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2[[caption-width-right:250: Want a good reason for why you should pay attention in school? Here you go.]]
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4Meet Cheerilee: teacher, loveable character (on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''), and - according to fanfiction writer [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Unahim Unahim]] - a sadistic killer of children. Well, at least the children she deems worthless.
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6Cheerilee is facing a problem that probably many teachers have in their careers. Her students are acting up and not paying attention in class, and whatever they do pay attention to just isn't sinking in. Cheerilee has tried and tried again to teach this restless bunch, but everything she's tried so far has failed. Cheerilee is at her wits' end. She feels worthless as a teacher and, thanks to her students' inability to learn, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis. Her whole life, sanity included, is crumbling. She doesn't reach out for help from fellow teachers, nor does she see a therapist. She finds a different, possibly better solution.
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8Brutally and sadistically torture and kill any and all children that are giving her trouble, in a way that is very reminiscent of ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles''. In fact, many would say ''Cheerilee's Garden'' is ''Cupcakes'''s SpiritualSuccessor. Right down to being a TrollFic gone a ''little'' too far.
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10The fanfiction can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1766/Cheerilees-Garden here]] but be warned: It's ''Cupcakes'''s SpiritualSuccessor for a reason. Has a [[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum PPC mission]] [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z88bsgRmVVTyySoHMEVw_oBYK1cAbe9XoK7A4B0Dhh0/edit here]].
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12!!''Cheerilee's Garden'' provides examples of:
13* AloneWithThePsycho: Twist gets this feeling when she realizes that Cheerilee, who has been transferred to her school, might be the killer. She's terrified at the prospect of having to come to school for the rest of the year.
14* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Scootaloo's legs should have snapped long before she was crushed.
15* AssholeVictim:
16** Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's deaths are just as gruesome as everypony else's, but their bullying ways may paint it as deserved.
17** [[spoiler:Cheerilee herself]] becomes this when [[spoiler:Twilight kills her]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:this, combined with misintepretion of Spike's letter to Celestia, makes the police think that Twilight committed ''all'' of the murders and that Cheerilee was just another innocent victim]].
18* TheBadGuyWins: Cheerilee has a terrible inability to get rid of evidence in a smart and safe manner. Fortunately for her, Twilight arrives on the scene and unwittingly [[spoiler: destroys the evidence for her. Although Cheerilee is killed by Twilight, she posthumously gets off scot-free while Twilight is blamed for her atrocities]].
19* BringMyBrownPants: A few of the characters urinate themselves from their torture.
20* BullyingADragon: Cheerilee decides to [[spoiler: drive Twilight, the Element of Magic and somepony who would completely outmatch her in a fair fight, over the DespairEventHorizon by slaughtering all her friends and relaying this information to her. Naturally, this ends up being Cheerilee's undoing]].
21* ColdBloodedTorture: This and below make it obvious how abhorrent Cheerilee is.
22* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of Cheerilee's victims.
23* DeadManWriting: Near the end of the story, Spike sends out a final message as he lies on the ground dying to expose Cheerilee for her crimes. [[spoiler: However, since he had to rush the writing, it ends up getting misinterpreted, and Twilight ends up taking the blame instead.]]
24* DeathTrap: Cheerilee sets these up to take out [[spoiler: the Mane Six]].
25* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash (unsurprisingly), Spike and Applejack]].
26* DescendingCeiling: Scootaloo's "punishment". She's trapped in a metal cage with thin bars for the floor, and a metal plate is slowly descended upon her, eventually crushing her into goo.
27* DespairEventHorizon: Apple Bloom, though obviously terrified and in mortal agony, stays spirited and defiant throughout most of her torture. It's only when [[spoiler: Cheerilee cuts off the skin from her flank and points out that she's failed in her goal as a Cutie Mark Crusader]] that Apple Bloom is finally overcome by tears. She offers no further words or notable resistance in the remaining few minutes of her life.
28** [[spoiler: It's implied that Twilight's death drove Celestia to this, as she decides that any system that would send her student to her death was flawed, and plans on razing Equestria and forming her new, totalitarian Solar Empire.]]
29** [[spoiler: Twilight too, upon realizing even Celestia didn't believe she was innocent, driving her to throw herself off the roof.]]
