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** To be fair, getting [[spoiler: shot by a bolt action 7,62x51mm rifle against a pistol rated vest with steel inserts doesn't really tend to end well. When the impact is square over the heart...]]
** PACT troopers wear heavy combined materials armor of ceramic composite traumaplates and soft armor, making them fairly difficult to take down.

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** To be fair, getting Before the [[spoiler: assault on the Monte Cheval, Hardy]] puts on a good quality bulletproof vest. [[spoiler: He then gets shot through the chestplate by a sniper using a bolt action 7,62x51mm rifle against a pistol rated vest with steel inserts doesn't really tend to end well. When the impact is square over the heart...chambered in 7,62x51mm.]]
** PACT troopers wear heavy combined materials armor of ceramic composite traumaplates and soft armor, making them fairly difficult to take down.armor. [[spoiler: It does justify the use of a BulletproofHumanShield, but it doesn't stop the Talent from killing several of them.]]
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* 247Armor: Swift wears her bulletproof vest everywhere, though she does take it off for showers and the like. Later on, though...

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* 247Armor: TwentyFourHourArmor: Swift wears her bulletproof vest everywhere, though she does take it off for showers and the like. Later on, though...
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* 24/7Armor: Swift wears her bulletproof vest everywhere, though she does take it off for showers and the like. Later on, though...

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* 24/7Armor: 247Armor: Swift wears her bulletproof vest everywhere, though she does take it off for showers and the like. Later on, though...

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** To be fair, getting [[spoiler: shot by a sniper with a centerfire rifle caliber of some kind against a police duty vest is probably a little above the armor's paygrade.]]

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** To be fair, getting [[spoiler: shot by a sniper with a centerfire bolt action 7,62x51mm rifle caliber of some kind against a police duty pistol rated vest is probably a little above with steel inserts doesn't really tend to end well. When the armor's paygrade.impact is square over the heart...]]


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** A few times in the story, characters will be described or note how their armor at some point took a bullet or has a new bit of damage on it.

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*24/7Armor: Swift wears her bulletproof vest everywhere, though she does take it off for showers and the like. Later on, though...



** [[spoiler:It turns out he's bisexual instead.]]



** [[spoiler: Scarlet suffers these too, with the loss of his two rear legs.]]



** Certain forms of necromancy involve cutting off the magic channeling limb of a live victim: a leg for earth ponies, a wing for pegasi, and the horn for unicorns.

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** Certain forms of necromancy involve [[spoiler: cutting off the magic channeling limb of a live victim: a leg for earth ponies, a wing for pegasi, and the horn for unicorns.]]



* ArmorIsUseless: Zigzagged in the story frequently.
** To be fair, getting [[spoiler: shot by a sniper with a centerfire rifle caliber of some kind against a police duty vest is probably a little above the armor's paygrade.]]
** PACT troopers wear heavy combined materials armor of ceramic composite traumaplates and soft armor, making them fairly difficult to take down.
** [[spoiler: Hardy picks up a magic resistant armor later on, which actually does help in several situations.]]



** [[spoiler: The detective absolutely uses the hell out of this card, faking his death several times.]]



* BerserkButton: Taxi goes crazy when you mention her (lack of) cutie mark. Swift flips out at the mere ''mention'' of Essies; the reason is currently unknown.

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* BerserkButton: Taxi goes crazy when you mention her (lack of) cutie mark. Swift flips out at the mere ''mention'' of Essies; the reason is currently unknown.Sentient Constructs, or Essies.
** [[spoiler: Y'know that bit about Carnivorism? Yeah, that's part of why.]]



* CastFullOfGay: Heterosexuality is a suggestion and few of the characters care much for it apparently.
** Hardy [[spoiler:starts off as self professed straight, brushing off Scarlet a few times, but eventually grows to enjoy and even rely on his company. Lily Blue also enters the picture. Scarlet may be more of a case of]] IfItsYouItsOkay though. That and also Hardy does end up [[spoiler:confessing to Juniper Shores in Epilogue 3.]]
** Look, when "interfacing" [[spoiler:is described as some level of BodyHorror tier Tourniquet sticking cables in every orifice Swift has, consensually, in order to boost performance, and the two of them come out of a pod hugged together... Mags says it best.]]
--> “Egg pony, I thought all adults knew this stuff? Daddy used to call it ‘humping’, and he and Miss Esmerelda spent hours when I wasn’t allowed in the—”
** Taxi has apparently had many partners offscreen. Onscreen includes [[spoiler:a minotaur Vivarium guard and a Changeling Queen.]]



* CycleOfRevenge: Griffin culture was based on this, so badly that more griffins died during brief times of peace than during wars with foreign nations. Eventually, to prevent them from going extinct, the griffin ruler instituted a system for symbolically representing blood debts and trading these debts. By the present day, the griffins have built a complex economy on these blood debts.

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* CycleOfRevenge: Griffin culture was based on this, so badly that more griffins died during brief times of peace than during wars with foreign nations. Eventually, to prevent them from going extinct, the griffin ruler instituted a system for symbolically representing blood debts and trading these debts. By the present day, the griffins have built a complex economy on these blood debts.debts, including at least one near disaster such as the "Subprime Revenge Collapse".


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* Determinator: Hardy turns out to be one. [[spoiler: Death, deranged coroners, princesses, and burgeoning PTSD doesn't stop him. Mostly.]]


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** Hardy suffers several. [[spoiler: Most of them are later in the story, but it becomes clear that he is absolutely reaching his limit, and his coping mechanisms are either unavailable or insufficient. Breakdowns and crying result.]]


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** The main cast's reaction when they discover [[spoiler: that the city of Detrot is a massive wish-granting machine constructed by someone over centuries of planning.]]


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** Hardy fills this out and gets extra credit. [[spoiler: At one point late in the series, as the FinalBattle nears, Swift notes that Hard Boiled has nearly every sign of post traumatic stress disorder.]]
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* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Helm of Nightmare Moon]] is regarded as one. Everyone who was suspected of using it has gone mad. Even Don Tome--who has decades of experience safeguarding dangerous artifacts--is afraid of it.

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* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Helm of Nightmare Moon]] is regarded as one. Everyone who was suspected of using it has gone mad. Even Don Tome--who Tome -- who has decades of experience safeguarding dangerous artifacts--is afraid of it.



* BigCreepyCrawlies: Queenie, the Ladybug "diplomat".

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* %%* BigCreepyCrawlies: Queenie, the Ladybug "diplomat".

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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS


* BalefulPolymorph: Apparently eating poison joke can permanently turn a pony into a giant-sized hamster, or at least if they study rodent-lifecyles. Given the nature of poison joke, the permanent transformation may actually vary.
** One of the weapon matrixes on a [[spoiler:Crusades-era War Scooter]] is named for this trope. [[spoiler:It can temporarily turn a dragon into a sheep]].


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** Apparently eating poison joke can permanently turn a pony into a giant-sized hamster, or at least if they study rodent-lifecyles. Given the nature of poison joke, the permanent transformation may actually vary.
** One of the weapon matrixes on a [[spoiler:Crusades-era War Scooter]] is capable of [[spoiler:temporarily turning a dragon into a sheep]].
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry. Also, I Ate What is not a character trope.


* IAteWhat: Swift's introduction to eating meat.

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