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** Rainbow Dash gets impatient waiting to start an aerial race and demands they get the show on the road. Turing Test's response? [[Film/BackToTheFuture "Where we are going, we do not need roads."]]

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** Rainbow Dash gets impatient waiting to start an aerial race and demands they get the show on the road. Turing Test's response? [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 "Where we are going, we do not need roads."]]

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* {{Robosexual}}: Turing becomes interested in having a romantic relationship. Due to her awkwardness at attracting a mate, at least at first, HilarityEnsues.
** She later does find a receptive partner in [[spoiler: Maud Pie.]]

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* {{Robosexual}}: Turing becomes interested in having a romantic relationship. Due to her awkwardness at attracting a mate, at least at first, HilarityEnsues.
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hilarity ensues. She later does find eventually finds a receptive partner in [[spoiler: Maud Pie.]]
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* PinocchioSyndrome: As Turing becomes more aware of her problems relating to organic ponies, she begins to wish she was more like them.

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[[caption-width-right:350:She'll befriend you. That's what she does. That's all she does!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:She'll [[caption-width-right:300:She'll befriend you. That's what she does. That's all she does!]]



* AxeCrazy: It quickly becomes clear that 002 is ''completely'' off her rocker.

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* AxeCrazy: AxCrazy: It quickly becomes clear that 002 is ''completely'' off her rocker.



* DeletedScene: The author has a few on his blog.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Averted. Vanderbull, Fancy Pants, and Twilight herself are technical aristocrats, but are still in the "good guy" camp.
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--->'''Twilight Sparkle''': [[spoiler: ''(breaks down hotel room door)'' HOUSEKEEPING!!]]

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--->'''Twilight -->'''Twilight Sparkle''': [[spoiler: ''(breaks down hotel room door)'' HOUSEKEEPING!!]]



--->'''Turing Test''': Starswirl the Bearded walks into a malt shop. The stallion minding the counter and the other patrons all run screaming from the malt shop because Starswirl the Bearded has been dead for a thousand years and it is normal to fear the undead.

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--->'''Turing -->'''Turing Test''': Starswirl the Bearded walks into a malt shop. The stallion minding the counter and the other patrons all run screaming from the malt shop because Starswirl the Bearded has been dead for a thousand years and it is normal to fear the undead.
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* GratuitousJapanese: Gadget and just about everypony is guilty of this in one ''non-canon'' chapter.

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* GratuitousJapanese: Gadget and just about everypony is guilty of this in one ''non-canon'' non-canon chapter.

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* TheEndOrIsIt: Though Grace and Glory are defeated, story illustrations implies that this isn't the last we'll see of them...

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* TheEndOrIsIt: Though Grace and Glory are defeated, story illustrations implies that this isn't the last we'll see of them... [[spoiler: Indeed, Grace awakens from her coma in the final chapter.]]



** The appropriately named character Gadget, a young pony with a knack for invention and [[a set of four mechanical arms to prove it.

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** The appropriately named character Gadget, a young pony with a knack for invention and [[a [[MultiArmedAndDangerous a set of four mechanical arms arms]] to prove it.



* HarmfulToMinors: PlayedForLaughs. In one chapter, Rainbow Dash says she's been taking Scootaloo to see R-rated movies. When asked if she at least got permission, Rainbow says yes. ...''Scootaloo's'' permission.

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* HarmfulToMinors: PlayedForLaughs. In one chapter, Rainbow Dash says she's been taking Scootaloo to see R-rated movies. When asked if she at least got permission, Rainbow says yes.she has. ...''Scootaloo's'' permission.


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** Grace and Glory.
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* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Played with, in that Turing Test [[spoiler: has parts taken from her dead twin brother, Unit 003S]].
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* TheUnFavorite: [[spoiler: Unit 002 has more than a little resentment about being relegated to menial tasks after all her work boiled down to building a better robot - Turing Test.]]

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* TheUnFavorite: [[spoiler: Unit 002 has more than a little resentment about being relegated to menial tasks after all her work boiled down to building a better robot - Turing Test.]]]] Leads to a one-sided SiblingRivalry.
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* TheUnFavorite: [[spoiler: Unit 002 has more than a little resentment about being relegated to menial tasks after all her work boiled down to building a better robot - Turing Test.]]
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** Unit 002 tends to show signs of this, most notably when she threatens to kill Spike.

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** [[spoiler: Unit 002 002]] tends to show signs of this, most notably when she threatens to kill Spike.
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* CranialProcessingUnit: Turing's brain is indeed in her head.


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* DroneDeployer: [[spoiler: Unit 002.]]


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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: More or less the point of Turing's character arc is her constantly becoming something more than the basic machine she once was, developing a personality over time.
** In fact, this may be the natural progression for all of Turing's [[spoiler: "siblings."]]