30* DirtyCoward: Cheerilee takes sadistic pleasure in torturing her victims as long as they're helpless and she has AntiMagic and death traps to back her up, but [[spoiler: is reduced to begging for her life as soon as Twilight puts her on the ropes]].
31* DisproportionateRetribution: Murdering misbehaving colts and fillies is not the answer!
32* DownerEnding: See "TheBadGuyWins" above. Even then, another layer of depression is added when [[spoiler:Celestia plans to raze Equestria and form a new, totalitarian Solar Empire.]]
33* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle, upon realizing even Celestia didn't think she was innocent.]]
34* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Spike and Rarity]] moments before they die.
35* EvilGloating: A rare heroic example, where [[spoiler: an utterly pissed-off Twilight sadistically taunts Cheerilee before killing her. Since Cheerilee enjoyed her own victims' ineffectual pleas for mercy, it's painted as deserved]].
36* EyeScream: What happens to Silver Spoon.
37** [[spoiler: Fluttershy]] gets an eye stung out by an Everfree Forest insect.
38* FantasticRacism: Cheerilee seems prejudiced against unicorns, holding them in contempt for relying on magic. She takes particular pleasure in the idea that an earth pony could take down Twilight Sparkle.
39* ForTheEvulz: Cheerilee's motivation, though she won't admit it even to herself. See "KnightTemplar" below.
40* {{Gorn}}: Unless you're not familiar with [[DarkFic Dark Fics]] or know what the story is about, chances are you'll want blood. And oh boy, '''will you get it.'''
41* HeroicSacrifice: Silver Spoon is given the choice between being tortured herself or hitting a button to dump acid on Diamond Tiara. When faced with the prospect of her tongue being cut out, she does hit the button, but is so guilt-stricken at hearing her friend's screams that she stops, and resolves never to hit the button again. [[spoiler: It only buys them a few more minutes of life, but they at least die together]].
42* HollywoodAcid: Cheerilee uses this as part of Diamond Tiara's "[[StrippedToTheBone punishment]]".
43* HopeSpot: There's a short section of the narration where Cheerilee laments that the play is too short to allow her to torture Snails to death as she has been doing to his classmates. [[spoiler: So she resigns herself to making his death quick and violent rather than drawn out and violent.]]
44** There's one where [[spoiler: Celestia rescues Twilight from her execution and proposes they run away, but it's shattered almost immediately when she reveals that not even she thinks Twilight is innocent. This drives the latter to jump off the roof to her death.]]
45*** By extension, the setup for this tragedy is [[spoiler: Spike's final moments, wherein he is able to call for Celestia's help by sending a hastily-written letter describing their situation. But that very letter is misinterpreted by the royal court as evidence of Twilight's guilt, and Celestia's presence at the scene of Cheerilee's death provided the means by which Twilight was saved from death, only to be wrongly convicted. Thus, [[ForWantOfANail had Spike not sent that letter]], Twilight would never have been DrivenToSuicide by Celestia's belief in her guilt, and Celestia would never have been driven to doom all of Equestria to an eternity of tyrannical rule under the reign of the Solar Empire.]]
46* ILied: Cheerilee promises to let Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon go if the former managed to reach the latter. A difficult task, considering that Diamond Tiara's legs had been StrippedToTheBone by acid, but she pulled it off... and then Cheerilee reveals that she lied and dumps acid on them both.
47** Has this to say later.
48--> Oh [[spoiler: Applejack,]] so honest that you’ve forgotten ponies can lie, have you?
49* ImAHumanitarian: Well, Apple Bloom isn't by choice, but Cheerilee tricks her into drinking what's left of Scootaloo.
50** Cheerilee herself shows some proclivities toward this, given her increasingly frequent habit of tasting her victims' blood.
51** The same goes for [[spoiler: Twilight, who is force-fed the remains of her friends]].
52* InsaneTrollLogic: Cheerilee decides the Mane 6 are fair game because her students weren't paying attention, and several of them were close to Twilight and her friends, therefore it's Twilight's fault for "corrupting" them. It's clear that her real motive is simply to punish anyone who tries to bring her to justice.
