mundane but still effective method of MindRape. Notably, her coat starts graying, implying that Checker is managing to ''Discord her.''
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Checker tells Trixie to either leave town, or she'll ruin all of her friends completely. Naturally, when Trixie chooses to leave, Checker decides to ruin the others anyway out of spite.]]
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:Rarity tells Trixie this to help her after [[BreakTheCutie Checker broke her with her mind games]].]]
