Equestria Girls Friendship Souls / Tropes A to L

Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls provides examples of the following tropes:

Tropes A-L | Tropes M-Y

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• Absence of Evidence:
  • The way Twilight's attempted assassin left so little evidence behind is noteworthy. It's because the assassin (Spoiled Rich) had high-ranking Sternritter accomplices (Gladmane and Hoity Toity) to help cover her tracks.
  • When telling Twilight to the truth about his connection to Quincy souls, Sombra leads up to it by getting her to realize that although she's seen Quincy fall in battle, there's a distinct lack of Quincy souls after said deaths.
  • A major part of the reason why Quincy arrows are believed to destroy the souls of Hollows is because the souls seem to disappear from the reincarnation cycle entirely. The fact that Soul Reapers killed by Quincies don't disappear the same way is a major inconsistency.
  • It's noted that Equestrian culture barely even deals with the afterlife there, and even Luna and Celestia apparently know all but jack squat about it. Soul Reaper Flash is rather weirded out by the lack of any Equestrian spirits or negative spiritual energies from an ancient battle site that on Earth would likely have been crawling with Hollows, despite the fact that Sunset proves beyond a doubt that Equestrians do have souls.
  • The fact that no one has seen the Soul Queen in millennia, even discounting how she had a history of not making public appearances, is something noted to be concerning.
• Achilles' Heel:
  • Captain Starswirl's Shikai and Bankai have the equal weaknesses of once he's produced a chemical or material respectively, the created attack can hurt him if aimed poorly. This isn't of much danger with his Shikai alone, but once he activates Bankai he needs to create a "safe area" with a radius of 10 meters around himself that he doesn't allow attacks to pass into ala Byakuya. Human Twilight still admits it's impressive and that if she had a similar power to his Bankai, she wouldn't be comfortable with anything less than a 20-meter radius for her safe zone. As it turns out, however, Starswirl has a final line of defense within that safe zone consisting of multiple small camouflaged cubes meant to transform into protective shielding. His Bankai has a secondary weakness in that it's all controlled by a small cube in Starswirl's hand, and if this control nucleus was damaged or he dropped it the Bankai would be useless, but good luck actually getting through the storm of death he can throw at you plus the hidden defenses.
  • Captain Luna's Bankai has a weakness in the form of the crimson moon that produces the extra shadows. Damaging the moon causes it to release all those shadows at once and forcibly transform Luna into her full-werewolf state, which is even stronger but has none of her previous subtlety and control.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: Hydia's slowly exposed her Fraccion to her poison bit by bit for years, if not decades, so she's fully capable of unleashing it when they're near her without having to worry about them being affected.
• Action Dad:
  • Fifth Espada Torch to Ember of course, as is Captain Hurricane to Lieutenant Posey.
  • The Lament is the adoptive father of many arrancar children and was Applejack's biological father in life. He's also the Fourth Espada, and he's more than capable of taking on three Sternritter using Vollstandig at the same time while in his sealed form, albeit with effort.
  • Filthy Rich to Diamond Tiara, being a Sternritter and all. Even if it turns out she's not actually his daughter, but he still loves her all the same.
• Action Mom:
  • Ditzy Doo.
  • The mothers of the Humane Five and human!Twilight, though currently they (except for Sweet Cider, Firefly, and Twilight Velvet) have lost this status.
  • Captain Platinum is obviously this to her son, Pipsqueak.
• Actually Pretty Funny: As a terse fight between Catrina and Sombra is about to begin, Squirk suddenly rips open a Garganta right underneath the former, grabs her by the ankles and ignobly yanks her inside with her yelping in surprise, before giving Sombra the middle finger as it closes up. Spitfire and Shining Armor can only stare in stupefied confusion, but Sombra after a moment manages a half-choked laugh while commenting on the "unusual" individuals Tirek has chosen as his Espada.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Villainous example with Grand Fisher. Here, he puts up much more of a fight in his incomplete Arrancar form. Though this is justified as in canon, he made the mistake of going up against a former Captain-class Soul Reaper while here he's facing Sunset and the other Humane Five, who still haven't fully mastered their new powers and are much closer to his level (for reference, Sunset has only just unlocked her Shikai and she's the strongest of the bunch while the others only have initial level of their Fullbrings).
  • Many of the background ponies take levels in badass as Soul Reapers, Hollows, Fullbringers, Quincies and the like.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Discord is a great deal more noble than the one we got on the show, even after his Heel–Face Turn. He's even The Atoner for all the bad things he did in the past and is the closest thing Sunset and the human five have to a mentor.
  • While the broken system and poor living conditions of Soul Society are far more deeply examined than in canon and this version having its own skeletons in its closet such as Hitsyo Aku, Project Xcution, and the Bount Genocide, Equestria Girls Soul Society comes off as much better overall: There was never a Quincy genocide, no signs of there ever being Hollow Pits, the Fourth Division is treated with respect instead of moronically being bullied for being weak, the Eleventh Division is a well-disciplined unit instead of being a band of thugs, and a majority of the Captains are shown to be far more concerned with doing their jobs with monsters like Kenpachi and Mayuri not on their payroll.
  • The Quincy get this as well; they aren't a band of one-dimensional cackling, Ax-Crazy Nazis who team kill their own side and are shown to truly want to protect the world from Hollows with good people fighting for that cause, and a king who doesn't casually murder his own men for trivial reasons. Combined with Soul Society's Adaptational Heroism above this leads to more nuance and legitimate Grey-and-Grey Morality in the war between the two factions.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Garble, of the Smarter Than You Look variety. He instantly knows that Adagio had something to do with Ember spontaneously attacking him during the Hollow's invasion of the Quincy's training area, and is now spending a good deal of his time finding out what. He also stole Torch's Caja Negación cube to use against Adagio, and when faced against Prim Hemline's "Zero" Schrift, he tricks her into killing him so that the cube drops into his Hollow hole, saving Ember from being slayed by her.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In Bleach Dolls would kill their Summoners the moment they deem them too weak to control them. Here they are more protective of their masters. Word of God is the Bounts were more focused on survival and hiding, so they developed a ritual that focused on creating more loyal Dolls that would protect their uses to death.
• Adaptational Species Change: In Equestria Girls, it's implied all the dragons in the pony world are the equivalent of dogs in the human world. Here, however, they are all human, or at least they presumably were before they became Hollows.
• Adaptational Villainy: Grogar, on the other hand is a lot worse than his G1 counterpart. It makes sense, as he is an Expy of Szayelaporro Granz.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: For some reason, Grogar isn't blue in this story, and Catrina isn't brown. Or at the very least, they aren't described as such.
  • Grogar turns blue in his Resurrección form.
• Adaptation Deviation: Many of the Bleach sides of the crossover are changed for the sake of Worldbuilding.
  • The Quincy were never subjected to a genocide by Soul Society and are a thriving faction who are openly in conflict with it.
  • Instead of being subjugated and founded by a Soul Reaper, the Espada are their own faction founded by Hollow Tirek as an alliance of ten Hollow warlords to better fight against Soul Society and the Quincy.
• Adaptation Expansion: In Bleach Segunda Etapa is an exclusive to Ulquiorra Ciferand a secret only he knows about. Here it's a legendary transformation that many have heard about but few believe. And it's theorized that achieving it requires Equestrian magic.
• Affably Evil:
  • Despite being Arrancar and as a species acclimated to violence and negative emotions naturally, Ember, Di Roy, Lament, and Roka can be pretty nice and friendly. Despite his more brutal nature Torch also has enough positive traits to avoid falling into Faux Affably Evil territory.
  • Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocellus, despite their mother Chrysalis being Faux Affably Evil incarnate, are all shown to be surprisingly well adjusted and civil Arrancar who never go out their way to act like assholes to others.
• Afraid of Their Own Strength: Rarity and Fluttershy both have this regarding their Fullbring, which is keeping them from evolving them any further. For Fluttershy, it's fearing what her powers could potentially do, and for Rarity it's the thought that she may actually need to take a life with her powers.
• Age Lift: The human version of Starlight Glimmer was a contemporary of the Humane Five's mothers and Twilight Velvet back when they were teenagers.
• Alchemy Is Magic: Not exactly. Just like Soul Reapers can use kido to cast spells, Quincy can use spirit particles to make spells on their own. The main difference between those two is that while Soul Reapers only need to invoke an incantation, Quincy need to prepare them in advance using chemicals and physical mediums, most common being Ginto, a silver tube filled with spirit water distilled from Quincy's spirit power. Ironically, Human world is connected to the World where alchemy is seen as a form of magic.
• All for Nothing: Played with during the Quincy's assault on Las Noches. Their major goal above everything was to kill the Espada who allowed Tirek to launch the surprise attack on the Silbern (Squirk) and kill so many cadets with any other high-profile targets being secondaries. And Squirk does indeed end up killed. However, he dies not because of the Quincy team of Sassy Saddles, Cadence, and Twilight Velvet, but by Adagio's hands as per Chrysalis' orders. Even worse, Cadence is forced to make the choice of going after Squirk or rushing off to aid Velvet against Lament, and chooses the former. In other words, not only does she end up believing she contributed to Velvet's death by not helping when she could, but she didn't even make the sacrifice mean something because it wasn't her who killed Squirk and only gets to see the aftermath of both Adagio killing Squirk and Velvet's death.
  • Scylla admits that her ambitions cost her everything in the end in her last words.
• All-Loving Hero: Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. When you're willing to show mercy to the one who just tried to kill you, your friends, and/or your family, you definitely qualify.
• All Myths Are True:
  • It's implied that several versions of the underworld in human mythology were based on Vasto Lorde domains in Hueco Mundo, like Shadowlock's "Gehenna" and Silver Sable's "Naraka". Tirek himself is implied to be the inspiration for the Judeo-Christian Devil, at least visually.
  • Sombra relates to Twilight that many gods and deities in human mythology were the children and descendants of the Soul Queen.
  • Gaia Everfree turns out to be an ancient Arrancar who was defeated by Chrysalis and left in the human world to rot, sustained only by animal sacrifices from mortals that worshipped her.
  • Gaia Everfree remembers a time when spirit energy abilities were used more openly in the mortal world, leading to many of the tales of gods and monsters. She also mentions Ares by name in a flashback, and when she takes a direct hit from a furious Rainbow Dash after nearly killing Human Twilight the narration notes it was comparable to an attack from Zeus, and that's not hyperbole because she remembers when those deities were more than just myths.
  • Norse Mythology plays a huge role in later chapters, with gods like Hel, Jörmungandr, and Fenrir's Soul piece, with Ragnarök looming over them.
• Alternate Self: While the main premise of Equestria Girls is alternate versions of My Little Pony characters as humans the crossover with Bleach adds more layers too it with the counterparts of characters like Discord, Sombra, Torch, Lightning Dust, Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash's parents, Blueblood, and Bount Trixie ending up in different places and moralities than their Equestrian versions thanks to the different powers they have, the cultures they grew up in, and the events they experienced; the end result tends to make then Foils to their other self in some way.
• Amazonian Beauty: The story brims with gorgeous females with muscles to back it up, to the point it would be easier to count the ones that are not this. Here are a few examples:
  • Captain Celestia is the same tall, gorgeous woman we know, and under her clothes, she hides a set of hardened abs and toned arms.
  • Sweet Cider is even more amazonian to the point she could be an object of envy of every professional athlete while still keeping a very womanly figure. Applejack is not far behind and is quickly catching up.
  Sunset Shimmer: Is the 'A' in the Apple family name for Abs.
  • Seeing Sunset starring at Apple family's muscles, Pinkie assures her that her muscles are great too. Then she adds Maud is in the same boat.
  Pinkie Pie: “Gehehe, is Sunset feeling intimidated by the Apple family gun show? No worries, Sunny, your muscles are hard as rocks, too! And I should know, I bathed with Maudie!”
  • Ember is noted to sport a very athletic physique with a hint of abs and a very punkish face.
  • Gilda. After a life as an orphan in a brutal Death World that is Las Noches, she's built like a brick house, and her choice of clothing puts her golden-brown athletic build, abs-laden torso, and well-muscled arms on full display. Greta looks very much like her to the point to point they could be mistaken for sisters.
  • Asena's human form is described as a 'Hulking Woman who would put female bodybuilders to shame'.
• Ambiguously Evil:
  • Quincy King Sombra, he acts as The Good King to his Quincies and treats them well, with his personality being based on his comics incarnation and the presence of Amore and Radiant Hope lending to that this Sombra made different choices that stopped him from becoming evil, but at the same time, he's Sombra and serving as the equivalent of Yhwach, he's all but stated to have been little better than a tyrant in the past before he changed and came to regret it, and he still has the ability to absorb the souls of Quincy who die, albeit here it's treated as him simply storing them to be reincarnated rather than to selfishly increase his life and power.
  • The Zero Division were already pretty shady in Bleach canon with their moral ambiguity being compounded in the light novels. Here, their shiftiness is cranked up with them ensuring that innocent souls like Sunburst are sent to Hell causing Starlight Glimmer and Firefly's Start of Darkness, as well as planning something that once Discord and Ditzy see from the secret records has them realizing why Starlight is going the route she is and would send Soul Society in open rebellion if made public.Any ambiguity is dropped once it's revealed that they made Hell as part of a plot to grind the souls within up into their basic components in order to revive their slain loved ones whose souls became those of mortals.
• Ambiguously Gay: More than one character has wondered or assumed that Pony Trixie and Starlight are romantically/sexually involved.
• Ambiguous Situation: In-Universe, the whole "Quincy arrows completely destroy the souls of Hollows" is this, as no one is really sure, according to what Shining Armor tells Twilight.
  • Sweet Cider later comes to suspect that that statement might be a lie, or at least a half-truth.
  • After the climax of the Camp Everfree events, Celestia notes that the inconsistency between the souls of Soul Reapers killed by Quincy arrows still remaining in the reincarnation cycle vs. the disappearance of the souls of Hollows slain by the same weapons, and how the cycle remains intact despite centuries of Quincies killing Hollows.
  • What exactly does happen with the souls of the inhabitants of Equestria and the other nations of their world after death? It's been noted that Equestrian culture barely deals with the afterlife at all, and if Sunset wasn't proof enough that Equestrians have souls comparable to those on Earth, Human Chrysalis and her brood were able to eat the souls of some Timberwolves. But there's no clues as of yet what happens to those souls after death, with Soul Reaper Flash noting a specific absence of the kind of negative spirit energy that would be expected from an ancient battlefield like what they're passing by. The Beast Realm is also apparently connected to Equestria, but where that fits in is anyone's guess right now.
• Ambition Is Evil:
  • Grogar's ambition to use his experimentation to surpass Tirek is a major character trait of his.
  • Downplayed, but Adagio's ambition to climb the ranks of the Espada, maybe even to the point of overthrowing Tirek himself eventually, is her main reason for staying in Hueco Mundo. Her Zanpakuto's name is even Ambicion, which means "Ambition".
• Amnesia Missed a Spot: After seeing Applejack, Sweet Cider starts to get faint memories of her past life as her mother.
• Amplifier Artifact: Clover's shikai has the ability to dramatically increase the power of any kido cast through it using the full incantation.
  • The Hogyoku, as in canon, with Discord modifying his version to better suit the Humane Seven.
• Analogy Backfire: Clover tries to use the "you only live once" saying, only to keep backspacing because of the mechanics of the afterlife and reincarnation. Pinkie even lampshades that it doesn't really fit.
• Anatomy of the Soul:
  • Adagio gave Charybdis a piece of her soul in exchange for her tutelage.
  • Human Chrysalis once ripped a piece of Luna's soul out.
• An Arm and a Leg: Several Quincy lose limbs during the assault on Hueco Mundo, including Indigo Zap loses her legs due to Gilda and Twilight's right hand to the out-of-control Lament.
  • Nocturn loses his arm to a berserk Posey.
  • At the end of their climatic showdown in Soul Society, Platinum loses one of her hands to Sunset's finishing attack.
  • Garble loses an arm fighting Ember due to Adagio's interference saving Twilight and the other Quincy cadets.
  • Harshwinny loses most of her leg fighting Lament. She's too professional for it to stop her.
  • Luna loses her wing trying to capture Firefly and Platinum. After that, she's stuck in the castle, in the process of regrowing her limb, leaving her really bored.
  • Lament loses his left arm after an intense battle with Sweet Cider and Applejack. It doesn't bother him much.
  • Fluttershy loses an arm to stop trying to stop Guto's Midas Touch. She cuts it with her own fingers, btw. Luckily she has five more.
• And I Must Scream:
  • The Smooze admits his every moment of existence is pain, only kept to "manageable" levels by medicine produced by Grogar. The only thing stronger is his iron-clad will to push through and keep existing because he wants to experience the small pleasures of life others take for granted because they're not soul-destroying agony. It's why he decides to swear loyalty to Fluttershy after she manages to heal him as no one else ever had.
  • Gaia Everfree was reduced to a barely sentient warped soul trapped in the depths of the Everfree Forest by Chrysalis to the point the ability to think wasn't something available to her for varying periods of time, only holding on by The Power of Hate.
