History Fanfic / Article2

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Shane, a handgun is not a headscratcher. Especially not when it's loaded. Both Shane and Muppetz are Marines and therefore drilled in gun safety, but [[NotAfraidToDie Shane's lost most of his sense of self-preservation come this point]].

* TitleByNumber: Article '''2'''.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Shane and Luna quickly get this relationship, mutually engaging in SnarkToSnarkCombat but have some of the most heatwarming scenes in the story when they do get along. Shane even states he would go to war for her.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Shane and Shining Armor. It probably didn't help that Shane held a gun to Shining Armor to stop him "attacking" (i.e tickling) Twilight.

* TitleByNumber

* SitcomArchNemesis: Shane and Shining Armor.

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Humanity's ubiquitous distrust in others and aggressive manners are appalling to the more amiable ponies.

%% BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Attempted by Shane in the first chapter. Luna manages to stop him.

%% BlackComedy: Shane's sense of humor, [[HairTriggerTemper when it shows]], is grim even by human standards.

%% DeadpanSnarker: Rarity shows shades of this, and both the princesses are openly so, especially Luna. None of them trumps Major Doran, though, who snarks ''all the time'', and very frequently in a hostile manner.

%% SemperFi: Shane is a Marine.

%% SitcomArchNemesis: Shane and Shining Armor.
%% SnarkToSnarkCombat: Shane and Luna anytime they talk to each other.

%% WhiteAndGreyMorality: Humanity's ubiquitous distrust in others and aggressive manners are appalling to the more amiable ponies.

%% GreyAndWhiteMorality: Humanity's ubiquitous distrust in others and aggressive manners are appalling to the more amiable ponies.

* SemiDivine: After the above happens Shane eventually asks Luna if she and her sister are goddesses. This trope is essentially her response.

%% SitcomArchNemesis: Shane and Shining Armor.

* SurvivorGuilt: Shane feels strongly that he shouldn't have been saved, and makes it quite obvious to everyone within earshot, multiple times.

* EveryScarHasAStory: Subverted. Major Doran is indeed the bearer of a number of these, but most of them have rather mundane explanations. See NoodleIncident below.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Attempted by Shane in the first chapter. Luna manages to stop him.

* BlackComedy: Shane's sense of humor, [[HairTriggerTemper when it shows]], is grim even by human standards.

* DeadpanSnarker: Rarity shows shades of this, and both the princesses are openly so, especially Luna. None of them trumps Major Doran, though, who snarks ''all the time'', and very frequently in a hostile manner.

* GreyAndWhiteMorality: Humanity's ubiquitous distrust in others and aggressive manners are appalling to the more amiable ponies.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Invoked. Major Doran says that his own government would not hesitate to take his death into account (going as far as "kindly suggesting" suicide) if it ever got word that he's being held captive by another sovereign country, due to the amount of classified information he has.

* HiddenDepths: Shane manages to surprise Celestia by not only recognizing that she has experienced a great deal of loss, but also expressing his heartfelt sympathies. She returns the favor later on.
** This also extends to the real reason why he listens to Twilight: [[spoiler: She sounds like his sister]].

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: {{Averted}} and {{Defied}} by the author. While Shane ''is'' a jerk at times, it's also made clear that he's just one person who is in a very stressful situation, so it's really not fair or right to use him as an example of all of humanity being evil. He also proves that for all of his bluster, he has some goodness deep inside him.

* InhumanableAlienRights: Inverted: Equestrian law was not written with humans in mind, and therefore it does not apply to them. Luna makes a joke that, legally, Shane would be considered more of a pet than a prisoner. [[DudeNotFunny He doesn't like it one bit]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Shane comes off as this to the ponies. In fact, the only person he goes beyond simply tolerating is Twilight, as Luna notices.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He wouldn't be one if he hadn't [[spoiler:[[LoopholeAbuse abused so many loopholes]] to let the scientist in charge of studying the bodies of his crew keep her research]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Shane is completely right to chew out Luna after her playing with a machine gun nearly kills him and the Mane Six.
** Likewise, he calls out Celestia's hypocrisy of preaching that he has to trust her when she doesn't trust him enough to have a fork during dinner.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[invoked]]Fluttershy to Shane, ever since she Stared him down[[note]]see MindControl above[[/note]]. It manifests as an intense dislike of her - the first time she visited his cell, at first he wanted her out of there, but relented to her staying in the corner, facing the wall and without speaking. Later, at dinner, he walked off and would have returned to his cell had Twilight not convinced him to stay. Her trying to convince him to give Fluttershy a chance didn't work very well: he refuses to look her in the eye, and stays as far away from her as he can[[note]]her approaching him, especially without warning, is enough to freak him out ''badly''[[/note]]. To say the least, the bearer of the Element of Kindness [[TearsOfRemorse doesn't take it well]].
** FridgeBrilliance: Highly trained individuals are all about being Determinators, being this the main reason they manage to get the skills that make them so capable, resist torture/interrogation or survive against the odds. Imagine being exposed to something that instantly overpowers your biggest asset.

* ScarsAreForever: Shane holds a surprising amount of those. Not all of them are related to his time in the military, though - see NoodleIncident above.

* SemperFi: Shane is a Marine.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shane turns out to be one after he finds out that he's the SoleSurvivor of the crash landing. Even captain Aegis, a character that doesn't have personal interactions with him, recognize it.

* SherlockScan: Shane manages to figure out quite a bit about Equestria just from looking around. That his cell door is steel means they know metallurgy. The rivets being identical indicates they have factories capable of producing standardized equipment. Leaving his sidearm in the room with him shows they're either insanely trusting or unfamiliar with firearms. This is also how Shane is able to figure out that [[spoiler:Cadance is pregnant]].
** Likewise the ponies pick up a lot about humans from casual remarks or simple explanations, such as him explaining the relative price of fake sugar versus real sugar.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Shane and Shining Armor.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Shane and Luna anytime they talk to each other.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Celestia's response to the fact that Luna's attempt to get Shane to allow treatment of his injuries via dangling a bottle of wine [[spoiler:worked]].

* CavemenVersusAstronautsDebate: Shane and Pinkie spend a ''lot'' of time arguing over whether peppermints are a type of candy or not, and even manage to drag the other Mane Six into it. Conclusion: [[spoiler:Peppermint is a plant, courtesy Twilight's memorization of its encyclopedia article.]]

* CavemenVersusAstronautsDebate: Shane and Pinkie spend a ''lot'' of time arguing over whether peppermints are a type of candy or not.

* HairTriggerTemper: It's almost impossible not to rile Shane up. Personal questions and attempts at coercion are definite detonators of his bad mood, and sometimes even innocuous comments are enough to set him off, as Twilight notes.

* SherlockScan: Shane manages to figure out quite a bit about Equestria just from looking around. That his cell door is steel means they know metallurgy. The rivets being identical indicates they have factories capable of producing standardized equipment. Leaving his sidearm in the room with him shows they're either insanely trusting or unfamiliar with firearms.