Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemares
is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic posted in 2021 on Fimfiction.net. It was wrriten by FanOfMostEverything.
Tropes:
- Cassandra Truth: Spitfire is convinced that Rainbow is making up all the stories she tells about her hometown. In reality, Rainbow is downplaying all the stuff that happens.
- Delinquents: Rainbow is a regular at the Ponyville police station because of Scootaloo, who gets caught for juvenile delinquency very often and Rainbow has to come pick her up.
- Hillbilly Incest: Spitfire denigrates Ponyville as an Earth Pony (a.k.a farmer-based) Deep South-esque rural settlement, and references rumors of incest with cousins.
- Mesodiplosis: Rainbow Dash describing what changed on some people, connecting all the changed with "has a":Rainbow Dash: Spike has a beard, Big Mac has a horn, and Discord has a mane like a shampoo ad.
- Tall Tale: Spitfire thinks Rainbow Dash is telling tall tales to the team because she enjoys the attention. But it's subverted because Dash is recounting her canonical and very much true adventures with her friends.