• And Then What?: Sweet Cider invokes this during her fight with Applejack, saying that even if she is her mother giving her her memories back won't make any real difference because she'll still be dead while Applejack is still alive. Applejack doesn't care, outright stating that all that matters to her is making Sweet Cider remember who she is and she can decide what she wants to do with that knowledge afterwards.
• An Ice Person: Captain Platinum, who uses an ice-based zanpakuto, Fuyukogo (Winter Empress).
• Answer Cut: In Chapter 195, while talking about Fenice's counterpart, she and Adagio speculate whether or not the latter and her sisters have ones in the human world, something Adagio never thought much about before. She dismisses the idea, saying that if the Dazzlings did have such counterparts, they're uncharacteristically avoiding the spotlight and thus either dead or boring, and Fenice agrees. In the following scene, the story shifts to Niflheim in the Beast Realm, where Orfridr uses his necromancy to reanimate the perfectly preserved corpses of the Dazzlings' Nereid counterparts who died by his magic a long time ago as draugr (bound undead), souls and all.
• Anti-Magic: Morgawr's trident can absorb magic directed at it. It's implied to be connected to Chrysalis's former throne.
  • A similar weapon has been used to pierce Discord to prevent him from Meddling with Starlight's Plans.
• Archnemesis Dad: The Lament, who not only is the adopted father of a bunch of Hollow children but he's Applejack's biological father.
• Area of Effect: The aspect of Wing Anima is to spread the user's influence over vast areas.
  • Simurg can create a healing rain.
  • Quetzalcoatl is said to be able to affect the whole Realm.
• Armed Legs: Applejack's power, a pair of rocket boots to increase the power of her kicks and shoot energy blasts. She eventually upgrades to gauntlets for Hand Blasts as well.
• Artifact of Doom: Recent chapters in Equestria have made mention of items called "Relics", which are apparently tied to "Inheritors", including the native Chrysalis, Celestia, Luna, and others. Details are sparse, but while the Relics are apparently neither good or evil, using them can be dangerous. Using two at once is part of what caused Luna to be transformed into Nightmare Moon.
• Artificial Human: Reigai lacks blood and internal organs, and according to Chrysalis they taste bland.
• Artificial Limbs: Unlike Soul Reapers, Quincy don't have the means to replace the limbs of their comrades. One of the first things Twilight who lost an arm at that point began to work on, was the means to create the first artificial limbs. Later Clover promised to give Twilight their research to refine her process.
  • Sugarcoat lost her eyes after Hollow attacked on the training grounds. Twilight made her a visor so she could see again. It's very rudimentary and can only see basic, grainy shapes with no colors, but Sugarcoat is still happy to be able to see again.
  • Indigo Zap lost her legs in the Hueco Mundo battle. It hit her especially hard as she used to be the most athletic of the Shadowbolt team. Twilight manages to build her mechanical ones combining Quincy's Ransotengai technique and magic. Since cybernetics are still in its infancy they are bulky, slow, and not made for combat. Indigo must depend on the use of the wheelchair most of the time as even slight movements cost her a lot of energy. Twilight keeps improving them, but Zap's deeply frustrated over how hard something as simple as walking has become.
• After Twilight lost an arm and replaced it with a cybernetic one. Unlike, Indigo's, her ability to use magic through Midnight allows her to better control it. No one had seen the difference before she told them.
• Ascended Extra: While the Grand Fisher was introduced as a major foe to Ichigo in canon it went unresolved and was subjected to an Aborted Arc as he was unceremoniously killed by Isshin and forgotten about by Ichigo. In this fic he acts as the story's first Arc Villain and was used by Soul Society to attack women to create Fullbringers for Project Xcution that would lead to the Humane Five developing their own Fullbrings from their mothers.
  • Di Roy was Grimmjow's weakest Fraccion and killed off with minimal sceentime. Here, he causes the heroes' lots of trouble as "Sharkface" and latter joins Adagio's Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits in Hueco Mundo.
  • Roka had it even worse than Di Roy. She was a nameless Arrancar with few scenes, no speaking lines, and offhandedly killed. Here she's an adopted daughter of Fourth Espada, acting as a caretaker of her siblings, taking the role of the smart girl of Adagio's group. She had more prominent role in Spirits are Forever With You.
• Assimilation Plot: All mortal souls in the human world were once fragments of the slain children and descendants of the Soul Queen whose souls broke apart when they met their demise. While the Soul Queen accepted this, her surviving children in the Zero Division do not, and created Hell in order to break down mortal souls so that they can reconstitute their loved ones again. There's enough leeway in the process for a few thousand mortal souls to remain separate though, allowing the Zero Division members to "preserve" any mortal souls that they view worthy of keeping around for some reason, with the only reason that any mortal soul exists outside of Hell at all being because Glory wanted to give every soul as many chances as possible to reach this reward.
• The Atoner: Discord is responsible for many horrible things, but he grew to see the members of Xctiun as friends and family and deeply regretted putting their lives in danger. After the termination of the group, there wasn't a day he didn't regret irrevocably altering their lives. In his own words, all his actions are motivated by the desire for change and to protect the lives of X-cution's children. He laments that all his actions only pushed them further into the spiritual conflict.
• Atrocious Arthropods: Chrysalis has a very obvious insect motif and is without a doubt the most evil and cruel character in the entire story. While in her Resurreccion form, her upper body remains that of a beautiful woman with a pair of green antennae, while her lower half is an amalgamation of different kinds of insect and arachnid parts, including over six feet long mantis-like scythe blades, two sets of wings - one of a moth's, one of a wasp's and a barbed spider abdomen with a wasp stinger at the end. And to add to her status as the Queen, she can spontaneously lay eggs to make mindless but powerful offsprings. Her part of Hueco Mundo closely resembles a hive and she has the ability to put people in cocoons. Her son, Thorax, while taking a lot from her, is an aversion.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Gaia Everfree, after becoming Drunk with Power, transforms her massive tree into a just as massive giant tree monster.
• Awesome, but Impractical:
  • Celestia has spells in her repertoire that make her a Person of Mass Destruction, but they take time to set up, allowing someone like Discord to just snap his fingers and disrupt it, or Tirek to drain her magic before she can complete it.
  • The main reason Equestria's never used mass-scale teleportation is that, besides the fact that most unicorns can't use it, the risks make it unfeasible. There's also a method that uses a person to hone in on the destination, but it only works in close-range.
• Awesome by Analysis:
  • Rarity, who defeats Blueblood, a Captain of the Gotei 13, not through brute force but by carefully observing his movements and the workings of his Shikai in order to eventually neutralize him before he can activate his Bankai.
  • Twilight naturally is able to do this thanks to her incredible intelligence working with the battle adrenaline allowing her to analyze and predict the most likely course of action they'll take.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • Poesy, at least when she's activated her Shikai. Otherwise, she's very passive and kind.
  • The Fourth Espada. Ember claims the guy is NOT a stable person; saying he's unpredictable, prone to very violent mood swings, an extremely short fuse, and has killed other Hollows simply for being near him at the wrong time. That's not to say it's impossible to reason with him, but he has some high standards to hold to and Adagio is basically walking through a minefield during her first real conversation with him.

B

• Badass Bookworm:
  • Clover. Member of the 12th Division and able to take on a horde of Hollows alone.
  • Twilight Sparkle, she's capable of fighting opponents stronger than her, using her wits and magic, and is smart enough to design and create artificial limbs. Then she became a Sternitter.
  • Captain Starswirl. Captain of the 12th Division and head of Soul Society's R&D, and perfectly capable of slaughtering countless foes with all manner of reisatsu-based chemical compounds created by his zanpakuto.
  • Grogar. Head of R&D for Hueco Mundo, and also one of their Espadas who's taken to altering his own body to improve himself.
  • Discord. Former Captain of the 12 Division, creator of the Hogyoku, and more than capable of training Sunset even after the latter has achieved Bankai.
• Badass Normal:
  • Maud Pie. Despite not being able to see them, she still takes on several lesser Hollows with whatever Improvised Weapon she has in arm's reach, to the point that they start running from her.
  • Derpy isn't far behind either. She's strong enough to lift a ceiling beam with one hand and pick up a person with the other. Then with little effort, she took down a Cragadille, a creature that both Quincy and a Fullbringer in training had troubles. With a Frying Pan. Guess those defense lessons finally come in handy.
• Bait-and-Switch: Done briefly when Ditzy Doo, Clover, the Humane Five, and Sunset prepare to breach the South Gate into Seireitei. After saying "[She knows] just how to distract" the gate guard, the former disrobes, much to the distaste of the others save Clover. Being a Yoruichi expy, Ditzy turns into her cat form and heads into the gatehouse to cause trouble.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Grogar effortlessly catches Sunset's sword, even though it is on fire.
• Battle Couple: Twilight Velvet & Night Light and Jet Set & Upper Crust, both couples married and Sternritters. It avails the latter couple little when they fight the Lament with Harshwhinny's aid, however, with Jet Set sacrificing himself to save Upper Crust and only the Lament's own guilt and regret due to remembering what happened to his wife Sweet Cider and himself before they died making him quit the battle and spare their lives.
• Beach Episode: Chapter 95 is largely this, featuring Sunset and the girls all enjoying a day at the beach. Eventually even Twilight and the Shadowbolts join in, later remarking how easy it is to put aside the animosity between Soul Reaper and Quincy for the moment. Too bad it doesn't stay that way...
• Beam-O-War:
  • Averted with the clash of Catrina's Gran Rey Cero and Spitfire's Godfire technique. The narration explicitly describes the two spiritual-based attacks as not clashing in a show of wills, but mixing together before exploding in an uncontrollable burst that sends both combatants flying.
  • Averted again when Di-roy and Pharynx shot ceros at each other. In tight space. The combined energy beams explode burying them under tons of rubble. Which was Di-roy's plan all along. He prepared and managed to escape, gaining time to escape.
• Beauty Is Bad: Hollow Chrysalis is always described as completely stunning and is one of the most malevolent and cruel villains of the story. Catrina described as slightly less so, in both senses.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why the Lament's family is so loyal: Because he went out of his way to save and protect them when all other Hollows tried to eat them.
  • Princess Celestia surmises this is likely why Bount Trixie is loyal to Starlight Glimmer, as the latter saved her from the hunts that wiped out her clan.
• Becoming the Mask:
  • Flash started out as only pretending to have a crush on pony Twilight so she would let her guard down so he could find out more about her. Nowadays, however, he feels the crush isn't nearly as fake anymore...
  • This happened to Soul Reaper Discord in the backstory. As the project head of XCution, he was supposed to be researching and testing the Humane Five's mothers under the guise of being a helpful soul training their powers. Overtime, his contact with them made the mask become genuine, and he went from using them to doing his damnedest to try and help them. His failure to do that still weighs heavily as one of his biggest failures.
  • Adagio's Benevolent Boss treatment of her minions, particularly outside of her inner circle, was at least partially Pragmatic Villainy, but it seems that over time she's come to start genuinely caring for them.
• Benevolent Boss:
  • Hydia's helped her servants build up an immunity, or at least a heavy resistance, to her poison so she can use it without harming them. She also cares more about loyalty than appearances.
  • It's partially Pragmatic Villainy, at least outside of her inner circle, but Adagio treats her subordinates well, judging more on loyalty and results than just strength. She even splits up the Seed equally with her inner circle.
• Berserk Button:
  • Fleur does not take well to being wounded. She goes utterly Ax-Crazy once Sunset starts doing so, and her later fight with Guto implies there's a darker reason for it.
  • The Lament has several, not the least being dishonesty and being seduced.
  • Grogar was already getting pissed with Pinkie's Fullbring defying logic and physics, but he gets even madder when one of her attacks traps him in an Ace Attorney parody and plays a capella music, which he hates. Following that, he just gets madder and madder.
  • Don't ever damage her stetson. It's a very easy way to make her very angry. It's what makes her awaken her inner Beast.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Ditzy Doo has to be one of the nicest of Discord's allies. She's also a badass Action Mom, has no problem killing, and when she coldly threatens the girls to not get her daughter involved in any of this, it's clear it's a promise she'll keep.
  • Posey... DEAR GOD POSEY. Goes out of her way to hold back? Check. Borderline Shrinking Violet? Check. Apologetic Attacker? Check. Turns into an Ax-Crazy The Berserker when she stops holding back? Check. Her Zanpakuto is even called Kyoki (Bloodthirst). It's later stated that her change in personality is caused by Kyoki's influence.
  • The Lament is a good father, the Token Good Teammate of the Espada, and his friendliness even seems genuine. He's also the most Ax-Crazy out of all of them, and just as willing to kill as the other nine.
• Beware the Silly Ones:
  • Bount Trixie is just as silly and hammy as her pony counterpart, but she can back up her ego with her power being just below Captain-level and is able to fight Princess Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Flash Sentry to a near standstill.
  • Cheese Sandwich is a powerful, competent, and intelligent Soul Reaper captain. ...Who acts exactly like his pony self. (that is to say, a male Pinkie Pie)
  • Medley of the Zero Division is rather quirky, but she's still a member of, again, the Zero Division, and is thus insanely strong, with a Zanpakuto that can obscure and confuse the senses, but she makes it clear that the Humane Seven will die if they challenge the Soul Palace.
  • Nereid Sonata is as chirpy and optimistic as Siren Sonata, but under that positivity is a bloodthirsty killer. Heck, she thanks her killer for resurrecting her because she can now kill more people.
• BFG: Twilight Velvet's Quincy "bow", described as a cross between an arbalest and a cannon, and large enough to need to be carried over the shoulder like a rocket launcher.
• BFS:
  • Sweet Cider's Shikai, Kizuna (Bonds); described as less a sword and more like a gigantic slab of pure bronze that was hammered into the rough shape of a blade though once her Fullbring is properly separated from it, it assumes a more standard, if still just as massive, sword form. It's large enough that Cider, no small woman herself, has to stretch her arm just to reach the handle and grab it. Her Fullbring Hearthstone is a no less massive sword made of solid rock, and since both are extensions of her spiritual powers she has no issue Dual Wielding them together once they're finally separated.
  • Sunset's Bankai turns her sword from a moderately-sized blade into a flamberge that would normally require two hands to use properly.
  • Human Sunset's Fullbring is a greatsword nearly as big as she is.
  • Tirek's zanpakuto is described as a massive golden claymore that's as big as him (and Tirek is a big guy).
• Big Bad Ensemble: Due to all the parties of interest, there are several who contend for the spot.
  • On the surface, there's Tirek as the leader of Hueco Mundo, the most openly malevolent leader of the darkest faction, and most everyone agrees he's likely got to go if there's even a chance of peace being made between the three main factions.
  • Then there's Human Starlight Glimmer and her cohorts, who are aiming to upend the status quo of the world violently no matter who gets hurt, but they have the excuse of mostly being Well Intentioned Extremists out to stop the Zero Division.
  • Chrysalis has the honor of being a Dragon with an Agenda to both Tirek and Starlight Glimmer, and wants to overthrow the Zero Division and obtain all the scattered pieces of the Soul Queen to take her place and rule the planes of existence.
  • And finally, the Zero Division have the honor of being behind much of why the world is screwed up and partially behind the Soul Reapers, the Hollows, and the Quincy being at war in the first place, and are planning something for the world that's gotten Human Starlight Glimmer in arms about taking them out, no matter the cost.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Svartalfheim is filled with giant versions of Earth bugs like pill bugs the size of a bison, and butterflies (one of them sucking out the blood from dog-sized mice) as big as helicopters. They also find spiderwebs big enough to catch jetliners.
• Big Damn Heroes: Hilariously subverted at one point when Sunset drops in to save Rarity and Fluttershy... only to realize that they've already defeated the enemies without her help.
• Big Good: Discord plays this role, he acts as Sunset and the Humane Five's guide to the spiritual world, gives them the resources and allies they need to survive, protects their families, acts as Sunset's personal mentor, and wants to end the war between Soul Society and the Quincy.
• Big Red Devil: Tirek is implied to be the inspiration for the idea of the Judeo-Christian Devil looking like this.
• Birds of a Feather: Princess Twilight and Flash Sentry actually turn out to be this. Both are powerful supernatural beings (An Alicorn and a Soul Reaper Lieutenant) both are very popular despite being total dorks, and both have Undying Loyalty towards their version of Celestia.
• Bishōnen Line: Hollows gain more humanoid forms as they go through their evolution, which culminates into becoming a Vasto Lorde and/or an Arrancar. Adagio goes from looking like a bone-white version of her true Siren appearance as an Adjuchas into her human form plus a tail, fin wings, and bone-white armor once she achieves Vasto Lorde, and finally into her full human form wearing a crown of bone across her brow when she achieves Arrancar.
• Bizarre Belching: Since Pinkie's evolved Fullbring runs on the Rule of Funny, it can do some very bizarre and ridiculous things - in one case, belching in response to absorbing an energy blast (also a case of Burp of Finality).
