Fanfic / Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship

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Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship by redandready45 is an My Little Pony: Equestria Girls/The Fairly OddParents! fusion fic.

Set in an Alternate Timeline, the story takes place after Rainbow Rocks. Things have settled down for the Rainbooms after the victory against the Dazzlings, while over in Dimmsdale, Timmy continues to be an average kid that no one understands but gets through the days with his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, granting his wishes to help where they can. Both parties paths intervene when, while at a basketball game between Canterlot and Dimmsdale high schools, which Timmy is dragged to by Vicky to do her school chores, Sunset spots him using magic to get the work done faster. Mistaking it for Equestrian magic, the Rainbooms decide to investigate to make sure, infiltrating Timmy's life as a temporary replacement babysitter for Timmy.

What follows is two worlds of magic colliding, new friendships forming, but likewise trust being put to the test and some familiar foes showing up to make things even more hectic. Can the Rainbooms, Timmy and his fairies prevail?

The story is Complete as of July 9, 2021, and has a one-shot sequel called Pinkie Pie vs. Yugopotamia, where a rogue element of the Yugopatamian army wants to destroy the planet. Cosmo and Wanda are out of commission, so Pinkie Pie intervenes.

There is a full form sequel to the story, Equestria Girls: Journey to the Mind of Timmy Turner that started on December 25, 2023. Despite triumphing over his most recent foes, Timmy feels no joy from his victory, still hurt from the betrayal and cruelty he endured at the hands of the Dazzlings, a trauma so severe he is plagued by horrible nightmares and outright sleepwishing that are endangering those around him. Fearing not only her charge but the damage he could inflict, Sunset and his godparents decide to bring him to Equestria, with Sunset willing to reunite with her estranged mentor to get Timmy the help he needs. Unfortunately for him, sinister forces with a grudge against Timmy learn of his trauma and seek to exploit it for their wicked ends. When backed into a corner, Timmy faces two choices: face his fears or lose those he cares about.

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Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship provides examples of:

Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship

• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • Tootie to Timmy, and Timmy in turn to Trixie. Though possibly subverted in the latter case, as it's hinted Trixie does like him but is in denial about it due to her focus on maintaining her popularity.
  • Zephyr Breeze to Rainbow Dash, having a rather obsessive crush on her and being quite obnoxious about expressing it.
• Action Girl
  • Rainbow Dash, who is the captain of all five sports teams, but the other Rainbooms can step up to the plate too when necessary.
  • Gilda, who is captain of Canterlot's Mixed Martial Arts team, along with her lackeys Lightning Dust and Rolling Thunder.
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • Details on the characters' last names are elaborated more with Applejack, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac's names being revealed to be nicknames here with their real names being Jacqueline Smith, Appletini Bloom Smith, and Macintosh Apple Smith respectively. For Rarity, her last name is Belle here (revealing Belle actually is a last name for her sister Sweetie Belle). Princess Twilight's middle name is also revealed to be Aurora.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Gilda, Lightning Dust, Hoops and Dumbbell are still somewhat snide jerks, but are not nearly antagonistic to the heroes as in canon. Word of God invokes this, especially because he got tired of seeing the EG version of Gilda being portrayed as an evil monster in fanfiction.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Spike's human world counterpart goes from being Sci-Twi's pet dog to her younger, adopted human brother.
• Adaptation Species Change: Here, Spike becomes a human boy when going through the portal instead of a dog, with the explanation being Twilight fixed the portal to make it that way. His human world counterpart is also changed from a dog to a human.
• Adapted Out: Poof, Foop, Sparky, and Chloe don't appear or have any bearing on the plot in the fic, mainly because the author sees their appearance as when Fairly Oddparents began its decline. By extension, the post-season 5 seasons are also noncanon to the fic.
• Affably Evil: Like in canon, Sonata Dusk is genuinely nice and sweet, but has no problem with the evil things she and her sisters do to get what they want.
• Age Lift: The Human CMC are elementary school-age (the explanation on them still hanging around Canterlot High in the events of the first two films and this story being they are close with their older sisters and hang out with them a lot when not in school) being 10 years old while Zephyr is a middle-schooler. In Equestria Girls, the CMC and Zephyr are in high school.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Despite the title, the fic places Canterlot in the FOP version of California, in proximity to Dimmsdale. The EG characters aren't a candy-colored humanoid group, although they retain their unique hair colors and eye colors. Likewise a few ages on some characters are shifted (Zephyr Breeze is middle-school aged rather than in high school and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are much more younger then the tweens they were in canon). Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon also attend Crystal Prep instead of Canterlot High like in canon. Timeline wise it seems to take place after Rainbow Rocks and on the FOP side of things, the events of seasons 6-10 never happened here and is before the events of School's Out! The Musical (due to Flappy Bob still owning Camp Learn-a-Torium at this point).
• Androcles' Lion: Timmy helps a jaguar who is suffering severe pain. The jaguar saves him after he is kidnapped by Doombringer and Adagio.
• And This Is for...: Sunset indulges in this while beating up Doombringer for what she did to Timmy.
• Annoying Younger Sibling:
  • Zephyr Breeze to Fluttershy. She tries to be supporting to him and help him out even though she's embarrassed by his behavior; at one point, when Rainbow says she'd like to have a younger brother, an annoyed Fluttershy asks if she'd like hers. Though it's later shown she understands why he behaves the way he does and is sympathetic to him.
  • Sonata Dusk is this to her sisters, due to her sheer incompetence getting on their nerves.
• Anti-Role Model: Zephyr Breeze. His attempts to look cool are just embarrassing, while his lame come-ons to girls just make him look more pathetic. When Timmy first meets him, he's horrified at the thought he acted like him, and when Rainbow confirm he does, Timmy works hard and listen to Rarity's advice so he doesn't end up like him.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Averted during the Internal Reveals. The Rainbooms expect Timmy to not believe them about Equestria and the related magic, but he shrugs it off due to having experience with far weirder stuff.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • Moondancer refuses to help the Rainbooms save Timmy from the Dazzlings due to her grudge against them (especially Sunset). Then Fluttershy demands to know what Timmy did to her to deserve leaving him in danger. This makes Moondancer realize she's gone too far, and she agrees to help.
  • When Sunset tries to justify Timmy destroying a truck with a meteor after being subjected to a brutal humiliation by Crocker, Twilight says this:
  Twilight: You humiliated me! Should I have dropped a meteor on you?
  • During the massive argument between Timmy and Sunset that occurs after the Rainbooms come clean to Timmy and after Cosmo and Wanda are captured, when Sunset tries to argue how ungrateful Timmy is after everything she had done to be his friend, he shocks her and everyone else into silence with this:
  Timmy: Timmy the boy with a magic rock or Timmy the buck tooth loser?! (Everyone freezes, the question hitting them hard). It that why all of you did nice things for me? Did you really like me, or were you just trying to keep...me...quiet?
• Artifact of Doom:
  • The Stone of Desire, a magical stone from Equestria which grants the user's every wish but fuses with their bodies and slowly corrupts them. Twilight assumes that Timmy has one, which is what leads the Rainbooms to getting close to him, in the hopes of getting rid of it before it drives him crazy.
  • The Medallion of Manipulation, which the Dazzlings use to Mind Rape Timmy into giving into his anger and darker impulses.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Fluttershy is annoyed and embarrassed by her younger brother Zephyr Breeze. However, it's shown that she understands the reasons for his behavior and truly cares for him.
  • Even though Timmy's parents can be neglectful, they show that they do care about him.
• Bad Humor Truck: Doombringer uses an ice cream truck to try and capture Timmy and his fairies. While she succeeds in capturing Timmy, she fails to capture Cosmo and Wanda.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Doombringer states her intention to skin the jaguar Joanna.
• Bait-and-Switch: During the epilogue, Adagio finds Norm's lamp while doing chores in Abacatraz, and appears to be about to free him... but instead tosses the filthy lamp into an incinerator.
• Bait the Dog: The Dazzlings treat Timmy nicely to win him over, and after starting to develop some real affection for him even offer to let him join them. However, when he realizes their true colors and refuses, they resort to brutally torturing him to try and force him to do what they want.
• Batman Gambit: During the Final Battle, Timmy keeps goading the Dazzlings into making wishes that break Da Rules, repeatedly temporarily removing their stolen fairy magic and giving Sunset an opening to overpower them.
• Becoming the Mask:
  • While she starts out just wanting to keep an eye on Timmy (to be fair, she was generally nice and wanted to help him), Sunset gradually becomes a loving sister figure to him.
  • The Dazzlings find to their surprise that they have developed affection towards Timmy. When he briefly manages to beat them, their reaction is to decide to turn him to their side. Ultimately Downplayed, however, as when Timmy refuses to join them, they beat and torture him, showing that while they like Timmy, they don't truly care for him and are just using him.
• Berserk Button:
  • Rainbow Dash (and especially the other Rainbooms) don't like bullies. She comes very close to attacking Vicky when she sees him bullying Timmy.
  • Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo are pissed off over how Chad and Tad are allowed to bribe their way to victory.
  • If you are a boy and you make fun of girls, Scootaloo will make you regret it.
  • None of the Canterlot characters are fond of people who hurt little kids.
  • After they see that the Dazzlings have manipulated and hurt Timmy, the Rainbooms are pissed off beyond belief.
  • On top of broken rules, Jorgen is very, very angry at the Dazzlings for damaging Cosmo and Wanda's wands.
  • Making fun of Tickle Fruit 2 is Sunset's as Sonata Dusk learns the hard way.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The Rainbooms, the Fairies, and Timmy show this at one point or another.
  • Sunset maybe a better person, but she is still capable of being ruthless: When Timmy disobeys her and sneaks off to a skate park, she's so pissed off that she makes Timmy nearly wish for Vicky to come back. She later knocks Crocker off a balcony after seeing him humiliate and torture Timmy to get his magic.
  • Cosmo and Wanda are loving fairy godparents but will not hesitate to blow away something that threatens Timmy. Wanda has little problem with Timmy turning Sunset into a worm when the fairy thinks Sunset is an evil villain trying to take over the world. While she initially forgives the Dazzlings for using Timmy for wishes, she still forces them to do chores as punishment.
  • Rarity is a genuinely caring person, but is also capable of fighting a shark and beating it unconscious to protect her friends.
  • Fluttershy, the nicest character in the story, is absolutely terrifying in battle if she's been sufficiently angered.
• Beyond Redemption: Twilight feels that about the Dazzlings for what they did to Timmy.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Rainbow has this for Scootaloo.