53* KarmicDeath: In the end, [[spoiler: Twilight kills Cheerilee just as brutally and sadistically as the heartless teacher killed her own victims. Cheerilee's tongue is torn out, her eyes are burst in their sockets, and she is slashed all along her body, all of which are variants of "punishments" that she herself doled out to ponies who were powerless to stop her]].
54* KnightTemplar: Cheerilee initially seems to become this, thinking that the naughty foals and "corruptive" influences like [[spoiler: the Mane Six]] must be purged to bring peace and morality to Ponyville. Its subversion becomes increasingly obvious as the story goes on, though, culminating in the moment where Twilight calls out Cheerilee for using her "cause" as a weak excuse to cover up the fact that she is a SerialKiller who [[ForTheEvulz murders ponies for the enjoyment of it]].
55** [[spoiler:At the end, Celestia vows to become one as well in order to avenge Twilight against the legal system that screwed her over.]]
56* MercyKill: Cheerilee made an already-tortured Rainbow Dash do this to her friend after mortally wounding her.
57* MiscarriageOfJustice: [[spoiler:Due to a nasty series of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s, all of Cheerilee's crimes get pinned on Twilight instead.]]
58* NeverSayDie: Believe it or not, played straight at the end of Diamond Tiara's and Silver Spoon's torture.
59-->“Both of the fillies looked up as they heard a rumbling noise coming from a pipe above them, and as they saw a familiar clear liquid gush down they realized they wouldn’t get to see anything else, ever again.”
60* PrecisionFStrike: Apple Bloom gets one out during her torture.
61-->‘“B...[[HoldYourHippogriffs buck]]...y-you...’ the Cutie Mark Crusader managed to stammer."
62%%* SadistTeacher: Cheerilee.
63* SadisticChoice: Silver Spoon is given one in the form of a button that she can press to temporarily stop her torture device, but pours acid into Diamond Tiara's trap.
64* SerialKiller: Cheerilee - who else? She paints herself as a Mission-Based killer to herself and her victims, but gradually reveals herself to be Hedonistic.
65* ShipTease: Twilight ponders whether or not Pinkie Pie helped Rainbow Dash get through [[spoiler:Scootaloo's death]].
66* StartOfDarkness: For [[spoiler: Princess Celestia]].
67* StrippedToTheBone: The ultimate fate of both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, via HollywoodAcid.
68* TakeThatKiss: Done twice by Cheerilee to Twilight. The first is relatively standard, but the second occurs during [[spoiler: the final moments of Twilight's life, during which Cheerilee kisses Twilight more and more deeply as she feels Twilight's life ebbing away; as if that wasn't enough, the story implies that [[{{Squick}} Cheerilee is brought to orgasm by the sensation of Twilight's death]]]].
69* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler: Twilight flat-out tells Cheerilee that she has to die for what she did]].
70* TogetherInDeath: Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon die in each other's arms.
71* TongueTrauma: Another method Cheerilee uses to "punish" Silver Spoon.
72** [[spoiler: Applejack]] gets this later.
73* TorturePorn: What the whole fanfic is.
74* TortureTechnician: Cheerilee.
75* TrollFic: Unahim admits in an author's note that this story was done just for the hell of it, and none of it reflects Unahim's actual perception of the characters.
76* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: Twilight is in a state of utter murderous rage when she comes back to life and gets Cheerilee alone, after the death of all her friends. She literally tears her to shreds]].
77* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler: Cheerilee is reduced to begging for her life when Twilight overpowers her. She receives no mercy]].
78* WeedingOutImperfections: Cheerilee becomes fed up with her students because they always get into trouble, never seem to learn anything, and won't listen to her. While looking at her garden, she realizes she hasn't taken care of it for a while, allowing it to be overrun with vines and weeds that are choking the flowers. This causes her to see her ''students'' as weeds that she needs to prune in order for the flowers to grow...and by "prune," we mean "[[MurderIsTheBestSolution murder.]]"
79* WouldHurtAChild: Or in Cheerilee's case, slowly and painfully torture them to death.
80* YouMonster: [[spoiler: Applejack]] tells this to Cheerilee before being forced to cut her own hind leg off.
81* ZorroMark: Cheerilee carves the word "Weed" into Apple Bloom's torso.
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83''"I, Cheerilee, will never let any [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife tropes take over my life]], ever again."''

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