• Black Knight: Bount!Trixie's doll Eisenwand appears as a Hellish Horse covered entirely in black iron armour when summoned in Equestria, with Princess Twilight noting how it looks a lot like the Alicorn Amulet her counterpart once used. It's probably safe to assume that his "real" appearance in the human world would look something like this instead.
• Blind Obedience: Like his Expy, Sombra detests the idea of this trope, and tells Twilight as such.
• Blood Magic: Rarity's power, using her blood as a catalyst to create armor, weapons, and pretty much anything else she can come up with made of crystals.
  • The sahuagin use blood sacrifices in their magic.
  • In her Resurrección form, Gilda gains the ability to produce acidic blood. And since in all accounts, it's a real blood it can be used as a catalyst for Gran Ray Cero.
• Blood Knight:
  • Sweet Cider, befitting of one bearing the title of Kenpachi.
  • Hurricane also really enjoys fighting as Captain of the 11th Division, and admits he was at least partially prolonging his first fight against Sunset and the others simply because it had been a while since he fought opponents who could actually pose a challenge.
  • Cheese Sandwich is one...or rather, his zanpakuto Hone Nashi (Boneless) is. Cheese pretty much admits that if a fight goes on too long and he holds back Hone Nashi will actually start fighting his control and aiming for dangerous strikes. Several times during the fight with Pinkie and Pinkamena he actually has to restrain it from fatally injuring the pair.
  • Among the Espada, there's Torch. During his fight with Shining Armor, he is openly laughing at finally having a worthy foe to fight, enough for him to release his Resurreccion.
  • Hokori is a personification of Sunset's blood knight tendencies, more interested in a good fight than anything else. Sunset must remind her to focus on their main goal even she admits she would also like to cut loose and see how much stronger she had become. They agree to fight after making sure people are safe, though.
  • Fleur is a particularly bloodthirsty individual. While other troops are nervous before the upcoming battle at Hueco Mundo, she's practically giddy at the prospect.
  • Pharynx's fights with Gaw and Fenice turn out more challenging than he had initially expected. He actually finds it more fun than aggravating. At least, until Fenice beginsn to gain an upper hand.
  • While she's concerned with her sister's critical state, Fenice is amazed at how much fun she has fighting a very one-sided battle with Pharynx. Then she notes how much happier she's been since in the last few months she had more fights than in the last few years. Like father like daughter.
• Blood Sport: Guto has his own colosseum, where the last test of passage takes place. It's also the place where his underlings solve their disputes or just get their entertainment. More often than not those end up in someone's death.
• Blow You Away:
  • Fleur Des Lis. Her title is even Tempest.
  • Captain Hurricane of the Eleventh Division. His Bankai more or less lets him make hurricanes.
• Body Horror: Grogar's favorite pastime. The things he creates are made of hollows he experimented on, resulting in creatures of mutated flesh mixed with whatever cybernetics and weapons of his own design. Later he adds replicas od Adagio's Siren Gem.
• Boring, but Practical:
  • Out of the main cast, Rarity's the most practiced with Fullbringing things other than herself from the start, like the air to stand on it or jump off of it, which helps greatly in her fight against Blueblood, though the others start following in her footsteps more later.
  • Night Light's Schrift, The Command, doesn't grant him any direct combat powers like some of the others, and he becomes a Humanoid Abomination in his Super Mode so he can't use it unless Sombra gives explicit permission, but the ability to track and relay orders back and forth to an entire army of Quincy at once is still incredibly useful. In addition, while he lacks any special techniques outside of the Quincy basics, he's honed them to a degree that only Sombra himself could match or exceed him in them.
  • Twilight approves of the simplicity and efficiency of Sugarcoat's pear bow.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In typical Pinkie Pie fashion:
  Pinkie Pie: What, too much like the source material?
• Broken Masquerade: As time goes on, the supernatural and/or spiritual going-ons in Canterlot City become harder and harder to keep under wraps.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Captain Celestia to Captain Platinum. Apparently, the later idolized the former until an incident involving Celestia's zanpakuto resulted in the death of her husband. She's blamed her ever since. Though Platinum herself states that whatever her enmity with Celestia, it has nothing to do with why she's doing what she's doing now.
  • Discord was this for Human Starlight Glimmer, his former Lieutenant. The shiftiness of his work, his own self-assurance and arrogance, combined with Starlight's belief of his compliance with Zero Division's dark plans eventually eroded all of her trust in him and caused her to strike out on her own.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer:
  • Grogar is a particularly depraved and evil example. Despite being the most loathed being in Los Noches Grogar can get away with almost anything because he has Tirek's protection since his scientific expertise make him indispensable. That said, since Espada live by the law of You Kill It, You Bought It, not even that would save him if an Arrancar came along and decided to climb the ranks by defeating him.
  • Captain Starswirl is a downplayed example. He's usually serious enough, but he has moments of blatant disrespect for Central 46, outright stating that he's older than most of them, uses inflatable gigai as distractions in battle, and booby-trapped Ember's zanpakuto with a bomb that can only be deactivated by answering a riddle given by a pre-recorded chibi Starswirl.
  • Every Quincy (including Sombra) is annoyed by McColts and Hooffield's constant bickering and, ehm, old-fashioned interpretation of Pure Breeding... but they are also the ones that build Tanks and VTOLs to use against Hollows, so everyone tolerates them.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: By the Everfree arc, the Canterlot High students have become fairly accustomed to magical events happening on a regular basis.

C-D

• Call-Back: The name of the 188 chapter is called "The Phoenix and the Hollow" which is a reference to the first chapter "The Phoenix and the Soul Reaper". Both of them tackle Sunset (Pony and Human respectively) awakening an otherwordly, previously unknown to them power.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Adagio invokes this when making a deal with the Lament, saying that his desire to stay out of the rest of the Espada's struggles will eventually all come for naught and that sooner or later their "games" will put him and his family in danger. She then tells him that if he wants to protect his family then he cannot afford to hold himself apart. He seems to agree with her, though he isn't sure if she's completely right or not.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Rainbow Dash tries to do this towards her mother Firefly for being a Missing Mom and now suddenly reappearing working for Starlight Glimmer and acting all chummy towards her, but it fails for two reasons: The first is that Firefly to Dash's frustration doesn't seem that emotionally affected by it for the second reason, that being Firefly can tell Dash herself doesn't quite believe her own words.
• The Cameo:
  • Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck shows up in the Fourth Espada's lair as one of his adopted Arrancar children.
  • Lavan from Generation 1 makes an appearance in Glory's Restrospect. He's an Arrancar and part of Tirek's Warband.
• Canon Character All Along:
  • The shark Hollow from the first arc turns out to be Di Roy, who had the ignoble honor of being the first of Grimmjow's Fraccion to die in Bleach, but he's gotten better luck in this universe thanks to becoming Adagio's vassal.
  • One of the Fourth Espada's Fraccion turns out to be Roka, who until the Bleach light novels fleshed out her character was most well known for being the Arrancar nurse Yammy punched for no good reason after she reattached his arm.
  • Twilight's family butler Robert is in fact the same-named Sternritter, albeit "former" in this universe since he sacrificed his powers via the Letzt Stil transformation to save her father's life in the past.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Twilight argues this with Sapphire, given how useful her Quintessence Schrift is. And since she's under the effect of the Lust, she's bound to Cadence anyway.
• Captured on Purpose: Bount Trixie being captured was intentional on Human Starlight's part.
• Carry a Big Stick: Princess Twilight becomes bonded with a Relic in the form of a large mace.
• Cast Herd: The three main factions are divided into the Soul Reapers, Hollows, and the Quincies, and while it isn't ironclad, each herd is mainly based around a certain type of Equestrian archetype.
  • A majority of the Soul Reapers are the human versions of Equestria's prominent historical and mythological figures (Scorpan, Celestia, Luna, Amore, Radiant Hope, Daring Do, Platinum, Hurricane, Smart Cookie, Posey, Starswirl, Meadowbrook, and Clover) for example.
  • The Quincies Sternritter mainly consist of modern day Equestria's important figures and upper crust (Shining Armor, the Sparkle family, Fluer, Candence, Spitfire, Soarin', and Filthy Rich) with King Sombra being the biggest exception, paralleling Yhwach's millennia of life.
  • The Espada and their minions mainly consist of My Little Pony's Generation villains and non-pony folk (Tirek, Chrysalis, Catrina, Torch, Guto, Hydia, Grogar, Squirk, Smooze, Garble, Ember, Gilda, Thorax, Pharynx, Ocellus).
• Casting a Shadow:
  • Fittingly enough, Luna's Shikai and presumably Bankai works with this. The former enshrouds her in a cloak of darkness that covers the battlefield and she can appear out of anywhere the darkness is.
  • Sombra is capable of this, though it's really just one manifestation of his real power.
  • Cloudy Quartz, Pinkie's mother, was this back when she was a member of Xcution. Her Fullbring, Hades Shadow, manifested as a Living Shadow that revelled in slaughtering Hollows.
• Chain Pain: Guto's Resurreccion allows him to create golden chains with manacles to bind his opponents.
  • Daring Doo's weapon is a long chain that produces mist with every swing.
  • Human Cozy Glow's power as a Sinner is to use the very chains of Hell binding her to the realm as weapons.
  • Rarity's power as a Sinner lets them bind others using their chains and drain their powers to enhance their own.
• Chainsaw Good: Lieutenant Posey's Shikai turns into the medieval equivalent, a saw-tooth serrated blade that spins around the length of the blade, which befits her change in personality.
• Charged Attack:
  • In exchange for needing to invoke the full incantation, Clover can channel her Kido through her Zanpakuto and increase the spell's power threefold.
  • Sunset's Shikai works so that any damage the shield takes is converted to power that she charges into the sword as flames, which she can release at her leisure. Her shield can also use the damage the sword does to heal her injuries, as well as form energy barriers.
  • How Rainbow Dash's powers work. Part of her Fulbring is that the more she moves the more she's charged with electricity, until she can unleash it into a barrage of attacks or one big strong one enough rival the power of Zeus. Yes, that guy.
• The Charmer: The previous Ninth Division Captain before Captain Blueblood, according to Clover. Not only was he the only one successful in negotiations with the Beast Realm, he directly resulted in the births of both Celestia and Luna with the two Beast Tribe Chieftains, Quetzalcoatl and Fenris.
• Charm Person:
  • Cadance. Her Schrift, The Lust, allows her to influence those struck, such as making Hollows eat one another, or forcing an opponent to surrender. Its most powerful form forcibly and permanently turns the target into an enthralled "love slave" under her command that only desires to serve her. For obvious reasons, she doesn't like resorting to that, but has no choice in order to stop Sapphire Shores.
  • Adagio after her siren gem is restored is able to once again be this via her song.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In the flashback to the Zero Division's betrayal of the Soul Queen, Tirek is accompanied by the Arrancars Typhon and Cerberus. The former shows up several chapters later in Hell, where he blocks the path of Rarity, Cozy Glow, Blueblood, and Starburst.
• The Chessmaster:
  • Human Starlight Glimmer, being one of the main antagonist, obviously is one, caring out her plan against Soul Society pretty much without a hitch thanks to her knowledge and the skillset of her allies.
  • Chrysalis is one herself, acting as Tirek's main voice of confidence while doing her thing with Starlight. She masterminded Squirk's death by Adagio's hands while simultaneously ensuring the creation of a new Arrancar that would more than make up for his death.
  • Adagio is shaping up to being one herself as she takes on politics in Las Noches, carving a niche into the society while manuevering around or playing along with other big players like Chrysalis and Grogar.
• Child Soldiers: Downplayed with Quincy. Most of them are trained since a young age to fight Hollows and spend most of the time perfecting their skills. With how regularly Quincy is outclassed in terms of power compared to Arrancars and Soul Reapers, it's necessary. Sugarcoat mentions that, while they have times off, they have hard time maintaining their social life. Still, they stay away from serious fights until they graduate to soldats and have a chance to leave instead of joining them. The age at which they start their training also varies from person to person. Twilight and Diamond Tiara for example were unaware of their families' business until recently, while Silver Spoon was being trained since the day she was able to walk.
  • Played straight with Guto's army. To become part of it, children have to pass series of gruesome tests and if they don't, they're being starved. The final part is a group fight where only a handful of them survives. Gilda says that before Lament, it was this or staying in the warrens, trying to not being eaten.
• City of the Damned: Laying in the deepest layer of Hell lays a place called Tartarus, the closest thing Sinners have to a Town. Because Kushanāda don't go there, it allows them to create something resemble a community, torn by constant gang wars. To get there, however, Sinners have to traverse through Hell avoiding Kushanada that will reap them apart the moment they see them, find a specific hole shaped like a gaping maw filled with teeth, either walk through a makeshift metal bridge heated to the point it will burn anyone that tries to touch it or jump from stalagmite to stalagmite and risk falling into the lava river. While walking there you witness graffiti painted in blood and depicting all manners of vulgarity and debauchery alongside many cages with sinners not strong enough to protect themselves inside. Once there, the Town is a ramshackle pile of rocks, iron slabs, and chains tightly inhabited by people dressed in human hides and bones, while the constant string of noise, screams, shouts, and even small explosions drift in the air.
• Clingy MacGuffin: Implied with Twilight's mace, which she seemingly picked up again after setting it down.
• Co-Dragons:
  • Tirek has the other nine Espada.
  • Sombra has the other twenty-five Sternritter.
  • Human Starlight has Chrysalis, Firefly, Platinum, and human Trixie.
  • The Lament has Roka and Fenice.
• Cold Ham
  • Starlight Glimmer is Older and Wiser than her pony counterpart and sees herself as above villain cliches acting detached and casual, but her inability to not monologue about something, long-winded manner of speech, Dramatic Deadpan one-liners, megalomania, and dressing like a Tetsuya Nomura villain complete with Too Many Belts makes her just as hammy in spite of that.
  • Captain Platinum puts on the facade of a cool-headed and icy mask fit for a noble and her element but is ultimately driven by a fiery passion hidden under her stoic demeanor making her tremendously dramatic in whatever she does. When she undergoes a Villainous Breakdown she becomes a full on Large Ham.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Part of Sapphire Shores' power as The Quintessence is that since she has absolute control over her own reishi and can control/detect others, she can also analyze her opponent's reishi and see the "threads" of how their interactions with others will move forward into the future. This allows her to predict their movements in battle and, with less accuracy, predict the future in general based on how others' reishi interacts with others. Twilight compares it to the quantum theory of how if you know every variable about a molecule, you can predict just about everything it will do. However, magic fundamentally messes with her calculations, not that she doesn't know how to rely on common sense and her prior knowledge of her foe's personality to predict their actions.
• Combat Medic: Fluttershy graduates to this as she grows stronger. Originally, the most she could do was use a Compelling Voice and injecting her reiatsu into others to weaken or dominate her enemies while also using the same principles to power up herself and her allies, but as she improves she gains the ability to use that same power to heal others and herself while developing her hand-to-hand skills.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • Rarity is full of this trope. Her fighting style depends on observing her opponents, attacking when they're distracted and using any means necessary to win. Your opponent is busy monologuing? Attack. Ask about her powers? Tell them what a ridiculous idea it is. An enemy prepares a strong attack? Stab them in the back while they are at it. It's what makes her so deadly. Medley even describes her as the most ruthless of the group.
  • Applejack has shades of this. While a very straightforward fighter, she's not above using more dirty tactics for her advantage, like creating a dust cover saturated with her reiatsu to hide and perform a sneak attack.
  • Pharynx has the honor to be amongst the few people that stopped their opponents from releasing their full power. In his words there's no cheating, only the winner.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Human Chrysalis' another disturbing Character Trait. She loves to receive pain as much she likes to inflict it. She enjoys it so much she consciously withholds her prominent healing powers so she can enjoy it longer.
• Combat Tentacles: Jet Set is Sternritter K - The Kraken - which allows him to form massive spiked reishi tendrils around a reishi bubble with himself inside it powerful enough to act as both an offense capable of piercing through Hollows and protecting him from attacks. Of course, it's not perfect as someone with enough reiatsu can counter it, such as Torch tanking the strikes and biting through the tentacles, or the Lament slicing through them like paper.
• Commonality Connection: Spike and Rainbow Dash quickly bond over their shared love of Anime. They promise to organize Anime Nights after everything calms down and the World doesn't end.
• Conflicting Loyalty:
  • When Celestia and Luna end up being tried as traitors, Soul Society is sent into an uproar as Soul Reapers from the lowest rank to even the other Captains have to decide whether to stand by the law of Central 46 or with the condemned Captains, both of which having records of being among the greatest members of their organization. Celestia's entire 13th Division pretty much gathers together in preparation to fight the 11th Division, and Luna's 2nd Division is noted to be split right down the middle in their loyalty.
  • Zecora experiences this during the trial. Her Zanpakuto is said to be impossible to fool, so despite knowing that Celestia and Luna would never betray Soul Society, she still casts the deciding vote against them. Though considering she was really Chrysalis at the time, this was subverted since she was just playing a role.