  • Sunset is developing one toward Timmy, seeing him as a little brother, as are the other Rainbooms who are becoming protective of him as they see him deal with bullies and unfair teachers.
  • Gilda herself becomes Timmy's bodyguard and takes to the task eagerly. She mercilessly beats Crocker after he hurt Timmy with one of his schemes.
• Big Damn Heroes: Rainbow saving Trixie from falling off the roof of the Dazzlings' lair.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
  • As she usually does, Vicky pulls this act in front of Cheerliee, pretending to be Timmy's loving babysitter.
  • The Dazzlings use Sunset's past two-faced behavior as part of their bid to sell to Timmy that they're kind and heroic beings who want what's good for him and are trying to save him from a demonic Sunset. In reality, they're as heartless as ever and just want Timmy for his magical prowess.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Dazzlings have been defeated, the Rainbooms have been allowed to keep their memories of Cosmo and Wanda, and Canterlot High lauds Timmy as their hero. But Timmy's trust in them has not yet recovered, as he is still horribly traumatized by what the Dazzlings put him through. Sunset, however, hopes Timmy can trust her once again.
• Blackmail Backfire: The Dazzlings eventually resort to threatening to send photographic evidence of Cosmo and Wanda to Crocker in order to force Timmy to grant their wishes. It fails when Timmy calls their bluff, as he realizes that if the fairies disappear, the Dazzlings lose their wish-restored magic, and they know it.
• Both Sides Have a Point: The Rainbooms initially approach Timmy due to him appearing to have a magical artifact and wanting to get it away from him due to their concerns that he could become corrupted by it and cause problems for the public, which is justified due to all the problems Timmy’s past wishes have caused and due to him using his wishes to get back at people. However, even though they had good intentions, they still had deceived Timmy (who is already dealing with many horrible people in his life) and had only approached him in the first place to get close to his supposed magical artifact, and when they confess the truth to Timmy, he is left feeling betrayed and used by them.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The Dazzlings, as per canon, are capable of doing this once they've tricked Timmy into wishing their magic back. They proceed to use it on him and the fairies.
• Break the Haughty: Played With: While her intentions were well-meaning, Twilight ultimately admits to herself that due to she having grown arrogant because of her past successes and too used to having ponies immediately respect her, she had assumed that Timmy would happily become her friend after she took care of the supposed magical artifact. After Cosmo and Wanda are captured and Timmy calls her out, Twilight is forced to realize that Timmy isn’t a pony from Equestria (thus giving him no reason to immediately respect her), that she had hurt him greatly with her actions and her past successes were mainly due to the villains being arrogant and dumb luck.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Timmy was at first wary of Sunset when she becomes his babysitter because of his bad experiences with Vicky. He warms up to her when it was clear to him that she was not an evil babysitter that would abuse him. Timmy grows to love Sunset like an older sister because of how caring she and her friends are to him and helping with his problems. Timmy is heartbroken to learning from the Dazzlings Sunset's past as a bully and seeing firsthand her bullying via his time travelling scooter, and seeing her become an evil demon. He becomes even more heartbroken to learn she only became his babysitter because she thought he owned some dangerous magical artifact, believing she was only nice to him because of that and had planned just leave him when she got the artifact.
  • Played for laughs when Twilight is horrified to learn that Starswirl the Bearded simply tossed everything that caused him problems onto Earth and refused to take responsibility for the damage they caused.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Timmy's Dad's sound-cancelling earplugs. Timmy uses them to avoid getting brainwashed a second time by the Dazzlings.
  • The various bits of learning Timmy gets from each of the Rainbooms comes in handy when he's using those skills to fight the Dazzlings.
• The Chew Toy: Crocker. Every single one of his plans blows up in his face, and usually results in bodily harm for him.
• Coincidental Dodge: Crocker's first attempt to capture Timmy's fairies fails when the rocket he fires at Timmy misses when he bends down to touch his toes.
• Comically Small Bribe:
  • Timmy giving two WHOLE...cookies to Shallowgrave to get him to look the other way. He happily takes the deal.
  • Pinkie later does something similar, convincing some cops to let the Rainbooms handle the Dazzlings by bribing them with two boxes of donuts.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: In a last ditch effort to force Timmy to grant them the wish to rule the world, The Dazzlings subject him to both this, and a Beatdown at the same time. Outside of the Wet Willy Sonata gives him, this is definitely NOT Played for Laughs.
• Cooldown Hug: Pinkie gives Timmy one when Crocker's scheme humiliates him to the point of tears.
• The Corruptible: Timmy, due to his insecurities and anger issues, is susceptible to bad influences. The Rainbooms observe this, while the Dazzlings are easily able to goad Timmy into being bad.
• Crossover Villain-in-Chief: The Dazzlings, once they enter the stage, effectively become the main threat due to their cunning, sadism, and magical power.
• Cute Bruiser: Scootaloo is an adorable girl, but she can bring the hurt if you make her mad.
• Dark Action Girl: All three of the Dazzlings are this, but Aria loves to get the most physical, and she's an incredibly sadistic bully.
• Deconstruction Crossover:
  • The fic explores how a benign group of people would react to Timmy's life. Namely, they would pity him for all the suffering he goes through while be alarmed at his wielding of powerful magic. They get so worried about him, they feel the need to give him a bodyguard.
  • The fic explores how Timmy would be increasingly unhinged by all the torment and abuse in his life: he begins crying and lashing out at the pain in his life. When Sunset first comes to his door, he's afraid that she'll be a mean bully to him like Vicky. This is why he so easily believes Adagio's lie that Sunset is an evil villain: because he's been hurt and betrayed by so many other people in his life.
    Flash (sad): "Man, Timmy...has had to deal with a lot. It's like...everyone in his life is out to get him. I mean, how can he live with that and not go crazy!"
  • Crocker's obsession with world domination, meanness, lack of care for his charges, and sheer lunacy earns him the distrust and hatred of the Rainbooms, which goes into outright contempt when they see how far he'll go to get what he wants. Principal Waxelplax also becomes increasingly exasperated with his schemes and finally demotes him when he crosses a serious line.
• Denser and Wackier: Compared to Equestria Girls, the comedy here is more played up and exaggerated to be closer to that of The Fairly OddParents though it is also balanced by elements of The Fairly OddParents being played more seriously and deconstructed and having the higher, darker stakes of Equestria Girls.
• De-power: This is what the Elements of Harmony do; they not only strip a being of their magic, but disconnect them from the Equestrian magical system. The Dazzlings find, to their annoyance, that they can no longer access Equestrian magic to power their gems, even after Cosmo and Wanda fix them, and have to rely on negative fairy magic to do it.
• Didn't Think This Through: The Rainbooms, while they were aware how unhappy Timmy would be at them spying on him, never imagined how he'd feel about them only (at first) acting nice to him over him possessing magic. Twilight admits that she is so used to be seen as an infallible authority, and so used to coming out on top in Equestria, she never imagined someone like Timmy wouldn't just accept her actions.
• Dirty Coward: Whenever the Dazzlings are on top, they gloat about how great they are, but once they are put on the defensive, they whine and complain. After their defeat, they try and run away from being punished.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Crocker is set up as the main antagonist, as he continually tries to get ahold of Timmy's fairies. But once the Dazzlings show up, they quickly take center stage.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • Doombringer's kidnapping — an old stranger is offering a ten year old boy free ice cream if he gets into her van.
  • Timmy's interactions with the Dazzlings, with them using the fact that they "saved" him from Sunset to make him do what they want, is like a portrayal of an abusive relationship.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstruction. Sunset is annoyed with Timmy at how he's pining for someone like Trixie, a popular girl who rejects him and clarifies that she is not interested in him. Sunset bluntly told Timmy he is wasting his time on someone who will never like him; Sunset becomes sympathetic once Timmy tells her why he likes Trixie. Later, when Timmy asked Rarity for advice on how to talk with girls, Rarity spells out how his attempts at romance (saying that the girl the love of his life) are obsessive and creepy. She cites Zephyr Breeze, pointing out his lame come ons just make him look pathetic. Timmy takes that to heart and listens to Rarity's advice so he would not end up like Zephyr Breeze.
• Do Wrong, Right: When Mr. Turner witnesses Rainbow about to vandalize Dinkleberg's car with a crowbar, he admonishes her... for using a weak weapon, advising her instead to use a brick or a golf club so she can destroy his windshield much more quickly and make a clean getaway.
• Dramatic Irony: Much of the humor and drama of the story is fueled by Timmy and the Rainbooms not understanding one another.

