History FanFic / SombrasGame

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The Princesses are both female, and they're subjected to enough cartoon violence to put them on the level of TomAndJerry and the LooneyTunes.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being tricked and dangling over his certain doom, Sombra tries to appeal to Trixie, whom he'd previously[[KickTheDog abused before throwing her in the very torture machine]] he's hanging over. He promises to reward her by making giving her a position of power in his new empire if she helps him. Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Trixie has genuinely seen the error of her ways and his earlier treatment of her certainly didn't help. She delivers the final blow that sends him tumbling into the machine.]]

* TheBet: Sombra's titular game. He proposes to the Princesses that all they have to do is "catch him" and he'll leave. However, if the Princesses give up, [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame they must hand over all of Equestria and all the citizens within over to him]]. Naturally, he doesn't make it easy for them.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being tricked and dangling over his certain doom, Sombra tries to appeal to Trixie, who had earlier begged the princesses to torture her, and whom he'd subsequently [[KickTheDog abused before throwing her in the very torture machine]] he's hanging over. He promises to reward her by making giving her a position of power in his new empire if she helps him. Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Trixie has genuinely seen the error of her ways and his earlier treatment of her certainly didn't help. She delivers the final blow that sends him tumbling into the machine.]]

* TooKinkyToTorture: Trixie, to the point where the Princesses are unsettled by how long she's voluntarily stayed in their dungeon and offered herself up for punishment despite being pardoned a while ago. [[spoiler:Sombra giving her exactly what she asked for causes a change of heart, though.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being tricked and dangling over his certain doom, Sombra tries to appeal to Trixie, who had earlier begged the princesses to torture her, and whom he'd subsequently [[KickTheDog abused before throwing her in the very torture machine]] he's hanging over. He promises to reward her by torturing her some more if she helps him. Unfortunately for him, his earlier treatment of her made her reconsider her desire to be punished for her crimes, and she's the one that delivers the final blow that sends him tumbling into the machine.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: After being tricked and dangling over his certain doom, Sombra tries to appeal to Trixie, who had earlier begged the princesses to torture her, and whom he'd subsequently [[KickTheDog abused before throwing her in the very torture machine]] he's hanging over. He promises to reward her by torturing her some more if she helps him. Unfortunately for him, his earlier treatment of her made her reconsider her desire to be punished for her crimes, and she's the one that delivers the final blow that sends him tumbling into the machine.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Everypony. Sombra exacts his revenge on the princesses by doing to them what they did to him when he was their prisoner. The Princesses use Sombra's anger and lust for the crystal heart to lead him to his own doom. Trixie ends up getting the punishment she asked for, and then some.
* MaximumFunChamber: The Princess' vast, horrible torture machine in their secret garden. We're only given vague descriptions about it other than it is horrible, and some of the victims currently inside. It seems to efficiently subject whoever's inside to every possible permutation of cartoon violence, over and over again.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Trixie, to the point where the Princesses are unsettled by how long she's voluntarily stayed in their dungeon and offered herself up for punishment despite being pardoned a while ago. Sombra giving her exactly what she asked for causes a change of heart, though.

Shortly after learning that the Royal Sisters, Princesses Celestia and Luna, have a bit of a sadistic side to them, King Sombra (inexplicably) shows back up again to exact his revenge on them by giving them a taste of their own medecine. HilarityEnsues.

* ComedicSociopathy: The Princesses are never depicted as being anything less than the kind, benevolent rulers we expect them to be, even after we find out they have a secret dungeon in their palace and they've been abusing Equestria's official stance on criminal justice (reforming enemies into friends) for centuries, using it as an excuse to cartoonishly torture their enemies in painful and humiliating ways for their own amusement.
* GagHaircut: The exhaust from one of the sisters deflating like a balloon turns Sombra's fabulously coifed mane into an afro.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Trixie, to the point where the Princesses are unsettled by how long she's voluntarily stayed in their dungeon and offered herself up for punishment despite being pardoned a while ago. Sombra giving her exactly what she asked for causes a change of heart, though, and she leaves at the end.

* * Antimagic: Sombra hits the princesses with an anti-magic effect right before he confronts them. As a direct result, they're physically weaker and can't rely on their immense magical power to solve their problem.

-->''-followed by an anvil)''

** EyePop: Check.
** GravityIsAHarshMistress: Fitting, given the title. Also includes the lesser-seen slingshot variety

** ImpactSilhouette: Check.

** SquashedFlat: By laundry wringer, by anvil, by magic, by being sat on...

* ComedicSociopathy: The Princesses are never depicted as being anything less than the kind, benevolent rulers we expect them to be, even after we find out they have a secret dungeon in their palace and they've been abusing Equestria's stance on criminal justice (reforming enemies into friends), using it as an excuse to cartoonishly torture their enemies in painful and humiliating ways for their own amusement. And they've been doing this for centuries.

* BackFromTheDead: King Sombra. After being exploded at the climax of his two-parter in the show, he's back with nary an explanation.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The Princesses are both female, and they're subjected to enough cartoon violence to put them on the level of
TomAndJerry and the LooneyTunes.

* ComedicSociopathy: The Princesses are never depicted as being anything less than the kind, benevolent rulers we expect them to be, even after we find out they have a secret dungeon in their temple where they've been using Equestria's justice system of reforming enemies into friends as an excuse to cartoonishly torture their enemies in painful and humiliating ways for their own amusement. And they've been doing this for centuries.

* GagHair: The exhaust from one of the sisters deflating like a balloon turns Sombra's fabulously coifed mane into an afro.

** [[HumanKnot Alicorn Knot]]: Celestia gets pretzel'd and Luna gets wrung like a sponge.
** AnvilOnHead: Yep.

** BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Luna drinks an entire bottle.

* TheChewToy: Trixie invokes this. She finally found something to be notable for, even if it's to have the most murals of her being punished at the hands of the princesses.

* HairstyleMalfunction: The exhaust from one of the sisters deflating like a balloon turns Sombra's fabulously coifed mane into an afro.

** GravityIsAHarshMistress: Fitting, given the title.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The Princesses are both female, and they're subjected to enough cartoon violence to put them on the level of TomAndJerry and the LooneyTunes.

** [[HumanKnot Alicorn Knot]]: Celestia gets twisted into both a pretzel and a fashionable scarf.

** HarmlessFreezing: Luna gets stuck in an ice box.

** SquashedFlat: By laundry wringer, by anvil, and by being sat upon.

** [[HumanKnot Alicorn Knot]]: Celestia gets the short end of this stick.
** AnvilDrop: Yep.
** BalloonBelly: Yep.

** SquashedFlat: By laundry wringer, by anvil

* AmusingInjuries: The Princesses go through a lot, but there isn't a character in the story who doesn't go through at least one sound cartoon thrashing.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The Princesses are both female, and they get a cartoonish beatdown thorough enough to put TomAndJerry and the LooneyTunes to shame.

* AmusingInjuries
* BackFromTheDead
* TheChewToy
* ComedicSociopathy
* HoistByHisOwnPetard
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender

'''Luna''': But 'tis a foal's game. Surely, thou jest.
'''Sombra''': Nnnnnever...