  • When evidence all but mounts that the "treason" has been a bunch of hogwash and nothing more than manipulation, both Blueblood and Troubleshoes falter, but their loyalty to Platinum and Soul Society's laws respectively and lack of hard evidence lead them to siding with Hurricane (who himself honestly couldn't have cared if Celestia and Luna really were traitors and saw this as an opportunity to get Soul Society back on the offensive in the spirit war) against Sweet Cider, Cheese Sandwich, Daring Do, and Amore.
• Cool Boat:
  • The Odyssey, Princess Scylla’s personal ship in which she traveled around the world gathering and stealing treasures and artifacts from all the world’s cultures. Currently, it lies broken in the Aqualania's Zoo.
  • A really cool one called The Treasury, found in the Underwater City, Aqualania. It's a peak of Ancient Seaponies Magitek preceding any modern warfare by centuries. Capable of air, water, and underwater travel, big enough to board hundreds of creatures while being manned by only a handful and equipped with magical shields and enough firepower to hold off a massive mutated by dark magic sperm whales accompanied by an army of angry spirits. No wonder Scylla thought she can conquer the world with it.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Sunset, who grew up in the foster care system.
• Cover-Blowing Superpower: Several students and staff in Canterlot High are really Soul Reapers undercover in Gigai. The reason why they didn't use their powers in the previous three movies was because they were under orders from Soul Society not to use them in public.
• Covert Pervert:
  • Celestia, of all people. Her plan to escape imprisonment? Making a ward pass out of her underwear. She also owns a bunch of reverse-harem manga.
  • Midnight speaks in a sultry voice, dresses in very revealing clothes, and can't make a sentence without making a flirty comment. And since she's the sum of Twilight's repressed desires and emotions, then...
• Creepy Centipedes: The first creature that Sunset sees in Svartalfheim is a miles-long centipede, moving along the cave's ceiling. It doesn't bother them as they are too small for it to care.
• Creepy Child: Cozy Glow full stop. Let's start with that she is in HELL. An actual Hell (and later claims to have been born there). Then there is the fact she might be the top dog on the pile of corpses in there, keeping the deepest part of it in relative order with her own gang called Legion, speaks about how horrible humans are and all the atrocities of the place with a huge smile on her half-burned face and casually swears and flips people off.
• Creepy Good: Discord, the kind candy store owner who assists the main characters.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • The heroes fare badly against Fleur Des Lis. Until Sunset gets her Shikai, then it becomes a much more even fight.
  • The heroes fare badly against Grogar and later Captain Platinum. This convinces them that they need to step up their training if they want to start dealing with the big threats.
  • Moondancer and Meadowbrook, both seated officers with released Shikai versus Starlight Glimmer. It isn't even a contest with Meadowbrook being rendered unconscious and in critical condition and Moondancer potentially fatally injured while their opponent is practically unharmed. The only reason they survive is because Starlight put them in medical pods afterwards, and even then Meadowbrook lost his Zanpakuto and Moondancer lost her powers.
  • Gilda versus the Quincy cadets is barely a contest, with only Twilight tapping into her magic giving her an edge. When Twilight is forced to disengage to deal with her assassin, the rest of them do decently against her, but when she returns with Cinch in tow Gilda reveals she was holding back immensely since she wanted to fight Twilight and proceeds to decimate the cadets, slicing off Indigo Zap's legs, badly injuring Sour Sweet, almost killing Lemon Zest, and murdering Hacksaw before Twilight is able to turn the tables thanks to giving into more of Midnight's power.
  • Once Fluttershy completes her Fullbring, the end of the "fight" with Gilda can hardly be called such with how utterly she dominates her.
  • Grogar admits that in a straight fight Celestia would certainly deal this to him, which is why he doesn't play fair. Even with the deck stacked in his favor via separating her from her Zanpakuto, using his copy of Adagio's siren gem to siphon power from all his slain Hollow experiments, and releasing his Resurreccion, however, he still expresses some level of impressiveness she can still fight on a roughly even level.
  • Morgawr vs Twilight. It's less of a fight and more of Twilight checking what her Higher Magic Spells can do.
• Curb Stomp Cushion:
  • When Hurricane unleashes his Bankai, Sunset and her friends are completely outmatched, literally getting scattered by his winds. That being said, they still do manage to give him a good fight, and Ditzy even says that the fact that they managed to hurt him at all shows just how far they've come. Best shown near the end, when Sunset's final and most powerful attack actually manages to stalemate a direct hit from Hurricane's Bankai; though it quickly loses ground, it's much better than Ditzy's Cero, which was completely swamped without resistance.
  • Downplayed with Pinkie's fight with Cheese Sandwich. While she does give him a good fight and even manages to injure him, she still loses and it's clear she never stood a chance, even without Cheese using his Bankai.
  • Human Starlight's first fight with Sunset and her friends was much harder for her than the chapter and Starlight's own public dismissal would have you believe. Rainbow's attack actually made her hand go numb, and when Ditzy went all-out Starlight states it was a good thing she was in an enclosed space (forcing her to scale things down) as she likely would've been soundly defeated otherwise.
  • The "fight" between Equestrian and Hollow Chrysalis can barely be called such given the former is under too heavy Worf Had the Flu to put up a proper fight, but she's able to shapeshift her foreleg into adamantium metal that lets her stab through the Arrancar's Hierro. It doesn't last long thanks to the Arrancar's Healing Factor, but points for what was otherwise a total defeat.
  • Her fight with Cadence was even worse. Cadence ended up badly beaten, and her soul almost taken from her. Her saving grace is that she's the first creature to hurt Chrysalis, in a way that she doesn't enjoy. It's also the first time Chrysalis lost her cool.
  • Bowtie barely takes Sweet Cider seriously during their fight, even calling out her lack of technique. Then she uses the same trick Applejack used on her and manages to wound him. He's more impressed than angry.
  • The mysterious Segunda Etapa vs The Early Zero Division. They ultimately failed and fell to Glory and her army. But not before decimating the Army of God-like Spirits on par with Glory and her Siblings.
• Cursed with Awesome: Hell's chains have an element of this. Sure, they bind Sinners to Hell, to the point that even if a Sinner manages to physically escape Hell for a time they'll just get dragged back before too long, but if they have enough hatred, they can get powers out of it. Cozy Glow's power actually lets her control the chains bound to her to a degree, using the nearly indestructible bonds as weapons. They also make sure that the Sinners revive after being killed in Hell (even if it slowly breaks them down over time), as any soul lacking said chains would be completely destroyed after being killed in Hell, with no hope of reincarnation.
• Cyborg: What Grogar's Resurreccion turns him into. Noticeably, this isn't what he originally looked like, but rather the result of "enhancements" he made to himself. He can also do it to others. Apparently, Guto's army is first in line to get upgrades too.
  • Greta is the first to receive this treatment. The first time we see her Resurrección it's already been modified to turn into this. It adds metal lining to the bone feathers into metal, jet boosters onto her shoulders, and hosses that go into her sides. She says she agreed to be modified after Gilda abandoning her during the Everfree Arc.

• Cycle of Revenge: The Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincy have been at war for so long a lot of people, from the veterans to the newbies, have grudges for losing people they love. Probably best highlighted when Twilight is desperately fighting Gilda to keep her from killing her Quincy comrades, where Gilda notes they're not that different before murdering Hacksaw [McColt] when the latter is forced to push her sister Buzzsaw and Cotton Barrel out of the way of Gilda's Cero.
  Twilight: L-Leave my friends alone!
  Gilda: Pisses you off, doesn't it? Seeing your comrades bleed? Pisses me off too. Want to guess how many comrades I’ve seen bleed and die fighting you Quincy!? Payback is a bitch and so am I.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Firefly claims she had good reason for abandoning Rainbow Dash and her father, though it's still unclear what said reason is or even if it was a good one. Regardless, Rainbow is too angry at her to care. Firefly later reveals that the reason she left was to protect Rainbow and her father from the Zero Division.
• Damaged Soul: This is Gaia's fate after her confrontation with Chrysalis. She had been left as a barely conscious soul remnants, held together only by her hatred and occasional sacrifices, for hundreds of years. To finally regain her mind and powers she had to make a deal with Charybdis, and merge her soul with Gloriosa.
• Damsel out of Distress: Sonata and Aria manage to escape their cell by the time the rest of the heroes come to rescue them.
• Deathless and Debauched: Chrysalis used to feast on human sacrifices five hundred years before events of the story, not because it was convenient but because she'd found it funny. Her favorite pastime activities are massive orgies, instigating and watching senseless slaughter, and playing catch with her trueborn daughter.
• Decomposite Character:
  • Kenpachi Zaraki is split between Hurricane (Captain of the 11th division, tends to hold back when he fights, sees the main character as a Worthy Opponent.) and Sweet Cider. (Has earned the title of Kenpachi, Unskilled, but Strong, one of the strongest Soul Reapers, can't properly use her Zanpakto, is in a parental relationship with a young girl.) Also, both are Blood Knights.
  • Ichigo's Soul Society/Hollow/Quincy abilities are split between Sunset Shimmer,(Soul Society), human Twilight Sparkle,(Quincy), and Adagio Dazzle (Hollow).
  • His decomposition is taken a step further in that while Sunset got Soul Reaper abilities, Applejack has a Gender-Inverted variant of his Tragic Past: her mother became a Soul Reaper, her father was infected by a Hollow, and Grand Fisher was responsible for their deaths.
  • Captain-Commander Yamamoto is split between Captain-Commander Scorpan and Celestia. The former bears his title, immense spiritual power and personality, while the latter possesses a similar Zanpakto to Yamamoto's Ryujin Jakka, as well as a similar release phrase:
  Celestia: ”Reduce the firmaments of creation to dust and consume the weeping ashes. Shinryu Taiyo!”
  • Kon is split between Adagio (a living plush toy that's one of the main characters) and Chappy (a comedy relief character who is the result of a Soul Candy pill)
• Dead All Along: Rarity learns in Chapter 117 just why Fullbringers need someone nearby to stabilize their final transformation. When she's forced to do so in order to gain the power-up necessary to defeat and kill Hoity Toity, she only realizes when Rainbow Dash shows up afterwards and points it out that the explosion of power actually killed her, destroyed her body, and broke her Soul Chain, which she didn't notice because she was so busy in her life-and-death struggle against the Sternritter. To be fair, she'd already been stabbed in the heart. with only her powers keeping her alive, so she would have almost certainly died anyway.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart:
  • Princess Twilight asks Sunset if she knows anything about her human counterpart. Sunset reveals that she found out that her human self died in a fire years ago. Given that this is a Bleach crossover whether she got sent to Soul Society or became a Hollow is still a question up in the air. It turns out to be neither, as she's very much alive.
  • Eventually Adagio gets asked this question by Sunset's said counterpart. She confesses that she hadn't really thought about it, but imagines that her counterpart and her sisters' own are either dead or in hiding, as she can't imagine another version of her would be satisfied not making a name for herself. As it turns out, the Siren's counterparts are Undead Alternate Counterparts.
• Deal with the Devil: Adagio gave up a part of her soul to Charybdis in order to learn how to use her siren gem to feed on negative emotion.
• Deflector Shield: Just like in canon, Shining Armor can use his power, Bastion, to create massive forcefields that vaporize Hollows on contact.
• Destructo-Nookie: It's all but stated that Sweet Cider and Hard Nail engaged in this while alive during a brief moment of peace when Lament jokes about how his fight with Sweet Cider reminded him of that time when Granny Smith wasn't around and Cider quickly shushes him with a blush since Applejack is nearby.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Sunset regularly pokes fun at herself by pointing out how poorly thought out her Evil Plan to conquer Equestria with brainwashed highschoolers really was.
  • On her first day in Svartalheim, Rainbow Dash eats some mushrooms. Without asking if they are edible. Intoxication Ensues.
• Die or Fly:
  • Ditzy tells the girls that true desperation in life-or-death situations is the fastest way to awaken and evolve one's powers. The girls' Training from Hell is very likely to actually kill them. It works.
  • This is the usual process behind a Menos becoming an Arrancar. In theory, all you have to do is tear off your mask. In practice, your will needs to be strong enough to hold your destabilizing spiritual power together as your body reshapes itself. The more advanced you are in your evolution the more it boosts the chance that you'll survive, but it's still a risk. Adagio transforms in a rage at seeing Luna and her subordinates take Ember from Hueco Mundo, determined to not lose her first friend here.
• Dirty Business: Sapphire Shores has used her power to seek out internal threats to Sombra for hundreds if not thousands of years to nip them in the bud, and she's done everything from quietly dissuaded them from their predicted course of action to to killing them or putting them in a position to be killed while disguising it as accidents. About the only time she's ever hesitated was when one of those predictions required her to let Radiant Hope die to prevent her unborn children from possibly killing Sombra in the future.
• Disability Superpower: The Lament's emotional state combined with his "deathless" body prove a boon against two Sternritter's powers. Against Harshwhinny's The Uncaring, the apathy simply makes him more focused and determined to kill all threats while blocking out his deeper emotional turmoil, while the fact he doesn't need his organs to function makes Upper Crust's The Judgement fail when she uses her Desperation Attack to stop his heart after fatally wounding Jet Set. It's only the fact that Harshwhinny recognizes this that lets the two Sternritter escape with their lives when she realizes her power is preventing him from properly registering the regret he felt killing Jet Set after he sacrificed himself for his wife Upper Crust and deactivating causes him to retreat back to Las Noches to digest what he did.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Again, the Lament threatened to kill someone because he thought she wasn't going to finish an apple. An apple, by the way, that Adagio never gave any indication that she was going to waste it. And according to Ember, the guy's rather fond of this trope...
• Divine Conflict: One occurred in Equestria in the past between two factions of gods, one that wished to preserve the world as it was, one that believed that the old way was unsustainable and wanted to remake the world anew. Reportedly, neither the Reformists or Preservers won.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": Sombra, King of the Quincy, admits that he finds the royal titles tedious and would prefer to be called Sombra. As most of the Quincy are scared of him due to well-earned tales of his youth, they continue to call him "His Majesty" and only Twilight Sparkle calls him Sombra.
• Don't Think, Feel: The key to learning Anima is instinct. It's not a power that can be mastered through study but by following instinct, in the same way, children learn to walk or birds fly.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Despite not being her children, Chrysalis keeps doting and treating Thorax and Pharynx like they were hers, to the point, Cadence wonders if she had gone insane and literally can't see the difference.
• Dragged Off to Hell: The fate of any soul subjected to the Soul Reaper's Konsō ritual that ends up summoning the Gates of Hell, as we can see in the chapter 6. Clover explains its reserved for any soul judged too sinful in life. Or any soul the Zero Division wants to have removed from the cycle of reincarnation for their own reasons, whether it's because you're someone they have a personal beef with or just a reincarnation of said person. Sunburst being the latter is what causes Starlight's Start of Darkness, and Rarity ends up suffering this fate for being the former in Episode 180.
• Dragons Are Divine: Celestia's Zanpakto, Shinryu Taiyo (Divine Dragons of the Sun), manifest not as a weapon, but as twin dragons of pure fire. Unfortunately, they are very willful and difficult to control even in Shikai, let alone Bankai.
• Dramatic Irony: When talking to Twilight about the similarities and differences between the worlds Flash mentions that Radiant Hope is a part of Soul Society, noting that she doesn't have any connection to Earth's version of Sombra. If only he knew...
• The Dreaded: Scorapan is this to the Hollows. He's the strongest Soul Reaper that's ever been, fought and defeated Tirek, the strongest Hollows of them all. Gilda even calls him a Boogeyman. For her, he was not a kind old man but a monster that terrorized her kind, longer than most Arrancars lived. Unlike the people like Celestia, other Captains, and even the characters, the news of his death make her happy.
• Dreaming of Times Gone By: When Twilight picks up her mace, she catches a glimpse of an ancient goddess named Astra talking with another deity.
• Dual Wielding:
  • Celestia and Luna, who are the only known Soul Reapers to wield dual Zanpakuto.
  • After having her Zanpakuto and Fullbring separated, Sweet Cider can now dual wield both at once. Particularly impressive considering they're both BFSes.
  • Sunset eventually discovers that her own Zanpakuto is this, complete with two Zanpakuto spirits. Interestingly, it's a single blade when not released, which is part of why she didn't figure it out sooner.
  • Thanks to Starlight Glimmer lending it to her Chrysalis can use her own Zanpakuto and Zecora's at once.
  • In his Resurreccion form, Thorax has a pair of "deer horn" knives as weapons.
  • After she awakens to her Phantom Blade's power, Fenice can use it and her Fullbring at once.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Thorax is described as quite effeminate and quite good-looking, and his personality seems set to match it. It's likely part of the reason why he can impersonate Chrysalis so well.
• Due to the Dead:
  • Despite working with death, Soul Reapers have their own funeral rites. When a soul "dies", it leaves a body before being absorbed into the ambient reishi. They use cremation to speed up the process, so they don't bury their dead. Instead, they carve their names on stone pillars.