  Cosmo: "(Sunset and her friends) also don't know that we have super magical powers to protect you either."

• Easily Forgiven:
  • Downplayed: Sunset forgives Timmy for sneaking out on her... but still forces him to do chores for her and her friends to make up for it.
  • Downplayed with the Dazzlings. When Wanda threatens to kick them out for using Timmy, Sonata puts on a convincing crying act. Wanda gives them another chance... but forces them to do chores to make up for using them.
  • Averted. Both Sunset and Timmy become furious at each other for their transgressions toward one another. It's only by considering the other side's actions later on after cooling off that they gradually come to understand each other.
  • Brutally defied with the Dazzlings. They try and put on a show of redemption and forgiveness, but nobody seriously buys it due to it sounding so self-serving and entitled. Instead they are brutally beaten up, tied, and gagged, with Twilight planning to have them dumped into Tartarus.
  • Played straighter with Moondancer, who is forgiven by the Rainbooms. This is also justified since the Rainbooms admit she did have a good reason to be angry at them, and since she was willing to put her life on the line to save Timmy.
• Entertainingly Wrong: The Rainbooms, while witnessing Timmy use his fairies' magic, conclude he is wielding some Equestrian artifact that left uncheck will eventually corrupt him. Unaware that his magic comes from magical guardians who work under several rules set to prevent him from hurting himself and others.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Pinkie Pie is a normally peppy and cheerful person who can be immature and a little weird, but even she was annoyed with Gary and Betty. When she first meets Gary and Betty, they get along great because all three were peppy and cheerful people. However, she becomes annoyed with them when Gary and Betty took her candy and burn it because they say they are bad for her brain. She later becomes disgusted with them when Gary and Betty humiliated Timmy in a safety seminar under the glades of helping him. She angrily calls them out for their insensitivity and calls them idiots. Later, Timmy uses his magic to have a giant meteor destroy Gary and Betty's truck; Pinkie defends his actions, saying they were mean to him while thinking they were nice.
  • Despite Rainbow Dash's dislike of Zephyr Breeze, she does feel sympathy for him when Fluttershy revealed the reason for his behavior is that he was bullied for his interest in being a hairstylist because that was a girly interest.
  • Gilda and her crew are nasty pranksters, but they draw the line at seriously hurting someone or breaking their spirit. They're appalled with Crocker's plan to humiliate and hurt Timmy to gain access to his magic and beat Crocker up, along with Gary and Betty for their part in Timmy's humiliation. Gilda chuckled at Timmy's retaliation against her with giant spiders...until Fluttershy points out the spiders could've been poisonous.
    Gilda: "Did you see what he was put through by those peppy happy idiots! That wasn't a prank. That was torture. Torture. I wouldn't do that."
    Applejack: "You tortured Crocker."
    Gilda: "He deserved it."
  • Trixie is disgusted that Chad and Tad bribed their way to victory in a game and hurt Timmy.
  • Moondancer grows uncomfortable with how the Dazzlings are using Timmy, and ultimately agrees to help the Rainbooms save him despite not liking any of them.
  • Jorgen is mean to Timmy and likes to cause pain, but he is angered over how horrible the Dazzlings were.
  • Cinch is a mean woman, but she won't let her students bribe their way out of doing their schoolwork. It is Played With, since Dean Cadence eagerly accepts "donations" from Doug Dimmadome.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Interestingly, the Dazzlings may have developed genuine affection towards Timmy. When Timmy angrily calls them out for using him, they show signs of discomfort, implying that they do feel guilty for what they did. Later, when Timmy almost beats them, they're impressed and decide they want him on their side. Ultimately Downplayed, though, as when Timmy refuses to join them, they were willing to beat and torture him, showing that while they like Timmy, they don't truly care for him unless they can use him.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Vicky is still a mean bully, but she is mortified by Zephyr's streaking and covers Timmy's eyes.
  • Crocker is a Sadist Teacher who strives to be as unhelpful as possible, but he won't deliberately fail a student.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • After manipulating Timmy into a Rage Breaking Point that has him attack Tad and Chad and then lash out at his friends when they intervene, the Dazzlings expect their friendship to be ruined, thus isolating him completely. Then to their shock, his friends immediately forgive him.
  • The Dazzlings' plan to blackmail Timmy falls apart, because they believe Timmy would only care about magic, not Cosmo and Wanda's well being. They are taken aback when he is willing to lose his fairies if it means saving them.
• Evil Counterpart: The Dazzlings are this for the Rainbooms. While the Rainbooms spied on Timmy, they did it to save him from an evil form of magic. And they learned to care for Timmy beyond their mission; the Dazzlings only care about using him for magic. While the Rainbooms try and help Timmy grow as a person, the Dazzlings manipulate and bully him into doing what they want and are willing to destroy his life to do so.
  • Aria is this to both Rainbow and Gilda. The latter two are tough girls who are not afraid to be aggressive to people who cross them, but under their rough exterior are kind people who are hard on Timmy because they want him to become a stronger person. While Aria may act as she cares for Timmy, she is really just a bully who wants to turn Timmy into a violent thug so she can use him for her own benefit.
  • Sonata is this to Pinkie. They're both bubbly Cloudcuckoolanders, but unlike Pinkie, Sonata has no problem manipulating Timmy and hurting people to get what she wants.
  • Adagio to Sunset. They're both leaders of their groups and come from former positions of prestige, but where Sunset has had a Heel–Face Turn and is trying to be a better person, Adagio has not changed at all and is still obsessed with power at all costs.
• Eviler than Thou: The Dazzlings establish themselves as the most dangerous villains in the setting, not just outwitting everyone but managing to intimidate Doombringer into being their minion. They show themselves to be crueler than Vicky, and much smarter and more dangerous than Timmy's other enemies.
• Exact Words:
  • If Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna see their students committing violence against the Dazzlings, they have to do something about it. So, the two, along with their staff, go to where they can't see any violence taking place.
  • Da Rules state that the existence of fairies can't be revealed to non-magic humans or humans not in the know. Since the Rainbooms have magic, and since both Twilight and Sunset are magical ponies, they both can get away with seeing Cosmo and Wanda. Since Canterlot High already are aware of magic and since they believe Cosmo and Wanda to be talking fish, they also can walk away with their memories intact.
• Expy:
  • Minor character Georgie and Joanna the jaguar are, according to Word of God, based on the archetypes presented by Poof and Sparky but more interesting — Georgie can be a little brother type to Timmy but old enough to have his own personality apart from that, while Joanna is a loyal and actually competent animal companion.
  • Human Moondancer serves as this to Wallflower Blush according to Word of God, with both being students who still hold a grudge against Sunset for her previous actions from when she was an Alpha Bitch and getting revenge on her by wiping everyone in Canterlot High's positive memories (albeit Moondancer simply just gives the Dazzlings and Timmy evidence of Sunset's bullying from the past which leads Timmy to initiate the memory wipe) of her. Difference being Moondancer's motivation being a lot more personal and stemming from outright betrayal and public humiliation from Sunset (and had transferred to another school as a result, leading to her being unaware of Sunset having changed after the first movie and the Dazzlings' incident from Rainbow Rocks) rather than being outright ignored by everyone like Wallflower.
• Faux Affably Evil: Adagio acts like Timmy's friend and savior, but it is a barely veiled attempt to manipulate him into giving her what she and her sisters want. She uses her "saving" him from Sunset's "evil" in order to bully him further. This facade falls apart when Timmy utterly refuses her demands point blank.
  Adagio: (repeated phrase) Timmy-buddy, I thought we were friends?
• Food as Bribe: The Rainbooms bribe the cops with two boxes of donuts.
• Forced to Watch: Cosmo and Wanda can only watch helplessly as the Dazzlings beat Timmy.
• Forced Transformation: Thinking Sunset is an evil villain, Timmy uses Cosmo and Wanda's magic to turn her into a worm and ditch her in the Everfree Forest. Once the Dazzlings have him under their spell, they brainwash him into doing this to the rest of the Rainbooms too. They also threaten to do the same to Gilda's friends if Gilda doesn't become their servant.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • While Twilight acknowledges that Timmy has to deal with a lot of horrible people in his life, she says this does not give him a right to be a destructive brat.
