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** That sort of endeavor ''is'' and everyday occurrence for the Crusaders.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Spike is a ''[[IdiotBall fire-breathing dragon]]''. The Timberwolves are made of wood and many animals are scared of fire. Even if the former aspect wouldn't work because they're not dry wood, the latter should have at least been considered.
** Not really. With firebreathing as measly as Spike's, he wouldn't have incinerated the timberwolves or even injured them, more likely he'd just set them on fire a bit. In which case one would have to ask oneself, what would be worse: A hungry timberwolf chasing you, or a hungry timberwolf chasing you while on fire?
*** Go back and watch the scene in Apple Family Reunion where Applejack uses Spike to light a long row of wood for heating her cauldrons. Spike bellows out an impressive jet of fire that instantly ignites the entire pile. Spike is more than a competent firebreather, especially considering his size. He just happens to purposefully limit the size of his blasts because he usually uses them to perform mundane tasks that don't require his full power. And even if this were not the case, the obvious reasoning that fire = bad for wood should have been addressed somehow, IE with the timberwolves shrugging off a puny blast that Spike fires off in desperation.
** Not really. With firebreathing as measly as Spike's, he wouldn't have incinerated the timberwolves or even injured them, more likely he'd just set them on fire a bit. In which case one would have to ask oneself, what would be worse: A hungry timberwolf chasing you, or a hungry timberwolf chasing you while on fire?
*** Go back and watch the scene in Apple Family Reunion where Applejack uses Spike to light a long row of wood for heating her cauldrons. Spike bellows out an impressive jet of fire that instantly ignites the entire pile. Spike is more than a competent firebreather, especially considering his size. He just happens to purposefully limit the size of his blasts because he usually uses them to perform mundane tasks that don't require his full power. And even if this were not the case, the obvious reasoning that fire = bad for wood should have been addressed somehow, IE with the timberwolves shrugging off a puny blast that Spike fires off in desperation.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Spike is a ''[[IdiotBall fire-breathing dragon]]''. The Timberwolves are made of wood and many animals are scared of fire. Even if the former aspect wouldn't work because they're not dry wood, the latter should have at least been considered.
** Not really. With firebreathing as measly as Spike's, he wouldn't have incinerated the timberwolves or even injured them, more likely he'd just set them on fire a bit. In which case one would have to ask oneself, what would be worse: A hungry timberwolf chasing you, or a hungry timberwolf chasing you while on fire?
*** Go back and watch the scene in Apple Family Reunion where Applejack uses Spike to light a long row of wood for heating her cauldrons. Spike bellows out an impressive jet of fire that instantly ignites the entire pile. Spike is more than a competent firebreather, especially considering his size. He just happens to purposefully limit the size of his blasts because he usually uses them to perform mundane tasks that don't require his full power. And even if this were not the case, the obvious reasoning that fire = bad for wood should have been addressed somehow, IE with the timberwolves shrugging off a puny blast that Spike fires off in desperation.considered. [[MST3KMantra Oh well.]]
** Not really. With firebreathing as measly as Spike's, he wouldn't have incinerated the timberwolves or even injured them, more likely he'd just set them on fire a bit. In which case one would have to ask oneself, what would be worse: A hungry timberwolf chasing you, or a hungry timberwolf chasing you while on fire?
*** Go back and watch the scene in Apple Family Reunion where Applejack uses Spike to light a long row of wood for heating her cauldrons. Spike bellows out an impressive jet of fire that instantly ignites the entire pile. Spike is more than a competent firebreather, especially considering his size. He just happens to purposefully limit the size of his blasts because he usually uses them to perform mundane tasks that don't require his full power. And even if this were not the case, the obvious reasoning that fire = bad for wood should have been addressed somehow, IE with the timberwolves shrugging off a puny blast that Spike fires off in desperation.
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* StealthPun: Knowing how easily the Timberwolves can be defeated, they're all bark and no bite.
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** Knowing how easily the Timberwolves can be defeated, they're all bark and nobite.bite.
** Spike stops the cart by holding the wheels. In other words, he pulled a handbrake.
** Knowing how easily the Timberwolves can be defeated, they're all bark and no
** Spike stops the cart by holding the wheels. In other words, he pulled a handbrake.
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* FandomNod: After Spike and Applejack strike up a deal to stop getting themselves into mortal peril, Applejack extends a hoof and Spike sticks out an open hand as if to shake on it. Spike quickly realizes he can't shake hands with Applejack, seeing that, [[FurryReminder well...]] So he makes a fist and they brohoof.