  • Quincy perform a Military Funeral for those that had lost their lives during the attack on Las Noches. Each family carried a casket of their fallen family member (at least of those that bodies been managed to be brought back) towards a graveyard counting possibly tens of thousands of graves, followed by a speech from Quincy King. Twilight, in her grief finds the whole ordeal superfluous.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: She doesn't die, but after being beaten by Sunset, Platinum tells her that she hopes Sunset has someone she loves more than anything, so she'll know the pain of losing them.

E-F

• Early-Bird Cameo: Someone implied to be Wallflower Blush has made a couple of appearances by the "Camp Everfree" arc.
• Easy Road to Hell: While Hell is supposed to be reserved for those who committed grave sins in life, Zanpakutou can and do scan for other criteria set by the Zero Division, and any soul with those characteristics will be Dragged Off to Hell as well. These criteria can be anything from being a reincarnation of a member of the Star Family that rebelled in protest at the idea of creating the Central 46, like Human Sunburst, or being someone that the Zero Division personally wants out of the way, like Human Rarity.
• Eating the Enemy: Pinkamena. And of course any Hollow can do this.
• Eating the Eye Candy:
  • Despite herself, Sweet Cider can't stop eying up Lament/Hard Nail and remarking to herself how handsome he looks even while in a maelstrom of conflicting emotions while they fight. Only fitting, considering he is the man she fell in love with and married and even turning into an Arrancar didn't detract from his looks. In fact, she even admits to herself she likes the longer shaggy hair.
  • Adagio finds both Thorax and Pharynx extremely attractive in their own ways and wouldn't mind a moment with each of them alone. She quickly stops herself from thoughts like that as she is on the brink of full-blown war.
• Elemental Powers: Many characters have various powers relating to the elements, but Captain Commander Scorpan is the standout, as his Zanpakutou Shiki no Ken (Sword of Four Seasons) invokes the elements associated with the seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter and allows him to combine and wield them at will even if they would logically cancel each other out. When he unleashes his Bankai Shunkashuto-Ikkon (Four Seasons - One Soul), he becomes capable of channeling the elements directly through his body via martial arts.
• Empowered Badass Normal:
  • Night Light is this among the Sternritter. His Schrift, The Command, isn't of much use in a one-on-one fight and is best suited for tactical command, and while he has Vollstandig he can't even use it unless all else is on the line since as one of the Schuztstaffle he'll turn into a Humanoid Abomination upon activation. He has no other "unique" abilities that even a simple Quincy doesn't learn. The difference is that Night Light refined the base Quincy abilities to a level only Sombra himself can match. His normal arrows are massive and described as closer to spears, his version of Licht Regen fires millions of arrows at once while most Quincy can "only" get by with hundreds or thousands, and even his Seele Schneider is larger and powerful enough to slice clean through the Cero of an Espada as strong as Torch while in his Resurreccion.
  • Maud Pie was fending off lesser Hollows on her own before she gained a Fullbring.
• Enemy Mine:
  • WWI and WWII were some of the few times that the Soul Reapers and Quincy were able to put their own conflicts aside, for the most part at least, and focus on the Hollows born from all the people dying horrific deaths.
  • Tirek has repeatedly offered to ally with Sombra and the Quincies against their mutual Soul Reaper enemies, but Sombra has always refused. Most of the Espada think that it's just a courtesy at this point and he doesn't really think that Sombra will take it. Guto is the only other Espada who doesn't want to wipe them out, but that's simply because he wants to conquer and enslave them instead.
  • When the Kraken attacks the beach trying to get the magic in Indigo Zap's legs, the Humane 6, Twilight, and the Shadowbolts team up to fend it off.
  • When Grogar sets his experimental subjects on Canterlot City as a distraction, Sweet Cider and her forces work together with Filthy Rich and Soarin to defend the citizens.
  • Starswirl works together with Twilight, Cadence, Filthy Rich, and Soarin to defeat Sapphire Shores.
  • Ulgriv is forced to flee with the ponies since the translation spell on him causes his fellows to assume that he's a traitor. He openly admits that he hopes that they get killed though.
• Enemy Scan: One of Clover's shikai's abilities. Given enough time, it can analyze an attack or ability and use Hitei to negate it.
• Enigmatic Minion:
  • Thorax serves Chrysalis faithfully as her son and top Fraccion, but his Affably Evil nature combined with his respect for Adagio, his self-stated desire to keep the Arrancar in high spirits, and some level of distrust for what his mother and Grogar are getting up to paints him as someone with motivations of his own. He also apparently has some history with Luna, make of it what you will.
    • He eventually reveals to Adagio that he wants change in Hueco Mundo, to change the status quo for the better, rather than just keep living in a Death World where Hollows must fight against everyone, including each other, to simply survive.
  • Medley is noted to be the loose cannon of the Zero Division, with Discord himself admitting she's the one member who he's not confident he can accurately predict the actions of. Not even the other Zero Division members are privy to what exactly she's thinking or planning, which frustrates them to no end when she trolls them about it. She claims to Bowtie that she wants to shake things up because she doesn't like Glory bossing the rest of them around when they're supposed to be equals, which is why she let Ditzy escape with information about the Zero Division's crimes, among other things, and at the very least she also wants to get amusement out of it, but it's hinted that there's more to it than just that, particularly regarding the heroines.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: The basis of Adagio's Rule. Yes, she takes in the dregs of Arrancar society, treats them with respect, and helps them get stronger, but it's mostly to strengthen her own position as an Espada. Torch is somewhat baffled by this approach and points out the potential flaws, but Adagio assures him she can make it work.
• Entertainingly Wrong: The still-active translation spell on Ulgriv causes his fellows to assume that he's a traitor allied with the rescue party.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Hydia's Fraccion are all somehow deformed from the more normal human shape most Arrancar possess, since she doesn't care about looks as long as they're loyal to her and aren't sticks in the mud.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: As shown in Glory's flashback to the day Zero Division betrayed the Soul Queen, not even The Social Darwinist Tirek could ever bring himself to hate his divine grandmother, only able to embarrassingly mutter to himself on how he'd have to bathe in the blood of his enemies to ignore how her declaration of love for her family moved him. Ironically, this moment of emotional vulnerability made him just a little too slow on the uptake when Glory and her cohorts made their fateful move.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Hurricane still loves his late wife Pansy; hiding it behind a tough facade because he presumably doesn't want to show weakness.
  • Human Torch (an Espada) clearly loves his daughter Ember dearly.
  • Human Starlight's entire motivation is due to this, she wants to get back at Soul Society because she believes they sent her friend Sunburst to Hell.
  • The Fourth Espada might be a few eggs short of a dozen, but he cares for his adopted children dearly, to the point where he'll kill anyone who tries to hurt them. This love quickly extends to Sweet Cider and Applejack when he remembers them.
  • Hollow Chrysalis is Faux Affably Evil incarnate, but she does truly love her "trueborn" Arrancar children, namely Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocellus. Thorax is actually rather conflicted by this, since he wants to call his mother "evil", but knows that she genuinely loves him and his siblings. That love is so strong that it extends even to their Equestrian Counterparts. This is in stark contrast to her Equestrian counterpart.
  • The Gaia Everfree/Gloriosa Daisy fusion still has all of the latter's love for her brother Timber Spruce, and in the past the former genuinely cared about her Fraccion, her feud with Chrysalis starting partially because Chrysalis killed one, and when she had the other two killed, Gaia was furious.
  • Hollow Tirek would self-admit to being fully willing to kill his brother Scorpan over their ideological differences and hated how his brother refused to believe him about the fate of the Soul Queen, but when he senses that Scorpan has been killed by Glory, he does feel genuine grief for his brother's passing. It also adds yet another grudge to his vendetta against the Zero Division. He also values what few beings he considers "friends" to the point that when he realizes that Human Sunset Shimmer/Fenice is the daughter of one of said friends, Ravana, he's outright chummy with her.
  • Nidhögg genuinely loved his brother Fafnir and is delighted to see him reincarnated as Spike. Unfortunately for Spike, he made up his mind to take him back to Niflheim and awaken his Past-Life Memories.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The Storm King thinks Captain Platinum is out of her mind after being captured by Human Starlight’s group and interrogated by Platinum.
  • Bount Trixie is seemingly worried for a moment when she thinks that her Doll's killed the Equestrian Rainbow Dash.
  • In a flashback, Gaia Everfree was rather disturbed by Chrysalis's hunger for Soul Reaper flesh.
  • An Omnicidal Maniac Jörmungandr is, he forbids Ofridr from using the corpses of his comrades. He's cool with using every else's however.
• Evil Matriarch:
  • Firefly is Rainbow Dash's mother, and is one of Starlight Glimmer's Co-Dragons. Although "evil" is really up for debate.
  • Chrysalis's Arrancar are all her children, and she's one of the evilest people in the story.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Human Starlight and Firefly discuss this about their "ally" human Chrysalis, ending with them agreeing wholeheartedly that she must be kept on a tight leash and must be observed at all times.
• Evil Is Petty: Human Chrysalis, who Hoops, Dumbbell, and Score all say will see any Hollow claiming the chambers of a former enemy of hers as a challenge to her authority.
• Evil Reactionary: The Zero Division's entire plan is basically a hatred of how the world has become, and wanting to make it what it once was by grinding up all but a chosen few mortal souls to revive their fallen divine family, with Glory all but throwing a tantrum at the idea that the deaths and fracturing of the souls of their relatives could be a natural thing like the Soul Queen had accepted.
• Evil Weapon: Posey's Zanpakuto Kyoki and Cheese Sandwich's Hone Nashi. Kyoki plays the trope to its fullest extent by affecting Posey's mind and turning her into an Ax-Crazy psychopath when its shikai is released. Hone Nashi prefers to simply disobey orders and go for lethal strikes of its own accord once it feels a fight has been dragging on too long.
• Exact Words:
  • When asked by Pony Twilight if she and Luna have any capability with spirit energy, Celestia replies that the mysteries of such power are realms beyond the experience and knowledge they ‘presently’ have. Twilight notices the word choice, but doesn't comment on it, figuring that Celestia would tell them if it was important.
  • Human Wind Rider copied the Bount in the past, and while he swore never to make any more of the soul energy vials he used, he managed to hang onto a few just in case, since his oath didn't forbid him from using what he still had, just making it.
  • Adagio notes that Tirek specifically says that the Zero Division has power that rivals his own and Sombra, not exceeds it. Meaning that if she gets powerful enough to beat Tirek, she'll have reached the power ceiling.
  • The "Treasury" in Aqualania turns out to be the name of a ship, not a literal treasury.
• Excuse Me While I Multitask: Ditzy is so strong, fast, and skilled that she can casually chat, make witty observations, check her nails, etc while the girls are trying their hardest to hit her.
• Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Lampshaded and defied by Rarity during her battle with Captain Blueblood.
  Blueblood: Stop that!
  Rarity: Stop what?
  Blueblood: Using dirty little tricks! You only injure me when you pull out some weird fake-out maneuver out of nowhere with that icky blood power! That spike didn’t even come from the disgusting pool that you have flying around! Where did it even come from!?
  Rarity: Oh, are we sharing the secrets of our abilities now? I’ve seen this part of Rainbow Dash’s quaint Japanese cartoons. The characters do so love to talk about how their powers work in those shows. Sorry, darling, but I don’t think I want to tell you anything. Doesn’t strike me as a very smart thing to do. Of course if you want to tell me about your abilities, I’m all ears.
• Extranormal Institute: Along with CHS, Crystal Prep is revealed to be this combined with Hero Academy, serving as a training ground for Quincies.
• Eye Scream:
  • During the Arrancar attack on the Quincy cadets, Garble ends up blinded by Twilight, but he recovers. He repays the favor by slicing and destroying Sugarcoat's eyes. Because she doesn't have handy regeneration, she initially believes her fighting days are over before Twilight makes a visor combining technology, magic, and reishi to give her sight back.
  • Midnight slams the wrecked remains of her bow into Sapphire Shores' eyes to temporarily blind her so she can forcibly tear away the Sternritter's defenses and let Cadence strike the final blow.
  • The Soul Queen lost both of her Eyes. One is sealed inside of Twilight, and the other's whereabouts are unknown.
• Facial Horror: Cozy Glow's right side of her face is melted flesh, with all her features scorched away. That includes her eye. It's worth mentioning that Cozy is still a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl.
• Fake Weakness: During her battle with Captain Starswirl, Twilight attempts to fool him into believing her Schrift The Variable requires her to physically see her target in order to alter its variables as she desires in order to set up a decisive blow, when in reality she only needs to detect it with her spiritual senses. While he does suspect a trick, she's able to lead him on sufficiently with carefully-timed feints and fake limitations that when she finally goes for the finisher and seemingly misses, he lets his guard down upon believing she's goofed up and ends up taking a massive explosive arrow to the back. He congratulates her and admits she truly is impressive before activating his Bankai.
• Family-Values Villain: The Lament puts a strong emphasis on family, togetherness and friendship. Fitting, as he was a member of the Apple Family in life.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Sahuagin and Seaponies do not like each other, as shown by interactions between Ulgriv and Wavecrest. Seaponies see them as nothing more than killers and plunderers. Sahuagins justify their actions, that they'd been driven out of their home to the Abyss centuries ago by Seaponies and other aquatic races. A place that is cold, dark, and lacks food and any other necessities.
    • Despite her animosity, Wavecrest admits she feels sorry for Ulgriv, who had to become a warrior at such a young age.
  • After centuries of war, there is a lot of bad blood between Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincies. It's especially bad between Hollows and Quincies.
    • Fleur has it especially bad, even by Quincy standards. She's exceptionally eager to murder them all. Reapers are barely any better in her book.
  • As hard to find anyone Glory doesn't look down at, he has a special disgust for Hollows.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Soul Reaper Flash Sentry gets a Pacific Island vibe from the Equestrian seaponies.
• Fearless Fool: Lightning Dust, who will happily throw herself into any fight Leeroy Jenkins style. It is partially due to the fact her Schrift "The Daredevil" makes her stronger the more in danger she is, but she also admits that she would prefer to go out young in a blaze of glory than waste away in old age. The Smooze calls her sort of thinking insane, as he would gladly do anything to escape the pain he's constantly in and live a full life, and Hoity Toity expresses an amused similar sentiment after the battle.
• Female Monster Surprise: Adagio is floored when Di Roy tells them that the giant tyrannosaurus Adjuchas Hollow, Gaw, he's partnered with is a female.
• Fiction 500: Many Quincy families are rather wealthy, like the Riches or Twilight's family.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: The three main factions roughly fall into this dynamic:
  • The Hollows/Arrancars are the "Fighter" archetype; they tend to be physically larger and stronger than the average Soul Reaper or Quincy (especially before they become Arrancar and gain a more human-sized form), can fire powerful and destructive Cero blasts, and their Hierros and the regenerative abilities that some possess make them much better at taking damage than the other groups, but Grogar notes that their reiatsu isn't suited to the finely tuned reiryoku manipulation that gives Soul Reapers such versatility with their Kido spells, with all of his experiments to try to fix this failing having been failures.
  • The Soul Reapers are the "Mages"; their Zanpakutou, with their inherent abilities, edge them into more Magic Knight territory, but they are still by far the best of the three at manipulating reiryoku in order to cast the various types of Kido spells.
  • The Quincies fall into the "Thief" role; since they fight in living human bodies they tend to be more fragile than Soul Reapers and Arrancars, even with Blut Vene, hence why they prefer to used ranged weapons in comparison to the more sword-dominated other factions, and most don't have anything close to the lifespans of the either group, with their Quincy alchemy being more limited than Kido and requiring physical components and preparation to use effectively. As a result of being relatively Weak, but Skilled, they rely heavily on technology and the unusual tactics that the Sternritters can use due to their Schrifts in order to keep up with the other factions.
• The Fighting Narcissist: Catrina is incredibly proud of her beauty, to the point she's jealous of Chrysalis, becomes enraged if she's ever marked (especially on her face) and only resorts to her Resurreccion when she has no choice because it apparently makes her uglier.
• Fire/Ice Duo: Sunset Shimmer wields the fire-type Zanpakuto Hokori, while Sixth Division Captain Platinum wields the ice-type Zanpakuto Fuyukogo. Not only do the two clash on personality and ideological issues, their Zanpakuto also are quite eager to clash against each other, something both of them comment on. Fittingly enough, the two face each other both at the prelude to and the climax of the Soul Society Arc ala Ichigo and Byakuya.
• First Period Panic: Sunset tells Ditzy that at her first period, she freaked out so much she went to a hospital, thinking she was dying. After the embarrassment, she spent the next week studying human biology. She finds periods more annoying than being in heat.
• Fisher King: A sufficiently powerful Arrancar have limited control over the part of Hueco Mundo they have claimed as their territory.
  • This is what cause the inside of Las Noches to be basked in constant light.