  • Twilight feels this way about the Dazzlings after hearing Adagio's Motive Rant — she acknowledges they've had terrible lives, but since they've crossed so many lines and have refused to accept responsibility for their actions, she no longer has any sympathy for them.
• Good Is Not Nice: Jorgen von Strangle is the enforcer of the rules, but he's very cutthroat about how he goes about things. He crushes the Dazzlings with his fist and drags them to Abracatraz for their crimes. He is also eager to erase the memories of the Rainbooms, especially Sunset for her sordid past, only not doing so because of Timmy using Da Rules. He also brutalized Starswirl for his irresponsible dumping of magical artifacts on Earth.
• Good Is Not Soft:
  • Rainbow and Gilda jump at the chance to teach Timmy to become a stronger person. But they don't pull punches in doing so. The former is willing to have Scootaloo steal his hat to motivate him to run faster, and the latter is willing to pull sneak attacks on him to get him in shape. The latter also has little problem with breaking bones of some really nasty people as shown by her beating Crocker within an inch of his life for tormenting Timmy. She later comes close to killing the Dazzlings for their monstrous treatment of the boy, and was only stopped by Princess Twilight.
  • All of Canterlot High subject the Dazzlings to an absolutely vicious beating for what they did. Principal Celestia doesn't like violence, but seeing how horrible the Dazzlings were, she implicitly gives her students permission to enact violence upon them.
• Graceful in Their Element: Sonata may be dim, but she can be good at manipulation in the right situation.
• Happy Place: Cosmo makes use of this, and encourages Wanda to do the same.
• Heroes' Frontier Step: Timmy proves to the Rainbooms when, without him knowing they are listening, his refuses to let Cosmo and Wanda become the Dazzlings' puppets, even if it means losing them or their magic forever. His sparing, but not pardoning, of the Dazzlings also makes him into more of a hero by Canterlot High.
• Heroic BSoD: Timmy, when he sees footage of Sunset being an evil demon, is reduced to tears, believing the girl who cared for him is nothing but a nasty villain who wanted him for his magic.
  • He is then hit by another when Cosmo and Wanda are taken and the Rainbooms come clean about only approaching him due to they thinking that he had a magical artifact, leaving him crying in the bathroom.
• Hidden Depths: When Sunset first saw Timmy interact with Trixie, she understatedly assume that Timmy had a crush on her because she was a rich, beautiful popular girl. And he was trying to win her over despite Trixie making her disinterest in him clear. Sunset bluntly told him that he was not acting that different from his own stalker, that he is obsessing over someone that does not like him and never will. Much to Sunset's surprise, she learns that Timmy's crush on Trixie is more than just a shallow crush. Timmy revealed the time that he discovers that Trixie secretly a tomboy, and she hides her hobbies to fit in with the popular kids. He genuinely wants to help Trixie be who she wants to be to the point where Timmy admits he does not care if she does date him; he just wants her to be happy with herself.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Sunset's bullying of Moondancer comes back to bite her HARD. The Dazzlings are able to goad Moondancer into providing evidence of Sunset's past misdeeds, which they can use to claim to Timmy that Sunset is still an evil bully.
• Hope Spot: Timmy manages to beat the Dazzlings and is about to free the brainwashed Cosmo and Wanda, when he falls into a trap set Adagio set up just in case.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • Crocker's scheme to steal Cosmo and Wanda falls apart catastrophically. Sunset and Gilda are able to knock him off the balcony he is standing on, and not only does his laser break, but the fall breaks his leg for good measure. Then Principal Waxelplax discovers his scheme and demotes him to janitor. Then Gilda physically punishes him for messing with Timmy, with the Dimmsdale kids cheering and Waxelplax spitefully looking the other way.
  • The Dazzlings go through a harsh one: Timmy turns the tables on them during the Final Battle by tricking them into breaking Da Rules, they are hit with a combo of the Elements of Harmony and fairy magic, all of Canterlot High brutally beats them up, Zephyr Breeze spitefully shaves them bald as revenge for what they did to Fluttershy, Timmy punishes them by forcing them to repair the lawn, and finally Jorgen drags them off to jail.
• Hypocritical Humor: Granny Smith gives a whole speech disparaging people for relying on help from others instead of doing the work themselves, only to then happily celebrate getting the "free government money" of a subsidy check.
• Innocently Insensitive: Sunset tries to apologize to Moondancer for having bullied her years ago. However, her claims that she was "in a bad place”, inability to admit any wrongdoing, and running off in the middle of it after getting a text just aggravates her.
• Jerkass Ball:
  • When the Rainbooms are trying to explain to Timmy why they lied to him, the resulting argument gets so heated that Sunset (who still has a grudge over him turning her into a worm earlier) insults and almost attacks him, while later her lingering frustration and anger (triggered by Timmy lying and running off) leads to her deciding to try and reveal his fairies to get rid of his magic. Fortunately, the others stop her, and seeing Timmy's parents selling his stuff snaps her out of it.
  • Moondancer refuses to help the Rainbooms save Timmy from the Dazzlings due to her grudge against them (especially Sunset) despite previously being uncomfortable with the Dazzlings manipulating him. It takes Fluttershy's Armor-Piercing Question to get through to her and change her mind.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While defending Timmy's choice to destroy Gary and Betty's truck, Gilda points out to Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack that THEY didn't object to her beating Crocker within an inch of his life and would've done the same thing if it was their siblings in Timmy's position. They acknowledge that while they would've gotten physical...but not to the point of causing collateral damage.
  • Moondancer might be acting out of vengeance, but none of the Rainbooms can really argue with her when she chews them out for basically ditching her and Sunset for humiliating her at the previous Spring Fling.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • Seeing Timmy's parents selling his stuff due to the Dazzlings' brainwashing, as well as a photo album of Timmy and his fairies, snaps Sunset out of her anger at him from both their argument and him sneaking off to go after the Dazzlings alone.
  • Fluttershy's Armor-Piercing Question works to help Moondancer realize she's wrong to not help them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Timmy can be a cheeky, disobedient, and shallow kid. But he deeply cares for those he considers his friends.
  • Gilda is a tough girl who loves pulling mean pranks on people. But seeing all the bullies, Timmy has to deal with in his life; she offers to teach him how to fight back, citing her own past as a victim of bullying.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The Dazzlings show that they really do somewhat care for Timmy... then when he refuses to side with them, they beat and torture him, showing they don't care for him unless he does what they want.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Vicky ruining Timmy's lawn work and later dumping garbage on his head.
  • The Dazzlings laughing at Timmy's torment during the Learn-A-Torium demonstration, and having the nerve to post his torment online. Later, when he rejects their offer to rule alongside them, they torture him as cruelly as possible.
• Knight of Cerebus: The story, while somewhat more dramatic, is a mostly lighthearted fare. Then the Dazzlings move into the picture, and while they do have humorous moments, their villainous actions are not Played for Laughs. They destroy Sunset's relationship with Timmy by exposing her horrible past to him and feeding him a dark untruth that she is planning to steal his fairies, which leads to Timmy turning Sunset into a worm. They then proceed to manipulate and abuse Timmy into granting their wishes. Then, after they manage to enthrall Cosmo and Wanda and take their magic, they brainwash Timmy's friends and family into hating him, and manipulate him into trying to kill the rest of the Rainbooms. And then when Timmy mouths off to them, they subject him to a horrific No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and threaten to throw Trixie off the roof if he doesn't grant their wish to rule Dimmsdale.
• I Know You Know I Know: During the Final Battle, the Dazzlings fall into a mental trap of using this logic to try and figure out if Timmy is trying to use reverse psychology on them or not.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Once he believes Sunset is a demon who brainwashed Canterlot High, Timmy makes a wish that causes everyone forget Sunset's redemption and kick her out of the school.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Doombringer knocked Sunset out to kidnap Timmy, but she later get to return the favor with her sledgehammer when she and her friends raid the factory to rescue Timmy and his fairies.
  • After beating Timmy to an inch of his life, the Dazzlings are subjected to a brutal beating at the hands of Canterlot's students.