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** Rainbow Dash's love of reading is further expanded upon from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep "Read It and Weep"]]; it seems she has decided to try her hoof at penning a book of her own. Said book is about [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltAcademy an awesome flier who becomes captain of the Wonderbolts]].
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** Rainbow Dash's love of reading is further expanded upon from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep "Read It and Weep"]]; it seems she has decided to try her hoof at penning a book of her own. Said book is about [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltAcademy an awesome flier who who]] [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue becomes captain of the Wonderbolts]].
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** He wouldn't necessarily have to count the individual blades of grass. A much faster way is to do it the way scientists do it: count how many blades are in a certain area of land, say a square foot. Then figure out how many square feet are in a given area, in this case the farm. Finally, use the number of blades in the square foot to estimate the number of blades on the entire farm. It's not quite as accurate as counting every last blade of grass, but it is still a pretty smart way of accomplishing an incredibly difficult task.
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* ConspicuousCG: The Timberwolves are rendered in CG. This might have been intentional to emphasize their strangeness, but nevertheless is quite jarring.
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* ConspicuousCG: The Timberwolves are rendered in CG. This might have been intentional to emphasize their strangeness, but nevertheless is quite jarring. They are also rendered in the blander black-line art style that clashes with their surroudings even more than their CG-ness does.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was supposed to be Rarity's season 3 episode, but the head writer felt it came off too mean-spirited, so it was rewritten with Applejack in her place.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was supposed to be Rarity's season 3 episode, but the head writer felt it that the unicorn came off out too mean-spirited, unlikable, so it was rewritten with Applejack in her place.
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* YourSizeMayVary: Re-watch the scene where Spike clings to Applejack's foreleg. Normally Spike is about eye-level with a pony's cutie mark, but in this scene either Applejack is big enough or Spike is small enough for the latter to walk underneath the former.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Averted. The original version with Rarity was rewritten because the story editor noticed she came off as a JerkAss, so it was re-written with Applejack instead.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Averted. The original version with had Rarity was rewritten because instead of Applejack (see WhatCouldHaveBeen), but the story editor noticed she head writer felt the unicorn came off as a JerkAss, JerkAss so it was re-written with Applejack instead.they rewrote it.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Averted. The original version with Rarity was rewritten because the story editor noticed she came off as a JerkAss, so it was re-written with Applejack instead.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was supposed to be Rarity's season 3 episode, but the head writer felt it came off too mean-spirited, so it was rewritten with Applejack in her place.
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: The parts where Spike becomes TheKlutz. In prior episodes, he portrayed as very proficient at various household tasks, including baking as "Just for Sidekicks" indicates. Further more, in later parts of this very episode, he builds a massive tower of rocks without messing up and counts ''every single blade of grass'' at Sweet Apple Acres in only a few ''hours''.
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: The parts where Spike becomes TheKlutz. In prior episodes, he is portrayed as very proficient at various household tasks, including baking as "Just for Sidekicks" indicates. Further more, in later parts of this very episode, he builds a massive tower of rocks without messing up and counts ''every single blade of grass'' at Sweet Apple Acres in only a few ''hours''.
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* BadassInDistress: Applejack plans to stage this to end Spike's perceived debt to her. [[spoiler:Then it happens for real...]]
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: The parts where Spike becomes TheKlutz. In prior episodes, he portrayed as very proficient at various household tasks, including baking as "Just for Sidekicks" indicates. Further more, in later parts of this very episode, he builds a massive tower of rocks without messing up and counts ''every single blade of grass'' at Sweet Apple Acres in only a few ''hours''.
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sounds more like \'impressive deed\' than \'outright impossible\'. Also there\'s a note about Western Animation on the Bt I subpage
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*** Go back and watch the scene in Apple Family Reunion where Applejack uses Spike to light a long row of wood for heating her cauldrons. Spike bellows out an impressive jet of fire that instantly ignites the entire pile. Spike is more than a competent firebreather, especially considering his size. He just happens to purposefully limit the size of his blasts because he usually uses them to perform mundane tasks that don't require his full power. And even if this were not the case, the obvious reasoning that fire = bad for wood should have been addressed somehow, IE with the timberwolves shrugging off a puny blast that Spike fires off in desperation.