  • The ground at Storm King's base of operation was able to bear trees for that reason. It allowed him to provide additional food for his subject. It also adds to his modus Operanti - He lures other Arrancars with promise of food and shelter only to devour them up in the end.
• Fisher Kingdom: Any non-Beasts that find themselves in the Beast Realm will gradually transform into a Beast themselves, which can become permanent with enough time. Typical humans would become visibly transformed within days, while those with higher spiritual powers would need to remain for weeks for any noticable changes to occur, though Sunset having a Phoenix Mythical Motif apparently makes her changes happen faster.
• Flaming Sword: Half of Sunset's Shikai, a flaming broadsword.
• Flash Step: This is a Bleach crossover, so this is to be expected.
  • One of Grogar's experiments can fire tiny Balas that can use Flash Steps.
• Flawed Prototype: Ditzy's Vizard abilities seem less refined than Human Starlight's, who has better control over her Inner Hollow, given that her eyes are unchanged when she summons her mask. Firefly later confirms that Pipsqueak's own Inner Hollow shouldn't come out unless he gets really riled up or brings it out deliberately, thanks to Starlight refining the process.
  • As in canon, the Letzt Stil technique has been abandoned by the Quincy for its flaws, like how a Quincy using it will lose their powers. Vollständig, the new Super Mode they created to replace it, is a relatively recent development that only got openly used for the first time in the attack on Los Noches, but it provides far more power with fewer drawbacks.
• Flechette Storm: Blueblood's Shikai Mezurashi Kokei (Uncommon Vision) produces 32 nearly invisible daggers made of glass that he can control at will, very similarly to Byakuya's Senbonzakura. He can also make them individually release an explosion of Reishi energy that annihilates whatever they hit without damaging the blades.
• Foil: Several, particularly between the human world and Equestrian versions of the characters.
  • Captain Blueblood and Prince Blueblood, Prince Blueblood is a shallow Prince Charmless with no depth, only holds his position by blood, has shown no appreciable skill, and blew off Rarity, while Captain Blueblood is a boorish, foppish noble, he was born with The Gift, the more martial culture of Soul Society ensures that he has the power and skill needed of his position, and after his defeat by Rarity he listens to her criticisms and shows Hidden Depths beginning to put forth the effort to improve himself.
  • Pony Starlight and Human Starlight Glimmer as villains. Pony Starlight is unstable Large Ham, while Human Starlight is a composed Cold Ham, Pony Starlight is a Psychopathic Woman Child with a Vague Age who is at most in her twenties, while Human Starlight is defined by being an Older and Wiser villain who has refined her skills as a woman in her thirties, Pony Starlight ruled over a town as a dictator, manipulating them into giving up their individuality while denying her own absurd magical talent, Human Starlight revels in her great power which she spent decades building and refining while surrounding herself with a small cabal of talented and unique individuals who willingly serve her knowing what they're getting into, Pony Starlight became Twilight's apprentice while Human Starlight holds seniority over Sunset as the Hero's Evil Predecessor, Pony Starlight's plans regularly suffer from Didn't Think This Through while Human Starlight is The Chessmaster who can play Xanatos Speedchess when things get dicey, Pony Starlight's appearance invokes They Look Just Like E Veryone Else, while Human Starlight wears a flamboyant outfit that consists of a Spy Catsuit, Too Many Belts, and a Badass Longcoat, Pony Starlight's Start of Darkness was caused by Sunburst moving away causing her to commit petty Disproportionate Retribution against a working society, while Human Starlight's Start of Darkness and madness was caused by a broken system that caused Sunburst to unjustly be sent to Hell.
  • King Sombra to Quincy King Sombra, King Sombra is Obviously Evil with a 0% Approval Rating among the Crystal Ponies as The Dreaded who he turned into a Slave Race, Quincy Sombra is Ambiguously Evil and acts as A Father to His Men to the Quincy, who all willingly serve him with Undying Loyalty. In the comics Sombra usurped the Crystal Empire from Princess Amore while Quincy Sombra is the rightful king of the Quincy, being the progenitor of the race, King Sombra was an Evil Overlord while Quincy Sombra acts as The Good King, King Sombra spent a thousand years being sealed away while Quincy Sombra has been active for over a thousand years. However, several comments and Sombra's own words imply there was a time he wasn't so different from his Equestrian counterpart before he Took a Level in Kindness.
  • Equestrian Discord towards Human Discord. Equestrian Discord is his words most powerful magic user while Human Discord is his world's greatest Mad Scientist, even creating the Hogyoku. Equestrian Discord was his own act at first feeling like he needed no friends or allies, while Human Discord was a part of an organization like Soul Society and even after being exiled was joined by his closest friends and allies. Equestrian Discord was turned to stone because Celestia and Luna would not tolerate his cruelty while Soul Society allowed Human Discord to perform unethical experiments as the head of Hitsuyo Aku. Both Discords were once evil in one way or another, but Equestrian Discord's god like powers gave him an extreme Lack of Empathy making his reformation very difficult even with friends while the weaker Human Discord could more easily emphasize with others and once he actually got to know his test subjects he turned into a better man all by himself eventually going as far to become the Big Good in contrast to the still unreliable Spirit of Chaos.
  • Equestrian Chrysalis and Arrancar Chrysalis.
  • Equestrian Ocellus and Arrancar Ocellus.
  • Siren Sonata and Nereid Sonata
• Fog of Doom: Daring Doo's power allows her to create a dense mist, in which she can hide. The fog is harmless on its own, but Daring can dissolve her body in it, making herself impervious to attacks.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: Characters and the narration commenting on each other's spiritual power is quite common. Sunset also notes that once someone gets into the high enough tiers it becomes fuzzy trying to accurately guess what their power is at exactly and it's more of a "feeling" based on past experience with others of a similar level.
  • Special mention has to go to Tirek, however, who's reiatsu is so strong the other Espadas' own pale before it. Adagio describes the Fifth Espada Torch's weakened spiritual pressure like a bonfire with ever-present heat on her skin; she then goes on to describe a casual reading of Tirek's suppressed spiritual power like the corona of a blazing star ready to vaporize anything that displeases him.
  • The first time Gaia Everfree ever met Chrysalis, she was shocked by the fact that she couldn't sense Chrysalis' spiritual pressure and realized upon closer probing that she had concentrated the potent energy so close to her body it was like an armor or barrier, demonstrating both her strength and more importantly control.
  • When Medley first shows up before the Humane Seven, they can't even sense her reiastu and don't understand why Pinkie is freaking out from her Pinkie Sense so badly until she readjusts it for them to actually feel it. Medley then comments she often forgets that only people like "little Scorpan" are actually used to sensing spiritual pressure of her and the other Zero Division's level.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In the first chapter, Twilight is the only one to hear something akin to a howl. It's because she's a pure-blood Quinvy.
  • As the story progresses many hints are dropped that the Fourth Espada is Applejack's father, with said hints increasing to the point where it's all but stated when he actually makes his appearance.
  • Flash is repeatedly weirded out by the Absence of Evidence of negative spiritual energies in Aqualania. As it turns out, they were just sleeping...
  • We are told Wallflower's living address is at the cemetery and she spends her time there when not living at other people's houses. It'sa because she's in fact Hel, the Norse Goddess of Death.
• Forever War: The fic starts with Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the Vandenreich stuck in a three-way deadlock with no progress happening in centuries. Discord, King Sombra, and Tirek believe that the Humane Five, Sunset, and Twilight gaining their powers will trigger the turning point that will heat up the war.
• Forgot About His Powers:
  • When Ember kicks Adagio down into the Menos Forest, she's so busy cursing her out that she briefly forgets that she can float until the last second.
  • Flash forgets that he can make platforms on air when chasing Bount Trixie, trying to use his new pegasus wings instead, until Pony Twilight reminds him.
  • More like forgot about her species powers. While sneaking into Starlight's base, Chrysalis forgot that her human counterpart was also a changeling at the time and could smell her emotions. She's quick to berate herself for this.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Deconstructed hard. Just because you forget about the fallen friend doesn't mean, they will forget about you. This happens to Greta during the events of Everfree Arc. While Gilda was dealing with Fluttershy, Greta's been put out of the fight. Once the fight's been wrapped up Gilda never bothered to check if her oldest friend was alright. Gets worse when it turns out Thorax has drugged and impersonated her, and Gilda's never noticed. All of this makes her, rightfully so, feel abandoned and betrayed. All of which prompts her to retaliate on Gilda, even going so far be experimented on by Grogar.
• Fungus Humongous: Svartalfheim is overgrown with mushrooms many of which are enormous. They provide a bioluminescent glow making up for the lack of sun in the underground realm.
• Fragile Speedster: Catrina is this compared to the other Espada. She proudly boasts the fastest Sonido of them all, but her Hierro she herself notes is actually weaker than the likes of Guto's, which is why she relies on evasion heavily in battle.
• Friendly Enemy:
  • Despite being on opposite sides, Cadence, Celestia, and Luna seem to be on good terms with each other. Not only that, Sombra doesn't seem to have a problem with this!
  • Chrysalis likes treating Celestia and Luna as this, a sentiment the two do not reciprocate.
  • This is the core relationship between Sunset, Human Twilight, and Adagio. All are on different sides and have their own goals, but they still act very friendly with one another despite it all.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Scootaloo's Bount clan is this, doing their best to only take small amounts of spirit energy from souls, not enough to harm them. When Scootaloo hears that not only are Screwball and Screwloose willing to "donate", Discord is working on other solutions rather than feeding on souls directly, she's relieved and happy about it.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Pinkamena is accepted as a part of the group because she's a part of Pinkie Pie. Of course, her casual brutality and bloodlust, combined with her talking about wanting to eat the Humane Five ensures that no one actually likes her at first until she works on her attitude.
• Friend to All Children: The Fourth Espada has a soft spot for orphaned children. ...Or rather, the orphaned children of Hollows. It's unclear how he feels about human kids, though given how he saved the half-dead Human Sunset Shimmer from being killed when she ended up in Hueco Mundo and even makes trips to the human world to get her supplies, it can probably be assumed he feels similarly about that too.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Lament was once nothing more than a humble farmer and unlike his wife had no spiritual power, but after being killed by Grand Fisher he ended up becoming powerful enough to become the Fourth Espada. A flashback from Twilight Velvet reveals, however, that when he was alive and before meeting Sweet Cider he was attacked and infected by a strange Hollow (much like the proto-Arrancar White infected Misaki in Bleach canon), though Discord was able to contain the infection and he didn't develop any powers. That pretty obviously changed once he actually died.
• Full-Contact Magic: Princess Luna is revealed to prefer fighting up close and personal, using magic to craft armor, weapons such as axes and claws, and to buff her speed and strength. When she fights a "mock battle" with Flash Sentry, she utterly stomps in, even with Celestia telling him to not hold back.

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• The Gadfly:
  • Thorax is this, clearly enjoying throwing both teases and jokes at other Arrancar and watching how they react. He once apparently set up his brother Pharynx and Ember on a date without either of them knowing for a joke.
  • Hoops, Dumbbell, and Score occasionally go into the human world and mess around with people for kicks. Apparently there's a video online of them haunting someone by messing with the lights and stuff.
• Gambit Pileup: Besides Sunset and company, who are mainly trying to do what's right and protect their loved ones, it seems like everyone and their mother has their own agenda, both among the more heroic and villainous characters.
• Gender Bender: This is how Twilight tried to hide her identity. She even took the name, Dusk Shine. It didn't work but, Roka noted He/She was quite handsome.
• Genius Ditz: Adagio's "secretary" Usagi is a bit of an airhead, but she has a skill with people, helping her boss organize work teams, keep notes, etc.
• Genius Loci: The whole of Aqualania seems to be infused with the vengeful spirits of the slain seaponies.
  • Later chapters imply that this is the case for Hell in this universe. When trying to keep it from claiming Rarity, Fluttershy compares it to a massive Zanpakutō, and Typhon claims that the realm has a voice for those with the will to listen, and has apparently learned some of its secrets. The latter also refers to Hell as "her", implying that the realm has a gender identity.
• The Gift:
  • How the Equestrian magic of friendship interacts with spiritual power. It's basically shonen protagonist in a bottle giving the recipient an accelerated growth rate allowing them to be able to surpass Lieutenants and press Captains who have had centuries of experience in a matter of months as shown by Sunset and the Humane Five.
  • Sweet Cider and Blueblood are prodigies as well. Sweet Cider became one of the strongest Captains in only ten years and she doesn't even have Bankai. Blueblood never put any effort into his training in his life and still made Captain, and then he does begin to put in effort and you'd think he has a friendship magic power boost as well.
  • Tirek is revealed from Grogar's musing to have this. Not only is he one of the oldest Hollows/Arrancars in existence, but he has the unique trait to get the most power out of every soul he ever devoured, allowing for near-infinite growth. This fills Grogar with no small amount of envy, as despite being of the same generation as Tirek he himself has long ago hit the limit of his natural growth, forcing him to resort to artificial augmentation to grow stronger. Which is why he's so obsessed with studying and successfully replicating Adagio's Siren Gem.
  • Human Twilight when it comes to science and magic. In a short amount of time, she managed to tap magic into batteries called M-cells and create a Mechanical Suit for Spike. Even Sunset, a magical prodigy trained under Princess Celestia admits she's much smarter than her. Helps that she has an alter ego of pure magic in her head.
• Give Him a Normal Life:
  • Shining Armor insisted that Twilight Sparkle's Quincy heritage and knowledge of the spiritual world be kept a secret from her so she could be given a normal life. However, she finds out about it anyway, so he has no choice but to train her so she can survive.
  • Ditzy Doo wants to do the same for her daughter, Derpy and coldly threatens the girls to not get her involved in any of this. Unfortunately for her, Derpy knows what's going on too and only stays silent because she doesn't want Ditzy to worry, and then the attack at Camp Everfree forces her to get involved.
  • Filthy Rich was originally planning to tell Diamond Tiara the truth about her Quincy heritage when she turned 18, so she could have a normal childhood first.
• Godhood Seeker: Hollow Chrysalis possesses a fragment of the Soul Queen within herself, implied to be her womb, and her goal is to collect all of lost parts to take her place and destroy the Zero Division.
• God's Hands Are Tied: The main reason why the Soul Queen didn't directly interfere with the wars of her children. She loved all of them, but she refused to take the choice of free will from them and if they were to fight for their ideals then that was their right. She could and would try to have meetings to get them to find common ground, but she would never fight their battles for them or force her will on them. Even as she felt and grieved for the deaths of her family, she accepted that ultimately death was a natural part of life and didn't hate the mortals born from their fractured souls. Ultimately, however, the future Zero Division saw this as nothing but cowardice and decided they would take matters into their own hands..
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: The gods of Equestria apparently found a way to gain magical power from mortal worship.
• Godzilla Threshold: Principal Celestia considers her Zanpakuto too dangerous to release in a populated area.
• Go-Go Enslavement: Guto's forced Fleur into something that Adagio can just barely call an "outfit", consisting of thin strips of white cloth that barely allow her a ghost of modesty.
• Gonk: Hydia. She's just as ugly as her G1 counterpart; short, fat, and looking more like a toad than a human. Her children follow the pattern.
• Good Is Not Dumb:
  • Pretty much all of the mane cast, but especially Fluttershy.
  Fluttershy: "I'm nice. Not stupid."
  Gilda: Good. It would have been embarrassing to lose to a total dweeb.
  • After Thorax took over the Changelings, the overall security has much more lenient, to the point of nonexistence. He doubled the security over Chrysalis' personal vault containing dangerous items. He even ordered additional wards from his Equestrian Allies.
• Good Is Not Soft: The girls prefer to fight without aiming to kill, but if push comes to shove they won't hold back for those they hold dear. Coming to terms with this is key for Rarity unlocking the full power of her Fullbring.
  • Best shown when Gilda attacked Sunset in her apartment. She calmly tells her that she will be allowed to crawl back to Hueco Mundo if she apologizes but she will still lose a limb or two. When Gilda doesn't back down, Sunset's ready to kill her if it means protecting any innocent bystanders. It briefly concerns her how readily she thought about killing someone, but she says will worry about morality later.
  • Eventually Adagio, too. After her brief time spent with Sunset, she starts to grow a conscience and finds people she actually cares about. Eventually, she admits she might have gone softer, but not that much.
  • Just because Thorax's the most moral of Chrysalis' brood doesn't mean he has his hands clean. He is skilled in things like manipulation and druggery, and while he preffers to solve conflicts peacefully e's not above violence and assassination.
• Good Parents: So far, almost every parent (whether human, Soul Reaper, Quincy, or even Hollow) has been this. Hurricane at bare minimum is neglectful to Posey's mental health, but he does care about her. The only exception so far is Guto, who treats his daughter Greta (who doesn't even know he's her father) like he treats the rest of his horde and wouldn't bat an eye if she died.