  • After losing to a fight to Timmy and being transferred to Crystal Prep Junior, Tad and Chad have themselves become social outcasts.
• Little Miss Badass: Scootaloo. She knocks Chester and AJ to the ground when they make sexist comments and is quite capable in a fight.
  Scootaloo: "HEY BABS! I WANTED TO INTRODUCE MY FIST TO YOUR FACE!"
• Lovable Jock: Rumble is the captain of his track team. Despite Timmy's fears that he would be a mean snob, he's quite friendly and generous to Timmy.
• Mama Bear:
  • Wanda is this for Timmy. She punishes the Dazzlings for using Timmy for his access to fairy magic by making them do chores, and upon being tricked into thinking Sunset is evil, gladly helps turn her into a worm.
  • Despite her usual neglect, Mrs. Turner has a moment of this when she defends Timmy from the corrupt school board chairman and Tad and Chad's mothers.
• Mundane Solution: Timmy is captured by Doombringer, and Cosmo and Wanda can't use magic to rescue him. Wanda's solution: borrow a cell phone to call the police.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • The Rainbooms are all horrified at themselves when Timmy chews them out for spying on and manipulating him, since despite their good intentions it was still the wrong thing to do. Twilight in particular is upset at herself for assuming that he'd just automatically forgive and befriend her.
  • Sunset feels horrible seeing how she hurt Moondancer and failed to properly make amends for what she did, after seeing her past actions come back to haunt her. She also feels horrible for nearly hitting Timmy in a fit of rage and for nearly revealing Cosmo and Wanda to his parents to have them taken away from him out of revenge.
  • Moondancer is shocked and regretful when she sees the Dazzlings tormenting Timmy and realizes they tricked her.
• Nice Guy: Cosmo, while dim, is a loving and cheerful man. While thinking Sunset is an evil villain, he still has second thoughts about her being turned into a worm, and even convinces his wife to change back Sunset after a week.
• No Sense of Personal Space Gary and Betty. This annoys Sunset, and gets the even less-patient Gilda to slug one of them.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • Sunset tells Timmy that Tootie's obsession with him is not too different than his approach to winning Trixie's heart.
  • On a more positive note, Gilda spells out to Timmy that she was also once a kid who was bullied and ignored by those around her.
• Not So Stoic: While generally not an emotional person, Maud genuinely gets devastated to near tears when the Dazzlings claim to have killed the Rainbooms (including her sister Pinkie) and shows a legitimate warm smile when Pinkie turns out okay and wraps her and her siblings in a hug.
• Nothing Personal: Whereas Sonata and Aria show slight guilt at having used Timmy, Adagio merely shrugs it off by comparing them to predators looking for a meal. Even Timmy notes how sincere she sounds.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Sunset has this reaction to seeing Timmy wield incredible magic. The other Rainbooms also react this way when Twilight points out how the stone could potentially corrupt him.
  • Timmy has this reaction when he finds out Sunset learned about him disobeying her....by Sunset standing behind him and glaring at him.
  • Sunset, Pinkie, and Gilda react this way when they see Timmy dropped a giant meteor on Gary and Betty's truck.
  • Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda have a deadly serious one when they witness Sunset's transformation into a demon.
• One-Steve Limit: It is lampshaded how Trixie Lulamoon and Trixie Tang share the same first name.
• One-Winged Angel: During the Final Battle, the Dazzlings absorb all of Cosmo and Wanda's magic and merge into a giant kaiju.
• Opportunistic Bastard: In the backstory, the Dazzlings attacked Equestria when Celestia was mourning having to banish Luna.
• Original Flavour: The story is intended to be an authentic combination of both the moods and humor of EG and FOP.
• Outside-Context Problem: The Rainbooms' and Dazzlings entire understanding of Timmy is based on the assumption that he's using Equestrian magic, due to the fact that they don't know things like fairies even exist.
• Police Are Useless: Zigzagged. The police are brainwashed into helping the Dazzlings, and when freed they are easily convinced to let the Rainbooms handle the sirens. However, they do assistant girls in helping the jaguar Joanna and Trixie.
• Positive Friend Influence: Gradually, the Rainbooms help Timmy become a kinder and more empathetic person. Despite being angry enough at their duplicity to push them away, he still finds their influence and the lessons they sought to instill into him to be helpful on his personal journey to save Cosmo and Wanda.
• The Power of Love: Timmy's love for his fairies is so strong that it's the one thing that the Dazzlings' brainwashing can't overpower.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: When preparing to beat Crocker for trying to hurt Timmy, Gilda says this:
  Gilda: You think its OK to make that boy cry.
  Crocker: I-,
  Gilda: Well now I'm about to make you cry.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The Dazzlings threaten to have Trixie jump off the ledge if Timmy doesn't grant them more wishes.
• Psycho Supporter: Gilda and her crew are a pack of Jerkass delinquents who even Rainbow finds abhorrent. However, Gilda does feel genuine sympathy for Timmy's plight and takes it upon herself to not only teach him how to fight but act as his (incognito) bodyguard along with her friends. However, she and her cronies are far more ruthless than the Rainbooms.
  • They subject Crocker to a nasty prank after one of his schemes destroys a cake they bought.
  • Later, Gilda gives Crocker a vicious beating he harms Timmy with one of his schemes and her cronies pummel Gary and Betty for idiotically hurting him.
  • They also humiliated the Dazzlings after their first defeat, and they came very close to brutalizing them after all the horrible things they did and planned to do to Timmy. And Gilda herself is not afraid to be rough with Timmy to get him in shape.
• Psycho for Hire: Adagio hires Doombringer, a vicious maniac, to capture Timmy in exchange for his fairy's wands.
• Psychopathic Manchild: The Dazzlings are revealed to be petty, immature children who are willing to hurt others to get what they want without accepting any responsibility. They are completely unable to accept criticism, brutally beating Timmy when he calls them out for how horrible they are. Twilight considers Adagio's Motive Rant to be the words of a whiny, entitled child. Their reaction to Timmy beating them is to whine and complain about how unfair it is that they are losing.
• Rage Breaking Point: Sunset reaches hers when the Dazzlings, once they gain control of Cosmo and Wanda's magic, banish the other Rainbooms, and not only plan to enslave her friends in Canterlot High, but also plan to destroy Timmy's life out of sheer spite. She ends up taking on her Daydream Shimmer mode to in order to fight them.
• Reasonable Authority Figures: Both Principal Waxelplax and Principal Celestia. The former is a nice lady who must grapple with the corrupt bureaucracy of Dimmsdale. The latter, while powerless to stop the corruption, is still able to help her students in many different ways.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: Sunset may be a better person, but bits of old Sunset still pop up. When Timmy enrages her by calling her an evil witch, she comes very close to slugging him. Later, Rainbow notes that Sunset showed a bit of her old self when beating Doombringer; afterwards, Twilight assures Sunset that she's just learned to channel her old instincts towards a good cause instead of trying to suppress them. A worse example of this comes up after her argument with Timmy and her finding off he had snuck off, as she decides to tell expose his fairies to his parents to have to taken away out of revenge, only to snap out of it once she sees them selling his things and his album of his fairies.
• Rules Lawyer: As per canon, Timmy has learned from experience how to work around Da Rules to get what he wants from his wishes. During the Final Battle, he weaponizes this knowledge against the Dazzlings, repeatedly tricking them into making wishes that violate Da Rules so that they'll be rendered temporarily powerless. And afterwards, he uses this same skill to keep Jorgen from taking Cosmo and Wanda and erasing the Rainbooms' memories.
• Running Gag:
  • People learning about places through brochures.
  • Rainbow and Scootaloo using bricks to solve every problem.
  • Adagio getting electrocuted. Which, as you might tell, she is richly deserving of.
• Sadistic Choice: The Dazzlings threaten to make a brainwashed Trixie jump off a roof if Timmy doesn't use Cosmo and Wanda to grant their wishes. Fortunately, the Rainbooms intervene in time.
• Satanic Archetype: The Dazzlings as a whole. They serve as The Corrupter to Timmy, seeking to drive him toward bad ends while exploiting him as part of their plans to rule the world. They are consumed by their extreme hatred of others, greed, and egotistical belief in their own superiority. They try and bring Timmy over to their side by falsely claiming they will build him a better world. Finally, once they gain control over Cosmo and Wanda's magic, they obtain a massive three-headed form which they intend to use to bring about a reign of destruction.