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** Not really. With firebreathing as measly as Spike's, he wouldn't have incinerated the timberwolves or even injured them, more likely he'd just set them on fire a bit. In which case one would have to ask oneself, what would be worse: A hungry timberwolf chasing you, or a hungry timberwolf chasing you while on fire?
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Not even TheRainMan could count so many blades of grass in such a short time, especially one by one out loud.
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* TheIllegible: [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TxH0HTG_CpQ/UN_aLOIhIpI/AAAAAAAAAJk/GAmKGlDH_CM/s1600/vlcsnap-2012-12-29-18h14m23s5.png Spike's business card.]] It's so bad that the animators mirrored it horizontally (look closely and you might be able to make out the words "Spike Dragon Code").
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* SuperOCD: Twilight is so focused on getting her reading done that Spike's announcement that he's leaving her service bounces right off. But Applejack instantly gets her attention by moving an ink well slightly out of place.
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* SuperOCD: Twilight is so focused on getting her reading done that Spike's announcement that he's leaving her service bounces right off. But Then Applejack instantly gets her attention by moving an ink well ever so slightly out of place.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Spike is like this to Applejack after she saves him from Timberwolves.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Spike This episode is like all about this to Applejack after she saves him from Timberwolves.trope.
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* CombatPragmatist / DefensiveFeintTrap : Rather than facing the Timberwolves in a direct fight, Applejack uses the terrain to her advantage, hitting them with whatever she can put her hooves on, to the point that chasing after her can be much more dangerous than facing her one-on-one.
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* MamaBear - Applejack is recognized as the Mane Six's TeamMom so it's no surprise she's ready to do whatever it takes to protect Spike, even attacks that would have killed the Timberwolves if they didn't have their regenerative powers... and judging from her surprised expression when she see them forming [[spoiler: The King Timberwolf]] , she didn't know they could regenerate.
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* NotQuiteDead : After her first encounter with the Timberwolves, it seems Applejack had actually killed them (on-screen, no less!!!) until she and Spike leave, and we can see the twigs and leaves start to move and get back together.
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* JerkassRealization: Twilight has a brief guilt ridden expression when she finds out she became [[NotListeningToMeAreYou so absorbed in her studies]] that she blew off her most faithful assistant.
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* JerkassRealization: Twilight has a brief guilt ridden guilt-ridden expression when she finds out she became [[NotListeningToMeAreYou so absorbed in her studies]] that she blew off her most faithful assistant.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Twilight could have tried talking Spike out of following his Dragon Code if she wasn't so absorbed in her studies. [[spoiler:When she finally figures it out later, she seems guilt-ridden by it.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Twilight could have tried talking Spike out of following his Dragon Code if she wasn't so absorbed in her studies. [[spoiler:When When she finally figures it out later, she seems guilt-ridden by it.]]
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* DavidVersusGoliath : The way Spike defeats [[spoiler: The King Timberwolf]] is almost a literal version of this trope.
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* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted : The Timberwolves' attempts to hunt Spike and Applejack end very badly for the predators when their prey decides to fight back.
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* NoBigDeal: Applebloom states she and the other Crusaders are going to get fitted for water skis. Applejack treats this as if its an everyday occurrence.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Rainbow Dash's reaction to Spike actually ''completing'' the rock tower...meaning she's going to have to smash through it.
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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse : Despite being a group of ActionGirls and a fire breathing dragon with NighInvulnerable scales, the Mane Six and Spike's first reaction when facing the Timberwolves is trying to escape rather than fighting them.
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* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse : Despite being a group of ActionGirls [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] and a fire breathing dragon with NighInvulnerable scales, the Mane Six and Spike's first reaction when facing the Timberwolves is trying to escape rather than fighting them.
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* FearIsTheAppropiateResponse : Despite being a group of ActionGirls and a fire breathing dragon with NighInvulnerable scales, the Mane Six and Spike's first reaction when facing the Timberwolves is trying to escape rather than fighting them.
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* FearIsTheAppropiateResponse FearIsTheAppropriateResponse : Despite being a group of ActionGirls and a fire breathing dragon with NighInvulnerable scales, the Mane Six and Spike's first reaction when facing the Timberwolves is trying to escape rather than fighting them.