• Götterdämmerung: According to legend, the Divine Conflict between the Preservers and Reformists got so bad that what was left of them were forced to withdraw from the mortal world.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Lampshaded by Sunset Shimmer. According to Clover, this is due to the fact that the original Soul Reapers started in Japan and they just kept it for tradition. Hilariously, it's actually because Bowtie (or as he prefers to be called, Chonekutai) of the Zero Division loved the country of his birth so much that he insisted on using the "beautiful" language whenever he could, even in the modern day to Medley's exasperation.
• Gravity Master:
  • Princess Twilight defeats Bount Trixie and her Doll by ramping up the gravitational field around them to over 100x Equestria's gravity, enough to crater the ground beneath them and practically pancake them. They survive, barely, but the former decides to "call it a draw" and surrender.
  • Gladmane is Sternritter W - "The Weight", which allows him to fire reishi bullets that explode and create fields of gravity that can either magnify to the point of crushing his foes to death or reverse it to send them flying into orbit. The major weaknesses are that he can't immediately ramp it up and has to do it gradually over the course of a fight against powerful foes and they're limited to a set total area.
• Guardian Entity: Human Trixie can summon one, as per being a Bount.
• Green Thumb:
  • The Queen of Thorns/Gaia Everfree had this power, being able to even make plants grow in the desert wastelands of Hueco Mundo when normally even bringing in soil from the human world can't let that happen, tying to her "theme" of cycles.
  • As in canon, Gloriosa Daisy has this power, but it's actually a Fullbring Gaia Everfree ensured that she'd develop, having been grooming her family line to provide a new host body for her. The magic of the geodes merely brought it out and masked the Hollow energy.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: It's been repeatedly noted that the Chappy Sunset uses to exit her body for Soul Reaper duties has developed a personality beyond what is normal for her model, particularly a hedonistic streak.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The Lament has a very short temper, best shown when he threatens to kill Adagio because he thought she wasn't going to finish an apple.
• Hated by All: Nobody really seems to like Grogar, to the point where he doesn't even seem to have a single willing Fraccion and they're all just loyal experiments of his. Not that he seems to care, if anything he seems happy to earn the hatred of everyone else. Tirek keeps him around solely because he does all the useful science stuff.
• Have You Seen My God?: No one outside the Zero Division, even the few Soul Reapers invited to the Soul Palace, have seen the Soul Queen in millennia because the Zero Division mutilated and imprisoned her for opposing their plans.
• Headless Horseman: Bount Trixie's Doll is based on a dullahan, and can thus detach his head for spying purposes.
• Healing Factor:
  • All Hollows and Arrancar have one to an extent, but The Lament's stands out. While he admits his healing isn't as fast as the other Espada, it doesn't really matter because his body doesn't truly bleed nor do his organs actually function. He can get his entire body perforated by attacks and walk it off without issue, and he notes that nothing short of completely destroying his body would probably kill him.
  • Chrysalis is noted to have an abnormally powerful Healing Factor as well, shrugging off attacks that leave her limbs and organs mangled with barely a thought and regenerating an entire lost side of her body ala Perfect Cell with as much nonchalantness. It's to the point Sombra has specifically picked out Sternritter capable of negating her Healing Factor to fight her, and she still doesn't have too much issue in the fight. About the only time she's ever shown real worry is when faced with an attack that could legitimately destroy her in one go if it properly connected.
  • The Smooze is no less impressive in this department either, capable of regenerating as long as a scrap, or at least the core of his Blob Monster body, remains intact, though Grogar is of the opinion he's not so much regenerating as replacing his lost mass. As such, nobody on the Espada's side really believe he dies from Lightning Dust's Death or Glory Attack and figure he went off to recover. As it turns out, he did survive, though circumstances meeting Fluttershy dictate he decides to take a new career path.
  • Sunset's shield, Hikari, can heal her wounds.
  • Hoity Toity, as an extension of The Xenomorph's ability to alter physical matter, can use this on his own body to rapidly heal wounds. However, as Rarity notes during their battle, this ability is tied both to his available reiatsu and the severity of the wound. As such, when she goes unleashes her final attack on him, she not only does it when he's already heavily exhausted and injured to the point he can't quickly heal, but goes for a fatal wound through his chest.
  • The Equestrian Chrysalis, while nowhere near as fast as her human counterpart, can still use her abilities to heal fast, though the energy requirements are high enough that she usually only uses it for severe wounds.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Equestrian magic is potent, but healing is still rather difficult, at least compared to some of the spiritual healing techniques out there.
  • Discord cannot use his powers to heal because his chaos magic can only disrupt and rearrange already existing orders, or create his own in place of another (presumably undoing what he's already done counts). If he wanted to replace Luna's injured wing with a jet engine or spider legs, he could, but healing her isn't something that he's capable of.
  • Celestia mentally lampshades how healing magic is harder than many people think. Transmutations can make people less familiar with magic think that changing a body is an easy task, but it's just layering a "costume" over the true form, and never last for more than a few days. Even then they tend to be more fragile than the real limbs. Most practitioners of medical magic are limited to healing relatively simple injuries that normal medicine could have done anyway, simply accelerating what would happened without them, with Celestia being one of the few skilled enough to truly regenerate limbs.
  • Hollows and Arrancar often have a Healing Factor, but there aren't many in Los Noches actually skilled at medical treatment as a result. Besides Roka, apparently the next best choice is Grogar.
  • The Equestrian Chrysalis doesn't have the insane Healing Factor that her human counterpart does, but she can still use her shapeshifting to restore injured body parts to their uninjured state. It's just energy-intensive enough that it's rarely worth the trouble except in cases of grievous harm. Thus, despite not saying so, she's rather impressed by healing kido.
• Heel Realization:
  • Adagio experiences this when she learns about the portal back to Equestria, and that her actions may have gotten her and her sisters stranded in this world permanently.
  • Human Discord himself had one sometime before the story started due to his experiences interacting with the original XCution and Starlight Glimmer (and his failures to help them when they needed him or see how unstable the latter was becoming respectively) that made him realize his For Science! mentality had only caused pain to others.
• Hellhound: Kyoki's zanpakuto spirit is a huge, black bloodhound the size of a grizzly bear, and its inner world is suitably nightmarish: an endless ocean of blood (which can be inexplicably walked on as though it were solid) with a single tree growing out of it with pitch black bark and blood red leaves, underneath an ash-coloured sky.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Sunset's Zanpakuto of course, but especially applies to her Shikai, half of which is a long broadsword that she can focus extremely intense flames.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Garble, of all people, sacrifices himself to save a helpless Adagio and Ember (mostly Ember) from a Vollstanding Prim Hemline, trapping her in a Caja Negaccion.
  • Gaia Everfree does this in order to prevent the damaged portal to Equestria from going nuclear. Being part Hollow now, she only "dies" in the physical sense and instead becomes an Arrancar once more.
• Heroic Willpower: Adagio, after becoming a Hollow manages to resist the urge to eat a soul for almost ten hours.
• Hidden Agenda Villain:
  • Even as we learn more about the full depths of the Zero Division's manipulations and plans, their ultimate goals remain vague, not helping this is the fact that the various members don't always see eye-to-eye, and may have separate agendas from the group's. Human Starlight also hints that their plans might be a threat to Equestria as well... It's eventually revealed that they wish to revive their deceased family members... by grinding up almost every mortal soul in Hell over time in order to put their Pieces of God back together.
  • Charybdis aided in Gaia Everfree's resurrection, but besides the opportunity to gain access to Earth, a realm where the powers that be were unaware of her existence, and couldn't limit her plans as easily, unlike Equestria, it's unclear what she sought to gain from it.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Sugarcoat reveals that in addition to their physical abilities, most of the Shadowbolts were chosen to enter the Friendship Games for their technical skills (with Indigo Zap being the main exception due to her superb physical ability). Sugarcoat herself got top marks in robotics and physics, Sunny Flare knows a disturbing amount about chemistry, Sour Sweet was literally right behind Twilight in engineering classes, and Lemon Zest knows enough about coding and software to program her own video games. This is part of the reason why Twilight takes them all on as part of her magic research team.
  • Platinum has some knowledge about insects. Perhaps more than Equastria Chrysalis. Apparently, she had picked it up from her late husband.
  • Well, not hidden. G’nash is very open about his desire to become the best culinarian in Nifelheim.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: Scylla stole artifacts from across the world, and was planning to Take Over the World after assuming the throne. Modern day seaponies revere her.
• Hope Crusher: Cheese accidentally becomes this at the end of his fight with Pinkie. Him shrugging off her strongest attacks and taking out Pinkamena so easily robbed her of the will to fight so thoroughly that her hair goes straight and she doesn't even try to resist when Cheese knocks her out to take her to Zecora for healing.
• Hope Spot: This happens with the Dazzlings. After Aria and Sonata are saved from the Grand Fisher, it seems like Adagio may finally regain her body back and they'll actually get to go back to Equestria. Then Grogar shows up and forces Adagio to pull a Heroic Sacrifice, (right after her Heel Realization, no less) turning herself into a Hollow to save Sunset and the others. And you know what the worst part is? It turns out Celestia was willing to give the Dazzlings a second chance, meaning that if that didn't happen, they would've gotten to go back to Equestria.
• Human Notepad: When Rarity is Dragged Off to Hell, Twilight has the quick thinking to cast the spell that lets Princess Twilight and Sunset communicate through the journal in order to give them a line of communication to her. But since Rarity has no item to write with herself, it ends up manifesting on her skin.
• Humanoid Abomination:
  • As a Bount, human Trixie. Also, any human-looking Hollow.
  • Smooze even by Hollow standards. In his "human" form he's an extremely tall and lanky figure with a human skeleton covered with sludge that will infect anyone who touches even the tiniest amount with the worst diseases known to life and unlife. His Resurrection loses the "humanoid" part.
  • The Lament's organs are non-functional, so he can shrug off most of his body being destroyed and speculates that it would take his entire form being destroyed at once to truly kill him. He also barely has something enough like "blood" to use in a Gran Rey Cero.
  • It's revealed that a Schuztstaffle's Vollstandig will turn them into one of these once activated, due to how close their power is to the Quincy King Sombra, himself such an abomination due to being the reincarnation of the Consort of the Soul Queen.
• Humongous Mecha: Rarity can do this with her completed Fullbring by gathering all her knights together into one giant knight, complete with cockpit in the head for her to control from.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: While Sinners are repeatedly tormented in Hell, they are left alone at the deepest level to their own devices. Which doesn't improve their situation very much, this being Hell we are talking about. It's still filled with horrible human beings. You just exchange one tormentor for another...
• Hunk:
  • Pharynx, in contrast to his effeminate brother Thorax, is described as a chiseled and toned mass of muscle that's easy on the eyes. Adagio actually admits to herself they are both quite attractive in their own ways.
  • Tirek. Sunset describes him as built like a brickhouse and a "walking mountain of testosterone", has Manly Facial Hair framing a square and rigid jawline, and he claims half-jokingly to Chryslais the reason he doesn't wear a shirt is because he kept tearing them everytime he flexed.
• Hypno Trinket: It's implied that the chain at the end of Sweet Cider's Shikai is what's keeping her from regaining her memories. Applejack breaking it is what makes all of Cider's memories, both as her mother and a member of Xcution, come back to her.
• Hypocrite:
  • Sunset calls out Twilight Velvet on refusing to help save Cloudy Quartz's daughter Limestone from Grand Fisher yet having the gall to call out Discord for using Cloudy and the other XCution in her youth, despite the fact Discord himself now very much regrets those actions and is working to save Limestone as just one small part of said atonement while Velvet was a friend of Cloudy in their youth.
  • Sunset calls out Hurricane as a hypocrite for continually telling the six of them that they aren't taking the battle seriously when he keeps acting like he's already won despite the girls giving him an impressive showing. Hurricane admits that wasn't practicing what he was preaching, partially because it's been so long since his last good fight that he didn't want it to end too soon, and unleashes his Bankai.
  • Kyoki is disgusted that Posey is such a "Well Done, Son" Guy, always doing her father's bidding without question to try and please him, and he just wishes she would grow a spine and do something for herself for once. Somehow he came to the conclusion that the best solution to this problem is to hijack her mind and control her like a puppet whenever he's released, with the stock justification that it's okay when he does it because he knows what's really best for Posey. Fluttershy is quick to point that this makes him just as bad as Posey's father, but she's wrong, since using actual mind control really makes him worse.
  • Tirek mockingly calls out Sombra on his hatred of Hollows, reminding him that he's just as much a "soul-devouring monster" as them given what will happen to those that accept his Schrifts when they die. Sombra replies that may be true, but he'll let his people judge him for that another day.
  • Luna likes to talk quite a bit about the arrogance of her opponents, but as Adagio notes the Soul Reaper herself has quite the prideful streak.
  • The Zero Division condemns the Quincy because their spirit weapons supposedly destroy the souls of Hollows entirely, removing them from the cycle of reincarnation entirely. Hell, which they created, supposedly doesn't do the same damage because the Sinners quarantined inside still exist, and thus can be counterbalanced by Soul Society, but the constant deaths and revivals of the Sinners slowly breaks down their souls into raw spirit energy for some future plan, throwing things into the very disbalance that they supposedly oppose. Even worse, with souls repeatedly being reborn, over time it becomes more and more likely that a soul is going to exposed to the kind of horrible circumstances that can twist a person into being damned, so eventually almost every soul in existence will end up in Hell!
  • Glory's betrayal of the Soul Queen was motivated by her mother's refusal to intervene in the war between Tirek's Hollows and the Soul Reapers despite it leading to the deaths of most of their family and it being clear that nothing short of death would stop Tirek. Not only does she keep the war going after defeating her mother and stealing her power in order to hide their true aims, but the fact that she's willing to "preserve" some mortal souls from the fate of being broken down to revive the fallen means that she's fully aware that mortals are just as worthy as existence as those she has lost (especially given how upset she was when Discord rejected her offer to join her), and Scorpan even calls her out for how she's directly going against the values Soul Society is supposed to represent. She also expresses a dislike of magic, noting that while it has its place in Equestria she feels that it doesn't belong in the human world, but she make a deal with the mad alicorn Eos in order to get the upper hand that she needed to defeat the Soul Queen in the first place.

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• I Can't Sense Their Presence:
  • Human Starlight and her co-conspirators use cloaks that suppress their reiatsu when infiltrating the Seiretei.
  • In a flashback, Gaia Everfree is initially shocked that she can't sense Chrysalis's power at all. Upon closer inspection, she realizes that Chrysalis is concentrating the power close to her body like it's an armor or barrier, demonstrating that she has not only raw power in spades, but control of it as well.
  • Pinkie can slip past Grogar's senses because it would be funny if she could, not that Grogar gets it. After she completes her Fullbring and hits the ground with her hammer, Grogar senses her reiatsu throughout the area, as if she's everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
  • When Medley of the Zero Division first appears before the Humane Seven, while Pinkie's Pinkie Sense goes ballistic, the other six don't understand what she's freaking out about so badly before Medley readjusts things so they can actually feel her spiritual pressure, having forgotten that only people like "little Scorpan" are used to feeling reiatsu at her level.
• Ice Palace: Platinum's Bankai manifests as a massive island of ice with an ice palace in the center, which allows her to control the area and launch whatever attack she desires from within.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Bount Trixie deliberately withheld some of her Doll's abilities.
• I Am What I Am: This, coupled with a Heroic Second Wind finally allows Sunset to unlock her Shikai.
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Equestrian team has this reaction when hear they'll be passing through a place called Mountains of Teeth. The place is no more dangerous than the rest of the ocean, however.
• "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight:
  • Applejack's mindset in her fight with Sweet Cider, hoping to literally beat her into remembering her family. She succeeds.
  • Fittingly, something similar happens when Sweet Cider and Hard Nail/Lament fight, followed up by Applejack and Fenice/Sunset Shimmer jumping in. They succeed too.
• I Let You Win: The narration makes it clear that the only reason Applejack beat Sweet Cider was because Sweet Cider getting her memories back made her end their fight.
• I Need You Stronger: Starlight and Firefly want Sunset and the Humane Five to continue to grow stronger, seeing them as a back-up plan in case they fail to stop the Zero Division.
• Internal Reformist: This is Twilight's plan for joining Quincy Military. She plans to rank up and influence it as a whole to become more peaceful, open to a truce with Soul Reapers, and treat (at least the more amicable) Arrancars humanly.
• I'm a Humanitarian: The Sinners can't die from starvation but they still feel hunger. There's nothing to eat or drink in Hell and the Sinners regenerate almost instantly from any kind of damage. You do the math.
• Imposter Forgot One Detail:
  • Grand Fisher attempts to lure in the Pie family by making his lure look like Pinkie Pie. Maud sees through it because "Pinkie" mentions she abandoned her friends to save herself from the Hollows, which Pinkie would never do. Maud also claims her scent is wrong.
  • Acknowledged by Hoity Toity while masquerading as Sour Sweet, as despite changing his appearance and having Sapphire Shores change his reiatsu signature he knew he doesn't know nearly enough about Sour Sweet's personality and mannerisms to 100% act like her. However, he takes advantage of the fact none of the Shadowbolts or Twilight really know all of Sour Sweet's quirks down pat like True Companions should to make the deception work.