• Scare 'Em Straight: Sunset decides to try and reform Vicky this way: by pretending to still be a bully and intimidating her into giving up by blackmailing her, forcing her to do humiliating chores, and having Applejack beat her and throw her out of her apartment.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Tad and Chad's mothers are able to bribe them out of trouble. Waxelplax explains to Sunset and Rainbow they can get away with this since their bribes are legally considered "donations".
• Secret Test of Character: Twilight gives Timmy one to see if he has learned not to give into violence. She encourages him to turn the Dazzlings into worms after they are defeated. Instead, Timmy just punishes them with lawnwork, passing the test, and earning him even greater respect from Canterlot High.
• Sequel Hook:
  • Tad and Chad have been sent to Crystal Prep Junior and are plotting with Remy Buxaplenty to ruin Timmy.
  • Trixie Tang vaguely remembers the events from her kidnapping, and it starts to make her rethink her view on Timmy.
  • Crocker is plotting to not only find Timmy's fairies, but to learn about Sunset Shimmer's secret.
  • Adagio meets Anti-Cosmo in prison, and the two form a Villain Team-Up to break out of prison and plot to destroy their enemies.
  • Sci-Twi is not only learning about Equestrian magic, but has also detected Timmy's fairy magic and plans to study both.
• Seven Deadly Sins: The author posted a journal entry detailing how the Seven Sins apply to the Dazzlings and the more flawed aspects of the heroes.
• Shadow Archetype:
  • Both Crocker and Doombringer are also this for Sunset. Both of them are what Sunset would've become had she not learned to let go of her lust for power and obsessions, respectively.
  • Vicky is this to Sunset, representing how mean Sunset and two-faced Sunset used to be, albeit while targeting little kids who can't hit back.
  • Gary and Betty are this to Pinkie Pie. All three of these characters are peppy and cheerful. However, while they have good intentions, Gary and Betty don’t have empathy, unlike Pinkie Pie. Even when she is insensitive, Pinkie realizes that, or when it points out to her, she always apologizes and tries to make things right. Gary and Betty remain blissfully unaware of the harm they cause. When Pinkie first meets Gary and Betty, they get along; they got on her bad side when they took her candy and burned it because they say that they are bad for her brain. Pinkie grows disgusted with them; when Gary and Betty humiliated Timmy in a safety seminar under the guise of helping him, she angrily calls them out for their insensitivity and calls them idiots. Gary and Betty remain unaware of the harm they cause Timmy, while Pinkie took Timmy away and hugs him to comfort him.
• Ship Tease: It's hinted that each of the CMC (especially Apple Bloom) have developed crushes on Timmy.
• Shout-Out: The scene in the final chapter with Adagio sitting in a cell, pretending to be nice by not swatting a fly is one to the final scene of Psycho.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • Zephyr Breeze is this a couple of times. His streaking causes the Rainbooms to discover Timmy's magic, upending the FOP status quo and starting the plot. Later, he tells Sunset about Timmy being at the skate park after she told him not to go, while he had a magical clone to distract her.
  • Played for Laughs with Dinkleberg. He obliviously has the Rainbooms' van towed away with them in it, preventing them from discovering Cosmo and Wanda's existence.
• Spared, but Not Forgiven: Timmy doesn't forgive the Dazzlings for their horrible acts, but he decides not to turn them into worms, instead putting them to work fixing the lawn.
• Spiteful Spit: Timmy does this to Sunset during their huge fight, and later also does it to Adagio when she's trying to force him to give in to her demands.
• Super Mode: Sunset transforms into Daydream Shimmer during the Final Battle, after being driven to desperation to save Timmy and stop the Dazzlings.
• Take That!: Sunset's rant to Timmy near the end of the story, telling him he shouldn't listen to people who say the world would be better off if he was never born, is a swipe at "It's a Wishful Life" and its horrible moral of "Timmy has to give up his life to make the world a better place."
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Dazzlings throw this in Timmy’s face multiple times throughout the story, both subtly, and outright. Timmy returns the favor after their last one. They...REALLY don’t take it well...
• Took a Level in Badass: Thanks to Rainbow and Gilda, Timmy gradually becomes more athletic. However, his athletic prowess is limited to fighting people his age and size. He is completely outclassed by grownups, and has to rely on trickery to be able to battle them.
• Tough Love: Sunset might be loving and caring towards Timmy, but she is not afraid to be hard on him when he deserves it. She angrily called him out for sneaking out and lying to her, and angrily told him that he was acting no different from Tootie with him chasing Trixie. However, she became sympathetic towards him when she learned why he has feelings for Trixie.
• Trauma Conga Line: Timmy goes through a rough one throughout the back half of the story: the Dazzlings gaslight him to turn him against the Rainbooms, then brainwash him into their servant. After he's freed, they kidnap Cosmo and Wanda and rub their actions in his face. And when he comes to save his fairies, they beat him savagely when he refuses to give in to them, and when they succeed in stealing the fairies' magic, they eat Cosmo and Wanda, plan to destroy everything and everyone Timmy cares about, and make him watch as they rampage with it while telling him it's all his fault.
• Tranquil Fury: Rarity after the fight with the sewer shark.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The Dazzlings repay Timmy's kindness to them by manipulating him viciously and giving him a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown when he stands up to them.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In a flashback to Celestia comforting Sunset when she was younger, she is shown to have been a nicer kid (in contrast to the Alpha Bitch from the first movie) and had a better relationship with Celestia at the time.
• Villainous Breakdown: The Dazzlings become increasingly unhinged as they start losing, screaming in a rage about how unfair their lives are. When they see the Elements of Harmony about to be used on them, Adagio starts desperately begging Sunset for mercy.
• Villain Respect: The Dazzlings come to respect Timmy after he nearly beats them singlehandedly.
• Villain Takes an Interest: The Dazzlings take note of Timmy when they learn of his magic.
• Villains Want Mercy: After being rendered powerless, the Dazzlings beg Canterlot High for a chance at friendship. Canterlot High, however, is not in a forgiving mood.
• We Can Rule Together: The Dazzlings try to convince Timmy to join them voluntarily.
• Wham Episode:
  • "The Honeymoon is Over": Timmy is kidnapped by Doombringer. While he escapes, this results in Adagio learning about Timmy's magic.
  • "Camp Learn-A-Torium's Safety Seminar": Crocker's scheme leads to him getting harshly suspended, and earns him the enmity of Canterlot High. Timmy gives in to his rage and destroys Gary and Betty's truck with a meteor, horrifying Sunset. And the Dazzlings learn about the extent of Timmy's magic and seek to take it for themselves.
  • "Past Demons": Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda travel back in time, and witness Sunset's old horrible ways and how she brutally humiliated Moondancer. And then the Dazzlings show Timmy footage of Sunset's demon transformation, which convinces him that Sunset is an evil villain who never cared about him.
  • "Breaking Point (Part 2)": Timmy, under the Dazzlings' spell, comes close to feeding the Rainbooms to a bird after turning them into worms. Sunset is able to snap him out of it through an act of mercy. The Dazzlings reveal themselves, helping the Rainbooms learn that they've been manipulating Timmy. The Dazzlings are able to defeat the Rainbooms and trap them in concrete with Crocker's technology, but not before revealing Cosmo and Wanda's presence to them. They finally steal Cosmo and Wanda away from them, leaving Timmy crying on the ground.
• What You Are in the Dark:
  • Invoked. While punishing Timmy with chores, Applejack and Apple Bloom stay hidden, wanting to see if Timmy would use "The Stone" to get out his punishment if he thought no one was looking. Timmy does do the chores on his own...but only because he can't use Da Rules to get out of punishment.
  • Timmy is given a choice by the Dazzlings: he can grant them what they want and rule at their side, or he could lose his fairies. Without knowing the Rainbooms are listening in, he furiously refuses to help them, not wanting Cosmo and Wanda to be reduced to magical batteries.
• Who's on First?: This exchange between Rarity and Sunset when the former's description of a villain leads her to get a bit off track.
  Rarity: (fantasizing) Tying damsels in distress to railroad tracks, so that a dashing young man can save her and carry her off into the...sunset
  Sunset: Yeah.
  Rarity: (embarrassed) Nothing.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: The Dazzlings blame Timmy for them eating Cosmo and Wanda and later planning to destroy Dimmsdale, claiming it's all his fault for being a selfish brat and not giving them what they want.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Dazzlings resort to beating Timmy to try and bend him to their will, and are willing to throw Trixie off a roof as part of a Sadistic Choice.