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* HeartDrive: [[spoiler: Turing has a portion of her artificial neural network, her primary memory module, removed. She reverts to acting completely robotic until she has it reinserted.]]


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* JobStealingRobot: This is a common fear for many characters, but it becomes especially relevant to Applejack when Turing Test comes to help on the farm and quickly seems to replace her at almost every task.


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* RoboFamily: Turing wishes for the other robots in her "series" to be her family members and refers them as such.


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* RobotNames: All the robots are named "Unit 00" followed by a number, as in Turing Test, aka Unit 003.
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* RobotsAreJustBetter: In addition to her mental abilities, Turing Test's physical abilities outclass just about every normal pony in Equestria.
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** The ponies of [[spoiler: TechQuestria. ]]

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** The ponies of [[spoiler: TechQuestria. Techquestria.]]
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* Robosexual: Turing becomes interested in having a romantic relationship. Due to her awkwardness at attracting a mate, at least at first, HilarityEnsues.

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* Robosexual: {{Robosexual}}: Turing becomes interested in having a romantic relationship. Due to her awkwardness at attracting a mate, at least at first, HilarityEnsues.
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* Robosexual: Turing becomes interested in having a romantic relationship. Due to her awkwardness at attracting a mate, at least at first, HilarityEnsues.
** She later does find a receptive partner in [[spoiler: Maud Pie.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Every villain except Grace, Glory, 002, and 004.

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* AffablyEvil: Every villain except Grace, Glory, 002, [[spoiler: Cobbler Mustang]] treats the protagonists to a lovely dinner. He's also a genuinely kind and 004.generous boss.
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** The ponies of [[spoiler: TechQuestria.]]

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** The ponies of [[spoiler: TechQuestria. ]]
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* ChristmasSpecial[=/=]YouMeanXmas: The story has a stand-alone special wherein Turing Test seeks a gift for Twilight Sparkle for Hearth's Warming Eve.
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** The ponies of [[spoiler: Techquestria, except for Cobbler. He just wants revenge.]]

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** The ponies of [[spoiler: Techquestria, except for Cobbler. He just wants revenge.TechQuestria.]]

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* ApocalypseCult: The (now defunct) Umbral Order wants to awaken an army of umbrum (shadow monsters) sleeping under the Crystal Empire.



* ReligionofEvil: The (now defunct) Umbral Order wants to awaken an army of umbrum (shadow monsters) sleeping under the Crystal Empire.
* {{Revenge}}: The real reason [[spoiler: Peach Cobbler wants to start his revolution: He wants to get back at Celestia, blaming her for the death of his daughter.]]

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* ReligionofEvil: The (now defunct) Umbral Order wants to awaken an army of umbrum (shadow monsters) sleeping under the Crystal Empire.
* {{Revenge}}: The real reason [[spoiler: Peach Cobbler Mustang wants to start his revolution: He wants to get back at Celestia, blaming her for the death of his daughter.]]
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* ReligionofEvil/ApocalypseCult: The (now defunct) Umbral Order wants to awaken an army of umbrum (shadow monsters) sleeping under the Crystal Empire.

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* ReligionofEvil/ApocalypseCult: ReligionofEvil: The (now defunct) Umbral Order wants to awaken an army of umbrum (shadow monsters) sleeping under the Crystal Empire.

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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Poor Georgia Peach...]]



* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Georgia Peach...]]


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*OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Cobbler Mustang is largely motivated by his grief upon losing his daughter, Georgia Peach.]]
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** [[spoiler: Unit 04 is an unstoppable, superpowered, nigh-invulnerable juggernaut Robopony. [[AnArmAndALeg This fight does not go]] [[OffWithHisHead well for Turing Test.]]]]

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** [[spoiler: Unit 04 004 is an unstoppable, superpowered, nigh-invulnerable juggernaut Robopony. [[AnArmAndALeg This fight does not go]] [[OffWithHisHead well for Turing Test.]]]]



* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Unit 04, sent by Turing's creators to retrieve her by any means necessary.]]

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* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Unit 04, 004, sent by Turing's creators to retrieve her by any means necessary.]]
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** [[spoiler: Averted with Unit 04, who is [[{{Understatement}} slightly neglectful towards the first law.]]]]

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** [[spoiler: Averted with Unit 04, Units 002 and 004, who is are [[{{Understatement}} slightly neglectful towards the first law.]]]]
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* AxeCrazy: It quickly becomes clear that 002 is ''completely'' off her rocker.
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* HarmfulToMinors: PlayedForLaughs. In one chapter, Rainbow Dash says she's been taking Scootaloo to see R-rated movies. When asked if she at least got permission, Rainbow says yes. ...''Scootaloo's'' permission.
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Georgia Peach...]]

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