• Industrial Ghetto: The Warrens beneath Las Noches is this, a massive factory overseen by the Tenth Espada, The Smooze, to manufacture luxuries and basic necessities that would otherwise need to be stolen from the living world. When Smooze goes missing after his battle with Lightning Dust, Chrysalis takes it over.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Gilda is a powerful Arrancar who loves to talk the talk and walk the walk, but it's clear she deeply resents Adagio's rapid rise in power in such a short period of time when she's had to struggle and claw her way up to her current level of strength the hard way over centuries. When she's made the Tenth Espada, these insecurities come out even more as she's scared of screwing up and being viewed as a liability, which makes her prone to taking big unnecessary risks (such as attacking Sunset at her apartment using outdated info on her strength, or attacking the weakened Smooze while Fluttershy and Timber are in the vicinity) to secure her standing. It turns out it all stems from her mistreatment in Guto's horde as a child and her desire to become strong enough that she never gets under his thumb again.
• Innocence Lost: Twilight's time as a Quincy has not been kind to her. While she wasn't blind to the horrors of war, it's the battle at Las Noches, and seeing her friends being slaughtered, that left her mentally scarred. After that she became somewhat colder and more motivated to end the Spiritual War, and obvious to anyone. Sunset saw right away, that something was deeply bothering her, while Timber upon first tme seeing her wondered how someone so pretty can have such sad eyes. Even Twilight wonders if she's the same person she used to be.
• Insane Troll Logic: According to the Mc Colts, Hacksaw Mc Colt's Heroic Sacrifice to save Cotton Baller Hooffield and her sister's lives was actually all a ploy by Cotton Baller Hooffield to get a Mc Colt killed, willingly putting herself in harm's way in order to get Hacksaw killed. Night Light later needs to intervene after the Mc Colts seize one of the Hooffield's factories in retaliation.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • Clover is very insistent on the security constructs in the sewars not being robots... despite her boss Starswirl having programmed them to go "beep-boop", and that their attacks aren't lasers.
  • Adagio is insistent that her Arrancar subordinates are "vassals", not "friends". She gets lightly called out on this concerning her relationship with Ember, with it being noted if she can't honestly call her a friend after everything they've done for each other what chance does she have of doing so for anyone else? And she only very reluctantly admits to that particular case for the sake of her own pride.
  • Bowtie of the Zero Division is so obsessed with the language of his birth country, Japan, that he's the reason for the Gratutious Japanese all over Soul Society, including using the Japanese versions of his own name and the names of his fellow Zero Division members. Medley, in turn, makes it clear that she prefers the English version.
• Instant Expert: Twilight summons her Quincy bow seconds after being handed the focus. Subverted in that she still needs to train to use it. Also Played With by Sunset, who does need training but is noted by Clover and multiple Soul Reapers, even the mocking ones, to have unbelievably high levels of natural talent and scary fast learning ability.
• Intangible Man:
  • Meadowbrook's Shikai Kasso-ha (Gliding Leaf) allows him to turn himself and anything of choice he's touching intangible, allowing attacks to pass through and move through physical obstacles like walls unimpeded. However, he can only maintain this state for a maximum of thirty seconds at a time before it shuts off, and he mentions he'll rematerialize in whatever he was passing through at the time. Also, as it's a zanpakuto ability, an attack with higher reiatsu than his released Shikai can bypass the intangibility, as proven when Starlight traps him in Hado #90: Kurohitsugi (Black Coffin).
  • It's rarely used or talked about but Hollows can pass through walls in the Human World. And with the ability to hide their reiatsu they can effectively get around without the Reaper or Quincy's notice.
• Intoxication Ensues: Rainbow winds up eating some mushrooms called Prismcap Mushrooms. It scrambles her brain for a bit.
  Rainbow Dash: Whoa! My hair looks like a rainbow!? Why didn’t anyone tell me!? Nom! Ugh! This doesn’t taste like Skittles at all!
• Invisible to Normals: Much like the source material, Hollows and Soul Reapers are invisible to normal people. Quincy soldiers possess uniforms that achieve the same effect. Since Reiatsu is different from magic, Princess Twilight Sparkle can't see them either. Deconstructed that said "normals" can still sense what effects they have on their surroundings, like dust they throw up (especially with Hollows, which tend to be larger than humans or Soul Reapers) or physical items that they bump into or move.
  • Later Twilight upgrades them with her power to make them work on Arrancars. However, it doesn't cancel any of the effect mentioned above or the noise.
• It Always Rains at Funerals: Twilight lampshades and wishes it was raining at her mother's funeral. Instead, it was sunny day with painfully blue sky, perfect for a family picnic. It only makes her feel more depressed.
• It Gets Easier: This is the crux of Rarity's fears about herself, as she realizes she has a surprisingly easy time being willing to resort to fatal means of defeating her foes compared to the rest of her friends. She also recounts how she got into a scuffle with a robber and in order to protect Sweetie Belle she stabbed the man through the stomach with his own knife, and what disturbed her was how clinically she did so and how she didn't feel disturbed about the act itself. Coming to terms with this and being willing to choose when to make that choice and own up to the consequences rather than hold herself back or immediately go to that killer instinct is what lets her complete her Fullbring.
• It's All About Me:
  • Grogar says he's trying to master Equestrian magic to both improve the Hollow condition and benefit himself...then immediately admits he's completely doing it for his own benefit with the Hollow condition being a mere afterthought. He repeatedly states that it is his ambition and destiny to be the one to guide Hollowkind to true evolutionary perfection, and he seethes at the fact he still has to rely on Tirek and Chrysalis' favor.
  • Guto wants to be seen as the Arrancar that successfully conquers the Quincy and Soul Reapers and will take any opportunity to make a move he believes will advance his position. He drills obedience into his horde and pushes them in their training because he views their performance as a reflection of his own ability. Gilda even admits to Fluttershy she realized a long time ago that Guto has only ever cared about his glory and power with anyone else as just a stepping stone.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: As it turns out, Sapphire Shores has loved Sombra for centuries ever since he saved her as a child, but when he fell in love with Radiant Hope instead she buried her feelings for their sake since Sombra truly was happy with her. She simultaneously loved and hated Radiant Hope for being the one to make Sombra happy and denying her the chance to be the one to do so.
• The Jailer: This is how Human Starlight's Zanpaktou spirit Sekai Chitsujo (World Order) functions once she actually steals another Soul Reaper's Zanpaktou. They're imprisoned within her sword's Inner World and, whenever she wants to use one, Sekai Chitsujo rattles off the "inmate" and how many "days" are left in their "sentence". Each usage of the Zanpaktou ticks off their remaining days (how many days per use is actually negotiated before then, and Starlight cannot add an "extension" to the initial sentence) until they're freed and able to return to their true owners. They technically have the option to refuse being used, but as most Zanpakutou have Undying Loyalty to their original wielders, they accept the terms to get it over with as soon as possible.
• Jousting Lance: Applejack eventually gains a truly massive golden lance, with the tip of two helical grooves giving it an appearance of a twist drill than a weapon.
• Just Following Orders: Captain Platinum. She reasons that she was ordered to keep Sunset and her friends under control, whether that means forcing them to join Soul Society willingly or not. Same with Fancy Pants, though he appears to have slight misgivings about doing so. Though it turns out it was just a Batman Gambit to make Celestia and Luna come back to Soul Society to be tried for treason.
• Kaiju: Torch is already pushing it in his normal form, and his Resurreccion turns him into one outright by making him even bigger with spiky scales, four arms, and a roar described as making a T. Rex sound like a kitten.
• Klingon Promotion: To become an Espada and assuming you're not gunning for an already-empty spot, you have to be strong enough to defeat one in combat. The Fourth Espada became one after showing up in Las Noches and crippling the former Sixth Espada Ahuizotl into a Privaron, but gained the title of Fourth instead of Sixth after he fought Tirek and the Hollow King determined him strong enough to be worthy of the rank over Torch, which is why Guto became the Sixth Espada and Torch the Fifth. And that's actually preferable to the other option of becoming an Espada, which involves being tested by Tirek himself and failure to impress results in the unlucky sod becoming dinner.
• Knight in Shining Armor: What Sunset's Bankai turns her into.
  • Applejack's completed Fullbring covers her in armor save for her head, and gives her a giant lance/drill combination.
• Knight Templar:
  • Celestia's Zanpaktou spirits, Shinryu Taiyo. They see everything that isn't them and Celestia as corrupt and thus must be "cleansed" (read: destroyed) at all costs. It really is shocking that someone like Celestia would end up with Zanpaktou spirits like them.
  • Luna is shown to be one at least in part, taking her duty as a Soul Reaper very seriously and, while not unaware of the problems and corruption in Soul Society, still upholds several of the more draconian laws, particularly those involving Hollows and the mentality to destroy them no matter what. This can be seen in her treatment of Ember and how she responds to Celestia and Sweet Cider expressing distaste for her capture and experimentation, as well as during her battle with Adagio.
  • Several Quincies are this against Hollows and Soul Reapers. These include Fleur de Lis, who's practically a Token Evil Teammate who delights in fighting and killing Soul Reapers and Hollows no matter what, and Sapphire Shores, who's devotion to Sombra is so great she won't hesitate to even kill her fellow Quincy if she believes through her Schrift they will become threats.
  • The Zero Division as a whole has shades of this, but particularly Glory, who is described as being willing to go to any lengths to make the world what she thinks that it should be, desiring to create a 'new universe free of all evil'. For that, she is willing to consign the reincarnated members of the Star former noble family (like Sunburst) who rebelled after opposing the formation of Central 46, along with other otherwise innocent and undeserving enemies of threats to them, to Hell, which itself slowly breaks down the souls of Sinners into base resihi particles with each death and revival as energy for some future goal, hypocritically removing the souls from the cycle like they accuse the Quincy of doing with their arrows. It's eventually revealed that she wishes to revive her fallen loved ones whose essence formed the souls of mortals, even if it means consigning nearly every soul to Hell to do so.
• Kraken and Leviathan: Supposedly the crown jewel of the Aqualania city zoo was a Kraken, which are mythical even by Equestrian standards. We get a better look at one when it emerges at the beach in the human world. It looks like a giant squid on steroids covered with poisonous spiked armor and with a black beak as large as a house. Besides many "normal" tentacles, the creature has two main tentacles, much bigger than the rest, and each one ending with scything claws. It's also intelligent and can cast spells. It's unknow if it's the same creature.
• Lamarck Was Right
  • Like her mother's, Pinkie's Fullbring takes the form of a separate and bloodthirsty entity.
  • The narration notes when Applejack completes her Fullbring that the Apples seem to have a preference for giant weapons, what with Sweet Cider and her BFS Zanpakuto and Fullbring pair and Applejack's lance/drill.
  • It's rather common for Arrancars to have similar Resurrección to their parents. For example, both Thorax and Pharynx's Resurrección like bug centaurs, just like their mother.
    • Greta's Resurrección looks much like Guto's. The guy even ordered Grogar to give her jets making the similarity even more obvious.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • Like in canon, Soul Reapers usually erase the memories of ordinary people they save.
  • It is revealed Pinkie's mother, Cloudy Quartz, used to fight Hollows in her youth as a Fullbringer, but she doesn't remember this or that she had powers. Discord later reveals that the same applies to Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy's mothers as well. Rainbow's mother Firefly managed to avoid this thanks to a little help from Twilight Velvet and the Quincies. Sweet Cider recovers them after facing off with Applejack in combat, eventually learning that her memories returned after she died, but they were sealed again as a side-effect of Scorpan placing a seal on her Zanpakuto to prevent her Soul Reaper and Fullbringer powers from mixing and merging, while Discord later, upon realizing things are going to get hot with the Zero Division soon, offers to restore the former members of XCution's memories so they can better help their families.
• Last of Her Kind:
  • Trixie claims to be the last of the Bounts...or at least, as her doll Eisenwand reminds her, one of the last. Part of her reasons for following Human Starlight is that she was promised a way to revive her nearly extinct race. Scootaloo and her family are revealed to be said others.
  • The Dazzlings may be the last remaining Sirens.
• Legend Fades to Myth: Many mythologies and legends in the human world seem to be based on misremembered spiritual entities and locations.
  • Vasto Lordes have a limited ability to reshape parts of Hueco Mundo that they claim as territory, and two of them are named "Gehenna" and "Naraka", implying that the various underworlds and Hells in human myth were based on such domains.
  • Tirek is implied to be the inspiration for the Judeo-Christian Devil, at least on a visual level.
  • Sombra reveals to Twilight that many of the gods of myth and legend actually existed as the children and descendants of the Soul Queen.
  • The Beast Realm is connected to both Earth and Equestria, and Rainbow Dash wonders if that means that dragons and the like once existed on Earth before Soul Reapers and Quincy forced them to retreat. The fact that the Beast Realm inhabitants working with/for Charybdis have access to both magic and spiritual power lends some support to the hypothesis.
  • Gaia Everfree remembers a time before The Masquerade when spirit energy abilities were used more openly in the mortal world. She also remembers the gods Sombra mentioned above, when Rainbow Dash attacks her for nearly killing Twilight, the narration compares the power of the attack to one by Zeus, which is no exaggeration since she remember when those gods were more than just myths.
  • Ravana from Hindu Mythology makes an appearance in Glory's retrospect as an Arrancar and part of Tirek's Warband.
  • Chrysalis begrudgingly comes to the realization that this is her fate. With her out of the Hive, the future generation will only hear about her in stories and she'll end up as nothing bad a bad memory, or a bogeyman for naughty children.
• Segunda Etapa Transformation and the Hollow that achieved it are nothing but a cautionary story among young Hollows against hubris. Only the oldest Hollows that have witnessed them know they are real, but even then, none of them have any idea how to achieve it.
• Lethal Chef:
  • Human Discord's last attempt at cooking apparently gained sentience and tried to kill him, Screwball and Screwloose, and Celestia immediately knows that he didn't make a dish when it tastes good.
  • Amaru says his stew (made out of sentient boars, since she played dice with them) tastes like gravel. G’nash in return accuses her of being picky.
• Life Drinker:
  • Wind Rider was sentenced to the Strafbattalion for copying the Bount and draining the soul energy of both normal humans and Quincy alike to remain strong and young. Though he was forced to give up all the soul energy he'd collected, he still managed to hide a few vials in the event he ever needed a quick boost.
  • Wallflower/Hel's basic ability is to absorb Life Energy not only from people and plants but can also absorb energy attacks directed at her, making her almost untouchable. She uses it to make her attacks stronger.
• Light Is Not Good: Fleur Des Lis. While both Soul Reapers and Quincys are presented as neither good nor evil, Fleur is possibly the most bloodthirsty of the Quincy, shooting Clover without provocation and fully prepared to use a technique that would have destroyed half the city once her Berserk Button was pushed.
  • Glory's powers are light-based, but she's the leader of the Zero Division and wishes to grind up all mortal souls to revive her lost family through them.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Torch might have more redeeming traits than most of the Espada with a strong sense of respect and loves his daughter but he is still a very bad man following a brutal Social Darwinist philosophy that creates a murderous warband and has no problem killing children.
• Living Is More than Surviving: Thorax believes in this, and a big part of his motivation is to somehow change Hueco Mundo into something more than a barren Death World operating on "kill or be killed" logic, where Hollows have to fight against everyone, including each other, just to eke out another day of existence.
• Logical Weakness: Starlight's zanpakuto can steal other released zanpakuto used against her, so Sunset has Rarity create a blood-crystal copy of Hokori so she can fight her. Granted, Starlight proves she's more than capable of standing against Sunset even while holding back, so it's not too big a weakness to exploit. Also, it has to be used against her, even accidentally, before she can steal it, hence why she set up the whole execution for Celestia and Luna so she could have a chance to steal the Sokyoku. It's unconfirmed, but it's also speculated that the nature of the connection between Soul Reaper and Zanpakuto means that she can't kill the Soul Reaper she stole the sword from if she wants to keep it.
• Loose Lips: Lightning Dust's major flaw, blathering about her abilities to the enemy and allowing them to counteract it.
• The Lost Lenore: Lieutenant Pansy is this for Captain Hurricane. Realizing that Fluttershy is without a doubt her Reincarnation leads him to Drowning My Sorrows at her grave when the fighting at Soul Society is over and despite her repeated assertions Fluttershy's nothing to him and not the woman he loved Rainbow Dash can see the guilt and sadness in his eyes (especially since Hurricane did his damnedest to kill Fluttershy earlier on to deny to himself what he saw).
• Love at First Punch: Blueblood seems to be crushing on Rarity after she defeats him, even going so far as to ask her out on a date. Rarity surprisingly enough says maybe but that he'll have to work on his attitude first!
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Half of Sunset's Shikai, which increases the power of her flames with each attack to the shield. Later revealed to possess its own spirit: Hikari (Light), taking the form of Daydream Shimmer.

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