Pinkie Pie vs Yugopotamia

• Discriminate and Switch: When Pinkie sees Mark, she's horrified...that he left the window open.
• Logical Weakness: Yugopotamia's disgust of anything good or kind makes Pinkie Pie's sheer sweetness the perfect weapon against them.
• Plot-Driven Breakdown: Cosmo and Wanda's wands being out of commission gives an opening for Pinkie Pie to crush the rogue Yugopotamian army.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite his friends forgetting his birthday, Elmer still gets a decent party with cake, thanks to Pinkie Pie.
  Elmer: "For the first time in my life, everyone in class wants to be part of one of my endeavors, if only because they want to mooch off of my birthday cake. Thank you Pinkie!"

Equestria Girls: Journey to the Mind of Timmy Turner

• Bad Boss:
  • Anti-Cosmo leaves Anti-Wanda behind so that he and the Dazzlings can escape prison.
  • According to Adagio, Sombra was so quick to execute underlings for the pettiest reasons that by the time that the Princesses came for him, he had exactly one servant left.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Adagio and Anti-Cosmo are both disgusted when Aria makes a joke about the former dating Timmy, who it needs to be reminded is ten years old.
  • The same thing happens in the next chapter, but with Rainbow Dash making the joke about Sunset and the other Rainbooms being the ones disgusted by it.
  • Juandissamo wants to be with Wanda, but is not happy about dragging Timmy into the efforts to win her over, and wishes that Remy would let his grudge against Timmy go already.
• Never My Fault: Adagio blames Timmy for turning on the Dazzlings, framing it as him selfishly keeping his fairies' power for himself instead of letting the three of them steal it to use it for themselves.
• Rules Lawyer: Having learned from their defeat last time, the Dazzlings and Anti-Fairies manage to trick half of the Abacatraz security guards trying to stop their breakout into breaking Da Rules and temporarily depowering themselves.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Sonata agrees with Anti-Wanda that tacos taste better when eaten with feet instead of hands.
• Take That!: The second chapter has a massive attack on both the character Chloe and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, but also a swipe at modern TV shows (e.g. Velma) that take beloved older properties and make them so commercialized and full of shallow pandering to political correctness that they're basically parodies, by featuring a commercial for a new Crimson Chin series that is barely connected to the franchise and stars a Mary Sue of a female main character surrounded by flat one-dimensional supporting characters who are only there to make her look better.

Fairly Odd Friendship: Bonus Material

• Bittersweet Ending: Alternate Ending #1 sees Timmy forced to sacrifice Cosmo and Wanda to save them and Canterlot High, losing his memories of his fairies and the Rainbooms in the process. However, the Rainbooms are able to expose Vicky's evil ways to Mr. and Mrs. Turner, who fire her and replace her with Sunset. Despite being upset at Timmy being gone, Cosmo and Wanda cry Tears of Joy over the Rainbooms looking after Timmy.

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